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Will Drew Allar Or Beau Pribula Start For Penn State vs. Ohio State? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, this is a special Big Game Week bonus
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  Speaker 1: episode of the Buckheyest Tomorrow Morning Podcast. This is one
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  Speaker 1: of these weeks, a lot of the Oregon Week, a
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  Speaker 1: lot like the Michigan Game Week will be in a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. There's just a little too much to talk
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  Speaker 1: about for just one show a day, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you a bonus episode now. And this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the rest of the stuff from the James
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  Speaker 1: Franklin press conference on Monday. Let you hear earlier about
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff he had to say about Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: and OHI related topics. This is going to be much
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  Speaker 1: more Penn State focused, but he's going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: about a bunch of stuff that is very, very important
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  Speaker 1: potential storylines for this game. Let's start with the one
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  Speaker 1: that probably is going to get the most attention, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the status of quarterback Drew Aller. Drew Aller,
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  Speaker 1: of course, has been the starter for the nine Allons
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  Speaker 1: all season long, suffered an injury against Wisconsin. Will he
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  Speaker 1: be able to go and really more on, more to
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  Speaker 1: the point, what does James Franklin need to see from
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  Speaker 1: Drew Aler this week before he's ready to make a
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  Speaker 1: decision on whether to start Aller or Bo Prabu.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's played enough football for us that
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  Speaker 2: that that timeline will go all the way up to
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  Speaker 2: the game. Really, I do think from a practice perspective,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to no matter where we're at on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to get both of those guys reps
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday and Wednesday. But it's just it's it's too early
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  Speaker 2: to tell at this point, but he's played enough football
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  Speaker 2: that I think that.
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  Speaker 3: Decision will go all the way up to game time.
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  Speaker 2: But the reality is we're going to have to have
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  Speaker 2: both guys ready, and you could even make the argument
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  Speaker 2: all three guys ready, which is challenging to do in
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  Speaker 2: a game week, is to try to get all those
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  Speaker 2: guys ready. So I have had some conversations with Danny
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  Speaker 2: and Andy about that already. We'll continue to have conversations
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  Speaker 2: about it. But I do think Drew has played enough
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  Speaker 2: football that that it'll go all the way up to
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  Speaker 2: game time until we make that decision.
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  Speaker 1: A big game means a big game week for distractions
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  Speaker 1: as well. Give me a big recruiting weekend for the
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  Speaker 1: nine Lions. It's also a big week for nil, for
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  Speaker 1: players and for media attention. So how does James Franklin
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  Speaker 1: deal with that to balance the fact that there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more interest, a lot more opportunities, but also that
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  Speaker 1: can mean a lot more distractions.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing changes for us. We have our same process with
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  Speaker 2: the players in terms of how we operate, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with those topics in season, and our guys do a.
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  Speaker 3: Good job with that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's probably it's funny because I just talked
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 3: This morning in the staff.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a big part of my job, right
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  Speaker 2: is we have some media policies kind of just how
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  Speaker 2: we govern ourselves and how we go about our business,
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  Speaker 2: which is magnified all weeks like this when everybody reaches
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  Speaker 2: out and wants to do interviews with specific players, and
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  Speaker 2: by saying, hey, players are only going to do two
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  Speaker 2: interviews mac per week helps with that, helps manage that.
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  Speaker 3: And then it's kind of the same with the staff.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're not a Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Belichick level of program in terms of it's a one
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  Speaker 2: voice deal. We don't go to that extreme, but we're
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  Speaker 2: also just not wide open either. So trying to keep
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  Speaker 2: this thing is consistent and is structured as possible uh,
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  Speaker 2: so that we can stick to our normal routine. But
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  Speaker 2: all the other things, you know, the stadium, you know,
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  Speaker 2: different things that that are going on, we don't deal
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  Speaker 2: with that. That's where Vinnie and Pat and the administration
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  Speaker 2: handle all those things. For me, I'm you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: worried about the last football building and the practice facility
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  Speaker 2: and and then Beaver Stadium, the playing surface, in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room and all those other things outside of that.
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  Speaker 3: We we try not to spend.
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  Speaker 2: Uh any if not very little time on it.
