Problem with schemes is, you have to adjust or offenses will kill you at some point.
The problem with this scheme is that it forces the front seven to dominate or else, you are screwed. In every single loss against top programs, we got manhandled up front.
If you run a front seven dependant scheme like that, you absolutely have to make sure that your fundamentals are good. Tackling has to be good, you cant run yourself out of plays, hand placement, leverage, pad level, all of this stuff has to be good. However, if you have a coaching staff that does an extremely poor job of teaching these fundamentals (really evident with your senior Amari Carter and his targeting issues), you are only able to beat weak competition when you have such an athletic advantage. Against good teams with equal athletic ability, you need to be well prepared and fundamentally sound. We arent.
Our linebackers are lost in space, because they are screwed from the get go. We cover slot receivers with safeties and think thats a solution. We have alignment issues because the slot receivers tend to have a lot of space in front of them before the snap. Our cornerbacks cant play press and dont have proper technique when it comes to defending receivers at the line of scrimmage and later, when the ball is in the air, cause they dont know how/when to turn around. We tackle with poor technique and dont wrap up properly. Every single fundamental aspect about defensive football is either getting ignored or poorly coached.
Teams play more and more man coverage to combat spread and Air Raid schemes with press coverage, because these schemes are aimed towards timing and getting the ball out quick. Eliminate the first read in college football and about 80% of the QBs get rattled.
And the way how we play call just blows my mind. Everyone in college football knows that Sam Howell is really good at throwing the deep ball towards Newsome and Brown, because both of these guys can fly. We dont press them, instead, we put Ivey, who isnt really fast, in 1vs1 situations twice against Brown. If you face fast wide receivers with great long speed, you have to get physical with them or they will blow right by you. And dont get me into that one play call on 3rd and 8, when we went with a pass rush alignment at the end of the 3rd quarter when the score was 41-18 (the one where Roche was singled up on one side and the rest aligned on the other). Spread offenses were created to spread a defense (duh). Our defense isnt getting spread because of the offense, they are getting spread because of their own schemes. The gaps in this defense are so big, caneinorlando could build two of his houses in there.
Here is a link for the 2002 Ohio State Defense Playbook:
https://www.footballxos.com/downloa.../?wpdmdl=4910&refresh=5fd88a3dc00281608026685 This playbook is easy to get, yet has enough information so that everyone understands their assignment. I am dead certain that our playbook doesnt even have half of the information.
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