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mirvin88 said:
Stranger Things finale over this game?

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You know what is the Strangest of Things?.. that yall would go to that, before this,.. The U chasing a NC. While you’re chasing things that are Strange. But Enjoy. You do you. However, please turn in your membership card after the show. Just sayin’
 
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Honestly I don’t think Ohio State has an exceptional offense. I think it’ll mostly come down to our DBs 1on1 with their two WRs.

I feel like our gameplan should basically be the exact same as last week except instead of a qb spy constantly and no blitzing we will blitz Lbs a little more often and we should have Fitzgerald in single high playing deep all game. So essentially trade the qb spy for the WR deep spy basically. Otherwise we have to shut down their run game and our safeties need to take away the TE. I don’t know I’m actually quite confident in our defense holding them under 17. I fully expect Ohio State to to use the quick pass game like Louisville. Sayin has been one of best QBs in quick plays. And that’s how you eliminate our 4man pass rush. But ultimately except for Tate and Smith just winning jump balls or deep shots, I have a LOT of confidence in our defense shutting them down.

It all comes down to offense and beating them. Ultimately Patricia is a good DC who can disguise and trick QBs with the best of them particularly with 3 weeks to prep. And they have ELITE LBs play and great DBs. I think their main strength on DLine is as Run Defensers. Their biggest matchup on the line of scrimmage imo is Brockermeyer vs McDonald their biggest matchup run stuffing DT. This guy has been dominating Double teams all year. We have to have a run gameplan to make Brockermeyers job way easier. We saw what happened early season when we asked too much of him vs really big DTs. I promise that wiont work this game if we over use it. Again not saying we can’t use A gap and Duo but we need to have an assorted run gameplan. Can’t be vanilla. And we MUST test their CBs. And Downs is great if he’s just allowed to play in the box and we run condensed sets. I want to see a lot more 3-4 WR this game than we have used all season. Get Downs away from run support. That has to be a priority.

Ultimately offensively this game comes down to Beck. It’s funny I see everyone comparing Beck to Goff. Well who remembers when the Rams played the Lions and then the Patriots in the Super Bowl? I’d expect a similar gameplan there. Bring 5-6 guys to the LOS confused the Oline about which is coming and show one thing presnap and quickly shift what you do on the backend to fool the Qb. Patricia is the one who put the gameplan to beat that Rams offense that year and then Belichick copied it for the Super Bowl. We NEED Beck to have a good game. And we MUST have a successful intermediate pass game.

So offensively the game comes down to Beck and the WRs. And defensively it comes down to our CBs.
 
Don't sleep on Beck because of the last game. He was not able to push it downfield because of 35mph wind. This one is indoors where his accuracy will be far more of an asset. I'd like to see more throws 10-15 yards downfield like the few he made to start the second half.
 
Calinative said:
I fully expect Ohio State to to use the quick pass game like Louisville. Sayin has been one of best QBs in quick plays.
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I agree. I think the hope in that situation is going to be to force FG attempts

After watching OSU, Sayin is probably the most accurate QB we’ve seen in a very long time. I looked it up and on the year He’s completing 78.4 % of his passes. That is actually slightly higher than Bo Nix’s season a couple years ago , Mack Jones for 2020 Bama and it’s a couple ticks higher than even Burrow’s 2019 LSU season.
 
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Calinative said:
Honestly I don’t think Ohio State has an exceptional offense. I think it’ll mostly come down to our DBs 1on1 with their two WRs.

I feel like our gameplan should basically be the exact same as last week except instead of a qb spy constantly and no blitzing we will blitz Lbs a little more often and we should have Fitzgerald in single high playing deep all game. So essentially trade the qb spy for the WR deep spy basically. Otherwise we have to shut down their run game and our safeties need to take away the TE. I don’t know I’m actually quite confident in our defense holding them under 17. I fully expect Ohio State to to use the quick pass game like Louisville. Sayin has been one of best QBs in quick plays. And that’s how you eliminate our 4man pass rush. But ultimately except for Tate and Smith just winning jump balls or deep shots, I have a LOT of confidence in our defense shutting them down.

It all comes down to offense and beating them. Ultimately Patricia is a good DC who can disguise and trick QBs with the best of them particularly with 3 weeks to prep. And they have ELITE LBs play and great DBs. I think their main strength on DLine is as Run Defensers. Their biggest matchup on the line of scrimmage imo is Brockermeyer vs McDonald their biggest matchup run stuffing DT. This guy has been dominating Double teams all year. We have to have a run gameplan to make Brockermeyers job way easier. We saw what happened early season when we asked too much of him vs really big DTs. I promise that wiont work this game if we over use it. Again not saying we can’t use A gap and Duo but we need to have an assorted run gameplan. Can’t be vanilla. And we MUST test their CBs. And Downs is great if he’s just allowed to play in the box and we run condensed sets. I want to see a lot more 3-4 WR this game than we have used all season. Get Downs away from run support. That has to be a priority.

