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Ross Fulton Analysis: Did Ohio State Fix Its Running Game Issues? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, September 8th. I'm
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  Speaker 1: and that's exciting for any number of reasons. One of
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  Speaker 1: them is that Ross Fulton is back. He's one of
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  Speaker 1: our scheme insiders at BuckeyeInsiders.com, and he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: breaking down five plays on today's show. I taught him
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  Speaker 1: a lot about Arthur Smith and the impact of Arthur
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  Speaker 1: Smith on the Ohio State offense. And oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: there's a pretty big football game that Arthur Smith is
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  Speaker 1: going to have to call another offense for this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We may talk a little bit about that as well.
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  Speaker 1: But Ross, let's start with the run game because that
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  Speaker 1: felt like that was the big story coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the game. The fact that Ohio State in the first
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  Speaker 1: half really struggled to run the ball, even against a
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  Speaker 1: not particularly good Ball State defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think before jumping into the particular plays,
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  Speaker 2: just overall thoughts on Arthur Smith's impact. I would say
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  Speaker 2: that the plays themselves look a lot of what we
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  Speaker 2: saw from Ryan Day's offenses in recent years. I thought
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  Speaker 2: they kept things pretty clear. basic in the first game. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll go through it a lot of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's somewhat back to where day was with Wilson with
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  Speaker 2: a heavy focus on outside zone and mixed with inside
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  Speaker 2: zone RPOs, at least on Saturday in the run game.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, then you get a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of, we'll see a lot of high, low, you know,
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  Speaker 2: back to, to the middle triangle passing concepts, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so a sort of a D emphasis on, We talked
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  Speaker 2: a lot about how much curl flat we saw last
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  Speaker 2: year and go into some of that. But what Smith
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  Speaker 2: really brought on Saturday was dressing up formations. You'll see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fast motion, moving tight ends back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: trying to give Julian Sane some pre-snap cues. Changing up tempo,
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  Speaker 2: that came into particular. We'll see on that Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 2: his first touchdown, and talk about that. But also, just generally,
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  Speaker 2: you saw some up tempo. You saw some no huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Just mixing it up. Um, but as you mentioned, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the run game, I think you, everyone would probably say
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  Speaker 2: it was a little, uh, kludgy in the first half. Um,
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  Speaker 2: some of that was, and we'll see here was the
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  Speaker 2: things that ball state was doing, um, kind of a
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  Speaker 2: good first game because there was a ton of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: mixing between even an odd fronts by ball state, a
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  Speaker 2: ton of slanting and stunting.
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  Speaker 3: Um, and those kinds of movement.
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  Speaker 2: Issues were what, caused uh some problems for Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: against Indiana and Miami last year so kind of a
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  Speaker 2: good refresher if you will um and that is what
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  Speaker 2: caused you know quite a few of the issues so
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  Speaker 2: like if we look at the first play here obviously
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  Speaker 2: this is Ohio State's backed up um so you get
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  Speaker 2: uh heavier personnel uh you know we two tight ends
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  Speaker 2: it's an offset uh weak pistol and you know one
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  Speaker 2: good thing I will say before we get to the
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  Speaker 2: play we'll see here and and elsewhere like A lot
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  Speaker 2: of running to the weak side, so away from formation strength.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that is a change-up that Arthur Smith
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  Speaker 2: has brought. They seem much more balanced in terms of
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  Speaker 2: running away from the tight ends and making that less
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  Speaker 2: of a tell. You can see that he gave Julian
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  Speaker 2: Sane a lot of freedom, particularly with outside zone, to
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  Speaker 2: run it either to the strong or weak side, depending
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  Speaker 2: on the numbers. And so saying would check to that
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  Speaker 2: at the line and that gives, you know, make sure
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  Speaker 2: you didn't see a lot of Ohio state ever running
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  Speaker 2: into bad looks or being outnumbered, which is certainly a
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  Speaker 2: welcome change. But the thing that caused the issues here
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  Speaker 2: is dealing with all the movement. And so as you'll see,
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  Speaker 2: I sort of telestrated the, a lot of what ball
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  Speaker 2: state would do would align either in three or four
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  Speaker 2: man fronts and then slant and like slant really hard. So,
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  Speaker 2: just like here, the defensive line is going to slant
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  Speaker 2: away or to the strong side of the field. And
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  Speaker 2: then they're going to loop their linebackers around really hard.
