I truly appreciate all the support here in the last few days. Going to still be relatively MIA from the message boards and the computer through this coming weekend and then I'll get back to being here as much as possible.

Tremendous honor for the former walk on.

Figure I’d start a thread to discuss other games going on.

TPD: Ohio State offensive line questions remain after second watch of Buckeyes 23-3 win at Indiana
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Highest paid defensive player. 5 years $170M
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38340390/source-49ers-nick-bosa-highest-paid-defensive-player

Listening to you--Austin, Bill and Birm--try to explain or figure out why so many of the team's talented players did not get to play more than a few snaps on Saturday: because to get more playing time, the coaches designed packages for certain situations for certain players and Indiana didn't cooperate by running the wishbone and option offense.
With veteran, experienced players on defense, players who are deemed the best on the team, they are best suited to handle the unexpected formations. I'd expect every opponent to come out and do things that they rarely ever do to try and confuse the Buckeye offense and defense.
The coaches need to make adjustments on the fly for every situation....keep them out of system.
If the Bucks didn't have great depth, it would be easier for all of us because we wouldn't wonder why C.J. Hicks isn't playing.

And what they looked like back in their high school days:

I'm going to assume we're going to win by at least 35 and the overall outcome isn't going to be helpful in better understanding the team. I'm going to be looking deeper on a few things.

1. QB mechanics of operating the offense. Are we getting to the line and getting out of bad plays? Is the cadence of the snap smooth? (I thought this is something that was very minor and to be expected considering new qb/center but it's important) Are the QB's getting through their reads in the passing game? This is my biggest concern with Kyle coming out of week one. It was just one game but I expect a third year QB to be able to regularly get to his second/third read and it really didn't happen very much in game one.

2. Offensive line communication/missed assignment issues. Several people who have rewatched the game have pointed out that the issues were more communication/assignment based than anything else and Day confirmed it today. We shouldn't have much issue moving YSU off the ball but are we passing off combo blocks correctly? Does everyone know their assignment? Is protection sliding the right way? How does the line respond to Devin vs. Kyle?

3. Does the defense force turnovers? The defense played really well against a bad Indiana offense but we didn't force any turnovers and that was a shortcoming last year. Are we ripping at the ball? Any YSU self inflicted turnovers are great but that's not what I'm as interested in as much as the forced turnovers.

I'd love for Marv, Emeka, Cade, Tommy, Steele, JT, Mike Hall, Sawyer, and Denzel to be done at halftime as well. I don't need to see anything else out of them in mop up time.

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Nice to see a national media member that understands the game . He predicted we would look clunky week 1, and also has an intesting theory on our qb situation . Wonder what he’s heard about Devin Brown

Throw out the recruiting rankings. Miyan and Chip are both better running backs than Henderson. Based on last year’s small sample Hayden is too.

Henderson is great in an open hole at making guys miss and then blazing a big, sexy gamebreaking play. But he doesn’t see cut back lanes or slivers of space to burst through, he doesn’t break contact while the others do.

Go back and watch 19 and 3 running the ball. That’s what a running back is supposed to look like. Speed and moves are nice. Vision is the most important thing. Blast away at me. But health is no longer an issue and the other backs make more plays consistently.

If we lost to Virginia Tech today.

I’ve never seen a meltdown quite like this
And Trash McAfee is practically celebrating it. This fanbase has become so toxic.

Just listened to his podcast and he had a segment on the new QB’s at UGA, Bama, OSU & PSU from the coaches film. His takeaways..

UGA- Can’t tell because of competition and probably won’t know until December

Bama- Can’t tell but will know this week.

PSU- Allar is a stud and should only get better.

OSU- OSU fans should be concerned. McCord didn’t look great and the OLine definitely didn’t help him. Said there were a number of throws he had but didn’t make.

Between podcasts, articles and the radio shows after the game yesterday there seems to be two things that continually come up.

1) McCord is clearly the guy and the coaches decisions yesterday proved that.

2) Devin Brown needs to get a ton of meaningful snaps the next two games.

If MCCord is the guy then shouldn’t he get the majority of the reps in practice and all the meaningful ones in the games before ND?

If you missed me and Doug breaking down the game live, you can watch the recording here

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Such a petty bunch

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More here:

So things that stood out to me based on preseason conversations.

All three true freshman WR’s played and Ballard & Antwi did not

Gee Scott played more than Royer

Kanu & McKenzie played more than Malone

Curry played the same as Kenyatta but it was in more high leverage situations.

Simon barely played ( and Hicks )

Igbinosin played the most of the CB’s

It didn’t seem like Hartford played almost the same amount as Proctor but he did.

I'll have some of this in the Rewatch story tomorrow, but since I probably won't use all of it, here is the run game data I gathered from Saturday.

Zone runs: 21 for 72 yards (3.4 average), 5 stuffed (0 yards or loss)
Gap runs: 8 for 63 yards (7.9 average), 2 TDS, 2 stuffed

These numbers don't include the McCord draw play for 0 yards (because I'm honestly not sure what category that should fall into) and the McCord scramble for 8 yards since it wasn't a designed run call.

If you're looking for total called runs I have 33 (the 30 non-scramble run plays plus three RPOs where McCord threw the ball).

Calls by formation
Shotgun: 42 snaps, 13 run, 29 pass
Under center: 19 snaps, 13 run, 6 pass
Pistol: 6 snaps, 4 run, 2 pass

Good enough balance there IMO.

This one surprised me because it didn't feel this way while watching the game: I have 9 runs into the boundary for a total 43 yards (4.7 average). Not a great average, but I would've guessed that the average was under 3 yards per carry.