DZ83CK said:

If you look at the schedule, January is a somewhat favorable month as there is only 1 more game this month you look at and say it's a loss for sure. There is a stretch of 8 games coming up here that the Buckeyes *should* be able to win the majority of. If they could manage to prevail in all but one of these matchups against unranked teams, they would be at 8-4 in the B1G moving into the tougher part of the schedule. I realize the results aren't what we hoped so far, but I feel like this team still has a very legitimate chance at making the tournament.

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I think they pretty much gotta go 5-0 against the worst of the B1G (in the NET rankings)

2X against Ped State
Minnesota
Oregon
Maryland

Minnesota is barely hanging on inside the top 100 and the rest are outside of the top 100

That is probably very key to them having a legit shot in the end.

Captain Buckeye said:

We rarely play depth to be honest but even when we do we don’t really play our game. Normally it’s a lot of base plays on both offense or defense.

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Yes backup QBs being put in to just hand off was a big Ryan Day thing till the chip kelly year

1926Buckeyes said:

I’ve never been as worried about backup reps, especially when you’re talking about an extra 5-10 snaps a game.

They played 4 RBs, 4-5 TEs, and rotated at RG. I expected more at WR, but it’s clear they really only had 3. If they think they have depth at a position, they’ll rotate.

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dragurd said:

They pretty regularly played 4 WR's Bryson rodgers seemed to get a few snaps every game

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We rarely play depth to be honest but even when we do we don’t really play our game. Normally it’s a lot of base plays on both offense or defense.

Zeke Berry is heading back to Michigan and the DFBIA has gone from "He wasn't that good anyway, addition by subtraction with how "deep" our CB room is!" to "THIS IS HUGE!"

Must like beer and cheese curds

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1926Buckeyes said:

I’ve never been as worried about backup reps, especially when you’re talking about an extra 5-10 snaps a game.

They played 4 RBs, 4-5 TEs, and rotated at RG. I expected more at WR, but it’s clear they really only had 3. If they think they have depth at a position, they’ll rotate.

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They pretty regularly played 4 WR's Bryson rodgers seemed to get a few snaps every game

RuGettinIt said:

I think I’ve talked to this in multiple threads, but yes this is an issue for all units. Close games usually mean lack of time for subs to get playing time and experience. I see this as a Day issue as it has been that way since he took over as HC.

Who knows how much this impacts guys transferring as well. No one wants to constantly bust their ass in practice and stand there and watch.

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I’ve never been as worried about backup reps, especially when you’re talking about an extra 5-10 snaps a game.

They played 4 RBs, 4-5 TEs, and rotated at RG. I expected more at WR, but it’s clear they really only had 3. If they think they have depth at a position, they’ll rotate.

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BuckeyeNation27 said:

Did Sayin announce that he's not transferring yet? Oh.....that's not normal? To announce that you're NOT leaving? Huh.

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Announcing that I am not taking away the opportunity for Jessica Alba to come to here senses in regards to being nailed.

Looks like decision day is tomorrow

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Guy showed nothing this year. I doubt he'd clear a million had he left.

BB73 said:

If you get the ball first and end the half with the ball, you get +1 in that half.

But in the other half the other team gets the ball first and the best you can do it make the number even (barring an onside kick).

So I just don’t see the 2-possession difference,

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Team A gets the opening kick, holds it for 30 minutes and scores.
Team B gets second half kick off, punts
Team A takes possession, holds end of game
Team A 2 possessions, Team B 1

(Back to the math of IU and OSU. if IU gets a 10-9 edge in possessions it projects to be 25-20, not 25-23 if both teams get 10. Margin increases by playing to take away the extra possession.)

Chop it up however you want inside of that, the ability to be +1 is clear. Then you layer in the context of gaining mor points per possession than the other team because you are more skilled.

Now, real world football, the more skilled team has the larger per possession delta and by the mid 3rd quarter, early 4th quarter the lesser team is behind and has to play very predictably. It is clear to anyone paying attention that the lesser skilled team is running out of possessions.

The increase in win % by even 1 extra possession is worth the downside to the strategy of winning by efficiency and that does not capture the increase in win % when the last 2-3 possessions of the game are do or die, have to try and go fast, pass only constrained nightmares for the opponent.

Captain Buckeye said:

Anyway back to offense- what will be intriguing is what we do along the OL. I’d really like to see Austin moved back to RG and I think with Moore at LT we can do that.

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That’s ideal, but unless they take a portal OT, they’ll need him at RT.

Carter Lowe and Justin Terry are the only other tackles on the roster and they’ll probably need another year.

Alabama starting DL James Smith has entered the portal and has triggered Bama fans into a full on meltdown

I thought Golden's butt was as good as gone.