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Is Matt Patricia About To Unleash Arvell Reese On The Miami Hurricanes? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, December twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: keep the vibes good in here and in? One of
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  Speaker 1: the best ways to do that around this year's Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State team is with defensive coordinator Matt Patricia. He is
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  Speaker 1: basically the king of good vibes this year, both on
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  Speaker 1: and off the field. Obviously on the field, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. Off the field, if you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, you're gonna see real quickly. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: figure it out real quickly. One of the things we
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to talk to a bunch of the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State defensive players as well as Patricia earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week on Monday, and so one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that Sunny Styles mentioned was third down. He calls that
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  Speaker 1: the fundown. So why is third down the fundown? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they have guys like r Vel Reeves. They've got guys
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  Speaker 1: like Sunny Styles that they can and sort of let
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  Speaker 1: loose when the defense is in a potential passing situation.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, why do they call it the fund down?
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  Speaker 2: Matt Patricia, Yeah, you know, it's kind of great at
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  Speaker 2: this point of the year.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they've created through the course of the season.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you build that stuff and let it grows
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  Speaker 2: as the players kind of learn and put the packages together.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, started out trying to really just see
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  Speaker 2: what they could do and how much interchangeability we could
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  Speaker 2: put into the unit when we get out there, and
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  Speaker 2: kind of just taught them from that conceptual standpoint, and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes get on the field, they're just you know, you
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  Speaker 2: give them the concept of the call, but they're making
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  Speaker 2: the changes on the field based on what they see.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's been really great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's where you get most excited, and you
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  Speaker 2: kind of got to earn your way into that third
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  Speaker 2: down situation with the early down play. So that's really
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  Speaker 2: important for you know, that everyone to understand, Hey, we
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  Speaker 2: got to earn the right to rush on third down.
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  Speaker 2: If we're not taking care of our job on early downs,
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  Speaker 2: then we're not going to get that opportunity. But as
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  Speaker 2: much as we can kind of get out there and
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  Speaker 2: let those guys, you know, show off their ability, their
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  Speaker 2: talent and that situation, it's great. You know. I think
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  Speaker 2: both of them have really good coverage skills. They're both
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  Speaker 2: really good in the rush. They're big, they're long. I
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  Speaker 2: think some of the matchup stuff that they can do,
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  Speaker 2: and they have a little bit of savvy suddenness to them,
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  Speaker 2: which you know when you are inside and some of
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  Speaker 2: those alignments. Sometimes that quickness is just a little bit
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  Speaker 2: different than like a defensive tackle three technique or something
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  Speaker 2: like that. So I'd like to kind of just keep
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  Speaker 2: that spinning. But they do a lot of it on
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  Speaker 2: their own, which is fun. You know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times they'll come back, we'll work on it in practice
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, what did you guys see And then
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about it, and so, well, maybe we should
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  Speaker 2: do this instead and make that call.
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  Speaker 1: So this is still Matt Patricia's first season as Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's defensive coordinator, and every time you have a first
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  Speaker 1: year defensive coordinator, this is always a big question. Okay
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  Speaker 1: in terms of install where are you in terms of
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  Speaker 1: having your whole defense installed? Are you ahead of where
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  Speaker 1: you maybe wanted to be or expected to be at
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  Speaker 1: this point in the season. Then is there's more still
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  Speaker 1: to come?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if I really kind of said, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: by this point, I want to have this amount of
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  Speaker 2: it in. I think a lot of it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's teach this and see where it grows. You know,
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  Speaker 2: see where it grows pretty much from that, from that
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  Speaker 2: aspect of it, and just give give the credit to
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  Speaker 2: the players. They're the ones that have really just embraced
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  Speaker 2: all of it, studied, learned, understand kind of some of
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  Speaker 2: the moving parts, and then you know, the more moving
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  Speaker 2: parts that we have with it, then the more different
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  Speaker 2: kind of ways you can put the pieces together, which
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  Speaker 2: has been a lot of fun. So I think they've
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  Speaker 2: done a phenomenal job. I mean, like I said, give
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  Speaker 2: give credit to the players. They're the ones that have
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  Speaker 2: studied and really worked hard to kind of make all
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  Speaker 2: of that go. And I think the guys have done
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  Speaker 2: a great job with the ownership of that. So super
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  Speaker 2: super proud of them, super you know, excited for all
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  Speaker 2: the things that they were able to do with it,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, excited just to have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: play one more now.
