That's pretty fair. Can't expect to win big games consistently against football factories when we're hamstringing our athletes with admissions, multiple long distance road games, heavier academic loads by comparison, etc. In the heyday we had our pick of the litter when it came to recruits and coaches. While we're still better than the bottom 85-90% of FBS teams we're not really a Top 3 or Top 5 anymore and may never be again.
Also, their starting QB was out.
Don’t take my word for, ask Marcus Freeman who wanted him as our OC but we cheapened out. I’m a fan of giving your coach what he needs to compete at an elite level. We don’t do that and then wonder why we’re not elite. Might be a correlation.
Coordinators are also responsible for ensuring teams can execute their plays. The plays we ran to end the game looked like we never even practiced them
It’s been confirmed Hartman messed up the first play by turning the wrong way. And JTT made a great play on the screen. Other teams can make plays too!
We let the defender in too quick on the screen and he rushed the throw … if Hartman turned the wrong way then that’s my point, not practiced enough, and was too slow of a play for the situation
Or a six-year veteran QB realized that if he handed it off to Love he risked a fumble, so he ate the five-yard loss. Then, next play, yes, we let a future-first-round draft pick blow up a screen pass, which stopped the clock. But the problem is that we got behind the chains in the first place.
He could be gone as soon as this offseason
So I've already responded to this, classic, but after looking at your link I see how you got your reading of the rule and which words should be considered part of the exception and which should not. Going off that link, your interpretation is correct because there is a closing parenthesis at the very end of the paragraph which means the words "forward progress is determined by the position of the ball as it crosses the sideline" are part of the parenthetical statement. There is no mention of a striding runner, however, and it looks like this might have been written in 2018, but everything else looks right.
He didn't get shit done. He scored basically the same points as Rees in Columbus, but Parker had a much better QB and receivers to work with. He was handed a stacked deck and he folded. We run Estime every play that final drive, we win.
It's one of those ones where I can say with a fairly high level of confidence I don't believe Hartman made the line to gain, but as you say you can't see the actual angle it would take to be 100% certain. I feel like we don't hear reference to "indisputable video evidence" anymore.
You can coach something 1000X times and a player can make a mistake still. Shit happens
absolutely. Or the other team can just be better than you and win a 1-1 matchup.
I get your point. I coach HS football and just have seen far too many times where "what we do" backfired hahaa
yeah no doubt. It's just everyone in the stadium and watching on TV knew OSU's will was breaking, and our Oline was dominating.
Where I'm at is that at 2:30ish on the clock with 2 timeouts for OSU and the ball at the 35... coming off an 11 yard Estime run... I would have run it between the tackles 3x. You're going to gain at least 5 yards... maybe get a first down... but most importantly you'll be punting from the 40ish yard line with ~1:30 left on the clock and no timeouts for Ohio State. A standard 40-50 yard boot pins them inside the 20 with ~1:20 of clock to work with. They're not scoring a TD going 90 yards with no timeouts. We really, really overthought things and then compounded it with mistakes.
yep, and whatever the heck happened with the delay of game/false start on our punt team, run out the clock if you're punting from the 50 but to just hand them 5 additional yards, and let them set up a better punt return/punt block opportunity.
I should have said it differently, he was forced to rush the throw. It's why the play call was risky. If freeman and Parker wanted to win 21-10, it was a great play call, if freeman wanted to ensure a win, it was a bad play call.
That was one of my bigger wtf are we doing moments from the game. OSU D was gassed, pound em.
Yep, i just can't comprehend intentionally letting a free rusher (their best player) into the backfield with an expected kick out block coming when you are trying to run the clock out.
Hmmm putting up a donut in the 4th against OSU west. Thats what. 14 points in 2 weeks…
Send this to Marcus Freeman, he’s the one who wanted to hire him.
Just sayin…