Again, the Buckeyes werent without flaw against the Rainbow Warriors. Both quarterbacks played fairly well, but if Jones was wondering how much margin for error he has for a bad Saturday, he got his answer in Week 2. And when it comes time to take out the starters they’ll still probably field a better team than the Huskies. “I met with him (on Sunday)”. In fact, he was replaced in the second quarter for a stretch by J.T. Barrett, who himself badly overthrew his targets and only went 5 of 12 passing for the day.
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The first home game of every season is special. A short week of preparation following the Monday-night road trip to Virginia Tech didn’t help matters any either.
“We are an offensive line driven – absolute offensive line driven program”, Meyer said.
But Ohio State certainly appeared to be working off-script when at nearly the exact moment Jones was tackled well short of the first-down marker to end a third scoreless drive in four tries in the first half on Saturday against Hawaii, Barrett was yanking off his headset and peeling behind the bench to start warming up his arm. Cardale Jones is the quarterback with the most upside at the position and will have a future past Ohio State.
“I’m evaluating how we’re doing that and what’s the best opportunity to go down the field and score”, he said. McEvoy’s 41-yard interception return set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Taiwan Deal for a 27-point lead with 6:32 left in the second quarter. They played near flawless coverage, against a “passing” team, and weren’t shy about sticking their noses in on Hawai’i’s running game. They’ve beaten Northwestern, Purdue, Iowa and Minnesota, and I wouldn’t call those upsets.
“They’re a veteran squad”. It was the seventh game in a row the junior running back has gone over 100 yards. “It doesn’t matter how big the stadium, how small the stadium, we’re going to out there and play to win”, he said.
ABOUT HAWAII (1-0): Senior quarterback Max Wittek, a transfer from USC, became the first Hawaii signal caller in 30 years to throw three touchdown passes in his debut.
Asked if he was disappointed how Jones and Barrett played, Meyer said, “I don’t think disappointed is the right word”.
The Ohio State Buckeyes blew out Hawaii by a final score of 38-0 yesterday and Ezekiel Elliott made big improvements to his Heisman chances during the win.
The Buckeyes are heavy favorites as they will be in most games but if there’s any advantage for Hawaii it’s that it defeated Colorado 28-20 on September 3. “That team came to play”.
Lee also lost a handle on the football, but safety Vonn Bell picked up the fumble and sprinted 14 yards for the touchdown.
Defensively, though, OSU was on top of its game.
Ohio State is going to pound the football down their opponents throats this year, especially when their Big Ten schedule opens up.
QUOTE TO NOTE: “We were flat”. We are going to work on punt when I am done here in a minute.
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Fair enough. It’s true, and Meyer, the coach of the reigning champ, knows it. He just doesn’t really care about it and is more focused on getting his team better each week.
