http://www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com/2012/09/ohio-state-evades-california-35-28/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ohio-state-evades-california-35-28 An Ohio State blog for the Buckeye fan in all of us. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:12:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com/2012/09/ohio-state-evades-california-35-28/comment-page-1/#comment-119325 Jeff Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:20:00 +0000 http://www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com/?p=26248#comment-119325 yes, yes, and yes! OMG, my biggest complaint, 3rd and 1. we are 10 yards off the slot reciever…for christ sakes, challenge them. Force them to get off coverage, but just don’t give them the free play! any good qb will burn the defense every time. another thing i noticed, braxton can’t pull the trigger fast enough when he sees a open man. the interception showed his major flaw. He can’t read the route fast enough. most good throwing qb’s would have had the ball out when smith broke in his route. but it clearly showed braxton hesitate for about 2 seconds. which tells me he doesn’t know the route is wide receivers are going to take. watch for defensive’s to react to this in the future. otherwise same complaints as ryan. tackling was horrible. penalties same. just seemed like the team was outta rythem in the third quarter. Go Nate Williams! good to see that man terrorizing the backfield.

]]> http://www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com/2012/09/ohio-state-evades-california-35-28/comment-page-1/#comment-119216 ryan Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:20:45 +0000 http://www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com/?p=26248#comment-119216 Wow that was ugly. I feel like when the play calling gets conservative it starts to go downhill. Hall isn’t as much of an up the gut runner as Hyde. Dave (I mean Hall) up the gut on first down more than half the time isn’t gonna work. It seemed like Meyer kept taking the collar on and off of Miller. Miller needs to be set loose and accept about 20 carries a game. Continuously giving the ball to Hall is just taking our most skilled athlete (Miller) out of the game. Option plays on the edges were a lot more successful than running between the tackles. I loved the confidence in the receivers. When we passed/scrambled, we were successful.
The defense seemed improved. If they could have simply wrapped up better, the game would have been different. That is a simple technique issue that can be worked on with drills over the next two weeks. Other than that, the linebackers were much improved and was great to see. When we played man coverage the backs were doing very well at covering up the recievers. Playing 5-10 yards off gave them a lot of easy first downs. Another easy change that will be seen during the tapes. D-line looked great, and was very aggressive.
Seeing the receivers not drop so many balls, the defense wrapping up better, and more high powered fast paced play calling would make us very competative in conference play.

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