Latest / Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning / Ross Fulton Analysis: 4-3 vs. 4-2-5 For The Ohio State Defense

Transcript

Ross Fulton Analysis: 4-3 vs. 4-2-5 For The Ohio State Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, September fifteenth. I'm
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Or. The Marshall game is in six days,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in seventy six days. We had
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Ross Fulton of bucke Huddle dot com, one of our
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: ex'es and nose gurus, on the show a couple days
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: ago to talk about the Ohio State offense and how
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: they did against Western Michigan. Now we're going to be
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: talking about the Ohio State defense. When we talked to Ross,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: we are sponsored by Jeff Rubies of Columbus, proudly offering
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: nationally acclaimed USDA prime stake, seafood and sushi, impeccable service,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: live entertainment, and an attention to detail that is simply unmatched.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Just go to Jeff Ruby dot com slash Columbus to
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: learn more and make a reservation today. All right, So
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: we were talking about the Ohio State defense, and boy,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: the Ohio State defense had a day against the Western
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Michigan Broncos. They allowed just ninety nine yards zero points.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: Hard to do much better than that. To today, we're
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: going to be looking at some of the things that
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: worked really well for the Buckeyes in that game and
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: some of the new things that they're doing this year,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: and we're going to be starting with the four two five.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: You probably know what the four two five is. Four
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: defensive linemen, two linebackers, five guys in the secondary and
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: quarter quarter half. So ross explain four to five and
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: what quarter quarter half means.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're increasingly seeing I think we talked at
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: a little bit after Acron like with cover four two
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: these sort of uh split safety so you know each
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: safety is on not there's not one in the middle
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: of the field, there's two of them deep. These sort
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: of softer concepts for lack of a better word, they're
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: using these these I say that in the sense of,
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: like there's different ways you can play these kind of coverages,
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: right like in terms of how much how up you
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: have your cornerbacks, how soft you have them. But what
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: he's trying to I think you're we're seeing these more
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: and more from Knowles, and I think he likes these,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: especially against like RPO heavy teams. It sort of gives
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: them a balance to each side of the formation to
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: deal with those concepts, and it allows their safeties, particularly
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: like to the boundary with Lathan Ransom to fill down,
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: so the corner is sort of protect Dean. They're playing
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: these top down they're protecting, you know, the corner is
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: playing off coverage because it allows the safeties to add
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: numbers against the run, so again against like RPO and
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: run specific but like you know, also they're able to
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: do this because of like how effective their defensive line
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: in particular is. I thought their defensive line years their
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: hand's great. I mean this play like Ty Hamilton blows
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: up the center, it's pretty stands out and like so
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: you know, but I think you see it throughout the game,
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: just like the defensive line controlling the line of scrimmage
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: and like that gives you a lot of freedom to
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: obviously play sort of softer in the back end the
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: you know, as I said, especially like these coverages, they'll
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: sort of give up the boundary flat. They'll maybe like
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: allow people to make four or five yard completions and
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: come downhill. But I just think that they they haven't
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: had to do a whole lot on defense, but they
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: don't necessarily need to when they have the defensive line
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: play that they're getting.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: All right. Next up, they're in four to three cover one.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: And this is something that you brought up as a
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: question during the game. Why are they playing four to
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: three so early? You're pulling Jordan Hancock off the field.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: He's a big piece of this defense and you're pulling
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: him off the field for an extra linebacker. So walk
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: us through four to three cover one.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we did see, you know more. Fourth, I
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: don't think they use any against Akron and put against
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: like twelve percent or two tight ends. You saw more
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: some three linebacker sets. I continue to express my skepticism
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: and that's kind of a revealed by this clip just
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: in contrast to like the split safety stuff I was
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: just talking about. It just limits what they can do
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: coverage wise, in addition to taking what I you know,
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: one of their best players off the field at Handcock.
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: I don't think their linebackers are as good as their
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: defensive backs or their defensive line. Not that that's like
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: a necessarily a slight I mean, I just they're really
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: high level at those two spots, and so you know,
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: it limits. You know, one thing Jim Knowles brought from
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma State was like three safety cons three high safety concepts,
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: and like, even though they don't necessarily run three high safeties.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: You see some of it permeate what they do and
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: it gives us some coverage flexibility like we talked about
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: the past, like they can drop to a and we
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: saw this game like a Cover two where Jordan Hancock
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: the nickel is one of the dp P haf and
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: you have Caleb Downs as like the Tampa Bay you know,
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: Tampa two pole runner, so he's sort of in the
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: middle of the field, or you can you know, rotate
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: the coverage either way. When they get into four to three,
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: they can't do that because they're not looking to drop
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: linebackers back, you know, and flip who's going where. So
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: you see here it's a Cover one in four to
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: three and that that limit and then they can't trade off.
