I get that you aren't an OSU fan so maybe you don't know the program as well as I or some others do but there wasn't anybody to take the top off last year. So I'm not sure what you mean unless you are talking about unless you mean 3 years ago when he had Devin Smith. This years team has some straight burners on it, Parris Campbell, Johnny Dixon, KJ Hill, these dudes can get deep on just about anyone based on speed alone. JT just can't hit it. I was at the Nebraska game last year when OSU won like 62-0. That game should have been 76-0. JT missed two wide open deep balls to Curtis Samuel. There was no one even around him and by deep ball I mean 30 yards downfield. JT is just not capable of hitting that pass on any sort of consistent basis. Cardale could and did. It's a dimension to this offense that was necessary to beat both Bama and Oregon. Just look at the playcalling this week against OU. Seemingly every pass play was a roll out because the coaching staff had to make the field smaller for JT. You don't roll out Cardale or my boy Haskins because they can sit in the pocket and hit that deep ball over the top. Think how good JK Dobbins would be if he didn't have 8 dudes in the box every time he runs. We aren't going to win the NC this year with JT. Rotate Haskins and Burrow (if he's healthy) and see which one takes over. We need to figure out which guy is going to be leading this team next year. In the meantime they would have essentially 7 weeks to figure it out before we play Penn State and 3 weeks before we even play a team with a heartbeat. Our defense will keep us in the game against anyone for a while. The offense just needs to be able to keep up and do their part. JT isn't going to be able to provide that.

 

No argument with a lot of your points, and I'm not an OSU fan but I don't hate OSU. I respect OSU and Urban. Precisely you didn't have anyone last year to go deep which is why you struggled in games that you shouldn't have, and you didn't win the natty. We outside of the OSU rose glass club saw the struggles and knew that they shouldn't have been in the playoffs last year. Truth be told Urban caught lightning in a bottle with Cardale the natty year. Bama and probably Oregon was primed to play JT, but there was no film on Cardale and what he could do. OSU is a top 3 program and they will figure it out, I just don't think it's all JT's fault with the offense.

No argument with a lot of your points, and I'm not an OSU fan but I don't hate OSU. I respect OSU and Urban. Precisely you didn't have anyone last year to go deep which is why you struggled in games that you shouldn't have, and you didn't win the natty. We outside of the OSU rose glass club saw the struggles and knew that they shouldn't have been in the playoffs last year. Truth be told Urban caught lightning in a bottle with Cardale the natty year. Bama and probably Oregon was primed to play JT, but there was no film on Cardale and what he could do. OSU is a top 3 program and they will figure it out, I just don't think it's all JT's fault with the offense.

It's not all JT's fault. 3 yards and a cloud of dust wins that game. Just rotate Dobbins and Weber and wear the defense down. But in the big games that JT has played at OSU the playcalling always reverts to the read option with JT keeping it all of the time. MSU two years ago was just JT keeping it. Zeke had less than 10 carries and they lost on a last second field goal. If Zeke gets 20+ touches I think they win. Against PSU last year if they just got the ball to Samuel and Weber they probably win. Clemson didn't matter. They were getting destroyed either way. But the same formula rang true on Saturday. They abandoned the run again after it was working. OU couldn't stop Dobbins. After that TD run they went away from him. It makes zero sense. They can beat the OU and Penn St. of the world with the 3 yards and a cloud of dust strategy. They can't beat Bama or Clemson without the deep threat. That's why I'm a proponent of giving the reigns to Haskins. He has the arm strength, size, and experience throwing from the pocket. It can't get any worse.

The system is no longer benefiting the system QB.