If they ran him 20+ times and didn't let him throw anything except 50 yard bombs to push the safeties back, it might be OK
So the Bazooka Joe offense? I'd rather have a Kody Cook back there who can make the 5-15 yard pass and still run
The word. Honestly the first drive of the game (besides some vertical routes they just need to not do) was actually a well called drive IMO. It was only a FG but some short passes, offset with proper running plays both inside and out. They just then decided to not do that anymore
I mean they really only had one more drive with Howard, and it wasn't great but it wasn't abysmal.
I think the consensus among non-pudding brains is that -- aside from that abysmal fumble that OSU recovered for a TD -- Will Howard looked pretty good serviceable before he left the game injured.
What? Hell naw. He was 4-12 for 50 yards.
The passing numbers look bad, but there were at least 4 legitimate drops in there as well. I will go back and watch the replay and eat crow if I'm proven wrong. The offense looked pretty decent against a pretty good defense when he was in. The turnovers, especially the fumbles, are inexcusable tho.
Do it, you'll definitely eat crow. There may have been 1 drop and that was the pass in the end zone to Malik that may have been lost in the sun, I think it was defended. There were two more that we're absolutely defended because they were seam routes underthrown, people on twitter were calling them drops because they are dumdums. If a receiver is running anything down field; seam routes, post routes, go routes, or flag posts, and they have to either stop or come back to the ball, they are underthrown.
Check the tape, it won't take long, he only threw 12 passes and 4 of them were on the first drive. You'll see these three passes I'm talking about and the rest were just good ol incomplete passes.