ESPN analyst says Texas got ‘Bill Belichick-ed’ in brutal Week 1 loss to Ohio State
By Jacob Moss
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The Texas Longhorns traveled up to The Shoe for a week 1 showdown with the Ohio State Buckeyes and walked out with a pretty disappointing loss, with new QB Arch Manning struggling greatly against a stout Buckeyes’ defense.
The success that OSU had on defense against Arch and the Longhorns’ elite defensive unit has naturally been a massive talking point following their dominant showing, and ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky summed up what happened to Texas in a very interesting way on Get Up this morning.
“Arch Manning and Sark got Bill Belichick-ed,” Orlovsky said. “I know coach Belichick plays later tonight, but Arch will not see another defense that is as sophisticated, as complicated, as much as they change pre-snap to post-snap. I’m not telling America that Arch didn’t have some misses. Ff course, he had some misses … That game went the way it did for Arch because of Matt Patricia and that Ohio State secondary.”
Orlovsky is referencing the Belichick-style defense that Patricia has installed in his first season as the defensive coordinator for the Buckeyes, a system that he learned and perfected over the decade-plus he spent on Belichick’s defensive staff in New England.
Many NFL teams have suffered a similar fate over the years, and now Texas has learned what it’s like to face the juggernaut of a system that Patricia learned from one of the greatest coaches of all time.
