TrustMeIamRight
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Shea Patterson has thrown for 300 yards in each of his last three games. He also threw for over 275 two other times this year. Also, is 6 drops a record for drops in a game? Where did you get that from?
It'll be nice to have our defensive backs healthy for the CFP, that makes a pretty big difference in our pass defense. I think we showed with Johnathan Taylor earlier this year that running on us isn't too easy either. We've faced two 1,000+ yard rushers this year and held them to 67 yards combined.
I think you're reading a bit too much into Saturday's game when diagnosing our defense. You did a good job on Young, but there were also (as usual) a ton of missed holds against him, including an extremely blatant one on your 2nd TD. That's the only way a team is actually going to stop him. That said, michigan's passing offense is pretty far from being bad. We showed after halftime that we were able to make adjustments and it worked.
I think you are confusing halftime adjustments with how the game played out. OSU didn’t start shutting down WR’s — UM starting dropping pass after pass after pass after pass.
Once the game became a blowout (AGAIN) — OSU knew everybody down was a pass and could just drop everyone in coverage. This is why we were able to break off a 45 yard run.
What makes OSU’s secondary so good this year is one guy — Chase Young. When he pressures the QB — WR’s don’t have time to run patterns. That is why UM was successful. They had a player chip Young at the line of scrimmage and double him, etc. — it gave WR’s time run routes.
After the 3rd debacle where we dropped almost every pass — UM had to throw every down, so OSU knew what was coming.