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Ohio State Football: Buckeyes Headed Back To Cotton Bowl In College Football Playoff · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning. From Monday, December eighth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host tom Or the Cotton Bowl game against Well
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  Speaker 1: on either Texas A and m or Miami twenty three days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against the Michigan in three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: oh dot com. Heye joined by Tony Gerderman here inside
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  Speaker 1: the Boody Hayes Athletic Center. Tony, we now know a
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  Speaker 1: lot more about what Ohio State's path through the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff that's going to look like, and it is
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  Speaker 1: going to start in a.
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  Speaker 2: Familiar place, Jerry World.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna play in the twenty twenty five Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 1: for the second time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a point. Wasn't that long ago we were
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  Speaker 4: there watching oh Higher State play team from Texas. I
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  Speaker 4: can't recall which history was made. And then the next
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  Speaker 4: time we see them there they could be playing oh
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  Speaker 4: another team from Texas. What a great benefit to being
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  Speaker 4: the two seed in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this would be the second time they've played
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty five Cotton Bowl because this game
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  Speaker 1: is a New Year's Eve game, So this is they
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  Speaker 1: played on January tenth, I think of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and then they're going to close twenty twenty five on
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  Speaker 1: December thirty first, playing in the Cotton Bowl again.
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  Speaker 3: It is a seven thirty eastern kickoff.
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  Speaker 1: If you are looking to plan your New Year's Eve accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously you've got to figure out who wins
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Notre Dame game. But it does Sorry Miami
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and m Notre Dame not appearing in your
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  Speaker 1: picture in the college football playoff this year. This is
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is going to be and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: lots to talk about with this, and we'll have plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time to talk about that. But yeah, so that's
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  Speaker 1: that's your sort of setup. And then if Ohios it
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  Speaker 1: wins that one, then they would play in the Fiesta Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: The number two seed who is on their side of
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  Speaker 1: the bracket is Georgia. If they don't, if it's not Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be the winner of Ole miss and Tulane,
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  Speaker 1: but it would be Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and then the.
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  Speaker 2: National Championship Game in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the potential path for all but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff to get through before we get there, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I guess let's start with the plan for immediately, the
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  Speaker 1: plan for Brian Hartline, who is the new head coach
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  Speaker 1: at USF. He really was kind of focused entirely on
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  Speaker 1: Columbus last week for the most part, other than sort
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  Speaker 1: of the interview process. What's the plan for Brian Hartline
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  Speaker 1: now for the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's going to spend some time at USF this
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  Speaker 4: week and then he'll come back and they're already going
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  Speaker 4: to start to get the game plan going, and then
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  Speaker 4: he'll come back and be fully immersed. The plan is
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  Speaker 4: whenever he's here, Ryan, they said he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: locked in. But we've we've heard like when Tom Herman
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  Speaker 4: was going from Ohio State to Houston, like he'd take
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  Speaker 4: you know, twenty minutes or whatever here to be on
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  Speaker 4: the phone talking to possible assistants, and it's it's you're
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  Speaker 4: doing two jobs at once and the same amount of
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  Speaker 4: you know, twenty four hour period and getting very little
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  Speaker 4: sleep while you do that. But I think there's a
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  Speaker 4: one things Rande said is like they've got more time
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  Speaker 4: to get all of this thing, all of these things
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  Speaker 4: situated in terms of the game planning and getting ready,
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  Speaker 4: and they certainly did not have that this past week.
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  Speaker 4: But you get more time to work things out. And
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  Speaker 4: this is also you may get to it in terms
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  Speaker 4: of younger players getting some time down and the veteran
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  Speaker 4: players getting a little bit of time off get off
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  Speaker 4: their feet. But also you don't want them to get
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  Speaker 4: two off their feet. You want them to be able
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  Speaker 4: to get locked back in when the time comes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the way he made it sound is they're almost
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  Speaker 1: going to treat this a little bit like a bye
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  Speaker 1: week during the regular season, where you're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a week and get the younger guys a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: practice time, let the older guys, more experienced guys, get
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of rest, heel up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're going to kind of get back at it,
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  Speaker 1: because the ultimate goal is get things ramped up so
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  Speaker 1: that you're at peak intensity, peak efficiency, peak everything energy violence. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: as you're getting on that plane to go down to Texas,
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  Speaker 1: was interesting that Ryan Day said, with this longer gap,
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  Speaker 1: he can maybe get a little more involved in some
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  Speaker 1: of the play calling and some of the game planning
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  Speaker 1: and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Not play calling game planning, it would be clear on that.