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  Speaker 2: And so with outside zone, like the key to zone
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  Speaker 2: runs is to follow your tracks. So as the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: if the play is going to your left, you are
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  Speaker 2: taking a lateral step and you are staying into your zone,
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  Speaker 2: like you're zoning to the side of the play, right?
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  Speaker 2: And so if a defensive lineman or linebacker crosses your
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  Speaker 2: face away from the play side. At most, what you
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  Speaker 2: want to do is use your inside hand. So if
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  Speaker 2: the play is going to the right, you know, your
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  Speaker 2: left hand to sort of pin that guy until your
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  Speaker 2: teammate can come and overtake them. But what you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do is get yourself caught up like chasing bodies, right?
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  Speaker 2: Instead of sticking with your tracks. And so we saw
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  Speaker 2: a lot of chasing bodies in the first half on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, you'll see here, for instance, at
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  Speaker 2: the snap, Austin Sereveld gets too locked on to what
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  Speaker 2: starts as a one technique who goes inside of Carson Hinsman.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have what lined up as a five
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  Speaker 2: technique outside of Philip Daniels shooting inside into where Sereveld's
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  Speaker 2: play side gap is. And so that shouldn't happen. Sereveld
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  Speaker 2: should keep stepping. He should pick up that five technique
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  Speaker 2: that comes into him. Hinsman can work to that nose,
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  Speaker 2: but who even goes past them? and then Daniels can
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  Speaker 2: work to the play side linebacker. So like, that's the
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  Speaker 2: first issue. Second issue is this is, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: saw a lot of another thing that, that Smith did.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked about this in the preseason, like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different ways to run outside zone, particularly with
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  Speaker 2: the tight ends doing different things. And so here it's
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  Speaker 2: an insert. So Mason Williams, he's supposed to work up
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  Speaker 2: to the second level and pick up whoever shows. But again,
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  Speaker 2: he gets his body turned inside. And like, so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of talk of, the offensive line. And
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  Speaker 2: like when, when teams tend to not run the ball well,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, what's wrong with the offensive line? Well, there's,
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  Speaker 2: there's more than the offensive line. There's tight ends, there's
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  Speaker 2: wide receivers. And so the offensive line often takes the blame.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think they had some issues with tight
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  Speaker 2: end blocking, pretty inexperienced at that position. So he gets
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  Speaker 2: his body turned inside. So now we have two linebackers
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  Speaker 2: scraping over the top. The third thing is that they
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to crack the play side wide receiver here,
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith, is supposed to crack the safety. So that
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  Speaker 2: means come inside, block that safety, get the running back
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  Speaker 2: one-on-one with a corner because the old adage in football,
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  Speaker 2: you want to make corners tackle.
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  Speaker 3: The crack was late.
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  Speaker 2: So we saw that several times on Saturday as well
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  Speaker 2: in the first half where wide receivers didn't take tight
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  Speaker 2: enough paths to cut off that safety. Obviously here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ball State's playing pretty aggressively because Iowa State's backed up
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  Speaker 2: and are expecting a run.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, all these little things added up.
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  Speaker 2: But I think Ryan Day talked about, and we'll see here,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest issue was not, again, staying on your pass.
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  Speaker 3: When a guy's going inside of you, let that guy go.
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  Speaker 3: Your teammate's going to pick him up. You keep going.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess the natural question is, how complicated is
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  Speaker 1: that to fix? Because they have a pretty big game
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  Speaker 1: on deck against Texas. Because you get to the second
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  Speaker 1: half of the game, later in that game against Ball State,
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  Speaker 1: and then the running game did look substantially better. So
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  Speaker 1: is that something that it Something got fixed on the sidelines?
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that's going to get fixed during the
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  Speaker 1: week here? And then let's break down one of the
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  Speaker 1: plays where the running game was kind of moving.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they fixed it is the short answer. I
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  Speaker 2: think Day talked postgame. They had to get on the iPads.
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  Speaker 3: They got on at halftime.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just sort of like a reminder to guys,
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  Speaker 2: in the heat of the moment, don't get too latched
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  Speaker 2: on to bodies. And this is an issue you see
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  Speaker 2: across offensive line play. you know, throughout football, it's, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of movement and you got to stick to
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  Speaker 2: your rules. Like you see that in past protection too.
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  Speaker 2: We can talk about some of that, but like, so here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, second half, this is a very similar concept again.
