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Yeah, when you get the BWI faithful rooting for OSU against you...well, you are some special kind of special.
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and BTW.....if anyone needs further proof that Penn State is not our rival here you go.
I would root for a team of Jihadists against tsun.
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zincfinger
Gert Frobe-approved
I'm still owed a case of beer from a Wolverine Welcher for a bet on the 2004 game. Beginning to suspect he's not going to pay up.
edit: To be fair, I can somewhat understand his reticence, given the 58 times I cordially invited him to "Have some, motherfucker!" every time Troy Smith, Ted Ginn, or Branden Joe busted it.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
I DVR'd the replay last night. Not sure how many times I'm going to rewatch it this week.
There were 2 replays that I flipped back and forth on last night; one channel had a quick 60 minute version and the other was over 3 hours with missing plays (i.e. supposedly due to time restraints) but had tons of commercials. Neither one was the complete game.
Hope you got a better replay.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
FILM STUDY: RYAN DAY & KEVIN WILSON PUT TOGETHER A PERFECT GAME PLAN TO ATTACK THE TOP-RANKED MICHIGAN DEFENSE
"I was licking my chops, I see the one-high coverage and that's a quarterback's dream." - Dwayne Haskins
Going into The Game last Saturday in Ohio Stadium, many expected the vaunted Michigan defense to show up as the most prepared and competent unit on the field that day. Despite the fact that they'd be facing a top-5 offense, the Wolverines appeared to be historically great after holding opponents to the lowest output of any FBS defense in the past seven years.
But whether it was due to Ryan Day's familiarity with Brown going back to their days in the northeast - Day played and coached against him every year while at the University of New Hampshire before the two eventually worked together on Steve Addazio's staff at Boston College - or simply because Urban Meyer's staff truly takes a 365-days-a-year approach to prepare for this rivalry game, the Buckeye offense had a clear plan to expose the talent advantage they held at a handful of positions and beat Brown at his own game.
As quarterback Dwayne Haskins said following his record-setting performance, "We seen a lot of man coverage, [a] lot of one high, so we knew that we could get a lot of one-on-one match-ups and crossing routes on them. And made some plays when it mattered the most."
The crossing routes, specifically, came from Day's Mesh series that was installed last season and has remained one of, if not the single most important passing concept in the Buckeye playbook since. Specifically, the Buckeyes looked to expose a handful of matchups against the Wolverines' heavy reliance on man-coverage, which left lesser-talented players like nickelback Brandon Watson (#28) trailing quicker OSU wideouts or linebackers against scatback Demario McCall.
Brown is famous for having answers to handle crossing routes (as you'll see below), which meant that Day also had to include the perfect counter to the regular Mesh, as shown in the final play above. While the outside receiver to the bottom still runs the middle hook route, the two would-be crossers stop their route short and turn them into pivot routes, breaking back outside. This was a tactic often employed by Day's mentor Chip Kelly when both worked together with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.
Expecting Brown to play a great deal of man-coverage with a single safety deep in the middle of the field, Day used this tendency against the Wolverines. Instead of simply avoiding some of Brown's talented linebackers, Day and co-coordinator Kevin Wilson called for a heavy dose of Fly motion to remove a linebacker from the middle of the field before attacking the space they'd just vacated.
Though Brown had two all-conference cornerbacks in David Long and Levert Hill, neither played a big role in Saturday's blowout win by design. Day and Wilson clearly felt they had a talent advantage at the H-receiver spot, where Parris Campbell and K.J. Hill combined for 10 touches, 243 yards, and three touchdowns.
Knowing Watson wouldn't be able to keep up with that speedy duo from the slot, Brown was forced to switch to a single-high pattern-match scheme he calls Raider, which is nearly identical to the Rip/Liz concept developed and made famous by Nick Saban. In the scheme, Brown asks the inside linebacker to the opposite side of the crossing slot to become a 'wall-to-wall' defender, picking up the crosser like a zone defense.
However, even with Devin Bush lined up in this spot, the speedy linebacker wasn't able to catch up to Campbell once the receiver was in stride.
"He is one of the fastest players in college football," Urban Meyer told the media Sunday as he looked back on his team's dominant performance.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...t-game-plan-to-attack-the-top-ranked-michigan
Land-Grant Holy Land film study:
"I was licking my chops, I see the one-high coverage and that's a quarterback's dream." - Dwayne Haskins
Going into The Game last Saturday in Ohio Stadium, many expected the vaunted Michigan defense to show up as the most prepared and competent unit on the field that day. Despite the fact that they'd be facing a top-5 offense, the Wolverines appeared to be historically great after holding opponents to the lowest output of any FBS defense in the past seven years.
But whether it was due to Ryan Day's familiarity with Brown going back to their days in the northeast - Day played and coached against him every year while at the University of New Hampshire before the two eventually worked together on Steve Addazio's staff at Boston College - or simply because Urban Meyer's staff truly takes a 365-days-a-year approach to prepare for this rivalry game, the Buckeye offense had a clear plan to expose the talent advantage they held at a handful of positions and beat Brown at his own game.
As quarterback Dwayne Haskins said following his record-setting performance, "We seen a lot of man coverage, [a] lot of one high, so we knew that we could get a lot of one-on-one match-ups and crossing routes on them. And made some plays when it mattered the most."
The crossing routes, specifically, came from Day's Mesh series that was installed last season and has remained one of, if not the single most important passing concept in the Buckeye playbook since. Specifically, the Buckeyes looked to expose a handful of matchups against the Wolverines' heavy reliance on man-coverage, which left lesser-talented players like nickelback Brandon Watson (#28) trailing quicker OSU wideouts or linebackers against scatback Demario McCall.
Brown is famous for having answers to handle crossing routes (as you'll see below), which meant that Day also had to include the perfect counter to the regular Mesh, as shown in the final play above. While the outside receiver to the bottom still runs the middle hook route, the two would-be crossers stop their route short and turn them into pivot routes, breaking back outside. This was a tactic often employed by Day's mentor Chip Kelly when both worked together with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.
Expecting Brown to play a great deal of man-coverage with a single safety deep in the middle of the field, Day used this tendency against the Wolverines. Instead of simply avoiding some of Brown's talented linebackers, Day and co-coordinator Kevin Wilson called for a heavy dose of Fly motion to remove a linebacker from the middle of the field before attacking the space they'd just vacated.
Though Brown had two all-conference cornerbacks in David Long and Levert Hill, neither played a big role in Saturday's blowout win by design. Day and Wilson clearly felt they had a talent advantage at the H-receiver spot, where Parris Campbell and K.J. Hill combined for 10 touches, 243 yards, and three touchdowns.
Knowing Watson wouldn't be able to keep up with that speedy duo from the slot, Brown was forced to switch to a single-high pattern-match scheme he calls Raider, which is nearly identical to the Rip/Liz concept developed and made famous by Nick Saban. In the scheme, Brown asks the inside linebacker to the opposite side of the crossing slot to become a 'wall-to-wall' defender, picking up the crosser like a zone defense.
However, even with Devin Bush lined up in this spot, the speedy linebacker wasn't able to catch up to Campbell once the receiver was in stride.
"He is one of the fastest players in college football," Urban Meyer told the media Sunday as he looked back on his team's dominant performance.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...t-game-plan-to-attack-the-top-ranked-michigan
Land-Grant Holy Land film study:
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