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4 Things We Learned From Ohio State's 34-0 Win Over Wisconsin · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Joined by Tony Gerderman. Here on the field at Camp
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Speaker 1: Randall Stadium, Ohio State thin get what they needed to
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Speaker 1: it was.
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Speaker 2: This is one where you look and you can you
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Speaker 2: can look at.
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Speaker 1: Certain numbers and go, Wow, what a dominant performance, and
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Speaker 1: you can look at other numbers and go, hmmm, well
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Speaker 1: they haven't solved some of the issues.
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Speaker 1: Tony, we're looking at a casino ad right now behind us,
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Speaker 1: so dealers choice. Do we want to start with the
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Speaker 1: here's all the stuff Ohio State fans should be thrilled about,
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Speaker 1: or do we want to start with here's all the
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Speaker 1: stuff that Ohio State fans were probably furrowing their brows
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Speaker 1: about it at times during the game.
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Speaker 3: No, we as a society are too negative. So let's
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Speaker 3: start with a positive. We'll just rush through that before
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Speaker 3: we get to the.
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Speaker 2: Importance stuff, all right, So let's start with the positive.
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Speaker 1: And I think you kind of have to start with
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Speaker 1: Julian saying because you look at his numbers.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: To me, it didn't feel like you got to this level.
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Speaker 1: The numbers got to this point. But thirty six of
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Speaker 1: forty two, eighty six percent completions, three hundred and ninety
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Speaker 1: three yards, four touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: The number of four hundred yard.
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Speaker 1: Games in Ohio state history is can you count it
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Speaker 1: on one hands? Maybe less than two hands, probably.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, two hands and three hundred.
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Speaker 2: And ninety three yards.
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Speaker 1: Almost got there, four touchdowns, eighty six percent completion on
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Speaker 1: thirty six for forty two passing. You throw the ball
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Speaker 1: forty two times and six of them, seven of them
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Speaker 1: are incomplete. This is one of the great passing games
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Speaker 1: in Ohio state history.
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Speaker 4: Boy, you're absolutely you're absolutely correct.
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Speaker 3: And I think one of the reasons maybe is quiet
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Speaker 3: ish is the RPOs where it's just nine ten yards.
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Speaker 3: It's like these are not explosive plays. So three of
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Speaker 3: their explosive pass plays which are fifteen yards or more.
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Speaker 3: Were sixteen yard receptions and to dump offs to Bo
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Speaker 3: Jackson like he had three of their explosive plays, because
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Speaker 3: it's a tremendous read to just all right, you know
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Speaker 3: the first two guys, aren't there first three guys. I'm
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Speaker 3: just gonna dump it off to Bo Jackson and he's
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Speaker 3: gonna get sixteen yards every time except last week, Tom
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Speaker 3: when he got seventeen yards on the touchdown on the sideline.
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Speaker 3: Really nice options to just be like eh and then boom,
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Speaker 3: three hundred and ninety three yards.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know it wasn't all checkdowns. No, there
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Speaker 1: was the RPOs. Let's talk real quickly about the RPOs
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Speaker 1: before we move on, because the there was like a
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Speaker 1: drive where it was just Jeremiah Smith just pull eight yards,
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Speaker 1: poll nine yards. I mean, he was like he was
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Speaker 1: shooting trap, just poll boom, poll boom, just right down
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Speaker 1: the field. He finishes nine catches, ninety seven yards, no touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: So I guess that counts as a bad game.
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Speaker 2: Long of twenty six for him. It was it was.
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Speaker 1: Like the quietest nine for ninety seven where you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that he's going to show up on
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Speaker 1: College Football Final with anything that he did.
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Speaker 2: But it was just very efficient.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and boy, you said the E word, Ryan Day's
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Speaker 3: favorite word, efficient. And Ryan Day's gonna have no problem
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Speaker 3: with nine for ninety seven.
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Speaker 4: What he likes.
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Speaker 3: Some explosive plays, sure, but these are all winning performance.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard to critique a thirty six of
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Speaker 3: forty two, like could they have been better with a
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Speaker 3: deep game? Sure they could have been forty two of
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Speaker 3: forty two, as that the standard for some of us.
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Speaker 4: For some of us, but not for everybody.
