Good job by the ass end of the bullpen getting through so we still have all of the main relievers for tomorrow. They weren’t going to win 2 in NY to start this series anyway but they helped themselves for tomorrow.

Thump said:

This would be my poster today:

Texas A&M Gameday

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LenI Reithensthaler hits for a thousand, Alex.

Damn, wish they’d been on the Bucks sked this past decade.

jarv said:

I think of all fanbases that ours would know better than to judge a team by how they perform against Purdue.

Imagine being told any time the last 20 years that Michigan coming off a National Championship* season would only be only 3 point favorites at Illinois.

Bielema is turning Illinois into a respectable team, which is something that should be near impossible to do.

I think Bielema will out-coach Moore and knock Michigan out of the Top 25 where they belong. * = fugazi

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Fixed. You were missing an asterisk.

Bringing in the worst hitter in baseball over the last 5-6 years as a pinch hitter and giving the Yankees two free outs when you were still technically in the game was a...choice.

We don’t synch up our DEs and LBs. They should be working together.

RuGettinIt said:

Total fucking because your Aaron Roger’s call. No fucking way that was roughing the passer

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@Thump

Have the refs in the Jets-Bills MNF game been bad?

GuiFMRS said:

On the other hand, if Knowles knows that the DL cannot generate pressure, why not adjust the scheme to take that into consideration ? If indeed LJ is "sabotaging" Knowles' job as a DC why allow it to continue from his standpoint ? Why not say it's either him or me ? He is the defense's boss and earns a couple of Million Dollars per year to do so. Why not do boss shit ?

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He has tried, which is how you end up getting beat in Cover Zero repeatedly. You can't win on D if you're calling plays based on four guys essentially being wastes of space. That's not a tenable situation. There's not a D coordinator on Earth that can work around that.

Johnson does not have four guys who can reliably generate pressure but also refuses to not have four down linemen. If the shit about Johnson demanding four lineman and control of rotation is correct, it's frankly a miracle Knowles has saved the defense as much as he has.

This team coaches too scared. They play plateaued DEs who can't get home because they're worried Curry/Melton/Jackson might be worse. They keep a completely lost Styles in at LB all game because they're afraid Hicks or Reese will somehow be more scared or miss more tackles. They keep a completely burned Denzel Burke in because they're afraid Jermaine Matthews will somehow make a bigger mistake than getting absolutely torched repeatedly. And then when someone gets hurt and they need to lean on one of these guys they've been scared shitless to give snaps to, they wonder why that guy plays with no confidence.

In many cases, our DE have contain, meaning they need to stay on the OT outside shoulder. Pretty limiting as far as pass rush. I think this is the fundamental friction between LJ and Knowles. This is not unique to OSU.

sg86 said:

The only pass rush move any of our DEs have is an outside bull rush so our opponents just use their momentum against them and run them around the pocket now, giving the QB room to step up in the pocket and a lane to run if necessary. It's remarkably lazy coaching on our end.

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Exactly. On almost every defensive down I see the OL just keep them out of the kitchen. They just use the DE momentum to let them push down field and keep them from engaging in the play by letting them overrun.

colobuck79 said:

It makes sense in the south to wear whites at home so that the away team has to wear a dark color that absorbs the heat from the sun. I understand that back in the day NFL teams wore whites at home generally, and the Browns wore the dark jerseys at home to keep warmer in Municipal Stadium in the winter. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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I’m so old I remember that the Browns wore white at home all through the 50s and 60s. They also won a great deal.

The only pass rush move any of our DEs have is an outside bull rush so our opponents just use their momentum against them and run them around the pocket now, giving the QB room to step up in the pocket and a lane to run if necessary. It's remarkably lazy coaching on our end.

ORD_Buckeye said:

UC is our only real competition among publics, and we've always managed to get along with them pretty well until Ono's nonsense (it wasn't just the multiple flagships talk), and their new President has seemed to smooth over things with us since Ono hit the road. The problems with other public universities has never been on us. It's their jealousy and attempts to damage Ohio State in the vain hope that they could fill the vacuum that's been the problem.

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Well, there was the Damon Flint matter. But I think you are just speaking to academics.

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I wish it was the punked crew and not Haslem & Berry

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And he doesn't even look Haitian.

If Johnson is undermining the DC he should be fired. No ifs ands or butts, and I've loved him being here for the most part.

His DL has grossly underperformed in all big games with zero pass rush because none of them have seemed to develop any kind of pass rush arsenal. Bull rush. That's it. If the Oline withstands that bull rush, then the Dline gets stuffed and the QB has a month to throw. It's no surprise that guys have been getting drafted based on potential and then light it up; Jones, Cooper, Harrison etc. I am not sure he can get credit for the Bosa's and Chase Young because those dudes are freaking aliens and didnt need coaching in the first place. JT has regressed a ton.

There are other problems with the Defense no doubt but the improvements the past couple years, since Coombs, have been evident except for rushing the passer. Oregon was all over Howard and we should have at least matched that.

AuTX Buckeye said:

Someone needs to ask Day if they spend time working specific situations in practice

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Specifically regarding time management

Gave themselves a chance…and went out with a wet fart

muffler dragon said:

Is there any justification/validation to the consideration that Knowles and Johnson are not aligned, and therefore, Jim is hand-cuffed/limited in the schemes that he would like to play? It's been stated consistently over time by The Podcast personnel.

FTR, I'm not excusing the poor defensive play as it rears its head. I'm simply wondering if there might be some different causation within it.

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sparcboxbuck said:

I’ve been so hesitant to call for a head. If I’m in a forced choice situation here, I’m asking for LJ’s. Too much talent on the DL to have it play like that. Especially the DEs.

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LJ & Jimmy need to be sent packing. He was LBs coach and still kinda is. LBs were all out of sorts and if Jimmy is the HC of the defense wtf was Walton and Gur(whatever the rest of his name) doing. The one guy was brought in to implement the system because he had coached with Jimmy. And if LJ has been insubordinate to Knowles for the years and Day did nothing then that’s an even bigger problem

sparcboxbuck said:

Vomit. I am not, even motley a cat person, and this is disturbing beyond words.

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This kind of sadistic personality disorder doesn’t just go away. These were, and likely still are, very disturbed people.