Pass rush thoughts

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

Wanted to get some opinions. I thought we were pretty vanilla with the pass rush. Yes we got pressure with the NASCAR package but you don’t get a whole lot of 3rd and longs against a team like Ohio State. Simmons didn’t seem like he was a factor as a 3 down edge. Maybe the osu OL is a lot better than we thought but just shocked how few one on one edge wins there were. Didn’t even notice Spence in the game. 1 tackle?  

the question is how much of that is scheme?  I felt that ultimately that was the plan from PK not to get gouged by the run game and keep everyone back after bracketing Smith. You can only do so much when you have to account for 1 guy.  How many times will we need to do the same this year?  Spy for Lagway and Reed maybe?  I am cautiously optimistic we’ll see good sack numbers this year, but the break the record Simmons sack totals are as crazy as arch for Heisman 

second question is about the OL. Same can be said about the osu gameplan.  Like the lack of sacks on arch… he was certainly pressured but I think some teams will throw blitzes that he hasn’t seen and it may still be a big problem. Just look at how Baker played the last snap of the game.  It was ugly. I don’t want to be overly optimistic about the OL at this point. Also still need to prove that we can run inside consistently. Will be interesting to see the Neto versus Stroy grades out of this game. 

[ThatHornsGuy87]

Man after talking to my brother last night, that entire game just felt off. Rod even talked about it. That didnt feel like a normal sark called game. It looked amd felt different 

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

10 minutes ago, ThatHornsGuy87 said:

Man after talking to my brother last night, that entire game just felt off. Rod even talked about it. That didnt feel like a normal sark called game. It looked amd felt different 

agreed.. it was like sark realized that patricia was keeping everyone back and with arch's accuracy issues he just kept things very simple and tried to take advantage of the numbers game with runs.  not sure i disagree with the overall idea of the plan.. i just didn't like the lack of creativity.  WR screen could have been used in the 1st half to get arch going.  same with an exotic reverse.  arch bears some resonsibility with some of his decisions to be fair.. some of the RPOs like the first 4th down.. he should have pulled and hit a wide open TE.