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2015 Offense Discussion

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OHIO STATE STILL WORKING THROUGH WAYS TO GET ALL ITS OFFENSIVE PLAYMAKERS INVOLVED

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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer, offensive coordinator Ed Warinner and quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator Tim Beck devise a collective plan every week to get each playmaker on the Buckeyes’ offense a certain number of touches.

Things rarely go according to plan and certain circumstances arise within a game causing those blueprints to be altered, but Meyer and Co. feel as if they’re getting close to reaching those specific target numbers for each guy.

“Oh, sure,” Meyer said Monday when asked if the Buckeyes were on the verge of reaching their offensive potential.

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-to-get-all-its-offensive-playmakers-involved
 
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ScriptOhio said:
OHIO STATE STILL WORKING THROUGH WAYS TO GET ALL ITS OFFENSIVE PLAYMAKERS INVOLVED

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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer, offensive coordinator Ed Warinner and quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator Tim Beck devise a collective plan every week to get each playmaker on the Buckeyes’ offense a certain number of touches.

Things rarely go according to plan and certain circumstances arise within a game causing those blueprints to be altered, but Meyer and Co. feel as if they’re getting close to reaching those specific target numbers for each guy.

“Oh, sure,” Meyer said Monday when asked if the Buckeyes were on the verge of reaching their offensive potential.

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-to-get-all-its-offensive-playmakers-involved
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I hope they can get their collective plan together real soon, cause we are getting into the real heart and soul of the schedule. and it all has to come together by the time we are READY for Mich. ST and Michigan.
 
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Five Receivers Down, Ohio State Continues to Survive "Devastating" Injuries

It has been a rough year for many of the Ohio State wide receivers. Not those ones on the field; they’ve actually been productive this year.

It’s the receivers that were expected to play, but have been unable due to injuries. Lots of injuries.

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“It’s been devastating,” wide receivers coach Zach Smith said of his position’s injury problems. “But at the same time, we’re at a position in my room that, I mean we’ve lost five our top nine wide outs. Most schools, I’d say probably every school in the country, that would be disabling.”

It began in late-August when sophomore Noah Brown broke his leg during training camp. The Buckeyes left the practice field early that day as they saw one of the team’s potential top prospects go down for the year.

“Noah’s injury was, one it was a devastating injury. Period,” Smith said.

“Specifically, the transformation he made and the work he put in to have the camp he was having, he was probably going to be one of our top two or three wide outs. I was so excited to watch him play a game. For it to happen right at the end of camp was tough.”

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...ate-Continues-to-Survive-Devastating-Injuries

Two-Minute Drill: Updates from Urban Meyer's Nov 9 Press Luncheon

+ Parris Campbell is questionable. Dontre Wilson, they'll know more moving forward. They are thin on numbers at receiver.

+ Braxton Miller has a sore neck and didn't practice yesterday but should practice moving forward.

+ Asked if Braxton Miller was supposed to have a larger role in the offense or if it was a smoke screen, Meyer said that's just how the offense want and didn't want to expound on any "smoke screen" talk.

+ Braxton Miller can throw the ball, but he's not doing a lot of it in practice. "What happened to him a year ago is still fresh in his mind."

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...pdates-from-Urban-Meyers-Nov-9-Press-Luncheon
 
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Early in the season Meyer stated that we aren't really a spread option team. Noted the problems running such an offense because of the toll taken on the QB. Unfortunately we also weren't a very productive offensive team.

Now we insert JT and Meyer notes that the offense presents some challenges because of the QB run.

Does that mean we really are a spread option team again? If so, did we really ever change our offensive philosophy? I'll admit to being a little confused about what Meyer intends for this offense to be. And I wonder if there is/has been any confusion or difficulty or challenge for the players if they truly are having to adjust to playing a different scheme.
 
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maximumblitz said:
With Michael Thomas, Braxton, and Wailin Jalin lined up, with Curtis Samuel in reserve, I am not immediately understanding what limits tOSU. I guess some of the injured players were that much better?
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It takes more than pure athletic ability to be a good wide receiver.

You need to be smart and run precision routes so the QB knows exactly where to expect you/throw the ball.

You also need repetition to develop chemistry between QB and WR.

The switching back and forth between QBs has hindered that process and outside of Mike Thomas I don't think anyone catching passes right now can be considered polished at WR.

Marshall recently made the transition to WR while Braxton and Samuel just made the transition.
 