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Speaker 3: Eighty six percent completions, you're gonna be okay with that,
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Speaker 3: and he continues to lead the nation in completion percentage.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to assume I don't think anybody has surpassed
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Speaker 3: him following his eighty six percent completion percentage game. But
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Speaker 3: it's hard to find fault with the passing game three
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Speaker 3: hundred ninety three yards. This is something we've been waiting
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Speaker 3: for them to do, Like I thought maybe they would
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Speaker 3: do it against Illinois. Just go out and just show
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Speaker 3: what you can do. And I think that Ryan Day
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Speaker 3: said that he did. They did want to know what
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Speaker 3: they could do. They wanted to put a lot on
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Speaker 3: his plate on Julian Sane's plate, and Clo went and
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Speaker 3: you saw how it went. And you know the reason
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Speaker 3: they didn't do it last week. I guess, you know,
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Speaker 3: concerns about Illinois. There's they're better than Wisconsin. Not many
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Speaker 3: concerns about Wisconsin being able to capitalize on some mistakes
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Speaker 3: from Julian saying a little bit freer, looser here.
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Speaker 1: The weather was perfect for it and so just let
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Speaker 1: it go, yeah, for sure. And he also had Carnel Tate,
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Speaker 1: which helps Carnal Tate. You know, Jeremiah Smith broadly considered
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Speaker 1: the best offensive player and potentially perhaps the best player
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Speaker 1: period in all of college football. He wasn't the best
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Speaker 1: wide receiver on the field on Saturday. Carnal Tate six catches,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven yards, two touchdowns, and you know
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Speaker 1: he we were several like oh man, like wow kind
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Speaker 1: of plays there is so often it's just the throat
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Speaker 1: of the sideline. He and Jeremiah Smith both just fourth
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Speaker 1: and fourth, third and eight, third and eleven.
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Speaker 2: It just looks so easy with those two guys.
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Speaker 1: But I think the play we really have to talk
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Speaker 1: about is where he was lined up in a place
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Speaker 1: he had you know, running a running a play from
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Speaker 1: a spot he'd never run it before.
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Speaker 2: How did it go? Well?
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Speaker 4: Uh, pretty well, yeah, pretty well. I was in the slot.
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Speaker 3: Brandon Innis got a little banged up, so he left
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Speaker 3: Carnel take goes in there ran a play that he's
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Speaker 3: not running practice this year, hasn't run since he was
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Speaker 3: a freshman. So he's a junior now, so he can
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Speaker 3: do the math on that. But that's the level of
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Speaker 3: play that Carnal Tate has and that you could trust
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Speaker 3: him and like, okay, we he hasn't practiced one. It's like, oh,
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Speaker 3: that's a story about it. He hasn't practice. He's fine,
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Speaker 3: it'll be fine. And he deeked the and it still
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Speaker 3: wasn't a perfect route combination and throw, but.
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Speaker 4: It worked because.
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Speaker 3: Carnel Ta can make the quarterback really really right. And
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Speaker 3: we saw it against Texas and the season opener, catching
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Speaker 3: that pass twice, and we've seen it repeatedly, even the
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Speaker 3: second touchdown he went and took it away from the defender.
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Speaker 3: So he is he is wide receiver one. In the
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six NFL Draft. It was funny Julian saying
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Speaker 3: sitting next to Carnel Tate and he was asked about,
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Speaker 3: you know, which of these guys kind of do you prefer,
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Speaker 3: and he's like, it is tough when you've got Carnel
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Speaker 3: Tate on one side and one on one coverage, you've
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Speaker 3: got Jeremiah Smith on the other side in one on
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Speaker 3: one coverage. I think at that point you're just like,
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Speaker 3: what's the progression. I'm wait, I'm not choosing favorites. I'm
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Speaker 3: going to go where the coach told me to go,
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Speaker 3: and that way you're gonna get mad at somebody get
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Speaker 3: mad at the receivers.
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Speaker 4: Coach.
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Speaker 1: Well, this is also I think it was nice to
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Speaker 1: have We've now had a couple of games like this
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Speaker 1: where everyone talks about Jeremiah Smith, when when people are
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Speaker 1: walking to the stadium, the network cameras are always finding
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith walking off the bus and they walk with
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, and they walk with Julian saying, and Cardiel
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Speaker 1: Tait is kind of like.
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Speaker 2: The other guy.
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Speaker 1: It's nice to see Carnel Tait get a chance to
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Speaker 1: be the guy on a national CBS broadcast and have
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Speaker 1: the whole network, you know, the whole nation watching, and
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Speaker 1: you know when you will I will be I will
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Speaker 1: put on my TV producer hat and tell you college
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Speaker 1: football Final you're probably going to see. You might see
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Speaker 1: both Carnel Tate touchdown catches. If they only show one play,
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Speaker 1: they are showing the one you just talked about, because
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Speaker 1: not only did he catch it, he caught it while
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Speaker 1: getting his helmet ripped off and then gets up and
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Speaker 1: is you know, was was pretty pleased with how.
