Really nice performance today from just about everyone. 🙌
- Will Howard has been great at just about everything. My lone concern continues to be the deep ball and, to a lesser degree, his ability to handle the turf. The short and intermediate games have been awesome.
- Gee Scott should have caught that one early target. It was high but still catchable imo.
- The offensive line looked great again from what I could tell. The run blocking seemed mostly fine to me but Judkins struggled to find room at times.
- Is it just me or is Josh Fryar playing at an extremely high level right now?
- Major sigh of relief when Hinzman got up and started walking fine.
- Trey was awesome today. Judkins wasn't so awesome. 11 carries for 32 yards with 15 of those coming on his one long run. Other than that one it was 10 carries for 17 yards. Not ideal against Purdue.
- Jeremiah Smith's route running is absurd.
- Gus Johnson annoys me these days but I liked hearing them give props to Carnell Tate for all that he's been through since enrolling.
- I though they might pull the starters one drive earlier than they actually did.
- Julian Sayin impressed me as a runner in the limited time he was in.
- Can we get some Mylan Graham action? No disrespect to David Adolph, but cmon....
- I think JT Tuimoloau played the best game of his career (other than 2022 @ PSU of course). The punch-out forced fumble that led to the Sawyer TD was beautiful. He was awesome today.
- Sonny Styles made a great play on a third-and-long screen early on. That would have been a first down and big yardage if he didn't play it properly.
- A wild jack appears???? I know Ohio State gave up 41 rushing yards on that drive and it was the worst one of the game for the defense, but they were clearly experimenting with things. I'm 100% in favor of it even if it's just to give Indiana/UM/etc something to think about.
- CJ Hicks is damn good at getting to the QB but needs to get better at tackling the QB. I still think there can be a role for him if they do start using the jack more. At this point I don't feel good about him doing anything other than rushing the passer.
- Eddrick Houston made a boneheaded freshman mistake but that'll happen on occasion. The future is bright for him at DT.
- Kayden McDonald is going to be a star.
- Caleb Downs is the best tackling safety I've seen at Ohio State. He's just so good. (and yes I love Mike Doss)
- Hancock, Ransom, Igbinosun, and Burke were all really good. Igbinosun had to get his patented holding call but I've learned to live with it (at least against a team like Purdue).
- The continued stunting, twisting, etc. by the defensive line is great to see. They are really mixing things up after being way too vanilla early on in the season.
- A punt block????? Great game for the special teams.
