Week 5: Coaching Points Round-Up
For more detailed and live coaching points, follow me @SpaceCoyoteBDS as I send live tweets during the game. Ohio State LINK Purdue Purdue - like many teams - ran a mesh concept. Nice, easy read for a QB that is struggling to find a rhythm Purdue had some success on the ground. They ran Power O nicely a few times where their combo block really crushed NIU's interior DL. LBs didn't do a good job of "reading hats" of NIU. If helmet gets high, it's pass. If low, it's run. Purdue heavily bit on PA. Part of this is because of the amount of man coverage from Purdue Interior OL needs to be better with feet and hands in pass pro. Got beat once because RG reached, causing his feet to plant, and he was unable to get hands or body into DT. Henry needed to do a better job of putting his receivers in a position to succeed. Against zone coverage he lead his TE into a hit. He needs to stop the TE in zone with the pass, even if the TE doesn't do it himself. ...