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Rumblin’, Stumblin’, Bumblin’: Slobs, JT Running too much and B1G Big Four and Little Ten
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was an awesome flick and not at all the motivation for this weekly feature, but a certain someone who used a similar phrase during football highlights led me to it with just a little variation on it. I expanded it by defining it in the way the movie introduces the characters and the staff jumps in with their two-bits. Let’s get rolling with the very good.
Rumblin’
Tweet from @OhioStateFB prior to the Indiana game.
It all starts up front.
No one better than the #Slobs. pic.twitter.com/ytMFBn4NT9
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 3, 2016
It was almost difficult to come up with something very good this week until I began to reflect on what the slobs have been accomplishing. Two returning starters on a line that includes a true freshman and two others with very little experience. They were a pretty sizable question mark heading into the season. The race for biggest surprise is between them and the secondary.
Pat Elflein and Billy Price are great leaders for the team and their positions have been important to the development of a stout running game and protection for JT Barrett when he isn’t running the ball. Here it is in the stats; 1655 total yards for a 323.6 per game average and 6.4 yards per carry. Those numbers are mind boggling with such a young line and they aren’t doing it with smoke and mirrors, they’re mauling their opponents.
There performance on Saturday against a pretty good Indiana defense that was stunting, rotating, blitzing and doing just about anything they could to slow the run game down was my favorite of the season so far for the slobs.
Let’s see what the staff has to say about the Rumblin’
Scott – Ohio State’s running game. Nearly 300 yards against what’s supposed to be an improved defense.
JC – The “D”. There was a few knocks & bruises on Saturday. But they stepped up when they had to. This unit is top notch & this past week was no different.
Mike Meals – The Silver Bullets. They did a great job shutting down the IU rushing attack, as Brandon talks about below. But the “bend don’t break” style of play has been big so far. The stop early in the game when IU had 1st and Goal around the 6 is a great example. To hold them to a field goal there was a huge win. But also, they were the side of the ball that was actually alive saturday. You all saw what happened when Kwon started calling for crowd noise, the Shoe responded. The defense won that game for OSU.
Ben – The Buckeye defense has been nothing but great all season. Sure we took a few lumps on Saturday with poorly covered touchdown passes, but we still have not allowed a rushing touchdown on the season, and we are holding teams to little to nothing per rush. The defensive line rotation is playing out well, and the linebackers with Baker, McMillan and Worley are playing at the same level as last year’s stars Darron Lee and Joshua Perry. Add in the ball hawking secondary and the defense is the reason the Buckeyes are where they are at right now.
Brandon – The Ohio State front seven. As worried as everyone was after Tulsa where they just pounded the ball at the gut of the defense, the defensive line/linebackers have became a dominant force against the run. Indiana rushed the ball 40 times and could only manage 99 yards. Additionally, they still have not given up a rushing touchdown. This bodes well for the Buckeyes as the Badgers and their noodle-arm QB host the Buckeyes on Saturday night.
Stumblin’
"I'm all about winning."
He's already one of the greatest QBs to wear the scarlet & gray, but @JT_theQB4th's journey is far from finished. pic.twitter.com/j6zonF4xRs
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 4, 2016
Is it just me or is the offense just playing possum? I get this sneaking suspicion that Urban Meyer and staff have an ultimate game plan for that team up north and the best way to do that is appear as though the passing game is struggling. I for one am not a believer that JT Barrett is struggling to find receivers but do believe Harbaugh is a sucker.
Saturday was the worst passing game since, well . . , last season. Although those were truly WR issues it seemed, they flipped a switch after JT took over. There’s no way the most prolific passing QB in Ohio State football history is having a hard time finding receivers open, not with the route runners they currently have.
What I find troubling in the play calling and a bit of a stumble here is how many more carries JT had than Mike Weber Jr. and Curtis Samuel. In my opinion, possum or not, JT should never have more touches than those two let alone more than them combined! Urban Meyer immediately acknowledged the 25 carries he had during the last game. Maybe they know something about Joe Burrow that allows them to relax about JT getting hurt? Time will tell and hopefully he won’t have near as many carries this Saturday.
Let’s see what the staff has to say about the Stumblin’
Scott – J.T. Barrett. He was off more than a tad against Indiana. Fortunately the coaches took the bal away from him and focused on the run.
