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Ohio State Team Arrival In Iowa, Ryan Day Interview · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Iowa City, Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: The Ohio State Buckeyes are on the ground here in
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  Speaker 2: Iowa right now, just on their way over from the
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  Speaker 2: airport when we were here for the Texas team arrival.
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  Speaker 2: The plane was running late. The buses got stuck in traffic.
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  Speaker 2: We ended up going like 90 minutes before they got here.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be a little bit more of
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  Speaker 2: a fire drill. The Ohio State Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: Are about 10-ish minutes out right now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be sort of a speed run
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  Speaker 2: of our team arrival, hotel arrival process today.
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  Speaker 1: Joined by Tony Girvin, BuckeyeInsiders.com.
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  Speaker 2: Jack Mullaney is over there standing by with the shot
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  Speaker 2: of the team walking in.
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  Speaker 1: Again, we had to sort of throw this together at
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  Speaker 1: the last minute.
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  Speaker 2: But Tony, first of all, it could not be a
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  Speaker 2: more perfect day here in Iowa City.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's beautiful. You have not seen a cloud yet today.
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  Speaker 4: We did.
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  Speaker 3: Drive through some rain on the way here, but nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's perfect. The weather looks perfect for Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Could not be asking for a better day.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, this is one of those games where
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  Speaker 2: if you're Ohio State, that is very good news. Iowa,
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  Speaker 2: if it was snowing tomorrow, Iowa would probably be perfectly
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  Speaker 2: fine with that. The weather, bad weather being a sort
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  Speaker 2: of equalizer of talent. This is a game where Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: if Ohio State could play this game in a dome,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State would be happy to. They're basically getting dome
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  Speaker 2: conditions on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ideal situation. We'll see how fast the turf is, Tom,
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  Speaker 3: you know, how that goes. But really, the only contention
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  Speaker 3: that Ohio State will face will be from Iowa rather
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  Speaker 3: than any sort of conditions or anything like that. So
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  Speaker 3: they could not ask for a better day. This is
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  Speaker 3: a Chamber of Commerce.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And man, I will go ahead and be the Chamber
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  Speaker 2: of Commerce representative for Iowa City.
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  Speaker 1: I love this place.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Every time we come here, I think, man, this is just,
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  Speaker 2: it's a really nice college town, very nice campus, got
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  Speaker 2: some rolling Hills, got a river, all that stuff. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is a, it is a phenomenal, phenomenal big 10
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  Speaker 2: college town. We were just over at Kinnick stadium. I
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  Speaker 2: shot a little behind the scenes video that we'll post
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  Speaker 2: a little later on in the evening where you just
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  Speaker 2: kind of get a look around the outside of the
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  Speaker 2: stadium and then the children's hospital across the street. We
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  Speaker 2: were here in 2017 and we'll try not to linger
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  Speaker 2: on everything that happened after the children's wave or even
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  Speaker 2: before the children's wave.
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  Speaker 1: But, that is a very cool tradition that they have here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's not the oldest, but it's quickly moving up
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  Speaker 3: the list of the best traditions in college football. I
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  Speaker 3: was listening to an interview with one of the players,
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  Speaker 3: I think Deshaun Lee, a cornerback talking about that. It's
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to be part of that. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the great things about college football is
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  Speaker 3: in college sports, just being able to be part of
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  Speaker 3: a tradition, but this one is unlike anything else. And
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  Speaker 3: like I said, it's a decade old at this point,
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  Speaker 3: but like, picked up steam right away and everybody enjoys
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  Speaker 3: being a part of it. And it's always something to
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  Speaker 3: look forward to in this game. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll, we will be here for that on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we'll also be watching a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of football on Saturday and this is a game. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was a team that is not the
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  Speaker 2: most exciting team necessarily. And it's a team that I
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  Speaker 2: feel like you can overlook at times where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this year, Less so. In a normal year, Iowa's kind
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  Speaker 2: of always in that, oh boy, they're the most number
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  Speaker 2: 23 team in the nation in the.
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  Speaker 1: History of college football.
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  Speaker 2: This year, coming in off that win over Michigan last week,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you catch Iowa with a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: big game hangover after that one. But whatever question there
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  Speaker 2: was that, you know, will Ohio State be focused? Will
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  Speaker 2: they be, you know, will they be overlooking Iowa? does
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  Speaker 2: not feel like there's any reason to think that's going.