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  Speaker 2: So like 12 personnel, uh, yeah, again, as I talked about,
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  Speaker 2: so we got this like sort of double wing to
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  Speaker 2: the field and you're going to run outside zone week.
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  Speaker 2: So again, like you can see Arthur Smith's influence with
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  Speaker 2: not just running, uh, outside zone to the tight end
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  Speaker 2: side and running here to the boundary, but like, Again,
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  Speaker 2: so Paul State's defensive front, they're going to, again, slant inside, right?
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  Speaker 2: Slant towards the field, and they're going to loop around hard.
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  Speaker 2: So here, by contrast, instead of Carson Hinsman getting in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, here on this side, we're running to the left.
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  Speaker 2: So Luke Montgomery, again, latched on to this one technique
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  Speaker 2: who's shooting inside.
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  Speaker 3: They just let him go. And that guy, he just
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  Speaker 3: runs himself out of the play, right? And so, you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: I saw some discussion or have seen some on X
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  Speaker 2: about complaining, whether it was on this run or I've
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  Speaker 2: seen lots of complaints about on the Jacoby Jackson long
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  Speaker 2: run about Philip Daniels letting the guy go inside of him.
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  Speaker 2: Philip Daniels did exactly what he was supposed to do
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  Speaker 2: on that play. If interior defensive linemen are going to
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  Speaker 2: slant like that, they're never going to catch a running
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  Speaker 2: back on outside zone. That's why this works. That's why
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  Speaker 2: this is an explosive play. There are downsides to slanting.
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  Speaker 2: and jumping around. And that's one of them. Like you
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  Speaker 2: can slant yourself right out of a play. So that's this, like,
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  Speaker 2: that's the discipline that I'm talking about. So they, they
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  Speaker 2: stay on their tracks here, which allows Hinsman. Then again, you're,
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for someone, right? So he gets to climb
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  Speaker 2: the second level. The other thing that works much better
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  Speaker 2: here is they finally successfully crack that play side safety.
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  Speaker 2: We'll show it on the passing game, but Ball State
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  Speaker 2: was playing a lot of quarter quarter half. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting that safety involved in the run game,
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  Speaker 2: And so you get the crack. now again that gets
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  Speaker 2: Bo Jackson one-on-one with the corner which again is always
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  Speaker 2: where you want to get and that's what Ryan Davis
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  Speaker 2: was talking about all offseason about making that guy miss
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  Speaker 2: which he does and that's that's what creates your explicit
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  Speaker 2: play so these are fixable issues it's just you know
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  Speaker 2: that's why we talked about like in preseason like outside
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  Speaker 2: zone takes a lot of reps because you want to
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  Speaker 2: do it right.
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  Speaker 3: You got to be ready for these looks. You got
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  Speaker 3: to work in unison.
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  Speaker 2: You got to be consistent in how you do it,
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  Speaker 2: which is why you're going to see Ohio State be
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  Speaker 2: so much more heavy of a outside zone team compared to,
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  Speaker 2: especially like in the last year or two where they
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  Speaker 2: mixed in a lot of gap plays. But the trade-off
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  Speaker 2: is Arthur Smith, unlike I think particularly, you know, pre-Chip Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: like 22, 23, where Ohio State got very predictable into
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  Speaker 2: the looks of in the ways they were running outside zone,
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  Speaker 2: he's bringing a lot more window dressing to it. And
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  Speaker 2: as I said, like can run it strong, you can
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  Speaker 2: run it weak. And so that they're not running as
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  Speaker 2: into looks where it just, you could block everyone.
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  Speaker 3: It's not going to work.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that was working pretty consistently on Saturday was
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  Speaker 1: the passing game. Julian Sands, first two passes of the
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  Speaker 1: day were both incomplete. And then after that, he was
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  Speaker 1: 21 for 23 and the two incompletions both hit people
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  Speaker 1: in the hands. So it's, it was a pretty effective
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  Speaker 1: passing day once you got through those sort of first
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  Speaker 1: drive jitters. And one of the things that we saw
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  Speaker 1: them bring back was the RPO. And I think we
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  Speaker 1: got a good sense for Devin McEwen. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: sort of a question who is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: other guy across from Jeremiah Smith. It feels like we
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  Speaker 1: got that answer. And that answer was Devin McEwen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he certainly looked like the number two receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we talked about day had a lot of praise
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  Speaker 2: for him in the previous week. And, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: showed his explosiveness here, you know, Again, with RPOs, like we,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Gerderman on Buckeye Insiders had, he, he broke down,
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  Speaker 2: you know, by formation under center pistol and shotgun and,
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  Speaker 2: and yours for carry. And my caveat to that is
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  Speaker 2: in the gun, you have to count these RPOs as
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  Speaker 2: part of the run game. Like this is a run play.
