Question about last year's Ohio State game

It almost felt like his original plan didn't work so he panicked and had a complete meltdown brain fart...FOR 2 HOURS.

People get angry at me whenever I broach that topic on here. My blood starts to boil every time I hear the word Borges on MGoBlog. For some reason we wasted the great gameplan on Iowa (utilizing Denard as a decoy on some plays). It takes a real soft-headed idiot to fall in love with Denards fortunate 1st half TD run and telegraph every play in the 2nd half. OSUs players were quoted after the game that they knew whether a play was a run or pass depending on if Denard was lined up at QB. So stupid.

The offense lines up first, but the defensive play is already called. The defensive playcall requires certain adjustments depending upon the alignment they are facing, so the players line up according to their assignments.

In the case of up-tempo no-huddle spreads, the offense is already in a formation, but the play is not yet decided. Thus, the defense takes its assigned positions. In cases where there is a significant formation change, you will see the defense adjust accordingly.

I think (and it largely worked) that Mattison knew that Miller was dangerous but still a bit green to the offensive system being ran. In that sense I think he gave certain positions the ability to quietly adjust on the fly if they felt a real audible was being called. Yet, because if his inexperience and the importance of the game I think Mattison knew most pre-snap action by Miller was just void posturing. In that case it's simply a case of HS level DC'ing of guessing over run/pass and where based on personnel, hence the early calls and quiet trust in players to adjust if truly an audible. Basically, the osu offense/Miller did nothing new or special and our seeming lack of adjustments were due to not having to add opposed to most games where a defense will move and chatter. We just didn't see as much that game because it wasn't needed, imo. Defense didn't lose that game but I won't go into that lol.

Brandon Graham on the O-Line in 2009 was pretty sweet, otherwise, "no data."

Let's think of those games no more.

while we're at it.

What are you talking about?  Almost every play under Rodriguez our QB would get up to the line, be set, maybe call a fake cadence, and all skill players would turn and look to the sideline for adjustments based on defensive alignment.  Yes, Rodriguez and Kelly generally like a faster pace of play than some of the other spread teams, but there are absolutely times when both coaches take full use of the playclock despite not huddling.  Just like all coaches, at times, run a no-huddle with very quick snaps.

I should say at this point that A&M doesn't bleed the clock as much as OSU does when they run at their normal pace, but the audibling tactics are similair.