2024 tOSU Defense Discussion

[pnuts34]

 

[shetuck]

i love that these young pups are on the sidelines in a game like this to pick up the buckeye magic juju!

 

[pnuts34]

 

[System_id]

What Jim Knowles has done with the defense is incredible. The look with Downs as a deep middle linebacker is really different. You can tell it’s giving teams real problems right now.

Jim Knowles cookin' right now.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Removing Gabriel’s rushing stats which includes sacks. They rushed for 20 yards

 

[Bestbuck36]

Not just the amazing stats but the boys are swarming like silver bullets of old and the hitting had been fantastic. Laying serious wood at all levels

 

[jakenick06]

Not just the amazing stats but the boys are swarming like silver bullets of old and the hitting had been fantastic. Laying serious wood at all levels

Violent

 

[shetuck]

What Jim Knowles has done with the defense is incredible. The look with Downs as a deep middle linebacker is really different. You can tell it’s giving teams real problems right now.

it was very clear during both the tennessee game and the oregon game that iamalevea and gabriel were confused and twitchy trying to read that look.

when texas' offense has been productive it's based on ewers quickly reading opposing defenses on important drives. this look from our defense is going to totally blow that up, and without the same mobility as gabriel or iamalevea, ewers is going to have a really difficult day.

i think the first time we started to see this was in the penn state game, and the effect it had on allar. this is also what scrambled curtis rourke...

and it's what knowles has been saying for three years, that he wants to create a defense that confuses opposing quarterbacks. and it's what we're seeing. what will be interesting is how this will evolve over the next two or three years and knowles puts more pieces in place.

kinda cool to see the plan coming together.

 

[shetuck]

Not just the amazing stats but the boys are swarming like silver bullets of old and the hitting had been fantastic. Laying serious wood at all levels

latham "taking bodies" ransom.

good lord... some of those hits were skull-cracking slobber-knockers.

fred pagac would be proud.

 

[Ryan36_1]

Kind of lost in the narrative is that we had four potential INTs that we did not convert on yesterday. Simon had one and Downs had three that were possible, although at least one would have taken a hell of an effort. Ewers has been prone to throwing picks all year and seems to be regressing in that area, so hopefully we can get a couple this week.

 

[BB73]

Kind of lost in the narrative is that we had four potential INTs that we did not convert on yesterday. Simon had one and Downs had three that were possible, although at least one would have taken a hell of an effort. Ewers has been prone to throwing picks all year and seems to be regressing in that area, so hopefully we can get a couple this week.

Yep, it’s an anomaly to tip or deflect 9 passes and not get a single interception. A couple of those tipped passes could have easily become pick-6s with a different bounce of the ball.

 

[System_id]

One thing I want to talk about is how the defense was flat out knocking dudes back. For a couple of years it's been annoying watching teams fall forward for another yard or two against this defense. Wednesday when OSU defenders hit the opponent, they were STOPPED. Didn't gain another inch. It was beautiful to see.

 

[exhawg]

I loved the 3 rushers with Simon spying the QB once we got up on the Ducks. They had no answers.

 

[RugbyBuck]

So, wtf? Was Johnson the problem the whole time? Did we just waste the potential of two possible All-American defensive ends? Better now than not at all, but why now?

 

[Onebuckfan]

I saw many times in the 1st half Jack and JT were on the outside shoulder of the OT and Dillion couldn’t do his Houdini act. Later they went back to head up on tackle and Dillion made some plays. Ewers not a great scrambler so get on him.