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2022 tOSU Offense

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College football overreactions: Early takeaways, clearing up misconceptions exiting September

OHIO STATE'S OFFENSE NOT UNSTOPPABLE LIKE WE THOUGHT
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Refusing to listen to the media takes, Ryan Day turned on the Notre Dame film and still liked what he saw offensively from a Buckeyes offense that simply was off in the timing department in the opener. After losing Jaxon Smith-Njigba to injury, Ohio State was out of sorts a bit until it found its bearing. The Buckeyes are averaging 58 points per game since that first game, which includes a 31-point thumping of Big Ten West contender Wisconsin over the weekend. C.J. Stroud leads the Big Ten in touchdown passes and is the Heisman frontrunner. Smith-Njigba has four total catches in minimal action. Why did we worry so much about this offense early?

Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...ions-exiting-September-194266432/#194266432_1
 
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The 2022 season so far
For the year, Henderson and Williams actually have stats that are pretty comparable. Both have played in all four games, and Henderson has only seven more carries than Williams. Here are the numbers:

  • Henderson — 50 carries, 326 yards. A 6.4 yards per carry average, with a long run of 41 yards. Henderson is averaging 79.5 yards a game, and has tallied three rushing touchdowns. He has yet to catch a pass in 2022 – more on that later.
  • Williams — 308 yards on his 43 carries, an average of 7.2. His longest run was the 25-yarder against Wisconsin. He, too, has three rushing touchdowns, and he has grabbed three passes for another 23 yards.
As I said, the numbers are similar, though Williams’s are a little better – as they were during the 2021 season, when he averaged 7.2 yards a carry to Henderson’s 6.8. As a purely subjective observer, though, I just feel that the team goes better, that they have a better run/pass presence when Williams is at running back.

In these first four games, Henderson hasn’t looked as electrifying as he did at the onset of last year. Clearly, he’s a bit bigger. Has he lost a step of speed? There’s a lot of football to be played, and I certainly expect him to give us some breakaways. I’ve suggested before that Ohio State should get Henderson the ball in space. No passes in four games? Inexplicable. Off-tackle runs, rather than pitch-sweeps. Also inexplicable. Maybe Williams is doing better because the running plays are more suited to his skillset.

Just sayin': At the very least.....

Henderson is RB1a and Williams is RB1b
 
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Last season, TreVeyon Henderson’s breakout stardom was spurred on by early injuries to Miyan Williams. This year, it’s the other way around.

With Henderson held out of Saturday’s Rutgers matchup due to a lingering issue that reared its head in pregame warmups, Williams finally had the coming-out party he’s always fallen slightly short of at Ohio State, rushing for a career-high 189 yards on 21 carries on a day that the Buckeyes didn’t have their usual pep in the passing game.

Much like Henderson’s record-setting 270-yard game in Williams’ absence in 2021, Williams tied a record of his own on Saturday, rushing for five scores to equal the single-game program high mark set by Pete Johnson in 1975 and Keith Byars in 1984.

“They didn’t tell me until after (that I tied the record). After I scored the last one, that’s when I found out. … It wasn’t like a jolt of energy (when Henderson went down), I just told him, I looked him in his eyes, I told Tre like, ‘I got you. I got you today,’” Williams said after the game. “It’s a blessing just to be up there with them names. Those are legends here, so yeah, it’s definitely a blessing.”

HE TURNS A THREE-YARD RUN INTO FIVE, KEEPS US ON SCHEDULE AND IT WAS TOUGH DOWN THERE IN THE RED ZONE. THEY KIND OF DUG IN A FEW TIMES, WE HAD TO GO FOR IT ON THE FOURTH DOWN, BUT MIYAN HAD A REALLY GOOD DAY FOR US.”– RYAN DAY ON MIYAN WILLIAMS
 
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Passing game was a little off yesterday but hopefully Day has good film to review with CJ. I’m confident it’ll get recalibrated but I like how we just stuck with the run game since “it was there” so to speak. My only “wtf” was five wide on the four yard line like I whined in the game thread.
 
