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Tom Herman (Former Head Coach FAU Owls)

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I agree with everyone's assessment. We needed to line up and establish Hyde. He was getting good runs in a all day. I have no idea what was going on with the passing game, if someone has any good analysis on this please provide. Iirc the only passing that worked was the rollout game. Zach and Tom have work to do.
 
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Quick hitters to Devin Smith were there all day. We were also unlucky on one brilliant pass play earlier in the game when the sun got Stoney. There were some plays there guys just didnt make them. Seems like Herman got pretty conservative near the end knowing it was going to be a slugfest. Not running Hyde is the only real mistake. Let's hope he doesnt make it again.
 
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It seems alot of people are putting the blame on Herman for the poor performance against wisconsin. I have to think differently. The game
whisky played against Indiana was pretty impressive to me. They had
to keep that momentum up against the upcoming game against us. And it appeared that they were suceeding for awhile but we had some critical calls that were made at times that we really needed them. I felt we were moving
the ball well in the 1st quarter but when the sun got in stony's eyes ... well that was a huge play if he could have held on.

Maybe herman had the right calls and maybe Braxton could not see them. And even coach questioned his play calling along with Herman, in the presser on monday. So i believe we have to give herman the benefit of the doubt here and hope that the Michigan game can become his saving grace. I like the kid alot......... and who knows maybe we will not have him around, the way his name is being thrown around for future head coaching jobs coming up.
 
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Wham;2259217; said:
That was the worst 2-week prep job on offense. A couple of drives we were moving the ball very well on them and then he calls that empty backfield twice and nearly cost us the game. Defense should have been a lot more aggressive as well with a very unexperienced QB. Braxton has to learn that his attitude on the field affects the team a lot. He can't come in looking like he just woke up and have that I don't want to be here look on his face and expect great things to happen. I don't understand why he gets in that mode every now and then. He was lights out against PSU but not Wisconsin and during a couple of other games. He comes in OT, he has that fire in his eyes, game-over.
They made it through, so great job on the road, let's finish the job. The rise of Gardner (which Tressel passed up on?!) has been very impressive. The defense can not give him time or he will kill them.
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Pretty sure Gardner was never interested in Ohio State, and Tressel knew this.
 
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http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2012/11/devin_gardner_once_burned_an_o.html

ANN ARBOR -- Devin Gardner was once recruited by Urban Meyer to play football at Florida.
But he doesn't want to talk about that.
The Michigan junior was also offered a scholarship, once upon a time, by Ohio State. And several years later, Gardner says he cannot find that Jim Tressel-issued offer letter.
Because he burned it.
"Yes, I did (burn the letter)," Gardner admitted with a laugh Monday. "But I had already committed to the University of Michigan.
"And I was pretty bitter that they didn't offer me a scholarship."
Gardner says he's not sure what might have happened if Ohio State had offered him before he committed to Michigan, saying that, as a recruit, he took a look at every school that showed interest in him.
Current 2013 Michigan commit Logan Tuley-Tillman did the same thing this past summer when Urban Meyer sent him a letter tucked inside an Ohio State envelope. Tuley-Tillman broadcast his letter-burning episode on Twitter.
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So for those of you with greater football minds than mine, wasn't Wisky the first to use a safety to spy on Brax? Usually it's a LB who is going to be closer to the line?

That said, if they are bringing an extra safety up, the pass has to be a bit more available to us.

Either way, I hope that they spent some good time in the film room pointing out how to exploit the safety spy.

Looking forward to see how they come out this week attacking the holes in the defense should be able to create.
 
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Wisky dropped the safety down hard after the play to take away Braxton's presnap read. We've been used to linebackers spying, and have done a great job with pulling linemen and other lead blockers wiping them out and letting Brax get to the second level.

Dropping the safety post snap, IMO, confused our blocking assignments. Also made Braxton more tentative since the alley wasn't as clear as normal. Then Wisky did a great job forcing Braxton to stop his feet and then rally to the ball.

Still won though :)
 
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I think the issue was just not adjusting to the safety by running more flash screens and more direct runs with hyde (my takeaway from Ross Fulton's analysis on 11w). I think the two biggest issues were 1. Braxton not making the right reads. 2. Herman not realizing braxton was thouroughly confused and adjusting (simplifying?) accordingly.

Somehow it looked like everything got fixed in a few plays in overtime.
 
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OneBuckeye;2261714; said:
I think the issue was just not adjusting to the safety by running more flash screens and more direct runs with hyde (my takeaway from Ross Fulton's analysis on 11w). I think the two biggest issues were 1. Braxton not making the right reads. 2. Herman not realizing braxton was thouroughly confused and adjusting (simplifying?) accordingly.

Somehow it looked like everything got fixed in a few plays in overtime.
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Probably didn't want to give Wiscy time to adjust before OT. :p

Everyone knows that OT tears are much sweeter.
 
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exhawg;2261718; said:
Probably didn't want to give Wiscy time to adjust before OT. :p

Everyone knows that OT tears are much sweeter.
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I guess I shouldn't say everything got fixed in OT. Braxton's descision making was great on two plays as Ross describes below.


http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/11/16445/osu-v-wisconsin-offensive-breakdown


In the Nick of Time

Yet as they have at other times this fall, Miller & Co stepped up to make plays when needed, this time in overtime. Two plays allowed OSU to gain the necessary yardage for their game-winning touchdown. The first was an inverted veer read where Miller finally gave to Hyde. Interestingly here, OSU did not pull the backside guard as they generally do.

The second was a called pass play where Miller did what he refused to do all game—he made an immediate decision to aggressively scramble when his initial reads on the follow route were not there. Miller also attacked downfield with this run
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Urban said on his call in show today that he was responsible for the lack of output on offense at Wisconsin. The way they were using their safety dictated that they needed to throw the ball more. But since they spent most all of the second half in Wisconsin territory, he did not want to throw that ball and decided to put the game on the defense to win.
 
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