Ross Fulton

Ross Fulton breaks down football strategy

[Pack @CoachPack_]

Against Jeremiah Smith, you have to always be thinking about him and figuring out ways to cloud/bracket him. Here are a few ways that Oregon did that this past Saturday.

1st Clip (0:00): The Post Safety is aligned at 15 yards instead of the typical 12, and you don't see him take Skate steps to the MOF, to clear R/P. He's flat footed, with his body opened to the side of Smith on the snap. Instead of weaving and melting off the QB, he's playing off Smith, almost like a Middle Runner in Tampa.

2nd Clip (0:36): Instead of playing Rip Liz to Smith, they check into an An Area call, with the Star working fast to drop to Smith's inside hip, then gaining depth to cloud the window.

3rd Clip (1:06): Same as before, playing Area to Smith, with the Star working to the inside hip of Smith, gaining depth.

4th Clip (1:42): Another example; here it's in Tampa, with the flat player sprinting out to Smith, and then zone turning, creating a cloud with Finney and Offord over Smith.

[Adam Rittenberg @ESPNRittenberg]

Indiana RB Turbo Richard and DL Kellan Wyatt are both out for the USC game, per the Big Ten availability report. CB A.J. Harris and LB Rolijah Hardy are both questionable and QB Josh Hoover does NOT appear on the report, so he's set to play.

[Pack @CoachPack_]

Oregon Cover 7 Trips Check Cutup vs Ohio State: Box

1st Clip (0:00): BOX.
2nd Clip (0:26): Box With Poach.

In the first clip, they're in Mint 4 Mod, and vs FIB, they're playing Field and Boundary with the Star and Jack. The $ to the boundary plays RPO first, which you can see when he pops his feet out to the Bubble. The Star is fitting it like a Basic backer, making the Nose right, while the Mac stacking off the 4i and fitting off the back.

In the 2nd clip, the Safety to the Boundary is playing Poach instead of Cone because of the set being tight.

[Ross Fulton @RossRFulton]

@Janak183 @ScootnBoogie @DougLesmerises Exactly.

[Devin Radcliff @Coach_Radcliff]

Talent is an easy out

All these dudes can play

Gotta Put them in position to

[Pack @CoachPack_]

Oregon Cover 7 Trips Check Cutup vs Ohio State: Seahawk

Clip 1: 0:00
Clip 2: 0:30

Traditionally in Seahawk, the Safety is playing deeper than the deepest, with a 60/40 lean towards 3. However, against Ohio State, you can see that there was more of a 60/40 lean towards 2 when Jeremiah Smith was at 2. This was one of the ways that Oregon game-planned for Smith.

In the second clip, vs a Nub (Trey) set, they bring the Poach Safety down, so they can play with a 6 man box.

[Doug Lesmerises @DougLesmerises]

So Ohio State at 20 with road wins over 9 and 15, road losses to 6 and 18, and a home loss to 16.

[Pack @CoachPack_]

Oregon Pressure Path Cutup vs Ohio State: Mac Tom.

1st Clip: 0:00
2nd Clip: 0:40
3rd Clip: 1:10
4th Clip: 1:40

In all four clips, they added some twist to the path.
In the first clip, it was run out of a Boundary Load. The 3T does end up being free off the pick, but the ball is out by then. (Could be 0 Sticky with the safety and backer funneling the back).

In the second clip, it's run out of an Okie/Under front, with the backer working to pick the Guard to the tilt side.

In the third clip, they use a Crawl call to start from a Mint front and then slide to a Short/Bench front. The pick comes from the boundary backer, with the 2i wrapping. Here, the back and center work to the pick.

In the fourth clip, Oregon runs the pick to the 3T instead of the 2i, which is what they had done in the last two plays, and now they run a Tex Stunt game away from it. The center works to the picking backer, which leaves the wrapping 5T uncovered, and the backer does a great job of ricocheting off the pick to be able to force the QB into the EDGE. Behind it, here it looks like they're playing Dog (2 Man) to the field, and Cone to the boundary.

[The Ballmanac @The_Ballmanac]

Pretty exotic 5 MPRS from Oregon this past Saturday with Cover 1 behind it. At the snap it looks like the path will create a double A gap cross down, but the off-ball linebacker continue out to wrap.

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[Dillon Davis @DillonDavis56]

Good stuff from Doug Lesmerises here with Ohio State DC Matt Patricia.

He was asked specifically about the first USC TD and the Oregon TD out of halftime. Patricia said he could see at the snap that his defense was out-leveraged on both.

The answer as to why it’s happening…

[Ross Fulton @RossRFulton]

Can someone explain to me the theory of why you would use your edge defender as the apex player to open trips rather than just rotating the secondary? (MoFs rotates down, boundary S rotates up, etc) so that you can push the front back to the nub run strength?

[Ross Fulton @RossRFulton]

This was quite a sequence for your 5th year, multi year starting C in Hinzman—whiff on this block, shrug at the sideline, then next play snap it over the QB’s head.

[Counter Aesthetic @trey_counter]

Great screen call from Smith. Fast 4 motion gets Oregon overloaded to the field. Horrendous, horrendous blocking from 75 and 70. Could have been a house call if blocked up.

[Ross Fulton @RossRFulton]

@mrjoshuaperry I can quibble some with the OSU O scheme, but I think there is a wide gulf between the problems with the OSU D scheme—which I think is broken—and the OSU O scheme, where they just don’t have the personnel right now to succeed.

[Joshua Perry @mrjoshuaperry]

It’s been unpopular to defend Arthur Smith this year, but even coming off what I thought was his worst day calling play- the OSU offense’s problem is execution, not play calling. He’s gotta fix it as the leader of the O, but the position coaches need to coach guys to execute

[Ross Fulton @RossRFulton]

OSU couldn’t ID how to fit counter all game.

[Counter Aesthetic @trey_counter]

Stuff like this is inclining me to give Arthur Smith a bit of a pass on this year. How on earth are you supposed to call plays with this kind of execution from the OL?

[Ross Fulton @RossRFulton]

@trey_counter They couldn’t ID counter correctly the entire game

[The Ballmanac @The_Ballmanac]

4 Down Split Field Quarters with a pirate game that breaks the protection and forces the QB to flush into the boundary from Oregon Defense vs Ohio State. Slot Fade to the field with the Nickel carrying (Stubbie) and Cone (Bracket) to the boundary.

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[Manuel Excel @colintj]

@MrSwiss9 @SideswipeBuck @RossRFulton @BuckeyeFilmBDN ask Michigan fans about how easy it is to just have perfectly cromulent QBs lying around when it turns out your QB1 is broken or defective

[The Ballmanac @The_Ballmanac]

Penny Drop 8 Tampa Variation from Ohio State versus Oregon this past Saturday. MRT gets drained out. Couple different ways to play this, depth in the seam helps every scenario, the deep 1/2 player can also cut the MRT off and allow him to take this Dig back once the route is exchanged.

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