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

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DaddyBigBucks said:
At Maryland is sandwiched between MSU and tsun. That’s about as bad a spot in the schedule as there could be, and Maryland has better athletes according to the btn crew that visited every b1g camp. To me, that’s on to be wary of
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With the way this years back 7 can be gashed, every B1G opponent, outside of Rutgers, should be at least mildly concerning.

Seriously

There is a legit chance, every time they take the field, that OSU's opponent can score 30 points.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
I am pretty confident Haskins can throw us out of a hole a billion times better than Barrett except in the most difficult environment in college football... and even then he still managed to do it, it was just a little more stressful than what you’d like to see.
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Before Saturday night I would have thought so too. But he's got to be able to move around in the pocket and make those big throws down the field against a good defense at some point. Look I know he's not a very mobile dude, but he did not look good throwing anything other than a screen against PSUs pressure. I'm just reminding myself that he's growing with every game and if our O line starts to gel and gives him time, he can be a surgeon back there. I'm anxious to see what he looks like against Indiana this week. Hoping for a big game from him back to that pinpoint accuracy we saw in the first 4 games.
 
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buckeyes_rock said:
Before Saturday night I would have thought so too. But he's got to be able to move around in the pocket and make those big throws down the field against a good defense at some point. Look I know he's not a very mobile dude, but he did not look good throwing anything other than a screen against PSUs pressure. I'm just reminding myself that he's growing with every game and if our O line starts to gel and gives him time, he can be a surgeon back there. I'm anxious to see what he looks like against Indiana this week. Hoping for a big game from him back to that pinpoint accuracy we saw in the first 4 games.
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I was referring specifically to the worry about “another Iowa” in a trap game this year against some mediocre team.

Playing elite teams in a playoff is a different story.
 
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muffler dragon said:
Gotta ask @LordJeffBuck @Buckeye86 @shetuck and any other analysts... why did the Buckeye Linebackers keep going to different areas based on where the RB was on the last play? What is to be gained by that movement?
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I haven’t re-watched the film, but I suspect it was to put the LB in a better position to make the play against their assignment on read option... that is to say, their job was to plug an edge gap, so we wanted to get them out of all the traffic in the middle of the field that they might (and often do) get caught up in by just putting them on the edge where they needed to be in the first place.

And we were shifting based on the side of the QB the RB was lined up on, so just something the coaches saw (a tendency or whatever) that we were reacting to... most likely that the RB always took the dive away from his alignment and the QBs option take/pass option was always towards the edge of the formation the RB was lined up on.

That’s just a guess.

(And I should admit a mistake, I thought we vacated a LB from the middle of the field to bait PSU into calling that interior run on 4th and 5, but it was actually just us shifting the LBs based on the RB switching to the other side of the QB.)
 
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muffler dragon said:
Gotta ask @LordJeffBuck @Buckeye86 @shetuck and any other analysts... why did the Buckeye Linebackers keep going to different areas based on where the RB was on the last play? What is to be gained by that movement?
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When the RB shifted to the left of McSorely, the strength of the formation shifted which meant the LBs had to shift with him. Notice that became what amounts to the Mike and the other LB (I couldn't see the number, maybe it was Harrison) became the SAM. The were specifically keying on the RB on that play while Jones and Young had QB responsibilities. I'm sure I'm missing something though but that's what it looks like from here.

The big thing is the extreme lateral movement by Young on that play completely screwed the Pedster's blocking scheme. Add in Jones getting into the passing lane and the D-line showing an obvious Give read to McSorely, this is what you get. Had they now shown that look, McSorely was liking going to pull it on the RPO and then it would have been up to Jones/Harrison/Werner to tackle him on the edge, which hadn't been going well to that point.

It was a perfect play call to counter what Ped State would want to do and it effectively took the ball out of Penn State's best player's hands.
 
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