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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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