THIS...is what really worries me. After watching that BTN Elite show covering the championship run, they made it seem like Cardale was still struggling with maturity last year. I think a big reason he's not doing as well now, is that until this year he didn't take the game seriously. JT can read a defense, he can be a coach on the field. Cardale can run some plays. It's a huge difference. If JT goes down, now that we've seen how Cardale plays in a bigger sample set, I'm definitely worried.
It really sucks for the kid, too. He could have gone down as one of the most legendary figures in Ohio State history. Not highly recruited kid from Cleveland, fights through Twitter issues, depth chart, all that. Comes in and wins the team he grew up loving a national championship. But now?