maximumblitz
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All I heard after the game was people calling for EZ's head, wanting him to be benched for low ypc. Good to know what actually happened.
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All I heard after the game was people calling for EZ's head, wanting him to be benched for low ypc. Good to know what actually happened.
Poe McKnoe
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I think both are fair. He's got to keep his feet under him, but he did destroy a LB on critical first down.
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Most of the time the difference between a 1 yard gain and a 5 yard gain is the blocking - not the ball carrier.
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It was in the game plan but Heuermann neglected to tell Barrett that he had changed his number. (On the interception you can read JT's lips saying "Where the F is my tight end?")
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God, I read about the number changes, but my brain was not computing any of them on Saturday.
Gotta get in mid-season form.
Gotta get in mid-season form.
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Poe McKnoe
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My thoughts from being at the game, and now reinforced from watching the broadcast:
The offense:
From the seats, it looked like there were Navy players anywhere Ohio State wanted to go. That speaks to their study of Ohio State's offense and Ohio State's offense not doing anything Navy wasn't expecting. From the replay, there were definitely creases that OSU's speed guys should be able to exploit as the season goes on. Numerous times, big plays were shut down by a missed block from the O-line, a WR, or a TE (um, what was Heuerman doing on that first screen to D. Smith). All players need to go back and remember it's not 3 seconds of intensity, it's 6+ seconds of intensity. I'm still wondering if Tom Herman and Zach Smith knows how to get receivers in space; this is never going to be Texas A&M or Baylor, but there needs to be more production.
Offensive players:
Dontre Wilson got the choppiness out of his stride and looks like he's gained the weight to be a bigger threat.
Jalin Marshall looks solid and will hopefully re-learn how to break tackles and make people miss.
JT Barrett looks like he got the easy playbook to play with. He made good reads, missed some easy outlet passes, but was effective and should continue to be. I think it's hard to gauge based on the plays called, but he throws an accurate ball. He definitely throws a soft ball, as opposed to B. Miller's rocket passes, which helps in the intermediate but hurts down the field. His numbers looked good, but were inflated by the touch passes on sweeps.
Offensive line, I won't expand on but agree with Urban.
WRs: who knows. Their era has yet to begin, but they need to block better to spring the other WRs and the ball carriers.
The defense:
Navy looked good. Really good. They looked quick. They weren't scared by Ohio State's size and speed. Their offense is hard to watch from the stands, the TV screen, and likely 1000x harder from field. Navy's first touchdown would have been overturned if there was a camera on the Buckeyes' side of the stadium. The TV angle was bad, but the Navy player was down before knocking over the pylon. Better tackling would have eliminated 150 yards from the box score; so it wasn't magically rectified by the hiring of Ash. Navy didn't even attempt to be balanced, nor should that have been expected. OSU knew what Navy was going to do, have prepared for a month, and still couldn't figure out how to get off blocks, get leverage, and cover the pitch. This team needs to realize that someone else isn't going to tackle for them. They all need to get to the ball. There were long, sustained drives that gave some fans nightmares of last season. The play was much like my golf game, great shots followed by poor shoots. They need to string together more good plays. That said:
Defensive players:
Vonn Bell can tackle. It sounds stupid, but if the team tackled like Vonn, the game would have been a walk.
Curtis Grant played well, Darron Lee players well when he was getting of blocks, and Josh Perry didn't do well against the triple option. He was continuously NEAR the play, but couldn't wrap up or didn't realize who had the ball. Did have a few big hits.
Tyvis Powell would is probably happy when he doesn't have to provide run support.
Virginia Tech will be a better test of where this team is.
The offense:
From the seats, it looked like there were Navy players anywhere Ohio State wanted to go. That speaks to their study of Ohio State's offense and Ohio State's offense not doing anything Navy wasn't expecting. From the replay, there were definitely creases that OSU's speed guys should be able to exploit as the season goes on. Numerous times, big plays were shut down by a missed block from the O-line, a WR, or a TE (um, what was Heuerman doing on that first screen to D. Smith). All players need to go back and remember it's not 3 seconds of intensity, it's 6+ seconds of intensity. I'm still wondering if Tom Herman and Zach Smith knows how to get receivers in space; this is never going to be Texas A&M or Baylor, but there needs to be more production.
Offensive players:
Dontre Wilson got the choppiness out of his stride and looks like he's gained the weight to be a bigger threat.
Jalin Marshall looks solid and will hopefully re-learn how to break tackles and make people miss.
JT Barrett looks like he got the easy playbook to play with. He made good reads, missed some easy outlet passes, but was effective and should continue to be. I think it's hard to gauge based on the plays called, but he throws an accurate ball. He definitely throws a soft ball, as opposed to B. Miller's rocket passes, which helps in the intermediate but hurts down the field. His numbers looked good, but were inflated by the touch passes on sweeps.
Offensive line, I won't expand on but agree with Urban.
WRs: who knows. Their era has yet to begin, but they need to block better to spring the other WRs and the ball carriers.
The defense:
Navy looked good. Really good. They looked quick. They weren't scared by Ohio State's size and speed. Their offense is hard to watch from the stands, the TV screen, and likely 1000x harder from field. Navy's first touchdown would have been overturned if there was a camera on the Buckeyes' side of the stadium. The TV angle was bad, but the Navy player was down before knocking over the pylon. Better tackling would have eliminated 150 yards from the box score; so it wasn't magically rectified by the hiring of Ash. Navy didn't even attempt to be balanced, nor should that have been expected. OSU knew what Navy was going to do, have prepared for a month, and still couldn't figure out how to get off blocks, get leverage, and cover the pitch. This team needs to realize that someone else isn't going to tackle for them. They all need to get to the ball. There were long, sustained drives that gave some fans nightmares of last season. The play was much like my golf game, great shots followed by poor shoots. They need to string together more good plays. That said:
Defensive players:
Vonn Bell can tackle. It sounds stupid, but if the team tackled like Vonn, the game would have been a walk.
Curtis Grant played well, Darron Lee players well when he was getting of blocks, and Josh Perry didn't do well against the triple option. He was continuously NEAR the play, but couldn't wrap up or didn't realize who had the ball. Did have a few big hits.
Tyvis Powell would is probably happy when he doesn't have to provide run support.
Virginia Tech will be a better test of where this team is.
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Poe McKnoe
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I'd argue that that's precisely what I described in my post. A few tackles in there would have reduced the # of plays the defense was in for.
Overall, I thought they looked much better on TV than in person. Maybe I started to believe the loud, negative guy in section 140.
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