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Despite my utter contempt of anything and everything about or in ohio, osu is a good football team. Not great but very good. It is unquestionably well coached. I thought the win over Wisconsin in OT was pretty impressive.
Bilema used to make incredibly stupid coaching calls. He's limited those. He went toe to toe with ufm for four quarters with a limited QB and nearly won - should have won in his own back yard in OT save his ...... limited QB.
Some of things things I saw: Hankins is good. The match-up with him (and the other less talented players on the DL) with M's interior line is a disaster waiting to happen. Isos aren't going there. Al, don't even try in a vain attempt to keep osu honest, pound the ball to make a point or any of that stupid shit. Wasted play and you will have to make EVERY PLAY count.
Shazier is good too. He's also dirty and as Lines has suggested, coached to play that way. He will hurt Denard and I can tell you urban will wink at fickle when he has a team meeting mouthing meaninglessly, "respect your opponent and play with integrity." osu, collectively, does not know the meaning of the term. They know what winning means and, as they have clearly demonstrated, will do whatever it takes to win.
I thought Wisconsin did a very good job of limiting big plays from miller. They did that because it appeared to me that osu's OL got handled and Wiskys' front seven played with a lot of discipline maintaining gap integrity leaving miller no where to bust into when he tried to extend plays. I would assume, although you can't see it on TV, Wisky's back end played really well. I don't think M can match that unless M's DL can match what Wisky did and M's back end suddenly gets good ..... lots of tape lessons for Mattison and his boys in the Wisconsin defensive effort. Actually, I think the game will hinge on that. How well can M limit miller.
No question ufm and fickle are already at work today game planning for M's offense. The thing that impressed me most about M's offensive effort on Saturday was the execution. The throw back screen to Smith was a great call and for the first time this season, the OL and WRs got the blocking down. Yes, it was Iowa and yes, Denard was the threat but still .......
Pretty sure M's O will catch ufm and fickle off guard a couple of times. I like what I'm seeing from DG, he can read a defense well and advantage the O ..... sometimes. But he does it a lot more often than Denard did and also doesn't make bad decisions as often as Deanrd. I don't know if anyone noticed, but Denard has a right hand/arm that is about useless. I saw it dangling (although he tried to hide it) by his side many times. Once again, osu coaches saw that (or will see it on film) and will send defenders, helmet first to the right arm and elbow, with the intent to take Deanrd out of the game. Watch for this and feel free to denigrate those dirty bastards in post game comments (feel free to point out in the Iowa post game comments that Ferentz looked like he was coaching his players to do it too, did it to Fitz - dirty football is what it is. Iowa knows how to play that way, so does osu).
osu's special teams don't make mistakes. The whole team doesn't make mistakes. That is an indicator of an exceptionally well coached team. Side line: if you watched WVU and OU last night you saw the perfect example of why Dana Holgerson is a great OC but a shitty HC (sound familiar?). His team lacks discipline and makes way too many mistakes. WVU plays flashy football but, in the end, they're not going to amount to much unless the coaching staff figures out a way to get the players to limit stupid mistakes and blown coverage on defense. Back to the point: osu's special teams will make something happen and it will probably be on a punt or a kick-off. I don't like the match-up there.
This game could go wither way ..... a rope-a-dope low scoring affair or a shoot out. I think Borges is going to open the game on M's first offensive possession that way taking the battle to ufm. Depending on how well it goes, he'll keep it up. That will evaporate in the later stanzas with the score close and as the two coaching staffs try to limit mistakes, shorten the game and win it late by a big defensive stand or late offensive heroics.
osu has an undefeated regular season at stake. Big motivator and hats off to ufm for using that device effectively. But what is that sort of thing about? It's about external goals. It takes heart to win this game in an unfriendly stadium. osu didn't have it last season and I'm not 100% sure they have it this season either, even in their own house. They have external goals. Those tend to evaporate when the going gets tough and one's will is tested. I like Brady Hoke here in this department. If M pulls this one out and beats osu in the shoe, it will be because of ghosts of Schembechler and .... the team, the team, the team.