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  Speaker 1: Patricia obviously one of the great personalities on this year's
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State team. Another one that is really a personality
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  Speaker 1: that just about everyone really loves is Kate McDonald, the
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  Speaker 1: defensive tackle. He is an All American now and he
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  Speaker 1: credits Patricia and his relationship with Patricia with helping to
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  Speaker 1: get him to the point where he is an All
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  Speaker 1: American now. So how did that kind of relationship for him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm just super super appreciative to be
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  Speaker 2: around all these guys. You know, like I said before,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're great, They're great young men. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: just have so much joy when I walk in the
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  Speaker 2: room and I see all of them and came back
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  Speaker 2: is no different. You Know, he's got a huge smile
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  Speaker 2: and he's a big grizzly bear, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to give him a big old hug, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just get so excited to see him
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  Speaker 2: really develop and grow and and He's super coachable, he
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  Speaker 2: wants to learn, he wants to get better, and to
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  Speaker 2: watch him, you know, just kind of light up when
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  Speaker 2: something that you kind of talk about and install and
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  Speaker 2: watch that happen on the field and watch him have
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  Speaker 2: that success. I mean, that's the joy of coaching, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And that is really what has just been so fun
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  Speaker 2: for me this year. I guess I'm the selfish part
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  Speaker 2: of it, you know, my joy of just watching these
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  Speaker 2: kids be able to accomplish the things.
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  Speaker 3: That they're really worked so hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: I get very excited, you know, for them to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do all that stuff. And it is a
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  Speaker 2: special relationship. He's he's he's a great young man. I'm
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  Speaker 2: you know, just want nothing but the best for him
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  Speaker 2: every time we see him. I'll tell you a quick
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  Speaker 2: story though, the sick of so he likes to put
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff on his face before the games,
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  Speaker 2: and so, you know, I get him a good old
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  Speaker 2: bear hug before the game, and I kind of I
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  Speaker 2: walk in and it's a little trimmed right now, but
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  Speaker 2: I walk into the locker room, I'm looking in the
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  Speaker 2: mirror and I'm like, it's wrong with my beard and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I look like I'm about thirty on this side,
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  Speaker 2: and like where I am right now on this side
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  Speaker 2: over here, and this side is you know, all black,
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  Speaker 2: and this side is all gray.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, k back.
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  Speaker 2: He hugged me, and all his makeup, all the stuff
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  Speaker 2: came off, so it looked like I dyed my beard.
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  Speaker 3: It was great.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, those are the fun moments. I just
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  Speaker 2: you can't help but just be excited to be around
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  Speaker 2: those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Patricia, of course, spent most of his career coaching in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL and was on a lot of those Bill
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  Speaker 1: Belichick Patriots super Bowl teams, so he is obviously familiar
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  Speaker 1: with having to do the multi game postseason run thing
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  Speaker 1: to get to the super Bowl and win the super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl with the Patriots. So what can he apply from
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  Speaker 1: that process to this process now in the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm trusting in you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: a learning for me. You know, twenty one day, that's
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  Speaker 2: a long time, you know, bye week kind of moments
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, but this is a really long layover
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  Speaker 2: and break. So certainly trusting you know, all the expertise
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  Speaker 2: here Coach Day and coach Mick and making sure that
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  Speaker 2: I'm just listening and trying to learn exactly what the
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  Speaker 2: best thing is to get us ready to go with
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  Speaker 2: this break in this layover.
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  Speaker 3: But it's been fun.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll say this, I think the intensity is
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  Speaker 2: right where we need it to be.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think the kids, the guys understand that on the field,
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  Speaker 2: they want to stay focused. It is unusual, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of like build up through the course of
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  Speaker 2: the week and like, Okay, hey, let's get ready to
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  Speaker 2: go and then yeah, yeah, no, we got to wait
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  Speaker 2: one more week and do all that stuff. But I
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  Speaker 2: think everyone's doing a great job of handling that. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm right now really trying to trust the expertise in
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  Speaker 2: the building. I think some of the things you know
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  Speaker 2: that we did transfer, you know, because we have we
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  Speaker 2: have some different kind of scheduling than you know, when
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  Speaker 2: everybody's in school and that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So but yeah, just trying to learn.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that's a little unusual for Ohio State is
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  Speaker 1: to have its defensive coordinator calling the defense from the field.
