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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:
Also there are some pretty damning shots/videos of guys wide open and Sayin just not letting it go and trusting his eyes.
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Sayin getting sacked right away on a play where 2 guys just ran past the blockers essentially unimpeded was the worst thing that coulda happened, after seeing that I'm sure that was in his head and significant effected everything.

It's not a Physicality issue with the OL like the DFBIA would be screaming....it's a skill and athleticism issue, they are plenty physical but any kind of athleticism just killed them with stunts and speed rushes.....Cryami and Indiana made it look like our guys were playing in quicksand
 
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SEREbuckeye said:
I don’t know what happened over the last 2 games with Sayin’s vision. It’s like he can’t find the middle of the field. Regressed hard.



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It’s one play and it’s super early in the game so who knows…but holy shit that miss probably changes things. Not only the points, but the confidence, playcalling and mindset.

Such a bad miss. Speechless.
 
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daddyphatsacs said:
It was a bad play call and Sayin needs to have better awareness in that situation.
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dragurd said:
Not really he was clearly coached to curl and seal as he curled the guy shot it. The Miami player gambled hard and won. But if he missed that int he would have put his team in a bad position cause they would have been down a man.
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You're not taught only one way. There's what you *want* vs what you *get* You're right about the curl and seal. Makes it easier to create the "alley"

If the DB expands laterally, you won't keep expanding with him just to get around and seal inside. If he's even leverage, or outside leverage, you attack the outside shoulder, shock balance and win with wingspan. Then work to seal inside. If you can't, you attack center mass to outside shoulder and work to drive vertically. You cannot give the inside up like that because of what we saw last night. TE pushing out on an escort motion is usually a gigantic tell, so it isn't as insane a gamble as you'd think.
The modern defense rallies top-down.

You have to be decisive because it's a longer developing type of screen when executing the fake. You get hands on, get physical, and work to dictate where the defender is going. You don't let him pick a lane and shoot inside when he isn't the conflict player.

Coaches targeted the overhang player and outleveraged him because he sat with eyes inside looking at GT read. They had what they wanted, players just didn't execute.

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buckeyemania11 said:
It just wasn't our night all around. Miami had everything going their way as well, as evident by Toney fumbling twice and both times the ball just harmlessly bouncing right back to him. How often do you see that happen?
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Right? How different is the game if those balls bounce different? We'll never know
 
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Gizmo said:
Side thought, thinking back. Did they know our script? Not saying they cheated or anything, but Day admitted that we had a script for the first few series. When did the offense look it's worst? The first few series. When did the DB jump our play for a pick 6? etc. Once we got to the 2 minute drill at the end, and the 2 TD drives in the 2nd half, we were off script. So, is Day's script obvious?
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The thing is Day's offense isn't big on disgusting things. If you watch enough tape and break down their formations and the personnel they put on the field, I think you can predict what they are going to run.

The reason they seem to get better in the 2nd half was they basically had to run and pass out of 12 personnel sets. They need at least 1 TE to stay in to help pass protect. This basically made it harder for Miami to figure out if it was run or pass. They also had to figure out which TE was going to stay in vs which would go out to run a route.
 
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Day needs to bring in someone who can actually fix the OL situation. I think we've been very poor at evaluation. A guy can be the biggest most physical dude but if he's a stiff who plays in quicksand and lacks the more basic skills he's gonna have a hard time against more athletic pass rushers
 
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