Tequilla's Ohio State Post Mortem Thoughts
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As a Buckeye fan I agree, the Fake FG was a poor decision especially when you are at home and in the game. The roughing the passer was also a terrible call against the Huskies. Frankly you guys have a good team and I see a 9-3 maybe even 10-2 season for you. I think you get Illinois at home. Michigan on the road will be tough but they are not what they have been the last couple seasons. Oregon will be a challenge but you get them at home so never know…. Good luck the rest of the way…..
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We went into 2016 ranked 14th and were expected to be good. We were in the top 10 after week one. It was not out of nowhere, but it was not trusted until it happened.
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Hated it at the time. There was no timeout called when Ohio state lined up to cover it. There was no audible out. They lined up for a fake, Ohio State sniffed it out, then they ran it anyway right into a defense prepared. Totally stupid coaching.
My high-school team had provisions for if the other team didn't line up for the fake properly ffs.
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No… The WR coach was 3-4 yds into the playing field doing the Dougie or some shit dance after the first down catch. Then on the VERY NEXT PLAY your head coach runs out to the hash marks and berates the referee behind his back… Both penalties fall into the Vinny Holmes should have known better category.. Dumbfuckerey @ its best.
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Agreement is not part of your contrarian DNA, Big Dog.
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The line play definitely held its own and I think we should walk away from the game encouraged but by no means looking at it as a finished product or not in need of further talent improvements.
From an OL standpoint, I thought that they opened some decent creases in the run game. If you take Demond out of the rushing picture (due to the sacks) you're looking at 17 for 89 … I'd take that. The downside to that was that when it got into the red zone and the sledding got tougher they weren't able to rise to the challenge. On one of Jonah's carries Q got beaten badly to the inside blowing up the play. Consistency was a bit of a problem as well … but it wasn't bad.
From a DL perspective, it was clear to me that Ohio State's initial game plan was to try to lean on the run and run it down our throats. That wasn't successful. Getting a key 4th and 1 stop on the 1st drive was the high water mark for the defense … really good to see. The Ohio State run game was largely pedestrian and their longest run came on a 3rd and 16 in the 4th quarter that probably shouldn't have happened (bad play call there IMO). While Ohio State averaged 4.4 yards per carry, my thought is that the favorable run D that we saw through 3 games is more real than not and we should have some confidence that it's going to be hard to just line up and beat us via the run this year.
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2016 … we popped at the back end of 2015 and that was a team that had a lot of young players that played early (notably Browning, Gaskin, Adams) and improved through the season. There's a similar trajectory possible for this team
2022 … there was a lot of noise that clouded how good that team could have been given how horrific Lake's 2nd year was. The biggest surprise of the year was Penix, his ceiling, and his health. That year is representative of what a key add or two can do to raise the ceiling of a roster but also highlighted that there was a lot of younger talent on the roster that just needed the right foundation to blossom.
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I'm not upset at the outcome … this was always the "likely" outcome
I'm not saying that Jedd was signaling to his team and his team quit … not saying that at all.
What I'm saying is that if you're on the Ohio State sideline you're taking that play as an indication that they don't think they can compete with you. It must have just been coincidence that they took that play and translated it into their 1st score of the game and then scored coming right out of halftime. When you're an underdog don't give the favorite any reason to wake up. That play woke them up.
Also, Ohio State knows that most teams are going to try to find a way to steal something whether it be the onside kick you noted from Oregon last year to the fake FG that we ran. They are going to be alert for that.
As for Oregon routinely doing that stuff, it's part of their DNA and what they do. How anybody isn't prepared for them doing stuff like that blows my mind.
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JFC dude, now you're saying it's the reason they went down and scored? Coincidences don't happen? There has to be causation from that specific play to why they put a drive together? You are not nearly as smart as you think you are. And anyway, that's not what you said. You said it was a signal to both teams.
The reason UW ran cover zero in the red zone and didn't cover the best WR in the nation is because they failed a fake FG post of the day.
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Yeah not understanding as much of the dominated on both sides of the line stuff. It's a good point out on that being their longest run and the second was a run by Sayin in a very long third down situation as well. It also wasn't like our pass rush was much better or worse than it was against CSU or the Coug until they collapsed. And Durfee probably finally officially tapped out for his career.
Offensively I think almost all the sacks were coverage type sacks. Their front did beat us really bad at some really crucial times.
