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Game Thread tOSU at Wisconsin, Sat. Oct. 18th, 3:30 pm ET, CBS

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Kinda feel like Day will take his foot off the pedal once there's some distance between the teams, if not to embarass Luke if nothing else. Believe his fate is sealed, and not in a good way, but still.....not really certain how you tell your 2's and 3's to run plunges into the line, rather than run fly routes in order to keep the score down. Re-worded, how do you tell the 2-3's not to do their best when they get their chance.
 
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brodybuck21 said:
FUCK BUCKY
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Wisconsin has not found its QB1​

The Badgers also really struggle to score the ball​

If they do anything well, it is defending the run​

If the Buckeyes score early, this one will be over fast​

Jump around is one of the best traditions in football​

 
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Buckeye86 said:
I think we should temper our expectations on the offense going into the game as they continue to do the same thing they’ve been doing all year on the road against a defense that is good enough to stop extremely predictable run plays out of 12 and 13 personnel.

My hope is that they're either practicing to hopefully get better in case they have to use it in a bad weather game later in the season, or they are setting up trends that they’re going to break later in the season. My worry is that they’re practicing doing the exact thing that has resulted in a loss at the end of November for four years in a row.
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I've always been nervous about the "they're saving it for later idea". I think there's more validity to it in the modern context (longer season, can afford a loss or two etc) but still, we've heard that a million times in the past 25 years and it never really turns out to be true.

Still taking down every opponent with relative ease so who am I to criticize really. I just hope they're done with the round holes/square pegs thing we've seen on the offensive side, specifically on Thanksgiving weekend. With our skill set on offense, there's no reason for 13 personnel as much as they use it. Like you, I hope it's part of a grander scheme.
 
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RhodeIslandBuck said:
I've always been nervous about the "they're saving it for later idea". I think there's more validity to it in the modern context (longer season, can afford a loss or two etc) but still, we've heard that a million times in the past 25 years and it never really turns out to be true.

Still taking down every opponent with relative ease so who am I to criticize really. I just hope they're done with the round holes/square pegs thing we've seen on the offensive side, specifically on Thanksgiving weekend. With our skill set on offense, there's no reason for 13 personnel as much as they use it. Like you, I hope it's part of a grander scheme.
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I agree that we’ve heard that story before… plenty of times. But I would suggest that even with last year’s team, they were working out issues with the run game throughout the season. That’s a LOT easier to do (read: cover up the ugly) while figuring things out with two first round running backs. It really wasn’t until the payoffs that they really figured out gap v. zone blocking schemes. Part of that, I think, was forced by the injury issues we had on the line. Ultimately, the end result was the same.

Net, net. I agree we’ve heard that story in the past… but given what we saw last year as well as what we’re hearing from the beat and the coaches, it does seem like they are taking the opportunity to use some of these games to work through areas for improvement. As you say, ‘taking down every opponent with relative ease…’ With the reduction in physicality in practices, there’s only so much you can really test without the potential for injury. I think this ‘relative ease’ is a luxury for a coach. I can say that I’ve been in both situations… and I’d offer that lacrosse is less reliant on the orchestration that is needed for football… but I absolutely used opponents we would beat with relative ease to work through things that are difficult to do in practice against your own guys.
 
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