NorthCoastKid
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The play call on the Victor touchdown is my favorite so far this year. Dialed it up at the perfect time.
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bukIpower
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Just seemed early they were giving them too much respect and weren't mixing their plays very well. Once we realized we'd run the ball on the immovable object we started finding success.
Shame we had a few drives killed by drops and penalties because we should've put up 45+ on them. Shoot MSU knew what was coming for 1.5 quarters and couldn't stop it.
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sammyjenkis
Hall of Fame
Every time a different play is called is "evidents" that the coaches are "making adjustments"? Will you people please stop? Is this the only team that calls different plays throughout a game?
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If you’re talking about one person in particular, please quote them
If you’re talking about the board in general, I’m pretty sure the evidence of adjustments is 16 yards in the first quarter and 296 in the second
If you’re joking you’re being far too oblique
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So, if the RPO to Victor for the long TD wasn't an adjustment to what Sparty had been doing the previous 2-3 drives, why didn't Day and staff call that play earlier?
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bukIpower
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That's what I thought too and at best Fields would've had one of his best throws. No idea how KJ got turned around there because he should've realized the ball was being thrown toward the sideline.
Also I forgot KJ dropped another pass on 3rd down for a nice gain too where he looked away before securing the ball.
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1926Buckeyes
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I mean, sure different plays were going to be called, but I think they were too content to go laterally in the first 3 series. And the called runs were not downhill, allowing a fired up MSU DL to get penetration.
There was a pretty big difference between that and the rest of the game where they either ran RO, counter plays, or under center stuff to get downhill quicker.
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Day has said before that he’s not really big on scripting plays. It makes sense that the offense starts a little slow while they figure out the best plan of attack for what the defense is doing that week.
It’s incredible what they’ve been able to do as far as adjustments. Never seen in-game adjustments this good at OSU before.
It’s incredible what they’ve been able to do as far as adjustments. Never seen in-game adjustments this good at OSU before.
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I’m incredibly impressed with his game management so far. No timeouts or delay of game penalties coming out of full media timeouts. I think one substitution penalty on the season. No illegal formation or procedure penalties from play design (just two when Fields signaled Berry to motion too late and asked for a snap before a WR was set, IIRC).
He can play warp speed, and he’s willing to take the air out of the ball and play keep away away. Hard to believe he’s a Chip Kelly protege.
Maybe my only complaint from Saturday is that if you’re going to bleed clock, you have to tell the OL to not even get in their stance until there’s 10 seconds on the clock, and Justin shouldn’t snap it until it’s under 3.
Other than that, not much to complain about and no second guessing from my recliner.
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Nigel Tufnel
Choking on vomit
This offense is lethal much of the time. And it is lethal in large part because of what Fields brings to the offense. What that stated, one would assume that the Bucks will have to beat Wiscy twice and beat PSU in order to make playoffs. And then will have to beat teams such as Bama/UGA/LSU/OU/ND. I think Fields is going to need to stay healthy but also improve a fair amount for those games to all be won. Not knocking the young man, but his pocket awareness and speed of decisions must improve and he’s really got to stop rolling backwards when pressure comes. It’s clearly something he is accustomed to doing, it’s not good.
Not really concerned about his accuracy because that seems largely good (everyone makes a few less than ideal throws) and not concerned about his mobility once he makes the decision to dash. He just needs to makes those decisions a bit more quickly and be more pocket aware.
Truthfully, it’s not even fair that I ask that of him considering just how little time he’s been here and how little time he’s been playing college ball in general, but if the Bucks are going to win it all, he has to do those things. He got his first real D test last week, there are more coming and some of those ahead might be better and might be coupled with a competent (non-Walrus) offense. We are fortunate that the Bucks have a great defense, but that Sparty offense is below average. If we play a team with a D like Sparty and a good offense, the challenges are will escalate significantly.
Not really concerned about his accuracy because that seems largely good (everyone makes a few less than ideal throws) and not concerned about his mobility once he makes the decision to dash. He just needs to makes those decisions a bit more quickly and be more pocket aware.
Truthfully, it’s not even fair that I ask that of him considering just how little time he’s been here and how little time he’s been playing college ball in general, but if the Bucks are going to win it all, he has to do those things. He got his first real D test last week, there are more coming and some of those ahead might be better and might be coupled with a competent (non-Walrus) offense. We are fortunate that the Bucks have a great defense, but that Sparty offense is below average. If we play a team with a D like Sparty and a good offense, the challenges are will escalate significantly.
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