Akron Zips vs Ohio State: The New Era Begins

• stroups

  

  Big Hank can move for a big guy. If he can stay on the field he could be a huge impact player this year.
• rmolin73

  

  Akron's Coach is garbage that's why his team is garbage. This should be his last year at Akron.
• se-alum

  

  I expected Fickell to be much more aggressive, and was glad to see it. This defense could be insanely good, and has some serious depth.
• OneBuckeye

  

  A couple of concerns from this game. (Its mostly nit picky stuff)
  
  1. Lack of sacks without a blitz.
  2. Losing contain on the QB allowing him to scramble. (We don't want to do this vs Taylor Martinez or Russell Wilson)
  3. No big plays. I usually expect a big run or pass to be broken. Although we had quite a few 20+ yard plays.
  4. Downfield blocking by WRs. I counted 2 runs where if Verlon Reed was blocking his guy Hyde would have gone for 6.
  5. Poor RB vision. The line was opening up holes, but RBs weren't hitting cutback lanes.
  
  That's all I got. Overall a great game and much better than expected.
• se-alum

  

  OneBuckeye;884705 wrote:A couple of concerns from this game. (Its mostly nit picky stuff)
  
  1. Lack of sacks without a blitz.
  2. Losing contain on the QB allowing him to scramble. (We don't want to do this vs Taylor Martinez or Russell Wilson)
  3. No big plays. I usually expect a big run or pass to be broken. Although we had quite a few 20+ yard plays.
  4. Downfield blocking by WRs. I counted 2 runs where if Verlon Reed was blocking his guy Hyde would have gone for 6.
  5. Poor RB vision. The line was opening up holes, but RBs weren't hitting cutback lanes.
  
  That's all I got. Overall a great game and much better than expected.

  1) Alot of 3 step drops from Akron
  2) I think this will improve the more comfortable the players get w/ being a blitzing team(Not used to alot of blitzing in the past)
  3) This is where we need Hall and Berry. I know they say Hyde tested the fastest of the OSU RB's, but he doesn't look very fast with the ball in his hands.
  4) I was too drunk to pay attention to anyone not carrying the ball...lol
  5) See point #3
• LJ

  

  I thought Hyde looked good. Smith had TERRRRRIBLE vision for an RB. Probably why he is buried on the depth chart
• vball10set

  LJ;884743 wrote:I thought Hyde looked good. Smith had TERRRRRIBLE vision for an RB. Probably why he is buried on the depth chart

  It appeared to me he just put his head down and ran--he didn't even look for a hole (I know, twss)
• OneBuckeye

  

  Agreed but that was smith's first game since high school. Although vision usually isn't something you can coach.
• OneBuckeye

  

  vball10set;884746 wrote:It appeared to me he just put his head down and ran--he didn't even look for a hole (I know, twss)

  No That's what Lydell Ross said.
• se-alum

  

  OneBuckeye;884751 wrote:No That's what Lydell Ross said.

  +1
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Mo Wells
• jordo212000

  

  Boom Herron has never seemed to have great vision either IMO
• OneBuckeye

  

  jordo212000;884892 wrote:Boom Herron has never seemed to have great vision either IMO

  He did not early in his career, but the last part of 2010 I think he progressed quite a bit. I still think Berry is the biggest threat to break one due to pure acceleration.
• se-alum

  

  OneBuckeye;884895 wrote:He did not early in his career, but the last part of 2010 I think he progressed quite a bit. I still think Berry is the biggest threat to break one due to pure acceleration.

  Big runs typically come on cutback plays(that's where Beanie made his money). I think Smith will get there, but Hall and Berry are much more likely to break the big one, because they will go around defenders instead of through them. I'm excited to see the running game when we have that change of pace in there.
• Big Gain

  You don't remember how terrible his twin looked in his 1st 2 years at Ohio State??
• Big Gain

  LJ;884743 wrote:I thought Hyde looked good. Smith had TERRRRRIBLE vision for an RB. Probably why he is buried on the depth chart

  You don't remember what Ohio State's previous 6-3 220 Tailback looked like his 1st 2 years??
• Big Gain

  Mulva;881710 wrote:I'm hoping it's that, and not just that our tight end is the most legitimate receiving threat we have.

  Some say he's the most NFL ready TE in the country as an offensive threat.