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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Matt Patricia's Defense Dominated Washington · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckey's Tomorrow Morning for Friday, October third. I'm
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  Speaker 1: on today's show, we're talking about the Ohio State defense
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  Speaker 1: and their performance against Washington. It was pretty darn good.
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  Speaker 1: But Ross will tell us what. Ross will give us
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  Speaker 1: some of the technical reasons why it was pretty darn good. Ross.
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  Speaker 1: One of those reasons was a gentleman named Kayden Curry
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  Speaker 1: who had what would what has at least been to
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  Speaker 1: date a career day for him. I think he was
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  Speaker 1: eleven tackles and five tackles for loss and three sacks,
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  Speaker 1: which is you know pretty good. One of the plays
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  Speaker 1: that he made that was maybe a little bit underappreciated
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  Speaker 1: was it came on first in goal when Washington was
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  Speaker 1: really threatening at one point in the first half and
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  Speaker 1: he just completely blew up a first and goalplay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say Ken Curry had a great game and
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  Speaker 2: has had a great season. This one though, is largely
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  Speaker 2: him cleaning things up as a result of the scheme.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, again Ohio State has been great inside
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  Speaker 2: the ten in the red zone. You know, we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about some of the different fronts that Matt Patricia has brought,
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  Speaker 2: and there's really been two additions to the to you know,
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  Speaker 2: o High State's long standing four down base over front.
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  Speaker 2: One's the penny on front we talked about, and this
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  Speaker 2: is the other one. This double lag where you have
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  Speaker 2: i've them both circled both three techniques or you know,
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  Speaker 2: both defensive tackles are in three techniques, so you have
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  Speaker 2: you know, that just means they're both between the guard
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  Speaker 2: and the tackle. And what Ohio State did a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of against Washington is they use this blitz where Arvo
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  Speaker 2: Reese at the snap is immediately attacking the backside a
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  Speaker 2: gap and So what you're doing is you're essentially creating
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  Speaker 2: an odd front by other means, you're using rvel Reese
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  Speaker 2: is essentially to clog that the middle between the two
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackles, allowing Sunny Style to run free. And so
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  Speaker 2: again just like on zone plays, there's there you can't
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  Speaker 2: get double teams and you're just so you know, through
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  Speaker 2: the scheme, they forced that that cutback right to Kayden Curry.
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  Speaker 2: So we saw this technique or this concept a lot
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  Speaker 2: from Ohio State against Washington, and we'll show when where
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  Speaker 2: it didn't quite work so well. But like this is
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  Speaker 2: you know, again you're using different you know, giving the
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  Speaker 2: offense different looks. So it's pretty simple from the defensi's
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  Speaker 2: point of view, but you're just changing up from the
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  Speaker 2: offensives point of view, like what they're seeing pre snap
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  Speaker 2: and post snap to create the same effect of you know,
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  Speaker 2: preventing double teams in a zone run because you're covering
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  Speaker 2: up the guards in the centers.
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  Speaker 1: And this next one, you want to know, how you
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  Speaker 1: have a good day on defense, you have a play
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  Speaker 1: where we're talking about you know the next one, which
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  Speaker 1: is probably didn't work quite as well as what we
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  Speaker 1: just saw but Davis Enigmuinosen makes an incredible open field
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  Speaker 1: tackle here. There was sort of a moment where you thought,
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  Speaker 1: uh oh, and then boom immediately at a Mohammed is
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  Speaker 1: on the ground because of a great open field tackle
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  Speaker 1: on the edge by Davis Eningguinosa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so this is one where this is the
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  Speaker 2: same concept. Right, so you'll see r VL Reese attack
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  Speaker 2: the backside a gap you're creating with from the double
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  Speaker 2: lag front, creating that same effect. One difference though, is
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  Speaker 2: that Washington a couple of times use wham blocks uh
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  Speaker 2: to some advantage both against r I say's penny front
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  Speaker 2: and here, and you know, like so by that like
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  Speaker 2: this is a crunch. It's become a kind of a
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  Speaker 2: play a jour in the last year or so. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I should say it's not like a new concept. But
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  Speaker 2: the front side guard is blocking down on that backside
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  Speaker 2: three technique and then the tight end is trapping that
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  Speaker 2: the front side three technique and creating a whole And
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  Speaker 2: so they're basically running away from Reese's blitz to clog
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  Speaker 2: up the middle right. And yeah, but then you know,
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  Speaker 2: as you said, great play by Igman Nosen. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I think he again has been probably relatively under herald
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  Speaker 2: honestly by how good he's been, but like not just
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  Speaker 2: in past defense, like he's a great boundary corner and
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  Speaker 2: against the run game, and so you know, little things
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  Speaker 2: make you a really good defense, like Igan nosen Kleeb downs,
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  Speaker 2: like getting guys on the ground, you know, limiting a
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  Speaker 2: play like this to an eight yard game, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: limiting an earlier the Jonah Coleman run to not letting
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  Speaker 2: it be a touchdown run in that game on the
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  Speaker 2: big run, or like you know, downs, tackling it tight
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  Speaker 2: end to the flat short of the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: Like when your defensive backs are making plays like that,
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  Speaker 2: it really adds up over time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that for sure. The tackling from I mean downside
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  Speaker 1: two tackles when they were both major, major game changing tackles.