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  Speaker 1: He calls it on the sideline. He's standing right there
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline, next to all the players, next to
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  Speaker 1: all the coaches now. Jim Knowles when he was a
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Ohio State, he was up in the box
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  Speaker 1: because he wanted to see the whole field. Have that
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  Speaker 1: kind of all twenty two view. Same thing with Kerry
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  Speaker 1: Colembs when Kerry Colmbs was a defensive coordinator at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: So what in Patricia's mind is the benefit of being
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  Speaker 1: down on the sideline?
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  Speaker 2: I have, you know, my entire NFL career, I called
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  Speaker 2: the defense from the sideline. I was on the sideline honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think since about two thousand and six. So I
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  Speaker 2: always just felt that's really kind of how we just
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  Speaker 2: did it, you know there and even in college where
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  Speaker 2: I was at, you know, there was coordinators who called
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  Speaker 2: on you know, from the sideline to previously. I do
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the part exactly what you mentioned, like to be
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  Speaker 2: on the field interact with the guys kind of sometimes
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  Speaker 2: for me, as we're making adjustments or we're talking, I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking to the kids, I want to make sure I
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  Speaker 2: like see I want to see in their eyes. I
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  Speaker 2: want to look in their face and make sure that hey,
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  Speaker 2: are you understanding or how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: How you feel like? How how are we progressing? Through
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 2: I think when you're away from that, certainly you know
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  Speaker 2: there's advantages of the bolt, But I do like to
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  Speaker 2: be down.
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  Speaker 3: There with those guys and kind of help them through
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  Speaker 3: the problems.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think on game day, my job is really trying
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  Speaker 2: to help us problems, solve the situations that are going on,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the best way for me to do
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  Speaker 2: that is be down there interacting with them and you know,
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  Speaker 2: making sure that I'm listening really to kind of everything
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  Speaker 2: that's going on. It's easier for me to kind of
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  Speaker 2: hear everything when when we have all those moving parts.
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  Speaker 1: And finally one more on Rvel Reese. They have had
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  Speaker 1: to sort of use him as a spy a lot
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  Speaker 1: when they've played running quarterbacks in some recent games. Bryce Underwood,
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  Speaker 1: for example from Michigan for Nanda Mendoza from Indiana. Those
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  Speaker 1: are guys who are real threats with their legs, So
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be you got to rush the passer a
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  Speaker 1: little more conservatively and maybe can't throw everything into getting
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  Speaker 1: to the quarterback and getting him down to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: But Carson Back not as much of a runner. He
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  Speaker 1: can move a little bit, but he is not what
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  Speaker 1: you would consider a running quarterback, So is this maybe
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to unleash Arvel Reese? And then sort of
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  Speaker 1: a related question, does Matt Patricia sort of get the
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  Speaker 1: sense that even when ar Vel rees isn't the one
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  Speaker 1: actively making the play, the teams are finding him, looking
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  Speaker 1: for him, making sure they know where he is, maybe
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  Speaker 1: shifting protections around to go find him, and that he's
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  Speaker 1: maybe impacting plays even when he's not the one recording
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  Speaker 1: out this stat on the.
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  Speaker 3: Statute, Yeah, that's definitely, that's definitely happened.
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  Speaker 2: And even offensive protection systems, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff we attacked early in the season now I
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  Speaker 2: think teams have kind of seen enough film on it,
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  Speaker 2: so they a lot of times they'll slide, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to his spot where he is, or they'll try to
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  Speaker 2: make sure they have him accounted for in different ways.
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  Speaker 3: So that's great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that gives opportunity to other players on the
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  Speaker 2: field to be able to have opportunities when that happens.
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  Speaker 2: So I think his impact has been great. I think
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  Speaker 2: the you know, on the defense has been you know,
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  Speaker 2: his role, his flexibility, the way that we've been able
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  Speaker 2: to utilize him has been super special. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he's really kind of showcased what he can do and
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  Speaker 2: how he can impact the game, which has been awesome
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  Speaker 2: to see. But we are kind of seeing some of
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  Speaker 2: those game plan things that offenses do to try to
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  Speaker 2: handle when you have an impact player like that, offenses
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  Speaker 2: have to adjust, you know, they got to do something.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna try to stay in front of that
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So there you go a little bit from Matt Patricia.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have much more coming up this week. We got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to Miami head coach Mario Christobal,
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  Speaker 1: both of his coordinators, a bunch of the Hurricanes players,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State offensive Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, and
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  Speaker 1: then it will as well as a bunch of the
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes offensive defensive players. We'll get you some shows with
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