We know from experience the natty is still a very real possibility. We know the team is much less experienced than teams from the past couple of years. We know the team is capable of learning and developing. I have complete confidence in the Buckeyes, players and coaches.
Re: Ryan Day’s in-game strategy decisions, here’s a question that I would really like BAD to tackle:
Watching Ryan Day’s postgame presser made me realize that he might suffer from the same character trait that I do: slow processor. He always lauds his QBs who are fast processors and diagnose a situation quickly. That is not me. I need time to review a situation and think it over before I know what step I want to take moving forward. Most coaches that I’ve listened to postgame or at halftime already have an idea of how their teams need to improve. Not Day. He ALWAYS says that he needs to watch the film to figure out where they need to get better. Clock management and fourth down decisions are things that must be analyzed quickly. Us slow processors are disadvantaged in those situations. So my question is: do you think Day is a slow processor? And if so, what can/should he do to make sure the best decisions get made on the fly… in other words, who else should be making those decisions?
I understand the thinking of making the heroic stand at the goal line like the last two years, but I gotta tell ya...Jack Sawyer and Kayden McDonald are playing on Sundays and they don't have replacements.
If it was 4th down with 1:30 to play, try and stop them again. If they score, you still have time for Julian and JJ to go win the game. But 1st down from the 1 and you try and play the "We are SPARTA!!!" game and you cost your playmakers over a minute.
In just about every position group, there are young guys most of us in Buckeye Nation believe need more impactful playing time. WRs Boyd and Henry, DE Wilder, LB Pettijohn, Alfred, Alliegro, RB Bey, etc. Does Ryan Day leave these decisions to position coaches and they’re the ones reluctant to play the young talent? Or are position coaches pushing for the best players on the field no matter what, but Ryan Day is the one dictating more experience to reduce mistakes at the expense of best talent on the field?
I think I get more and more upset the more I learn from real ball knowers about why we lost. Right after the game, I thought it was just everything finally coming together for Texas because you could kind of see it all game, and it finally hit in the fourth quarter. But after all the pressers and analysis from BAD, I finally took off my rose-colored glasses about this season. And what I see in the mirror is an angry (and disappointed) glare.
I go back and forth between accepting the loss and realizing we’ll be ok and being super mad we blew a 20 point lead and our room for error in losing games has gone down
Can we put Sayin on a scale of Kyle McCord to CJ Stroud, and toss in Will Howard for reference? One thing that made me think of McCord was his over reliance on MHJ (that year’s WR performance on McCord or room).
I would rate Will higher than CJ on this scale. CJ lost big games (he balled out against UGA—no qualms with that one). He seemed to not love the moment etc.
I think Julian is close to CJ but neither of them love the moment enough to wink and the sideline and look like they are not overthinking the moment
We know from experience the natty is still a very real possibility. We know the team is much less experienced than teams from the past couple of years. We know the team is capable of learning and developing. I have complete confidence in the Buckeyes, players and coaches.
Re: Ryan Day’s in-game strategy decisions, here’s a question that I would really like BAD to tackle:
Watching Ryan Day’s postgame presser made me realize that he might suffer from the same character trait that I do: slow processor. He always lauds his QBs who are fast processors and diagnose a situation quickly. That is not me. I need time to review a situation and think it over before I know what step I want to take moving forward. Most coaches that I’ve listened to postgame or at halftime already have an idea of how their teams need to improve. Not Day. He ALWAYS says that he needs to watch the film to figure out where they need to get better. Clock management and fourth down decisions are things that must be analyzed quickly. Us slow processors are disadvantaged in those situations. So my question is: do you think Day is a slow processor? And if so, what can/should he do to make sure the best decisions get made on the fly… in other words, who else should be making those decisions?
I understand the thinking of making the heroic stand at the goal line like the last two years, but I gotta tell ya...Jack Sawyer and Kayden McDonald are playing on Sundays and they don't have replacements.
If it was 4th down with 1:30 to play, try and stop them again. If they score, you still have time for Julian and JJ to go win the game. But 1st down from the 1 and you try and play the "We are SPARTA!!!" game and you cost your playmakers over a minute.
Terrible decision.
In just about every position group, there are young guys most of us in Buckeye Nation believe need more impactful playing time. WRs Boyd and Henry, DE Wilder, LB Pettijohn, Alfred, Alliegro, RB Bey, etc. Does Ryan Day leave these decisions to position coaches and they’re the ones reluctant to play the young talent? Or are position coaches pushing for the best players on the field no matter what, but Ryan Day is the one dictating more experience to reduce mistakes at the expense of best talent on the field?
Would love some inside baseball on whether Doug thought Stephen went too hard.
I think I get more and more upset the more I learn from real ball knowers about why we lost. Right after the game, I thought it was just everything finally coming together for Texas because you could kind of see it all game, and it finally hit in the fourth quarter. But after all the pressers and analysis from BAD, I finally took off my rose-colored glasses about this season. And what I see in the mirror is an angry (and disappointed) glare.
I go back and forth between accepting the loss and realizing we’ll be ok and being super mad we blew a 20 point lead and our room for error in losing games has gone down
That’s where I am. I anticipated losing to Texas in a close game on the road. However, when you go up 20 points, it has to be a win.
That was my disappointment.
Can we put Sayin on a scale of Kyle McCord to CJ Stroud, and toss in Will Howard for reference? One thing that made me think of McCord was his over reliance on MHJ (that year’s WR performance on McCord or room).
I would rate Will higher than CJ on this scale. CJ lost big games (he balled out against UGA—no qualms with that one). He seemed to not love the moment etc.
I think Julian is close to CJ but neither of them love the moment enough to wink and the sideline and look like they are not overthinking the moment
I mean if you look at the average points allowed in CJ’s 4 losses it was around 40. That’s not exactly his fault