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Parker Fleming (Official Thread)

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My understanding from reading the Snap Counts pieces from Eleven Warriors is they typically leave the 11 defenders from the prior play (3rd down) out there for most punt returns. Believe they’ve been calling that out week after week, so not a recent development.
 
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  • On Ohio State’s special teams performance: “There are a lot of plays that we wish we had back for one reason or another. And there’s some we’re really excited and happy with.”
  • Fleming acknowledged that there have been more mistakes on special teams than there should be. “Our job is to put our team in the best position to win. And like I said, there’s some spots that we have not done that clearly.”
  • Asked if Ohio State was ready for Michigan State’s fake punt on 4th-and-1 last week, which the Spartans converted, Fleming replied: “Obviously not, right? If they got it, then you weren’t ready enough.”
  • “We try to put our players in the best position to go make plays. And then when they make plays, that’s awesome. That’s them making plays. When they don’t, I didn’t prepare him well enough to make the play.”
  • Fleming didn’t want to get into detail about the miscommunication that led to Jesse Mirco running for an unsuccessful fake punt against Rutgers, but said he took accountability for it: “If there’s a miscommunication, which there was that, I can’t let that happen.” He said he is in charge of communicating to the players what’s supposed to happen on a special teams play.
  • Fleming believes Ohio State’s special teams has done a lot of good things, but he understands why people focus on the mistakes. “Our job is to change field position, create explosives when we have opportunities to, and we’ve done some of that. We have. When you look at the net field position in a bunch of games, we’ve won it. Right. People don’t care about that, because the big things can’t happen, and they’re right. You can’t put your team in some situations that we have, and I totally understand that.”
  • On Jayden Fielding’s performance: “I’m happy with Jayden. He’s done a really good job. He’s obviously, he’s not perfect. And that’s something that he’s done. He’s taken that over, kicked off well last year, kicked off well this year and I’m happy with his progress right now.”
  • Asked about the notion that people believe a mistake on special teams could cost Ohio State in a big game, Fleming said that was something he’d take inside with him and “think about it and digest it a little bit, because that’s something we can’t have happen.”
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“There are a lot of plays that we wish we had back for one reason or another. And there's some we're really excited and happy with,” Fleming said. “Ultimately, the special teams, our job is to put our team in the best position to win. And there's some spots that we have not done that, clearly.”

Notable miscues for Ohio State on special teams this season have included an accidental fake punt that was stopped for a turnover on downs by Maryland when John Ferlmann snapped the ball to Cody Simon; a turnover on a punt return against Penn State when a ball hit Lorenzo Styles Jr.’s leg and was recovered by the Nittany Lions; and another unsuccessful fake punt against Rutgers in which Jesse Mirco ran the ball in a situation where he was not supposed to.

Fleming doesn’t feel as though those plays tell the entire story of Ohio State’s special teams performance this season, considering those are just three of the 272 special teams plays that the Buckeyes have run this year. But he understands why fans fixate on the mistakes.

“The one-off plays, we got to be better. We got to eliminate those,” Fleming said. “Our job is to change field position, create explosives when we have opportunities to, and we've done some of that. We have. When you look at the net field position in a bunch of games, we've won it. And people don't care about that, because the big things can't happen. And they're right. You can't put your team in some situations that we have, and I totally understand that.”
 
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“There are a lot of plays that we wish we had back for one reason or another. And there's some we're really excited and happy with,” Fleming said. “Ultimately, the special teams, our job is to put our team in the best position to win. And there's some spots that we have not done that, clearly.”

Notable miscues for Ohio State on special teams this season have included an accidental fake punt that was stopped for a turnover on downs by Maryland when John Ferlmann snapped the ball to Cody Simon; a turnover on a punt return against Penn State when a ball hit Lorenzo Styles Jr.’s leg and was recovered by the Nittany Lions; and another unsuccessful fake punt against Rutgers in which Jesse Mirco ran the ball in a situation where he was not supposed to.

Fleming doesn’t feel as though those plays tell the entire story of Ohio State’s special teams performance this season, considering those are just three of the 272 special teams plays that the Buckeyes have run this year. But he understands why fans fixate on the mistakes.

“The one-off plays, we got to be better. We got to eliminate those,” Fleming said. “Our job is to change field position, create explosives when we have opportunities to, and we've done some of that. We have. When you look at the net field position in a bunch of games, we've won it. And people don't care about that, because the big things can't happen. And they're right. You can't put your team in some situations that we have, and I totally understand that.”
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Ughhhh
 
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brodybuck21 said:
Asked about the notion that people believe a mistake on special teams could cost Ohio State in a big game, Fleming said that was something he’d take inside with him and “think about it and digest it a little bit, because that’s something we can’t have happen.”
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If i told my boss something like that.... theyd ask for my ID back and just tell me to go home.

What does that even mean? You're gonna internalize and digest your failure or potential failure ??
Forget an action plan. Let's smoke some weed and manifest better special teams on a vision board.
 
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