Just sayin': Interesting prediction....
Seems an OSU tradition to have an ugly start to the season.
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Seems an OSU tradition to have an ugly start to the season.
That they do and I have tempered expectations for Week 1 every year (despite my outlandish 49-17 prediction, though the point differential was not terribly far off). I hate it, but they really don't start the year off well. For illustrative purposes in the last 10 years:
2013: Beat a measly Buffalo team 40-20 and struggled
2014: 34-17 against Navy and looked bad under new coach UFM, followed by a loss against VT...we know how that season ended, but point is the start was horrible
2015: An aberration where we spank VT 42-24 on the road Week 1, but in Week 3 only beat Northern Illinois 20-13.
2016: No contest, we destroyed everyone before conference play, even Oklahoma at their place.
2017: The score of 49-21 against Indiana looked better than the actual performance, then lost to Oklahoma at home.
2018: Beat Oregon State 77-31, but we looked awful and at the time the other OSU went 2-10...so yeah.
2019: Beat a shitty Florida Atlantic team 45-21, looked bad doing it.
2020: Beat the Corn badly but that is a throwaway year to be sure with covid.
2021: Beat Minny 45-31 but I will tell you from being at that game, there was serious concern until about the final 5 minutes.
2022: Beat ND 21-10 at home, but struggled all game as we can vividly recall and especially on offense. ND ends up ranked way lower than they started (I know, shocker)
I would bitch about it more and it is interesting to analyze the trend, but a season is about progression and where you end up. As is said in the video above, fans have amnesia about Week 1...I am not one of those fans despite my profanities during the game in the privacy of my own home.
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AJHawkfan
Wanna make $14 the hard way?
I went back and re-read a lot of this thread since Saturday, but I apologize if any of this has already been said....
my $0.02......
McCord looked pretty nervous. I guess that's acceptable, given the circumstances.... He needs to get a lot more comfortable real quick though.
We need to change up the snap count. It looked like we went on the same count all game. Perhaps the count was different, but the timing seemed very repetitive, and got moreso as the game wore on. He needs to get out of plays that are obvious fails. If the D has 8, 9, 10 guys in the box, the QB needs to change plays or at the least, call timeout.
I think we need to recognize and accept the fact that McCord isn't what we, the fans, have become accustomed to as QB1 at tOSU. Its been a long time since we've been forced to play a game manager instead of a guy who can put the team on his back and make a home run kind of play. If that's closer to who McCord is, that's fine.
If the QB isn't a threat to run, lets dump that QB fake read bullshit. That DEnd isn't respecting the QB run at all, and its setting RBs up to get killed.
Along the same lines, do we have any play action passes in our playbook?
The Oline has some issues, for sure. But I think they're fixable issues.
We won... by 20.... on the road....... in the B1G....... let's not lost sight of that. If IU ends up winning 7 or 8 games, we're gonna be pretty damn proud of that fact.
The D looked great. Very few missed tackles and no busted plays/game breakers.
If the Defense doesn't give up 30-35 pts every game, the offense doesn't always have to score 40-45 to win. I'm old enough to remember 2002......
Go Bucks!! Beat YSU!!!
my $0.02......
McCord looked pretty nervous. I guess that's acceptable, given the circumstances.... He needs to get a lot more comfortable real quick though.
We need to change up the snap count. It looked like we went on the same count all game. Perhaps the count was different, but the timing seemed very repetitive, and got moreso as the game wore on. He needs to get out of plays that are obvious fails. If the D has 8, 9, 10 guys in the box, the QB needs to change plays or at the least, call timeout.
I think we need to recognize and accept the fact that McCord isn't what we, the fans, have become accustomed to as QB1 at tOSU. Its been a long time since we've been forced to play a game manager instead of a guy who can put the team on his back and make a home run kind of play. If that's closer to who McCord is, that's fine.
If the QB isn't a threat to run, lets dump that QB fake read bullshit. That DEnd isn't respecting the QB run at all, and its setting RBs up to get killed.
Along the same lines, do we have any play action passes in our playbook?
The Oline has some issues, for sure. But I think they're fixable issues.
We won... by 20.... on the road....... in the B1G....... let's not lost sight of that. If IU ends up winning 7 or 8 games, we're gonna be pretty damn proud of that fact.
The D looked great. Very few missed tackles and no busted plays/game breakers.
If the Defense doesn't give up 30-35 pts every game, the offense doesn't always have to score 40-45 to win. I'm old enough to remember 2002......
Go Bucks!! Beat YSU!!!
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I'm wondering if we'll actually see Brown even if we do get up big...
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MGMT
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3 minutes to go in the 4th up 63-10 just to be a spiteful dickhead. I wouldn’t blame him I can’t help myself from trolling hard sometimes.
In the presser I would say “we just wanted to make sure the game was in control and at that point it seemed like the right move.”
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After rewatching, the run calls just put Henderson in many no-win situations. They kept motioning out guys from the side he was running to and it became a numbers game. Or he is getting hit the second he gets the ball. Plus no screens to him or involvement in the passing game. He needs a fair shake at this.
Edit: When he was given a proper run scheme and blocking, he had some nice moments.
Edit: When he was given a proper run scheme and blocking, he had some nice moments.
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I bet he gets to do some nifty handoffs to kill the clock on the last few possessions of the game.
MAYBE 1 screen pass to a walk on WR
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Onebuckfan
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With 100 people dressing we will see more from the 80th to 100 players than the 35 through 50.
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His cuts and vision seemed a hell of a lot better than last year but you're right, there was just nowhere to go several times. IU played the run very well and I'm sure it was to see if McCord could beat them. One of the reasons I really like Tom Allen and his approach to the game.
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Exactly, there were about 4 runs that were pretty impressive from Tre. For some reason he was the recipient of some very poor schemes and/or horrible blocking where none of our RBs would stand a chance. There were a couple plays where he needed to be more decisive and get upfield, but overall my initial criticisms were misplaced. Longwinded way of saying to not count Henderson out of being an impact player this year.
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Part of this was the very vanilla running scheme employed. With IU primarily playing to stop the run, all of them were running into 5 on 7 boxes - meaning 5 blockers against 7 defenders. While it's easy to say Tre sucks, when you get the ball and look for daylight in a zone blocking scheme, since that is what Ohio State primarily employs, it will look like he's "dancing" and not being decisive when there literally isn't anything there.
Some of that can be fixed by better blocking by the 5 blockers he has. Some of that can be fixed by varying formations and having a more effective downfield passing game - and I think Chip benefited from that in the 2nd half when the offense was slightly more open.
There were the aforementioned 4 runs - those 4 runs show that he's healthy again, so there is that as a takeaway.
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