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  Speaker 1: If Drew Aller is not able to go on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: it would be Bo Pribula getting the start for the
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  Speaker 1: Nitney Lions. What was the most important or impressive part
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  Speaker 1: of Prebula's performance in the win at Wisconsin where he
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  Speaker 1: had to come off the bench and sort of save
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  Speaker 1: the day for the Nidney Lions. And how is the
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  Speaker 1: offense different with him at end quarterback? Then when they
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  Speaker 1: have Drew Aller in there and you're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: him talk about Andy here, that would be Andy Kittle
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  Speaker 1: Nikki depend State offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm understanding your question correctly, I think I think
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  Speaker 2: as a defense, it's It's difficult because I think when
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  Speaker 2: your play you're preparing for.
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  Speaker 3: You know Drew and and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Bo will have his few plays that we sprinkle in
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  Speaker 2: there per quarter.
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  Speaker 3: That's difficult.
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  Speaker 2: But when when the kind of the game play on
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  Speaker 2: flips right and Bo's in there, it changes it dramatically,
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  Speaker 2: I think for the defense, and that is difficult.
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  Speaker 3: Most people aren't built like that, right.
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  Speaker 2: Your quarterbacks are all similar type guys, and ours are
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  Speaker 2: are very different in a lot of ways. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we're in a situation where the offense totally changes.
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  Speaker 2: But what's nice about us, and it was a big
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  Speaker 2: reason and bringing Andy here, is we do enough things
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  Speaker 2: and we have enough diversity within our playbook that we
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  Speaker 2: are able to focus on the strengths of the players
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  Speaker 2: that are in there. And that's all I really did
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday was just remind Andy of that, because this
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  Speaker 2: is a little bit of a problem in the past,
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  Speaker 2: in practice and in games that you really should strategically
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  Speaker 2: call the game differently now with Boe in the game,
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  Speaker 2: and just reminding Andy of that, let's call this game
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  Speaker 2: playing to Bow's strengths. So obviously, the threat of the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback run impacts the defense. The spike of more quarterback
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  Speaker 2: possible runs and scrambles affects the defense, and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: the strength in the passing games. You know, Bo still
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  Speaker 2: can do all those things as well, So it's just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's another kind of level of concern
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  Speaker 2: that I think it creates for the defense of things
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  Speaker 2: that they have to deal with. So I think the
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  Speaker 2: other thing I think that's really important I probably has
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  Speaker 2: not gotten talked about a whole lot, is just the
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  Speaker 2: way Bo has gone about his business since he's arrived
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  Speaker 2: on his campus. He's got everybody's respect and confidence and trust,
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  Speaker 2: so that when he went in the game, I think
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of confidence from our team that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we are blessed and fortunate to have a
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  Speaker 2: guy like Bo here in that role.
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  Speaker 1: One of the other big injury questions this week for
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  Speaker 1: Penn State involves Dennis Smith. He is one of the
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  Speaker 1: pass rushers for the Nitney Lions. Looked like he could
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  Speaker 1: be one of the potential mismatches that they might be
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  Speaker 1: able to take advantage of against the banged up Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State offensive line, and then he suffered a groin injury.
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  Speaker 1: It ll appeared against Wisconsin so you know, is he
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  Speaker 1: in the same boat as Drew Aller in terms of
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  Speaker 1: having enough experience to just sort of be able to
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  Speaker 1: take the decision right up the game time and not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily need to practice to play. You're going to heart
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  Speaker 1: Also in this answer, hear him talk about Max. He's
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  Speaker 1: talking about Max Granville, who is a freshman defensive end
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  Speaker 1: out of Texas who might be called on if Dennis
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  Speaker 1: Smith cannot play.
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  Speaker 2: Deny will have the ability to play in this game.
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  Speaker 2: He's played a ton of football. He's super mature, it's
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  Speaker 2: very intelligent, it's thoughtful, he's hard working. He's been in
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  Speaker 2: the training room the last two days. Every time I've
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  Speaker 2: gone down there, he's down there. So same thing. We'll
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  Speaker 2: go right up the game time to see, uh, kind
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  Speaker 2: of where we're at with things. If he's able to go,
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  Speaker 2: he'll go, But if not, we have we have a
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  Speaker 2: ton of confidence in those other guys as well. And
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  Speaker 2: then I think you guys saw we played Max as well,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll be prepared to play Max this week. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's still under the threshold of red shirting, which we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to try to do if we can. But if
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  Speaker 2: it comes down to you know winning, we're gonna we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do what we gotta do to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: And Max is on board with that as well.
