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Game Thread tOSU at Wiscy, Nov 17th, 3:30 ABC

Seemed like Wisconsin was playing a lot of base defense, and I bet Herman was defaulting to certain calls based on spread principles to try and counter it. Two things should have dissuaded him from that:

1.) Miller had a bad game, he was indecisive even as a runner. He's of course a very important player and you have to give him ample chances (I think well into the 3rd quarter was warranted) to get his head on straight and play like he's capable. I think they undercorrected on him though, gave him too many chances to get on track rather than putting the game on another person's shoulders.

2.) Hyde was producing in his limited touches despite Wisconsin being in their base defense a lot.

Possible lesson? Even as a spread team it is important - nay, essential to have the ability and the will to line up and pound the ball against another team's defense when the situation calls for it.
 
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Were as I knew we would beat Purdue in OT because of momentum I did not have a positive outlook going into overtime in this game.

Just like that Braxton's odds of winning the Heisman are essentially shot. When it didn't have to be either.

1) had two weeks to prepare
2) they didn't have their best LB
3) we attempted 1 throw over 15 yards (averaged 5.6 yards comnpletion)
4) The power with Hyde was working and yet we ignored it
5) We thought that we could just run braxton around and he would make the offensive minds looks brilliant.

I can't say enough of how disappointed I am in the game plan having two weeks to prepare. One thing is becoming clearly evident though, we seriously have no WR's that can create space right now. Our WR's were covered tightly and to me that's concerning (thankfully help is on the way next year). Braxton had a lot of time to throw but just couldn't find anyone open and to me that just boils down to making plays out wide. In saying that though we haven't been good at that all year so why all the sudden avoid what we do well (power) and try and do something we can't do at this point (play east/west). We play like this next week on offense and our odds wont be that great.

I don't expect 50 points a game and 600+ yards of offense but what I do expect is for us to play to our strengths and not try and be something we're not. Especially this late in the year. Do not roll that game plan out again.

Edited for: /rant lol
 
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Bret, Cartman wants to lick your tears of pain!
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Oh, and our widereceivers totally disappeared in this game. Allowing Bucky to bring the safety down to help with Brax. Curiously, we never challenged their man defense? Was this by design with TSUN next week?
 
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Looked like their gameplan was to not let Braxton beat them with his legs no matter what, they were selling out pretty hard to keep him from getting outside, we should have been running up the A gap all night. This game really should not have been close.
 
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Taosman;2258640; said:
... our widereceivers totally disappeared in this game.
Completely agree. Utterly incompetent performance, by and large, by our receiving corps. They appeared not so much to run routes as to wander casually downfield.

BTW, the beer tonight was Oskar Blues brewery's Dale's Pale Ale. Yummy. :)
 
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MaxBuck;2258656; said:
Completely agree. Utterly incompetent performance, by and large, by our receiving corps. They appeared not so much to run routes as to wander casually downfield.

BTW, the beer tonight was Oskar Blues brewery's Dale's Pale Ale. Yummy. :)

One replay appeared to show them all running downfield to throw blocks on a called pass play. I dunno ...
 
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