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  Speaker 3: To be the case. No, it's almost like the win
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  Speaker 3: over Michigan was maybe the worst possible thing that could
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  Speaker 3: happen for Iowa. If they wanted to come into this game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sneak in and really, I don't know how you,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how Iowa sneaks in at home against
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  Speaker 3: an Ohio state, but that went over Michigan. Michigan will
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  Speaker 3: view this as a fluke. Ohio state will view this
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  Speaker 3: as this is what can happen if you're not ready
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  Speaker 3: to go. And even if you are sometimes bounces, just
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  Speaker 3: don't go your way. And again, Ryan Day was here
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  Speaker 3: in 2017 when right away things didn't go their way,
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  Speaker 3: and then the tidal wave came. And so that's something
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to want to be concerned about, just
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  Speaker 3: be aware of on the road. I think Iowa likes
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  Speaker 3: to take the ball when they win a toss. I
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  Speaker 3: think Ohio State would be fine with that and try
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  Speaker 3: to just– Ryan Day wants to defer anyway and get
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  Speaker 3: the ball in the second half. So if Iowa wants
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  Speaker 3: to go out there first and you let the crowd
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  Speaker 3: kind of just get loud and then settle down, I
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  Speaker 3: think they'd be all for that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and Ryan Day is a big proponent of the
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  Speaker 2: middle eight, the last four minutes of the first half,
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  Speaker 2: the first four minutes of the second half. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you'll get a wide variety of views on how much
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  Speaker 2: that middle eight matters. Ryan Day is a big proponent
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  Speaker 2: of it. And you have seen them really master the
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  Speaker 2: first four minutes of that middle eight where they have
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  Speaker 2: scored in the final 15 seconds of every first half
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  Speaker 2: they've played this season. and they have scored more than
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  Speaker 2: once in that final four minutes of the first half
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  Speaker 2: in a couple games.
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  Speaker 1: That could be in a game where.
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  Speaker 2: You sort of would assume it's probably going to be
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  Speaker 2: lower scoring than a lot of games. And that's just
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  Speaker 2: sort of based on the history of Iowa football, the
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  Speaker 2: history of Iowa football against everyone here in Kinnick Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: the history of Iowa football, especially against top 10 teams
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  Speaker 2: in Kinnick Stadium, and the kind of games they try
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  Speaker 2: and sort of draw you into. that, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is probably going to be a relatively low scoring game.
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  Speaker 2: That could be one of those things where if Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State can just get, if Ohio State can win the
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  Speaker 2: middle eight by 10 points, that might be the difference
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  Speaker 2: between a real nerve wracking fourth quarter and a, well, boy,
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't aesthetically pleasing, but also, you know, you kind
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  Speaker 2: of still have your fingernails kind of fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, 100%. It could turn a seven point lead into
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  Speaker 3: a 17 point lead and Well, how do you come
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  Speaker 3: back from that now in just one half, less than
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  Speaker 3: one half to play? So I think setting the tone
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  Speaker 3: early is going to be something that Ryan Day wants
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  Speaker 3: to do. Every week you want to do that, but
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  Speaker 3: also that's just not necessarily how things go here. And
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  Speaker 3: Iowa's going to drag you down. Ohio State, well, they've
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  Speaker 3: picked up the tempo this year offensively. So I know
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  Speaker 3: in the last couple of years, Ryan Day has been,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's just mosey on down the field. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of been like, okay, Arthur Smith is like,
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  Speaker 3: let's get it in, get going. However many seconds are
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  Speaker 3: on the clock, I don't care. Let's get a snap
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  Speaker 3: to 20 seconds, whatever it takes. Let's keep things on,
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  Speaker 3: keep the defense on their heels, not knowing exactly when
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  Speaker 3: the snap is coming. Those sorts of things to continue
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  Speaker 3: to set the tone.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And just to sort of set the scene, because we've
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  Speaker 2: got a bunch of people who have joined us in
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of minutes. We are outside the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 2: team hotel. They are on the ground in Iowa City already.
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  Speaker 2: They are supposedly on their buses on their way over
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  Speaker 2: here already. I have not heard police sirens. They always
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  Speaker 2: get a police escort, so you'll sort of hear the
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  Speaker 2: sirens first before you see the buses. All the TV
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  Speaker 2: folks seem to be heading under the... under the canopy
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  Speaker 2: over there, so we may be heading that way. We
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  Speaker 2: thought we'd be going that way, but we may have
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  Speaker 2: misjudged where they're going to get off the buses here.
