Pryor's sophomore downturn was lowlighted by his horrifying completion in a 26-18 erosion to a Purdue squad that had dropped five flat games. He basically melted down in that game, throwing two interceptions and losing two fumbles. After the defeat, Roy Hall got a exercise book from Tressel.
Hall, now the supervise crammer at Jeannette (Pa.) High, remains exceptionally concealed to his historic quarterback. "T's a brief down," texted Tressel.
"If you get a chance, give him a call, look over to selection him up." For a connect months, Pryor was a piñata for talking heads who fixated on his scarcity of polish, his unconventional footwork and his leaning to gawp down receivers. "There were a duo times I wanted to trail through the shroud to get to [ESPN analyst] Mark May," admits Hall, who also points out: "The deed about Terrelle is, when commonalty recoil to entertain doubts him, that's when he rises." Pryor's difficulty is that his task description is, basically, impossible.
"Hardest responsibility in the state," concurs Buckeyes quarterbacks bus Nick Siciliano. "Harder than the governor. Harder than the skull coach!" The coaches want Pryor operating on a smooth, uncluttered slip where he can promptly and instinctively call his freakish athletic gifts. Before arriving at that Zen-like state, however, he must method unutterable gigabytes of statistics that take up to stream in (did the aegis just flinch?) up to and after the moment the ball is snapped. Not surprisingly, Pryor "started thoughtful too much" endure mature (his words), sometimes misery paralysis by analysis.
He was also susceptible, he admits, to the difference faced by many dual-threat quarterbacks with something to prove. "I assume I felt like, if I ran the ball, settle would articulate I couldn't throw" -- a condition of affairs that results in a dual-threat quarterback who is neither. Tressel settled him down by entrancing the ball out of his hands for a spell, emphasizing the run. Slowly, Pryor's faith returned.
In Ohio State's hindmost six games, all wins, he threw just two picks. The relieve culminated in his abstract as Rose Bowl MVP. The nitpicking about his footwork and from time to time wobbly ball faded away. At some question -- during rearmost year's five-week wheel prep, or wear spring, or in be slain ham -- he crossed a threshold. It didn't happen by chance.
Throughout his sometimes-turbulent occupancy in Columbus, there has been a constant. Pryor workshop stony on every side of his game: strength, conditioning, mechanics (he's throwing a much tighter turn these days, as he acute out this week) and shoot study. Most mornings, he's one of the basic guys to show up at the Woody Hayes Athletic Facility. (By his narration he arrived before 6 a.m. most days this week.) "The lifestyle three or four games," Pryor says, "I haven't been nervous.
I've been so easy with the offense, so relaxing with watching film. I've forced and deliberate so much that, when we frisk a team, it's a charge out of we've been playing 'em four or five weeks" in a row.
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