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well what the fuck are they going to do, take away one his his 3 carries after the first quarter next week?
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Here's some of those "damning stats" you are referring to:
The Buckeyes gained just 132 yards in their loss to the Spartans, and ran only 45 plays, both the lowest totals of the Urban Meyer era.
JT Barrett......15 carries for 44 yards (2.9 yard average)
Ezekiel Elliot.....12 carries for 33 yards (2.8 yard average)
Braxton Miller....2 caries for 9 yards (4.5 yard average)
If some of Barrett's carries were "zone read options"; potentially Zeke might have had a few more carries. Regardless whatever they were calling it wasn't working and they should have tried something else (you will notice that my hindsight is 20/20 here).
Tongue in cheek comment: I can look at Ohio State's depth chart for running backs and name several players who would be totally elated to get 3 carries per quarter.
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scarletngray
Gold Pants
Literally mind blowing. And why didn't Urban demand that they run Zeke? How many QB draws did they call?
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alexhortdog95
Eye to the future, honoring the past
How many balls were thrown deep?
Know who else played off of them?
This same team consistently left Westerkamp with double coverage. He consistently beat double coverage all night long.
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Mac
That's a pain in the buns
IMO, there's 0 excuses for why we didn't throw the ball.
If they were taking away the deep ball, then you nickel and dime them down the freaking field. It happens to us all the time. Short routes getting 5-15 yards.
We didn't even try those.
Then when teams start committing to the short stuff, you open it up a bit more
No instead, we ran Barret almost every down for a whopping what, 60 total yards the 2nd half?
If they were taking away the deep ball, then you nickel and dime them down the freaking field. It happens to us all the time. Short routes getting 5-15 yards.
We didn't even try those.
Then when teams start committing to the short stuff, you open it up a bit more
No instead, we ran Barret almost every down for a whopping what, 60 total yards the 2nd half?
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alexhortdog95
Eye to the future, honoring the past
Now, that being said, I took a look at some of the highlights from you guys' game.
Dantonio told his D coordinator not to even play pass on D. He said, STOP THE RUN.
And it was simple.
Here's example 1:
The play call was an inside screen to Marshall. He ran about 12 yards for a first. I'm okay with this call, but they were double covering receivers all night long.
Dantonio told his D coordinator not to even play pass on D. He said, STOP THE RUN.
And it was simple.
Here's example 1:
The play call was an inside screen to Marshall. He ran about 12 yards for a first. I'm okay with this call, but they were double covering receivers all night long.
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alexhortdog95
Eye to the future, honoring the past
Next play I watched:
Zeke ran for like a 6 yard gain on this one. Good carry.
Then, the rain/snow started and Beck went full retard...
Zeke ran for like a 6 yard gain on this one. Good carry.
Then, the rain/snow started and Beck went full retard...
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Big problem I keep hearing is "they took it away." Well, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Run a play to exploit the look they're giving. Better yet, quit being so fucking passive, attack them and make them react. It seems too much this season they're letting other teams dictate what they do rather than the other way around.
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alexhortdog95
Eye to the future, honoring the past
Glad you said that, Jib....
Next play I noticed (note the yards per carry I circled):
And note the coverages. Yeah, they were playing off a lot. How do you fix that? How about running receiver screens? That's a staple of the Urban Meyer offense....
What did they run on this play? They roll JT (a right handed thrower) to his LEFT. He starts to roll to his left, and gets sacked on the play.
IT'S BASICALLY A ONE MAN ROUTE...
The other two receivers are basically out of the play.
Staple of the Beck-O...
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Way to many 3 and outs this year, especially the first series of the game. I cringe every time we receive on the opening kick because I know it will be a wasted series with little chance of getting points.
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alexhortdog95
Eye to the future, honoring the past
On the play I indicated above, a block was not sustained by the outside puller.
Zeke was stuck looking back watching his QB get sacked.
They never played the pass.
Zeke was stuck looking back watching his QB get sacked.
They never played the pass.
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To be fair, they rolled him to his left as an adjustment to RT Chase Farris getting destroyed the previous week by Illinois.
Would probably also help to explain why we didn't see much in the was of passes to the TE or Elliott. I don't recall specifically, but I bet they were asked to stay in and help Farris on the few pass plays that were attempted.
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