[CardinalSagehen]

Good stuff as usual. I enjoyed Troy’s shout-out to the message board “hysteria”, which he tries to avoid immediately after games so that he can form his own views.

Troy, I think you might have missed Hamilton’s additional injury on the very last (meaningless) play of the game. You were probably on your way to get interviews. His ankle or lower-leg got seriously rolled-up from behind. Hamilton struggled to get up and walk off the field and looked to be in some real pain. Based on that, I’d guess he’s questionable for OSU.

Sarell was also injured on that final series - on the final play in fact. What the hell was either of them doing in the game in the first place? They are both banged up, the team is down by two scores, and there's less than a minute on the clock with no timeouts left. There is ZERO upside to either of them being in the game, and the downside was realized. I hope they are all right, but if they aren't that's fully on the coaches for doing something so stupid.

It's not like we had other linemen to play.

Funny, and sadly true.  You are either taking a knee or you had to play those guys.  

Sarell went down on the 2nd or 3rd to last play, not the last one.  Then I assume Miller came in to play RG and Hattis swung out to RT.  I’m not sure we have any other healthy linemen that have played.  And you don’t want to burn a game for a freshman that you might need for 4 games later, just to play a meaningless last series. You also don’t want KJ trying to pass behind a weaker line.  

So you’re arguing for taking a knee, not playing other guys.  And that certainly would have been reasonable.  I think Shaw was trying to make a “we never give up” statement to his offense - it just didn’t work out.

[CardinalSagehen]

Good stuff as usual. I enjoyed Troy’s shout-out to the message board “hysteria”, which he tries to avoid immediately after games so that he can form his own views.

Troy, I think you might have missed Hamilton’s additional injury on the very last (meaningless) play of the game. You were probably on your way to get interviews. His ankle or lower-leg got seriously rolled-up from behind. Hamilton struggled to get up and walk off the field and looked to be in some real pain. Based on that, I’d guess he’s questionable for OSU.

Sarell was also injured on that final series - on the final play in fact. What the hell was either of them doing in the game in the first place? They are both banged up, the team is down by two scores, and there's less than a minute on the clock with no timeouts left. There is ZERO upside to either of them being in the game, and the downside was realized. I hope they are all right, but if they aren't that's fully on the coaches for doing something so stupid.

It's not like we had other linemen to play.

Funny, and sadly true.  You are either taking a knee or you had to play those guys.  

Sarell went down on the 2nd or 3rd to last play, not the last one.  Then I assume Miller came in to play RG and Hattis swung out to RT.  I’m not sure we have any other healthy linemen that have played.  And you don’t want to burn a game for a freshman that you might need for 4 games later, just to play a meaningless last series. You also don’t want KJ trying to pass behind a weaker line.  

So you’re arguing for taking a knee, not playing other guys.  And that certainly would have been reasonable.  I think Shaw was trying to make a “we never give up” statement to his offense - it just didn’t work out.