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  Speaker 2: So too early to tell at this point, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those are veteran guys that have played enough football and
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  Speaker 2: are intelligent guys that that we feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they'll be able to go in and get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: You heard him earlier reference Andy cotle Nikki, the new
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: What made him an.
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  Speaker 1: Attractive OC target for James Franklin to begin with? And
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  Speaker 1: it's again we're gonna give you a little subtext here.
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  Speaker 1: You'll hear him talk about Lance. That is Lance Lighthold,
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  Speaker 1: who is the former Buffalo head coach now at Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so a couple things Andy, Andy has been kind
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  Speaker 2: of on my radar for a while. Actually interviewed him
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  Speaker 2: for our tight ends job when I hired Ty Howe.
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  Speaker 2: We played Buffalo when him and Lance we're at Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: and had done a good job. And then Lance and
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  Speaker 2: Andy came and visited a couple of times. I got
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  Speaker 2: a ton of respect for Lance and what he's been
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  Speaker 2: able to do. And then you know, Andy's been calling
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  Speaker 2: plays for a long time. You know, I think he's
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  Speaker 2: been doing it for nineteen years, and there's value in
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  Speaker 2: that type of experience. But probably the thing Dennis, to
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  Speaker 2: answer your question specifically, was, you know, we did some
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  Speaker 2: really good things the last couple of years, but where
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  Speaker 2: we were lacking last year blosive plays.
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  Speaker 3: So then we kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Started to look at who are the coordinators and who
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  Speaker 2: are the teams that are producing explosive plays, and not
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  Speaker 2: just because their genetics are better, Like, you know, where
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  Speaker 2: are the explosive plays coming from, how are they being created,
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  Speaker 2: are they happening on a consistent basis, and also are
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  Speaker 2: they doing it against their biggest competition. So when you
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  Speaker 2: kind of looked at those types of things, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the list narrowed down pretty quickly. And then the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we had already had a relationship and been talking
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  Speaker 2: for a while that helped. And then obviously I know
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  Speaker 2: how Lance felt about them, and I have so much
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  Speaker 2: respect for Lance. And then I will say this too,
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  Speaker 2: you know I got to give Kansas and Lance, and
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  Speaker 2: I got to give their athletic director a ton of
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  Speaker 2: credit because it wasn't easy hired.
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  Speaker 3: He's been with Lance for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: You don't make that move unless you feel good about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think Kansas is committed to winning in football
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  Speaker 2: at a level that we probably haven't seen for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. And that's a credit to their head coach
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  Speaker 2: and their athletic director as well, because it wasn't easy
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  Speaker 2: to hire him.
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  Speaker 1: The third of the potential big injury stories this week
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  Speaker 1: is at right tackle. When Anthony Donka is hurt, will
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  Speaker 1: he be able to go? We'll see Nolan Rucci, former
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  Speaker 1: five star recruit, is behind him as a potential backup
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  Speaker 1: and the guy next man up if Dunko is not
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  Speaker 1: able to play. But it sounds like this is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a different situation where with it Donka
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily being able to have as much experience as
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  Speaker 1: the other guys we talked about earlier, they might not
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  Speaker 1: be in the same boat in terms of when they
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  Speaker 1: need to make a decision there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously I don't think Anthony's in the same
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  Speaker 2: category of those guys in terms of just a number
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  Speaker 2: of games he's played in. I mean, he's really a
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  Speaker 2: first year starter this year. Both Deny and Drew are
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  Speaker 2: multiple year starters now, so it's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: We've already been playing Ruccie a bunch anyway, but we're
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  Speaker 2: going to need both of those guys, so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: living in the training room, and I think there's also
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  Speaker 2: really for all of our players, there's that maturation process
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  Speaker 2: that I think a lot of times comes from the
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  Speaker 2: players of figuring out what can you play with and
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  Speaker 2: should you play with and what can't you and guys
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  Speaker 2: have to figure that out. That's part of maturity and
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  Speaker 2: growth as a football player. Obviously, ultimately the medical people
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  Speaker 2: will step in there when a guy can't play, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the guys that can play that have
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  Speaker 2: to kind of figure out how to play with those
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  Speaker 2: bumps and bruises and things like that. So that's where
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  Speaker 2: that leadership is really important. I think Donka is working
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  Speaker 2: through that right now. This week will be really important.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great kid, he's a smart kid. He was
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  Speaker 2: in a training room when I left as well him
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  Speaker 2: and Roucci. So we expect to play both of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: But it's too early to say.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked before about the fact that I always like
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  Speaker 1: talking to James Franklin at Big ten media days, and
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  Speaker 1: I know there's lots of other stuff going around around
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  Speaker 1: James Franklin and he's not necessarily universally loved, but you
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  Speaker 1: do get thoughtful answers out of him when you're sitting
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  Speaker 1: down and talking to him in a media setting, and
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  Speaker 1: so this is an example of that. He was asked,
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  Speaker 1: what is the identity of his team right now? At
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  Speaker 1: this point of the season. Do they know what the
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  Speaker 1: identity of the team is? Now? He's not going to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, but he's not going to answer the
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  Speaker 1: question in a really interesting way because it really kind
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  Speaker 1: of gets into how he approaches preparation for when they're
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  Speaker 1: facing other teams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good question, and I understand the question.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to answer that because in my mind,
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  Speaker 2: what I try to do every single week is try
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  Speaker 2: to get the identity of the team we're playing and
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  Speaker 2: use that against them. I think whenever you can say, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is what this team's identity is, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to take take it away.
