“But that’s not the place to do that”.
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Along with the negative comments about the coaching staff’s decision to give him just 12 carries, both Elliott and Cardale Jones mentioned that it would be their last game at Ohio State. While Elliott was overzealous in publicly criticizing his coaches, there’s no reason to make this into something bigger than it is: a 20-year-old college football player letting his emotions get the best of him after perhaps the most frustrating game of his career.
Elliott also used his postgame interview to announce hes leaving Ohio State for the National Football League after this season.
Although we haven’t even seen the first contest between Meyer and Harbaugh yet, it already has a similar characteristic to the Ten Year War. And Meyer has accepted.
Franklin said he let the players who are sick, hurt or not on the travel roster go home for a short break, if they wanted, and the rest went bowling on Monday, and went through 1,800 chicken wings and 65 pizzas, by his estimation.
Some of Bosa’s teammates who are seniors said their approach is to have a narrow focus on beating MI for a fourth straight year.
“Zeke has always been a very emotional competitor”, Meyer said, adding that Elliott has been good student and a loyal and selfless member of the team.
“Yeah, we were rotating some things around, like I said. Hopefully they’ll be back”, he said. “I could have told you a month ago that was going to be my last game in The Shoe”, he said. I’m not a fan of taking a RB in the top 5, but if the Titans win a couple of games and move down, or are able to trade back, Elliott is a guy that will be in play. “He apologized. We squashed it as a team”.
Specifically, Elliott was upset that he had just 12 carries in the game. The Buckeyes couldn’t run the ball, couldn’t or wouldn’t throw the ball, and in the opinion of running back Ezekiel Elliott, couldn’t get the right plays called. With the 21st-highest time of possession per game at 33:19, expect MI State to control the clock this week.
Elliott carried eight times on the Buckeyes’ longest scoring drive of the game – a 32-yard drive in the first half. Thats a very good defensive front, very good, how do you get them off you? Not many people get to play in this game and we’ve had four people in my family play in it.
Nebraska Coach Mike Riley said that preparation for Friday’s game against third-ranked Iowa was “business as usual” while police and the university investigate a report of a sexual assault at a house shared by players.
Penn State is 6-0 SU when leading at the start of the 4th quarter this season.
But this isn’t a Wolverines team of recent past, not under Jim Harbaugh. Not that Meyer is shocked.
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“I’m not surprised at all”, Meyer said. They have great personnel. If you don’t have a great showing at home, there’s always the opportunity to sway a prospect with an influential road win. They each bring a different skill-set, but all three of them are going to cause problems for the Ohio State defense. I think for us, obviously we’re just coming out of some of the challenges that we’ve been through, that have had an effect, there’s no doubt about it, but it takes some time.
