This is an excerpt from rival publication Addicted to Quack. It was an interesting take with regards to what the LBs and secondary had to deal with last year. I thought it was an accurate summary.
"The 2018 Beavers illustrate quite well how singularly a terrible defensive line will doom an otherwise promising team. Even disruptive linebackers have nothing to do when their toes are getting stepped on by the heels of linemen being blown 5 yards off the ball every snap, and even a fairly productive offense will inevitably underperform on the scoreboard when they have to go 75 yards on every single drive. At every position but defensive line they've got P5-caliber players, and they have a better assembled coaching staff than a lot of far more prestigious teams I've examined (notably the ones in LA) ... OSU ought to have been better than 2-10. But turnstiles for d-linemen and it's all for naught."
"The 2018 Beavers illustrate quite well how singularly a terrible defensive line will doom an otherwise promising team. Even disruptive linebackers have nothing to do when their toes are getting stepped on by the heels of linemen being blown 5 yards off the ball every snap, and even a fairly productive offense will inevitably underperform on the scoreboard when they have to go 75 yards on every single drive. At every position but defensive line they've got P5-caliber players, and they have a better assembled coaching staff than a lot of far more prestigious teams I've examined (notably the ones in LA) ... OSU ought to have been better than 2-10. But turnstiles for d-linemen and it's all for naught."
