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2024 tOSU Defense Discussion

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SEREbuckeye said:
The defensive backfield looks aggressive

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They’re all built. How about CJ over there? Damn he’s a lot bigger than I remember.

This might be the deepest secondary we’ve ever had and that’s nuts considering 2016. This secondary is leaps better than 2019 IMO.

I think all three corners are first rounders and obviously so is Downs. It’s not just the starters though. We have Matthews, Simpson Hunt, Styles Jr and the two freshmen that were insanely rated.

What a room and what a defense.

Overall we need to rotate a lot more than we have. It’s a long season and there’s no reason to run these guys into the ground vs Akron etc.

Seriously, the entire starting defense should be done by halftime in the first 5 games (3 non conference and then Iowa and Sparty).
 
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QUICK HITS: LARRY JOHNSON SAYS “CULTURE” AND “BROTHERHOOD” LED JACK SAWYER AND JT TUIMOLOAU RETURNED FOR ANOTHER SEASON, KEENAN BAILEY SAYS “IT’S BEEN AWESOME” TO WORK WITH CHIP KELLY​


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  • On Jack Sawyer and JT Tuimoloau returning: “It was just great conversation (I had with them). It’s a culture. It’s a brotherhood. It’s all the reasons why they came back, but we spent a lot of time talking and talked to the parents for them making the right decision.”
  • Johnson feels it’s still to be seen if this is the best defensive line he’s ever had in Columbus. “It’s a long way away to determine that, but I like where we are in the sense that those players make us better and also make the young players better.”
  • On what he wants to see from the second group: “They’ve gotta be able to come in and play 25, 35 plays a game and do it early in the season. That’s the plan, get those guys ready for the long haul. And so they’ve gotta play early, they’ve gotta play often. ... They’re taking a lot of (first-team) reps.”
  • Jason Moore has had a “surprisingly good” spring at the open of his second season, Johnson said.
  • On Tywone Malone: “He’s coming along really good. I think with Tywone, he was behind football-wise because he’s been a baseball player all his life. Then he goes down to his other college and he plays baseball again. So he’s behind football-wise, just technique, playing the game. It’s taken a year. Now we see the growth, we see the potential he brings to the table.”
  • On Eddrick Houston’s recruitment: “You think you’re to the end of it and you’re all done, then all of a sudden there’s a pause. ... He just went quiet, no one could talk to him. ... I think he knew where his heart was, and his heart was always here. He said that.”
  • Caden Curry and Kenyatta Jackson Jr. remain the next men up at defensive end with Mitchell Melton mixing in. At defensive tackle it’s Moore, Kayden McDonald and Hero Kanu.
  • When it comes to teams using his age to recruit negatively against him, Johnson said all he can do is tell prospects “the truth.” Right now the truth is that he has no plans to leave in the near future.
  • On Jack Sawyer’s emergence in the latter half of last season: “I thought, after the sixth game, you saw Jack emerge and go back to the things he does well. Go back to his toolbox. Do the things, not guess and just start playing really good football. And then he started playing really physical football.”
  • On Moore: “He’s 6-5, he’s 295 pounds. He’s the ideal three-technique in our system. It’s just a matter of him having confidence and playing. Sometimes you get here, it’s bigger than you think it is. It can kind of set you back. Now in the spring, we’re challenging him and that’s what I’m telling him. Every day is a good day for Jason Moore.”
  • On where he’s challenging Jackson: “It’s all about being consistent. He’s tough. He has all the skillset. He can bend, he can run, he can tackle, he’s physical, he has all that. Now can you be consistent in doing what you’re supposed to do, and so far he’s doing a good job of that.”
  • On Kayden McDonald: “He’s a nose guard, he’s powerful. We’d like to see him continue to bring his weight down. He’s a big man, he’s very strong and he can handle the center really well. He gives the ideal nose guard. That’s what you’re looking for. An explosive guy, big guy in the middle.”
  • With Sawyer, Tuimoloau and Tyleik Williams getting the hype they’ve gotten as returning starters, Johnson made sure to praise Ty Hamilton in a big way, too. “Ty is our hammer. Ty is a physical player inside. If you watch his play from last year, there’s times when he was, we call it, ‘Bobbled up.’ He’s just taking the center and shaking his head. Very strong, very physical. ... Ty, to me, is a sleeping giant.”
  • A schedule that could reach as many as 17 games calls for more rotation than Ohio State used last year, Johnson said.
  • On the lack of rotation along the defensive line at points last season: “We weren’t quite ready to throw those guys in and say, ‘Go battle.’ You’ve gotta be smart. You don’t want to put them in situations where they have a handicap, the handicap being that they fail and let everybody down. You can carry that. ... Now those guys have some depth, they have some experience. Now let’s go play.”
  • Johnson said Jim Knowles’ idea to train Sawyer and Tuimoloau to play some outside linebacker in a special five-defensive lineman package is “great.” “We do a little bit of that now in our drop-eight defense, so it’s not a big deal. ... It’s just a matter of changing the front on the inside. That’s all. We haven’t gotten there yet but I know Coach Knowles is interested in trying to experiment with that a little bit.”
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Living in Pac10 land, I get up, have breakfast, and tune in to tOSU game at 9:00 am (12:00 est game time). If it's a 3:30 est game start, go to the club, tee off early, and get home for kick-off. Have Direct TV, so tape it in case match goes extra holes. But heck,, I've watched the 9:00 start, and get done with yard work by 1:30 usually. So yeah, it's a tad easier for us on the Left Coast to tune in to Ohio time games. Not so much the other way around for you Eastern Standard Timers. Only problem for us, is it's hard to rationalize having an adult beverage at 9:00am here. Thanks goodness for bloody marys.
 
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MGMT said:
Kayden McDonald is my pick for a breakout guy imo. Guy actually looks like he can wreck games
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Our Lads (who may know something or may not know anything) has him as 2nd string behind Hamilton:

DEFENSE
LDE 33 Sawyer, Jack RS JR 92 Curry, Caden JR 96 Houston, Eddrick FR
NT 58 Hamilton, Ty RS SR 98 McDonald, Kayden SO 94 Moore, Jason RS FR
DT 91 Williams, Tyleik RS JR 93 Kanu, Hero RS SO 95 Malone, Tywone RS JR/TR
RDE 44 Tuimoloau, JT RS JR 97 Jackson Jr., Kenyatta RS SO 17 Melton, Mitchell RS SR
WLB 6 Styles, Sonny JR 2 Williams II, Kourt GR 20 Reese, Arvell RS FR
MLB 30 Simon, Cody GR 11 Hicks, C.J. RS SO 36 Powers, Gabe RS SO
LCB 10 Burke, Denzel RS JR 22 Simpson-Hunt, Calvin RS FR 5 Scott Jr., Aaron FR
SS 8 Ransom, Lathan SR 3 Carter, Ja'Had SR/TR 21 Bonsu, Jayden RS FR
FS 2 Downs, Caleb SO/TR 25 Hartford, Malik SO 26 Hawkins, Cedrick RS FR
RCB 1 Igbinosun, Davison JR/TR 24 Mathews Jr., Jermaine SO 12 West, Bryce FR
NB 7 Hancock, Jordan RS JR 4 Styles Jr., Lorenzo SR/TR 13 Lockhart, Miles FR
Anyway that you look at it, that's a pretty formidable "2 deep" on defense.
 
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