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Mosleys td. First remember that the first play was a pass to miller out of the backfield. Little Dump over the line and he fell forward for a yard. 6 yard gain. Left side. This is key. 2nd and 4.
obvious running down right? USC was awful against whiskey and wants to establish the run Osu knows this Miller lined up next to Maiava and two tight ends Ashcroft on the left
count the guys on the line for Ohio THE state 6 Rmembwr how angry you were on 4th down when whiskey had bunch left and USC only had two defenders to combat 4 whiskey receivers?
USC has Mosley slot Bowman is the 3 and Dixon Wyatt is the 1. Wide right. And only two osu defenders. With those receivers I like that match up
meanwhile look at osu They are playing 1 high That means the safety is deep middle and they only have one guy deep They’ve likely got their nickel or the other safety in run support and all LB on the line Point is they have two guys on 3 to the USC right a safety high and two guys in the LB area who are probably DBs looking at either Ashcroft or miller
what happens next is genius
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Now we look at the next slide. And don’t need a 3rd because this tells us all we need to know.
Dixon Wyatt takes his man to the outside Bowman finds that free safety on the inside and seals him off They knew where Mosley was going before he caught it Trent this time didn’t make a decision He knew
Look above though 77 I think is Noa He’s pulling left number 2 the left DE of Ohio state reads this and chases So does and this is theKEY so does the guy playing MLB who is likely the nickel See him chasing to the top? This means he vacates the middle
and of course he does because USC loves that little pulling guard trap run Miller is set up for the handoff left Ashcroft is blocking inside for a run and it’s 2nd and 4 So the nickel and 2 DE Both guys who can stop what’s coming next Just got suckered They’re chasing miller and gonna Wisconsin the usc run game and set the f ing tone off they go
this leaves Jaylin McClain playing single high safety to cover the entire middle of the field like hash mark to hash mark from about 3-4 yards deep to the end zone
the goal is to get the ball to Mosley Have him run inside the seam created by bowman and Dixon Wyatt on the right And on the left created by the DE and nickel chasing miller And then saying to Mosley “can you avoid number 8?” The goal was to beat 8 Just run where he’s not and see how long it takes him or anyone else to catch up Turns out the answer was 69 yards
Mc clain also became famous by being hurdled later in the game by Bowman
My point here is to show how USC showed run Osu knew they’d want to run and usc tried and did get Mosley isolated on 4 and felt that with his speed and ability to run to open space they could break something big I assumed they thought they could get 15-20 out of it and be at midfield Good start in 2 plays but clearly everything went right
and that is why Lincoln Riley is brilliant The blocking was ok everyone just did their jobs The pull was normal the guards do it all the time Maiava made a really nifty quick sidearm throw which was the most athletic part of the play and Mosley caught the ball and ran straight ahead for 70 It worked because Riley knew what to use When to use it
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Everyone runs this play, dummy. tOSU screwed up the coverage with arrogance. Mosley is elite and Day and his dummies thought they could go head to head. Stubbornness kills. It’s the same reason why Riley is failing too.
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