Football Defensively Speaking: Passing The Test The Ohio State defense faced their toughest test of the season on Saturday and, while it wasn’t perfect, I would…
Football Defensively Speaking: A Passing Grade Western Kentucky’s formidable passing attack was supposed to pose a real challenge to the Buckeye defense on Saturday. However, Jim…
Football Defensively Speaking: Better Not Best Ohio State’s defensive performance against Youngstown State was a little shaky at times. This was particularly true against the run…
Football Defensively Speaking: Opening Argument Indiana decided to go with a gameplan that was largely centered around the Triple Option as well as other Read…
Football Chalk Talk: The ‘Duo’ Run Play Ohio State’s rushing attack under Ryan Day has largely evolved around zone run schemes – namely, different variations of Inside…
Football Chalk Talk: The Counter Bash In last week’s article, I discussed the Zone Bash play as an intro to Bash schemes (“back away” schemes). In…
Football Chalk Talk: The Zone Bash A “Bash” scheme in the run game refers to a “back away” scheme. This means the RB is going the…
Football Chalk Talk: The “Zone Bluff” Play The “Split Zone” play has been a staple of Ohio State’s run game for quite some time. The concept of…
Football Chalk Talk: The Heavy Technique With spread offense variations being the norm throughout college football, zone run plays are naturally used very frequently. Zone runs…
Football Chalk Talk: Creepers vs. Sim Pressures vs. “Off Ball” Sim Pressures Those of you who regularly read the articles that Ross and I put together have undoubtedly seen each of us…