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Marvin Harrison, Jr. Letting His Play Make His Case For The Heisman · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Monday, November thirteenth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Minnesota game is in five days, the game against
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  Michigan in twelve days. High State set up at what could be a very
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  dramatic last couple games of the regular season with a thirty eight to three win
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  over Michigan State inside the Horseshoe Saturday night. Today, you're going to be
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  hearing directly from a couple of the people who helped make that happen for Ohio
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  State, starting with head coach Ryan Day. This was a little bit of
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  a different, different kind of a look, in a different kind of feel
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  for Ohio State, especially an offense this year. The Buckeyes have kind of
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  come out of the gates sluggish quite a few times this fall, much to
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  the frustration and consternation of their fans. Saturday night in the Horseshoe though a
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  very different story. Buckeyes jumped out to a thirty five to three halftime lead,
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  really never felt seriously threatened, and that part of that first half game
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  plan involved a very heavy dose of Marvin Harrison Junior. So was that part
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  of the game plan just feed Marvin Harris. Was that part of what Ryan
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  they wanted to do. Yeah, I mean that's always the case, and
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  it was great to have everybody back. It was great to have Kid back.
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  It was great to see Trey running. It was it was good to
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  have you know, mech and Julian out there. Certainly, Marvin made some
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  big time plays early on in the game and it really got us going.
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  I thought the reverse was really well executed by the guys up front. You
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  talk about a couple of those blocks that were made, you know, g
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  Scott came around and set that edge and then Marvin did the rest. But
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  Josh Fryer was hustling down the field. I thought the old line, you
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  know, the first group really did a nice job, and Trey ran hard,
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  Kyle made some good decisions. But like you said, you know,
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  you just Marv, you know, is a special player, and you know
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  we're always gonna try and five ways to get them the ball. Not that
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  it's always easy. There was a lot of double coverage out there tonight and
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  still found a way to make plays well. The offense has sometimes struggled in
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  the first half, the defense has generally been pretty solid both halves of the
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  game. And that was true again on Saturday night, even though the defense
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  was playing without three of their key players to look pretty good. So what
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  is the status of those three guys who missed the game, Tommy Eichenberg,
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  Lathan Ransom and Josh Procter and just really the status of the defense on the
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  whole at this point. Tommy will be weak to week. It's not long
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  term, but it will be weak to week. And you know, we
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  feel like we're gonna get him back here soon. You know, Lathan's more
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  long term, but same thing with PROC. We think we'll get them back
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  here real soon. But it was great to see some guys step up,
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  you know, guys that you just you never know how this thing's gonna shake
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  out, and you have to have guys, you know, play and even
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  at the end of the game able to get some guys some reps. Those
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  are precious reps because you just never know when guys are gonna have to be
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  put in those situations. I think back down the stretch run last year,
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  you know, running back at tight end, there was a lot of times
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  you know, we're we need guys to stay up up and and and so
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  you know, watch the film and figure out who did that? Today?
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  Marvin Harrison had another monster game for the Buckeyes on Saturday night. Seven catches,
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  one hundred and forty nine yards, two touchdowns, I'll say nineteen yard
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  touchdown run. It is not then necessarily as easy as you think to get
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  the ball to Marvin Harrison this fall, teams have been doing a lot of
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  different stuff, bracketing him, shifting people around to try and make someone else
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  beat them. So how how creative had they have they had to be in
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  order to get the ball into Harrison's hands? Yeah, we you know,
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  we want to get everybody involved. You know, he saw CADEV seven targets
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  and sometimes you you know, you design a play where you think it's going
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  to go somewhere and it goes somewhere else. I think Julian Fleming's playing really
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  good football right now too, and you just the ball hasn't quite gone his
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  way a couple of times, but it's going to And the same with Meca.
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  Every every week. He's getting stronger and we know what he can do.
