lvbuckeye
Silver Surfer
if there was a lack of running plays, it wasn't because of Greg Davis... it was because of Ohio State and the clock... i posted this a page or two ago:EngineerHorn;603757; said:Now that doesn't excuse the lack of running plays (in my uneducated opinion), but I feel a little better about the passing game and Colt's ability to read a defense from saturday. A better performance from our TE's (or David Thomas) sure would have helped though in the <10 yard range.
first quarter rushing looked like this: 11, 3, 12, 13, 9, -1, 12, 30, 4... 9 carries for 93 yards, and a whopping 10.3 average.
second quarter rushes looked like this: 5, -4, 4, 2, 3, 3, -1, 0, 4, 2... 10 carries for 18 yards and a 1.8 yard average. if that doesn't jump out at you, i don't know what will. the Horns didn't abandon the run. the Silver Bullets shut it down.
third quarter rushing looked like this: 4, 7, 17, -1, 6, 5... 6 carries for 48 yards, and an 8 yard average... however, they were down ten at this point, so there was a little more urgency, but i don't think you could consider the run to have been abandoned. obviously they had one good run, but for the most part, the Silver Bullets simply were making tackles, and waiting for the other team to make a mistake... take away the 17 yarder, and the YPC average for the 3rd quarter was 5 carries for 21 yards, and 4.2 YPC... not exactly 'gashed.' and the Horns only called one more pass play than run... Horns only ran 13 plays in the 3rd. (not counting punts)
fourth quarter rushing looked like this: 9, 2, 3, 12... now no one will even attempt to state that the Horns should have still been running, especially after the Buckeyes took 6:30 off the clock and opened up a 17 point lead...
in the final three quarters, except for the 17 yard run and the 12 yard scramble in the final minute, UT rushed 19 times for 48 yards... that's 2.5 yards per carry...
UT didn't abandon the run. Ohio State stopped it, then the clock eliminated it...
frankly, i still am having trouble believing how fast Ohio State's young defense grew up Saturday night... there were major questions about the rush D on the edge going in. the Horns gashed them for nearly 100 yards in the first quarter, and then, for whatever reason, the Horns were stoned in the whole second quarter... the UT run game quite honestly became a non factor... like i said, i was shocked how fast they grew up...
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