You state: "How anyone can look at the bowl game tape, see an offense that made no adjustments to what OSU started doing mid-way thru the 2nd qtr, and say "that's our guy", is mind-boggling."
Amongst all the "anyones", Freeman is supposed to be the one who possesses the expertise and the power to do something about that.
If he is lacking either of those things...then he is the problem.
By the nature of things, he is going to have some more time, but he had better start correcting both...and now he'd better do it fast...