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In the video above one of them makes the observation that most of Fields’ runs have been in the red zone.
I don’t seem to recall a lot of talk about that since the off season; we expected it, it happened, sky is blue...
What’s interesting to me is that, in a video where they’re assigning grades to Fields, they didn’t say much about how good he is on those reads. That’s a big part of the story imho, not something to be glossed over
I don’t seem to recall a lot of talk about that since the off season; we expected it, it happened, sky is blue...
What’s interesting to me is that, in a video where they’re assigning grades to Fields, they didn’t say much about how good he is on those reads. That’s a big part of the story imho, not something to be glossed over
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1926Buckeyes
Head Coach
Yep, I like that plan as well. Slants, or maybe quick outs, and probably have some screens planned as usual. Then start taking your shots after you move the ball.
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mendensa
Legend
I was there for Korn's 1st yr in the conference, for TB's famous "throw the ball in the stands" performance after Braxton went down and the game was in hand. Still painful to think about how quickly the 3 score lead evaporated.
That was before all the renovations were complete.... and it was loud then. Fun atmosphere. Haven't been back since. I imagine it will be a tough ticket and even louder Saturday night. We know who the better team is on paper, but the Bucks better show up for this one.
That was before all the renovations were complete.... and it was loud then. Fun atmosphere. Haven't been back since. I imagine it will be a tough ticket and even louder Saturday night. We know who the better team is on paper, but the Bucks better show up for this one.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
INSIDE THE BOX: JUSTIN FIELDS' EFFICIENCY, CHASE YOUNG IS THE BEST LINEMAN OF THE DECADE, OFFENSIVE BALANCE
FIELDS IS THE DEFINITION OF EFFICIENCY
After four games, any and all doubts about the Ohio State offense have been silenced. The Buckeyes have outscored opponents 214-36 while doubling their total yardage.
As do most things in football, it has all started at the quarterback position. Justin Fields has put himself into the conversation as one of the best quarterbacks in the nation, alongside Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa, and Trevor Lawrence.
Fields may not have the gaudy yardage numbers that Jalen Hurts and Joe Burrow do, but his efficiency has kept him near the top in every key metric. According to ESPN's Quarterback Rating, an opponent-adjusted, advanced analytic, he has been the fourth-best quarterback in the nation this year.
While the Bucks have been blowing out their mediocre opponents thus far, Fields' numbers is nothing to scoff at; he is leading this group in total touchdowns and has just one turnover on the season.
The Ohio State signal-caller has made a pass or rush attempt 129 times this season and nearly 15% of these combined attempts have gone for touchdowns, the best rate of any quarterback in this selected group.
Overall, Fields is second in the nation in points responsible for, trailing just Washington State's Anthony Gordon by two touchdowns. Assuming he continues this rate (he almost assuredly won't, but let's have some fun), Fields would break Haskins' school record of 54 total touchdowns in a single season in against Michigan.
The Bucks will be traveling to Nebraska, who started the season ranked in the top-25, for possibly their first true test of the season. Fields will likely be tested for the first time this season.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...-best-lineman-of-the-decade-offensive-balance
FIELDS IS THE DEFINITION OF EFFICIENCY
After four games, any and all doubts about the Ohio State offense have been silenced. The Buckeyes have outscored opponents 214-36 while doubling their total yardage.
As do most things in football, it has all started at the quarterback position. Justin Fields has put himself into the conversation as one of the best quarterbacks in the nation, alongside Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa, and Trevor Lawrence.
Fields may not have the gaudy yardage numbers that Jalen Hurts and Joe Burrow do, but his efficiency has kept him near the top in every key metric. According to ESPN's Quarterback Rating, an opponent-adjusted, advanced analytic, he has been the fourth-best quarterback in the nation this year.
While the Bucks have been blowing out their mediocre opponents thus far, Fields' numbers is nothing to scoff at; he is leading this group in total touchdowns and has just one turnover on the season.
The Ohio State signal-caller has made a pass or rush attempt 129 times this season and nearly 15% of these combined attempts have gone for touchdowns, the best rate of any quarterback in this selected group.