JC – The offense. Everyone’s game was a bit shy of normal. But here I blame the coaching and call playing. So I have to nail Warriner & Beck on the whole issue.
Mike Meals – Everyone associated with the offensive side of the ball. JT had a bad, if not terrible passing game. C. Samuel was taken out of the game plan and kept to about 10 touches. Weber had trouble starting. The coaching staff pulling a Penn State/Michigan State repeat from the last 2 years and going into shut down mode. Wisconsin will see what the Buckeyes can do, they can watch tape from BG, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rutgers. This isn’t a case of playing down on tape, it was bad management and execution.
Ben – I am tired of harping on it, but the wide receiver play is terrible. Indiana made our receiving core basically non-existent and in reality it has been that way all season. Sure J.T. has had some good passing games (thanks Curtis Samuel and Dontre Wilson), but outside of Noah Brown’s 4 TD game against Oklahoma what really have we done? The Buckeyes can’t afford to wait until next season and hope that Trevon Grimes and Tyjon Lindsey can come in a resurrect the passing game.
Brandon – The offensive play calling. Yes, Barrett was off early but so was Weber and the whole offensive line. You really can’t just ignore the entire passing game for 75% of the game and expect to win against a good team. Yes they won on Saturday but Indiana is not good…I don’t care how much we try to tell ourselves they are to feel better about the performance. This is the same Indiana team that struggled with Ball State and lost to Wake Forest. If it was the second half and Ohio State was still struggling, then by all means go to the ground game…but you can’t just give up on passing all-together early in the second quarter. This very good Hoosier defense is the same people who gave up 263 yards and three touchdowns the week prior to Tyler O’Connor through the air. You do “what you need to do to win” against Michigan…not Indiana. Don’t play scared.
Bumblin’
ICYMI: The @bigten is pretty good. pic.twitter.com/IaoDCIGf4S
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 11, 2016
I am not and never will be a conference thumping fan, I am about one team winning it all and that’s it. If you want to know the honest truth, Nebraska is the only other team in the top 10 from the B1G that I even like. I could debate with you all day why I am not a conference homer but it would be a waste of debate because I will never change my mind.
What I do proclaim to be disgusted with is how weak the conference is in spite of the four teams in the top 10. The next team receiving any attention is Iowa with three votes in the AP poll. So, for now it’s the big four and the little ten i suppose and that doesn’t necessarily hurt the Buckeyes or any of the other three because they control their own destiny’s.
Brandon makes my point and a great one below. If the conference is trying really hard to bring along Maryland and Indiana as crown jewels of the conference and turn it into the big six? We are in trouble! I will say this about the conference the Buckeyes play in, the teams on the schedule will always bring their best(save for Rutgers) and try and upset the Buckeyes.
Let’s see what the staff has to say about the Bumblin’
Scott – Sparty. Nuff said.
JC – Probably Chris Ash. Things were looking somewhat “better” in Piscataway – but not after two (2) games equalling 136-0 … and on the wrong side of the ledger for him. But I still want to say TTUN. I cannot wait until Harbaugh has his “public” meltdown and all the roadkill connoisseurs of the arm-pit of our great nation realizes they made a horrible mistake.
Mike Meals – Rutgers, who spent the entire off season trying to act like they were now Big Boys in the B1G, etc. etc. If you want to be special, you have to come and bring it. Rutgers definitely left if it in the locker room (if they ever had it to begin with). I know it takes time, and Ash will get them respectable by Rutgers standards, but they are not American Athletic Conference good right now, let alone the B1G
Ben – Chris Ash probably wishes he stayed at Ohio State after these past two weeks. Outscored 136-0 against OSU and Michigan and registering only two first downs last week? Yikes. The rebuilding job he has ahead of him is much steeper than even I imagined. Gonna be tough to get kids to buy into the program when you are losing like that. Hopefully he can get things moving in the right direction, as I have a ton of respect for anyone willing to go coach Rutgers.
Brandon – Honestly, the B1G. Outside of OSU, UM, Wisconsin, and Nebraska…the rest of the B1G looks like a complete mess. Penn State is looking a lot better lately but every other team is struggling pretty bad. When we as a conference are hanging our hats on Maryland and Indiana as good teams, completely ignoring the crap teams that gave them their inflated record, there are major issues in the conference.
