Let's hope and assume Washington is becoming the next AA WR at OSU, and let's assume he starts drawing double coverage consistently.
My question for Indy or anyone else with some good X's and O's knowledge would be, how much would it help our running game if Washington consistently demanded double coverage? How does it change our offense and play calling?
It would make sense that at least one safety would have to play back (which would help the run game) and it would also mean all of other receivers would draw single coverage, which would also be nice. How would this assist the Walsh package?
Against TCU we saw why Gundy wanted a good run game and worked it on a bunch early in the year, we had a big lead and we needed to eat clock and shorten the game in the 4th quarter, need to do this to save our defense so many reps coming down the stretch run against these up tempo offenses, we are in a war of attrition in this stretch run and you want guys to be as fresh as possible.
If our offense had just eaten up 5-6 minutes in the 4th quarter it would have been HUGE. Instead, our defense forced a 19 play drive that ate up 7 minutes of clock (and stopped Baylor on 4th down) and basically the ball game was over. Baylor's 7 minute drive was a thing of beauty, it killed half a quarter and all but guaranteed they did not have enough time to come back and win.
It seems to me, IF OSU could get a run game going that could eat a few first downs, our window of holding a margin late and winning goes up tremendously.
So, can Washington help our offense open up the field for our RB's a little bit? You would think Washington would be considered for double coverage after what he has done the last 2 weeks.
My question for Indy or anyone else with some good X's and O's knowledge would be, how much would it help our running game if Washington consistently demanded double coverage? How does it change our offense and play calling?
It would make sense that at least one safety would have to play back (which would help the run game) and it would also mean all of other receivers would draw single coverage, which would also be nice. How would this assist the Walsh package?
Against TCU we saw why Gundy wanted a good run game and worked it on a bunch early in the year, we had a big lead and we needed to eat clock and shorten the game in the 4th quarter, need to do this to save our defense so many reps coming down the stretch run against these up tempo offenses, we are in a war of attrition in this stretch run and you want guys to be as fresh as possible.
If our offense had just eaten up 5-6 minutes in the 4th quarter it would have been HUGE. Instead, our defense forced a 19 play drive that ate up 7 minutes of clock (and stopped Baylor on 4th down) and basically the ball game was over. Baylor's 7 minute drive was a thing of beauty, it killed half a quarter and all but guaranteed they did not have enough time to come back and win.
It seems to me, IF OSU could get a run game going that could eat a few first downs, our window of holding a margin late and winning goes up tremendously.
So, can Washington help our offense open up the field for our RB's a little bit? You would think Washington would be considered for double coverage after what he has done the last 2 weeks.
