Just thinking from a mental perspective. It’s been a rough couple of games in the playoffs for Clase. But yeah, you gotta keep using him. He got them there 

That ball should have been at best off the wall. Insane how that carried over 

Wow. Just wow. Vogt makes some big calls tonight and they paid off. Clase is torched now  though. But so is NY bullpen 

There are things Chip Kelly can do to mitigate the changes on the offensive line. Perhaps some rollout passes or some misdirections (I don’t see much of that anymore since Urban left)  and plays beneficial to a talent drop off perceived with Simmons being out. IOW play designs that out the offense in the best position to succeed. A national title was never going to be easy. Now it’s gonna be an even bigger task to get through the better teams on the schedule. And I am counting the Huskers in there. While the Bucks should roll them, their defense is much improved this year. This isn’t your Scott Lost Nebraska team 

HOW BAD IS DENZEL BURKE?
 

He’s so bad that a pop warner wide receiver er would carry him an extra 15 yards to the end zone 

have never liked the 4-2-5 but it is a workable scheme provided the DC doesn't go insane with fear and let the opposing QB just sit back and wait for players to come open. 

preaching to the choir my man. That scheme is not akin to what OSU defenders skillsets are. They need to be attacking and swarming to the ball. You see very little aggression from what was seen at Eugene on Saturday. Knowles defense has had really good moments, like in the cotton bowl, his defense was the only bright spot. Adamant lesser completion and second halves his defense has been good for the most part. But fourth quarters when you absolutely need a stop you don’t get one with this scheme. Some posters in here will tell you that the 4-3 and 3-4 defenses are dead but with this version of a 4-2-5, this is about as dead as one could be 

I had to LOL at the Heacock reference. His defenses shit the bed in big bowl games under Tressel. Post 2005 his defenses were stuck in a prevent defense the entire second halves of games and they got wrecked by Florida. LSU and Texas with Colt McCoy. Flashbacks are bad, man 

If we beat #3 Penn State on the road this year, I guarantee you many on this site will discount it. 

some will some won’t. It might go back to the fact that a lot of OSU fans take beating them for granted. Which I don’t but there is a considerable amount that do, because James Franklin. Plus that’s a conference game so I think there are a lot of people who are looking at Day’s bowl and playoff record as not good. There’s nothing wrong with pointing it out. It’s not good. Still a lot of season left so we are anticipating that they hash out their differences on defense and right the ship to the ‘ship 

To me it’s still a superior product over the NFL. College football, even in this iteration, beats the NFL because of its unscripted nuances and not driven by media hype drivel that the world wide losers use on a daily basis. Is it trending towards the NFL? Maybe but it’s unsustainable because ultimately college ball has a much higher chance of returning to its roots than the NFL does. Fandom at some point will dictate and see the law of diminishing returns for college ball. The NFL will double down on its entertainment and theatrical appeal for the drunk masses. 

Great write-up Ramzy. I was at the 2019 Maryland game and the inside kick was a thing of beauty. We put a hurting on Maryland that year 73-14 I think it was. Day needs to keep the element of surprise but he rarely uses something to deceive the opposition. When the talent is equal we need to break tendencies 

Texas would beat Iowa State by 40. I like the Bucks chances vs the hillbillies in round one 

Outside two of the Michigan games Day has no one to blame but himself. The team is snakebit. Come on. What are they?? The Browns for crying out loud? He’s got more talent than all but maybe six or seven teams in the country. His offense shit the bed in the cotton bowl last year. Don’t give me this “the game didn’t matter” shit. You telling all of those guys who wore scarlet and gray and suited up that the game didn’t matter? Missouri seemed to think it mattered. 

Go get Vrabel or the lions D coordinator 

dong. By showing off coverage you're making the offense adjust to quick passes. Which plays right into the dropping dlineman. 

sounds great in theory. But in reality, you get a bunch of speedy RBs or Receivers catching short passes and dodging big slow defensive linemen for huge chunk plays 

Did Day hire him on a three year contract? If so this is it for Knowles. If they finish the season on a good note and the defense redeems itself and the team runs the table, I think you retain him. I don’t like the odds of that happening but it’s still a possibility 

In those games, being outscored 54-16 in the 4th quarter? That’s some John Cooper level shit right there 

Give up all the points they want to. But make sure in your last drive there are no fuckups. That puts too much pressure on the offense to be perfect. This isn’t Friday night lights. They can’t be perfect 

The numbers don’t lie. OSU has been much better in second halves of games. This game though, they played to a stalemate in the second half. Should have gone for two on one of those touchdowns. That’s not me with hindsight. I. Was literally screaming at the tv when I see them line d up for PAT 

My biggest gripe is why not go for the two pointer earlier in the game? Then when the Ducks kick on their last drive, it only ties it up 

Howard had himself a ball game. Lots of credit where it’s due. The last drive was on the coaching staff. Although I will say that he probably should have heaved one to the end zone at the end. That was it 

Bring in Vrabel to run the defense and Knowles to defensive consultant and talent acquisition coordinator. 

Two important games. That might not be a trend but it is getting into the not good territory. Once can be excused, twice needs a closer look. There will be another ranked opponent away from the show coming up. Let’s see how they handle Happy Valley. If we are going by Franklin’s incompetence, that is t going to really calm things down about Day/Knowles/LJ defensive dilemmas 

To be fair, his defense is the only thing that made the Missouri game competitive. 

You’d think by accident a team would fumble or throw a pick to OSU because, football, but they don’t even get a turnover when they desperately need one. Probably goes back to the fact they get no pressure on the QB late in the games 

If OSU gets into the playoff this year, I think Day needs to win a game or two. And this is u see the presumption that they beat TCUN to begin with. The biggest test that remains is another road game at another insanely loud stadium. Are we gonna see a series of presnap penalties again? Against a defense that is more stout against the run than Oregon was. So Will Howard will have to have the game of his life and as far as the defense, don’t ask. If Larry Johnson and Jim Knowles are still butting heads, that’s not a recipe for success