Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknotts.com.

Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknotts.com.

You're on Thursday, April 21st, 2022. I am Dave Bittel. I am joined by the Dean of Ohio State Football Recruiting Bill Curley.

I am joined by Mark Porter, the man behind Scouting Ohio. There's a lot of great stuff for Bucknotts as well.

You guys have any questions? Shoot him our way. Mark, I want to start with you, my man.

You've done a nice, we're going, most of the show is going to be about Ohio State Recruiting today,

but you did a really nice breakdown, a two-part breakdown for the site. Jim Knowles is new defense.

Give us the Cliff Notes version of your excellent breakdown of Jim Knowles' defense. What are you seeing so far from this new look defense?

Yeah, I think we went beyond the Cliff Notes, because I think that's what the Bucknotters have been getting for the past couple of months,

is just Cliff Notes from what he had done in the past. We hadn't seen it really in action with the Buck Eyes, but what we did is we took a look at that three safety look.

We took a look about how that safety is going to have to come down in the box, whether it's in the middle of the play, middle linebacker,

or whether it's on the edge to play the flats and the C gap or D gap.

We kind of pointed out a few areas of stress for the opposing quarterback, which means the pre-stab read.

Whatever you're looking at pre-stab is not what you're going to get post-stab. The safeties are moving around.

They're showing you a vanilla cover, too, and it's rolling to cover three.

So the complexities there were nice to see, even though it was supposed to be a vanilla package in the spring game.

We work at a show a lot or a game plan. And then the other thing we showed is how the safeties get stressed out when they come up on an island in the alley.

That's a lot of ground for them to cover, trying to wrangle down in the lead athlete in the open field as one of the harder things to do in sports.

You'd rather have him in a confined area in a phone box tackle on them.

So as we saw safeties come down in the box, you saw the one-on-one battles.

That's something I think we could foreshadow this season. You're going to see a lot of safeties coming down and making some open field tackles.

Or, conversely, not making with tackle.

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