Contending for the Heisman and throwing for 4000/running for 1500 aren't the same thing. Also, Haskins is simply a better talent than Lewerke.
You said that Urban is going to take the ball out of his hands and give the ball to the RBs more. You said you expect him to put up similar numbers to Barrett last year. Barrett wasn’t exactly on the radar for Heisman last year. Am I wrong? So Haskins will be a player in the Heisman race putting up pedestrian numbers? You are on Maize and Blue or Trustme level of homerism.
He's going to take a step back this year. I'm not sure he's even going to be the 3rd best QB in his division. Their personnel losses on offense were massive all around.
Whats up with Tate Martell? Is he ever gonna play?
Barrett's numbers were anything but pedestrian, that's just ignorant. He also was in the top 3-5 among Heisman contenders until the Iowa game. This opinion was held by quite a few different publications. There was a point where he had an absurd 25-1 TD/INT ratio last year. Then he shit down his leg the final few games of the season and fell out of it.
I think 2019 is gonna be his time. I could see Haskins possibly having a big year and going pro. If so, it'll be Martell's ship I think. If not, it might be 2020 before we see him take over.
So he looked good against the cupcakes and then shit himself when he had to play better teams? So he’s Denard Robinson?
2020? That's four years after he committed to Ohio State. At some point I think he's gonna start looking elsewhere.
That's a pretty darn homerish statement. You're basically saying, that worst case scenario your first year starting QB will be that he's a Heisman contender....cmon man.
Nope, he was amazing against Penn State and played fairly well against Michigan State in a short day. He's also had plenty of amazing games in his career against big-time opponents - you remember 2014 in East Lansing, don't you?
Yeah that's the unfortunate reality. Urban has ramped up QB recruiting to levels OSU has never had. Who knows? Haskins could get hurt and Martell could step in and look amazing. Right now, unless that happens, he'll be on the bench though. He will play some sub-package plays this year, I'm sure, but not likely anything super meaningful.
And I remember that awesome day he had in 2015. He looked unstoppable against a 3-9 Michigan State, too. Michigan State wasn’t a good team last year, horrible offense and mediocre defense.
Right, it's not like Urban had had QBs come out of the blue at OSU at look amazing and have immediate amazing accomplishments or anything.
Ok, so what's your point?
I don't remember that actually. What are you concerns?
Barrett looked good early and got progressively worse every year he was at OSU. He wasn’t great last year, sorry to burst your bubble. To assume that a guy that you have seen one half of live football with will be a Heisman contender is homerism. But you do you SCARLETandGAY09
I don't disagree, Barrett regressed after his first year. I also never said he was great last year. Did you know there's an area between "pedestrian" and "great"? I'm assuming not based on your comments. Urban has proven the ability to bring his QBs along and have amazing success with them early on at Ohio State. Why would I think the best passer he's ever recruited wouldn't be the same?