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: The coverage is as much in Cover one even so
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: like you have here, as they know, like Western Michigan
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: took advantage of that.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: They a little bit.
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: They sent there. They get into these twelve personnels and
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: then they'd send their wide receivers at motion and they
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: obviously it has to either follow like they did here
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: with David Davidson and Bunosa, or they spiked the coverage
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: and so like Latham Ranson came down on one and
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: nintenzel Burke went back to deep safety coverage. But like
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: you know, it's hard to play man coverage in this
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: situation where you're like chasing across the field and then
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: he's basically trying to keep up with this deep in
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: cutting route. And so you know, I get why they
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: probably want to put it on a film. They will
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: probably need it against the Iowas of the world to
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: play three linebackers, so it makes sense to get game reps.
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: I just think that it should continue to be a
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: sparing versus you know, small part of their package, all.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: Right, And the last one we want to go through
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: today is called too Steel, And I thought, why is
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: this called too steel? And then you watch the video
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: and Cody Simon darn Near steals the ball from Western Michigan.
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: They very clearly were not expecting to be him to
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: be where he is. So walk us through to steel.
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, And my caveats to what I just said about
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: the four to three is like to the extent they
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: can do more in coverage with it, it's less of
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: a concerned And they did do some stuff like they
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: brand cover two and then here they run two steal
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: from the four to three and so I you know,
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: this is a great concept in itself. I thought it
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: was well timed and so, like as the name implies,
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a zone blitz. You're running two deep
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: for under and you're basically rotating the coverage, so you're
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: you're inviting the quarterback to throw right into where you're
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: rotating to hence like the steel term right, and so
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: you have basically to the three wide receiver or trip
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: side you have you're blitzing both. You're blitzing Rvl Reese
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: is the mic and Sunny Styles is kind of setting
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: up outside contained as the salmon, then coming in. And
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: then you have Ignunosen playing the flat so like a
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: trap two corner right, so he's seeing hard on any
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: like outbreaking route. And then you have from the backside
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: the will Cody Simon here he's playing like number two
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: in breaking routes as he breaks on the ball. And
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: then Latham Ranson's like is in a steel position, so
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: he's as you can see at the snap like he's
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: coming down and in and turning his shoulders towards the
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: inbreaking rounds. And again, so the concept is like you
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: think the quarterback's going to throw hot and you want
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: to throw and where the coverages and then you know
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: on the backside, you basically you're running. You're underneath defender
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: is Jack Sawyer. They sort of redog him here where
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: he's reading like you have only one vertical receiving threat
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: immediately right in the tight end and Denzel Berk's playing
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: the other deep half and cover two, but he can
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: kind of pick that up in man and then Sawyers,
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: I believe, reading the running back and once he stays
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: in the block, he also adds himself to the coverage.
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: So cool concept. You know, I think we're seeing like
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: dribs and drabs of of these sort of like pressures
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: that we've I've at least I have been calling for
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: from Jim Knowles, where you're not like it's not all
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: or nothing, like they're using five man's and blitzes or
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: four man simulated pressures. You know, again haven't had to
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: duel really a whole lot yet, but you can see
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: it in there and you know, as you said, this
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: nearly led to an interception.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Well thanks again to Ross for coming up and explaining
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: all the defensive stuff that you guys have been asking
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: about and wanting to learn more about. There's been a
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: lot of conversation with our exes and those guys on
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: the huddle board presented by Jeff Rubies Columbus at bucke
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: huddle dot com is where we have our whole team
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: of ex's nose Guruz there make you a smarter football fan.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: Let's play with two steel wait a membership by buckeyehuddle
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: dot com right now you basically are going to feel
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: like it is too steel because it is a great
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: deal this time of year. Lots of stuff going on
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: there with Tony, Kevin and I covering team, Mark Covern recruiting,
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: our whole team of ex'es and those gurus including Ross
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: there fill you in, answer your questions and much much more.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: It is all with buckeyehuddle dot com. Also thanks again
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: to our partners at Jeff Ruby Steakhouse, the award winning
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: upscale steakhouse in downtown Columbus named one of the top
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: fifty steakhouses in America by Food Network. Just go to
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: Jeffruby dot com slash Columbus, check out the menu and
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: make it preservation today. That'll do it for today. Thank
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us, have a great day.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah,