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Coach just needs to go balls-to-the-wall. Unleash the Kraken. The players have played less than 2 games with snap count. Fucking prove this is the correct way to win it all. (Should have unleashed it last week). We shall see.
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Captain Buckeye
Assistant Coach
That’s what we need to do to repeat. I get playing slow in regular season games but in big games I think you’re really asking for it by playing the way we play.
When you have a lights out defense the last thing you want to do is get into a game where only one touchdown given up can win the game. Our defense as good as they are has had 3 shut outs and even gave up a touchdown vs teams like Ohio on a fluke play. The offense has got to pick it up to get to 21 points in these next 3 games if we’re lucky enough to win them.
Force teams to have to execute vs this buckeye defense. Maybe they’ll make a mistake, maybe they’ll go for it when they shouldn’t and give up terrible field position?
The last thing you do with an offense ranking 44th in red zone offense is try to keep producing 7-12 minute drives. Go up tempo, be explosive, and score quick. If we don’t score then who cares you’ll get the ball back anyway for another swing.
I don’t understand the “we keep our defense off the field”. Even if they are on the field who freaking cares they’re the best unit of any offense or defense in college football.
If we continue to play this slow style of football then we’ll be in a dog fight vs UGA in the 4th quarter and that’s asking for it. Like Ryan says, leave no doubt. We arent going to do that when we play the way we do on offense.
Let’s go, pick up the pace and light it up.
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The risk in football is when the other team has the ball.
The only way you suppress that risk is to have the ball yourself longer.
You cannot do that by playing up tempo. You do it by possessing the ball longer AND efficiently using that time to score.
Empty trips is the issue, not tempo.
The only way you suppress that risk is to have the ball yourself longer.
You cannot do that by playing up tempo. You do it by possessing the ball longer AND efficiently using that time to score.
Empty trips is the issue, not tempo.
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Onebuckfan
classof76
We lost the turnover battle failed 4th downs and missed FGs are turnover. Win the turnover battle and you win the game.
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RugbyBuck
Our church has no bells.
You can also have more time of possession by having more possessions. That's what's a little maddening to me. If we had a slightly above average defense, ok, I can see trying to extend the time of each drive. We don't have that. We have one of the, if not the, best defenses we've had. I would crank up the offensive tempo, try to score more often, trust the defense to get us the ball back on downs, and then score some more. I don't trust our ability to be efficient with a minimal number of drives against above-average teams. We don't have the luxury of slowing things down before we're three scores up, in the playoff.
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Every play has an outcome. That outcome is skill + luck.
If you have more skill, you want to suppress opponents luck. You give them fewer plays, not more. You don't want to play Russian roulette (pure luck, no skill) with more bullets, you want fewer.
What you don't trust, especially hard to do after a loss, is our skill gap as we get deeper into the playoffs.
The correct strategy is to do better, not do more. We just saw a failure of execution, not of design.
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OregonBuckeye
Semper Fi Buckeyes
You needlessly operate on razor thin margins with that philosophy. We have the best D in the country while our O has major redzone and kicking issues. Limiting our possessions harms us more than helps.
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