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Urban Meyer spoke to the media from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Labor Day to address Ohio State's performance over the weekend against Miami (Ohio) and also speak some on the lead up to this coming Saturday's game against the Central Florida Knights.
Amongst the highlights, Meyer says d-lineman Adam Bellamy won't be returning to the team, Braxton Miller has some ball control issues but is considerably better at them then he was a year ago, and also believes UCF will be a real test for the Buckeyes.
Highlights below:
Bradley Roby had 30 opportunities to make a play, and hit on 25 of those. Was OSU's coaches' defensive player of the week.
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Christian Bryant, 96% grade out. 7 tackles, 1 assist.
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Travis Howard grades out at 90% and is almost called Terrence Howard.
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Braxton Miller was the coaches' offensive player of the game. Guiton also gets praise as "Coach Guiton" after making checks on field.
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Andrew Norwell, Carlos Hyde, Zach Boren, Philly Brown, Devin Smith all graded out as champions as well.
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Jamal Marcus, Drew Basil, Ben Buchanan were graded as champions on special teams. Adam Griffin was special teams player of the week.
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"To say we don't have a lot of respect for Central Florida would be absurd." Attributes' players' knowledge of UCF to iPads.
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"We have a bunch of good players who try real hard and play real hard." /Tim Brewster'd
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"I'm very pleased we got thrown around in the first quarter… Losing in our home stadium… I didn't like it at the time." Well, yeah.
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"He keeps walking by me waiting for me to say great catch. I won't say it. I can't do it." On Devin Smith's catch of the year.
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"There won't be no billboards posted anywhere." Meyer doesn't address unfounded rumors of Braxton Miller AOL install CDs.
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Meyer mentions offensive line only having one false start all game.
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Meyer gives Miami (Ohio) credit for scouting OSU's offense well for 10 months leading into Saturday's game.
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"There's nothing greater than confidence and nothing worse than false confidence with an athlete." Meyer on Devin Smith's growth since April
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Meyer gave the wide receivers a grade of B after the early doubts about them going into the season.
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Meyer, OC Tom Herman, and OL coach Ed Warinner talk play flow during the opposing side of the ball's series.
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Ohio State played 14 true freshmen Saturday. Meyer says usually true freshman don't play on d-line but they have confidence in these guys.
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Urban Meyer says Adam Bellamy lost his love of the game of football.
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"In between a series, [Tom Herman] isn't just calling plays out of right field. When we get the ball back, here's what we want go with."
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"There'll be many more storms to hit." Urban Meyer channelling Selina Kyle.
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Meyer giving high praise to Craig Cataline, who hadn't played football since '05 and served in Iraq with the Navy.
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Meyer gives Miami credit for taking Johnathan Hankins out of the game by throwing quickly.
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Meyer with acknowledgement of Jose Jose. Calls UCF "a whole different animal that we're facing."
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"This team is going to run the power directly at you and get their first downs… A much different team and a very talented team."
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