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2022 tOSU Defense

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Systems_id said:
To be fair, does anyone of the CFP contenders have a passing offense anywhere close to 2020 Alabama? That's probably one of the best offenses ever assembled even with Waddle injured for most of the year. The best passing offense this year is probablyOSU lol.
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Yup. Picking my poison against the top 5 or so in the polls, it’s only tOSU that has an air-raid, I’d take a very good run defense over secondary this year.

The good news for tOSU is that air and ground attacks are working well as is the run defense. I’m not certain that one weakness in the secondary can’t be overcome or even potentially mitigated by the time it’s really needed.
 
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Systems_id said:
To be fair, does anyone of the CFP contenders have a passing offense anywhere close to 2020 Alabama? That's probably one of the best offenses ever assembled even with Waddle injured for most of the year. The best passing offense this year is probablyOSU lol.
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The outcomes of the nine games of the past three years of CFP play have been explained primarily by pass offense versus pass defense. Run offense and run defense have been relatively meaningless in those games. So while Alabama's 2020 pass offense was indeed better than anyone's this year, the issue is whether the difference in pass defense between OSU and the competition will result in advantage in the passing game for the opposition in the CFP.

Right now Alabama's pass defense is looking quite a bit better than OSU's. If OSU faces Alabama in the CFP and Alabama contains OSU's passing game like Notre Dame did, OSU may have difficulty outscoring them because their pass defense is too inadequate to contain Alabama's passing game.
 
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shouright said:
The outcomes of the nine games of the past three years of CFP play have been explained primarily by pass offense versus pass defense. Run offense and run defense have been relatively meaningless in those games. So while Alabama's 2020 pass offense was indeed better than anyone's this year, the issue is whether the difference in pass defense between OSU and the competition will result in advantage in the passing game for the opposition in the CFP.

Right now Alabama's pass defense is looking quite a bit better than OSU's. If OSU faces Alabama in the CFP and Alabama contains OSU's passing game like Notre Dame did, OSU may have difficulty outscoring them because their pass defense is too inadequate to contain Alabama's passing game.
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Bama has barely played anyone with a pulse. And the one team who was half way decent was Texas, and the Longhorns almost beat them. Bama has more questions to their team than any in the top 3 because of a lack of any serious competition. ND had a great game plan against OSU in their first game of the year, and still didn’t come close to beating OSU. I think the improvements that OSU has made on both lines would keep them competitive with Bama or UGA.
 
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Ugh this defense is playing too well to have somehow given up 20 points today.

Pick 6, a drive aided by 40 yards in penalties penalties then the back ups score.

Just sucks but only 200 yards allowed again with most against the back ups.

Really the only concern is at corner and our inability to turn for the ball. Because otherwise it's just masterful.

Have to hope Hancock can give us a different look too.
 
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Why are people so stuck on turning for the ball? They could very easily be taught to attack the receivers hands at the time of possession.

If they are being taught the "out of phase" technique (in phase being turning and running with the receiver hip to hip), it's very likely they are being taught to fight the receivers hands rather than high pointing the ball. We just don't know what the coaching philosophy is, but give the ample amount of evidence suggesting it, I get the feeling this may be the case.

Edit to add: The only true way to know is to see what Knowles ran at Okie State.
 
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Mike80 said:
Why are people so stuck on turning for the ball? They could very easily be taught to attack the receivers hands at the time of possession.

If they are being taught the "out of phase" technique (in phase being turning and running with the receiver hip to hip), it's very likely they are being taught to fight the receivers hands rather than high pointing the ball. We just don't know what the coaching philosophy is, but give the ample amount of evidence suggesting it, I get the feeling this may be the case.

Edit to add: The only true way to know is to see what Knowles ran at Okie State.
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I really hope it's not because of Herbie's famous obsession with turning for the ball.

one or two of those looked like pretty strong coverage with a better throw and catch.

brown was pulled for a penalty not bad covg
 
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