Former Buckeyes blast Ohio State play-calling in Fiesta Bowl loss
Cardale Jones and Darron Lee were key pieces on the 2014-15 squad that won the first College Football Playoff National Championship.
On Saturday night, however, they had no impact on anything that happened at the Fiesta Bowl. Now NFL rookies, they were forced to watch Ohio State get pummeled 31-0 by Clemson. It was Urban Meyer’s first shutout ever as a coach, and it was OSU’s first goose egg since 1993.
The play-calling was a major source of frustration for the former Buckeyes. Jones took to Twitter during the game to share his frustrations:
Anyone have the number to that sideline phone?????
— Cardale Jones (@Cardale7_) January 1, 2017
They need to go in the locker room, turn on the PS4, pop in Madden 17 & hit ???? every play since this play calling has went MIA!!
— Cardale Jones (@Cardale7_) January 1, 2017
Stop all these "JT trash" tweets, when I started last season & we struggled, it was "Cardale trash we want JT"it ain't the QB????☕️????
— Cardale Jones (@Cardale7_) January 1, 2017
Lee waited until after the game ended to voice his opinions. He didn’t have any problem calling out the play-calling of his program, either:
Play calling was such trash tonight…
— Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) January 1, 2017
I'm being nice. It was trash last year too https://t.co/hOU2uzFpKM
— Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) January 1, 2017
It's one thing to lose…but to get shutout? Smh
— Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) January 1, 2017
Ohio State did have the youngest team in America, though it looked a long way off on Saturday night. Was that entirely on the coaching staff?
Jones and Lee certainly believed so.
