From a takeaways perspective, spring games are tricky. It’s great to watch some Buckeye football to tide us over for a while as we now enter the longest stretch of the offseason, but for the purpose of film study, everything has to be qualified a bit. It has to be qualified because, well, it’s a scrimmage. It isn’t a real game. There are players out, there are personnel choices that we’ll never see on the field this fall, there are kinks being worked out, and this year, there was no tackling allowed.
On top of that, Ohio State is working with a very new staff, especially on defense, meaning that a lot of the changes are still being worked on.