The post Rumblin’, Stumblin’, Bumblin’: Slobs, JT Running too much and B1G Big Four and Little Ten appeared first on The Buckeye Battle Cry: Ohio State News and Commentary.
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WVaBuckeye via our good friends at Buckeye Battle Cry
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was an awesome flick and not at all the motivation for this weekly feature, but a certain someone who used a similar phrase during football highlights led me to it with just a little variation on it. I expanded it by defining it in the way the movie introduces the characters and the staff jumps in with their two-bits. Let’s get rolling with the very good.
Rumblin’
Tweet from @OhioStateFB prior to the Indiana game.
It all starts up front.
No one better than the #Slobs. pic.twitter.com/ytMFBn4NT9
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 3, 2016
It was almost difficult to come up with something very good this week until I began to reflect on what the slobs have been accomplishing. Two returning starters on a line that includes a true freshman and two others with very little experience. They were a pretty sizable question mark heading into the season. The race for biggest surprise is between them and the secondary.
Pat Elflein and Billy Price are great leaders for the team and their positions have been important to the development of a stout running game and protection for JT Barrett when he isn’t running the ball. Here it is in the stats; 1655 total yards for a 323.6 per game average and 6.4 yards per carry. Those numbers are mind boggling with such a young line and they aren’t doing it with smoke and mirrors, they’re mauling their opponents.
There performance on Saturday against a pretty good Indiana defense that was stunting, rotating, blitzing and doing just about anything they could to slow the run game down was my favorite of the season so far for the slobs.
Let’s see what the staff has to say about the Rumblin’
Scott – Ohio State’s running game. Nearly 300 yards against what’s supposed to be an improved defense.
JC – The “D”. There was a few knocks & bruises on Saturday. But they stepped up when they had to. This unit is top notch & this past week was no different.
Mike Meals – The Silver Bullets. They did a great job shutting down the IU rushing attack, as Brandon talks about below. But the “bend don’t break” style of play has been big so far. The stop early in the game when IU had 1st and Goal around the 6 is a great example. To hold them to a field goal there was a huge win. But also, they were the side of the ball that was actually alive saturday. You all saw what happened when Kwon started calling for crowd noise, the Shoe responded. The defense won that game for OSU.
Ben – The Buckeye defense has been nothing but great all season. Sure we took a few lumps on Saturday with poorly covered touchdown passes, but we still have not allowed a rushing touchdown on the season, and we are holding teams to little to nothing per rush. The defensive line rotation is playing out well, and the linebackers with Baker, McMillan and Worley are playing at the same level as last year’s stars Darron Lee and Joshua Perry. Add in the ball hawking secondary and the defense is the reason the Buckeyes are where they are at right now.
Brandon – The Ohio State front seven. As worried as everyone was after Tulsa where they just pounded the ball at the gut of the defense, the defensive line/linebackers have became a dominant force against the run. Indiana rushed the ball 40 times and could only manage 99 yards. Additionally, they still have not given up a rushing touchdown. This bodes well for the Buckeyes as the Badgers and their noodle-arm QB host the Buckeyes on Saturday night.
Stumblin’
"I'm all about winning."
He's already one of the greatest QBs to wear the scarlet & gray, but @JT_theQB4th's journey is far from finished. pic.twitter.com/j6zonF4xRs
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 4, 2016
Is it just me or is the offense just playing possum? I get this sneaking suspicion that Urban Meyer and staff have an ultimate game plan for that team up north and the best way to do that is appear as though the passing game is struggling. I for one am not a believer that JT Barrett is struggling to find receivers but do believe Harbaugh is a sucker.
Saturday was the worst passing game since, well . . , last season. Although those were truly WR issues it seemed, they flipped a switch after JT took over. There’s no way the most prolific passing QB in Ohio State football history is having a hard time finding receivers open, not with the route runners they currently have.
What I find troubling in the play calling and a bit of a stumble here is how many more carries JT had than Mike Weber Jr. and Curtis Samuel. In my opinion, possum or not, JT should never have more touches than those two let alone more than them combined! Urban Meyer immediately acknowledged the 25 carries he had during the last game. Maybe they know something about Joe Burrow that allows them to relax about JT getting hurt? Time will tell and hopefully he won’t have near as many carries this Saturday.
Let’s see what the staff has to say about the Stumblin’
Scott – J.T. Barrett. He was off more than a tad against Indiana. Fortunately the coaches took the bal away from him and focused on the run.
