We thought if we get control of the game, Ohio State would have trouble playing from behind, but they played very well from behind. Nobody ever would have thought they would throw for that kind of yardage, but they changed the tempo of the game, they made it very hard for us to pressure the quarterback.
Quotes about yardage (16 Quotes)
They're using them very well. Both compliment each other and they both seem to have outstanding yardage, yet neither one of them has an overly amount of carries.
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Big plays like that are hard to overcome. One play to eat up that kind of yardage is tough. For us to be the kind of team we want to be we can't give up yardage in big chunks like that. We'll go back and work on that and get it taken care of.
Club selection was the most difficult part of the game today. It seems like it changes all the time. You've got to get your yardage and stick to a club that you're comfortable with and go with that. If you miss those greens on the flags on top, it's very difficult to get it up and down.
One of the Walsh tenets that he says repeatedly in his book, is that in his offense 50 percent of all the passing yardage should come on yards after the catch. So, if that's what you're banking on, if there's not much yards after catch, then you have a lot of short throws, a lot of catches for minimal yardage that don't amount to a great deal of production.
It gave the offensive line the confidence they needed and they started getting better as the game went on. He's just a punishing runner. It hurts to tackle him. We don't get any negative yardage when he runs the ball because he is such a powerful runner.
It really starts with getting less third-and-long situations, and that's what we've gotten ourselves into early. Our short yardage has hurt us. We've missed on three third-and-ones and one third-and two. If you convert those, we're middle of the pack on third down. Now we've been great in short yardage (in the past). It hasn't been great to start out with, and we'll improve on that.
Mitchell said. ''He's still ticking pretty good. No question the system you run in is very important. How do you get your yards Ricky Williams had over 1,000 yards that last year in Miami 2003 but he was only averaging about 3.5 yards a carry. That's tough, tough yardage. Your body will only take but so much of that. Corey can get those yards, but he gets them outside, too.
I've got to put on some more points and more yardage,
We'd like to tackle the quarterback, ... Traditionally here, we've taken great pride in the way we played defense. Like every other program in the country, the spread offense creates problems. I've said this because when you use the quarterback, really in many instances like a tailback, and yet you have four wide receivers and you spread the defense out, you're going to give up some yardage, you're going to give up some points. I think that's fundamental.
There was a time in the first half where we completed seven passes in a row, which is really good. We don't care about touchdown passes. We don't care about yardage. We care about completions.
We take a lot of pride in what we do. Most fans don't pay attention to what we do, but there's a lot of hidden yardage as far as coverage units. People say you have to be a little crazy, a little off to play special teams anyways. We have 11 guys that are crazy.
It's great to be back competing, but there is a process. It took me a few holes. I had to learn how to open my yardage book again.
We have to convert third downs, ... It's the only way we're going to keep our defense off the field. That's our mind-set, making sure we get positive yardage on first and second down. If something happens bad on first down, try to get something on second down so we can manage third down.
We can line him up over the center-guard gap in short yardage and let him attack without hindering his development as a center.