WATCH: Buckeyes Break Down Dominating Win Over Oregon State

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1. It was easy grading the offense with straight A’s across the board. Between 50 – 65% of the time the defensive front played excellent football. It’s the 35 – 50% of the plays where mistakes were made and lazy looking tackling effort that was a little disconcerting. I don’t think it was a lack of effort, but a failure of fundamental execution. Fixing the lack of cohesion along the defensive front will straighten out most of the woes, but it was not pretty problematic watching that particular unit trying to tackle with their shoulders rather than forcefully wrapping putting the backs on the ground.

   While Pete Werner had some moments where he was really good, as the game wore on he fell into the same missed assignments and gap responsibility failures that has marked the unit since the 1st day Bill Davis took over for Luke Fickell. Assignment football shouldn’t suffer because of pure aggression and guessing. If they would simply fit their gaps and trust their basic scheme design they will stop looking like a comedic circus show. Linebackers are the foundation for DB execution. If they aren’t in the right position within the scheme.play the secondary is going to struggle. The DB’s themselves seemed to be trying to adjust their positions off of incorrect alignment from the linebackers. If that base alignment is wrong it opens up weaknesses on particular area’s of the field to try to take advantage of. Even a lousy offense like Oregon State’s can exploit fundamental breakdowns from a defense, and they did far too often. Misalignment just shouldn’t be dogging the linebacking group with the level of player talent the Buckeyes have.

   Jordan Fuller will hopefully be back next week which should be a huge plus in communication within the 3 backend units on the fly. Reading alignment fits and recognizing when they’re not right is something Jordan Fuller does really well. That’s why studying game film in your down time as a player is so important. Not so much that it helps them to recognize the opponents offense (which is important), but what their responsibilities within the defensive scheme is supposed to look like. That helps in building on field leadership and communication. Nick Bosa alluded to a lot of little things not being right Those little things being wrong in the game process will almost always result in big plays against a defense.

   The defense has a lot of work ahead cleaning up the “little things” that were wrong in alignment. Coaches should be able to recognize those things on the fly and make adjustments real time. Players can’t execute what they aren’t being taught except by pure blind luck through guessing. That’s a crappy way to run a defense.

2. I live in Fl. and read THE OZONE for it’s excellent OSU coverage. I have noticed that USA TODAY or other media continue to write stories about OSU or Myer with ongoing critical, negative slant. I understand stories about the suspension and for a period after. But, why are they continuing? Is there some vendetta against Myer or OSU?

   1. ESPiN has never gotten over the fact that they were booted from the Ohio State Campus at one time, and that Ohio State isn’t afraid to call out their nonsense. ESPiN IS the SEC and they actively work against the Big 10. Ohio State has been the Flagship Program of the Big 10 for 18 years now. Urban Meyer came in and continued and in many ways enhanced the strength of the Conference while expanding the dominance of his own football program. Urban Meyer has changed how other Big 10 athletic departments and football programs in particular approach the game of football. From a media perspective where the promotion of the SEC (could have been any other conference) to being top dog is their desired narrative, they have to eliminate the challengers. Ohio State and Urban Meyer are driving a huge wedge into that narrative. SOLUTION? Bring down Ohio State.

      So yeah. The media’s assault is by design and truth of events and conditions unimportant to them. They HATE being proven wrong. ESPiN is supposedly the big boy on the block for spreading sporting news. They have lost the largest support group in the Country. That group is Buckeye Nation. They made it personal starting about 16 years ago when Jim Tressel ripped their script apart and single handedly brought down their poster boy Miami Hurricanes that left their “expertise” naked and publicly exposed. They moved on from their idol worship of Miami and simply planted the ESPiN flag in the SEC and predominantly Tuscaloosa. The Buckeyes further angered them when Urban Meyer and his team toppled their narrative again in 2014. Rather than admit their clear bias and penchant for being wrong, they actively push aha points just like their counterparts in the main stream media. They know Urban represents a threat to their nonsense in being experts in the wide world of sports authoritarianism.

3. Offense was Awsome,defense needs a lot of work,thank God we got Nick Bosa

4. Wishing Kerry Coombs was in the house. We are missing him badly. The defensive backfield was abysmal. The linebackers suck, and I am not impressed with the Grinch.

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