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  Speaker 1: One stopped them on I think third or fourth down
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  Speaker 1: and the other one was right near the goal line,
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  Speaker 1: got Jonah Coleman to the ground. So you're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: two tackles and you're gonna maybe change the game twice.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a bad not a bad return uninvestment there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's easy to take those kind of things for
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  Speaker 2: granted when you see it happen, until you watch other
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  Speaker 2: teams and that doesn't happen. You have safeties take bad angles,
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  Speaker 2: like look at Nebraska and Michigan, Like safety takes a
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  Speaker 2: bad angle and it's a seventy five yard touchdown, right
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  Speaker 2: or like miss a tackle. So that stuff, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of like when you it's hard to know
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  Speaker 2: that you know, know the negative of it, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: so it can be easy to take it for granted
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  Speaker 2: until until it's not there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, so appreciate it. While you got Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State fans, it wasn't perfect on defense. They did allow
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  Speaker 1: you know, some downfield passing that you mentioned the one
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  Speaker 1: long run by Jonah Coleman, and they hit i think
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  Speaker 1: three plays of twenty yards or so in the passing game.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to look at one of them next. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the game where you give up six points,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to say what went wrong, but okay, what
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  Speaker 1: went wrong here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got a few of these where you know,
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  Speaker 2: they principally are a Cover three team, right like, so
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  Speaker 2: they run Cover three, they mix in Cover two as
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about, and then play man close to the
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  Speaker 2: goal line. But you know, mostly they were spot dropping
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  Speaker 2: in zone, which we've talked about before. So you're like
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  Speaker 2: trying to get to your spot. You're not matching routes,
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  Speaker 2: You're not like playing man within your zone. And so
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  Speaker 2: they weren't rerouting some of these seam routes. And here's
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  Speaker 2: a good example of that, right, Like, so Lorenzo Styles
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  Speaker 2: is responsible to play the hook curl underneath, like you
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  Speaker 2: can see him getting to a spot. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: you would like, I think, to see at least get
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  Speaker 2: hands on that seam route receiver to slow them down,
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  Speaker 2: to allow like the deep zone defenders to get into position,
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  Speaker 2: and that just allowed routes. I do think some of
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  Speaker 2: it again this game, Like they are obviously as well
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  Speaker 2: show very concerned with Desmond Williams as a runner and
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  Speaker 2: a scrambler, and so you know, one benefit of spot
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  Speaker 2: dropping is again you're keeping all eyes in the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think they were probably willing to trade
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  Speaker 2: off some of this risk and force Washington to consistently
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  Speaker 2: move the football throwing it uh in exchange for like
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  Speaker 2: for having eyes in the backfield and heming in Williams.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, they got a high stated on
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  Speaker 2: this one they got a high state on they sort
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  Speaker 2: of faked a bubble screen and ran a steam route,
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  Speaker 2: were high staves and cover two and again like didn't
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  Speaker 2: reroute the receiver and then got one in play action
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  Speaker 2: where you know r l Res came up and didn't
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  Speaker 2: robot back quickly enough like to get back in his
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  Speaker 2: own coverage. But as you said, I think they probably
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  Speaker 2: would trade off these couple of explosives in exchange for
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  Speaker 2: for making Washington play left handed if you will, and
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  Speaker 2: like not letting you know, Demond Williams get going as
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  Speaker 2: a as a runner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that felt like that was a really really core
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  Speaker 1: piece of the game plan was don't let Demond Williams
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  Speaker 1: stay out or get out, you know, get out of
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  Speaker 1: the pocket and run. And you saw that with the
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  Speaker 1: pass rush where it didn't get there fast necessarily, but
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  Speaker 1: it got there because the coverage downfield felt like it
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  Speaker 1: was so good that he didn't really have anywhere to