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  Speaker 2: When the team does get here, we've got Juck over
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  Speaker 2: there already with his camera standing by to get video
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  Speaker 2: of the guys coming off the buses. We will also
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  Speaker 2: have Ryan Day in interview with him as he comes
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  Speaker 2: off the bus as well.
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  Speaker 1: Tony will run over and grab that.
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  Speaker 2: What's interesting is every time you come here, you think, okay,
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  Speaker 2: what does Ohio State's offense or what's the opposing team's
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  Speaker 2: offense going to do against Iowa's defense? Because, boy, If
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  Speaker 2: they can just get X number of points. Generally, if
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  Speaker 2: you can get into the mid-20s, you're probably in decent shape.
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  Speaker 2: No one in the last 10 years, 10 years and
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  Speaker 2: one day ago, was the last time someone scored 30
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  Speaker 2: points on Iowa in Kinnick Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Northwestern, October 1st, 2016. 10 years ago. So, you know, I,
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  Speaker 1: is it possible Ohio state puts up 31, 35, 38?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of talent there. You may have the Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Smith does Jeremiah Smith thing game and boom, you're fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And you're, and you're, you have a nice comfortable win.
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  Speaker 2: History indicates that's not necessarily the most likely outcome though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. But Ohio state did score 24 points
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  Speaker 3: here in 2017.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. How did Iowa do?
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about Ohio state.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, What I saw in the Michigan game is that
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  Speaker 3: you could throw the ball on Iowa, and that's something
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  Speaker 3: that Ohio State does very well is throw the ball.
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  Speaker 3: If they want to load up against Jeremiah, I think
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State has enough receivers outside of him to be
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  Speaker 3: able to take advantage of that. Now, would you still
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  Speaker 3: rather throw to Jeremiah in most situations? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And will it be important for those connections to hit?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: They were, what, 75% on targets to Jeremiah last week.
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  Speaker 3: That was enough. That worked out well. What is the, like,
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  Speaker 3: at what point is there decreasing returns? Like, is 50%
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  Speaker 3: too low? Like, that's a lot of wasted throws.
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  Speaker 2: 50% is too low. At that point, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Julian Sane has kind of broken the
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  Speaker 2: curve in terms of what a good day passing is. Normally,
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  Speaker 2: you throw for 70 percent and everyone kind of goes, whoa.
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  Speaker 2: And Julian Sane has a 70 percent day and everyone
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  Speaker 2: kind of goes, what's wrong with Julian Sane? Because he's
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  Speaker 2: he was in what he was north of 80 percent
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  Speaker 2: last year.
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  Speaker 1: Close to it.
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  Speaker 2: He was if if you're throwing. I think there's a
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  Speaker 2: point where you do want to kind of get the
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  Speaker 2: ball to Jeremiah Smith as much as you can. But
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  Speaker 2: if you're completing less than 60%, that means if you're
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  Speaker 2: completing less than 60% to Jeremiah Smith, either the quarterback's
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  Speaker 2: having a very bad day or the opposing team has
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  Speaker 2: put two or more guys on him. And if they
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  Speaker 2: put two or more guys on him, someone else is
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  Speaker 2: going to be more open to that.
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  Speaker 3: And think how many of those passes, those incompletions are
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  Speaker 3: on third downs. Because a lot of the Jeremiah throws
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  Speaker 3: are third downs. And if you're not getting those done, then.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so great news. We are going to take this
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  Speaker 2: over to the other side.
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  Speaker 3: That is great news.
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  Speaker 1: Juck, go ahead and take that over.
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  Speaker 2: Juck, why don't you take that over with them, follow them.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to take our studio on the road.
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  Speaker 3: They have changed the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: I can get your bag. Yes, is that okay? The
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  Speaker 1: joys of live broadcasting. So here we go.
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  Speaker 2: I will take the computer stand.
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  Speaker 3: Just be careful with that.
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  Speaker 1: And Tony will take the.
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  Speaker 2: Tony will take the phone, and we are going to
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: walk over to the other side of the hotel. Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you would logically assume they might do the
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  Speaker 2: team arrival in the huge open front area.
