“I didn’t think I did a very good job of getting them to really understand the challenge we had,” Tressel said.

This strikes me as game preparation FAIL. Nice job, coaches.
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“Jimmy Cordle, we tried to get him into the game Saturday and he just isn’t quite ready. It’s one thing being able to be able to go through a practice tempo and it’s another thing to be able to do it on a Saturday.”

So, evidently, our practice tempo is a bit adagio compared to “game speed”. This strikes me as game preparation FAIL.
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“Do we have any immediate plans that we’ve sat down and said, okay, now we’re going to put Joe in at this point in time or we’re going to commit ourselves to putting him in the game, haven’t had that discussion,” Tressel said Tuesday at his weekly luncheon press conference.

OK, so I’m assuming that in Situation A (starting QB is injured), there has been some discussion of putting in backup QB. If, per Tressel’s statement above, in Situation B where starting QB is injuring the team, there is no discussion to put in backup QB.

Jesusjumpingchrist, I have absolutely no faith in our heads-up-our-asses coaching staff. WTF is going on at the WHAC?!

Don’t call me Shirley. I doubt it; Minnesota’s offense is almost as screwed up as ours. Take Decker out of the offense, they’ve got nothin’.

Surely, you jest. NMS will be a cake walk, but Minnesota should have Ohio State shaking in their boots.

I think that your performance range for our offense is about right; when we’re hitting on eight cylinders, the offense is probably so-so, when it isn’t, you’re seeing what you’re seeing now.

I’m a bit more rational now, IMO, than I was over the weekend, but I think our O-ills are self reinforcing. Let’s work on the premise that we have a QB with ball security, throwing mechanics and anything-else-you-want-to-add issues. Coupled with a fairly young, and somewhat ill/injured offensive line. Under most circumstance, a line that is a work-in-process would have some challenges each week, but when it’s combined with a QB who is a minimal threat at best as a passer, not much good will come of it. The opponents will crowd the line of scrimmage, twist, stunt, whatever, and the O-line performance suffers greatly. This just negatively feeds into QB who thinks he is a pocket QB, or worse yet, one the coaches think is a pocket QB, and the entire offense goes haywire. Meanwhile, the defense is getting gassed, since they are on the field way more than they should, and less than good results happen there as well.

I think at this point, (again) creating an uptempo offense where TP has plays that can get him to the edge with a pass-run option might settle things down offensively. Hell, roll the pocket a little bit to help pass protection. Who here is old enough to remember Hank Stram’s innovative ‘rolling pocket’ when he coached the Kansas City Chiefs? This isn’t leading edge technology we’re talking about.

OK, time to focus on Minny and NMS. We’ve got a couple weeks to get our stuff straightened out before the schedule really gets tough.

Is Tressel this really f-ing arrogant to not recognize that he has the keys to a ferrari, yet continues to fill up with 89 regular unleaded? All this talent sitting on the sidelines like Fragel, Hall, Stoney, Thomas, Small, ballard and we are all forced to watch them rot like a cruel (insert any number here) series of Saw. Is that who calls our plays? Jigsaw? Does he have connections to YSU and Y-town mafia?

What will it take? earthquakes? forest fires in southern ohio? crop circles outside of town that spell out, ” run a f-ing toss sweep douche”….
I love tressel, HE IS THE PERFECT MAN FOR THE PROGRAM, but its time for him to live by the values he exsposed in his book and quit putting his ego/self interests before the team and hire the o-coordinator, o-line coach, and qb coach with you know a actual record developing qb’s…..