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How Did Ohio State Football Take Such A Big Leap In Week 2? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Eyes tomorrow morning from Monday, September ninth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom Or. The Marshall Game is in
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  Speaker 1: twelve days. The game against Michigan in eighty two days.
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  Speaker 1: Buck guys knocked off the Western Michigan Broncos fifty six
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  Speaker 1: to nothing on Saturday night. You've probably heard a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about that about that on Saturday and then early
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning from us. Now we're gonna let you hear
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  Speaker 1: a little more from some of the Buckeyes after the game.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of doing the usual Brian Day thing, thought
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  Speaker 1: I do something a little different this time. We're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna let you hear from guys who are new to
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  Speaker 1: the team this year. So I'm going to get to
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  Speaker 1: hear from Will Howard, when Shawn Judkins, You're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: to hear from Seth McLaughlin, and you're also gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: a little bit from Western Michigan head coach Lance Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with Will Howard. What was different about
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  Speaker 1: the approach of the offense against Western Michigan as compared
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  Speaker 1: to accron because the results were very different. So was
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  Speaker 1: this just sort of the evolution of things from Week
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  Speaker 1: one to week two.
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  Speaker 2: Every week's different, and you know, our game playing going
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  Speaker 2: into this game was definitely different than the last week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And and I think, you know the same
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  Speaker 2: people said about you know, whoever we play next Marshall,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But you know, I think I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think necessarily that we did anything different or anything
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  Speaker 2: new or tried to like open anything up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think we still had probably just as much in
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  Speaker 2: the first game.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It really also is just you know, how the game's going,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, sometimes some of the more exotic stuff's working.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this game, we we ran the ball really well,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we're able to establish a really good
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  Speaker 2: run game, you know, and that that was great. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think part of it, Yeah, you know, we're evolving
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  Speaker 2: every week, and we're we're taking the things at work
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  Speaker 2: and the things that don't and learning from it whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I think I think we did
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  Speaker 2: a good job evolving, and I think just overall, we
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  Speaker 2: just played cleaner, you know to start the game.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, so if the offense evolved that much
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  Speaker 1: from week one to week two, is there a ceiling
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  Speaker 1: to just how good this keep this offense could be
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  Speaker 1: if it keeps evolving.
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  Speaker 2: I really, I I truly, I don't think there is
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think I think we played well and
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  Speaker 2: I but the thing is, there's still some plays that
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  Speaker 2: we left out there, you know, still some some plays
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  Speaker 2: that you know, some meat we left on the bone,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I think that's the exciting thing about
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  Speaker 2: this team is that, you know, we have so much
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  Speaker 2: talent and so many guys that are doing so many
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  Speaker 2: good things, you know, but we we still can build
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  Speaker 2: on it and grow and become a better team. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the exciting thing is that we're We're
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  Speaker 2: never satisfied.
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  Speaker 1: After the Actron game, Will Howard talked about how everything
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  Speaker 1: just felt very new. It was the first time he'd
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  Speaker 1: played inside Ohio Stadium in a real, honesty, goodness football game.
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  Speaker 1: So did he feel a little more comfortable? Wasn't quite
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  Speaker 1: as new and uncomfortable as it was? Maybe Week one?
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  Speaker 1: Did he feel a little more comfortable Week two against
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan, so.
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  Speaker 2: Much more comfortable, Like, I just felt settled into the
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  Speaker 2: routine of everything. You know, the routine was set and
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  Speaker 2: I knew what it was. I didn't I didn't feel
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  Speaker 2: surprised by anything. And I think, you know, the same
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  Speaker 2: could be said about a lot of us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: last week being new guys quote unquote, even coach Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like there's some new coaches. You know, everyone's
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  Speaker 2: kind of figured, you know, finding their way and find
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  Speaker 2: their feet, you know. But this week was was a
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  Speaker 2: lot better because we got the same routine. And it's
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  Speaker 2: great to get into a routine. And know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big routine person, whether it's day to day
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  Speaker 2: or on a game day or whatever. Like, I just
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  Speaker 2: like to have a routine. And when when you can
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  Speaker 2: settle into that routine and knows what to expect, what's coming, like,
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  Speaker 2: it just settles your mind down a little bit and
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  Speaker 2: you don't have as many like jitters. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think you saw that today.