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  Speaker 4: But your show.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, thank you, thank you for remembering. It's not
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  Speaker 1: Buckeye's to know need gerdamin now morning down right of
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  Speaker 1: down great.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to be a.
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  Speaker 1: Probably a little bit of a different game plan because
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  Speaker 1: it feels like, well, it feels like, you know, lessons
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  Speaker 1: may have been learned from that game on Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Ryan Days said that a couple of times,
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  Speaker 4: when you have these games, they expose some of your
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  Speaker 4: your weaknesses, your flaws that you didn't necessarily think were
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  Speaker 4: flaws or weaknesses.
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  Speaker 2: So when you do lose, you.
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  Speaker 4: Have to re examine everything. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 4: things where he said, in a win, you can maybe
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  Speaker 4: brush it under the rug. Things are fine. Did we win?
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  Speaker 2: Did we win?
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  Speaker 1: It's a question I have heard from an Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: assistant at some point in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we won, right we do.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened in the game after that.
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  Speaker 4: That's neither here nor there. But yeah, Ryan Day said,
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  Speaker 4: it exposes the scavs and the scars, and you're forced
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  Speaker 4: to address it all and like, why didn't this work?
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  Speaker 4: What do we need to do? Do we need to
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  Speaker 4: do something else? Probably, so you have to address the
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  Speaker 4: things that are now seen as areas of concern.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that he got asked about
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  Speaker 1: that I was kind of interested in towards the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game last night, was it felt like you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see a ton of Carnel Tait in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of moments in the second half where I'm sure Indiana's
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  Speaker 1: had defensive coaching staff thought, oh good, Carnell Tait's not
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  Speaker 1: out there, And so there was sort of a natural Okay,
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  Speaker 1: is this a little bit of a pitch count situation?
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  Speaker 1: Are they sort of bringing him back slowly from the injury?
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  Speaker 1: Was there some kind of a recurrence of the injury?
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  Speaker 1: What was the deal there? And it sounds like nope.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, It said they both them and Jeremiah could have
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  Speaker 4: played fifty or sixty plays, but they kind of wanted
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  Speaker 4: to get a little bit of a rotation, give them
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of rest. But I still think I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he's one hundred percent Carnell tay problem, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he would have been out there more. But
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  Speaker 4: he did say they had plays drawn up for him,
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  Speaker 4: big hits drawn up for him, but the protection wasn't
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  Speaker 4: there on that. They wanted to go deep early, take
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  Speaker 4: some deep shots, be aggressive, but when you do that,
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  Speaker 4: these are long developing plays and you need your offensive
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  Speaker 4: lying to be there that entire time, and they weren't
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  Speaker 4: for some of those. So they need to do maybe
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  Speaker 4: a better job next time. Well, we'd like to take
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  Speaker 4: some shots, but let's first make sure that we are defending.
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  Speaker 4: We are protecting the quarterback. So maybe you start some
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  Speaker 4: first half, first quarter some quicker, shorter, get the ball
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  Speaker 4: out quickly, and then you're seeing if things start going
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  Speaker 4: your way and you're handling things, it's like, okay, now
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  Speaker 4: we can dial something up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know a lot of that is going
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  Speaker 1: to start up front as well. And there was some
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  Speaker 1: concern there with you know, the offensive line was very
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  Speaker 1: clearly not good enough, and there was you could say
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  Speaker 1: that about just about everyone.
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  Speaker 2: On the offensive side of the ball not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: You score ten points, you know, the defense gives up thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: That should be good enough to win. The offense score
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  Speaker 1: ten that is generally not going to be good enough
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  Speaker 1: to win. The offensive line felt like you sort of
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  Speaker 1: went through the season going, oh, it looks like they've
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  Speaker 1: addressed these issues, and then Saturday night it was very
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  Speaker 1: clearly they had not. So what did Ryan do think
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  Speaker 1: about the lines?
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  Speaker 2: Play?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not great, and it's a concern that you've been
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  Speaker 4: so solid. So they'll look at it again. You know,
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  Speaker 4: well we need to you know, need to look at
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  Speaker 4: the film. But you can tell like there's there's he's
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  Speaker 4: not happy about it because you it's kind of what
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  Speaker 4: we were saying earlier, where you thought things were good
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  Speaker 4: and then you find out, well, maybe they're not so good,
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  Speaker 4: and so we need to continue to examine that things
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  Speaker 4: were better when Gabe ben Sickle was in at least
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  Speaker 4: from from other people's vantage points. And I think there's
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  Speaker 4: a stat that there are no tackles for loss once
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  Speaker 4: he was inserted into the game. So these are all
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  Speaker 4: considerations that they'll have to take in through practice. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, we'll talk about this, I'm sure in the
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  Speaker 4: weeks to come. What are you expecting a new offensive line?