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  Speaker 3: But you'd also be wrong sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to move our live broadcast over to
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the hotel. We love surprises, don't we, folks?
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  Speaker 2: While you're in here, enjoy the Erky, the Hawkeye mascot statue.
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  Speaker 1: Dressed in his basketball finest.
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  Speaker 3: And we still have about four minutes until the team arrives.
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  Speaker 3: In theory.
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  Speaker 1: This way, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing we're going to turn right here. Can we
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  Speaker 2: turn right? Must be the end of the hall.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you look out the windows at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the hall, there's a lovely view of.
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  Speaker 1: That's a river.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so you're going to get a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a surprise look inside the operations of an Ohio
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: State football road trip. See all the room keys on
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  Speaker 2: the table on the left. They've got all that stuff
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  Speaker 2: laid out. There's an ops team that gets here when
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter is the message to the team right now.
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  Speaker 2: They've got all sorts of.
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  Speaker 1: Recovery equipment here.
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  Speaker 2: Team meeting rooms to the right, recovery rooms there. Lots
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  Speaker 2: of Gatorade and water. This is a pretty standard setup
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  Speaker 2: for an Ohio State road game.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah. Alright, so we're back outside now.
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  Speaker 3: Easy peasy in a very different setup.
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  Speaker 4: But here we are.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so now... Have you guys been on this
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  Speaker 1: whole time? I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we're going to park right here.
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  Speaker 3: All right, where do you want us?
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  Speaker 2: Let's just park right here. Yeah, we'll park right there.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to flip this around because.
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  Speaker 1: And then if you, Juck, go.
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  Speaker 3: Out there, if you.
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  Speaker 2: Go out there, we'll punch your shot in. All right,
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: so there you go. Are we having fun, kids? We
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  Speaker 2: love the road games, don't we?
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  Speaker 3: It's a new adventure every time.
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  Speaker 1: It is always, okay, how is this going to be
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  Speaker 1: slightly different? All right, we're going to get Juck's camera
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  Speaker 1: punched in here. So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: There's Juck getting set up on the left-hand side of
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  Speaker 2: your screen. And that will be your shot of the
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  Speaker 2: players walking in.
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  Speaker 1: And then....
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  Speaker 3: We'll figure out the day thing when he comes here.
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  Speaker 1: We'll figure out the Ryan day thing when he gets here.
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to just stick your microphone in.
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  Speaker 3: That's not going to work because we're on this feed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can leave this feed punched up. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll make that, we'll make that work out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway. That was a new one.
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  Speaker 1: That was a new one.
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  Speaker 3: We've had them move before, but not like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not run through a hotel when they are not
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  Speaker 2: coming in at the exact same door.
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  Speaker 1: Also, it does feel like.
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  Speaker 2: We probably could have just kind of gone slightly down the.
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  Speaker 1: Side of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So, great news.
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  Speaker 2: The Ohio State Buckeyes are almost here. We are standing
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  Speaker 2: by right now for that. When we left, when last
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  Speaker 2: we spoke, before the few panicked minutes of shuffling around,
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  Speaker 2: I think we were talking about, you know, the middle eight.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about the wide receivers, forcing the ball
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  Speaker 2: to Jeremiah Smith. Is this a game where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think the temptation for every coach is going to be, well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to play an Iowa game, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to go way too far in the other direction.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're kind of getting away from running the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've got to do what you've got to do.
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  Speaker 3: Do what your offense is. And Ohio State does want
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  Speaker 3: to run the ball, but they've been more than happy
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  Speaker 3: to throw the ball 60% of the time in some
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  Speaker 3: of these games and just get your yards that way.
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  Speaker 3: And again, some of those throws are RPOs, so it's
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  Speaker 3: probably 50-50 in terms of calls when you figure the
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  Speaker 3: run call, pass call, and the RPO call. So they
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  Speaker 3: want to be balanced, but also if you can get
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  Speaker 3: the yards via the pass... Go do it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: get the yards however you can on the road. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: gets you down into the red zone. Now, will you
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  Speaker 3: have to run the ball down there? I mean, it depends.
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  Speaker 3: What are they doing to Jeremiah?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that feels like– I assume after watching– Norm Parker
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  Speaker 2: has had a long and very distinguished career.
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  Speaker 1: At Iowa where he– Phil Parker now. Phil Parker. Phil Parker?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it went from Norm Parker to Phil Parker.
