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Ohio State vs. Washington: Will The Huskies Be Missing Two Defensive Starters? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, September twenty third,
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Speaker 1: oh dot com. On today's show, you're going to hear
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Speaker 1: from Washington head coach Jedfish. He had his weekly press
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Speaker 1: conference on Monday, had some interesting stuff to say about
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Speaker 1: the Buckeyes, but maybe most importantly and most newsworthy, apple
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Speaker 1: injury updates for the Huskies not necessarily great news on
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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. We will get there
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Speaker 1: in a minute, but first he's just going to start
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Speaker 1: with some quick wrap up of the Apple Cup win.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even going to play the whole thing, because
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Speaker 1: you don't care about a bunch of it, but just
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Speaker 1: sort of the end of his answer about the Apple
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Speaker 1: Cup and then some general thoughts about this weekend's game
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Speaker 1: against the Buckeyes.
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Speaker 2: Went through some of the things that we needed to
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Speaker 2: correct some of the things we needed to adjust, and
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Speaker 2: then really got after planning for Ohio State. They're coming
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Speaker 2: off of a bye, so they've had a little bit
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Speaker 2: more additional time, so we felt like we had a
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Speaker 2: lot to catch up on. Obviously, coming off of a
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Speaker 2: rivalry game. For us, our full focus was on the
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Speaker 2: Apple Cup. But today will be all about Ohio State again,
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Speaker 2: and then we'll be back at it tomorrow morning and
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Speaker 2: then practice tomorrow afternoon and excited for what should be
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Speaker 2: an amazing atmosphere here.
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Speaker 3: Purple rain game, Purple out.
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Speaker 2: See how much purple we could fill in whatever the
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Speaker 2: capacity is. Hopefully we go over it. I probably just
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Speaker 2: got in trouble, but we want to pack that place.
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Speaker 2: We want to have as many thousands and thousands of
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Speaker 2: people as we can. Talk to the students yesterday all
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Speaker 2: the freshmen were out here and told them we want
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Speaker 2: every one of them, at every single one of them,
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Speaker 2: to come into that student section and get that thing
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Speaker 2: to overflow and see how loud we can be.
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Speaker 3: Challenge people to.
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Speaker 2: Get there early. You know, let's try to get by
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Speaker 2: twelve o'clock. Let's have that place packed, and then we
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Speaker 2: could just see what type of environment and really let
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Speaker 2: the country know what the greatest setting of college football
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Speaker 2: looks and sounds like.
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Speaker 3: So we're really excited about the game.
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Speaker 2: We know we have a fantastic opponent coming in the
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Speaker 2: number one team in the country. I think that's happened
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Speaker 2: five times in the history of Washington football. The host
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Speaker 2: a number one team in the country hasn't happened in
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Speaker 2: the last eighteen years, and we recognize it's going to
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Speaker 2: be an incredible challenge.
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Speaker 1: Back at Big Ten Media Days, Jeremiah Smith talked about
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Speaker 1: the fact that last year Austin Stadium with the loudest
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Speaker 1: stadium he had ever played in. So, all right, you
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Speaker 1: can file this under leading questions from the media. A
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Speaker 1: Jed Fish is Altin Stadium the loudest stadium you've ever
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Speaker 1: been in.
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Speaker 2: No, I think that we have the ability to be
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Speaker 2: the loudest stadium, and you know that's what I'm looking
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Speaker 2: forward to seeing see how loud we can get. It's
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Speaker 2: gonna take everybody, It's gonna take every part of it, right,
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Speaker 2: everybody's gonna have to be at their highest octane of
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Speaker 2: yelling and crowd noise, and we're gonna have to do
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Speaker 2: a great job in the stadium, and we're excited about it.
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Speaker 2: But I think Jeremiah Smith has been to some really
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Speaker 2: loud stadiums and I'm sure he'll continue to be at
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Speaker 2: really loud stadiums for his whole which will be a
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Speaker 2: very long career.
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Speaker 1: Now on to some of the information about some of
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Speaker 1: the injuries that they have suffered. Linebacker a Buddha Alukta,
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Speaker 1: he was injured last year. Had had a leg injury,
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Speaker 1: maybe like a knee or an ankle, hard to tell,
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Speaker 1: but he is not going to be playing. Got hurt
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Speaker 1: last weekend against against Washington State. He is definitely out
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Speaker 1: for this weekend. So that is one potentially very big
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Speaker 1: blow for the Washington defense. Quarterback cornerback to Carrio Smith.