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  Speaker 1: go on a lot of plays. This next one is
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  Speaker 1: one where I watched this live and thought, oh nice
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  Speaker 1: played by Kenyanta Jackson, then went back and watched the
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  Speaker 1: game afterwards. It was like that was an incredibly disciplined
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  Speaker 1: play where this is going to be a bootleg and
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't lose contain, just very disciplined, just contains Williams
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, fences him in and then goes
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  Speaker 1: up and makes a tackle on a guy who is
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  Speaker 1: not that easy to tackle in the open field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's just been great rush discipline throughout
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  Speaker 2: the season. I mean, they've played every quarterback they've played
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  Speaker 2: is a varying degree, is a mobile running threat, and
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  Speaker 2: they've just consistently done a good job with that. But
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  Speaker 2: this is just really good team defense as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: So I just talked about, you know, o High State's
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  Speaker 2: standard cover schemes. This is a new one to the mix.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Matt Patricia has run in the past quarter
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  Speaker 2: quarter half. We've talked before. So to the boundary or
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  Speaker 2: the short side the field, Ohio States playing Cover two
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  Speaker 2: and to the field they're playing quarters or Cover four.
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  Speaker 2: And so you can see that in action in terms
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  Speaker 2: of how you know Washington's running a deep crosser. Here,
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  Speaker 2: you can see how you know Klebe Downs is pointing
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  Speaker 2: to Jermaine Matthews and they're trading off receivers. When you
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  Speaker 2: kind of get that over and flag route combination, and
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  Speaker 2: so there's nowhere to go with the football to start with,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, quarter quarter a half, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: similar to Cover three. I mean, you're getting that boundary
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  Speaker 2: for support, you're getting three deep defenders and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: another coverage tool. And then obviously how you know Jackson
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  Speaker 2: stays home. There's nowhere to go with the football, and
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  Speaker 2: it makes a great open field tackle, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, well show it again here.
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  Speaker 1: But like.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Patricia, he's making things look complicated for the offense
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  Speaker 2: through different alignments pre snap and disguise. But like from
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  Speaker 2: the d defences perspective, as long as the different guys,
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  Speaker 2: like in Cover three, as long as you can execute,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, the different Cover three responsibilities, it's pretty simple, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like they're not running a ton of coverages each game.
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  Speaker 2: They add a couple things and they're but they're doing
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  Speaker 2: it in a way that it, you know, as i'd say,
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  Speaker 2: increases the confusion for the offense and lessens it for
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  Speaker 2: the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and this next play is one where you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see this is not in coverage. This is kind
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  Speaker 1: of more of an upfront thing, or at least at
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  Speaker 1: least part of it is the en upfront thing. This
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  Speaker 1: is one where you're going to see Rvel Reese show
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  Speaker 1: blitz right at the point where it looks like Washington
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  Speaker 1: is going to snap the ball, he shows blitz and
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  Speaker 1: then backs out and then all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 1: guy's covered. I mean, it's just it's one of the
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  Speaker 1: little things that's happening here. But it just it's just
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  Speaker 1: those little things that they're doing and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they have the athleticism and the players to be able
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  Speaker 1: to execute this kind of stuff that feels like it's
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  Speaker 1: making this defense so miserable for opposing quarterbacks to try
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  Speaker 1: and figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, so this is like, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, adding a few things to the toolbox or
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  Speaker 2: maybe just pulling you know, one or two things out
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  Speaker 2: for each game. So this is trapped two zone blitz.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about that last year, right, and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously it has some experience with this. So you're they're
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  Speaker 2: showing pressure from the boundary, then they bring it from
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  Speaker 2: the field, so you're you're ending up rushing five with styles.
