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What Went Wrong For The Ohio State Defense At Oregon? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Eyes tomorrow morning from Monday, October fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Nebraska game is in
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  Speaker 1: twelve days, the game against Michigan in forty seven days.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio State Buckeyes are back home following their thirty
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  Speaker 1: two to thirty one loss to the Oregon Ducks. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of thoughts after that game. Everyone had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of feelings after that game, chief among them
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State Buckeyes themselves. Obviously a very frustrating loss
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  Speaker 1: for the fan base, but probably even more so for
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  Speaker 1: the Buck Eyes. So what went wrong? Well, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do a two day spectacular on that game, starting
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  Speaker 1: today with the defense. Felt like after the game more
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  Speaker 1: people wanted to talk about the issues with the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to start with the issues with the defense.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do that, letting you hear directly from
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State head coach Ryan Day as well as defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator Jim Knowles. Let's start with Ryan Day, and let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the big plays, because that felt like that
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  Speaker 1: was the big story of the game. Buck guys allowed
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  Speaker 1: zero plays of thirty yards or more through the air
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  Speaker 1: through the first five games, and then four different works
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  Speaker 1: inducts had plays of at least thirty yards through the
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  Speaker 1: air on Saturday Night sixty nine, forty eight, thirty five
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. So, okay, Randa, what went wrong with those
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna have to obviously go back and
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  Speaker 2: figure out what the common theme was. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: few things that we could probably point to. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there was some long throws down the field where they
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  Speaker 2: got behind us, and you know, there was there was
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  Speaker 2: some runs that split that that w weren't fit correctly,
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  Speaker 2: and so there was there was more than just one thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there was a mistackle on the pole there
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  Speaker 2: that Gabriel polled and that was that was a big
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  Speaker 2: play in the game. So and I don't think it
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  Speaker 2: was just one thing, but yeah, we got to play better.
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  Speaker 1: This next one. Sometimes reporters ask similar questions try and
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  Speaker 1: get a little more detail, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: different thought. This question was how do big plays like
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  Speaker 1: that happen?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, well we got to look at all
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  Speaker 2: I mean, then the ball got biased twice like that
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  Speaker 2: over the top, and something that we preach a lot
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  Speaker 2: is X plays and keeping it in front and making
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  Speaker 2: them work, you know, the ball down the field, and
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  Speaker 2: it didn't happen in this game. So it starts with coaching,
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  Speaker 2: and we got to coach it better, demand it better,
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  Speaker 2: and then drill it better in practice.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeye offense on Saturday night put up six point
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  Speaker 1: nine yards per play, scored thirty one points. In a
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  Speaker 1: typical game against a good opponent, that's usually enough to win.
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  Speaker 1: But the Buckeye defense, well they allowed seven point six
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  Speaker 1: yards per play and thirty two points. Just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit worse, but just enough to lose the game. So
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  Speaker 1: is this a loss that you kind of look at
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  Speaker 1: the defense and say this is on you.
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  Speaker 2: You hate the point fingers, and so I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to do that. I mean, this is a team loss.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the offense had a chance to go
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  Speaker 2: in and finish it off at the end and didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean I felt like we were in field
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  Speaker 2: goal range there, and you know we wanted to keep keep,
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  Speaker 2: you know, adding to the field goal because if you
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  Speaker 2: do every time you add you know, five yards, it increases,
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  Speaker 2: it increases it. And you know you take a brutal
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  Speaker 2: don't do like that.
