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There’s only one entrant in this week’s edition, so excuse me if I’m forgetting any team that deservedly merits a bashin’…

This week’s mayors of Fraud City…THE Ohio State Fraud-aversity.

Where to begin, where to begin…hmm…  Howabout this…lets start at the top and work our way down.

Jim Tressel needs to not only delegate more of the offensive responsibilities to his assistants, he needs a wholesale reorganization of the entire coaching staff on that side of the ball from the coordinators to the positional coaches.  There isn’t ONE SINGLE FUCKING EXCUSE for a team with this much talent on offense to be so abortion-ly miserable whenever they have the ball.  NOT ONE.

A LOT more after the jump.

This team has an offensive line that SHOULD be the best in the country.  The fact that it’s not falls on two people’s shoulders…first, Tressel’s for not firing the guy I’m about to mention after 2006.  The other?  Jim Bollman, the former OC who has been demoted to the point where he’s now only working with guards and centers while the tackles are being handled by the TE coach.

Ohio State outweighed Purdue by AT LEAST 80 lbs. at each position when you look at the matchups.  What’d that result in?  A running game that was nonexistent and extremely predictable and a passing game that featured Terrelle Pryor running for his life after a measly 3 seconds on numerous occasions.  This is simply inexcusable.

Especially when you look at WHO’S on the OL…C Michael Brewster, LT Mike Adams and RT JB Shugarts all were dominant forces in high school football in a few states that know a thing or two about the game, Florida, Ohio and Texas respectively.  Look at some of their clips from high school…dominant might actually be an understatement here, and before you dismiss this premise, realize that these guys were going up against the stiffest competition in the two best high school football states in Florida and Texas and the fourth best in Ohio.  These guys were facing the cream of the crop, players playing on Saturdays across the country.  How in fuck’s name do they just turn to shit?

Lets get a quick knock in so I can catch my breath…

The WR’s just don’t get open or are running routes that don’t let them get open.  DeVeir Posey is a damn fine pass catcher, as are Duron Carter and, to a lesser extent, Dane Sanzenbacher.  I’m really not sure who’s at fault…the players or the guys not putting them in the best positions to make plays.

The RB’s just suck…plain and simple there.

Now to the “savior.”  The “chosen one.”

Terrelle Pryor…your job is safe, so don’t worry.  There’s really nobody else on the roster deserving a chance to play QB at a D-1 level.  Now, don’t confuse that with thinking that YOU’RE deserving of a chance to play QB at a D-1 level, but seeing as you’re the best option, and loaded with potential, you deserve the benefit of the doubt.

And you weren’t wholly abysmal on Saturday, but come the fuck on dude…THIS IS MOTHERFUCKING PURUDE!!!  How the fuck can you not shred the fuck out of a defense like theirs?  How can you manage 18 measly fucking points against a Big Ten afterthought?  Make some fucking strides, get your ass in the film room and learn how to fucking pass the ball or else you’re destined for a legacy akin to Tyrod fucking Taylor’s, oh wait…he’s actually not half bad now.  I guess you’ll just have to settle for being a colossal disappointment.

And there’s only so much blaming of Tressel that you can rely on until it simply becomes a reality that you’re not cut out to play QB at an elite level.  Would being in Rich Rod or some other spread crazy offense help you out if you can’t even throw 10 yard passes accurately?  Probably not.  The onus is on you, dude, and you’re sucking.  Big time.

But I just can’t pin the loss completely on the offense.  I have to do something that I REALLY don’t want to do, considering how well the unit has played so far this year.  I have to knock Jim Heacock and the defense.

All year, OSU’s defense has been absolutely fantastic considering they’re on the field FOR FUCKING EVER because the offense is so bad.  Last weekend?  They were rather bland and pretty sloppy.

This is Jim Heacock’s fault.

Apparently, despite getting eviscerated by teams running multiple WR sets, Heacock has learned nothing.  He didn’t see Florida and LSU and USC gash Ohio State by finding seams in their zone.  He didn’t see Texas dink and dunk their way to a Fiesta Bowl win by hitting every tiny hole in a soft zone.  He didn’t realize that the defense was hell on wheels and automobiles when they were pressuring the fuck out of teams with exotic blitzes, and because of all this, Ohio State lost to a team that was 1-5 going into Saturday.

Purdue didn’t do anything spectacular on offense.  They just sat back, let their 5 blockers take care of three pass rushers and got 8 yards with guys sitting in the holes of soft zone coverage.

Can someone answer me a quick question?  Why, for the love of fucking God, when you have elite athletes at CB and safety, and YOU’RE FACING FUCKING PURDUE, are you playing zone coverage?  This makes NO FUCKING SENSE AT ALL.  You mean to tell me, all these 4 and 5 star recruits in the secondary are incapable of manning up against some smallish, slower WR’s for a 3rd tier Big Ten school?  SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!?

And, even when it was obvious that Joey Elliot was finding the holes, why did you not change your course of action?  It was obvious after the first half that the defense wasn’t really working, so why no adjustments?  Why no added pressure?  Just…why?

Really, a loss that pathetic is a team wide issue.  There isn’t one person to blame, rather, the entire team is to blame, from top to bottom.  It was pathetic.  I mean, absolutely, positively, PA-THET-IC.

So I hope you relish your status as the top of the fraud food chain, OSU, because that’s the only thing you’ll be on top of until you face Michigan.

FUCK, was that an awful performance.  Ya’ll should be seriously ashamed of yourselves.

Fucking Purdue…you have GOT to be shitting me.

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