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tOSU at Notre Dame, Sat. 9/23, 7:30pm EST, NBC

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I'm not a fan of this either. Instantly, once the ball is snapped, the play motion is moving the ball to a place where there are 4 defenders against 3 primary blockers, with a 5th guy coming into the picture (ND was in man to man so he was with the motion guy) and a 6th guy in the box.

And yeah, Gee Scott Jr is a TE now, but he's still a former WR...and he blocks like a WR instead of a TE. This play was never going to succeed.

Schematically, it puts Ohio State as an extreme disadvantage. The entire zone running game does something similar but usually it's not 6 on 3. There had to have been another option to run at that point.

 
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Mike80 said:
I'm not a fan of this either. Instantly, once the ball is snapped, the play motion is moving the ball to a place where there are 4 defenders against 3 primary blockers, with a 5th guy coming into the picture (ND was in man to man so he was with the motion guy) and a 6th guy in the box.

And yeah, Gee Scott Jr is a TE now, but he's still a former WR...and he blocks like a WR instead of a TE. This play was never going to succeed.

Schematically, it puts Ohio State as an extreme disadvantage. The entire zone running game does something similar but usually it's not 6 on 3. There had to have been another option to run at that point.

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My biggest issue is I count six strides after receiving the ball that he's moving either parallel or away from the marker. That is wasted motion and while you're wasting that motion, defenders are sealing off your path. It's a galactically stupid playcall.
 
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I never really noticed these guys because we don't play them much. But they're approaching Penn State bad. I mean, they're still blaming the officials as bad, and Penn State would be blaming the Big Ten leadership for "fixing" it. But now Notre Dame fans are saying that Trayanum was down before he crossed.

Delicious tears...

Not to make things worse, but..,,

I'm looking at some photos of the OSU TD with time expiring. The replay booth may have got it wrong. It looks like OSU RB's right knee was down BEFORE the ball crossed the plane of the goal line. Replay was looking at the left knee, but the right knee is what was down.
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By the way, in case you want to see a screenshot of the play, here's a video, and I screenshotted the moment his knee is down. His right knee, not his left knee. The ball is behind the lineman's foot, so you can't see it. But play with the video. Anyone should agree that, had it been called "down" on the field, the replay official should have reversed it to "touchdown."


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NFBuck said:
My biggest issue is I count six strides after receiving the ball that he's moving either parallel or away from the marker. That is wasted motion and while you're wasting that motion, defenders are sealing off your path. It's a galactically stupid playcall.
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When you watch, 55 downblocks and 70 pulls to the right. IT's entirely possible both of them were supposed to block right. That would make more sense schematically at least.

However, the penetration by the ND guy at that point took a play that was supposed to hit somewhere between the RT and TE to a bounce it out to the outside play....and it was strung out at that point.

But yes, galactically stupid as a playcall. McCord is a big boy, sneak that.
 
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Mike80 said:
When you watch, 55 downblocks and 70 pulls to the right. IT's entirely possible both of them were supposed to block right. That would make more sense schematically at least.

However, the penetration by the ND guy at that point took a play that was supposed to hit somewhere between the RT and TE to a bounce it out to the outside play....and it was strung out at that point.

But yes, galactically stupid as a playcall. McCord is a big boy, sneak that.
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2-3 yards, sure go horizontal with it.

But when so close, fall forward. If your OL loses that battle, there’s bigger issues at hand.
 
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After the first and goal incompletion there was plenty of time to run a man on the field if it was noticed immediately. Ohio state doesn't hurry up and slowly walks back to line up. As Ohio state looks to their sideline for the playcall with 25 seconds on the play clock, Marcus Freeman takes off his headset. The offense doesn't set until 15 seconds left on the play clock - I don't think I believe Freeman knew they were short a guy and his excuse was just cover for incompetence. It would be hilarious if a coach in the booth tried to let him know but he had taken off his headset already.
 
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calibuck said:
LJB, at the 4:13 clock, went to frig to refill my red. Wife said there was still time, but I wasn't so sure, given the fits and starts that was our O last night. She was correct, fortunately. When the cameras panned on tOSU sideline, always saw Day in the middle of the O players, maybe Hartline on the fringes, sometimes not. Wondered how Brian was gonna become a true OC, when it's clear he's not calling the plays. Soooo, seems he has the title in name only. Seems unclear (to me at least), how Day is going to hand the reins over to BH, as we we enter B10 part of the schedule. Can someone clear the fog away for me? Go Bucks! PS, for the idiots that are calling for Day's scalp (and job), who do you possibly believe tOSU could get that is a step up from Day?
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I full heartedly believe in firing Day the Offensive Coordinator playcaller.
We can even give QB Coach Day and Head Coach Day a raise, so his salary stays the same.

But the guy needs playcaller OC in the booth.
 
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I didn’t realize this but we only had 8 possessions.

So the offense really did a nice job I think.

Scored on 3 of the 8
Failed inside the 10 on 2 of the 8
Had two drives in ND territory killed by penalty

So we got the ball into ND territory on 7 of our 8 possessions and could’ve scored points on 5 of the 8 had we chosen to just take the points.

Against this kind of defense, to really only fail to move the ball 1 drive all game is really good. We were also 10/17 on third down as well. I think that’s too many third down attempts but still that’s a big improvement for our offense.

If we can just figure out what to do inside the 10 that’ll really propel this offense.
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
I didn’t realize this but we only had 8 possessions.

So the offense really did a nice job I think.

Scored on 3 of the 8
Failed inside the 10 on 2 of the 8
Had two drives in ND territory killed by penalty

So we got the ball into ND territory on 7 of our 8 possessions and could’ve scored points on 5 of the 8 had we chosen to just take the points.

Against this kind of defense, to really only fail to move the ball 1 drive all game is really good. We were also 10/17 on third down as well. I think that’s too many third down attempts but still that’s a big improvement for our offense.

If we can just figure out what to do inside the 10 that’ll really propel this offense.
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Evidently have the defense only play with 10 players.
 
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