TSL Roundtable: The Braxton Miller injury

How does the loss of Braxton Miller change your outlook on the Ohio State game?

Hokie CPA: I’m writing while on vacation in Daytona Beach. Never let it be said that Hokie CPA doesn’t make sacrifices for his fans.

Okay, so football is the ultimate team sport. Eleven guys are needed to execute an attack with fluid precision in order to matriculate the football down the field and eventually score. While the quarterback is largely considered to be the most important cog in the machine, there are still ten other guys out there helping the QB look as good as he does.

Last week at this time I would have said we had maybe a 5% chance of pulling this off. Without Braxton Miller, of course our odds improve. Maybe now we have a 15% to 20% chance of winning this game. Our defense is certainly capable of keeping us in this game, but at the end of the day we still need our offense to move the chains and score some points on a pretty darn good Buckeye defense which is not affected by the loss of Braxton Miller. And we have to it in The Horseshoe© in Columbus in front of 100,000 Buckeye fans. It can be done, but it’s still a tall order.

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