Long time luker, first time poster here.  First off, I want to say the insightful posting by the members of this community is outstanding.  Ok, enough of the introduction....

Watching the progress of the offense and particularly our QB has really been bothering me over the past couple of weeks.  Now I know from reading various threads on this site, any mention of our incumbent QB seems to be very touchy with some of the members.  Well, I have been watching every game, and this does not look like the same QB we had running our offense last year.

To be more clear, I am sick of watching the endless scrambling the backfield ending up in sacks.  I have also had it with the rolling out, only to take a sack, or run our of bounds for a loss or small gain of yardage.  What happened to the player who was sacrificing his body to make outstanding runs look like the norm?  How about putting some zip on the ball on those downfield passes?

From my observations, our QB is injured and it might be costing our team in certain areas.  Yes, he played an outstanding (probably the best game of his career to this point) game again Penn State and without TT there was no way we were coming out on top in that one.  A healthy TT and we are certainly looking at a still undefeated season at this point.

Right now, as of today November 8th, 2012, Vick would be a better option since TT is clearly not playing at the top of his game, due to injury or otherwise.  The kid seems to have better arm strenght, has shown an ability to throw the deep ball with accuracy and is fast as hell.  Call me crazy, which I am sure is in my immediate future, but when they put Vick in for a few plays last night I was hoping they were planning on leaving him in to see what we can do.

If any of the other members of the board have further insight into the reasons TT is not playing at the level he was last year, I would love to discuss.

I think Vick played only one down last night, and I suspect that was because of some minor issue with Tettleton (equipment or something). I think our QB issue is not the QB himself, but a combination of VERY poor OL play, and at least last night, an inability of our WRs to get open. I could not see BGs defensive backs very well on TV, but it appeared as though Tettleton had no open receivers. Even our completed passes last night were hotly contested.

My question now is why didn't we go to the QB scramble last night? If BG was bringing the DL pressure and dropping their DBs back in coverage, why not spring our QB loose? Early in the season, that worked well, but again, we had better OL blocking at that time. I'm completely puzzled as to what happened to the OL.

To be strictly accurate, Vick only took the snap on one down last night. He was lined up at wide out many times. I'm not sure if this is a result of injuries to the WR corp, if he's just too good an athlete to leave on the sideline, or if this was intended to introduce a wrinkle that was never brought out.

I think we can all agree that this isn't the same TT that we are used to seeing.  Whether it is injury or not, a depleted WR corps is a problem.  Watching in person last night, I noticed guys just weren't getting open.  When TT was scrambling and looking for an open guy, I saw two of our receivers with their backs to him.  We were spoiled with guys like Brazill and Dunlop who seemed to have a special connection with TT, especially when he needed to find an open receiver on the run.  

We have lost some of our best receivers due to injury this year.  I really expect next year's group to be the best as far as depth.

We know TT still has it in him to be great.  What we saw on the first drive and the last drive (until it was 4th and forever) is what we should be seeing regularly.  In those drives, there were quick passes, we spread the field, and our WR's looked polished again. I can see a lot of frustration in Tettleton right now. I hope he can turn it around, get on the same page with his offense, and have some fun on the field for a change.  As the 110 chanted last night, "OHIO, WE GOT YOUR BACK!"

Bcat  not only do I give the BG defense a great deal of credit, I give the OHIO defense a tremendous amount of credit as well.

The bookies, who typically, "know the score" had this game at -1.5 at kick-off. That's even considering we had the home field advantage,a MAC team with an impressive mid-week fan turnout, the 110 and YES even our football team, the bookies thought BG were at the worst a pick-em team, ie, they were pretty damn good.

I thought the BG defense played as advertised. Which made our opening drive all the more impressive. Not only did we drive it down the field, we drove it down their throats and Beau pile-drove some BG DBacks into the turf and locker-room. Why we didn't go all-in with Beau in the 2nd half does mystify me but that was obviously a "coaching" decision.

Our punting "unit" commited 4 that's FOUR turnovers DEEP in OUR territory. The '85 Bears defense would have had a hard time overcoming 4 that's FOUR turnovers deep in their own territory. IF one looks at the totality of the game, our defense forced BG into multiple punts, I think 6 in total. Unfortunately BG's punting game was exceptional and quite a few of those punts resulted in poor field position for the Good Guys.

Long story short it would be tough for ANY team to overcome 4 turnovers deep in their own territory and be faced with having to make up scores by essentially driving the length of the field against a "top-rated" defense even IF your offense was high-powered and fully functional.

Truth be told, I've felt we have been "out of sync" offensively for the better part of the MAC schedule. My feeling is that the majority of that is attributed to injuries to first an foremost Tyler, then the WR's, a killer in losing Thompson and the knowledge that we just had our best remaining WR go out last week with a broken leg and that Foster is playing hurt.  

While I think we could possibly have overcome a UMass or Akron type with all that going against us, a team of BG's defensive caliber is another story.

Sadly HAD we been able to punt the ball last night I think this board would have been lit up with how great our 14-7 victory was and how spirited the effort of the whole team, crowd, 110 etc. was.

Maybe their D is quite good.  But it's nothing we haven't seen a time or two (at least) each season.  Always before, we played our game.  We didn't particularly care that the defense we faced was stout.  Yesterday, we gave BG's defense WAY TOO MUCH RESPECT.

Monroe, believe me, Albin tried his best with Ohio football,  Yesterday a good Ohio team lost and all the fans can do look to place blame instead of allowing the least credit to BG.  Respect BG they have earned it the old fashioned way.  Congratulation BG

This - we clearly don't have the breakaway speed that we've had in previous years. I think Cochran might be that guy next year.  

We also have dropped more balls this season than the last three seasons combined.  I can't remember a Solich team with such a case of the dropsies.