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MGMT said:
Passing game was a little off yesterday but hopefully Day has good film to review with CJ. I’m confident it’ll get recalibrated but I like how we just stuck with the run game since “it was there” so to speak. My only “wtf” was five wide on the four yard line like I whined in the game thread.
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What most impressed me yesterday,is that the knock on OSU being a “soft/finesse” team can now be put to rest. Our offense is complete, and if a defense focuses on CJ and the passing game(which Rutgers did), then the running game can take over. We can win the dog fights in the trenches and lean on our RBs, as opposed to needing Stroud to constantly have to take over.
And yeah, the 5 wide look was baffling, when Williams clearly couldn’t be stopped by that defense. Day got too cute at times, and I think Stroud was a little too aggressive(like with the INT that was into triple coverage). There were open WRs but Stroud was looking for the home run too much, the run should’ve easily been able to set up some play action strikes. Nonetheless great job by the big uglies to clear lanes for Miyan to run wild
 
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Game 1: Notre Dame - Two of ND's three other opponents have scored more than Ohio State did on them

Game 2: Arky State - Ohio State scored the most (45), but Memphis came close (44)

Game 3: Toledo - Ohio State scored 33 more points on the Rockets than all of their other opponents combined

Game 4: Wisconsin - If you combine the point totals of the teams that scored the 2nd and 3rd most against Wisconsin, then add a point, you get the number of points Ohio State scored

Game 5: Rutgers - If you combine the point totals of the teams that scored the 2nd and 3rd most against Rutgers, then add a point, you get the number of points Ohio State scored
 
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MGMT said:
Passing game was a little off yesterday but hopefully Day has good film to review with CJ. I’m confident it’ll get recalibrated but I like how we just stuck with the run game since “it was there” so to speak. My only “wtf” was five wide on the four yard line like I whined in the game thread.
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I personally didn't think the passing game was off. Most of those incomplete passes by Stroud were throw aways in the red zone. Stroud had the bad INT but otherwise I thought Rutgers just decided to keep their secondary back (which opened up the run game).

I was a little surprised we didn't call more throws between the 20s but again when we are getting 7 yards a rush then there's no need.
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
I personally didn't think the passing game was off. Most of those incomplete passes by Stroud were throw aways in the red zone. Stroud had the bad INT but otherwise I thought Rutgers just decided to keep their secondary back (which opened up the run game).

I was a little surprised we didn't call more throws between the 20s but again when we are getting 7 yards a rush then there's no need.
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I do think there were a lot of throw-aways. And it felt like a lot of the deeper stuff wasn’t working, but that just turned into the officials throwing a lot of laundry all over the field. Again, going to call BS on Joushua’s statement during the broadcast… they were coached to take the flags. The two illegal touches also accounted for a 9% swing in completion percentage (credit some pod cast, I think it was Bill Landis) so relative to a ‘normal’ game from this offense, it felt very disjointed.

So, yeah, great… turn on the run game. Glad to see that’s an option this year.

I, too, was a little surprised that we didn’t see more underneath / crossing routes. I’m writing that off to the same reason we’ve not seen much of the swing pass to the tailback this year. I suspect those plays will be pulled off the shelf when they are needed. The team of last year has clearly demonstrated their competency with executing those plays — and arguably with players who were not as well suited on the OL as we have now. I further suspect that Day wanted to work through parts of the playbook that really need work against live competition and that’s why we’re not seeing some plays that we know are in the book.
 
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I think this is entirely right and may demonstrate the savvy of Day and Wilson. Why give up 2022 passing film to beat Rutgers when you can (as we should always be able to do) bludgeon them with the running game? We're not competing for the B1G. We're competing for the CFP. The B1G is just requisite for getting there. No point in helping uga or bammer scout us now.
 
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