Most frustrating stat IMO from the W on Saturday

Sooooo what’s the difference in the 4th? Did OSU adjust or did we get uber conservative and predictable?  We ran a dive up the gut SIX times in a row across two series. 

Personally, I dont think Ludwig wanted to take Whitts wrath if they aired it out and turned the ball over so he called vanilla, conservative plays to sit on the lead.

The bottom line is we stopped being aggressive. Whether that was in a desire to be safe, or whether it was because they were playing “not to lose”, the end result is the same.

Sucky football.

Race car drivers don’t slow down at the end of the race when they have a big lead so as to make sure their cars don’t blow. They keep the pedal to the metal all the way to the finish.

We need to adopt a mindset of doing that.

I would stack the box against every Utah offensive play. You shut down the run and force Bentley to throw or tuck and run.

It is extremely obvious that the Oline runs out of gas. They haven’t BEEN ABLE TO condition and train properly. 

Bentley is kind of Hays 2.0. Feels like the best available for Utah. He has probably been told explicitly that Lisk will come in if he throws picks and into double coverage again. It worked in its own way but in the fourth it really backfires. 

I think OSU read our mind about wanting to run the ball in the 4th. They went to an 8 man box, several sets were 4,4 where it looked like a line of 4 LBs right behind the DL. Safeties creeping up. OSU defended for run, we did have a 9 yard run but the rest went nowhere. I think we wanted to assure the clock kept running. The solution would be play action and quick slants or even runs outside but Utah kept running inside. I expect we learned something about our predictability.