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Open Practice: Ohio State Buckeyes

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Coulda done with alot more actual footage of the drills, less of them talking about stuff we already know (and have heard a thousand times in the preseason).

Ah well at least it doesn't give our opponents much to study
 
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Ohio State football: A practice peek
by Doug Lesmerises
Tuesday August 05, 2008

It looks like the first-team defensive line is Lawrence Wilson and Cameron Heyward at end and Nader Abdallah and Todd Denlinger at tackle. The second team is Robert Rose and Thaddeus Gibson at end and Dexter Larimore and Doug Worthington at tackle.

* In at least one passing drill, Tyler Moeller was on the field with the first team defense, joining James Laurinaitis and Marcus Freeman at linebacker. Moeller is somewhere between a safety and a linebacker and could wind up as a good fit on passing downs.

* Donald Washington, still facing a possible suspension, did not seem to be running with the first team defense. Chimdi Chekwa looked to be working as the starting corner opposite Malcolm Jenkins.

* Running back Brandon Saine wore a yellow jersey that signifes limited practice contact and didn't seem to work into most of the drills with the other running backs. Jim Tressel did not mention Saine when asked about injuries on Monday.

* Big Ten Network analyst, and former Vanderbilt, LSU and Indiana coach Gerry DiNardo, on Terrelle Pryor.
"He's all arm," DiNardo said, noticing that Pryor was not striding toward his target on his passes. "He has a lot of mechanical work to do, as all freshmen do."
Pryor did hit fellow freshman DeVier Posey on a nice crossing route on one play. Hold that memory for 2009.

* Curtis Terry, now at fullback for good, appeared to be working with the first-teamers on offense.

* Both DiNardo and fellow Big Ten Network analyst Howard Griffith, when asked by host Dave Revsine, predicted that Ohio State would win the national title this year. But really, it's not the SEC Network, right?

* It looked like the Buckeyes were working out of the pistol formation at times, a formation they haven't used in the past. It puts the quarterback in sort of a shortened shotgun, with the running back lined up behind the quarterback instead of next to him.

* Jamario O'Neal made a nice leaping interception.

* Freshman J.B. Shugarts looked to be backing up Bryant Browning at right tackle.
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Ohio State football: A practice peek - Buckeye Blog by The Plain Dealer's Doug Lesmerises - cleveland.com

Live from my recliner: PRACTICE!
I'll forgive the Big Ten Network for including Eugene Clifford on their depth chart scrolling on the bottom of the screen. This is a great service for those of us not normally allowed into practice -- and that's everyone but a select few -- this 90-minute broadcast of Ohio State's morning workout Tuesday.
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Live from my recliner: PRACTICE! (Blogging the Buckeyes)
 
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BuckeyeGanoosh;1224087; said:
I'm definitely interested in seeing more of the "pistol" formation they mentioned.
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To see it in action, look for games with Nevada. Installed a couple of years ago under head coach Chris Ault, they ran it as their primary formation in 2007 with QB Colin Kaepernick.
 
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