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  Speaker 2: It will both styles brothers as the two blitzers, and
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  Speaker 2: you're dropping out to the to the boundary and then
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Downs is coming over from the opposite side, right
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  Speaker 2: he's taking that hook curl and then you're trapping the
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  Speaker 2: flat and you have a deep defender over the top.
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  Speaker 2: And so again this is like sort of consistent with
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  Speaker 2: their zone coverage, like pretty you know, sound while you're
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  Speaker 2: you're also showing disguise on the on the opponent. And
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  Speaker 2: so again just like another tool in the toolboxes and
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  Speaker 2: said you kind of see a little bit different things
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  Speaker 2: come out each week.
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  Speaker 1: And then this is one more thing that Arvel Reese
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  Speaker 1: can do. This is another one where it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: similar to the Kenyata Jackson where you know he kind
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  Speaker 1: of just keeps demand Williams hend In that you know,
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  Speaker 1: the defense on hold the whole does RVL res kind
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  Speaker 1: of spying, but then also comes in very disciplined as
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  Speaker 1: you said earlier and brings them down. It's just this
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  Speaker 1: is just another one of these, like, man, this is
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  Speaker 1: just such a sound defense right.
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  Speaker 2: Now exactly, and and part of that's on the concepts
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  Speaker 2: impart of that's just on the players themselves too, and
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  Speaker 2: like you know, again like we keep seeing this, this
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  Speaker 2: is a three two six. So this is what Patricia
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  Speaker 2: likes to use on on must pass downs, right, like
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  Speaker 2: three defensive this odd front, the two linebackers and then
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  Speaker 2: six defensive backs. And you know, I talked about Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State mostly being his zone coverage team, but like inside
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  Speaker 2: the red zone here, like in these situations, they definitely
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  Speaker 2: will pull out more man coverage. So you're running Cover
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  Speaker 2: one rat here, Caleb Downs is dropping as the hook
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  Speaker 2: defender or you know, rat defender the deep safeties UH
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  Speaker 2: turning towards UH Washington's best receiver. So you're kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting like an inside out double concept on him. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know you're just using as I said, both
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  Speaker 2: really styles is kind of sitting there waiting for the
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  Speaker 2: running back. But then also Reese obviously is a spy,
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  Speaker 2: and like you know, it helps when your linebacker can
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  Speaker 2: do this, Like I've seen plenty of spy situations over
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  Speaker 2: the years where like the spy is rendered worthless because
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  Speaker 2: he can't once the quarterback leaves the pocket, he cannot
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  Speaker 2: close on him like this, and so yes, Reese plays
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  Speaker 2: him inside out. And just obviously when you have players
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  Speaker 2: like this, it makes every scheme look better.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned earlier how Ohio State has really just
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  Speaker 1: sort of faced various types of running quarterbacks or at
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  Speaker 1: least mobile quarterbacks in every game this year. That streak
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  Speaker 1: is going to end on Saturday. Drake Lindsay watched some
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  Speaker 1: of him against Rutgers and he's he's impressive and can
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  Speaker 1: and can distribute the ball well, but he's also with
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  Speaker 1: six foot five, two hundred and three a thirty pound
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  Speaker 1: like real traditional pocket passer type. Minnesota is going to
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  Speaker 1: likely well, we'll see, but Darius Taylor, they're start running back,
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  Speaker 1: still dealing with a hamstring injury, so he'll probably be
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  Speaker 1: either limited or not available. They really struggled to run
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  Speaker 1: the ball against Rutgers last week. Lindsey feels like he's
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  Speaker 1: not at all of a running threat. This feels like
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  Speaker 1: an offense that is probably uniquely poorly suited to take
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  Speaker 1: on this Ohio State defense.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting because now, yeah, it gives Patricia certainly
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  Speaker 2: some more flexibility to use different stunts and pressures up
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  Speaker 2: front when you have a less concern about rush lane integrity.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you always want rush land integrity, but you can
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  Speaker 2: move guys around a little bit more to get to
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  Speaker 2: that place, you know, and you know, Minnesota does like
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  Speaker 2: using RPOs or run pass options, and so I think
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  Speaker 2: you'll see, you know, you could see some more man
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  Speaker 2: coverage again without as much concern about the TV run
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  Speaker 2: threat as well. To respond to that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, we will be talking about the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: game in the ohiosted offense and the High State defense
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow.