Patrick Smith
Urban Meyer spoke to the media Monday about the win against Penn State and the challenge to come with Illinois.
The highlights of Meyer's Illinois week press conference were as follows:
RT @jeffsvoboda: Braxton Miller your OSU offensive player of the week. Shazier/Roby share honors on defense, Devin Smith takes special teams
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Meyer with some motivational/sports psychologist backhanded love for Zach Boren. Expects more from him even as a newly minted LB.
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Adam Griffin earned a Scarlet Shirt for his exceptional 4th down effort/play.
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Meyer told Jake Stoneburner he had to be better and wasn’t living up to his potential. Stoneburner agreed.
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Meyer applauds the media and tells the reporter that asked the question "give him an extra cookie."
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Meyer believes Ohio State falls into the category of special beyond record.
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"This is a special team. They’re fighting for each other. There is a refuse to lose attitude." Admits OSU isn’t a "blow everyone out" team.
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"How difficult is it to go against a guy you respect and like a lot?" "Not difficult at all." #URBZ
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"If you had to really evaluate Braxton’s progress, it’s probably on schedule."
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"Some people would say he should be a better thrower by now and he should be."
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"I’d be careful saying the word great, but this is the second time I felt like Silver Bullet…" On the defensive effort.
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"Momentum is everything."
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"The best thing about 9-0 is the chance to go for 10."
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Calls Jake Stoneburner an intellect and said over thinking the wide receiver role was holding him back.
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Says when the Chicago Bears ask a rookie to go play on the kick coverage team, you can’t over intellectualize what it means. You just do it.
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"Illinois’ had more draft picks than Ohio State, at least first rounders, in the last several years…They’ve won 7 of 11 in Ohio Stadium."
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"There’ll be no issue getting these guys ready. There’s a lot of respect for Illinois."
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"Chase Farris is on fire…Someday we’re going to talk about him…Watching young people develop? There’s nothing better."
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"I don’t know that much about them, other than I’ve watched two games on video. I haven’t even watched the offense yet." on Illinois
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"I love Notre Dame. It’s good for college football they’re back. And they’re really good."
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"Everybody knows who we are. We better fight our tails off, or you’re going to lose a game."
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"If we need to go practice in the slop, we’ll do so. But I understand Saturday is going to be alright [weatherwise]."
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"We don’t have the greatest hang time… Ben’s struggling a little bit." On punt protection issues
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"Fastest player on the team." on Devin Smith
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"We’re jerry rigging a system right now [on punt coverage] but it’s not working."
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"There’s no player trying harder, I would say that it’s questionable [for Sabino’s availability] this week." Says Devin Smith is fine.
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