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Post by beaverstever on Oct 11, 2021 7:27:55 GMT -8
Watching us struggle to contain the run-and-shoot caused me some
PTSD on Banker and spread offenses. Ironically though, this was exactly what USC fans felt in our game where nothing they did defensively worked.
It’s made me wonder why some matchups seems to be more regularly problematic for some teams than their general matchup would suggest. I thin OSU vs Stanford, USC and Cal probably fit this description in our favor, and UA and Stanford have often caused seemingly outsized problems for tsdtr. Lilkely every team has their nemesis, and I wonder if it comes down to scheme matchups. Every defensive scheme is going to have strengths and weaknesses, and there’s only so much that can be adjusted week to week in adjustments for a specific opponent. OSU has been the beneficiary of that to some degree as spead defenses aren’t particularly great against power running offenses.
Anyway, curious on how others see this. We were clearly poorly prepared on defense and unable to adjust -it it often looked like our DBs struggled to read responsibilities and their receivers were consistently exploiting this confusion. It made me wonder if we tried to make too much of a change schematically for the run-and-shoot and our defense played confused and on their heels as a result, and attempts to adjust only added to the confusion.
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Post by mb on Oct 11, 2021 9:51:38 GMT -8
Watching us struggle to contain the run-and-shoot caused me some PTSD on Banker and spread offenses. Ironically though, this was exactly what USC fans felt in our game where nothing they did defensively worked. It’s made me wonder why some matchups seems to be more regularly problematic for some teams than their general matchup would suggest. I thin OSU vs Stanford, USC and Cal probably fit this description in our favor, and UA and Stanford have often caused seemingly outsized problems for tsdtr. Lilkely every team has their nemesis, and I wonder if it comes down to scheme matchups. Every defensive scheme is going to have strengths and weaknesses, and there’s only so much that can be adjusted week to week in adjustments for a specific opponent. OSU has been the beneficiary of that to some degree as spead defenses aren’t particularly great against power running offenses. Anyway, curious on how others see this. We were clearly poorly prepared on defense and unable to adjust -it it often looked like our DBs struggled to read responsibilities and their receivers were consistently exploiting this confusion. It made me wonder if we tried to make too much of a change schematically for the run-and-shoot and our defense played confused and on their heels as a result, and attempts to adjust only added to the confusion. In the first half, it looked like our D was well prepared. The Cougs changed their game plan in the second half and our D coordinator didn't adjust. Open receivers within 10 yds of the LOS catch and run for forty. Big hole there and no adjustment. I'm no football guru by any means, just a student of the game, but if they are running 5 receivers, couldn't we match up man to man with a nickel? I think we have the athletes to at least try. That leaves 3 linebackers and 3 down lineman to go against their 5 man O-line and QB. Numbers in our favor. Probably too simple, but Tibs didn't seem to want to make their QB uncomfortable in the second half. MB. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Oct 11, 2021 13:10:45 GMT -8
Watching us struggle to contain the run-and-shoot caused me some PTSD on Banker and spread offenses. Ironically though, this was exactly what USC fans felt in our game where nothing they did defensively worked. It’s made me wonder why some matchups seems to be more regularly problematic for some teams than their general matchup would suggest. I thin OSU vs Stanford, USC and Cal probably fit this description in our favor, and UA and Stanford have often caused seemingly outsized problems for tsdtr. Lilkely every team has their nemesis, and I wonder if it comes down to scheme matchups. Every defensive scheme is going to have strengths and weaknesses, and there’s only so much that can be adjusted week to week in adjustments for a specific opponent. OSU has been the beneficiary of that to some degree as spead defenses aren’t particularly great against power running offenses. Anyway, curious on how others see this. We were clearly poorly prepared on defense and unable to adjust -it it often looked like our DBs struggled to read responsibilities and their receivers were consistently exploiting this confusion. It made me wonder if we tried to make too much of a change schematically for the run-and-shoot and our defense played confused and on their heels as a result, and attempts to adjust only added to the confusion. In the first half, it looked like our D was well prepared. The Cougs changed their game plan in the second half and our D coordinator didn't adjust. Open receivers within 10 yds of the LOS catch and run for forty. Big hole there and no adjustment. I'm no football guru by any means, just a student of the game, but if they are running 5 receivers, couldn't we match up man to man with a nickel? I think we have the athletes to at least try. That leaves 3 linebackers and 3 down lineman to go against their 5 man O-line and QB. Numbers in our favor. Probably too simple, but Tibs didn't seem to want to make their QB uncomfortable in the second half. MB. We tried some nickel, but Wazzu immediately started to effectively run the ball, so we switched out of that. And then Wazzu started to throw again. I don't like getting out-chessmatched. And we did on both sides of the ball. |
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Post by korculabeav on Oct 15, 2021 15:38:32 GMT -8
Just for OSU currently.
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