The complexity of Jim Knowles' defense is causing confusion for Ohio State's offensive players, who say “we haven’t ever seen a defense like this.”
Jim Knowles’ defense is designed to confuse Ohio State’s opponents on the gridiron, but the revamped scheme has plenty of the Buckeyes’ own offensive players scratching their heads this spring.
Knowles, whose Oklahoma State defense ranked in the top 10 nationally in total, scoring and rushing defense a year ago, detailed the mission statement for his scheme upon arrival in Columbus. Creating confusion and disguising true intentions are crucial for the success of his defense, and Knowles has gotten to experiment with doing exactly that against one of the nation’s top offenses over the past several weeks.
“With our defense and what Coach Knowles does, you never know what you’re gonna get. … All the sudden you get three guys up the A gap and you didn’t even see it coming in the first place,” Brown said. In Knowles’ linebacker room, the players lining up across the line of scrimmage from Stroud, Brown and Kyle McCord have detected the confusion the new scheme is causing, and Steele Chambers said it’s a marked difference from last year.
Knowles wants to install as much of his scheme as possible in the spring for the sake of getting it all on tape for the Buckeyes to watch back, but the complexities may keep that from being a realistic goal until September comes into clearer view.
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