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  1. Ohio State won the pro wrestling match held last night. Unfortunately, the Longhorns thought they were supposed to be playing Football. Watch what people do, not what they say. Ryan Day clearly believed he had an inferior football team and turned the game into a wrestling match. The zebras helped him do it. The guards masquerading as OTs were severely overmatched in pass protection. Even just allowing blatant holding favors the weak blockers. That assumes it was called evenly, which it most certainly was not. There wasn’t just holding I saw full body locks on pass rushers that were completely past the OL. Day didn’t believe his secondary could cover even a badly depleted Texas WR corps. His DBs clearly had instructions to grab, hold and tackle in coverage rather than play defense. You can see it from the opening drive, when the corner just grabs Golden’s arm and holds it down. Golden makes the one handed grab anyway but the Horns could not replicate that often enough. Watching that travesty, it’s clear why the only 2 Texas TDs came on plays where the RB wheel route was so wide open that no OSU defender could get close enough to grab or tackle before the ball arrived. Even the Suckeye DL got in on the action. Several times, they openly grabbed a combo blocker to keep him from moving up to the second level. So congratulations to Ohio State on making it to the WWE Wrestling Championship match. I’ll be cheering for the earthquake.
  2. Your offense scored 21 points, even with form tackling the pass rush. And you have the nerve to tell us that.
  3. Really it’s the deep middle where Quinn has issues. His sideline fades are often good throws with air under them to a spot. I think the deep ball issue is there but overblown. It’s a problem on deep middle when a safety can get over the top. Unless a defense is running cover 3, there’s not much chance for the safety to get there in time.
  4. Texas has the better pass defense, based on opponents pass efficiency. OSU has better run defense based on YPC. Texas is much better at forcing turnovers. OSU has a higher sack rate. Neither team has faced Murderers Row offensively. OSU has faced more bottom feeders so their defensive stats are slightly inflated relative to Texas. No question that both defenses are outstanding. I’m not sure I can find a solid argument that OSU is better.
  5. Bush could outrun inferior athletes to the corner and get big yards like a HS RB. He got stuffed repeatedly or pushed out for short gains when facing better athletes. VY could run or pass against anybody.
  6. We just saw how pedestrian the Pedo St offense is. That offense put up 518 yards on Oregon, with almost 300 on the ground in the CCG. Ohio State’s 500 total yards and 181 rushing in the next game looks a bit different with a little context thrown in.
  7. Tell us how many of those yards came against NW, Purdue, Nebraska, Michigan St and the MAC. How many yards against Michigan’s cover 6?
  8. 14:40 mark, Elven Warriors describing a pinching D Line clogging up the A and B gaps. That keeps the gap assignments clear and spills runs outside. The downside is the DL isn’t going to get much push upfield so it’s harder to covert run defense into a pass rush with momentum being lateral and towards a clogged middle of the line. OSU is playing a lot of 3 high safety looks with Downs playing as an ersatz MLB aligning 8 yards off and playing like a robber or Tampa 2 middle in coverage. The pinching DL keep blockers from getting upfield to Downs, freeing him from having run gap responsibility. He can attack like a safety in run support instead of having LB run assignments. In the 3 high look, both actual LBs typically align outside the OT with C gap run responsibility. This keeps reads simple and puts them closer for inside support on WR screens. They can play fast with the front 6 having clear responsibilities. Of course, the crashing DEs create a void behind them. WR tunnel screens and RB swing passes either lead blocking are obvious ways to attack those voids covered by a single LB. Those are both staples for Sark and Ewers hits those throws precisely and in stride. Or he can force them out of those looks by going 4 wide or splitting Helm out in 11 personnel.
  9. TL;DR Think about how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of them are dumber than that.
  10. We live less than 3 miles from Jerryworld and the rain changed to sleet about an hour ago. It’s just starting to stick now. Be careful on overpasses and side streets.
  11. Why are Elven Warriors posting about Ohio football on the internet?
  12. The great Yogi Berra once said: The difference between theory and practice is in theory there is no difference; in practice there is. Howard’s worst performances have come against teams using mostly zone coverage. PSU was the most reliant on man at around 38%. The rest was zone. Michigan and Nebraska mostly used split field zone coverages. All of those teams confused Howard enough to force him to hold the ball and make bad throws. He got picked in all 3 games, twice vs UM. Those zone beaters existed in theory, not so much in practice against better defenses using zone.
  13. It took OSU 3 weeks to install and rep one play (2 variations) and accompanying play action. And the PA doesn’t involve the OL in much different action. With 9 days this time, I don’t expect to see much new. Maybe one route combination they haven’t shown before. Maybe one different pressure look. The sort of thing you can install with one or two players, not a whole unit that has to coordinate as tightly as the OL.
  14. You’re right. I saw TWO running plays, one of which they ran previously (though rarely): GT Counter. OSU also ran a G-TE Counter I hadn’t seen before. So really they installed one new play and repped 2 plays and PA off that look. It’s a modest change in scheme and a huge change in emphasis.
  15. All of this. I will add that the OG bodies at OT have looked fine as long as they are run blocking - think old school Nebraska OTs. Force them to pass protect from the snap and the deficiencies in reach, footwork and quickness will become more obvious. In running situations, lower pad level plus strength can compensate, especially when pulling. That’s why Counter works better with this group than IZ where you have to whip your man face to face. Neither UTenn or Oregon was able to put OSU’s offense in situations where they had to pass very often.
  16. It won’t stop them from band wagoning any Texas victory.
  17. One of the Longhorn internet commentators mentioned the shift to gap blocking. I went back and watched the MI, TN and OR games. The PFF guys did a great statistical breakdown of the change also.
  18. I did an overview. Was hoping for more discussion to fill in details.
  19. Both UO and the other UT run primarily man coverage. Texas runs an overwhelmingly zone coverage scheme, which is designed to make it hard to throw downfield. OSU won the last two games with multiple early downfield throws, which are unlikely to be available against the Texas secondary. They are going to have to work their way downfield without making big mistaken. Of course with Howard at QB, they’re probably going to make mistakes. They were able to get comfortable and loose with a big lead and they could key on the QB within their base D. If they can’t open up that big lead early, I expect them to tighten up and revert to Ryan Day form.
  20. We knew ASU had smaller, quicker defenders and Texas had bigger, stronger OL. If you’re Texas, you want a shoving match in a phone booth. If you’re ASU, you’d rather have a foot race or a dance contest in space. Texas’ preferred style in this matchup would be best served by running inside zone and (especially) Power. The double team is straight ahead blocking, not trying to move a defender perpendicular to your shoulders and feet while moving sideways. Defenders have to fight through a block to make the play, not outrace the blocker to a spot. Texas specialized in off tackle and outside runs due to their own RB talent. Both OZ and pin and pull outside allow smaller defenses the time and space to use speed and quickness to disrupt the play.
  21. Including alcohol poisoning / OD or not?
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