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Ohio State Football: Will Ryan Day Or Brian Hartline Call Plays Vs. Miami? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Tuesday, December twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: by Tony Gerdaman here inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
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  Speaker 1: We just got a chance to talk to Ohio States
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  Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball as well as head coach
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day. However, we did not get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: talk to Ohio States offensive coordinator, or did we because
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  Speaker 1: Brian Hartline was not part of the interview group, which
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  Speaker 1: normally the offensive coordinator is. However, as we learned Tony,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Hartline not gonna be one calling plays in the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that will be a Tomic group effort, but it
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  Speaker 2: will be Ryan Day basically calling the plays.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a group project. But like a
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  Speaker 1: group project when you're in high school where you've got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the one person who.
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  Speaker 2: Knows most of the word. Yeah, they do, Ryan Day
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  Speaker 2: not all the work, but he'll be doing the play
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  Speaker 2: calling in this one and said, you know, it's something
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  Speaker 2: that he's done before, as we all know, and a
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  Speaker 2: little bit like Jemmick back on the bike, but he'll
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  Speaker 2: be doing it from now a perspective of having not
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  Speaker 2: done it and now just getting back into the flow.
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  Speaker 2: And he's always been involved though, so it's not like
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  Speaker 2: he's he's always had a play sheet. He's always been
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  Speaker 2: involved in all this and now he'll be more involved.
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  Speaker 2: And he's been more involved in practices as well and
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  Speaker 2: meetings and all of those things. So yes, it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like he's doing a whole lot of coordinating of the offense.
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  Speaker 2: And he did say Brian Harline is with the wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, and so then Brian Hartlin can kind of
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  Speaker 1: focus on that piece of things. I know there's always
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  Speaker 1: a question, well, who's going to be in the box,
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  Speaker 1: And I thought his answer was very interesting in that
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  Speaker 1: because he talked about all the people he needed to
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  Speaker 1: get a bunch of feedback from, and Brian Hartlin's name
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  Speaker 1: was not really part of that group. But then right
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  Speaker 1: at the end he said, Brian Hartlin is going to
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  Speaker 1: be probably up in the box. So who else is
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  Speaker 1: going to have some input in this whole process even
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  Speaker 1: during the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he mentioned Keenan Bailey a couple of times. Billyfessor,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterbacks coach, They'll need them to give him good
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  Speaker 2: information from upstairs. And then also Billy's gotta get the
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  Speaker 2: message from from Day to the quarterback. And so there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be that part of it where it's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not it's all the same stuff that was happening before.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a different guy making the call. And again,
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  Speaker 2: as we talk about on all of the shows we've
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  Speaker 2: ever done about calling plays, the decisions are made during
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  Speaker 2: the week. That's when the plays that you're gonna call
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  Speaker 2: are decided on and in situations, and it becomes a
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  Speaker 2: Payton bind numbers type of thing. And we'll see, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what kind of painting Ryan Day can do. Is
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be like a concaid masterpiece of just the
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  Speaker 2: warmest house during the winter that you've ever seen? Or
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  Speaker 2: is it? You know, will it be something else? I
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  Speaker 2: think the boy the mood seems pre up, upbeat despite
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  Speaker 2: all of the things that have gone on with this
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  Speaker 2: offensive situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was obviously not great timing on a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different fronts for Ohio State. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's been plenty of conversation around the timing
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  Speaker 1: of that and how much that threw things off during
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Championship Game week, but Ryan Day was asked
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  Speaker 1: about that and was really not interested in saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: here's why we lost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not in the business of making excuses and
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  Speaker 2: not trying to blame anybody, because there were plays that
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  Speaker 2: could have been made. There were schemes that could have
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  Speaker 2: been better. They were good schemes in there. They're good
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  Speaker 2: play calls that just weren't executed. So it's like's not
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't just on the players, It wasn't just on
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  Speaker 2: the coaches. Everybody had their part in making this happen.
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  Speaker 2: And so then that's something that you've got to sit with.
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  Speaker 2: You've been that was now a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just stewing and stewing, and you've got to like,
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  Speaker 2: what what were those issues? And now we've got time
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  Speaker 2: to figure them out and fix them. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: good thing about this whole by situation that you've got
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  Speaker 2: going on, is it's not a seven day turnaround. You've
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  Speaker 2: got time to fix whatever it is, make not just
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  Speaker 2: fix it, but make it better and make it because
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  Speaker 2: things need to get better.
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  Speaker 1: And really figure out different pieces of thing, different pieces
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  Speaker 1: of the puzzle right now in terms of who's doing
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  Speaker 1: what and from where and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That all you've got time to sort all that stuff out.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's one of the interesting
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  Speaker 1: questions was about what Brian Day had lost learned this
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  Speaker 1: year about you know, what he maybe wasn't able to
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  Speaker 1: do when he was calling plays, because you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: if you've always called plays, you don't you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't sort of know what the flip side of that is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, when you're calling plays, your face, your
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  Speaker 2: head is down in the play sheet, and when you're
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  Speaker 2: not calling plays, you're able to look at everything. You're
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  Speaker 2: able to have a wider view of everything that's going on, defense,
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  Speaker 2: special teams, whatever, and just you're able to touch more
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  Speaker 2: bases basically as opposed to when literally your head is
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  Speaker 2: down and you're locked in with the tunnel vision of
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  Speaker 2: that next play call or the next series of play calls.
