Re: Ohio State.
Overall, Stroud isn't bad and does have the ability to zip it in there, but there's a HUGE difference between him in the pocket and him on the move. If he's scrambling and throwing, it's about a guarantee his ball will be sailing. As a result, he had drives where he looked great, but down the stretch when Oregon was bringing it on D due to OSU being down 7 and trying to drive for the tie, he struggled. It's also been two straight games where he got off to a slow start and it took a couple series for him to start looking comfortable. As for the talk about making a change, I think it's too early to do that, as he's nowhere near the main issue they have -- and if they would, don't know why Quinn's being named. Dude's only been on site for like a month, so I doubt there's any way he'd be picked over McCord this season.
The main blame goes to the defensive coaches for making absolutely no adjustments to how Oregon was just wrecking them to the left. Constantly getting good gains on sweeps because the players constantly got sucked in and would be out of position. It's one thing to get torched on a couple of those early in the game, but when it's the second half and that same stuff is still working like a charm and the announcers, my friends, etc. are calling them out on their inability to react to what Oregon is doing...that's a big problem. Doesn't matter how many 4-5 star kids you have --- if the coaching is that bad, all that means is that you have good athletes who are 5 yards out of position, as opposed to blah ones who are 5 yards out of position.