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  And then and then you got you know, Trey and the running backs
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  and Chip and I thought Javier ran hard today too, and had a couple
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  of plays down the field, which was great. But yeah, you try
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  to do everything you can too, you know, put the guys in position
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  to make plays, but ultimately they have to do it. And there were
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  times tonight where he was double covered and he still got open. I think
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  the one coming out of the half pretty sure that was double coverage. He
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  ran right through it. And I have to watch the film, and I
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  thought Mecca ran a nice route too. I think he was probably open as
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  well. But but just every time that happens, other guys are going to
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  be in one on one situations and they have to be you know, want
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  to capitalize, and Kyle's got to find those guys. But I thought that
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  happened tonight. Good to see us get off to uh you know, how
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  to start there and we're playing complimentary football like that. That's our you know,
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  that's that's what we can be, and you know, this is where
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  we want to be playing our best. Ryan Day will talk about matchup games
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  when they're playing a team like Notre Dame or Penn State or Michigan. Those
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  are games where he thinks the talent is equated and it's really just a matter
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  of how the individual match ups play out. Saturday was not really a matchup
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  game. It was more of a mismatch game really from the start. So
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  in a game like that where the talent is not equated, what's the biggest
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  takeaway for him? I just feel like we're getting all of our pieces back,
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  and I think you're starting to see our identity start to forge a little
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  bit what we're doing on offense, and every year sometimes it takes a little
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  bit longer to figure that out, and I think you're seeing us play with
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  more and more confidence. I think you know that was sorry to cut you
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  off, Jerry. I think you guys were asking me this week about the
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  game against Rutgers, and although it was a little clunky at times, I
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  said that a lot of guys graded out well. I felt like watching the
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  film that was encouraging and it was coming and so I kind of felt like
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  something like this was was right around the corner. We were knocking on the
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  door. So you know, count on this to continue to you know,
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  push us forward with the momentum to you know, finish this season the way
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  we should. If you have been on social media over the last week,
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  you have undoubtedly seen Ohio State has launched its official Heisman campaign for Marvin Harrison
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  Junior comes the Sun s O N because he's the son of Marvin Harrison.
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  Get it. Yeah, so so you got it. And then in the
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  first half of the game, Marvin Harrison Junior got it. He had three
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  touchdowns, two through the air, one on the ground. Was that part
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  of the game plan was you know, was the launch of the Heisman campaign
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  and the hey, let's get Marvin Harrison's some touchdowns game plan? Were those
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  things sort of related? No, you can't do that. You can't start
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  to do that, and I I know that that's going to be part of
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  the conversation. But yeah, you know that that award is for the most
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  outstanding player, not the standard, you know, the player with the most
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  stats. And you know there's a you know, he certainly made a major
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  impact on this game at three touchdowns to passing, one rushing, but really
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  only played a half of football. So now we you know, we try
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  not to focus on that. We just try to figure out what gives us
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  the best opportunity to move the ball down in the field. And because we
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  have great weapons across the board and that that's what's great about having all of
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  our guys back, you know, at full capacity, and then the old
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  line really starting to you know, make strides. The second half of Saturday's
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  game against Michigan State looked a lot like the second half of a lot of
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  spring games you've probably sat through in previous years. Brian Day pulled his starters
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  much earlier than he typically has and seemed to be mostly just sort of looking
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  to get out of there, get the game over with and get on the
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  Minnesota game. Is that the way that that Brian Day would have played that
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  game if it happened the same way back in September or was that sort of
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  a reflection of the realities of mid November football. Probably not. Yeah,
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  no, I think you're onto it. I mean, we know what's ahead
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  of us. You know, Trade didn't play in the second half, Kid
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  didn't play in the second half, Meccan Marve only played a drive, and
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  then you know, we started to get other guys in there. You know,
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  this has been quite a run for us, so it was good to
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  get those guys you know, out of the game a little bit and cut
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  their numbers down because we know, you know, where we need to be
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  here. So well, the Buckeyes were certainly not straining to get every possible
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  point in every possible yard in the second half. Those snaps are still really
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  valuable for the younger guys who got in some cases their first chance or some
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  of their first or second chances to really get an extended run of play on
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  the field. So what can those young guys take from playing in a game
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  that's really out of hand on the scoreboard. No, but it is competitive
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  to them, like that doesn't matter, you know, this this is an
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  opportunity. They practice, they practice, they've earned an opportunity to get on
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  the field, and now they got to grab one of those those reps.