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  Speaker 2: And so those stats really should be attributed because basically,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, it was pretty simple at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, like an under center pistol, most of
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  Speaker 2: the time, Ohio state was running outside zone. in the gun,
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot of inside zone with RPOs attached
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 3: And so we talked.
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  Speaker 2: About last week, like, you know, there's pluses and minuses to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, under center pistol gun to each of them.
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  Speaker 2: And like, you don't have the gun saying it's not
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  Speaker 2: like a run threat threat to read run, but he
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  Speaker 2: is to run these RPOs. Like he's very decisive on him.
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  Speaker 2: He gets the ball quick. He's obviously very accurate on
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  Speaker 2: these short and intermediate throws. So, you know, again, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of window dressing here from Arthur Smith. This is
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  Speaker 2: actually like another 12 personnel unbalanced. So the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: inline tight ends covered up and the lines just run
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  Speaker 2: inside zone with a double hitch. Say is going to
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  Speaker 2: read that force to defender that I circled. If that
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  Speaker 2: guy stays wide, he's going to give, if he comes
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  Speaker 2: down like he does to play the run, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to throw.
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  Speaker 3: And so, and then obviously, you know, McEwen.
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  Speaker 2: Showed some of that after a catch ability that they
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  Speaker 2: were looking forward to turn shorter plays into explosives this year.
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  Speaker 1: And the next one is not a touchdown, but it
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  Speaker 1: is another Devin McEwen play. And you saw him working
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  Speaker 1: in outside. You saw him working inside. He was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit all over the place in this game. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this next one, another example of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I mentioned earlier, like you're getting a lot of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Ball State gave him, it was a good
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  Speaker 2: sort of opening game in terms of the amount of
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  Speaker 2: looks they were getting both, um, up front and at
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  Speaker 2: the second level. Um, So again, you're getting a lot
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  Speaker 2: of quarter, quarter, half from Ball State. So they're going
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  Speaker 2: to play cover two to the short side of the
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  Speaker 2: field and cover four to the wide side. So each
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  Speaker 2: guy has a quarter to the field and then the
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  Speaker 2: corner sitting in the flat and you have a deep
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  Speaker 2: half safety. So again, players and coaches talked about this
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  Speaker 2: in the preseason about how Arthur Smith ran a few plays,
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  Speaker 2: but in a lot of different ways. So again, Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State sort of wore out on Saturday, all these different,
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  Speaker 2: like you're basically high, low, the cornerback, right? So if
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  Speaker 2: that cover two corner, like goes deep, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: throw the underneath route. And if he stays in the hard,
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  Speaker 2: in the flat, you're going to hit those deep routes.
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  Speaker 2: So like we saw floods, we saw China smash all these,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just variations of basically the same idea, which
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  Speaker 2: is like getting that two on one on that boundary corner.
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  Speaker 2: So again, Smith hits this one or excuse me, saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, steps in and hits this one and like
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  Speaker 2: I you know if anything we'll talk about with this
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  Speaker 2: the Jeremiah Smith and you see in the two-minute drill
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  Speaker 2: as well like I think it's all he's Julian Sainz
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  Speaker 2: almost sort of being taken for granted at this point
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  Speaker 2: like you know across college football like you don't see
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  Speaker 2: in watching games like a lot of quarterbacks who are
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  Speaker 2: like consistently able to execute a drop back style NFL
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  Speaker 2: style pass game where you're reading the defense like this
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  Speaker 2: you're running like downfield pass concepts and you're, you're throwing
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  Speaker 2: an accurate football. And so, you know, again, a little
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  Speaker 2: easy to take that stuff for granted, but, and then
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  Speaker 2: you see up front again, like, you know, this tight
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  Speaker 2: end yo-yo motion again, like a lot of motion trying
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  Speaker 2: to help the quarterback pre-snap get a read. And, and then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, as I said, like these odd fronts
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  Speaker 2: are a good test for your pass protection.