Overall, Fields is second in the nation in points responsible for, trailing just Washington State's Anthony Gordon by two touchdowns. Assuming he continues this rate (he almost assuredly won't, but let's have some fun), Fields would break Haskins' school record of 54 total touchdowns in a single season in against Michigan.
The Bucks will be traveling to Nebraska, who started the season ranked in the top-25, for possibly their first true test of the season. Fields will likely be tested for the first time this season.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...-best-lineman-of-the-decade-offensive-balance
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Justin Fields:
- He says his body has adjusted to the hits he takes.
- "The receivers know scrambling around with me, they know I want to throw the ball first." He says he likes to keep his eyes downfield when scrambling, which he called a "big thing" he's been working on.
- Fields says he hasn't explored much in Columbus. He often goes back to his apartment and watches Netflix. He mostly takes online classes so he can spend more time around football.
- He's not sure whether he'll run more later this season or not.
- Fields says the coaches have had conversations about him being a smart runner, but he says they haven't directly told him to look to throw rather than to pass.
- He says you have to know who you're facing, and knowing who's the best player on the other side makes you more efficient.
- On where he is now compared to when he arrived in January: "I think I've matured a lot, not only in the game of football but in life."
- Has life been easier or less hectic in Columbus than in Georgia? "Nah, not really. It's been the same."
- Fields on whether people have an idea of what goes into being the starting quarterback: "I think people have some sort of idea, but they don't know about the little details of all we do."
- Fields on whether he wishes he had a more traditional life of a college student: "I'm fine with the way my life is right now." He says by embracing everything he's doing right now, he can't wish for anything else.
WATCH: Ohio State Buckeyes Preview Nebraska Game
Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/09/watch-ohio-state-buckeyes-preview-nebraska-game/
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scarletngray
Gold Pants
Red Zone scoring has been impressive this year. If we keep that going it's going to be hard to beat the S&G!
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
SKULL SESSION: J.K. DOBBINS OVERCOMES ADVERSITY, GENE SMITH TALKS IMAGE AND LIKENESS BILL, AND JUSTIN FIELDS HAD A TOUGH ADJUSTMENT TO OHIO STATE
THE NEW GUY. It's easy to forget that just a few months ago, the kid currently putting up video game numbers and leading the Buckeyes to four blowout wins was just a scared kid who didn't know a soul on campus (besides the quarterback that he was replacing).
From Ryan McGee of ESPN:
It was January 2019. It was cold. He knew no one. His parents had dropped him off the day before and driven back home to Atlanta. He couldn't peek in on his social media accounts because his timelines were still freshly filled with a lot of unkind comments from fans of Georgia, the team he'd just left and the uniform he'd just worn at the Sugar Bowl a few days earlier. So he did what teenagers do. He called home and made a little noise about packing up what he'd just unpacked and carrying it all back south.
But his family told him to give it another day. He did, and that day was much better. Some of his new Buckeyes teammates invited him to play basketball, and he had a pretty good time.
The next day brought more basketball and more smiles. Every flip of the calendar page brought another pickup game, another smile and another new friend. Among them was Ohio State's in-house leader, defensive end Chase Young, who threw his massive arms around the new guy and challenged him to be the leader on the offensive side of the ball, to be the guy all of his new teammates had seen flashes of on their TVs and read about back when they were all being recruited.
Eventually, the quarterback joined Young and the others for his first real workouts and film sessions. One by one, he won the Buckeyes over, even those who'd given him the cold shoulder in the QB meeting room. It all took place in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the building with the lobby packed with seven Heismans, eight national championship trophies, and too many NFL jerseys and headshots of NFL draft picks to count. In January, the residents of the Horseshoe were asking, "Who is this guy from Georgia?" Now they are wondering how many awards he might add to that collection.
Ironically enough, the whole article is about Fields making business decisions that aren't personal or emotional, but my biggest takeaway was that college football players are young human beings, not just players with overall ratings that you add to your roster in a video game.