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  And some guys did flash and that's that's where you know, you see a
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  guy on the field and you know, other guys it's like, uh,
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  you know sometimes we say they spit the bit. You know, they don't
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  quite handle it the right the right way, and they have to learn from
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  that. So they're all gradable snaps on film. And it doesn't matter what
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  the score is. That should have nothing to do with it, you know,
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  Like for example, like just a young guy that just flashed to me,
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  it was Calvin Simpson Hunt on that screenplay. I mean, just what
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  a great play for him to show up there like, okay, So now
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  now the coaches see that, they say, wait a minute, now,
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  maybe we should be looking at this guy, you know, and uh and
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  that's kind of how you know, Carnell kind of came on and you see,
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  you know, Brandon made the play in the game. You know that
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  that's part of it. So great, great opportunity and be able to look
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  at those those snaps and see where se who we're at. That was certainly
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  one of and quite possibly the best performance of Kyle McCord's young careers. Ohio
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  State starting quarterback twenty four thirty one for three hundred and thirty five yards,
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  three touchdowns, all in just over a half of work. That is not
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  a bad night's work. How does Rian Day assess the play of Kyle McCord.
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  I thought his feet moved better in the game, just watching the rhythm
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  of the game, the feet. You know, he started off pretty good
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  in the Rutgers game, and then he started off a little better in this
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  game. He's starting to just the game's slowing down for him. You can
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  just see that happening. Not that it's all perfect all the time, it's
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  not. But when his feet are right, and he's found the rhythm of
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  the game. That's what he's playing at his best. And I threw some
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  really nice balls tonight. One thing that helped Kyle McCord look as pretty good
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  as he did on Saturday night the return of Cad Stover after an injury.
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  He was targeted seven times. He caught the ball seven times for seventy nine
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  yards and a touchdown for halftime that made it thirty five to three. How
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  big was it to have Cad Stover back out there? Yeah, for a
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  one and half of football, seven catches, eighty yards and a touchdown.
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  It's it's a good night. You know. He he is strong inside in
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  the run game, makes a huge difference. You know, I thought g
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  and Pat did a nice job when they're in there as well. But but
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  but, but Kaid is strong in there. And then he's he's become a
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  weapon in the passing game. And you know, he's in a situation where
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  he you know, he's in a one on one a decent amount, and
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  he's a big target and he's making contested catches, and I think Kyle feels
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  comfortable throwing to that big target even when he is covered, like he was
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  in the two minute drill. You know, he's a big guy that you
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  can throw him open like that and he's going to make that catch and that
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  was that was a really nice play. So another guy who's you know,
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  when we're working at full capacity, he's a big part of it. When
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  you're playing a game where you know you're a big favorite going in and you
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  know the score is probably going to get out of hand, and you know,
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  hey, you know who is working just two weeks down the line.
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  How hard is it for a team to stay focused this time of year on
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  the task at hand. Coming off of last week, we really focused on
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  all right, now we're in November. We got to be playing our best
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  November. You play for championships here November and December. You know, this
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  is this is where it all counts. And we wanted to take a step
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  this week and it was just when you get when things get bigger, the
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  focus gets more narrow and it was just about playing as hard as we possibly
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  can and executing at a high level. And you know, we did cut
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  back a little bit on practice this week and I thought the guy's played fast.
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  So we'll look at it evaluated to figure out what's best this week?
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  Next up, let's let you hear from Marvin Harrison, junior wide receiver.
