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Buckeyebred97
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I just hope the coaching staff can put together 1 solid game plan for the best chance to win. It’ll be a dog fight especially after the comeback today.
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Poe McKnoe
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Urban Meyer’s teams shine under adversity. They crave the dysfunction. They need things to get weird. I got the Buckeyes by 10.
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I'm worried shitless about the game, but gptta keep the faith... GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUckssssssssssssssssssss
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ichigan
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pianobuck46
Just like yesterday, one point would feel great! Just win, baby, win!
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https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/11/06/adam-sandler-waterboy-20th-anniversary-dan-fouts-chris-fowler
Fouts, a Hall of Fame quarterback, was asked recently to sign a Mud Dogs helmet for a fan at a card show. “He says: I want you to write ‘Shut up Brent’ on it,” Fouts says, referencing a line from the movie. “Every once and a while I’ll see Brent and he’ll just look at me and say ‘Ohh, don’t say it Foutsey. Don’t say it!’ ”
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
ESPN'S COLLEGE GAMEDAY HEADED TO COLUMBUS FOR OHIO STATE'S RIVALRY GAME AGAINST MICHIGAN
ESPN's College GameDay will be back in Columbus for Ohio State's rivalry game against Michigan next Saturday, the network announced Saturday night.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...for-ohio-states-rivalry-game-against-michigan
ESPN's College GameDay will be back in Columbus for Ohio State's rivalry game against Michigan next Saturday, the network announced Saturday night.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...for-ohio-states-rivalry-game-against-michigan
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Notre Dame's comparisons and five more implications from Saturday
2. Ohio State's defense allowed 535 yards and seven touchdowns. And a bulk of it came from Maryland running back Anthony McFarland, who totaled 298 yards and two touchdowns. The Buckeyes never led in regulation but beat the Terps 52-51 in overtime, no thanks to their defense. For all of the criticism Oklahoma's defense has gotten his season, Ohio State's flaws were equally exposed by the Terps, and coach Urban Meyer called the defensive play "alarming." If the Buckeyes are going to beat Michigan on Saturday in Columbus (noon ET, FOX), they're going to need a major upgrade quickly -- and not just defensively. Ohio State also had 10 penalties and three turnovers against the Terps.
4. Michigan has red zone woes. The Wolverines were in a too-close-for-comfort game against Indiana in large part because their offense sputtered in the red zone. Michigan was inside the Hoosiers' 20-yard line seven times and scored just one touchdown. (Jake Moody did make a school-record six field goals.) As good as Michigan's defense has been, the offense will have to be more productive against an Ohio State offense led by Dwayne Haskins.
Entire article: http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...sh-cement-college-football-playoff-contenders
2. Ohio State's defense allowed 535 yards and seven touchdowns. And a bulk of it came from Maryland running back Anthony McFarland, who totaled 298 yards and two touchdowns. The Buckeyes never led in regulation but beat the Terps 52-51 in overtime, no thanks to their defense. For all of the criticism Oklahoma's defense has gotten his season, Ohio State's flaws were equally exposed by the Terps, and coach Urban Meyer called the defensive play "alarming." If the Buckeyes are going to beat Michigan on Saturday in Columbus (noon ET, FOX), they're going to need a major upgrade quickly -- and not just defensively. Ohio State also had 10 penalties and three turnovers against the Terps.
4. Michigan has red zone woes. The Wolverines were in a too-close-for-comfort game against Indiana in large part because their offense sputtered in the red zone. Michigan was inside the Hoosiers' 20-yard line seven times and scored just one touchdown. (Jake Moody did make a school-record six field goals.) As good as Michigan's defense has been, the offense will have to be more productive against an Ohio State offense led by Dwayne Haskins.
Entire article: http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...sh-cement-college-football-playoff-contenders
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Buckeye86
I do not choose to discuss it
I actually feel maybe almost confident going into this week.
1. Regardless of the level of the competition (TCU, Penn State, Minnesota, Maryland), this team has been punched in the mouth over and over (sometimes to a lot of the time by themselves), and they have responded to the tune of 10-1 despite being down in the second half... a lot.
2. That game against Maryland was just an absolute cluster in terms of mental mistakes and being downright unlucky... the chances of that happening again have to be pretty low. Now, I get that the chances of nothing bad happening are basically zero with this team, but they had to have gotten some of it out of their system, right? (And also, see number 1 again.)
3. It feels like any half decent OC can and does confuse the hell out of our defense and makes them look bad for stretches... sometimes long stretches.
Maryland basically found a game breaking hack for our D in the first half that we were inexplicably slow to adjust to. Show an unbalanced formation or motion to an unbalanced formation and then run away from it when we over adjusted... hell, even the freaking announcers pinpointed exactly what the issue was.
In the second half we started slanting the dline away from the unbalanced side and absolutely shut this down (why the hell did it take until the second half to do this?). Then, Maryland started motioning multiple times so our dline didn’t know which why to slant and it went back to a pretty even matchup.
This was on top of the usual mental breakdowns and missed assignments we’ve all come to expect, but the Maryland staff coached circles around our D staff for 75% of the game.
