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10-09-2005, 07:40 PM
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Did PSU stop the option at all last night? Seemed like we could have run that all night. If we're going to be an option team, then I like TS at QB. if we're going to be a spread team that throws it around then give me JZ or TB - either of those 2 guys see the field way better that TS.
There were open guys all over the place last night, but TS was usually locked onto one guy. he does not seem to have that ability to come up to the line, see the defense,and know before the ball is snapped who will most likely be open. I wish he did, becuase he is great running the option.
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10-09-2005, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by NightmaresDad
Did PSU stop the option at all last night? Seemed like we could have run that all night. If we're going to be an option team, then I like TS at QB. if we're going to be a spread team that throws it around then give me JZ or TB - either of those 2 guys see the field way better that TS.
There were open guys all over the place last night, but TS was usually locked onto one guy. he does not seem to have that ability to come up to the line, see the defense,and know before the ball is snapped who will most likely be open. I wish he did, becuase he is great running the option.
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With our defense we should be running the Triple Option or Wing T. |
10-09-2005, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by NightmaresDad
he does not seem to have that ability to come up to the line, see the defense,and know before the ball is snapped who will most likely be open. I wish he did, becuase he is great running the option.
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The playcalls are getting into the huddle WAY too late. Even peyton manning wouldn't have time to read the defense when the playcall gets into the huddle with 15 left on the play clock. |
10-09-2005, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by WestEnd
The playcalls are getting into the huddle WAY too late. Even peyton manning wouldn't have time to read the defense when the playcall gets into the huddle with 15 left on the play clock.
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That's kind of what I've been thinking too. Almost every play they don't get set until five seconds is left on the play clock and sometimes even later than that. Troy Smith has taken quite a few delay of games in the past (seems like he has had 2 a game). Although we didn't have a DOG last night, we did have to take a TO on our last drive when we were backed up on the 5. West makes a great point about PM. PM gets his team up to the line with at least 15 seconds on the play clock, and that gives him plenty of time to adjust to what the defense throws at him. It just seems like if the plays could get in sooner, then TS would have a lot more time to make his pre-snap reads. (Or maybe I'm way offbase with this) |
10-09-2005, 08:02 PM
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going along with the talk on the late play calling i think we should do what my high school does, run a "no-huddle" offense, it really tires down the defense and if used right can work
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10-09-2005, 08:07 PM
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10-09-2005, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by craigblitz
I was driving home to the Burg and for some reason was able to listen to 610 and they had the Bill Conley show on with Earle Bruce. Earl Bruce said he just doe snot understand what the offesne is trying to do. He did not bash the coaches at all, but said the speed we have a WR is being wasted and just does not see the whole picture of what we are doing with the Offesne. He then said running some deeper routes with 3 players would help Troy or Justin see who is being covered and who is not, etc.
Just thought I would share.
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This is not directed at you specifically craigblitz, but I find it interesting that this was brought up and it gives me an opportunity to make a point.
I would like to point out that there is a reason Coach Earle Bruce is on the radio and not on the sideline. We (I include myself) love Earle Bruce now, but we also ran him out of town once upon a time. We think he has the answers now, but not then? It's just part of the continuing schizophrenia that is Buckeye Nation and is what gets me so frustrated with so many buckeye fans after we lose. We hear that it's the play calling, "we don't call enough deep passes". Well, the two games I've been to, we had plenty of deep routes called, the pass was not made. This is a play calling problem? At the Iowa game, I had an idiot sitting behind me yelling "throw the bomb" when we were up three TD's. He kept reminding everyone what plays he calls on his PS2 (no I'm not making this up). This is the same guy who would have said "why the [censored] are we throwing when we're up 3 TD's" after we turn the ball over. We spend all last year bitching that we keep running predictable I-formation runs and were so in love with the spread after we waxed scUM. Now we see people bitching that we need to get the fullback out there and run from the I. At some point we have to come to the conclusion that we will not win every game we play. Sometimes it's because of what we're doing, sometimes it's because of what the opponent does to us...I wonder if maybe Tressel's Nat'l Championship has set the bar so ridiculously high in some people's mind that they would never be satisfied...Wait, I don't wonder that at all, because all we heard that year (2002) was how boring and predictable going undefeated was...Schizophrenia.
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10-09-2005, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by WestEnd
The playcalls are getting into the huddle WAY too late. Even peyton manning wouldn't have time to read the defense when the playcall gets into the huddle with 15 left on the play clock.
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Thanks for seeing this. I have brought this up a few times in the last couple of weeks. It cost us a timeout last night. |
10-09-2005, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Saw31
At some point we have to come to the conclusion that we will not win every game we play. Sometimes it's because of what we're doing, sometimes it's because of what the opponent does to us...
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Well, whatever our various opponents are doing on defense, they are doing in every single game.
We dont have to win every game, just the ones we should.
With the talent we currently have, we should win them all, or at least look competent on offense. | |