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  Speaker 1: Did it? When?
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  Speaker 3: Ten years ago or so.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I'm confused.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, so Parker, Parker, the defense here has sort of
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  Speaker 2: made its bones on making life very difficult for everyone
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  Speaker 2: else for years and years and years. I assume their
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  Speaker 2: game plan is going to be Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 1: No, thank you. Someone else.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Let's see what someone else can do. That could make
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: this a very big game for a.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Chris Henry Jr., Brock Boyd, Devin McEwen. Brandon Innes.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are a lot of different guys who
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: could be potentially really significant.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Well, and we've seen when Texas has put a lot
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: of effort on Jeremiah, you've seen G Scott and those
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: guys tight end make some catches. So maybe this is
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: a Nate Roberts game as well, or he's been picking
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: it up last week. We saw Hunter Walston get some
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: catches recently as well. So there are other ways. Oh,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Jackson as an outlet receiver. with the lead blocking of
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: the tight end out there with them is what I
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: think is effective. So this is Ohio State. It's not
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: just Jeremiah Smith or nothing. It shouldn't be. And if
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: it is, then good luck this season figuring out how
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: you're going to get all the rest of the yards.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: But I think it's more than Jeremiah. Sometimes, however, Jeremiah
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: is enough.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeremiah is, I mean, you saw that last week
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: where they needed to score more than 19 points and
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith kind of dusted his hands and went, oh, yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: that's fine.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: No problem. Don't even need four quarters to do that. So,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: all right, the.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Support staff is coming outside right now. You can, I think,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: see some of those guys kind of popping out the
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: door on juxt shot on the left side of the screen,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: right at the right side of your screen. The guys
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: coming out right now, those are Ohio State support staff.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: There's gonna be a long string of.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Ohio State support staffers walking in and out.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: These are all the folks who come here in advance,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: get things set up at the hotel for the team.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: They are the social media people.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, all the folks who are kind of the
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: people behind the scenes So they are starting to walk
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: out now. That is a sure sign that the team
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: is right about to get here. So stand by for that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: That's going to be, that's going to be probably a
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: matter of just a few minutes.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: And Tony, are you, your shot is ready to go.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I see it. All right.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I'm listening for sirens. And as soon as, as soon
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: as we hear sirens, Tony will go walk over there.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I will keep talking while you go walk. And then
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: as soon as we see Ryan day, get off that bus,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I will shut up and you can put your mic
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: in Ryan day's face. So, For those who are joining
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: us late, I see people talking about the weather in
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the comments. Not going to be a factor, like extremely
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: not going to be a factor. It is 68 degrees
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and absolutely perfect right now, and it's supposed to be
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: about the same on Saturday, so that will not be
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: an issue.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: That is very good news for Ohio State.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Is that one bus?
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, there is a bus coming, so all right, I
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: think that is your cue. Go ahead.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: All right, Tony's going to go walk over there. I'm
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: going to pop him in there. So that is Juck's
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: camera on the left. He's going to be your sort
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: of steady shot of the players coming in. So you just,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: if you want to watch individual players coming in, you
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: can do that there. If you want to, the middle
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: shot is going to be Ryan Day. That's Tony's camera.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And then I'm going to just sort of turn things.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I'll get out of the way.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: And you will have another look at the players as
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: they walk into the hotel here on that camera on
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the right third of the screen. So Ryan Day, always
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the first guy off the first bus. or usually one
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: of the first guys off the first bus. And when
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: he hops off there, that's Quinn Temple, one of the
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: ops guys, in.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Front of him. A couple more guys.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And the Ohio State police officer there is Ryan Day
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in his red sports coat. So I am going to
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: stop talking now, and we're going to turn it over.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: To Ryan Day.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: What's it like preparing for a week?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: You face the defense. There's one lot. Yeah. Excellent.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Number one in the country statistically right now.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: So great challenge.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I think we're doing a great.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Job as stars. We always have.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: So, you know, we've got to get our best, which
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: is what this game's all about. In all three phases,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: we have to get our best. We want to maximize
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: our potential as a team. So that's what this is
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: all about, is to get the top win on the road.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: It's a very good opponent. They have a building momentum
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: here at home. You know, we talk a lot about
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: teams finding their identity. I feel like I was found
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: there 100 years ago. And they're that team. What's it
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: like going against them? Well, it's just 28 years now.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: It's not too late for them. what he's done, what
