Article published October 30, 2008
The End Zone: Wells a warm-up act for OSU?
You don’t bring a guy like Beanie Wells to Ohio State and have him run the ball just to set things up for your field goal kicker.
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By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
You don’t bring a guy like Beanie Wells to Ohio State and have him run the ball just to set things up for your field goal kicker. That would be like having Pavarotti as the warm-up act for Weird Al Yankovic. But Beanie did just that against Penn State last weekend, because everywhere he went, he got swarmed. We haven’t seen that many white shirts pounce on one guy since Nurse Ratched turned the orderlies loose on Jack Nicholson’s character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
In a third of the Buckeyes’ games, they’ve gone without an offensive touchdown. At times the OSU playbook is so mellow, it could appear on Oprah’s must-read list next to Ghandi: The Lighter Side. No reverses, no innovative screen passes, no gadgetry. And the tight ends will soon be the focus of an Amber alert.
Quarterback Terrelle Pryor has fallen on the sword like a valiant young warrior, but that’s a misdirected Excalibur. He seems to be trying too hard not to make a mistake, instead of just trying to make a play. Pryor locked in the pocket is like Secretariat on a leash. Granted, he’s no Neil Armstrong, but Pryor’s best work for the Buckeyes is done in space.
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