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  Speaker 1: Well Howard certainly looked very comfortable coming right out of
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  Speaker 1: the gate. He started hot the first four plays of
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  Speaker 1: the game, four straight completions, and then that offense just
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  Speaker 1: kind of kept rolling all light night long. So what
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  Speaker 1: is it like, does he like to come out throwing
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  Speaker 1: the ball like that?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was good. You know, I like to
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  Speaker 2: get early completions and you know, easy completions, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we did a good job of getting me a
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  Speaker 2: couple of just easy completions, you know, and just letting,
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  Speaker 2: letting the guys, you know, just facilitating getting the ball
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  Speaker 2: out of my hand. You know, I think the first
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  Speaker 2: one I probably could have just gave to Tray and
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  Speaker 2: let him run. But you know, it's all, it's all,
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  Speaker 2: it's all good. And you know, I think I think
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  Speaker 2: we started off really fast. You know, got some got
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  Speaker 2: some good plays, and we're able to We're able to
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  Speaker 2: move the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is going to be a season full of
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  Speaker 1: first for the buck Eyes. One of the first on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night was it was Will Howard's first rushing touchdown
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  Speaker 1: as a buck Eye. He did that out of a
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  Speaker 1: heavy set, a lot of tight ends on the field,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something you normally think of more as a
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State thing his former home, than necessarily a Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day type of offense like he's playing in now at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. So is that something he likes running around
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  Speaker 1: with all those tight ends out there.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love I love getting in that
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  Speaker 2: heavy stuff and running the ball, and especially because that
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  Speaker 2: usually means we're in either short yardage or in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone, and we were in that a lot today,
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  Speaker 2: which is great, and we made made some good plays.
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  Speaker 2: But I always say, you know, it's great to throw
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown. It feels awesome. It's a you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a great feeling. But there's nothing quite like running a
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  Speaker 2: touchdown in and feeling the crowd and celebrating with your
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  Speaker 2: teammates in the end zone. Like there's no feeling like that.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Now onto another guy who knows what it feels like
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  Speaker 1: to run in a touchdown inside Ohio Stadium, quin Shawn Judkins.
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  Speaker 1: He had a breakout day, more than one hundred yards,
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  Speaker 1: a couple touchdowns, only nine carries on the day, and
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  Speaker 1: that's taken away the fact that he had an eighty
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  Speaker 1: yard touchdown called back on a penalty. So what did
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  Speaker 1: he think? Was this a breakout day for him? And
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  Speaker 1: what did he think about that eighty yard or getting
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  Speaker 1: called back?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely? I feel like today was you see the O
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  Speaker 4: line that we played together as a whole, and I
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  Speaker 4: even just those guys, but the team as a whole,
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  Speaker 4: and we came out and perform as a team and
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  Speaker 4: everybody came together.
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  Speaker 2: So if be doing pretty bad.
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  Speaker 4: Oh about the eighty r I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: believe my teammates.
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  Speaker 1: So isn't it last week Judkins guy came out of
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  Speaker 1: the gate, but just an okay kind of first start.
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  Speaker 1: Last week was more of a Trevan Henderson game. Saturday
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  Speaker 1: was more of a quin Shawn Judkins game. So was
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  Speaker 1: there anything different for him against Western Michigan as compared
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  Speaker 1: to the week before.
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  Speaker 4: I would say, you know, just the same routine that
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  Speaker 4: I have going into each and every week with you know,
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  Speaker 4: my preparation and the tools that our coaches give us
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  Speaker 4: as far as when we game plan on these teams
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  Speaker 4: and you know, looking at every team and the way
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  Speaker 4: that we prepare the same.
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  Speaker 2: So nothing different.
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  Speaker 1: Judkins was not the only Ohio State back to have
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  Speaker 1: a big night on Saturday. He had one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eight yards and two touchdowns. Fravon Henderson sixty six yards,
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns, James People's fifty one yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Williams Dixon three carries for forty yards, averaging if
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  Speaker 1: averaging a smooth thirteen point three yards per carry, that'll do.
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  Speaker 1: So what is it about this group of running backs
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  Speaker 1: that lets them excel like this?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just the way that we all believe
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  Speaker 4: in each other. You know, we know everybody in the
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  Speaker 4: room is special. We know everyone in the room is talented.
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  Speaker 4: And get to see everyone in the room work hard
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  Speaker 4: each and every day and teach each other different things
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  Speaker 4: about our game that we think others can learn. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, and it comes with experience finding younger guys.
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  Speaker 4: But just the way that we messed together and go
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  Speaker 4: out on the field and execute, I think it's pretty special.
