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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

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dragurd said:
My main question is does miami stunt a shit ton. We seem ok on straight up normal pass rushes but we have been pretty terrible at picking up stunts all year
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If they don't they will if they watch 30 seconds of film

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I should have added: that alone doesn't scare me too much and thats what I mean by they play for events but a good offense will solve it.

Pressure from the DL alone isn't what did it vs IU, it was taking away the passing behind it. They confused Sayin and closed windows faster than he has ever seen.

If Miami just gets pressure with no game shape bending coverage excellence behind it, that's a completely different animal and one I expect a team like OSU to overcome.

Think of some great OSU DL's of the past with shaky/predictable coverage behind it and how little that pressure ever really took over a game by itself.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Well that gets into why i question the speed up idea.

1) if you are already struggling with execution at anything (football, baseball, life) you don't go faster, you'll just make the same mistakes on higher volume.
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My caveat to this is that the defense has to react to you going faster, and even if the offense’s execution falters, the defense’s execution might, or might not, falter more, resulting in net advantage. Add fluff pre-snap motion or funky formational diversity, without really changing what you’re actually doing, which you control, and maybe you can improve the odds that the defense falters while limiting the execution hit to the offense. Specific to the IU game, if their D was out executing our O, which I think was true generally for two and a half quarters and in high-leverage situations thereafter, maybe the correct adjustment would have been to try the underdog’s strategy of going faster.

With your military background, I’m sure you’re familiar with certain historical battles that have been lost because the losing side gave the other side too much credit and failed to move quickly enough when it had the advantage (l acknowledge that the opposite also happens, and probably more often). When the D seems to have your O’s number, trying to create luck/variance in the form of defensive execution errors through increased tempo may be the way to go.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
My caveat to this is that the defense has to react to you going faster, and even if the offense’s execution falters, the defense’s execution might, or might not, falter more, resulting in net advantage. Add fluff pre-snap motion or funky formational diversity, without really changing what you’re actually doing, which you control, and maybe you can improve the odds that the defense falters while limiting the execution hit to the offense. Specific to the IU game, if their D was out executing our O, which I think was true generally for two and a half quarters and in high-leverage situations thereafter, maybe the correct adjustment would have been to try the underdog’s strategy of going faster.

With your military background, I’m sure you’re familiar with certain historical battles that have been lost because the losing side gave the other side too much credit and failed to move quickly enough when it had the advantage (l acknowledge that the opposite also happens, and probably more often). When the D seems to have your O’s number, trying to create luck/variance in the form of defensive execution errors through increased tempo may be the way to go.
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Situationally I agree, sometimes a speed up can have a tactical advantage in defined circumstances but given the constraints of the game of football and that up tempo = more offensive plays for opponent then it's the wrong overall strategy if you are the more skilled team.
 
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MGMT said:
I’m not being snide I am genuinely asking:

If you feel confident offensively , why?

Why do you feel anything will be different with the pass protection against a defensive line that might be better than IU’s?

Why do we feel like we are going yo
Score enough points to get this thing? What will suddenly be different about Sayin under pressure? Will he suddenly learn coverage identification in a couple weeks?

Does Day calling the offense suddenly make you feel better? Are we suffenlu
Going to stop 13-14 personnel in the red zone?

I’m not saying I don’t feel good about it but I’m trying to think about what’s going to just be suddenly sifferent and ultimately be the actual difference(s).

I dunno
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My confidence lies in the fact that I think they were underprepared to play Indiana. A ton of distractions. Team was still high from winning the game. Smith and Tate were not fully healthy and had pushed themselves the week before. O line dominated the ttun d line and feeling pretty good about themselves. The last time they played a top 10 Indiana it was a joke. One could assume that Oregon fell for a similar trap earlier in the year. They know the o line is their biggest weakness and that it can cost them a game against a less talented team, so it should cause more adjustments.
 
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Telekinesis said:
Jesus. Alright. Enough already.

Why not just tell us to go home and get our fuckin’ pill box.
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Ignore them. It's just someone who can't count.

I mean, if J Smith was a baby during that game it would mean I was in my mid fifties.

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