Football Defensively Speaking: Akron Aside from some poor tackling at times, Ohio State’s defensive performance in the 2024 season opener against Akron was phenomenal….
Football Defensively Speaking: The C-Pick Sim Pressure Jim Knowles rarely ever calls for creepers or simulated (sim) pressures. However, one sim pressure call he brought to Ohio…
Football What Is Jim Knowles’ Favorite Blitz Call? I would not consider Jim Knowles to be someone who dials up a bunch of “exotic” blitzes. However, while I…
Football Defensively Speaking: Scared Money Ohio State’s defensive gameplan was extremely conservative. They rarely blitzed, and the ultimate objective was clearly to prevent big gains…
Football Defensively Speaking: Shorthanded Yet Still Impressive Jim Knowles’ group officially made it ten straight impressive defensive performances on Saturday, despite missing multiple key players. Let’s take…
Football Defensively Speaking: Bent But Not Broken The Buckeye defense had a very “bend but don’t break” feel to it against Rutgers on Saturday. Rutgers had more…
Football Defensively Speaking: Badgering Wisconsin Saturday wasn’t the first time this season we saw the Buckeye defense do most of the heavy lifting to keep…
Football Defensively Speaking: A Whole Lot Of Good This past Saturday, we saw Ohio State’s most impressive defensive performance in recent memory. I usually say something along the…
Football Defensively Speaking: Buckeyes Evolving Through Aggression Against Purdue, the Buckeye defense continued their streak of strong performances this season. Jim Knowles was fairly aggressive throughout the…
Football Defensively Speaking: Turtle Soup The Buckeye defense essentially saved the day against Maryland because they consistently made plays when plays needed to be made….
