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Cure for a lack of pass rush.

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Yeah I agree slickman. The thing that concerns me most is the teams that get the ball off in 3 step drops and don't even give our defense time to get to the QB. I'm not all that worried about our pressure off the edges because if we don't get pressure from the ends Hawk/Carpenter will.

I also agree that Beckman could be what we need to FINALLY stop teams from getting those easy 8 yards on us time and time again. We made Basanez look like philip Rivers that day.

On Iowa I'd say our team has to be pissed off that we lost to them and lost so horribly. If we don't get fired up for that game I dunno what to say? The only game that I'm truely worrying over is Penn State now that we all know its a night game, and that we have a bye week before that game. If we get through Penn State undefeated we're in very very good shape.
 
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definatly right OSUgrad21..... OSU is by far at a disadvantage when it comes to teams running the ball on us more often then they pass. Only teams that pass on us are either Northwestern or teams that are trying to get back in the game against us. Teams would rather run the ball first on us.
 
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That and USC was usually up by a lot of points... so pass happy or not they had to throw... so... there's part of the equation too. I doubt we're going to have 50 sacks... but we'll have more than last year even with the same personnel... we also will blitz less often than USC. The key is not the number, but the ability to pressure the passer at critical times.... especially in the red zone...
 
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osugrad21 said:
Wouldn't the number of pass-happy teams on the USC schedule contribute to that number?
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Well, let's look at the numbers. Using USC's team site, I've taken stats from last year's games. Since college stats have the silly aspect of counting sacks as rushing attempts, I've altered the official stats so that my rushing attempts/yards exclude sacks and the yardage lost.

Note: for the UCLA stats, the QB ran for positive yardage on 1 play, but due to inconsistent stats, I don't know what was gained. I guessed 4 yards.

Note: this only totals 48 sacks, while I have seen 50 as the total elsewhere

sacks/yds..opponent......rush att/yds..............pass att(including sacks)

4 for 27 - Va. Tech........ 30 for 168..................33
4 for 44 - Colorado St..... 23 for 092..................39
3 for 27 - BYU............... 21 for 054..................37
3 for 28 - Stanford......... 27 for 172..................38
5 for 20 - Cal................ 39 for 177..................40
8 for 45 - Arizona St....... 22 for 069..................47
1 for 06 - Washington..... 26 for 056..................29
5 for 30 - Washington St. 20 for 021..................45
4 for 29 - Oregon St....... 21 for 063..................55
3 for 27 - Arizona........... 22 for 117..................35
3 for 13 - Notre Dame..... 34 for 208..................33
3 for 18 - UCLA.............. 22 for 035..................37
2 for 20 - Oklahoma.........38 for 148..................38

48 for 334....345 (26.5/game) for 1380 (4.0/carry)..... 506 passes (39/game)

So teams ran for 4 yards/carry, but chose to run only 26.5 times per game. They passed 39 times/game, but got sacked on almost 10% of their pass plays (and threw 22 INT's to USC).

Six teams had no success running the ball (avg less than 3.5/carry), so they were forced to pass. Oklahoma could also be in that category since they got some meaningless late rushing yards. Other teams were forced to pass because they got behind and were trying to play catch-up. The score was close for a good portion of the second half in the Va. Tech, Stanford, Cal, Oregon St., and the UCLA games.

But I'd be willing to call Arizona St., Washington St., and Oregon St. 'pass-happy'. And they gave up 17 sacks in 3 games. Colorado St. and BYU were simply overmatched.
 
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Taosman said:
USC had 506 passes attempted on them. OSU 430. That looks like only 15% more! So, it looks to me like the argument of "pass happy teams" doesn't fly!
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Uh, what does USC's ratio to ours have to do with determining whether USC faced "pass happy" teams? They still faced an avereage of almost 40 passes per game. We faced 36 passes a game (based on your figures), which is also quite a bit. Keep in mind that these are only averages, and as such we've both faced teams which threw a lot more. So, yes, USC did face a few "pass happy" teams.
 
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