Spring Practice: Running Back/Fullback - Page 2 - ScarletBuckeye

PHATBUCK13 · 01-19-2012, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by hollis

I think Meyer will use a lot of guys. The top two, maybe three, order of the depth chart will be a formality IMO.

I'm still curious about Rod Smith... pretty sure we can move on from Berry though.

I know this won't happen, but again, I would love to see what Rod Smith could do as an athletic TE. He's 6'3"/235, he could play the position with ease and excel IMO.....

wesbranscum · 01-19-2012, 06:41 PM

hyde is the guy hes big powerful and runs the ball great.. solid blocking could lead to massive season for this guy...i love boren hes a tru fb and to me that a dying position in football terms...not many out there anymore...i mean look at nfl..its usually te playing fb....love watching boren seal that block on the lb or dt

Block "O" · 01-19-2012, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by wesbranscum

hyde is the guy hes big powerful and runs the ball great.. solid blocking could lead to massive season for this guy...i love boren hes a tru fb and to me that a dying position in football terms...not many out there anymore...i mean look at nfl..its usually te playing fb....love watching boren seal that block on the lb or dt

Me too and so does Meyer. I see his and so many other players roles expanding. I see Boren being a fan favorite next year like Jacob Hester was at LSU.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-19-2012, 07:53 PM

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I'm in the minority in thinking that Jordan Hall just isn't very good.

Hall was playing injured for most of the season.............lets keep that in mind........Meyer has said he is the best pound for pound football player on the team.............I agree.

I like Hyde also............I think it really is not about who is the main guy...........all of them will get the ball.........

I think Dunn will have an instant impact here............

Arapahoe · 01-19-2012, 08:09 PM

Do you think Ball redshirts?

SanDiegoBuckeye · 01-19-2012, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Arapahoe

Do you think Ball redshirts?

I would say yes.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-19-2012, 08:40 PM

I would have to agree barring any injuries to the other running backs...........coming in during the fall will put him behind the other guys......

SanDiegoBuckeye · 01-19-2012, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by OSUBasketballJunkie

Hall was playing injured for most of the season.............lets keep that in mind........Meyer has said he is the best pound for pound football player on the team.............I agree.
I like Hyde also............I think it really is not about who is the main guy...........all of them will get the ball.........

I think Dunn will have an instant impact here............

It seems like whoever Urban talks about they are the best, so I take that with a grain of salt.

I wasn't overly impressed with Hall in Tressel's system. I thought he lacked burst, size and strength to be a B1G RB. Now that he is in Urban's system I think he could do great things. I think he's best catching passes in the backfield, on sweeps or anything where he goes east-west. I would love to see him in formations where he lines up in the backfield then motions out into the slot creating mismatches.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-19-2012, 08:45 PM

I hope everyone remembers that Hall and the rest of the running backs were running into stacked defenses.............

I thought Hall was very effective when healthy.............obviously the staff needs to put him in the best situation to be successful, which the previous staff struggled with.........they were not very imaginative.............to say the least......

OSUBasketballJunkie · 03-03-2012, 08:04 PM

ozone.net

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Football
Stan Drayton's 'To Do' List for the Buckeye Tailbacks
By Tony Gerdeman

With a mostly new staff in place at Ohio State, Stan Drayton is a fortunate exception in that he already knows quite a bit about his players. Being that he was here last year as well, he entered the offseason with an idea of where his players stood.

As the receivers coach last year, he didn't get to coach his new players much, but he clearly has more familiarity with his group than any of the other offensive coaches will have with theirs.

This should give him an advantage in preparing them for the 2012 season, but with a brand new system in place, he will still have to be able to match each individual's skills with what Urban Meyer and Tom Herman want done on offense.

With that in mind, we have imagined what a 'To Do' list for Drayton might look like as he prepares his tailbacks for Spring ball and beyond.

The understood preamble to all of this is "Hold on to the ball."

1. Find out who does what.

Meyer's teams have traditionally run the ball from all over the place. They will run wide, they will run between the tackles, they will fake both in favor of the other, and receivers and quarterbacks are just as likely to carry the ball as a running back.

Drayton will need to figure out who excels in each of these roles. Carlos Hyde would seem like a guy who, despite being the fastest tailback on the team, is more of a north-south guy. Jordan Hall, meanwhile, has the quickness to make people miss out in space.

Each tailback will be taught all of the plays, and rep them as well. but the fact remains that some players will always prefer certain plays and situations. However, you don't want to get too situationalized to where a defense knows what is coming, although even if they do get a bit predictable, that's where the option reads equalize matters.

The purpose of this offense is to make a defense defend the entire field. Knowing who does what best is a large part of that. When Meyer and Herman are coming up with a list of their top playmakers, they are also coming up with a list of plays that those players excel at. It's up to Drayton to help them figure that part out.

2. Find out how many carries your guys are actually going to get.

In Urban Meyer's two stops prior to arriving at Florida, running backs tallied about 55% of the total number of the teams' carries. In his first season at Florida, without a real running threat at quarterback for the first time in his career, that number jumped to 61%. It still marks the highest percentage of carries given to running backs in his career.

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