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  Speaker 3: And so Ohio State's doing like a four.
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  Speaker 2: So everyone to the right, of left tackle Ian Moore
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  Speaker 2: is slide half sliding. So they have all responsible for
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  Speaker 2: their gap to the right. Ian Moore's locked on the
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  Speaker 2: defensive end. And so you can see this, this loop
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  Speaker 2: stunt come in. And so on this one, Carson Hensman
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  Speaker 2: does a good job keeping his eyes up as does
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  Speaker 2: Gabe Van Sickle. And so, you know, more I'd say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the two sand sacks in particular were both
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  Speaker 2: situations where you're again, guys sort of like we talked
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  Speaker 2: about with outside zone, kind of got locked on and
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  Speaker 2: they weren't picking up the stunts. So the first one, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he got, they slanted inside of Ian Moore,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of forced sand off. And it was a
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  Speaker 2: corner blitz that Jacoby Jackson didn't pick up. The second
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  Speaker 2: one stand saying stepped up. I mean, I know on
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  Speaker 2: that one, there was a lot of criticism of Phil
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Daniels and like the speed rush, but he actually handled that.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Um, it was, but then they, um, uh, ball state
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: green dogged and, you know, they had a delayed blitz
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: in other words. And, Uh, the offense interior offensive linemen
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: were too locked on and didn't see it coming. So again,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: those are the kinds of things. That's why I keep
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: saying this was good sort of warmup, if you will,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: for the season, for the offensive line, just to see
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: these looks and, you know, have to deal with, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: following their responsibilities and not getting locked into guys up front.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Well, and our last play is that first long touchdown
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: pass to Jeremiah Smith. And this was a double move.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: It was like a little out and up, but, you know,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: a double move and out and up, especially when we're
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: going to throw the ball down the field. You got
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: to take a little time. The offensive line has got
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to give you time. So we're going to talk about this,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: but I also want, Ross, I want you to share
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: your thoughts because after re-watching the Ohio State game and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: watching the Texas game, I feel like a lot of
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: this game is going to come down to how does
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Ohio State handle the pressure off the edges from Texas.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Cause it feels like the interior of the defense of
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the offensive line is okay, but can they hold up
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: against the defensive ends from Texas that, that may go
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: a long way towards determining what this game looks like
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: on Saturday.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So we'll, we'll, let me, we'll talk about the
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: concept first.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: And again, this is like sort of where you see,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I think Smith and day married up, right? Like this
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: is an area where day is always like taking shots, right.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Under center, heavy play action, like on your, on the
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: opponent's side of the 50, You get this out and
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: up move, but then you also see like sort of how,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: what Smith is bringing to elevate it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: So like, again, we talked about tempo and pace here
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: saying just steps up and it's an immediately like the snap.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: They're not using a cadence. They're not using.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: So the ball's out right away. That makes it, it's
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: hard to tell whether this is a corner blitz or
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: a green dog or the corners reading, because I think
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the tempo through off ball state.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: And so that makes that safety who has to get over.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: to the, to the deep third on Smith, like pretty
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: flat footed. And, you know, this is a great throw
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: by saying he throws it with a lot of anticipation.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Like he lets the ball go with Jeremiah Smith is,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you know, three steps behind the defender and puts it
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: right on him. Obviously a great catch as well. In
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: terms of like, again, like, I think when it comes
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: to speed rushers in particular, like Phil Daniels, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: his feet are, he does not have the best feet, right?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Like he will occasionally give up speed on the edge,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: which allows him to then get set up for inside moves.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: But again, as I said, I don't think that really
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: caused a ton of problems. My bigger concern is like
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: what you see here again, where you see this heavy
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: play action. And again, we get this stunt, right? So
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the defensive end on the left is going to loop
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: inside and, and in the, uh, of the tackle. So
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you got a game going on, right? And Luke Montgomery
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: gets too caught on to the defensive tackle. This guy
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: can come inside. He's a free rate. He basically misses them. Now, fortunately,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Bo Jackson gets enough of them to allow the ball
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to get out. But to me, this remains both in
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: the run and the past game, like the biggest issue, right?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Is not getting locked on to guys they're just getting
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: they're going to get a lot of movement and teams
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: are going to keep doing it to them until they
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: consistently handle it in both the run and the pass game.
• 19:48
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• 19:49
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• 19:52
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• 19:54
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• 19:56
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