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  Speaker 2: But the good news for him is he has a
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  Speaker 2: head coach on defense and Matt Patricia that I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how much he needs to be looking over there, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: and right now he's going to be very much more
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  Speaker 2: involved in the offense. And so I'm considering that Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State's best offenses throughout history have come in this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: since Servern Meyer basically got here, but then under Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day took it to another level. This is a a transition,
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  Speaker 2: but it is now one that you're giving the ball
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  Speaker 2: back to the guy who has created the greatest offenses
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio State football history.
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  Speaker 1: Right this is not you know, oh boy, you've lost
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  Speaker 1: the soul mastermind behind your offense. This has always been
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  Speaker 1: the Ryan Day offense. And sometimes someone else is on
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  Speaker 1: the headset calling the Ryan Day offense. But this was
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  Speaker 1: not Well, Brian Hartline has taken over as the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator and he's installing all of his and it's a
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  Speaker 1: totally different philosophy. This is as long as Brian Day
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  Speaker 1: is the head coach at Ohio State, it is always
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  Speaker 1: going to be the Ryan day offense with maybe some
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  Speaker 1: tweaks and some twists based on the other folks who
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  Speaker 1: are on those headsets and in those meetings during the week.
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  Speaker 1: And they have a lot of guys who have called
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  Speaker 1: plays on this offense. Billy Fessler has been an offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: play caller, Tyler Bowen has been an offensive coordinator or
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  Speaker 1: play caller. The Brian hartline obviously has done it. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, it would not surprise me if Keenan Bailey
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  Speaker 1: had a bigger role in that in the coming year.
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  Speaker 1: So this is not well, Brian. You know, Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: has to be the one man band now and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to play the cymbals with his knees and also
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  Speaker 1: play the drums, and boy, how you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: your hand your drum stick up to the high hat.
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  Speaker 1: And this is you know, this is not going to
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  Speaker 1: represent I don't expect a huge philosophical shift or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. In terms of the offense. You may see
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  Speaker 1: some different personnel packages, but that's I think has a
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  Speaker 1: lot less to do with who's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: one on the radio calling the plays in from the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is nothing new for any of these
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  Speaker 2: these and Ryan Day said as well, when you are
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  Speaker 2: coordinating well and you're coaching well, the players know the
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  Speaker 2: plays that are coming as well because they know all
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  Speaker 2: of the situations. They've gone through it, they practice these situations,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a situational issues that they had against
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  Speaker 2: Indiana that they're working on now. So like, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: third and four. We know these are the three plays
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  Speaker 2: that we really like. These are the three plays we're
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  Speaker 2: in fifteen times in practice, so I'm expecting it to
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  Speaker 2: be this call. And that's where you've got a really
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  Speaker 2: good offense defense as well. When you know basically what's coming,
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  Speaker 2: it's because you've been prepared, you've studied, and now this
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  Speaker 2: is just the culmination of all week of practice. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something we maybe we've talked about that
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  Speaker 1: a bunch. I feel like that maybe he's worth reiterating.
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  Speaker 1: This is not something where the guy who's calling plays
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  Speaker 1: is just sort of pulling things out of thin air.
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  Speaker 1: There are meetings and meetings and meetings and they sit
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  Speaker 1: down and they have third and three in our own
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  Speaker 1: end or first, you know, in seven in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: They have a list of plays and it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it is a relatively short list, and they have practiced
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  Speaker 1: all those plays this week, and they you know, they
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  Speaker 1: go into the game knowing, hey, if it's second and
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  Speaker 1: seven in the red zone, here's you know, here's the
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  Speaker 1: list of four or so or so plays we're gonna run.
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  Speaker 1: So this is not you know, the guy who's going
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  Speaker 1: play calling is just going, let's run the annexation of
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. That looked fun and little giants, let's do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we did see some of that in the Miami
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  Speaker 2: Texas A and M game, but also they practiced it,
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  Speaker 2: and that's that's the whole thing. It's it's all preparation,
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  Speaker 2: practice plays, and rarely, rarely, rarely do they call plays
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  Speaker 2: that they haven't worked on. It's it's worked a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times this year.
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  Speaker 1: We hear about it when it works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the thing when when stuff like that happens,
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  Speaker 2: it's mentionable. It's like, well, let me, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Why this thing is interesting is because we didn't practice it,
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  Speaker 2: and every other plan is like, yeah, we practiced it
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  Speaker 2: thirty times and that's why I worked. The timing was there,
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  Speaker 2: and the plays that you don't practice. That also goes
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  Speaker 2: into a dedicated and focused offense or defense where yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we can draw this up at halftime, or somebody who
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  Speaker 2: hasn't run this play ever can substitute in and be
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  Speaker 2: able to run that play.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. There is your update
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  Speaker 1: on the Ohio State play calling situation. We got a
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  Speaker 1: good hour and a half with Ohio State players and
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day on Monday morning, and we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: more with the Ohio State defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia and a handful of Ohios Date defensive players.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be Monday evening starting around six forty five. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have that one streaming live for you as well. And
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  Speaker 1: then you want to know all the other stuff we
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  Speaker 1: talked about we've talked about with the players and Ryan Day. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we will do a Buckeye Weekly episode on that coming
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  Speaker 1: up a little later on in the afternoon, or you
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  Speaker 1: can always go back and watch all what's that whole
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  Speaker 1: press conference. Got a chance to talk to Julian Sayin,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, Max Clayer, Carson Hinsman, and Ryan Day. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of interesting stuff to hear there. Treat yourself to
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  Speaker 1: the Carson Hinsman interview. That is an absolute delight as
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  Speaker 1: you would sort of expect from an offensive lineman. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. There's your update on the Ohio state
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.