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Game Thread Ohio State 58, Northwestern 7 (final)

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I'd love to see that forum site now! LOL Especially what the guy who said NW would win had to say about this game.. "We didn't come ready to play.. Ohio State isn't that good of a team" Something along those lines probably.
 
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My only concern isn't a very big one. Boeckman threw deep to Robiskie for three touchdowns. That's all cool and stuff, but my only concern is that Ohio State was "Michiganing", to use my wife's term for it. The offense may become too dependant upon that deep pass, and when opposing teams shut it down, the Ohio State offense will be doomed.

Like I said, though, my concern is not big. In fact, it's very small. It can be a huge positive for Ohio State, in the future. If teams are looking to take that play away, watch out for the short passes and for the running game to open up.

So... that's all.
 
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Zurp;937607; said:
My only concern isn't a very big one. Boeckman threw deep to Robiskie for three touchdowns. That's all cool and stuff, but my only concern is that Ohio State was "Michiganing", to use my wife's term for it. The offense may become too dependant upon that deep pass, and when opposing teams shut it down, the Ohio State offense will be doomed.
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Just to play devil's advocate, we only showed a miniscule portion of the playbook chapter labeled 'high octane.' Yes, we're comfortable with that look but what did we really show our future opponents? Again, not calling you out; just looking at it in another light.
 
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Zurp;937607; said:
My only concern isn't a very big one. Boeckman threw deep to Robiskie for three touchdowns. That's all cool and stuff, but my only concern is that Ohio State was "Michiganing", to use my wife's term for it. The offense may become too dependant upon that deep pass, and when opposing teams shut it down, the Ohio State offense will be doomed.

Like I said, though, my concern is not big. In fact, it's very small. It can be a huge positive for Ohio State, in the future. If teams are looking to take that play away, watch out for the short passes and for the running game to open up.

So... that's all.
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The thing is... the deep balls weren't really jump balls, which is what I think of when I think of the M*ch*g*n passing game. Today was all about receivers (Robiskie) beating the coverage and the QB (Boeckman) making the right reads and putting the ball on target. I think that's very different from what M*ch*g*n is known for.

It's a shame about that Boeckman INT - Robiskie got open and Boeckman found him - he was just a little late and it was a little underthrown. I'm glad that happened today though so he can fix it for upcoming games against Purdue, Wisconsin, Penn State and M*ch*g*n.

I seriously hope nobody is still calling for Henton (or Schoenhoft for that matter) to see significant playing time over Boeckman. That would just be stupid. He started off in the same manner that Zwick did in 2004. He is improving significantly with every game though - and even if you factor in that Troy Smith didn't start a game in 2004 until well into the season - I think Boeckman is ahead of where Smith was as a passer in his fourth career start.
 
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jlb1705;937622; said:
The thing is... the deep balls weren't really jump balls, which is what I think of when I think of the M*ch*g*n passing game. Today was all about receivers (Robiskie) beating the coverage and the QB (Boeckman) making the right reads and putting the ball on target. I think that's very different from what M*ch*g*n is known for.
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Boeckman did do an excellent job on those reads - especially on Small's touchdown reception. I agree. If Boeckman is making the right reads (pre-snap and post-snap), calling audibles, etc., I think it's great. I guess I just get a little nervous when one player does too much in one game. If it's just an issue of Northwestern not covering Ohio State receivers properly, then awesome. Just as long as it isn't Ohio State becoming too one-dimensional.

(Note: It's just something that I think can become a concern for me. When you got 1 back with 100 yards in only 12 or 14 carries, and another with two more touchdowns, I don't truly think that the "one-dimensional" concern is valid, yet.)
 
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Pat Fitzgerald told CBSSportsline that, "We were erratic and not in synch. You can't play Ohio State that way. It looked like we were thinking too much. We were not playing as one heartbeat on offense and Ohio State took advantage of it."

methinks the reason for that might be that the silver bullets kind of ripped it out and had for their first quarter snack!

:chompy:
 
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Final scores of the two games after their 2004 upset of us:

Ohio State 48, Northwestern 7 (48 unanswered)
Ohio State 54, Northwestern 10 (including a Pittman fumble on the NU 1-yard-line...should've been 61-10)

I hope Northwestern fans enjoyed their once-a-quarter-century victory, because JT won't ever hold back against Northwestern after being the first coach to lose to Northwestern in 33 years and 24 games.
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Yet another epic beatdown today. As long as Tressel is head coach here, Northwestern will be lucky to ever stay within 4 TDs of us...
 
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Just got home from a family reunion in Hamilton ohio and haven't watched the game. Had a great time. I did see a little bit of the first half here and there and saw we seemed to overcome our first half inconsistency.
Something called barbequed sauerkraut sure makes a lot of gas. The wife made me roll the windows down for the whole 3 1/2 hr trip home. :biggrin:
 
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This may have been discuessed when it happened but I haven't seen subsequent talk of this: What do people think of the new punt formation we used today? I could be wrong, but haven't we always used traditional punt formation until today, when we used that more spread out look?
 
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