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matcar said:
Early in the season Meyer stated that we aren't really a spread option team. Noted the problems running such an offense because of the toll taken on the QB. Unfortunately we also weren't a very productive offensive team.

Now we insert JT and Meyer notes that the offense presents some challenges because of the QB run.

Does that mean we really are a spread option team again? If so, did we really ever change our offensive philosophy? I'll admit to being a little confused about what Meyer intends for this offense to be. And I wonder if there is/has been any confusion or difficulty or challenge for the players if they truly are having to adjust to playing a different scheme.
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The problem with the read option is that the QB is usually the best player to leave uncovered, which means that he gets a large number of carries and hits. Looking at tOSU for as good of a runner as JT is he is the lesser of evils when compared to Zeke, Brax, Jalin, Samuel, etc. If you give any of those guys a crack they can take it to the house. Not that JT can't but it's less likely. The QB is also the one player that you can't rotate to keep him rested so if you make him keep a read option 14 times on a drive you can wear him down and get a few licks on him as well. Over the coarse of a game that might make him more prone to mistakes or injury.

I think Meyer would like to get away from running the RO as much to protect the QB, but he needs the QB to be able to run effectively to at least keep the defense honest. The best thing about CJ starting most of the season is that it has kept JT healthy and rested for what equals (hopefully) a 6 game season. For all the fan anxiety tOSU is still undefeated and the offense has looked very good with JT behind center. He gets one more tune up game and then the Deathstar can be fully operational.
 
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ZACH SMITH REMAINS PLEASED WITH PRODUCTION DESPITE 'DEVASTATING' INJURIES TO OHIO STATE WIDE RECEIVERS

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When Braxton Miller streaked by Briean Boddy-Calhoun, he has his heart set on six points, not becoming the sixth member of the Ohio State wide receiver corps to join the injury report.

Miller snagged the pass from Cardale Jones — a 45-yard gain — before the Minnesota defensive back grabbed him and thrust him to the turf Saturday night, and the quarterback turned H-back had his head bounce firmly on the ground.

Miller walked away woozily with the help of two trainers while Ohio State led 21-7 in the fourth quarter, but never returned to the 28-14 victory against the Golden Gophers. He joined an already extensive list of injured Buckeye wideouts, a group position coach Zach Smith's done his best to build since his arrival prior to 2012 with Urban Meyer.

"It's been devastating," Smith said Monday.

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...spite-devastating-injuries-to-ohio-state-wide
 
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Buckeye86 said:
It takes more than pure athletic ability to be a good wide receiver.

You need to be smart and run precision routes so the QB knows exactly where to expect you/throw the ball.

You also need repetition to develop chemistry between QB and WR.

The switching back and forth between QBs has hindered that process and outside of Mike Thomas I don't think anyone catching passes right now can be considered polished at WR.

Marshall recently made the transition to WR while Braxton and Samuel just made the transition.
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Well, at least it is an area where one would expect rapid progress, since the players are so inexperienced. Hopefully, tOSU peaks for MSU, MSU-AA, and Iowa.
 
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Campbell and Green can really help with blocking out on the perimeter. We will especially need both of these guys for MSU and scUM games as they are probably our most physical blockers because of their size. The same will be true with Iowa if we matchup with them in the Championship game.
 
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Someone explain to me what our pass game has designed to beat pressure. We faced consistent pressure yesterday and our pass game was barely functional. There are things you can do to beat pressure, obviously---you can't just say "oh well, our protection has to get better." Illinois was facing pressure from our d-line as well and I thought they schemed up a few plays to beat it. I didn't see that from our offense. What am I missing? We are going to need some pressure beaters against Sparty and tsun.
 
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Tanner said:
Someone explain to me what our pass game has designed to beat pressure. We faced consistent pressure yesterday and our pass game was barely functional. There are things you can do to beat pressure, obviously---you can't just say "oh well, our protection has to get better." Illinois was facing pressure from our d-line as well and I thought they schemed up a few plays to beat it. I didn't see that from our offense. What am I missing? We are going to need some pressure beaters against Sparty and tsun.
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Yeah, this was the OSU problem against the SEC for decades. Urban seemed to have it fixed for a while, but I don't want to go back to the bad old days not punishing teams for trying to pressure the QB hard.
 
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The scheme early in the season was to run one of Miller, Elliott, or Samuel out in the flats to give a quick dump off to a big play maker. Haven't seen as much of that recently.

Screen game is almost nonexistent and when it is run they get blown up.

I have to imagine they have a number of packages for situations with pressure. They either didn't run them yesterday or JT wasn't seeing them.
 
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