Ohio State football coach gives an excellent reason not to worry about sack totals

The Ohio State football team has done a lot of good in this young season. They are 3-0 and haven't been threatened in any sort of real way. They haven't been close to losing a game yet. While the schedule hasn't been particularly difficult, it's still encouraging to see the Buckeyes play so well.

What hasn't been encouraging are the sack numbers so far. Specifically, from the defensive line. The defensive line has not gotten home nearly enough for the talent that is up front. In fact, the defensive line had just one sack in the game against Marshall. The team as a whole has nine sacks this season.

That is alarming, especially considering how good the defensive line was supposed to be. While it didn't help that Tyleik Williams was hurt for this game, they should still be able to get to the quarterback more than one time against a Sun Belt opponent.

Ryan Day shares great response as to why he's not concerned about sacks for the Ohio State football team

During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, he was asked about the lack of sacks against Marshall. Day said that he isn't concerned with the numbers and that they will come. The reason why he isn't concerned is very illuminating. Take a look at his full response.

Day knows what the team's goals are and it's to win games. Winning games requires a lot of things, but it doesn't necessarily require a lot of sacks. Sacks will come when the quarterback isn't running an RPO all game. It comes when he actually has to hold the ball and make a decision.

Marshall's only chance at success was running a lot of RPOs. The Ohio State Buckeyes won't see a lot of those during the Big Ten portion of the schedule. Oregon is the only team that might run them as often as the Thundering Herd did. Sacks won't be a big deal for that game either.

Day isn't concerned. If we see a low number of sacks against Michigan State this weekend, that will be a different story.