Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik break down Ohio State's 52-6 win over Akron.
Listen to Buckeye Talk, your favorite Ohio State football podcast, five days a week with Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis.Buckeye Talk’s in-season Monday pod is back where Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik break down the game starting with the season-opener against Indiana in which Ohio State won 52-6. Each week the breakdown will be broken up into three categories:
Read the automated transcript of today’s podcast below. Because it’s a computer-generated transcript, it may contain errors and misspellings.Welcome back to Buckeye Talk, I’m Stephen Means, that’s the Stefan Kreisnick and this is your Monday. I’ll name this later, I still don’t have a name. We’ve changed personnel on the pod, it still doesn’t have a name, I don’t know.
so, so I was impressed, man. I thought he played really well, you know, for a quarterback playing his first game at a new, new place, a new, system that throw the second touchdown to Jeremiah Smith. When I rewatched it, they had the, sky cam angle and I took a screenshot of like, that was insane. That throw was, was maybe one of the more accurate passes you’re going to see this season. It was in a window of three defenders and not only that.
Maybe he’s one of the five best quarterbacks in the world right now. I’m just saying we haven’t seen the playbook just wide open since then and it’s Akron. So let’s see it continue over the next 11 games here. But I like the early returns because of what it looks like. It’s not about the opponent. It’s not about the stat. Because the stat numbers aren’t that crazy. But it’s just when you watch it, it’s like, man, he, Chip Kelly can do some stuff here.
17 to 22, 77 % of his completion percentage. That’s a lot better than what he actually ended up with with a 61 completion percentage. But then also a couple of other players as well. add in the, did you think a Mecha’s touchdown catch was a catch or not?I thought it was, yeah, I watched it, was like, I want it not come loose. And also, Omexa should have had two touchdowns, because I forgot about that penalty, the pass interference. He should have had two touchdowns in that game, I feel bad for.
At all about. Playmaker quarterback maybe tries to do something a little too much in a game where he probably just needs to let it the play die. Any concern about that at all? Just based off of we did see a small moment of it on Saturday.Yeah, I don’t think so. I just think he’s if he was maybe a younger quarterback, I’d be a bit more concerned. I mean, he’s a veteran at that point. The offense was still kind of trying to find some rhythm. I think he was just trying to do too much at that point.
And I think the defense, it was weird kind of walking out of it because you didn’t feel like it was necessarily a dominant performance by them. It was a pretty good performance. think Akron just like was so slow and ran so much time. It felt like the defense was on the field forever when they were like, I think Akron ended up winning the title possession. I know they were up a decent margin at some point in the fourth quarter.
was getting smacked around by either Jack Sawyer, Lathan Ransom, JT Twin Malo out. Like they’re all just getting licks on him in a way that it was violent. It was quite violent. So I’m gonna say Jack Sawyer, who had four pressures and honestly probably could have had at least one sack if some things had gone the other way. think he had one close sack and then Tyler Williams got it at the end of that. But Jack Sawyer.This was not a we’ve had this conversation about the defensive line in past.
Ryan Day has emphasized it the need to play a lot of these young guys and need to you might have 16 game season, but also something he said after the game that I think was extremely interesting and talking about the metrics of when you get to December, they’re paying attention to some of that stuff. And that’s I think some of those metrics are just health wear and tear.
I think there’s an opening for even when Cody Simon comes back, Arval Reese might be a part of this linebacker rotation.Yeah, I agree. And you pointed out even later in the game when some of the backups were in, CJ was still there. And I think it was for that reason of getting him some more reps where he’s not necessarily getting into the backfield and terrorizing a quarterback. So yeah, I agree. I think that’s a good observation. It’s definitely something to watch this year.
So I want to give him a shout out because I thought he did play really well and if he gets those two touchdowns, we’re talking about his game a lot differently than we are. I thought Jeremiah was really good man. I thought he was really good and I still hold on to him being the player of the game on the offense.You had three receivers with at least 50 yards receiving, you two running backs with at least 50 yards rushing.
When you’re looking for you’ve got three great options and really four because Brandon is and I’ll talk about Brandon in a second. He’s very, very good. But if there is a strong connection growing between Jeremiah Smith and Will Howard to where it’s kind of like as Joe Burrow said effort, Jamar is down there somewhere. Some of those throwaways for Will might have just been effort. Jeremiah is down there somewhere.
