James Williams
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he was a zero factor. Jamari came up big, other than Hartzog with the INT, don't recall many other standouts on Saturday.
Their OT play might keep them from winning a title. The player that got hurt later in the game looked flat out bad.
IF I recall correctly their starting LT is out with an injury. There aren't many if any "bad" players in their 2 deep. Most of them would start for us.
Their LT was about as bad as Corcoran was last year. Their line struggled and was one of the main reasons the game was even close.
First LT seemed to be a turnstile. RT seemed ok. Williams seemed to be going against the RT. Butler was dominating that first LT.
Because their LG was very good and was able to cover for the LT at times. Butler and the DT's were also making plays. Pressure doesn't always have to come from the same place.
IIRC - I think he got mugged pretty good at least once - and a someone else already noted, he probably isn't strong enough to overcome that on a regular basis.
I remember one play he was the right side of the D and took an inside angle and got caught up in the traffic. I remember thinking at the time that with all the problems tOSU was having with tackles why we didn't try to utilize an outside speed rush. We also left that side pretty open as I recall.
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Let's see. To the naked eye...10 and 48 played well. I also thought Singleton flew around better than he had all season. That dude was a walking hit stick Saturday.
5 was a bit more quiet than normal. I was disappointed in Gifford. Imo he's on the struggle bus and has been on it for a while now. I love the person but always thought he's not quite athletic/fast enough to be an elite Safety. But not quite big enough to swing down to LB. I think he's a "football player" and I love him but moving forward we are gonna need better athletes on the back end. Not just him either. Same could be said for older Buford and Hartzog as well. Great character guys but not "dudes". It's a fine line between having those dudes and putting some playmakers on the field.
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We need to get some of those DBs who make a mildly good play then get a 15 yard flag for pretending to shoot the opponent with a mimed gun. Then we’ll be back
Gifford looked like a better player last year. His coverage skills and 1-1 tackling seem to have regressed off. I think playing with Quinton Newsome helped hide some of his deficiencies.
DCs found him. They try to make him have to make a decision. They identified that sometimes (not all the times) if he has to make a decision that he'll hesitate for a spit second that he can't recover from or in the case of that QB keep on the zone read for a first down he'll make a bad choice. He's still a good college player but those kind of things on film hurt him.
To be fair, the flexibility in White's defense demands a lot form his linebackers and we changed things up a lot for OSU.