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  We gave you his stats before, so you don't need to do it again,
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  and suffice to say, big game for Marvin Harrison junior. What kind
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  of a challenge has he faced this year personally getting bracketed, getting doubled and
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  still trying to find a way to get the ball. Well, it's definitely
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  been a great lot. You know, on spring ball, I got to
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  play slot pretty much the hole spring with him that could being out and so
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  just uh hints in my game as much as I can. Uh, I
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  think you know last year, I'll see I was just you know, kind
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  of an outside guy. Uh. But now you know, I think,
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  uh, this year I'm showcasing more of my ability. Uh and that can
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  do many things on the field. So uh, like you said, credit
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  to coach Day, He done, tremitted shot, gave me the ball,
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  So all things to him really. Ohio State launched its official Heisman campaign for
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  Harrison earlier last week. There's obviously been a lot of Heisman buzz has that
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  Is that a goal of Marvin Harrison's? Is that something he was sort of
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  setting out to do at the beginning of the season was did he want to
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  be a Heisman contender or even a Heisman winner? No? I mean,
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  and also that wasn't in my in my head at all. I just want
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  to beat the taut North and goes to the Big Tachampionship. I mean,
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  I've kind of been saying that all year. So those are the two goals
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  I've had, Uh, you know, before the season even started. And
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  I'm thankful to even be in a conversation. Uh, but you know,
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  a lot of football left to be played, and I'm trying to do my
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  best half the team win. This is one of these fun little factoids that
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  you've probably heard seven hundred and fifty times. But hey, did you know
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  that mile that Marvin Harrison and Kyle McCord went to high school together and played
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  in the same high school football team. You did. Wow, I'm very
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  surprised by that. Still, Marvin Harrison says his connection with Kyle McCord is
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  still getting stronger every week now, even though they've played together for years.
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  Yeah, definitely, I know we played each other with each other in high
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  school, but it's totally different in college. We're just the players are better,
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  the schemes are different, so and we're still trying to adjust and I
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  know we have I think we listen ten games now. We're still developing in
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  chemistry and just giving each other different looks and in practice and trying to be
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  on the same page as much as we can. So, you know,
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  it's definitely it's been great though. It's definitely been super exciting playing with him
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  again and go see our connection on the field. Now onto the other half
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  of that Marvin Harrison Kyle McCord connection. McCord was asked, you know,
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  there's a lot of stuff going on right now. When you can interpret that
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  to me, the stuff going around around the Ohio State team and the games
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  that they're playing, and the college football playoff rankings and all that kind of
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  stuff, you can take that to me, and hey, there's some stuff
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  going on up north that has certainly drawn a little bit of interest in Columbus
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  over the last few weeks. You can just you know, hey, the
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  Michigan game is only twelve days away, that people taking a little peek ahead
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  with all that stuff happening right now, has it been a challenge to focus
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  on the game that's coming up for them honestly, not tough at all.
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  I feel like, you know, we've done a good job of blocking out
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  all the noise, and you know, I think regardless of what people are
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  saying with the rankings are, I think at this point the year, it's
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  pointless because we know, at the end of the day, we still have
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  a lot of football in front of us, and especially in November, that's
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  when championships are won. So I think, if anything, the team's done
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  a good job of almost you know, putting the blinders on in a sense,
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  and you know, not let any of the outside noise creep in.
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  Marvin Harrison was not all that interested in making his own Heisman case, but
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  Kyle McCord was asked to you know, what does Marvin mean to the team
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  and what might that how might that fit into him as a Heisman candidate.
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  Yeah, I mean obviously, you know, I can't really quantify it,
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  you know, how impactful he is to this offense. I mean I think
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  there's you know, one on one situations obviously he wins. I think there's
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  situations where he takes two defenders with him if they want to double him and
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  somebody else's open. You know, I think he does a good job blocking
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  to I mean, there's you know, just so much for the offense,
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  and you know, I feel like I think I said this about a month
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  ago. If it's truly the award that goes to the best player, you
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  know, he has to be right there. We are headed into the final
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  home game week of the season for the Buckeyes Senior Day on Saturday, four
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  o'clock clickoff against Minnesota inside the Horseshoes. The buck Eyes were will honor their
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  seniors before the game and then as soon as that game hits soon as that
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  clock hit zero at the end of the game, you know what week it
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