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I find it fascinating that this guy thinks that Ohio State losing Curtis Samuel (1,636 total yards and 15 TD's) is going to DOOM Ohio State. Yet Oklahoma losing Westbrook, Perine, and Mixon (4,603 total yards and 45 TD's) from a team Ohio State handled in Norman, is somehow a better offense.... Mind = Blown
A quick glance at the Ohio State-Indiana box score would suggest that the Buckeyes got torched through the air. IU's Richard Lagow threw for 410 yards and three touchdowns, and Simmie Cobbs caught 11 balls for 149 yards.
Really, though, the Buckeyes were mostly fine in pass defense. They picked off two passes and sacked Lagow five times, and 410 yards really isn't that much when you throw 65 passes. Lagow averaged only 5.4 yards per attempt, including sacks, and you're going to win more often than not when your pass defense is holding an opponent to that, especially when you're also obliterating the opponent's run game (IU backs: 17 carries, 37 yards).
Mike DeBord's offense did a good job of using tempo to maximize matchup advantages. When the Hoosiers found the looks they were hoping for from Ohio State's defense, they exploited them more than once.
In specific instances, IU identified positive matchups for Cobbs and went to the well often, before OSU adjusted. That's one area where tempo can be ruthless, when it keeps the defense from substituting, keeping your personnel advantage intact.
- On Indiana's first touchdown drive, Cobbs caught three passes for 49 yards.
- On the Hoosiers' second touchdown drive, he caught three passes for 46 yards and was targeted five times in six plays.
- On their last TD drive, he caught three passes for 42 yards and was targeted on five consecutive plays.
- On their other 13 possessions, he caught two balls.
As Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano told media this week, "They have an unusually gifted tight end. He is as much a receiver as any receiver on the field, and they use him as such. He creates matchup issues.”
Andrews is for all intents and purposes a tight end: He's 6'5, 254 pounds and lines up near the tackle box quite a bit.
He has the hands and feet of a wideout, however. He cuts against the grain beautifully in the open field, and while he isn't likely to break out a 4.4 40 at the NFL Combine, he reaches full speed quickly.
This makes him an incredible weapon (and creates about the most enjoyable highlight video you’ll see for a tight end): He had a career 66 percent catch rate coming into 2017, and he caught all seven passes thrown his way last Saturday in Norman. But despite this efficiency, he nearly matches Badet with a career average of 16.5 yards per catch.
Despite tight end status, he could end up being the most important skill guy on one of the best offenses in the country.
"We expect him to be very productive, a matchup we can really exploit," Riley recently said.
IU would light up almost every defense in the Big XII. Your conference hasn't played defense in about a decade...IU with a brand new coaching staff and a QB who would only be half-decent in the Big XII is less than 10% the offense OU has right now.
IU would light up almost every defense in the Big XII. Your conference hasn't played defense in about a decade...
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Some new cleats for Saturday? I can never post full tweets.
But the only difference is we actually BEAT Tech, and you LOST to Clemson. But let's keep talking about last year as if it were actually this year...Right. Because you can say HERP DERP DERP WHAT ABOUT CLEMSON!!!!!!!!! But then when somebody counters with Texas Tech, we get this from you.
Yeah, I guess so.Yeah but you're going to wish they had.