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Speaker 1: He also he missed the Apple Cup game with an injury.
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Speaker 1: Is he going to be back? And then what kind
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Speaker 1: of a challenge does the OSU receiving corpos for the secondary,
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Speaker 1: whether or not to Carrio Smith is there.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that about to Carrio yet, but I
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Speaker 2: do know it'll be a great challenge. They have a
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Speaker 2: fantastic football team. You don't win the national Championship and
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Speaker 2: be a number one team in the country. Average eleven
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Speaker 2: to twelve wins every year for I can't even remember
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Speaker 2: how long. I know, in twenty sixteen, they were the
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Speaker 2: number one team in the country when we played them,
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Speaker 2: when I was at Michigan and we played and it's
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Speaker 2: a great it was a great team. Then it's a
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Speaker 2: great team now. Coach Day has done an incredible job.
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Speaker 2: He recruits at the highest level, their team prepares at
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Speaker 2: the highest level, their coaching staff is of the highest level.
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Speaker 2: So every part of it will be a great challenge.
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Speaker 2: It's not just Jeremiah Smith, but he's certainly one of
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Speaker 2: the best wide receivers in the country.
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Speaker 1: All right, so to Carrio, Smith's status still a little
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Speaker 1: bit up in the or at least according to Jededfish.
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Speaker 1: So if he can't go, who is going to potentially
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Speaker 1: be the corner starting opposite Ephesian's price sock. Now, you're
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Speaker 1: going to hear him say a few names. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about a couple of those guys in little more detail
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Speaker 1: a little bit later on. Here's the information you need
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Speaker 1: to know. He's talking about a sophomore, a Richard freshman,
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Speaker 1: and a true freshman.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll be in a full competition mode right now.
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Speaker 2: Between Lee Roy and Dylan Rashan, all those guys. Those
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Speaker 2: three guys will all be competing, and then we'll see
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Speaker 2: where we are with Tacario as the week progresses. Certainly
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Speaker 2: would love to see him be able to make it
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Speaker 2: back even later in the week.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't really for him.
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Speaker 2: You know, if we play, if he can make it
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Speaker 2: back by Saturday at twelve, we'll be good to go.
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Speaker 1: One of the names he said was Dylan. That is
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Speaker 1: Dylan Robinson. He is the true freshman that I mentioned earlier. No.
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Speaker 1: He came in during the game at Washington State. What
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Speaker 1: were Jedfish's impressions of how Dylan Robinson played that game?
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Speaker 3: I thought Dylan did a really nice job.
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Speaker 2: Dylan did a really good job coming in and punch
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Speaker 2: the ball out, which was a eight plus play, and
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Speaker 2: then he did a great job.
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Speaker 3: He had a tackle for loss.
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Speaker 2: He lined up off sides on one goal line play,
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Speaker 2: which is a great teaching moment. But you know, Dylan's
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Speaker 2: a true freshman and he's gonna learn a lot. But
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Speaker 2: just like the other true freshmen that we're playing, you
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Speaker 2: get better by playing football.
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Speaker 1: Another name you heard him say earlier was Lee Roy.
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Speaker 1: That would be Lee Roy Bryant. He is the sophomore
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Speaker 1: that I mentioned earlier, and he did not have a
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Speaker 1: good time in the Apple Cup. Give up several long passes,
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Speaker 1: including a touchdown. Really just kind of a rough game overall.
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Speaker 1: What was his message to Lee Roy Bryant after that game?
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Speaker 2: Get better, get your confidence, feel good about the way
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Speaker 2: you play the game, Feel good about all your preparation.
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Speaker 2: Think about how well you played all spring. Think about
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Speaker 2: how well you played in training camp when Tacario and
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Speaker 2: if he were coming off of injury and you were
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Speaker 2: the guy you we had amazing practices, and we'll get
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Speaker 2: you back to that and just continue to build off
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Speaker 2: of your confidence being a really good football player.
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Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. So you've gotten your
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Speaker 1: update on the injury at linebacker for Washington, the potential injury,
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Speaker 1: the continuing you know, will he or won't he at
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Speaker 1: corner and some of their potential replacements there. So that
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Speaker 1: is definitely going to be a couple of the big
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Speaker 1: storylines we're gonna be talking about all week. Another storyline
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about this week on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the ball, quarterback Demand Williams. He's been very
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Speaker 1: impressive for all three games the Huskies have played, the
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Speaker 1: Huskies have actually won the Big Tens Offensive Player of
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Speaker 1: the Week award after each of their games. Twice it
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Speaker 1: was running back Joanah Coleman, and then after the Apple
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Speaker 1: Cup it was Demand Williams. So, all right, how did
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Speaker 1: Jed Fish think his quarterback looked against Washington State?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty awesome that we've had, you know, the
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Speaker 2: Big Ten Offensive Player of the week after each one
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Speaker 2: of our three games. We've had Jonah twice, we've had
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Speaker 2: Demand now and rightfully so, Demon played fantastic. He was
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Speaker 2: sixteen for nineteen. He was two hundred ninety six yards passing.