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  Speaker 1: That pushes your back.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's heartbreaking, but that's football, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: so the offense had a chance to go win the
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  Speaker 2: game at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Nextip Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim knowles first question was
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  Speaker 1: pretty simple for him. What went wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Got to do a better job coaching. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's it, that's the bottom line. I mean we uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't make enough plays. I didn't think we were
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  Speaker 3: we were outstanding in any in any area. Felt like
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  Speaker 3: we were always behind, and you know it was uncharacteristic,
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  Speaker 3: and we got to learn from it. We got to
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  Speaker 3: practice better, We got to coach coach better. We certainly
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  Speaker 3: our players are certainly good enough to win that game,
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  Speaker 3: and we talked about winning it on defense, and we
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  Speaker 3: didn't get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: Give you the stats earlier in the show on how
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  Speaker 1: good the Buckeyes had been at limiting explosive plays, especially
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  Speaker 1: through the air, this season. So why did that not
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  Speaker 1: happen on Saturday night?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we didn't execute. I mean, let's coach speak,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean we didn't. We didn't execute. We're doing
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  Speaker 3: the same things, but you know, when you play a
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  Speaker 3: better opponent, you got to raise your level. You know,
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  Speaker 3: of our game, and I just felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our guys, we just need to coach them better. We
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  Speaker 3: need to get them in better positions, focus on the details,
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  Speaker 3: make sure that this loss doesn't beat us twice. Fix
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  Speaker 3: the problems. Coach harder, work harder.
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  Speaker 1: One contributing factor to those big plays was the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the Buckeye pass rush really did not get home
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  Speaker 1: at all on Saturday night. Zero sacks. They had just
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  Speaker 1: two tackles for loss all night, just two quarterback hurries,
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  Speaker 1: both from JT. Twey Moloao. So what was it that
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  Speaker 1: made it so tough to get to Dylan Gabriel.
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  Speaker 3: He does a good job of stepping up in the pocket.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we knew that he's he's a really good quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what we had didn't work. So we
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  Speaker 3: certainly need to evaluate that whole process and play.
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  Speaker 1: Denzel Burke has had a really solid four year career
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  Speaker 1: with the Buckeyes. Almost unquestionably, Saturday night was the lowest
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  Speaker 1: point of his career. He was targeted eight times. All
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  Speaker 1: eight went for receptions, including several of those very big plays.
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  Speaker 1: This was clearly the toughest competition the Buckeye defense had
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  Speaker 1: faced so far. This season, is that maybe part of
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  Speaker 1: the struggles, the reasons Denzel Burke had those struggles on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night, it's.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my job to create that in practice. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's players that we have are always going to play
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  Speaker 3: to the level of their training. So that comes comes
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  Speaker 3: back to me and coaching. But yeah, we gotta find
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  Speaker 3: we gotta find a way to ramp up that competition
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  Speaker 3: of simulate those situations in a better way.
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  Speaker 1: When a player who you know has a great track
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  Speaker 1: record and really establish history of being such a good player,
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  Speaker 1: like Denzel Burke and he's having a night like that,
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  Speaker 1: what do you say to him? How do you try
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  Speaker 1: and help him through that.
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  Speaker 3: I would just tell him he's a great player and
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  Speaker 3: that we love him, and he knows and they all know.
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  Speaker 3: All the bad plays go on me, so he me
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  Speaker 3: the whole defense. We need to we need to learn
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  Speaker 3: from it, and we're going to get more chances. So
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  Speaker 3: we got to take that away and we got to
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  Speaker 3: find a way to get better.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes are off this weekend. We'll be back in
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  Speaker 1: action in a little over a week against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a week where there is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of soul searching, a lot of fact finding
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  Speaker 1: inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center as the Buckeyes and
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff and all their analysts and the players
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  Speaker 1: try and figure out what went wrong and how to
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  Speaker 1: make sure it does not happen again. Buck, guys, not
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  Speaker 1: all is lost. I know everyone is all panicky and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's very concerned. Buckey's dropped to the number four spot
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  Speaker 1: in the AP pole. That was it? Not a huge
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  Speaker 1: plummet The poll voters kind of recognized that game for
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  Speaker 1: what it was as well. Two very good teams playing
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  Speaker 1: a very close and competitive game, and two teams that
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  Speaker 1: will probably quite likely play at some point later on
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  Speaker 1: in the season as well. So whenever that happens, if
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  Speaker 1: that happens, we will be there. We'll be there for
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  Speaker 1: the Nebraska game, We'll be there for the Penn State
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  Speaker 1: game and the whole rest of the season. Tony Kevin
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  Speaker 1: a deep dive on what went wrong in a couple
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  Speaker 1: different spots and what went great for a couple different
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