GAME Hey OSU.

Red_Alert said:
Why did OSU look so bad?

Because it was a 'trap game'.

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Also, they refuse to stick with what's working on offense. If the run game is working well, the attempts get limited bc we have to have a balanced offense, yesterday, the run game was NOT working, yet Ohio State ran the ball 26 times compared to 16 attempts passing when Howard was 13/16 for 221 yards 3 TDs and 1 pick.

This seems to be a common theme in games. Ohio State refuses to lean on the side of the offense that is working. I understand you can't pass or run every time, but you can definitely go heavier one way or the other
 
fishinabarrel said:
Also, they refuse to stick with what's working on offense. If the run game is working well, the attempts get limited bc we have to have a balanced offense, yesterday, the run game was NOT working, yet Ohio State ran the ball 26 times compared to 16 attempts passing when Howard was 13/16 for 221 yards 3 TDs and 1 pick.

This seems to be a common theme in games. Ohio State refuses to lean on the side of the offense that is working. I understand you can't pass or run every time, but you can definitely go heavier one way or the other
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Yeah, I couldn't figure out why they didn't throw it more. Day has some type of obsession with wanting to portray a physical team, when he's got NFL WR's all over the field. How many times were they stopped on 3rd and 4th down situations with less than a couple yards to get? Seems like that happens quite often.
 
fishinabarrel said:
Also, they refuse to stick with what's working on offense. If the run game is working well, the attempts get limited bc we have to have a balanced offense, yesterday, the run game was NOT working, yet Ohio State ran the ball 26 times compared to 16 attempts passing when Howard was 13/16 for 221 yards 3 TDs and 1 pick.

This seems to be a common theme in games. Ohio State refuses to lean on the side of the offense that is working. I understand you can't pass or run every time, but you can definitely go heavier one way or the other
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I also think the bye week was detrimental to OSU. People think it gives a team more time to address issues, get healthy, prepare for your next opponent, etc.
IMO the two week downtime can also make players complacent. i.e. Two weeks of Xbox, Little Caesars 'Hot & Ready', and Susy Rottencrotch.

Before the Indiana game I pointed out on the Husker forum that Nebraska is just 33% following a bye week in the last 10 years.

To be fair, Indiana was also coming off a bye week. However, it appears Cignetti was better at keeping his players focused. 56-7 better.
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, I couldn't figure out why they didn't throw it more. Day has some type of obsession with wanting to portray a physical team, when he's got NFL WR's all over the field. How many times were they stopped on 3rd and 4th down situations with less than a couple yards to get? Seems like that happens quite often.
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But it's maddening bc sometimes they are running the ball well and they will get away from it to balance the offense
 
Red_Alert said:
I also think the bye week was detrimental to OSU. People think it gives a team more time to address issues, get healthy, prepare for your next opponent, etc.
IMO the two week downtime can also make players complacent. i.e. Two weeks of Xbox, Little Caesars 'Hot & Ready', and Susy Rottencrotch.

Before the Indiana game I pointed out on the Husker thread that Nebraska is just 33% following a bye week in the last 10 years.

To be fair, Indiana was also coming off a bye week. However, it appears Cignetti was better at keeping his players focused.
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I mean, you aren't wrong on the trap game either but I was hoping Ohio State could show an aggressive bounce back after a close loss to a good team but instead they looked like they played scared to lose again
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, I couldn't figure out why they didn't throw it more. Day has some type of obsession with wanting to portray a physical team, when he's got NFL WR's all over the field. How many times were they stopped on 3rd and 4th down situations with less than a couple yards to get? Seems like that happens quite often.
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Day claiming he totally gave up play calling is clearly BS. This garbage we are seeing is classic Day tentative shit
 
fishinabarrel said:
I mean, you aren't wrong on the trap game either but I was hoping Ohio State could show an aggressive bounce back after a close loss to a good team but instead they looked like they played scared to lose again
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Yep Day gets ahead early in these games and then goes into a shell thinking he can just safe play the rest of the game out. There’s no killer instinct. The players can only work with the play calls they are given.
 
Red_Alert said:
You can't highlight just one controversial call.

The officiating was terrible throughout the entire game and both teams either benefitted from it or were screwed over by it at times.