JC – The offense. Everyone’s game was a bit shy of normal. But here I blame the coaching and call playing. So I have to nail Warriner & Beck on the whole issue.
Mike Meals – Everyone associated with the offensive side of the ball. JT had a bad, if not terrible passing game. C. Samuel was taken out of the game plan and kept to about 10 touches. Weber had trouble starting. The coaching staff pulling a Penn State/Michigan State repeat from the last 2 years and going into shut down mode. Wisconsin will see what the Buckeyes can do, they can watch tape from BG, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rutgers. This isn’t a case of playing down on tape, it was bad management and execution.
Ben – I am tired of harping on it, but the wide receiver play is terrible. Indiana made our receiving core basically non-existent and in reality it has been that way all season. Sure J.T. has had some good passing games (thanks Curtis Samuel and Dontre Wilson), but outside of Noah Brown’s 4 TD game against Oklahoma what really have we done? The Buckeyes can’t afford to wait until next season and hope that Trevon Grimes and Tyjon Lindsey can come in a resurrect the passing game.
Brandon – The offensive play calling. Yes, Barrett was off early but so was Weber and the whole offensive line. You really can’t just ignore the entire passing game for 75% of the game and expect to win against a good team. Yes they won on Saturday but Indiana is not good…I don’t care how much we try to tell ourselves they are to feel better about the performance. This is the same Indiana team that struggled with Ball State and lost to Wake Forest. If it was the second half and Ohio State was still struggling, then by all means go to the ground game…but you can’t just give up on passing all-together early in the second quarter. This very good Hoosier defense is the same people who gave up 263 yards and three touchdowns the week prior to Tyler O’Connor through the air. You do “what you need to do to win” against Michigan…not Indiana. Don’t play scared.
Bumblin’
ICYMI: The @bigten is pretty good. pic.twitter.com/IaoDCIGf4S
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 11, 2016
I am not and never will be a conference thumping fan, I am about one team winning it all and that’s it. If you want to know the honest truth, Nebraska is the only other team in the top 10 from the B1G that I even like. I could debate with you all day why I am not a conference homer but it would be a waste of debate because I will never change my mind.
What I do proclaim to be disgusted with is how weak the conference is in spite of the four teams in the top 10. The next team receiving any attention is Iowa with three votes in the AP poll. So, for now it’s the big four and the little ten i suppose and that doesn’t necessarily hurt the Buckeyes or any of the other three because they control their own destiny’s.
Brandon makes my point and a great one below. If the conference is trying really hard to bring along Maryland and Indiana as crown jewels of the conference and turn it into the big six? We are in trouble! I will say this about the conference the Buckeyes play in, the teams on the schedule will always bring their best(save for Rutgers) and try and upset the Buckeyes.
Let’s see what the staff has to say about the Bumblin’
Scott – Sparty. Nuff said.
JC – Probably Chris Ash. Things were looking somewhat “better” in Piscataway – but not after two (2) games equalling 136-0 … and on the wrong side of the ledger for him. But I still want to say TTUN. I cannot wait until Harbaugh has his “public” meltdown and all the roadkill connoisseurs of the arm-pit of our great nation realizes they made a horrible mistake.
Mike Meals – Rutgers, who spent the entire off season trying to act like they were now Big Boys in the B1G, etc. etc. If you want to be special, you have to come and bring it. Rutgers definitely left if it in the locker room (if they ever had it to begin with). I know it takes time, and Ash will get them respectable by Rutgers standards, but they are not American Athletic Conference good right now, let alone the B1G
Ben – Chris Ash probably wishes he stayed at Ohio State after these past two weeks. Outscored 136-0 against OSU and Michigan and registering only two first downs last week? Yikes. The rebuilding job he has ahead of him is much steeper than even I imagined. Gonna be tough to get kids to buy into the program when you are losing like that. Hopefully he can get things moving in the right direction, as I have a ton of respect for anyone willing to go coach Rutgers.
Brandon – Honestly, the B1G. Outside of OSU, UM, Wisconsin, and Nebraska…the rest of the B1G looks like a complete mess. Penn State is looking a lot better lately but every other team is struggling pretty bad. When we as a conference are hanging our hats on Maryland and Indiana as good teams, completely ignoring the crap teams that gave them their inflated record, there are major issues in the conference.
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