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: he's had. And it's interesting when you watch the film,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: this year, five years ago, ten years ago, the faces
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: and the exchange, that's about it. But I got to
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: give their coaching staff a lot of credit.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: They did a lot of adjustments.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: And so they did an unbelievable job.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: This is.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: It's a tough place to play. We know that. We
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: know that since we saw the schedule. So we have
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of respect for him. That's why we've had
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: such a great award this year.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: You say don't get cute when it comes to Iowa.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: How do you make sure that you're playing your own
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: game on offense?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Is that an emphasis? Well, just like.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: And you have to play and know your offense, even
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: the special teams, better than your opponents. I know that
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: that's a big part of what they do. And so,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: you know, simple is better. It allows them to play fast.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: And it's the coach's job to make sure that it
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: looks complex to the opponents, but it's simple for our
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: players to play fast and escape. How do you feel
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: like your experience at Texas is going to prepare your
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: guys for tomorrow's game? I, you know... We know when
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: we go on the road and all the environments we're
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: going to play in, it's got to be a challenge.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: And so I think you're going to get to learn.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: You know, you're going to remember and you're learning. So
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: that's why this is a big step for us. We
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: want to go and get this win against a very
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: good opponent. And you'll get back on that plane with
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: a win on the road and play well in all
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: three phases. And I think as a group, you know,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: All right, Brian Day, done talking now.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: He's actually headed over this way.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: I now have my camera kind of posted up here.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: There's Carter Lowe walking in right there.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I'll bring on the bag. Here comes Ryan Day on
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: his way in. I think that must he's done in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the hotel.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: All right, here comes Tony. And now we can kind
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: of go ahead and help start getting back to the,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: close to the show. I'll head back and we'll get back,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: set back up and.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Give me one second. I apologize. We're doing a lot
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of running around on this show. Yeah. A little more
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: than usual. All right. There we go.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: So we've got back to just us now.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Finally.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Now I couldn't hear anything from Ryan day. I'm guessing
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: everyone at home probably could. It sounded like, yeah, it sounded,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: it sounded, I heard, I heard his voice coming out
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: of the phone speaker, but didn't want to get too close.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: So no, no, any, no in, you know, massive breaking
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: news or anything that you are aware of.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: You know, just, This being an opportunity to get a
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Big Ten win on the road and get the conference
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: season going and build some momentum. And Iowa's going to
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: want them to play slow. They can't play slow. They
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: have to play fast. But when they say that, I wonder,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: can't play too fast. You just got to play faster
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: than Iowa. But how fast do they want to go?
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be interesting to see. They definitely want
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to set a tone. They definitely want to get as
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: many possessions as possible in this game.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: But there's still going to be this focus on efficiency.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: They want to be efficient more than they want to
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: be fast.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and walking through the hotel, our surprise behind-the-scenes tour
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: that our viewers got earlier, thanks to the last-minute change
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of scenery, the signs on the door saying, win the
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter. I know that four-quarter game was a phrase
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that got a lot of people upset earlier in the week,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I would assume win the fourth quarter is probably something
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: that people will find a little more agreeable.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: 17-0, sure, win it by 17 points, something like that. Yeah,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: this is one where you're either putting it away, you're
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: not allowing anything, whatever it takes, win the fourth quarter.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: What has happened to the first three quarters, you would expect,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: if it's close, if it's not, you win the fourth quarter,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: you cap it the right way. Well, they've seen what
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: happens when you lose the fourth quarter. And you can
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: have a big lead before then. And if you lose that,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: then you can lose everything. So I'm not saying you
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: can win everything by winning the fourth quarter. But you
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: can ensure yourself, going into the fourth quarter with a lead,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: if you win the fourth quarter, you win the game.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah. That would be very difficult to do any
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: other way.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: One thing that.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: This game could.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Come down to, if this is a close game, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I know this is going to have people sort of
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: hiding under the covers, got to talk a little special
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: teams here. Because special teams, and I know Ohio State
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: fans have this view that their kickers are uniquely cursed,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and no one has ever missed a field goal other
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: than an Ohio State kicker.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Iowa's kicker missed.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: A 51-yard field goal in the final five or six
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: minutes last week, and they still won the game.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Final three minutes, right?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Something like that, three or four, yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: So....