It’s going to be great for him in this offense when he’s splitting the carries and he broke some big runs, bigger runs kind of late in the game there as Ohio State started gets some momentum and you’re watching and you’re like those two guys are very hard to defend at running back because there are different styles of play and they compliment each other really well. So this debate of which one’s better than the other guy, it’s almost tough to do because they are different.
and they seem ego less enough to be like, yeah, okay, I only got seven today. All right, that’s fine. But also, all right, I’m getting the ball today. Let’s roll with it. They compliment each other very, very well, both in their skillsets, but also the fact that I don’t think one of them is going to be pouting on the sideline if it comes a day where it’s very clear the other one probably needs the ball a little bit more. And so they’re just not going to be as much a part of the offense.
the Georges and the Bambas. needed more from the portal than Ohio State did. But there’s two different ways to approach the portal. And it’s not necessarily right or wrong. And I think what Ohio State did is smart. you see it right there with Quin -Shon and Trevon. They didn’t go get Quin -Shon just because, ooh, big name running back into portal.
It just doesn’t matter because he’s Jeremiah Smith, but he missed the block on Ennis’s only target on another one of those bubble situations. Those quick, quick reads where it’s a very quick decision that I think I’m not sure if Dennis could have done much with it, but it’s the fact that Jeremiah misses his block. And so it throws off the entire play. Brand, speaking of Brandon, this is a note from my girlfriend who just happened to be sitting here with me while I was doing the rewatch.
There was a pitch they ran the quinch on Judkins. I think could have gone for at least 12 or 16 yards and Joshua Simmons missed the blitzing safety that he was supposed to pick up. And even the announcers pointed that out. But Josh, Josh Simmons, 62 snaps, 66 point 67 .6. And then you have to go a little bit lower down. Josh Fryer, 59 .1 and 62 snaps and Seth McLaughlin, 62 snaps, 74 .9. He was the highest of any of the starters.
Odd it felt like even when the offense was finding a rhythm when will Howard was getting comfortable There were still times where the offensive line was a little bit off and you’re gonna get that over the course of a game I understand it’s football.
Who knows with soft tissue things sometimes it can be a setback, right? It’s very easy. It’s that they’re not as quick and simple as maybe a bone injury where she’s like, all right, you’re out for a month and you’ll be back. So we’ll see what Donovan Jackson, but Austin Sarah Ville has never really worked with Joshua Simmons in a game. Seth McLaughlin has never worked with any of these guys in a game. This is Tegra Shabola’s first start. So he’s never worked with these guys in a game.
Trevion had kind of been exposed to the entire game. We talked about James Peoples and how he was running the ball, especially in the second half when he’s got a lot of his carries. But it’s just, I just want to see the offensive line do its job next Saturday. Let’s start there and then we can start building towards, hey, is this championship caliber? But right now, just do your job.Yeah, there are not a lot of plays where I watched it.
and what the rest of the country is doing. So we’ll do that very quickly when we come back from this final break here on Buckeye Talk. as that game went on, they’re a force man. And I really hope things click for Ohio State so we can see Ohio State and Georgia playing the national championship game because I think those are the two best teams, right? And we wanna see them play against each other as the one seed and the two seed. But they’re scary, man. And it looks like Kirby Smart did all the right things this off season. And they played that game without ETN, which was probably their best.
It’s just understandable. There’s six shutouts among ranked opponents in Ohio State, probably with the best defense in the country. Could have been among those, that’s a nitpicky thing to say at this point when you’ve a game by 40, which I saw a tweet from someone. I think it was the best tweet ever. Ryan Day’s ability to beat teams by 40 and still tick off the fan base is just like the most funny thing in the world. That’s his life. He wins by 40 and then we nitpick his team. So it’s fine.
And I am now going to be paying attention to Oregon and see like, okay, it’s still gonna be a big game. Oregon’s probably still gonna win all these games, but we’re looking, we have to spend five weeks just poking holes in both of these teams. And Oregon has already has a bigger hole. They’ve already poked a bigger hole than Ohio.
I don’t know what the punishment is going to be and we can go back and forth on what the punishment should be. Whatever. There is this deep underground sign stealing thing that I believe a lot of teams do. Maybe not to the extent that Michigan did it. And that’s where you cross the line and you kind of admit in the documentary that you did cross that line. So we’ll see whatever the punishment is. I don’t know. We can get into that for hours. The whole thing is just, it’s shady.
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