OSU Snowflakes - The Offense
November 27th, 2018 at 2:12 AM ^
Wondering what people think about this theory:
M offense wants to set up occasional deep shots as a counter punch to base plays such as runs up the middle.
However, on Sat it seemed like most of the time when Shea went deep, Ohio just blatantly PI'ed, thereby disrupting the play. They were deliberately choosing to give us the 15 yards and first down instead of the TD/deep completion, knowing that it meant we would need to sustain a drive all the way down the field to get the TD.
Which is smart from their perspective; it's exploiting a rule in service of a strategy. In the NFL they appear to have addressed this exact problem by changing the rule to give a 1st down at the spot of the interference.
So, should we have that rule change in CFB as well?
In the meantime, without it, what's the best response to this strategy? The best I can come up with so far would be to go to max protect and keep throwing deep.