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: You know, you can miss a field goal. Iowa also
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: returned a kickoff for a touchdown last week. This feels
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: like a week when I don't think Ohio State needs
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to win on special teams. Ohio State just needs to, like,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: if they just play even on special teams, that feels
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: like an area where Iowa needs to win on special teams.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: If I'm Ohio State, I am telling Marcello Di Amede,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: kick the ball through the uprights on the kickoff, out
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the back of the end zone. Don't even give them
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: a chance to think about doing anything.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: With the kickoff. Yeah, I would agree. One sneaky thing is,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Inky Jones was on the injury report the first day,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the availability report, as questionable. He was off it the
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: next day. He's a fantastic coverage guy on kickoff coverage,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: so if you don't make it through the end zone,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: he's a guy that can make tackles, so having him
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: available to go if, in fact, he does play helps
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: in that regard, but yeah, don't even give them a chance.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: You've seen what happens. You know that this is possible,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: and it didn't take a tremendous return. There's nothing special
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: about it. It's just following the blocks, which is maybe
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: the scariest thing at all of all knowing like these
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: guys will just block and they'll just block the right guy.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: They'll stay on their blocks. They'll create lanes and the
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: guy's fast enough. He doesn't need much. He just needs
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: a little bit of wiggle room and he's gone. So yeah,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: if you don't want the opportunity for Iowa to score
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: in a big play, don't give it to him. Yeah.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: And you're not kicking against any kind of significant wind
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: in this game.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: No, it does not seem like the wind is going
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: to be a big factor. And another name that I
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: think is worth paying attention to on special teams is
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Jordan Thomas. Because you mentioned Inky Jones as someone who
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: was on kickoff coverage. Jordan Thomas is another guy who
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: was a special teams player of the week last week.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: And depending on what's going on with Jay Timmons, he
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: could play a much bigger role in this game.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm interested to see what is going on. Obviously,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Ryan Day is not going to talk about any injuries
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: now with the availability reports. He's said that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: if Jay Timmons can't go, I would expect, I don't
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: know what to expect other than, you know, Cam Calhoun initially,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: cause that's who it was last week. But if Jay
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Timmons is out this week, then they've got to look
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: at a bunch of guys all week long in practice
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: and somebody has earned some playing time. Yeah. And not
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: that there's going to be a ton of nickel as
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: we've talked about with what Iowa does, a lot of
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: 12 personnel, two tight end sets, even on probably like
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: a third and seven, third night, they may still be
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: running their two tight ends out there. So you don't
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: necessarily need to bring in a nickel, but, But you're
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: going to at some point. And who is that going
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: to be? And you mentioned Jordan Thomas, who is trending
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: up right now. The special teams work will get him
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: snaps on defense. That's the way the coaches, that's what
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: they preach.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: So if you're going to have a special teams player
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: of the week, what does that mean? It means with
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: an injury, maybe there's more opportunities.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And I don't know how much nickel they're really going
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: to play, but it feels like he has been trending
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: towards playing more as the season has gone along. I
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: don't know at what point, you know, I feel like
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Cam Calhoun has been ahead of him all season. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: get the sense that he may pass Cam Calhoun at
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: some point.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Is that this week? Is that next week against Maryland?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Is that in November?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Does that not happen until next year when Cam Calhoun's gone?
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: We don't know.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: That's a little bit up in the air, but it
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: does feel like that's something that's certainly going to sort
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: of bear watching. Just to give people sort of a
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: little bit of a lay of the land, first of all, Dorian, yes.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that was Juck behind us. We had a grand plan
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: for how this was all going to work, and then
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the team got here about a half an hour early,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: so we tore that up and threw that out the window.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: And Juk was purely on camera duty at that point.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: And then we got to run to the hotel.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: It was very exciting. If you missed that earlier, oh boy,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: go back and find that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: But we are going to be back on later tonight.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: We're planning around 9 o'clock Eastern time for a live
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: show back from our hotel.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: A little bit more of a controlled environment.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: We can do a little bit more in terms of
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: interacting with your questions and all that kind of stuff
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: because it's not super bright and sunny. But Going to
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: be a lot to talk about later tonight. I'm going
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: to be interested to kind of go through position by
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: position some of the stuff with you. But we should
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: get your score prediction for this game before we sort
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: of wrap things up from here. What do you see
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: happening here, Simon?
