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Jim Bollman (Stay calm and run Dave)

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ysubuck;2026019; said:
I think that people are going to be very bent out of shape after this weekend.

Many (including me) are looking at the Indiana game as a chance to "practice" and get the offense even more comfortable and to work on the passing game.

What I think we WILL see is a very vanilla run heavy offense against a totally over matched Indiana team.

IMO this game should be treated like a practice and Braxton should be throwing down field in the first half.
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While I agree that this game should be more like a practice, I believe we tried that in 2009 against Purdue. Exploring more of the spread passing offense with TP. This Indiana team doesn't have near the athletes but part of me wishes we would use the first quarter to drop 21 on them, then do the experimenting.
 
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Dryden;2026014; said:
That is to be expected with so many freshmen on the field. I just see a lot of parallels to 2004.

With so many young pups out there, most of the time it's impossible for anyone to know what the playcall actually was versus what the kids are running around doing.
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I agree. I'm not complaining about the offense this season per say, but the trend that it usually takes our offense a while to revert back to what it knows.
 
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give any OC 2 weeks to prepare for a team and he should come up with a very good gameplan...this week against indiana will show me more about if bollman has truly found something that can keep us in a game and win...he doesnt have to open up the entire playbook since it is indiana, but i will be interested in his play calling on 3rd and long, along with what he continues to do on first down...especially if we are not gaining anything on first down
 
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buckeyesin07;2026079; said:
It's not about immediately flying into anything, at least not for those of us who have actually been watching for the past 10 years or so...
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Have been watching for 30+ years myself and I have to say, it's pretty good to be at the point where you are complaining about 2 drives that go for touchdowns.
 
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Woody1968;2026117; said:
Have been watching for 30+ years myself and I have to say, it's pretty good to be at the point where you are complaining about 2 drives that go for touchdowns.
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Nice attempt at recharacterizing the argument, but the issue is not the two TD drives. It's the plethora of off-tackle runs on first and second down that went for 0-2 yards against UW, not to mention the general predictability in playcalling in most of the games this year (see, e.g., Oct. 1 against MSU).
 
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buckeyesin07;2026759; said:
Nice attempt at recharacterizing the argument, but the issue is not the two TD drives. It's the plethora of off-tackle runs on first and second down that went for 0-2 yards against UW, not to mention the general predictability in playcalling in most of the games this year (see, e.g., Oct. 1 against MSU).
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I didn't recharacterize anything. Before you interjected, I was responding specifically to the criticism of the two drives where we scored touchdowns to start the 3rd quarter, and specifically against Wisconsin.

I did not say anything about runs going for 1-2 yards on first and second down, nor was I responding to that issue, which is why I bolded the text that I was responding to. If I had said anything about runs that went for 1-2 yards on first down, it would have been "we need better blocking."
 
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Woody1968;2026772; said:
If I had said anything about runs that went for 1-2 yards on first down, it would have been "we need better blocking."
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Blocking isn't the issue! If you can run with success against an 8-9 man front against the best team in the conference, your blocking isn't an issue. The correct answer would be install diverse play calling to counter the fronts the defense is presenting us to matchup better against their personnel and schemes.
 
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Some how I still think there are problems with the offensive coaching when I read stuff like this (winning TD vs Wisconsin):

The play looked like it was perfectly draw up, other than Miller?s heroics in the backfield which allowed him to get off the heave just before he crossed the line of scrimmage.
Smith was standing wide open in the end zone and hauled in the pass like a punt just before being drilled by Wisconsin cornerback Marcus Cromartie. The play was shown over and over on the highlights, but that wasn?t exactly how the coaches drew it up.
?We were scrambling,? sophomore wide receiver Corey Brown said Tuesday.
?We usually don?t switch sides with the formations, but they told us to switch sides so we were wasting time. They didn?t give us a play or nothing, so we were out there just running playground routes.?
Actually, the OSU coaches did try to call a play. It turns out they were just fortunate it never got to most of the players on the field.
?There was a lack of communication on the players part,? Brown said after practice.
?I just think we were so into the moment that our emotions kind of took over. We weren?t really listening to anybody, we were just trying to hustle.?

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?I think there was only one wideout, which was Devin, who got the real play,? Brown said.
?I think I ran a deep out or something like that.?
Outside of Smith, Miller didn?t even know where his receivers were going to be on the play. They didn?t even know where they were going to be, which actually may have helped cause the confusion in Wisconsin?s defense.

Entire story: http://the-ozone.net/football/2011/Indiana/playgroundroutes.html
 
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