Now, ttun’s offensive staff is competent and I expect them to motion 20 times before every snap to confuse our D, but Harbaugh is pretty stubborn in their ways and they do what they do. I do not think they are going to find a game breaking hack for our D like Maryland did and will basically just do what they always do under Harbaugh, and I feel a little bit better about that... maybe?
And if they do try to do what Maryland did, we should have the fix a lot sooner, right? Right!?
Either way, ttun doesn’t really have any game breakers and basically everyone hangs with them for at least a half. Ohio State has better depth than everyone else and hopefully won’t grind down in the second half like what ttun does to pull away from everyone else.
4. If you go back and look at ttun’s biggest wins, MSU is really fucking awful on offense with a really fucking bad QB. Wisconsin is pretty awful with a really fucking bad QB. Penn State has a decent QB but no playmakers to support him.
I think Ohio State has the QB and the athletes to at least conceptualy give the Michigan D problems.
We also have the offensive coaching staff to put together a plan that I am hopeful about being confident in... pretty please can Meyer just stop calling read options with Haskins in short yardage?
We actually had some success against Maryland with it so I expect the answer to be a resounding ‘no’ and I will continue to bash my face into a wall when we run Haskins on read option on 3rd and 1 again.
5. I feel that the biggest problem with this team has been focus and execution all season. We have been waiting and waiting for them to put it together... well, there are no more excuses, this is The Game.
I am cautiously optimistic we will see a team executing at a level we haven’t seen since Penn State... that is to say, motivated and high level a good majority of the time but still with the occasional really bad lapse on D.
6. Underdogs. At home. Urban Meyer.
If ttun walks in feeling confident and arrogant- it seems likely- my inner lifelong Ohioan is relishing the opportunity to punch them in the fucking mouth as hard as we possibly can. This is what Ohio State football is about and I am cautiously optimistic here. Again, this team is talented as hell, with motivation and fire I think they can do some special things.
I have no doubt it will be a dog fight, but see #1.
1. Regardless of the level of the competition (TCU, Penn State, Minnesota, Maryland), this team has been punched in the mouth over and over (sometimes to a lot of the time by themselves), and they have responded to the tune of 10-1 despite being down in the second half... a lot.
2. That game against Maryland was just an absolute cluster in terms of mental mistakes and being downright unlucky... the chances of that happening again have to be pretty low. Now, I get that the chances of nothing bad happening are basically zero with this team, but they had to have gotten some of it out of their system, right? (And also, see number 1 again.)
3. It feels like any half decent OC can and does confuse the hell out of our defense and makes them look bad for stretches... sometimes long stretches.
Maryland basically found a game breaking hack for our D in the first half that we were inexplicably slow to adjust to. Show an unbalanced formation or motion to an unbalanced formation and then run away from it when we over adjusted... hell, even the freaking announcers pinpointed exactly what the issue was.
In the second half we started slanting the dline away from the unbalanced side and absolutely shut this down (why the hell did it take until the second half to do this?). Then, Maryland started motioning multiple times so our dline didn’t know which why to slant and it went back to a pretty even matchup.
This was on top of the usual mental breakdowns and missed assignments we’ve all come to expect, but the Maryland staff coached circles around our D staff for 75% of the game.
Now, ttun’s offensive staff is competent and I expect them to motion 20 times before every snap to confuse our D, but Harbaugh is pretty stubborn in their ways and they do what they do. I do not think they are going to find a game breaking hack for our D like Maryland did and will basically just do what they always do under Harbaugh, and I feel a little bit better about that... maybe?
And if they do try to do what Maryland did, we should have the fix a lot sooner, right? Right!?
Either way, ttun doesn’t really have any game breakers and basically everyone hangs with them for at least a half. Ohio State has better depth than everyone else and hopefully won’t grind down in the second half like what ttun does to pull away from everyone else.
4. If you go back and look at ttun’s biggest wins, MSU is really fucking awful on offense with a really fucking bad QB. Wisconsin is pretty awful with a really fucking bad QB. Penn State has a decent QB but no playmakers to support him.
I think Ohio State has the QB and the athletes to at least conceptualy give the Michigan D problems.
We also have the offensive coaching staff to put together a plan that I am hopeful about being confident in... pretty please can Meyer just stop calling read options with Haskins in short yardage?
We actually had some success against Maryland with it so I expect the answer to be a resounding ‘no’ and I will continue to bash my face into a wall when we run Haskins on read option on 3rd and 1 again.
5. I feel that the biggest problem with this team has been focus and execution all season. We have been waiting and waiting for them to put it together... well, there are no more excuses, this is The Game.
I am cautiously optimistic we will see a team executing at a level we haven’t seen since Penn State... that is to say, motivated and high level a good majority of the time but still with the occasional really bad lapse on D.
6. Underdogs. At home. Urban Meyer.
If ttun walks in feeling confident and arrogant- it seems likely- my inner lifelong Ohioan is relishing the opportunity to punch them in the fucking mouth as hard as we possibly can. This is what Ohio State football is about and I am cautiously optimistic here. Again, this team is talented as hell, with motivation and fire I think they can do some special things.
I have no doubt it will be a dog fight, but see #1.
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