WR Emeka Egbuka (All B1G, All-American)

[Bestbuck36]

That pass was freaking incredible. EE made several great plays tonight and he and CJ are building something special. He may have the year JSN had last year or something parallel to it with Marv and Jaxon getting the Wilson and Olave stats. At least, that would be a perfect scenario.

Still say he breaks a kick and soon

 

[Steve19]

Last year, I thought that Egbuka had incredible upside potential. I didn't see enough of him in this game to comment, but I still believe that.

 

[ScriptOhio]

He may have jersey #2 but he was the #1 WR last night.

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[MGMT]

You know the 90 yards is sweet but what is also forgotten in that stat line is he drew an important PI call

Stroud seems to be most comfortable with him among the new starters

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[RugbyBuck]

That punt return was brilliant. He’ll house several returns this year.

 

[Abenaki]

This is a weird play. Did Emeka and CJ make reads on the fly because the safety went with Stover? Why is he looking over his outside shoulder and why is the pass to his outside shoulder?

 

[ScriptOhio]

This is a weird play. Did Emeka and CJ make reads on the fly because the safety went with Stover? Why is he looking over his outside shoulder and why is the pass to his outside shoulder?

Good observation. I'll say probably. At the beginning it appears Emeka is doing a crossing route, he sees the DB blitzing, knows the LB (#10) can't keep up with him, and knows two other receivers are running routes down each sideline so the middle of the filed is open; so he takes off on the "fly pattern". Fortunately someone picked up the blitzing DB, CJ saw Emeka running straight down the field, and made a prefect throw. Makes you wonder how much they go over route options/reads like that in practice.

This is a weird play. Did Emeka and CJ make reads on the fly because the safety went with Stover? Why is he looking over his outside shoulder and why is the pass to his outside shoulder?

I'll say it is the easier side to make the catch. The ball is snapped close to the left hash mark, CJ is right handed, and and he's slanting slightly to the right. He'd have to turn more to catch it from the left side.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Good observation. I'll say probably. At the beginning it appears Emeka is doing a crossing route, he sees the DB blitzing, knows the LB (#10) can't keep up with him, and knows two other receivers are running routes down each sideline so the middle of the filed is open; so he takes off on the "fly pattern". Fortunately someone picked up the blitzing DB, CJ saw Emeka running straight down the field, and made a prefect throw. Makes you wonder how much they go over route options/reads like that in practice.



I'll say it is the easier side to make the catch. The ball is snapped close to the left hash mark, CJ is right handed, and and he's slanting slightly to the right. He'd have to turn more to catch it from the left side.

I saw this discussed somewhere on YouTube over the weekend. I noted the outside shoulder as well while watching.
The net, net was — and I think that this was based on post game interviews — it was a shallow route where they expected the safety to follow EE and when the safety didn’t, EE broke the route off because he knew he was free to pay dirt if CJ makes the pass.

I think that the outside shoulder was just a matter of CJ adjusting on the fly and being misplaced a bit… but EE was so wide open and the soft touch on the pass made it an easy adjustment.

 

[Abenaki]

I saw this discussed somewhere on YouTube over the weekend. I noted the outside shoulder as well while watching.
The net, net was — and I think that this was based on post game interviews — it was a shallow route where they expected the safety to follow EE and when the safety didn’t, EE broke the route off because he knew he was free to pay dirt if CJ makes the pass.

I think that the outside shoulder was just a matter of CJ adjusting on the fly and being misplaced a bit… but EE was so wide open and the soft touch on the pass made it an easy adjustment.

I listened to a few episodes of The Podcast after this post and Birm, Ward, Landis, and Zwick basically agreed with this.

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[mendensa]

That punt return was brilliant. He’ll house several returns this year.

Several? I'd take just one. It's been a hot minute since we've had one. Jalin Marshall, I believe? Hard to fathom it's been that long with as much talent that has come through OSU in recent years.

 

[RugbyBuck]

Yeah, for sure. It's much harder than it seems, as our lack of scoring demonstrates. This kid seems to have the combination of vision, lateral ability, and speed that it takes though.

 

[RB07OSU]

I listened to a few episodes of The Podcast after this post and Birm, Ward, Landis, and Zwick basically agreed with this.

Rewatching that play, I'm about positive that was going to be a flag route to the corner, but he saw the safety bail and adjusted (outside shoulder was the target for a reason). And Stroud was equally surprised, so he just put out a catchable ball to let Emeka do the rest. Really an amazing play by both guys there, great recognition.