Bilema used to make incredibly stupid coaching calls. He's limited those. He went toe to toe with ufm for four quarters with a limited QB and nearly won - should have won in his own back yard in OT save his ...... limited QB.
Some of things things I saw: Hankins is good. The match-up with him (and the other less talented players on the DL) with M's interior line is a disaster waiting to happen. Isos aren't going there. Al, don't even try in a vain attempt to keep osu honest, pound the ball to make a point or any of that stupid shit. Wasted play and you will have to make EVERY PLAY count.
Shazier is good too. He's also dirty and as Lines has suggested, coached to play that way. He will hurt Denard and I can tell you urban will wink at fickle when he has a team meeting mouthing meaninglessly, "respect your opponent and play with integrity." osu, collectively, does not know the meaning of the term. They know what winning means and, as they have clearly demonstrated, will do whatever it takes to win.
I thought Wisconsin did a very good job of limiting big plays from miller. They did that because it appeared to me that osu's OL got handled and Wiskys' front seven played with a lot of discipline maintaining gap integrity leaving miller no where to bust into when he tried to extend plays. I would assume, although you can't see it on TV, Wisky's back end played really well. I don't think M can match that unless M's DL can match what Wisky did and M's back end suddenly gets good ..... lots of tape lessons for Mattison and his boys in the Wisconsin defensive effort. Actually, I think the game will hinge on that. How well can M limit miller.
No question ufm and fickle are already at work today game planning for M's offense. The thing that impressed me most about M's offensive effort on Saturday was the execution. The throw back screen to Smith was a great call and for the first time this season, the OL and WRs got the blocking down. Yes, it was Iowa and yes, Denard was the threat but still .......
Pretty sure M's O will catch ufm and fickle off guard a couple of times. I like what I'm seeing from DG, he can read a defense well and advantage the O ..... sometimes. But he does it a lot more often than Denard did and also doesn't make bad decisions as often as Deanrd. I don't know if anyone noticed, but Denard has a right hand/arm that is about useless. I saw it dangling (although he tried to hide it) by his side many times. Once again, osu coaches saw that (or will see it on film) and will send defenders, helmet first to the right arm and elbow, with the intent to take Deanrd out of the game. Watch for this and feel free to denigrate those dirty bastards in post game comments (feel free to point out in the Iowa post game comments that Ferentz looked like he was coaching his players to do it too, did it to Fitz - dirty football is what it is. Iowa knows how to play that way, so does osu).
osu's special teams don't make mistakes. The whole team doesn't make mistakes. That is an indicator of an exceptionally well coached team. Side line: if you watched WVU and OU last night you saw the perfect example of why Dana Holgerson is a great OC but a shitty HC (sound familiar?). His team lacks discipline and makes way too many mistakes. WVU plays flashy football but, in the end, they're not going to amount to much unless the coaching staff figures out a way to get the players to limit stupid mistakes and blown coverage on defense. Back to the point: osu's special teams will make something happen and it will probably be on a punt or a kick-off. I don't like the match-up there.
This game could go wither way ..... a rope-a-dope low scoring affair or a shoot out. I think Borges is going to open the game on M's first offensive possession that way taking the battle to ufm. Depending on how well it goes, he'll keep it up. That will evaporate in the later stanzas with the score close and as the two coaching staffs try to limit mistakes, shorten the game and win it late by a big defensive stand or late offensive heroics.
osu has an undefeated regular season at stake. Big motivator and hats off to ufm for using that device effectively. But what is that sort of thing about? It's about external goals. It takes heart to win this game in an unfriendly stadium. osu didn't have it last season and I'm not 100% sure they have it this season either, even in their own house. They have external goals. Those tend to evaporate when the going gets tough and one's will is tested. I like Brady Hoke here in this department. If M pulls this one out and beats osu in the shoe, it will be because of ghosts of Schembechler and .... the team, the team, the team.
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