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They couldn't have thrown deep to Ginn as Smith would not have had time to get him the ball downfield. On the short passes he'd have been lit up like Everett did to Roboski. Slightly deeper and Nelson would have seperated him from the ball, consciousness and reality. He knew he couldn't get someone to hold Reggie on EVERY play so he wanted no part of UF. No amount of preparation - not even preparation H - would have made this reaming any easier or less painful for the Buckeyes. Nothing was going to make their tackles quicker or our DEs slower. Maybe on offense they could have run the ball. Oh wait, they did that four times in a row and ended up turning it over to UF on downs at their own 29 - fifth down and one to go. If they had played man defense our guys would have just scored quicker and more often. The only thing they could do is what they did do - give up the 7-10 yard plays and hope that UF hurt themselves because there damn sure wasn't a thing OSU could do to hurt the Gators. We won and the winners get to talk. They had nothing we couldn't handle and handle with ease. If the game was played two weeks earlier they'd still have nothing. If it were played two weeks later they'd have had just as much nothing. They were a mismatch for UF. This beating was actually worse than the one FSU took following the 96 season even though the final margin wasn't as large. I thought the Noles got shutdown vs OK that one year in the MNC game, but they had a virtual offenseive explosion compared to what OSU was able to manage. This kind of defensive rout of a #1 team and a Heisman trophy winner is the fabric of legend and it could have been worse. Play the game again - even with a healthy Ginn - and it would have been worse, not better.
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Albert
(159.178.93.124) on 1/16/2007 - 11:34 a.m. says: ( 202 views
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