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  Speaker 3: And use it in our advantage.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you guys got a pretty good idea
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  Speaker 2: at this stage of what our identity is and how
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  Speaker 2: we've played and how we've won games. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: think there's a question of that anymore. I think the
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  Speaker 2: first three to four games there was some questions about
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  Speaker 2: that who we were going to be, But I think
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  Speaker 2: at this stage that that's pretty established, and.
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  Speaker 3: More times than not, it doesn't matter what I say,
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  Speaker 3: it's what it's what you guys say and what you
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  Speaker 3: guys right anyway, that that matters. So I'll let I'll
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  Speaker 3: let you, I'll let you describe that.
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  Speaker 1: If bo Pabula is forced to go because Drew Aller
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  Speaker 1: is not available on Saturday, it will make the Penn
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  Speaker 1: State offense different certainly then it would be under Aler.
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  Speaker 1: Pabula as a much better scramble game, much more mobile
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  Speaker 1: than Aler is. But he's also grown quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: since high school as a passer. Jim Franklin was asked
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  Speaker 1: about bo Prebula's growth in the throw game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I even go back to watching him
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  Speaker 2: in high school. I remember, you know, as you guys know,
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  Speaker 2: I try to go out and see all the seniors
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  Speaker 2: if I can, that are committed to us, and I
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  Speaker 2: remember going to watching him play, and I remember coming
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  Speaker 2: back and just being so impressed. The game looks so
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  Speaker 2: easy to him, he was so poised the game I
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  Speaker 2: was at. You know, I mean, you guys can go
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  Speaker 2: back and look at but it was, like I want
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  Speaker 2: to say, it was like fourteen or sixteen or something
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 3: It just looks so.
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  Speaker 2: Easy to him athletically, accuracy, decision making. I came back
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  Speaker 2: and we just really impressed watching him play live, and
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  Speaker 2: then he showed up on our campus. And he's smart,
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  Speaker 2: and he's mature, and he's extremely competitive and attacks it
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  Speaker 2: in every area in the weight room, the classroom, on
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 3: His teammates love him. He's just done everything kind of
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  Speaker 3: the right way.
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  Speaker 2: And I think probably the thing that everybody talks about is
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  Speaker 2: his ability to make plays with his legs, But I
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  Speaker 2: don't think there's anybody within our program that that that
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  Speaker 2: also doesn't believe that that he can do it with
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  Speaker 2: his arm too. He's got a different throwing kind of
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  Speaker 2: style and mechanics than than what than what Drew does,
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  Speaker 2: but he gets a ton of reps and a ton
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  Speaker 2: of opportunities. And I will say this too, in the past,
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  Speaker 2: there was some challenges where I felt like when he played,
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  Speaker 2: we had to call the game differently, and I still
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  Speaker 2: believe that, but I also think there's some times in
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  Speaker 2: the past where we didn't do that and he would
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  Speaker 2: play more of a style play like Drew, and I
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  Speaker 2: think in a lot of ways that's benefited him too,
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  Speaker 2: because he's had to prepare as if he's not the
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  Speaker 2: mobile quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: That he is.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's positives that come from that as
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  Speaker 2: well throughout his development. But I think I thought Andy
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  Speaker 2: did a phenomenal job of calling the game based on
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  Speaker 2: his strengths. And then I think the other thing is
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  Speaker 2: I would make the argument, just like we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: in the past, when he goes in the game, it
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  Speaker 2: does impact our running game and forces them to defend
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  Speaker 2: the field, just like Drew's ability to pull the ball
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  Speaker 2: now and run out the backside, I think has really
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  Speaker 2: impacted our running game this year.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the same thing in the past game.