Ultimately offensively this game comes down to Beck. It’s funny I see everyone comparing Beck to Goff. Well who remembers when the Rams played the Lions and then the Patriots in the Super Bowl? I’d expect a similar gameplan there. Bring 5-6 guys to the LOS confused the Oline about which is coming and show one thing presnap and quickly shift what you do on the backend to fool the Qb. Patricia is the one who put the gameplan to beat that Rams offense that year and then Belichick copied it for the Super Bowl. We NEED Beck to have a good game. And we MUST have a successful intermediate pass game.

So offensively the game comes down to Beck and the WRs. And defensively it comes down to our CBs.
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I think this is a pretty good breakdown of Ohio State, the matchups, and how Patricia will game plan for this game. Disguise the coverage with pre-snap looks and blitz from creative angles at times (we are not a heavy blitzing team). It is a smart defense (led by Downs who gets everyone lined up correctly) and the breakdowns have been few and far between, which has allowed Patricia to draw up creative stuff. One place where we have been vulnerable at times is down the seams. The three key passes (two on the TD drive and the one to convert at end of the game) by Mendoza were perfectly placed and Matthews was in great position. It was just perfect execution on their part. I think the whole game hinges on Beck and what we see from him.
 
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Calinative said:
Honestly I don’t think Ohio State has an exceptional offense. I think it’ll mostly come down to our DBs 1on1 with their two WRs.

I feel like our gameplan should basically be the exact same as last week except instead of a qb spy constantly and no blitzing we will blitz Lbs a little more often and we should have Fitzgerald in single high playing deep all game. So essentially trade the qb spy for the WR deep spy basically. Otherwise we have to shut down their run game and our safeties need to take away the TE. I don’t know I’m actually quite confident in our defense holding them under 17. I fully expect Ohio State to to use the quick pass game like Louisville. Sayin has been one of best QBs in quick plays. And that’s how you eliminate our 4man pass rush. But ultimately except for Tate and Smith just winning jump balls or deep shots, I have a LOT of confidence in our defense shutting them down.

It all comes down to offense and beating them. Ultimately Patricia is a good DC who can disguise and trick QBs with the best of them particularly with 3 weeks to prep. And they have ELITE LBs play and great DBs. I think their main strength on DLine is as Run Defensers. Their biggest matchup on the line of scrimmage imo is Brockermeyer vs McDonald their biggest matchup run stuffing DT. This guy has been dominating Double teams all year. We have to have a run gameplan to make Brockermeyers job way easier. We saw what happened early season when we asked too much of him vs really big DTs. I promise that wiont work this game if we over use it. Again not saying we can’t use A gap and Duo but we need to have an assorted run gameplan. Can’t be vanilla. And we MUST test their CBs. And Downs is great if he’s just allowed to play in the box and we run condensed sets. I want to see a lot more 3-4 WR this game than we have used all season. Get Downs away from run support. That has to be a priority.

Ultimately offensively this game comes down to Beck. It’s funny I see everyone comparing Beck to Goff. Well who remembers when the Rams played the Lions and then the Patriots in the Super Bowl? I’d expect a similar gameplan there. Bring 5-6 guys to the LOS confused the Oline about which is coming and show one thing presnap and quickly shift what you do on the backend to fool the Qb. Patricia is the one who put the gameplan to beat that Rams offense that year and then Belichick copied it for the Super Bowl. We NEED Beck to have a good game. And we MUST have a successful intermediate pass game.

So offensively the game comes down to Beck and the WRs. And defensively it comes down to our CBs.
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They will dare Beck to beat them and sell out to stop the run game.
 
PIPO said:


The level of arrogance.

Peewee Football? Setting special teams back decades?

You ******* scored 10 points vs Indiana!!! You go down in that stadium in that environment, with the crazy wind, etc.

Then they have the gaul to take a shot at us about the salary cap - what the **** are you paying Jeremiah and others?

******* hate that ******* program! Death to Ohio State! Your days of taking South Florida talent in the way you have in the past are soon over.
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The guy on the right is a talking bag of d!@ks.
 
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PIPO said:


The level of arrogance.

Peewee Football? Setting special teams back decades?

You ******* scored 10 points vs Indiana!!! You go down in that stadium in that environment, with the crazy wind, etc.

Then they have the gaul to take a shot at us about the salary cap - what the **** are you paying Jeremiah and others?

******* hate that ******* program! Death to Ohio State! Your days of taking South Florida talent in the way you have in the past are soon over.
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Don’t do it to yourself. I said it before and I’ll say it now - I find OSU fan base to be insufferable. Top 3 most annoying fan bases - easily. And they are obnoxious at games. Vast majority of their fans think they are the modern day bama.
 
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