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Game Thread Buffalo Bulls at tOSU, Aug 31, 12 ET, ESPN2

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kippy1040 said:
I will be interested in watching the defense, I think our D-line will be tested a bit but wondering how our
linebackers will play in this one. And they have to stay really healthy this year. "Go Bucks"
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I'm interested in seeing if the problems that showed up against weak teams at the beginning of last season show up again.

On defense: tackling and leverage. Against a poor team like Buffalo they can't definitively prove they're where they need to be, but if they're miles away from it, it'll show.

On offense: slow starts and being out-gameplanned initially. Last season the offense stunk for at least for the first quarter or two, and then a couple mid-game adjustments would either kick the door in or at least give them enough to pull out the win. Every week we'd hear Coach Meyer talk about what he expects defensively from an opponent, and then after the game we'd hear about how the opponent did something they didn't expect. I have to admit I cringed a little when I heard him talk about what kind of look he expects defensively from Buffalo. Not that Ohio State should need the element of surprise to beat a team of that caliber, but it does kind of bother me that the Buckeyes telegraph a bit too much early in the season and let bad teams surprise them. I want to see a fast start so they can put this team away early, rest important players after they get their reps, and get some young backups some experience in all three phases of the game.
 
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jlb1705 said:
I'm interested in seeing if the problems that showed up against weak teams at the beginning of last season show up again.

On defense: tackling and leverage. Against a poor team like Buffalo they can't definitively prove they're where they need to be, but if they're miles away from it, it'll show.

On offense: slow starts and being out-gameplanned initially. Last season the offense stunk for at least for the first quarter or two, and then a couple mid-game adjustments would either kick the door in or at least give them enough to pull out the win. Every week we'd hear Coach Meyer talk about what he expects defensively from an opponent, and then after the game we'd hear about how the opponent did something they didn't expect. I have to admit I cringed a little when I heard him talk about what kind of look he expects defensively from Buffalo. Not that Ohio State should need the element of surprise to beat a team of that caliber, but it does kind of bother me that the Buckeyes telegraph a bit too much early in the season and let bad teams surprise them. I want to see a fast start so they can put this team away early, rest important players after they get their reps, and get some young backups some experience in all three phases of the game.
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Very well said JLB
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
This may be dumb, but who is the second "O" in the "OH-IO" above?

Urban?
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hungry for some football!
 
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Yes too slow. I had surgery last week and the meds are killing me. I take the pills and get tired but I can't sleep for more than three hours so I end up waking up like 4 or 5 times a day.The countdown thread stays the same multiple times, it sucks.

In my post above, the video that was deleted was a time elapsed vid of 4000 kids forming Block O as seen below.

 
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