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  Speaker 1: Now on to Ohio State center Seth McLaughlin. He has
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  Speaker 1: had a really solid start of the season, really holding
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  Speaker 1: down the middle of that offensive line for the Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: What is it like for him and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the offensive lineman blocking for this group of running backs.
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  Speaker 3: It does a lot when you know and you have
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  Speaker 3: faith in those guys that if I just blocked my
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  Speaker 3: guy really hard where I'm supposed to with the right targets,
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  Speaker 3: that they're going to make a play. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: if you get a guy back there that you're not
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent confident, end like, Okay, if I make
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  Speaker 3: this block, we may not get a good run. But
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  Speaker 3: if you know, as an offense line and if you're
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  Speaker 3: making your blocks and everybody's on the same page that
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be explosive runs. If that makes it
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  Speaker 3: really easy to keep going hard.
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  Speaker 1: It mentioned earlier that the Buckeyes did come out of
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  Speaker 1: the blocks throwing the first few plays, but really this
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  Speaker 1: was night when they did a lot of damage on
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  Speaker 1: the ground as well. Thirty nine carries, two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy three yards, six touchdowns on the ground, averaging seven
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  Speaker 1: yards per carry. When did the offensive line know that
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  Speaker 1: this was going to be a day that they were
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  Speaker 1: going to really make some big, big noise on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: So we go through our opening plays like what we
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  Speaker 3: think we're gonna call in the opening drives, and you
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  Speaker 3: see a lot of run plays in there, and you
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  Speaker 3: kind of know that we're going to try to set
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  Speaker 3: the tone earlier with the run, and when you do,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna keep on coming downhill. And you have to
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  Speaker 3: be really successful in those first runners to get confidence
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, something that we have found that people are
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  Speaker 1: really interested in every week is the opposing head coaches
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the Buckeyes after the game. So made the
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  Speaker 1: track over to the other side of the stadium to
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  Speaker 1: get some video of the Lance Taylor press conference Western
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  Speaker 1: Michigan head coach. Here are his impressions of the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State team after seeing them on the field.
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  Speaker 5: Ohio State's a really good football team. They've got playmakers
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  Speaker 5: at all three levels in all three phases, and they're
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  Speaker 5: really well coached. Coach Day and his staff does an
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  Speaker 5: excellent job. I was really impressed when I turn on
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  Speaker 5: the tape and even more impressed. And they're a very
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  Speaker 5: disciplined football team, and I think sometimes when you're a
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  Speaker 5: very talented football team, you're not always the most disciplined
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  Speaker 5: football team. But they're both and that makes them very tough.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor is also asked how Ohio State maybe look different
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  Speaker 1: in person after watching them on film. Did they look
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  Speaker 1: different from film to in person? He said, well, they
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  Speaker 1: are bigger and scarier in person, and that certainly is
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  Speaker 1: how that game played out on Saturday night. They played,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Wisconsin in Week one and played the Badgers
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  Speaker 1: very tough, whilst by only a couple of touchdowns. So
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  Speaker 1: how does the Ohio State team and the Ohio stateium
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  Speaker 1: environment stack up against the Wisconsin Badgers and Camp Randle?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't really like comparisons. What I will tell
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  Speaker 5: you is is this is a really good football team.
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  Speaker 5: They're very well coached, and this environment is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: one of the best that I've ever been in. I've
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  Speaker 5: been in some great environments. The fans do an excellent job.
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  Speaker 5: You can here, you can fill the history and tradition
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  Speaker 5: of this place. This is a really cool place to play,
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  Speaker 5: and they love their Buckeyes and you could see that
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  Speaker 5: and fill that tonight. The energy here was awesome. I
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  Speaker 5: think our players came in ready to play, but this
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  Speaker 5: place is really special place the.
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  Speaker 1: Buck Eyes have This week, offs will be off a
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  Speaker 1: press conference on Tuesday. May get a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to a couple other folks on Tuesday. The only real
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  Speaker 1: difference this week, no Wednesday evening press conference. We will
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  Speaker 1: undoubtedly have more stuff for you this week. Give me
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  Speaker 1: a lot of recruiting stuff to talk about, going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of scheme stuff to talk about. Trying
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  Speaker 1: a show or two. I know those are always very popular.
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  Speaker 1: And the buck Eyes have the weekend off before they
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  Speaker 1: head into Marshall Week next week. So plenty of stuff
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  Speaker 1: com and what is shaping up to be potentially a
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  Speaker 1: pretty exciting season in Columbus, Ohio. We hope to see
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.