Yeah, Ohio State added the highest-rated prospect in program history, but there's a human element there too that kinda just got glossed over in the excitement.
For example, while I was busy hyping Fields as an awesome Frankenstein monster of Terrelle Pryor, J.T. Barrett, Braxton Miller and Dwayne Haskins who was going to lead the Buckeyes to national titles (hell yeah I meant pluralize that), I'd never actually considered how lonely a January transfer would be for a player.
Yeah, incoming freshmen are new as well, but recruiting classes are built over years, and those players arrive with established relationships with each other, the coaches and most of the time even some older players. Fields had none of that.
The good news is, it sounds like his teammates brought him in quickly, and to be honest, I'm mighty jealous I didn't have Chase Young showing me around my first days on campus.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...keness-bill-justin-fields-adjustment-transfer
THE NEW GUY. It's easy to forget that just a few months ago, the kid currently putting up video game numbers and leading the Buckeyes to four blowout wins was just a scared kid who didn't know a soul on campus (besides the quarterback that he was replacing).
From Ryan McGee of ESPN:
It was January 2019. It was cold. He knew no one. His parents had dropped him off the day before and driven back home to Atlanta. He couldn't peek in on his social media accounts because his timelines were still freshly filled with a lot of unkind comments from fans of Georgia, the team he'd just left and the uniform he'd just worn at the Sugar Bowl a few days earlier. So he did what teenagers do. He called home and made a little noise about packing up what he'd just unpacked and carrying it all back south.
But his family told him to give it another day. He did, and that day was much better. Some of his new Buckeyes teammates invited him to play basketball, and he had a pretty good time.
The next day brought more basketball and more smiles. Every flip of the calendar page brought another pickup game, another smile and another new friend. Among them was Ohio State's in-house leader, defensive end Chase Young, who threw his massive arms around the new guy and challenged him to be the leader on the offensive side of the ball, to be the guy all of his new teammates had seen flashes of on their TVs and read about back when they were all being recruited.
Eventually, the quarterback joined Young and the others for his first real workouts and film sessions. One by one, he won the Buckeyes over, even those who'd given him the cold shoulder in the QB meeting room. It all took place in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the building with the lobby packed with seven Heismans, eight national championship trophies, and too many NFL jerseys and headshots of NFL draft picks to count. In January, the residents of the Horseshoe were asking, "Who is this guy from Georgia?" Now they are wondering how many awards he might add to that collection.
Ironically enough, the whole article is about Fields making business decisions that aren't personal or emotional, but my biggest takeaway was that college football players are young human beings, not just players with overall ratings that you add to your roster in a video game.
Yeah, Ohio State added the highest-rated prospect in program history, but there's a human element there too that kinda just got glossed over in the excitement.
For example, while I was busy hyping Fields as an awesome Frankenstein monster of Terrelle Pryor, J.T. Barrett, Braxton Miller and Dwayne Haskins who was going to lead the Buckeyes to national titles (hell yeah I meant pluralize that), I'd never actually considered how lonely a January transfer would be for a player.
Yeah, incoming freshmen are new as well, but recruiting classes are built over years, and those players arrive with established relationships with each other, the coaches and most of the time even some older players. Fields had none of that.
The good news is, it sounds like his teammates brought him in quickly, and to be honest, I'm mighty jealous I didn't have Chase Young showing me around my first days on campus.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...keness-bill-justin-fields-adjustment-transfer
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scarletngray
Gold Pants
Justin has really impressed thus far. I think his biggest weakness as a passer has been the bubble screen. I think he takes to big of a wind up before releasing the ball and this is a play that requires getting the ball out of your hand quickly. If you review our games that has been his Achilles heel. Other than that he is exceeding expectations and I expect another 4 to 5 TD performance on Saturday night.
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
300 passing
50 running
3 passing tds
1 running td
1 turnover
Hands the baton to 2nd team midway through 4th
50 running
3 passing tds
1 running td
1 turnover
Hands the baton to 2nd team midway through 4th
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