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This explains the kind of quotes we got out of fall camp.
Seemed to me that guys who would normally say, “it’s hard to know what you’ve got till you’ve played somebody else” were sounding giddy about both sides.
These were guys who’d just seen that battle in the trenches. Must’ve been glorious
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Breakdown of Rushing Yards Gained by Nebraska on New Plays
After years of watching the Ohio State defense not adjust to the plays that were hurting them, this game was a breath of fresh air.
- Guard and Tackle crash toward the center of the line, leaving the contain player on an island. The first called run was at Cooper on his second play of action this season and it went for 9 yards. They ran it once at Young and got 12 yards. Apart from that they were stoned. When Werner had contain, it went for 1 yard (the play immediately after the run at Cooper, also to Cooper's side). Every time they ran it from the 4th possession until the 9th, the Buckeyes let the guard and tackle crash, abandoning the now disappeared gaps and swarming the ball carrier for no gain or a loss.
- The first 3 runs were to Cooper's side of the field. Apparently Nebraska wanted to test him. After the first 9 yard gain, they quickly decided that testing him was a bad idea.
- Triple Option Looks - The triple option (or what looked very much like it) went for good yardage on the 3rd possession and in the 9th and 10th (last two possessions). Ditto the quarterback follow off of the fullback dive part of it. None of it worked after the 3rd possession until the Buckeyes started playing non-starters liberally.
After years of watching the Ohio State defense not adjust to the plays that were hurting them, this game was a breath of fresh air.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
SKULL SESSION: OHIO STATE'S BEST 100 GAME STRETCH EVER, TOP RECRUITERS BRIAN HARTLINE AND JEFF HAFLEY, AND TACKLING PRACTICE
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. My favorite change of pace this season from last season is that there are significantly fewer (almost none, actually) plays where a swing pass/tunnel screen/drag route/bubble screen/check down turns into a 50+ yard gain.
The revamped defense is doing its job so far, but one huge difference maker is quite a bit simpler than a scheme overhaul – the Buckeyes are actually practicing tackling.
From Bruce Feldman of The Athletic ($):
One big reason is Ohio State is doing something most other teams are having a harder and harder time with: tackling. Coaches all over the country have lamented their inability to tackle as well as they used to because health and safety concerns have forced practice and drill schedules to change. The Buckeyes, though, are tackling better than they have in years. Hafley’s standard has not changed. On the team goals board, they work to have fewer than six or seven missed tackles a game. He told The Athletic the only time this season they missed that was in a 76-5 blowout of Miami (Ohio).
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But the secret to sound tackling doesn’t really seem like it’s such a secret: The Buckeyes practiced tackling in camp.
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Hafley came to Ohio State after seven seasons coaching defensive backs in the NFL. That experience shaped his belief that tackling skills are like a muscle that can get soft and needs work to remain toned.
“What I learned in the NFL was in the first preseason game, you’re terrible at tackling,” he said. “The second game, you’re a little bit better, and by the third, you’re almost ready to play it. You’re figuring all those preseason games, everybody probably gets three or four tackles in those preseason games, three or four live tackles, because the starters don’t play a whole bunch.
“So our goal, where in college football you don’t have any preseason games, is to have each starter get a handful of live tackles to kind of simulate a scrimmage or a preseason game. That way, the first time we weren’t really tackling somebody was the first game of the season, and we felt the safe way to do it was in seven-on-seven, where we could control it.”
I'm not sure it should take a coaching overhaul to arrive at "we should practice tackling," but all is well now and Jeff Hafley can stay forever.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...an-hartline-lebron-james-high-school-buckeyes
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. My favorite change of pace this season from last season is that there are significantly fewer (almost none, actually) plays where a swing pass/tunnel screen/drag route/bubble screen/check down turns into a 50+ yard gain.
The revamped defense is doing its job so far, but one huge difference maker is quite a bit simpler than a scheme overhaul – the Buckeyes are actually practicing tackling.
From Bruce Feldman of The Athletic ($):
One big reason is Ohio State is doing something most other teams are having a harder and harder time with: tackling. Coaches all over the country have lamented their inability to tackle as well as they used to because health and safety concerns have forced practice and drill schedules to change. The Buckeyes, though, are tackling better than they have in years. Hafley’s standard has not changed. On the team goals board, they work to have fewer than six or seven missed tackles a game. He told The Athletic the only time this season they missed that was in a 76-5 blowout of Miami (Ohio).
...
But the secret to sound tackling doesn’t really seem like it’s such a secret: The Buckeyes practiced tackling in camp.
...
Hafley came to Ohio State after seven seasons coaching defensive backs in the NFL. That experience shaped his belief that tackling skills are like a muscle that can get soft and needs work to remain toned.
“What I learned in the NFL was in the first preseason game, you’re terrible at tackling,” he said. “The second game, you’re a little bit better, and by the third, you’re almost ready to play it. You’re figuring all those preseason games, everybody probably gets three or four tackles in those preseason games, three or four live tackles, because the starters don’t play a whole bunch.
“So our goal, where in college football you don’t have any preseason games, is to have each starter get a handful of live tackles to kind of simulate a scrimmage or a preseason game. That way, the first time we weren’t really tackling somebody was the first game of the season, and we felt the safe way to do it was in seven-on-seven, where we could control it.”
I'm not sure it should take a coaching overhaul to arrive at "we should practice tackling," but all is well now and Jeff Hafley can stay forever.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...an-hartline-lebron-james-high-school-buckeyes
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To the extreme...
They kept everything in front of them and made Nebraska trade field position for time
Nebraska’s one and only 4th qtr possession lasted over 7 minutes
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ShowMeBuck
You know what? Chicken butt.
Will someone please tell me where the hole is on this defense? Not just by group, but by all 11 spots.......I can’t find one.
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If we have one.. it's the seams just after LB and just entering DB depth.. which is expected in a zone
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And not many college QB’s can consistently hit that soft spot. Especially under the pressure the defense applies.
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Tanner
Legend
What was with all the talk about the fancy new Bullet Position in the offseason? How many times have they used it, twice per game?
I am admittedly not an an X&O guru but if the answer is "they are using it, just with Wade and Werner" my response would be that was a lot of hype and discussion for just playing 3 corners and sometimes dropping a linebacker into coverage (like every team does)
I am admittedly not an an X&O guru but if the answer is "they are using it, just with Wade and Werner" my response would be that was a lot of hype and discussion for just playing 3 corners and sometimes dropping a linebacker into coverage (like every team does)
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