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Game Thread Wisconsin at tOSU, Oct 29th, 8 pm ET, ESPN

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I haven't read all the way through each thread, so forgive me if I'm wrong.

But the OL doesn't seem to be getting enough love for the job they did. There were runs where Boom went untouched until a safety or cornerback tackled him. They were consistently getting to the second level sustaining blocks.
 
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buchtelgrad04;2025415; said:
I haven't read all the way through each thread, so forgive me if I'm wrong.

But the OL doesn't seem to be getting enough love for the job they did. There were runs where Boom went untouched until a safety or cornerback tackled him. They were consistently getting to the second level sustaining blocks.
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Agreed. The OL played great on Saturday night. They also did a great job against Illinois. This OL is starting to really impress.

:osu:
 
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buchtelgrad04;2025415; said:
I haven't read all the way through each thread, so forgive me if I'm wrong.

But the OL doesn't seem to be getting enough love for the job they did. There were runs where Boom went untouched until a safety or cornerback tackled him. They were consistently getting to the second level sustaining blocks.
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From Buckeye Battle Cry

I would be remiss if I didn?t mention the offensive line stepping up big time as well. The return of Mike Adams has been huge, and the front five of Adams, Norwell, Brewster, Mewhort, Shugarts may be the best group the Buckeyes have fielded in a long time.
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AMEN! They're starting to look like the dominators they usually are.

:oh:
 
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Taosman;2025358; said:
Technically, not a called "Hail Mary". But it was a scramble play "Hail Mary". So what's the difference? The effect was the same. And the team practiced a "Hail Mary" play on the Thursday before the game.
So it's a lot more than just coincidental. :biggrin:
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I was a bit distressed in the description of the Miller to Smith pass as a Hail Mary as well, but couldn't decide why the dissonance with the term.

Wikipedia offers this definition of a "Hail Mary pass" -- "a very long forward pass made in desperation, with only a small chance of success, especially at or near the end of a half."

Re. the Miller to Smith pass, two qualities would seem to meet the Wiki definition of "Hail Mary", and two would not.
 
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Pulled this from Matt McCoys twitter so think it's allowed

"Philly Brown admits last night Miller-to-Smith TD was improv: "They didn't give us a play. We were just out there running playground routes""

Crazy if true!
 
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kentuckbuck;2025533; said:
"Philly Brown admits last night Miller-to-Smith TD was improv: "They didn't give us a play. We were just out there running playground routes""

Crazy if true!
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Umm....unsettling if true, imo.

Surely, that had *some* play called. If said play 'broke down', I could see them improvising to some extent, but I'd be shocked if they sent in as the play call: "just make something up".
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;2025536; said:
Umm....unsettling if true, imo.

Surely, that had *some* play called. If said play 'broke down', I could see them improvising to some extent, but I'd be shocked if they sent in as the play call: "just make something up".
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unsettling on one hand; encouraging on the other: while miller is scampering right, he points to brown so that the safety releases from smith. that is a heady move by our freshman.
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;2025536; said:
Umm....unsettling if true, imo.

Surely, that had *some* play called. If said play 'broke down', I could see them improvising to some extent, but I'd be shocked if they sent in as the play call: "just make something up".
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god bless 160 character messages(or whatever twitter is allowed).

that wasn't the whole story. I think someone posted this earlier

http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/11/02/offense-winged-it-receiver-says.html

"We were scrambling... and they didn't give us a play or nothing," Brown said. "So we're out there just running playground routes. I think I ran a deep out or something like that. And Braxton said he pointed at me to get the safety to run over (so he could) throw it to Devin. So on his part, that was like a veteran move."
He didn't blame the coaches for the mix-up in those final frenzied seconds.
"I just think we were so, like, into the moment our emotions kind of took over and we weren't really listening to anybody," Brown said. "We were just trying to hustle. I think there was only one wideout, which was Devin, who got the real play."
But out of chaos came the play that put life back into OSU's season.
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kentuckbuck;2025533; said:
Pulled this from Matt McCoys twitter so think it's allowed

"Philly Brown admits last night Miller-to-Smith TD was improv: "They didn't give us a play. We were just out there running playground routes""

Crazy if true!
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the craziest part is that on the replay you can see that the triangle is on the left, yet he rolled right- AWAY from the pattern... i just don't understand our passing concepts sometimes... then again, if it was all improv, then i guess that makes sense...

i wondered earlier this year if we used any of the triangle concepts, and by that pattern it looks like we do. that's encouraging. now we need to work on getting the QB on the same side of the field as the receivers. :lol:

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someone diagram that play up and put it in the book!
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then again, if the only reason there was a triangle pattern was that the kids were making it up on the fly, that is highly discouraging.
at any rate, i agree! just make sure Brax rolls to the same side of the field as the pattern!
 
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