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  Speaker 2: His bow's threat as a runner, just like play action
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  Speaker 2: pass create some opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: People may feel like they have to spy him.
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  Speaker 2: So now you're leaving somebody that you're not dropping in
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  Speaker 2: the coverage, which creates some more opportunities to throw the
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  Speaker 2: ball down the field.
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  Speaker 3: So it's another weapon. It's another thing that they have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been very, very pleased with his overall development
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  Speaker 2: as a total quarterback more than just his athleticism and
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: his legs.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: And finally another name that I'm sure people know already
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: from the Penn State defense, Abdul Carter defensive end. He's
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: another guy who I think a lot of people are
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: sort of looking at with a little bit of concern
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  Speaker 1: this week given some of Ohio State struggles on the
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: offensive line and what that might look like against a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: rush edge like Abdul Carter. And State actually did something
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a little different with Carter last week. They had him
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: play off ball as a linebacker last week. That's something
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: they had not really shown before. So what goes into
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a decision like that for James Franklin and decisions on
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: when you make a tweak like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is we want to make sure,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: just like on off from a game plan in perspective,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: kind of like what you do with Tyler Warren, very
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: similar defensively, Right, if Abdull Carter is always lined up
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  Speaker 2: at the same side at defensive end, then you can
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you can.
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  Speaker 3: See what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Right, people are going to make sure they always have
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: a running back chip into that side, or they line
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: up a tight end to that side to extend the
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: length of the line of scrimmage or the excuse me,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the the offensive line to widen him from the quarterback
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: to now chip him with the tight end on the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: way out. It's funny because sometimes people say, well, they're
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: in an empty formation, but they're really not. Because they
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: got a tight end in the wing position and a
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: running back in the wing position, nobody in the backfield.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: It's not really an empty formation.
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  Speaker 2: So what you're trying to do is you're trying to
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: game plan on defense where you can move Abdul around
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: where the offense can't say we're always going to to
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: ship with a tight end, ship with a running back,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: slide the line to try to create a double team
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: to his side with the guard and tackle, and by
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: moving him around from left defensive end to right defensive
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  Speaker 2: end to off the ball linebacker who now can walk
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: up into like a bear front over the center or
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: off the ball and blitz. You know, there's obviously an
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: advantage to doing that. I think the other thing is
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: his linebacker days help him as a dropper as well,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: because although defensive ends typically drop in a lot of
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: people's schemes, it's not something that they're natural at. Where
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Abdul that comes very natural to him. He's made interceptions
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: and plays in the passing game in that role as well,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: but obviously more times than not, we'd preferm rushing the quarterback.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So just having diverse city within what we do is
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: important schematically, but also to put him in the best
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: position to be productive and cause challenges and issues for
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator and a quarterback and the center to
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: id where he's going to be and how they're going
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: to account for him. So very similar to what we're
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: doing on offense with Tyler Warm trying to do the
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: same thing on defense with a duel. Some of those things,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: to your point, we've done that week based on our
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: opponent and where we think there's there's issues.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: And then on top of that, some of them are
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: game plan.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Specific based on who you're playing or you've been working
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: on it for the last couple of.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Weeks, you know, just waiting for the right time to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: use it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So that will do it for this episode of the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning Podcast. We'll be back with more on Tuesday.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Going to get a chance to talk to a high
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: state head coach, Ryan Day, defensive coordinator Gym Knowles, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, a lot of stuff to talk
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: about there with all three of those guys. We'll be
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: back with more or after that episode after those interviews,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and then we'll of course have much more coming up
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: this week. Again, big game means extra coverage for you
• 22:08
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• 22:10
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• 22:14
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• 22:16
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• 22:18
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• 22:20
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• 22:23
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• 22:25
  Speaker 3: That'll do it for now. We'll talk to you later
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: on