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Game Thread Ohio State @ Penn State - 09/29/18, 7:30PM (ABC)

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Jaxbuck said:
All I know is this win allows little Jax to go back to school and me to go back to work for another year

All kinds of shit to fix on that fucking defense but whatever

I'm going to savor it for a while
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I think it's good enough to have a fulfilling Thanksgiving and an after party in Indianapolis. After that... c'est la vie.

Buckeye513 said:
James Franklin is that guy in your neighborhood that goes to church every Sunday but talks shit about everyone he knows and is probably involved in human trafficking.
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(couldn't find a full version... it gets better)
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Penn State-Ohio State draws huge overnight rating to become highest-rated game of the season

Penn State's dramatic 27-26 loss at the hands of Ohio State on Saturday night is the highest-rated game of the college football season, ESPN announced on Sunday.

The 6.1 rating, which spiked to 8.2 during the final quarter, is among the best numbers ABC/ESPN has ever recorded dating back to 2004, a release said, and it also called the broadcast rating number the best since Kickoff Weekend in 2017.

The overnight rating is a metric designed to track how many people with television sets nationwide are tuned in to a particular program.

According to ESPN, Columbus had the largest overnight rating followed by Dayton, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. The highest-rated Pennsylvania market was Pittsburgh.

Entire article: https://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2018/09/penn_state-ohio_state_draws_hu.html

Also: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...e-earns-highest-television-rating-of-the-year
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This can’t possibly be right.

Notre Dame was playing a top 10 team at the same time and everyone knows that ND is the top draw in college football. Right? Right?
 
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Telekinesis said:
My take on that last play is pure film study. The stunt allowed Chase to shoot the gap in a crash course with the RB, because the D already knew the playcall.

It was a thing of beauty. I honestly don’t know that it would have been a horrible call if the D didn’t already know what it was. How many people thought the ball was going to Trace on the option keeper? Now go watch that defensive stunt/shift where Chase completely obliterates the gap.

I can’t think of any good reason why this attack happens unless you’ve seen it first hand on film. Lining up your best defensive man on the field to fire at the RB would be a huge mistake with the way McSorely was running all night.

Either way, it’s beautiful.
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This was one part where the shitty announcing kinda had it right -- at least leading up to the play.
There was some serious chess going on right up til the ball was snapped... Franklin&co. blinked.
It's also what I love about Football and what makes it unique among sports... almost every other sport, coaches are generally just players who were good. They're people managers. In football, you can only do that with the position coaches. The best Coordinators and Head Coaches ... most of them never played the game at a high level. It's strategic warfare... it really is Chess with the top 0.01% of athletes in the world. It's a spectacle to behold unlike any other sport in the history of mankind.

/End rant
 
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Tanner said:
I know a lot of people blame Billy Davis. I just don't really buy that. The guy has coached defense/linebackers at the highest level for the past 20+ years. He can't be that bad.
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Go check out the units/defenses he's coached...not exactly highly effective units. And this is his first.time coaching in college since a GA gig at sparty in 1991. Almost every one of those kids are 4 and 5 star kids; so unless they have missed badly on a ridiculous number of highly rated kids, the coach is at least a big part of the problem.

I kinda get the struggles at Safeties because IIRC Wint/Pryor were both 3 star, under the radar types. That's not the case with the LBers.
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
This can’t possibly be right.

Notre Dame was playing a top 10 team at the same time and everyone knows that ND is the top draw in college football. Right? Right?
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Really disappointed Stanford didn't win that. They got kind of lucky beating Oregon last week and it was a big task to travel cross country and beat ND the next week.

But it would've been awesome if they had.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Watching live, I thought that it was a zone read, but reviewing the film it definitely looks like an RPO:



Penn State has trips left, with the two outer WRs apparently blocking for a potential WR screen.

Jordan Fuller attacks the third WR like a heating-seeking missile - he would've blown up the screen pass for a loss as well.

Also note that Dre'Mont Jones totally beats his man and gets into the passing lane.

Penn State's tackles (#52 and #71) essentially whiff on their blocks (Chase Young and Dre'Mont Jones will do that to you) and their left guard (#74) is literally blocking nobody (watch him spin around at the end of the play, lol).

Instead of releasing into the flat, Penn State's 6-foot-7 tight end is blocking cornerback Jeffrey Okudah - he wins the block, but so what? Why not take advantage of the size mismatch in single coverage (OSU safety Jahsen Wint was playing deep and rotating toward the trips). Penn State had had success throwing to the TE earlier in the game.

Because of the penetration from Jones outside and Young inside on a stunt which beat/confused the majority of Penn State's offensive line, one LB (Borland?) is unblocked, the other LB (Werner) pretty much beats his block by the center, and end Johnathon Cooper is also unblocked as he drifts off the line into the center of the field in a sort of zone-blitz look. So even if Young would've missed on the tackle, Ohio State had three defenders ready to mop up the running play short of the sticks.

In sum, it was a pretty dumb play call that Ohio State defensed more or less perfectly.
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It's like in Tecmo Bowl when you call the perfect defensive play and it blows up the offensive play.
 
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NFBuck said:
Go check out the units/defenses he's coached...not exactly highly effective units. And this is his first.time coaching in college since a GA gig at sparty in 1991. Almost every one of those kids are 4 and 5 star kids; so unless they have missed badly on a ridiculous number of highly rated kids, the coach is at least a big part of the problem.

I kinda get the struggles at Safeties because IIRC Wint/Pryor were both 3 star, under the radar types. That's not the case with the LBers.
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Pryor was a high 4 star but he's still young. Honestly it seems like the Safety play is actually improving. Think the main problem is just how young we are. I have faith they'll be very good by the year's end. LB play still scares me to death.
 
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