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Speaker 2: He ran for another eighty eight yards. He scored five touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how much better one can play. He
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Speaker 2: continues to make great decisions with the football. He leads
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Speaker 2: the team. He's led the team in numerous scoring drives
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Speaker 2: in a row. He has great confidence, and he prepares
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Speaker 2: exceptionally hard, and the team follows him. Demond is really
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Speaker 2: a special football player. He's nineteen years old and is
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Speaker 2: playing at an exceptional level. Very poised, and we'll only
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Speaker 2: get better every week. And this week, the next week,
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Speaker 2: the next week, the next week, We've got nine in
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Speaker 2: a row Big Ten games, so each week he's gonna
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Speaker 2: have to improve and then see how good he can be.
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Speaker 2: But I certainly believe that he was the rightful pick
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Speaker 2: of the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week.
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Speaker 3: This week.
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Speaker 1: Washington has had the opportunity to sort of pull away
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Speaker 1: and maybe be able to save some stuff not have
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Speaker 1: to use all their good stuff in the first three
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Speaker 1: games of the season, which is a luxury you have
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Speaker 1: when you don't have to play the toughest competition. So
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Speaker 1: does that mean they've maybe got some good stuff saved
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Speaker 1: up breakout against Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: Sure, there's always gonna be pages left in the playbook.
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Speaker 2: There's always gonna be different schemes that you will run
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Speaker 2: against different defenses. Coach Patricia's a fantastic defensive coach. They
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Speaker 2: have a great staff. Coach Day does a great job.
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Speaker 2: They're going to prepare. They're gonna be very well coached.
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Speaker 2: They're gonna have a really good game plan. So we're
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Speaker 2: gonna have to match that the best we can, and
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Speaker 2: with their players and with their personnel, we're gonna have
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Speaker 2: to match that with our players at our personnel. So
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Speaker 2: we're gonna do the best we can to go out
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Speaker 2: there and play our best game and continue to play
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Speaker 2: on a very high level, and that it's not easy
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Speaker 2: no matter who you play, to go out there and
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Speaker 2: execute drive in and drive out. It's not easy, no
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Speaker 2: matter who you play, to be able to complete the
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Speaker 2: amount of passes that the Monds completing, or get the
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Speaker 2: amount of yards that Jonas getting or Denzel, And we're
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Speaker 2: going to do our very best to continue understanding that
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Speaker 2: we're playing you know, the team that's right now, the
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Speaker 2: number one team in the country that won the national
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Speaker 2: championship last year.
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Speaker 1: Jedfish has been in coaching for many many years at
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Speaker 1: the NFL and college level, so has he crossed paths
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Speaker 1: with Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt Patricia before.
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Speaker 3: Sure, sure, I've played.
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Speaker 2: We've had games together against one another at different places,
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Speaker 2: whether he was the coordinator or the head coach.
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Speaker 3: We've been on.
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Speaker 2: Other teams that I've been on, other teams that have
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Speaker 2: played against Matt's defenses, and then on the same token,
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Speaker 2: we became good friends as well. And I'm obviously a
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Speaker 2: huge fan and have a ton of respect for Matt.
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Speaker 1: The fun thing about coaching is these guys all travel
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Speaker 1: in these big orbits. So a lot of times you'll
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Speaker 1: end up coaching with someone who coached with or against
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Speaker 1: someone years before, and you'll be able to get all
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Speaker 1: sorts of insights in that. So, of course, Matt Patricia
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Speaker 1: for years and years and years coached under Bill Belichick
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Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots. Well, guess who Washington's defensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator was last year. Well, that would be Steve Belichick
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Speaker 1: Bill Son. So how much advantage does Jedfish think he
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Speaker 1: has having practiced against Steve belichick defenses for a year
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Speaker 1: at Washington last year in terms of understanding what those
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Speaker 1: Belichick tree kind of guys might want to do on defense.
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Speaker 2: I think that there's some certainly a lot of similarities
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Speaker 2: between what Matt does and.
