Published: Tuesday, 10/6/2015 BY DAVID BRIGGSBLADE SPORTS WRITER COLUMBUS — Billy Price has a message for Ohio State football fans vexed by the team’s unexpectedly suspenseful start to the season. “Everybody just needs to relax,” the Buckeyes’ offensive guard said Monday. And that goes double for the misadjusted fringe inherent in any fan base who take their concerns directly to the players. You know, the sort of person who would tell Cardale Jones to jump off a bridge and worse. The quarterback received dozens of blistering messages on Twitter after the top-ranked Buckeyes’ 34-27 escape at Indiana on Saturday — a second close call in three weeks for a team most forecast would breeze through its early schedule. “[The criticism] comes with the game and being a heightened offense,” Price said. “We have a lot of special players on the team. But fans: You have no idea what’s going on, unfortunately. It’s frustrating on our end, especially the tweets you see being thrown at Cardale. “It’s not pretty. I’ve been on the receiving end of those. Just stay in your lane.” Urban Meyer would agree. As the Ohio State coach broke down the good and the ugly from the trip to Bloomington — there was little in between — he expressed confidence the Buckeyes (5-0) remain in the right lane on the right road heading into their Big Ten home opener against woeful Maryland (2-3) on Saturday. Meyer sees the uneven start more as normal growth than a cry for major changes. And, yes, that means Jones is still the unquestioned starter. In the quarterback debate that has sharply divided the team’s supporters, Meyer clearly sees Jones yielding a greater potential payoff than J.T. …
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