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  Speaker 2: Right guard? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think if you're looking at that I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a small sample, and obviously these decisions are going
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  Speaker 1: to get made over a bigger sample of you got
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  Speaker 1: three weeks of practice now, and what you see on
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  Speaker 1: the practice field is going to be probably a significant
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  Speaker 1: factor in that decision. But based on what you saw
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night, it's certainly a lot more of a
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  Speaker 1: conversation than I would have guessed twenty four hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: One last thing that I thought was kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day was very very clear on he's giving credit
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  Speaker 1: to Indiana, very clear this is not you know, well
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  Speaker 1: we you know, they had nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: We just, you know, very clear on the fact he
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  Speaker 1: was giving credit to Indiana in this. But he was
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  Speaker 1: asked how much of the stuff that you saw was
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  Speaker 1: issues of your team, your guys not executing versus how
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  Speaker 1: much was just you tip your cap to Indiana and go, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we played our best and you beat us.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, No, there was definitely something. He was also
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  Speaker 4: asked about some missed holding calls and he's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's it all comes back to something he has
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  Speaker 4: talked about for a couple of years now, don't leave
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  Speaker 4: it up to one play, And so yes, would it
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  Speaker 4: have been better if you make a kick? Sure would
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  Speaker 4: have been better if you hit the quarterback snake? Sure
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  Speaker 4: would it have been better if you kick two field
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  Speaker 4: goals rather than fail on fourth down? Perhaps you win
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  Speaker 4: the game. You score a touchdown. Perhaps you win the game.
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  Speaker 4: Do you score two touchdowns? And those red zone situations,
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  Speaker 4: you win the game. So those are only these things
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  Speaker 4: where it's impossible to not just be like, this is
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  Speaker 4: just constantly rolling around on your mind, and the only
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  Speaker 4: way to get it out of your mind is to
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  Speaker 4: find out who you're playing next. And so maybe now
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  Speaker 4: they can they can find some sanity and kind of
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  Speaker 4: move on to the next thing. You say, one last thing.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say one last thing. He was asked
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  Speaker 4: who was calling the plays, and he said it was
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  Speaker 4: Brian Hartline. The conspiracy theory unless you know, unless he's lying,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Brian Hartline calling the plays, And in terms
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  Speaker 4: of who's going to be calling it for the next game,
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  Speaker 4: that's probably still going to be Brian Hartline. But they're gonna,
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  Speaker 4: you know, put all of this game planning together and
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  Speaker 4: see how things go towards the end of the month.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think that that's I think that answers
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  Speaker 4: a question that people have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we've got some answers to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff that people are sort of wondering about coming
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  Speaker 1: out of that game, and now they have someone to
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  Speaker 1: sort of turn their focus to to someone's In fact,
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  Speaker 1: number ten Miami, number seven, Texas A and M they
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  Speaker 1: will play in the first round down in College Station
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  Speaker 1: and the winner will face the Buckeyes in the Cotton
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  Speaker 1: Bowl New Year's Eve, seven thirty Eastern.
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  Speaker 3: We will be there. I have plenty of coverage in
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  Speaker 3: the lead up to that.
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  Speaker 1: Get to watch a bunch of Hurricanes, a bunch of Aggies,
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  Speaker 1: and Buckeyes will have a little bit of a head
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  Speaker 1: start in terms of game planning for this because they
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  Speaker 1: can scout the heck out of both of those teams
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  Speaker 1: for the next few weeks and start putting some game
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  Speaker 1: clients together early.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, this is.
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  Speaker 1: Probably going to be a pretty good first round game,
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  Speaker 1: so you're going to probably be burning through some of
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  Speaker 1: your good stuff to make sure you get out of
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  Speaker 1: that first round. So a little bit of a little
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  Speaker 1: bit beneficial for Ohio State there, because I know everyone's
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  Speaker 1: immediate reaction is going to be Texas A and m
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  Speaker 1: in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: How is that possible?
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, so Buck guys playing the winner
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  Speaker 1: of Miami and Texas A and M New Year's Eve,
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  Speaker 1: seven thirty pm.
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  Speaker 3: That's it for now.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow