V-Cast: Michigan State was beaten badly by Buckeyes, but progress was still made in some areas

The first half was football

TURNOVERS in RZ. Missed INT TD. Different game. Those are back breakers mentally.

The fact that last year’s score was 38-3 and this year’s score was 38-7 and yet this year’s game was about 10x more competitive (for what little that’s worth when you still get your butt kicked) is the perfect demonstration of the beautiful and soul-crushing nature of the game of football.

2018 is the game

How about the Freshman LT, WR, DBs. Very competitive and outlook is encouraging.

It sounds like total cope to say Michigan State was just a handful of plays away from making this a real game in a 31 point loss, but it's f*cking true. If the easy int doesn't get dropped, and those 3 trips to the redzone end with scores instead of 0 points, that's a 28 point swing. Even just give us 3 lousy points on each redzone drive that faltered and it's 17-16 at the half, and then who knows how the feeling of this game and the energy in the stadium changes in the 2nd half when it's tight.

It's never going to feel good with a final score like this, but I've seen this program get completely embarrassed time and time again recently vs elite competition, and it just didn't feel like that last night. A lot of positive things were happening and we looked like we belonged on the same field that 1st half.

Jonathan Smith and his staff are going to bring this program back. It'll take a lot of time to undo the mess that Tucker created, but the signs are there that things are already going in the right direction.

To answer your question in the beginning. The center got destroyed on the 4th and short qb sneak by the Ohio state nose guard. We had no chance on it.

Buckeye here. Sparty played extremely well the first half. Mistakes and turnovers put the death nail in. I was at last years game in the shoe. Two completely different teams. Your coach has your program heading in the right direction. Your QB is gonna be very good. Hang in there, it's gonna be very good for you all soon. You played a good team last night.

Jeremiah and Downs are beasts

Hell No we didn't think that. Our defense makes adjustments every 2nd Half. MSU wasn't ever going to move the ball in the 2nd half.

Joe Ann Arbor 😂😂😂 me listening on Sunday and spitting out my coffee.

The dude in the green shirt needs to share talk time. He likes to hear himself to much. I like what you have to say but I also like what your partner had to say! When you were not interrupting him.

Come on. Ohio State played their 3rd team for the fourth quarter. They could’ve named their score. MSU was respectable, but Ohio State was restrained.

good times are coming for MSU, just have to be patient 🙌

“Against these guys that’s progress” 😂 stfu have a standard for yourself sparty

Jim I love your stuff, but my god, quit interrupting him

Hats off to Indiana, I think MSU can win that game if we keep improving - as we have done so far! I've been to many of the OSU vs MSU games since 2006 when I was stationed in Columbus for work. We have a foursome, two from MSU & two from OSU who go together - it has been an awesome time tailgating (we were at the last three MSU wins in the Shoe/Indianapolis). The fan-base at OSU are great partiers and... dedicated. Only one of us made it this year - but here was my two-cents to the boys this am: As the trophy says (several years ago I made a trophy out of Michigan Maple Block (Petoskey/closed down)) - "May the Best Team Win" and last night the best team won - however, Chiles and the Spartans have some greatness and they need to find it - and stay on it. Oregon will be interesting... OSU has some great talent in OL, RB and Receivers however, QB and Defense is not yet there. OSU, my take, currently is not a National Title Team and not worthy of the #3 rank ... yet. I agree, - I was just about to txt MSU is going to win this game in the first half - then OSU pulled the score out of the hat - a lucky (or talented) catch - a game of inches. Spartans/we have a young team and with a little more practice "learning on the job" (I was perplexed on taking Chiles of in the 4th - I feel he needs Reps - and why not vs a superior team - a great way to gain experience and learn!). New coaching staff is very good for MSU - (Tucker should have canned OC, DC and probably more in his first year... really Coach D should have done it...). Go GREEN - I only had time to write a long message... (the writers get it). GO GREEN! 😍

I saw no progress

Dream on Michigan state is in a bad place!!!

Emeka, J Smith, Inniss, Carnel Tate, all these guys are so good. We cant make mistakes against teams like Ohio State or Oregon, or in general. They will cost us. Tonight it did. This team is getting better though

The Buckeyes respect, Sparty
I like their new coach as well

OSU defense is much better with their best player on defense #91 who didnt play this game

East Lancing looks very promising. I like what MSU is doing.

Hot Take - Jeremiah Smith is the best 18-year-old athlete since LeBron James

The Spartan running game will be fine if the quarterback just takes the ball from the center turns and the back is already there going into the line and takes the hand off. It’s old-school football, but you can’t run the ball back into the backfield and hand it off because you give the defensetime to recover with that three or 4 yards into the back field. I hope everyone knows what I mean snap the guys in the line he’ll hit the hole. Get a yard every Martin

10 straight against Sparty but guess what we both hate the cheating weasels beat them
When you play them

Lookin’ good as always paul

OSU starters sat the entire fourth.....just saying

Who are these two losers?

I have a weird aside question, does anyone know why they play HAVA NAGILA at Spartan Stadium? That seems very odd. Especially with all the tensions in the Middle East.

Osu was running base vanilla defense sorry yall score would've been even worse osu holding back stuff for oregon. Also guys you can say game of inches but osu had plays that got negated or were barely missed that could've lead to another 20 plus points for ohio state.

Paul, u dress like a hillbilly. U guys should do a podcast without showing what u look like

MSU played really hard but I just feel you guys are blowing smoke up yall asses😂

OSU tends to play down to competition, they ran a very soft defensive scheme, they were missing their best D-line player, and they stopped running the ball effectively when tre went out. Bucks showed mercy last night

I'm kinda rambling

brother, you always ramble

Good to hear proper coverage of a game from xichigan! TCUN need to learn from this

Yeah, as a buckeye, i agree sparty got some bad luck and 20 was much closer to how the guys played. Next year we might fear michigan state more than michigan.

OSU defense need to play at their potential, and now!!

As a Buckeye fan. I’d pick you guys to beat Michigan pretty convincingly if you don’t beat yourself. You have a ton of potential.

Would love to see the Spartan football team play better, but this year is not the year. Spartans will be lucky to win 2 games the rest of the season. Indiana, Rutgers are not the pushovers of the past. 47 yards rushing won't beat anyone. Expect 20 plus point losses to Oregon and Michigan.