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Game Thread UCF Knights at tOSU - Sat, Sep 8, Noon ESPN2

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exhawg;2209902; said:
If Meyer has shown one difference between JT he is aggressive, for better or worse. It bit us a couple times today on the 4th down and taking the chop block penalty after a sack. Most people would take 7 yards and a down, but Meyer wanted to double down and try to get another sack. Unfortunately it ended with a long pass for a first down.
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I've spent the better part of the past 5-6 years on here wanting them to be more aggressive and just trust our talent so I loved the decisions.

What I didn't love was the DC then pulling the Heacock standard rush 3 drop 8 and give the QB enough time to find the inevitably wide open receiver. Aggressive decisions by the HC can't be implemented by butter soft conservative calls from the coordinators. Hopefully they all start to get on the same sheet of music in this regard.

LJB touched on it in another post but somehow it seems the last bastion of the old regime's uber conservatism has found it's way into the defensive coaches and that is truly a head scratcher.
 
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Cincinnatibuck;2210175; said:
13C was pretty loud. Watched the first half again this morning. Love Joey Galloway as a player, but scratching my head trying to figure why he would say the crowd wasn't loud because he could hear Braxton Miller clapping.
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Because the stadium should be loud when the Bucks are on offense too, duh. :wink: When I heard Galloway say that I just rolled my eyes then chalked it up to him being a rookie in the press box. He, just like the Bucks, have some serious work to do to get better... and I think both will over time.
 
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Cincinnatibuck;2210175; said:
13C was pretty loud. Watched the first half again this morning. Love Joey Galloway as a player, but scratching my head trying to figure why he would say the crowd wasn't loud because he could hear Braxton Miller clapping.
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Because ESPN told them to talk trash about the crowd noise as much as possible. They probably got a few extra $ on the paycheck every time they talked about it.

In Galloway's defense, he was correcting the female ESPN hack that was in the booth with him. She mentioned (for the tenth time in the quarter) that the crowd was pretty quiet. Galloway pointed out that the crowd is always pretty quiet when the home team is on offense because the team needs to hear the play calls and the QB's clap to start the play.

The ESPN powers that be must have talked to him during a timeout though because I think I do recall them talking about it again later in the game (for the twentieth time) and mentioning that it was so quiet they could hear the clapping.
 
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Buckeye86;2210185; said:
Because ESPN told them to talk trash about the crowd noise as much as possible. They probably got a few extra $ on the paycheck every time they talked about it.
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Guys, maybe it is just me....but during the first two games it seems our Middle Linebacker Curtis Grant has been really quiet. I haven't watched extensive tape it just appears that he is missing during the live broadcast...

Hopefully the guys on the board that coach for a living can shed some light on the subject....
 
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Wingate1217;2210202; said:
Guys, maybe it is just me....but during the first two games it seems our Middle Linebacker Curtis Grant has been really quiet. I haven't watched extensive tape it just appears that he is missing during the live broadcast...

Hopefully the guys on the board that coach for a living can shed some light on the subject....
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I'm not a coach, but the defense is running nickel a majority of the time with an extra DB on the field in place of Grant.
 
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Buckeye86;2210205; said:
I'm not a coach, but the defense is running nickel a majority of the time with an extra DB on the field in place of Grant.
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Yep, agreed. I guess I should have clarified be saying when "he is on the field." I tjust seems that our LB play as a unit is as stellar as OSU teams of yore. It could be that they are rally young (I believe 2 sophs and a senior) and are showing their inexperience wor we have been really spoiled by James L., Hawk, etc. etc.

I guess time will tell...
 
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Jaxbuck;2210168; said:
What I didn't love was the DC then pulling the Heacock standard rush 3 drop 8 and give the QB enough time to find the inevitably wide open receiver.
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I found this to be weird also, but I think the argument in favor of rushing only three is that if it is true that Miami was playing quick-pass, then a fourth rusher is wasted because, by definition, none of the rushers will get to the QB anyway. However, I am not sure I agree with all those assumptions.
 
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maximumblitz;2210302; said:
I found this to be weird also, but I think the argument in favor of rushing only three is that if it is true that Miami was playing quick-pass, then a fourth rusher is wasted because, by definition, none of the rushers will get to the QB anyway. However, I am not sure I agree with all those assumptions.
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It really annoyed me when the 4th rusher was 20 yards downfield trying to defend a pass he had no business covering. And if he is supposed to drop that far then why are the other two defenders in the area closer to him than they are to the receiver that caught the ball? No once, but twice on the same route.
 
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