Game Thread tOSU at Sparty - Sep 29, 3:30 ET, ABC

[BayBuck]

Whew, turnover doesn't lead to points before the half, thank goodness.

 

[Merih]

Should be 17-3 at this moment. Make some adjustments and we smoke them in the second half

 

[ant80]

Where are the plays with Hyde and Hall in the same backfield?

 

[scarletngray]

Couple of quick impressions:

• Tackling is much better so far today, thank God.
• Why we continue to run this read option when sparty is blitzing so much is beyond me. At some point you have to go verticle and exploit that. Not sure what they're waiting for.
• I just do not understand how we continue to struggle a pass rush with that much talent on the DL?and against a very average line that lost their center.

Three step drops and screens will do that

 

[BayBuck]

They're also called... packagers.

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

Gotta give credit to our D. They are playing their best game thus far. The offense is killing us at the moment. I don't think it's the Sparty D doing it to us, it's more like self inflicted wounds.

 

[Bucknut24]

Where are the plays with Hyde and Hall in the same backfield?

well, considering Hall is injured....

 

[Bill Lucas]

Ugly half. I believe we have the better team. Coverage tighter and tackling is better today.

 

[scarletngray]

Where are the plays with Hyde and Hall in the same backfield?

2nd half?

 

[NFBuck]

Very pleased with the D so far today. Offense? Not so much. I know Sparty has, probably, the best D we'll see all year, but at some point you have to do something to exploit all the blitzing...

 

[buckeyes_rock]

Couple of quick impressions:

• Tackling is much better so far today, thank God.
• Why we continue to run this read option when sparty is blitzing so much is beyond me. At some point you have to go verticle and exploit that. Not sure what they're waiting for.
• I just do not understand how we continue to struggle a pass rush with that much talent on the DL?and against a very average line that lost their center.

Does Urban have no confidence in Braxton's ability to go vertical? Seems strange that we haven't seemed to adjust.

 

[utgrad73]

Blitz O Thon. Well that was expected

 

[Mariotwins]

2nd half?

Is hall coming back?

 

[NFBuck]

Does Urban have no confidence in Braxton's ability to go vertical? Seems strange that we haven't seemed to adjust.

Not sure, but hopefully we'll see some halftime adjustments.

 

[bukIpower]

MSU like urban said is blitzing non stop right now. I wish we could execute a bubble screen or just a regular screen for that matter because it'd probably be a big hitter.

Defense is playing great and I feel we're getting some good pressure on cousins as long as we rush 4 guys', we just have issues when we only send 3.

Offense had such a great start attacking the edges and now thats no longer there. Have to adjust and I believe we will, if we score another TD it'd be very tough to beat us with the way MSU is playing on offense.