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I went 31-17, and I was torn between four
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: scores and five scores for Ohio State. And how many
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: field goals? I don't know how enthralled Ryan Day is
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: going to be with field goals, although... Field goals against Iowa,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: not the worst thing because Iowa's also going to be
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: kicking some field goals.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: The first one or two field goals against Iowa are
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: not the worst thing.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Then after that, it starts to be.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: After that, you got to get, yeah. After that, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: got to create some separation.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: So I went 31-17, but to me, that's like Ohio
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: State has to score on half of their possessions. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: is that, I think that's about the limit based on,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: you know, just the way things go with Iowa and
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: them being sound and Ohio State not being able to
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: necessarily just control the game on the ground. I think
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Ohio State has done well enough running the ball. And
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I think, I don't know, what, what are you thinking
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: in terms of, we'll save that for tonight because the whole,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: we can have a whole discussion on what to expect
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: from the running game and what we are expecting.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And we probably will. Yes. Quick question for Mr. Ian Bates.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Do we expect Zion Grady to start tomorrow? Pass rush
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: kind of went downhill after he left the Texas game.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: He played six snaps and had one pressure. What are
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: we expecting from Zion Grady? Because where was he on
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the availability report on Thursday?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: He's no longer on it.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: He's no longer on it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: OK, if he's not on it, you know, starting is
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: sort of a meaningless distinction at the defensive line to me.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Who's he going to play if he's not on there
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: at all? I assume you're going to get relatively a
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: full dose, a full complement of snaps from him.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder if it's still going to be like 50-50,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: him and Quay Rousaw.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, a full complement of snaps doesn't
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: mean all the snaps. It means the usual distribution of snaps.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: 30-35, something like that.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 30-35 snaps, something like that. Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Because as Ryan Day said on Tuesday, they're taking all applications.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: And they've had his application in the filing cabinet for
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: a while. It's waiting for it to come back up.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Follow each other on LinkedIn.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: They do.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: That's yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: What what getting hurt against Texas taught me about B2B sales.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that would be a great post.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: He could be the second greatest LinkedIn poster in college
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: football history behind Fernando Mendoza.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Yes. So my pick for the game was twenty four thirteen.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I feel like could they score more?
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think Iowa is going to put up– I mean,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I looked at Iowa's offense last week against Michigan, and
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: that was not a, boy, Iowa's offense put on a clinic.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: It was just, well, Michigan kind of found ways to
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: not score in the red zone. They had a turnover
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: in the red zone, kicked some field goals, gave up
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: a kickoff return on a touchdown. If Ohio State just
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: kind of holds serve on defense, they should be able
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: to hold Iowa to 13, 17 points, as you said.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: And if you can just get into the 20s, you
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: should be in reasonably good shape. So that was my
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: prediction for the game. Again, we will be back later tonight.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Actually, the live stream is already set up. Go ahead
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: and open that on another tab on your computer so
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: that you hear us when we pop on back there
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: at the hotel a little bit later on tonight. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: also have a behind-the-scenes video about the hospital wave and
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Kinnick Stadium. I'll throw the link on Twitter.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: You know what? I'll throw the link right now.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Right in the chat.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Right in the chat. Right now. Yes.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Full service.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: For everyone. It's not posted yet because of YouTube algorithm, yada, yada, yada.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to throw that right now in the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: chat for you guys.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: For you guys.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: For you guys to enjoy. You can find that after.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: You can check that out as soon as we wrap
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: things up here. It's nothing fancy. Didn't get inside the stadium.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: We'll have an inside the stadium behind the scenes video tomorrow.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: But just a little walk around the stadium. Get a
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: little scene setter for... what the stadium's like, the Niall
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Kinnick statue, which is very cool, and then the Children's
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Hospital right across the street from the stadium, just to
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: sort of give you a sense for where everything's located
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: before game day on Saturday.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: There you go. Thank you guys all.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: For joining us, for jumping on for our oops-pow surprise
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: early Ohio State team arrival here in Iowa City.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: We'll be back again at 9 p.m.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Eastern for a live show from our hotel in a
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: little bit more controlled conditions, probably a little less running.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: We'll see. No promises.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: You never know on the road. So thank you guys
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: all for joining us. We'll talk to you a little
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: later on.