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Fair enough but I'm not claiming a moral high ground. I just watched the game differently. How fans feel is how they feel. Some of the reactions from my POV are comical.

So, complaining about or mocking overreactions is sanctimonious. Gotcha.

Ohio State played with a deep safety or field crossing corner (Wingo deep shot) to prevent big passing plays. That helped our run game some. Arch just missed his intermediate and short passes. He seemed to rush throws once he made his decision. That hasn't happened before in his time on the field. Pretty confident he'll clean up his mechanical errors. He made some bigtime throws under pressure during the comeback attempt.

Standard post loss topics. A bunch of “Oh Noes. We suck!” Usually a suggestion or three that “We fire or reassign a coach.” Someone will bop in with a “…but how will this affect recruiting ?” thread. And, of course, you get sanctimonious threads like this one where someone claims moral high ground for “not overreacting.” It is what it is, and you can copy and paste most of the posts minus a few game specifics on any sports message board in America.

I’m cautious on the pass rush. We’ve really only seen it at a high level from Simmons. I have optimism that Burke will get better and better as the year goes on and he’ll probably end up around the 7-8 sacks mark. But outside of that it’s skepticism for me. Haven’t seen anything from anyone else outside of Vasek that gets me excited about the pass rush this year, and he hasn’t proven that he can stay on the field. I do think the pass rush will improve as this was the first game and against what may be the most talented oline we’ll face, but I’m not convinced that it will be elite or on par with last year’s pass rush. Just too many unknowns. Oline was encouraging to me. The pass pro was really good considering the opponent and hostile environment and the run blocking was decent to really good at times. Unfortunately, without any elite running backs this is what we are going to get in big time matchups. An elite running back would have had well over 100 yards yesterday. Wisner doesn’t have the burst and Baxter’s best asset is picking up blitzes. He’s not the runner we thought he’d be. Can’t wait to see the young guys over the next three weeks.

Ethan Burke played really good. The dude is a problem for our opponents.

Re-watched the game late last night and both lines of scrimmage were really good. As for the defense, you had the two penalties that kept the first scoring drive alive and the big play to Tate. Those can be corrected, but they're also things that happen game to game. If you really think Arch will keep missing open throws, I don't know what to tell you. I'll take that defense and run game with Arch's talent every time.

Neal Brown is right there too

Yep! Some Coaches styles don’t work when they are not in charge of who to draft, trade, cut, recruit, etc. That’s why I overlook great college coaches who spent a moment in the pros then went back to coaching college because they knew it wasn’t going to work under the constraints presented when working for a pro sports franchise. “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.” ~Bill Parcells

The defensive line was awesome. It isn't Colin Simmons and a bunch of others. They played great yesterday.

They went more jumbo EDGE/5 with Kanu to stop the run vs. Ohio State

I thought Justus Terry was out there as well.

I agree its hard to be a HC and a playcaller but at the same time the #1 single thing Sark has done best in his coaching life is playcall. He does need to make some type of change or check and balance system or someone to make some situational suggestions.

Speed kills imo

Can't falt the OL for the 4th and 1. That play was telegraphed and they were totally out numbered inside.

Not quite 30 but a lot of rotation for such a big game on the road. surprised how little Spence played. Would have wanted to see more vasek as well

I don't think their gameplan included having holes consistently created in the run game against their front 7.

Part of me wonders if Sark overcorrected a bit with the switch from speedy to big WRs. I do know this: Worthy, Mitchell, Golden all would have been open all day long yesterday.

Snap counts, according to PFF:

I don't have a complaint. I have an observation, this was week one against the best team probably we'll face all year. I don't control how fans think, nor will I try to, opinions are far and wide. I enjoy them them and some are absolutely comical.

It sucks that we lost, but the players are NOT quitters, so they will be fine. If anything, losing a close game on the road first game of the season shows you a lot about what your strengths and weaknesses are. Strengths: OL better than practice reports...FAR better. Baxter not great, but way better than expected considering his injury. Wingo looked good, physical, fast...every bit as good as Smith. Wisner looked good. Defense was lights out good. I was hoping for a big splash play resulting in a game changing turnover from AntHill, but it never materialized. Guilbeau was our weak point but even he had a good game all things considered. January and Watson were much better than any practice reports led us to believe. LaFau was good all day. CS didn't have his best game, but his competition was very good, so expected. Burke looks good. Weaknesses: Arch missed that first throw and it seemed to affect him after that. His body language and facial expressions were very negative, but at the end he had some step in his step. Not enough misdirection compared to what we've seen from Sark the first 4 years. On the bright side, these threads bring out the quitters and trolls. We may not see you after the 4th game of the year.

From what I heard all off-season, it sounded like Hero Kanu was playing more with the 2nd and 3rd string. However, it looked like he was on the field a lot. Was that more because he's better or Sark wanted more experience against the Buckeyes? Does anyone have the snap count for each player?

That is much more of an exaggerated, overreaction than anything said here. What's your specific complaint? Arch sucked? Yeah, he did. We still suck in the red zone? Yeah, we do. It only cost us the game against the defending national champions.

Ohio st back 7 on defense is very talented. I think they’re going to have some issues up front. Was not impressed with their DL and Edge. Michigan might be able to run it down their throat again.

Nah. A basic brain will read nuance. I was thoughtful about the huge if but of course some can only comprehend in binary.