Osu defense is awful, I thought the 4th and 3rd play in first half where the entire D line bailed like it was a long sss play summed up the game, neither the coaches nor players have any idea what the he’ll is going on.
Easily the worst OSU defense since Meyers first season , which it might be close but this one is worse.
Offensively it’s prob hard to knit pick 40 plus points, but I feel like so many downs are wasted running a guy straight forward for a guaranteed loss, add in penalties and assenine turnovers and this truly was a miracle win.
Maybe I’m asking too much after a great decade of football, but I just see so much undisciplined football.
I guess either way it’s been a helluva run, but it comes to an end next sat.
I guess 10-2 with all these issues isn’t too shabby.
I really was shocked at how long it took (half time) for the defensive coaching staff to adjust to what Maryland was doing. They kept doing it and running the same play, or a similar play, by moving OSU players into exact desired positions with their shifts.
They actually figured it out in the second half, but I thought it was incredibly interesting that the announcers even mentioned at the start of the second half, when they interviewed Matt Canada he even wondered what adjustments OSU would make to respond to their shift to run at the boundary because they made no adjustments to it at all in the first half.
It killed a darn good offfensive performance ( outside of the three turnovers). 688 yards, including about 280 rushing, and over 400 passing and darn near 40 first downs.
They also ran Haskins intentionally at least 8 or 9 times, plus he scrambled 5 or 6 times and ended up with 60 yards rushing, and he ran physically.
Later this week When Eleven Warrriors shows film of the shift Maryland was doing
offensively in the first half, it will make you even more disappointed, because OSU coaching staff NEVER made the simple adjustment required, until halftime.