{"id":274,"date":"2007-01-09T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2007-06-07T08:07:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T15:07:50","slug":"ohio-state-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/ohio-state-what-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State: What went wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWell, after having a little time to reflect on <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/boxscore?gid=200701080033&#038;page=drives\">the debacle that was last night&#8217;s game<\/a>, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that these are the things that went wrong:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emotionally flat and rusty team, and the 51 day layoff clearly did not help.\n<li>Field position in the first half. When giving a team fields of 5, 6, 32, 34, &#038; 46 yards in the first half it&#8217;s no surprise that it leads to 27 points.\n<li>Penalties. See above. Big contributing factor to field position on two drives.\n<li>Ted Ginn&#8217;s injury. It shrunk the field dramatically.\n<li>Turnovers. The Bucks turned it over through fumbles and interceptions. Florida did not.\n<li>Befuddled defense, thinking too much rather than reacting. Applying no pressure to the opposing QB. It&#8217;s a mystery to me why we were only rushing 3 and 4 and not blitzing.\n<li>Offensive play calling, we weren&#8217;t attacking their weaknesses nor were we taking advantage of the mismatch in the run game to free up passing lanes.\n<li>And the key problem: Offensive line play. Tackles Alex Boone and Kirk Barton didn&#8217;t stop the Florida defensive ends all night. As a consequence, any advantage held by the Buckeyes of receiver vs. secondary was negated. The O line flat out stunk it up last night.\n<\/ul>\n<p>To their credit, the defense got it together and played a strong 2nd half holding Florida to 7 points after the bloodbath that was the first half. But the offense, and in particular, the line, never got it together. Credit Florida, they played a great game. But I think the Bucks contributed to their success.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it, no more about this game until next season.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nIf you liked this entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=274&#038;phase=2\">Digg It!<\/a><br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=78521&#038;s=143441&#038;i=78498\">Sunday Bloody Sunday<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.u2.com\/\">U2<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ohio+state\" rel=\"tag\">Ohio State<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/florida\" rel=\"tag\">Florida<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/national+championship\" rel=\"tag\">National Championship<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\">Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after having a little time to reflect on the debacle that was last night&#8217;s game, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that these are the things that went wrong: Emotionally flat and rusty team, and the 51 day layoff clearly did not help. Field position in the first half. When giving a team fields of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}