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Speaker 3: What Steve did. They're both from the same tree.
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Speaker 2: Matt, you know, after being at New England in Detroit,
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Speaker 2: spent some time in Philly, you know, with coach with
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Speaker 2: Sean Decai, who is a defensive coordinator, which is kind
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Speaker 2: of part of the coach Fangio tree, so he has
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Speaker 2: some of that experience as well. Spent a year on
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Speaker 2: the offensive side of the ball as a play caller
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Speaker 2: and coach in the offensive line, so has a unique
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Speaker 2: experience there, and then spent a year out this past
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Speaker 2: year studying a lot of film and a lot of teams,
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Speaker 2: and I'm added some stuff to his arsenal there as well.
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of work to do, and I
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Speaker 2: understand that Matt's gonna come in with a fantastic game
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Speaker 2: plan with great players.
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Speaker 1: Matt Patricia has made quite a ripple in the college
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Speaker 1: football world this fall. Buckeye's doing some different things, doing
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Speaker 1: some creative things, doing some more complicated things, maybe on defense,
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Speaker 1: and having some good results. So is this in Jedfish's
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Speaker 1: mind in NFL style defense? And if so, what's different
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Speaker 1: from what you typically see in college.
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Speaker 2: It's the defense that we ran in a lot of
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Speaker 2: ways a year ago, in terms of the way they
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Speaker 2: structure their fronts to mix with their coverages they play.
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Speaker 2: You know, they do a great job of seting on
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Speaker 2: the edge, you do a great job of tackling. They
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Speaker 2: do a great job of disguising their coverages, you know,
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Speaker 2: lining up in too high shell and dropping their safeties
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Speaker 2: down late and lining up in a one high look
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Speaker 2: and getting back to too high.
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Speaker 3: You know, they're very disciplined. They they know their assignments.
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Speaker 2: They are they well well executed, and that's you know
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Speaker 2: what I think that that's what Ohiose's defense is now.
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Speaker 2: A year ago their defense was fantastic two with just
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Speaker 2: with a different coordinator, but coach Knowle's did an amazing
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Speaker 2: job there as well. So there that's Ohio State. They're
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Speaker 2: gonna always have a great defense. They're always gonna have
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Speaker 2: a great offense and great kicking game. That's why they
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Speaker 2: win as much as they win.
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Speaker 1: And finally, at one point, he talked about the fact that,
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Speaker 1: you know, last week's game was all about bringing the
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Speaker 1: Apple Cup Trophy back to Seattle. Okay, mission accomplished. Bring
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Speaker 1: check emoji next to that one on the list. So
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Speaker 1: what's on the line for Washington If it's not the
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Speaker 1: Apple Cup Trophy this year? What is online for Washington
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Speaker 1: this weekend?
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Speaker 2: Win our first Big ten game and go out there
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Speaker 2: and play really well. I mean, all the country's watching.
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Speaker 2: It's the prime game, it's the number one. It's a
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Speaker 2: game of the week.
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Speaker 3: Right. The other games that are played conflict with one another.
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Speaker 2: So the games that are on at the seven thirty
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Speaker 2: Eastern time window, there's two of them that will be
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Speaker 2: in competition with one another. Our game is the game
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Speaker 2: that everyone will tune in on across the country at
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Speaker 2: three thirty in the afternoon Eastern time, twelve thirty Pacific
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Speaker 2: on CBS.
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Speaker 3: So what else do you need to know? What else
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Speaker 3: do you need to do?
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Speaker 2: I think our players are ready, they're excited, they're fired up.
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Speaker 3: I think it's just more US coaches. I just want
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Speaker 3: to get back and watch tape.
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Speaker 1: At this point, well, we are counting down the days
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Speaker 1: until we head out to Seattle for this weekend's game
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Speaker 1: between the Buckeyes and the Huskies. Could be a fantastic atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: one of the great settings in college football. Should be
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Speaker 1: a very very loud crowd. It should be a pretty
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Speaker 1: exciting game as well. Huskies look like they've got an
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Speaker 1: offense that might be able to put up some points
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Speaker 1: this weekend. Buckeyes should be able to put up some
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Speaker 1: points as well. It could be a fun game. We
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Speaker 1: will be out there covering all the lead up to
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Speaker 1: it that had some probably some fun stories from around
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Speaker 1: Seattle for you as well, and then plenty from the
15:35
Speaker 1: stadium with a very picturesque campus setting for the game.
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Speaker 1: guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We
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