Skull Session: Indiana is Hype to Play Ohio State, Chase Young is Sick Over His Dropped Pick, and Philip Rivers Underestimated Malik Hooker

By Kevin Harrish on September 10, 2019 at 4:59 am
Two balls are better than one in today's skull session.
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One game in and Terry McLaurin's already collecting trophies.

I assume he'll leave room in the trophy case for the mouthguard of his first defender he decleats with an open-field block.

ICYMI

Word of the Day: Bumfuzzle.

 THEY READY. One of my least favorite things about being a Buckeye fan on a lazy fall Saturday is that the game I want to be less stressful than a George Lopez re-run may as well be the damn super bowl for whatever fringe bowl team or middling Big Ten squad is on the docket this week.

Indiana might be the worst offender. The Hoosier's haven't had a winning season in over a decade, yet those pesky bastards have been within one score of the Buckeyes at the half in four of the last five matchups, owning a halftime lead in three of them.

Unlike Train Indiana, they've never actually finished the deed, but they'd sure like to.

Just once, I want Indiana to lay down in the first half and let me enjoy my Saturday free of ulcers. But Vegas doesn't seem to think we're going to get that lucky, listing the Buckeyes as just two-touchdown favorites early.

Maybe struggling with Indiana is a thing that dies with the old regime?

 DROPPED PICK, NOW SICK. Chase Young was gifted with an interception on Saturday, but his hands didn't quite cooperate.

From Tony Gerdeman of The Ozone:

“I was sick, man. I knew it was coming,” he said of the good-natured ribbing. “It’s all good. There’s still a lot more games. You never know when you’ll have another opportunity. I’m cool, I just left money on the field today. I can’t do that.”

As soon as the ball hit the ground, so did Young, falling to his knees and dropping his head in anguish.

A pick six, gone as quickly as it presented itself. And it was right there.

“Maybe. That’s what my teammates were telling me,” Young said. “It was like, I had it. I had it.”

Young and his teammates weren’t the only ones who thought they were about to witness an interception return for a touchdown.

“Well, yes, I did, actually,” said head coach Ryan Day. “I almost blew out my Achilles’ jumping up and down because I thought we had that. Still feel a little loose there.”

I'm extremely sad we didn't get to see a potential touchdown, but I'm even more sad we didn't get to see Cincinnati's offense desperately attempt to bring down that mass of human.

A proposal: Ryan Day should put him at tight end in the red zone to give him an opportunity to atone for his mistake. I bet he can handle a little jump pass.

 FEED MIMI! Ezekiel Elliott knows how to celebrate a touchdown properly – feed Mimi the ball.

 And if you take a peak at what's around Mimi's neck, you'll see that the football ain't even the most priceless gift in the photo. Mimi's rocking a pair of gold pants.

There's something peaceful about knowing Ezekiel Elliott's grandmother rocks a Michigan murder trophy around her neck during every game. And it's from Jim Harbaugh's first hilarious loss, no less!

 DON'T TRY MALIK. Phillip Rivers was the latest quarterback to underestimate Malik Hooker on Sunday. He regretted it immediately.

Sorry, Phillip. He does tend to do that. There's really not much you can do about it. Just be happy he didn't house it.

Touchdown.

 IMMA LET YOU FINISH. It's usually safe to completely disregarding Rutgers when you're searching for Players of the Week of any kind, but this time is an exception.

Somehow, Drue Chrisman and his two punts inside the 20-yard line won the Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week honor over this fellow, who I can only assume is a lost son of Jim Tressel.

From Keith Sargeant of NJ.com

The Scarlet Knights punter was spectacular, averaging 47.6 yards on 10 punts, including a long of 69 yards.

But even those gaudy credentials don’t tell the complete story of Korsak’s day. The redshirt junior from Melbourne, Australia, pinned seven of his 10 punts inside the 20, including kicks that were downed at the Iowa 3-, 8-, 3-, 1- and 2-yard line in the game.

*Extremely Kanye West voice* Drue – I'm happy for you, but Adam Korsak had one of the best punting performances of all time.

I don't think Drue's gonna feel too bad about claiming this one though, since he was completely snubbed last year after when he pretty much won a game against Michigan State by himself, as a punter, downing five punts inside the six-yard line and still didn't get the recognition.

I'm beginning to think the decision process is just a bit flawed.

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