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2019 tOSU Offense (Official Thread)

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Jaxbuck said:
Wisky checks a lot of the boxes but it's always the same deal with them, can the QB do enough when OSU puts a serious damper on the running game? It seems like since Tressel left and our style quit fitting Wisky like a glove, the superior athletes of OSU win out.

With this years team mixing in a lot more zone and being a lot more fundamentally gap sound I think their offense will be even more limited than the past couple of years when the TE's and jet sweeps don't have the same effect.

Good point about UGA.
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Wisky is weak on special teams. I haven't checked the B1G stats lately but their kicker was struggling and their punter was ranked last in the conference in net punting. Their return coverage units have been mediocre at best.

https://bigten.org/confstats.aspx/2019-20/fb/confldrs?path=football

Ok I got the updated B1G stats. Wisky in netting 34 YPP which is terrible and their FG kicker is 2/5. Special Teams is a huge weakness for Sconsin.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
I think people underrate OU as a threat to actually score a lot of points against OSU’s D. It’s not inconceivable to me that OSU could score 42 on them and still lose. There are some soft spots in the zones and teams with a mobile QB to buy time and pass catchers who can turn routine plays into big ones could be problematic.
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I think OSU has the running game to keep OU out of rhythm like Tress did to Oregon years back. I don’t think they have the depth on D to even play as well as MSU did.

Of course they’ll score, but forcing Hurts to be a passer would be the best plan of attack, IMO. Make him throw into tight windows.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
I think people underrate OU as a threat to actually score a lot of points against OSU’s D. It’s not inconceivable to me that OSU could score 42 on them and still lose. There are some soft spots in the zones and teams with a mobile QB to buy time and pass catchers who can turn routine plays into big ones could be problematic.
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I think we would run all over them. If we can rush for 300 yards on MSU what would we do to Oklahoma? Yes Oklahoma has a slightly better defense but how could it be worse? If Texas had an Oline and RB like Dobbins(ironic isn't it) they beat Oklahoma by double digits.

In 17 right after half we run Dobbins right at them like a hot knife through butter and inexplicably went away from it. We win that game if we keep running it. Wanna wear a defense down knock the living shit out of them for a few quarters.
 
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At the beginning of the season, Day mentioned that he thought the teams would have to rely heavily on the running game over the first six games. The Buckeyes are through that now, are coming off of a bye week, and are playing an opponent that shouldn't present much of a threat even if the Buckeyes make some mistakes. I wonder if on Friday we'll see the Buckeyes trust Fields to execute a more diverse, risky, and prolific passing attack (e.g., more of the mesh routes we saw last year, a few wheel routes for Dobbins, a few more deep shots, and more overall passing attempts than we've seen thus far.
 
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buckeyebri said:
I’ve noticed a couple of staple plays from the Urban era have been noticeably absent. The empty backfield QB draw and the jet sweep have gone the way of the Dodo. The WR screen hasn’t been run to much either.
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Occasional jet sweeps would be sweet, but the empty backfield QB draw on 3rd and 3 can stay absent until the sun enters its red supergiant phase. I’m ambivalent about the screens; part of me feels that this is a downfield WR group who’s better suited to develop separation. I don’t know, that’s a good question.
 
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After this weekend's games, the offense is now #3 in the country in scoring offense (up from #4, jumping Alabama, who fell from #2 to #4) with 49.71 ppg. Oklahoma is now #1 (up from #2) with 50.43 ppg, just ahead of LSU (dropped from #1 to #2) at 50.14 ppg. Alabama's scoring average is exactly a ppg below us at 48.71 ppg.
 
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While re-watching the Wisconsin game Joel Klatt made a comment during the final OSU scoring drive that we had scored all our points in "just over two quarters" and this was with around 12:00 or so remaining in the game. So I went back and checked the amount of time that elapsed from the time we took possession of our first TD drive (1:54 remining in the 2nd quarter) until the time we scored our final TD (7:29 left in the 4th quarter). That's 24:24 of elapsed game time for five TDs (35 points) in six drives against the supposed best defense in college football.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
While re-watching the Wisconsin game Joel Klatt made a comment during the final OSU scoring drive that we had scored all our points in "just over two quarters" and this was with around 12:00 or so remaining in the game. So I went back and checked the amount of time that elapsed from the time we took possession of our first TD drive (1:54 remining in the 2nd quarter) until the time we scored our final TD (7:29 left in the 4th quarter). That's 24:24 of elapsed game time for five TDs (35 points) in six drives against the supposed best defense in college football.
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This is what I was expecting when I called Wisconsin brittle earlier in the year

they play very smart

they play very sound

but if you are superior up front, they are ordinary

applies to both sides of the ball
 
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