Nebraska was called for offensive pass interference twice on bullshit calls. One of which was when the OSU defender clearly had a hand full of the receivers jersey.
Both of the offensive pass interference calls were in the endzone and the penalties shut down Nebraska drives.
OSU DB's got away with defensive pass interference multiple times.

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^^ That's offensive pass interference? ^^ LOL


That being said, Nebraska had multiple opportunities to win the game and once again came up short. Raiola overthrew wide open receivers in the end zone twice.

Then again if he'd been on target and completed the passes, the refs could have always thrown a flag for holding (or something else) to negate them.
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The refs were terrible. Nebraska got a first down by 2 yards and I have no idea what the line judge was looking at but marked it back 2.5 yards.

Where do they find these people?
 
fishinabarrel said:
I mean, you aren't wrong on the trap game either but I was hoping Ohio State could show an aggressive bounce back after a close loss to a good team but instead they looked like they played scared to lose again
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They are cooked if they don't solve the o-line problem. They were down to the emergency left tackle, a guy who has played guard for 5 years.
 
cwerph said:
They are cooked if they don't solve the o-line problem. They were down to the emergency left tackle, a guy who has played guard for 5 years.
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No way you’re beating the top teams with this o-line
 
Sgt Brutus said:
tOSU is not a legit championship team

Coaching, o-line, toughness, QB are all missing
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Coaching, for sure. It's been maddening on both sides of the ball. OL, I put in with coaching (ie. Michaelski should not see the field for a single play the rest of the year, for example). Toughness, I'm not sure what measure there is here, but the praying on the field shit is starting to get stale. However, QB is missing? Howard is 3rd in QB Rating, 4th in comp %, 6th in YPA, and near the very top in TD percentage. He's been the least of our concerns this year. If anything, he should be throwing way, way more.
 
Across The Field said:
Coaching, for sure. It's been maddening on both sides of the ball. OL, I put in with coaching (ie. Michaelski should not see the field for a single play the rest of the year, for example). Toughness, I'm not sure what measure there is here, but the praying on the field shit is starting to get stale. However, QB is missing? Howard is 3rd in QB Rating, 4th in comp %, 6th in YPA, and near the very top in TD percentage. He's been the least of our concerns this year. If anything, he should be throwing way, way more.
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Howard makes a lot of rookie level mistakes for a veteran.

The INT vs Nebraska was a abysmal one.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Howard makes a lot of rookie level mistakes for a veteran.

The INT vs Nebraska was a abysmal one.
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Yeah, that was his mistake against Nebraska. Not sure how there are "a lot of rookie level mistakes" from a guy that is top 5 nationally in basically every qualitative metric, but if you want to nitpick, feel free I guess.
 
Across The Field said:
Yeah, that was his mistake against Nebraska. Not sure how there are "a lot of rookie level mistakes" from a guy that is top 5 nationally in basically every qualitative metric, but if you want to nitpick, feel free I guess.
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Maybe I am nitpicking but it really doesn't matter who the QB is now with the turnstile situation we got going on at LT.

I fully expect Day to keep running the exact same offense instead of trying to do things to help with that situation going on.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Maybe I am nitpicking but it really doesn't matter who the QB is now with the turnstile situation we got going on at LT.

I fully expect Day to keep running the exact same offense instead of trying to do things to help with that situation going on.
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I'm at least glad the Zen experiment is over, as there is no chance we didn't have a better option. I think as usual, since he's a senior, Day went with him, but now that's not an option.

Howard is going to need to average a lot more than 4 attempts per quarter like he had against Nebraska to beat PSU. I'll be interested to see the depth chart later this week.
 
Across The Field said:
I'm at least glad the Zen experiment is over, as there is no chance we didn't have a better option. I think as usual, since he's a senior, Day went with him, but now that's not an option.

Howard is going to need to average a lot more than 4 attempts per quarter like he had against Nebraska to beat PSU. I'll be interested to see the depth chart later this week.
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They have a boner for running to the left side, they stubbornly refused to go away from that with Zen in even though it was clearly not working. Day is garbage at adapting, he always has been, he will keep running the same things he likes even if they prove to not work over and over.
 
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