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Speaker 3: That all works and gets to show his face, which
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Speaker 3: and yeah, has not been allowed since Joey Galloway was
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Speaker 3: a was a receiver here when he would take his
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Speaker 3: helmet off for everybody to see. So kudos to Carneal
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Speaker 3: Tate for getting away with that one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, doing that.
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Speaker 3: But now he has three one undred jarct receiving games
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Speaker 3: on the season. Jeremi Smith just too. So I think
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Speaker 3: I think Jeremiah still has them just a little bit
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Speaker 3: in yards and by a good, good handful and catches.
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Speaker 3: But Ryan Day said he's gonna be a first rounder
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Speaker 3: and he's playing like an All American at this point,
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Speaker 3: and I think it's interesting he's gonna be judged in
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Speaker 3: a way where Jeremiah Smith doesn't necessarily have to put
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Speaker 3: up the stats for everybody to know, but then when
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Speaker 3: you've got Carnaltey who's kind of outshining him, then it's
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Speaker 3: like at times, yeah, then it's like, well, how good
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Speaker 3: is this freaking guy?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And that's and that I think is a
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Speaker 1: great question for people to be asking, And the answer
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Speaker 1: is pretty darn good.
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Speaker 2: So we are going to keep things positive.
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Speaker 1: So before we get to the Ohio State run game,
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the Ohio State defense, which
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Speaker 1: this was not a great challenge. This was this was
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Speaker 1: a Wisconsin team that is really does not have a
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Speaker 1: lot going for it on the offensive side of the ball.
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Speaker 2: The defense is not bad.
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Speaker 1: The ohistk carved up what is not a great defense,
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Speaker 1: did it okay?
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Speaker 2: Average big ten kind of defense. The offense is terrible.
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Speaker 1: The offense is horrendous, to the point that I picked
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Speaker 1: Ohio State to shut out the Badgers after saying for
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Speaker 1: years and years and years, you never ever ever predict
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Speaker 1: a shutout. This is two weeks in a row they
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Speaker 1: have gotten shut out. But Ohio State did to a
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Speaker 1: bad offense exactly what you would expect them to.
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Speaker 2: They made. However bad Wisconsin is, Ohio State made them
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Speaker 2: look worse on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they picked up what a third of
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Speaker 3: their yardage total in the fourth quarter against some backups.
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Speaker 4: But this is probably the worst offense Ohio.
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Speaker 3: State will face this year barring you know, we don't
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Speaker 3: know who they'reing to see in the playoffs, but so certainly.
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Speaker 2: I feel pretty good about that.
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Speaker 3: But there's just there's no they're there. The quarterback skill
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Speaker 3: overall is is low. I don't understand why you bring
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Speaker 3: you You start Hunter Simmons and then randomly put Danny
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Speaker 3: O'Neill into hand the ball.
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Speaker 4: Off because I don't know, is that a specialty? Is
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Speaker 4: that what he's there for?
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Speaker 1: It was Luke Fikel talked about that a little bit
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Speaker 1: in the postgame press conference, and O'Neill was young, and
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Speaker 1: they you know, this was I think they burned his
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Speaker 1: red shirt with this one. But they had kind of decided, look,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna throw in there, what we're going to do.
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Speaker 1: And I think that was as much a forward looking
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Speaker 1: thing as anything. You know, this game was over at
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Speaker 1: the point that will Hire to kick the field goal
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Speaker 1: to make it ten nothing. At that point, it was like, well,
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Speaker 1: outside of a scenario where and then a miracle happened
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Speaker 1: is shows up in the box score. The game is
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Speaker 1: functionally over at ten nothing, So this is this is all.
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Speaker 1: And I think Wisconsin probably knew. Showing up at the
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Speaker 1: stadium is probably I don't think anyone's coming in going
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Speaker 1: We're about to shock the world, like yeah, no, probably not.
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Speaker 1: But this is this is a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: long term view for I think.
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Speaker 3: Wiscon Yeah, I'm sure Luke told them before the game,
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Speaker 3: Hey we are twenty five and a half point underdogs,
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Speaker 3: so let's not get crazy on our expectations. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: they knew the they knew the situation, and they all
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Speaker 3: saw the film. And I go back to PJ Flex's
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Speaker 3: postgame press conference two three weeks agoing, what do you
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Speaker 3: want me to do about it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? I got what I got, Like they got who
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Speaker 4: they got? What are we supposed to do?
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I didn't see Luke, but I'm sure there
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Speaker 3: are a lot of questions about the Wisconsin side of
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Speaker 3: things that are have nothing to do with Ohio State.
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Speaker 3: But it's like, you saw what was possible, and we
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Speaker 3: did everything we could, and hey, we held them under
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Speaker 3: thirty five points, which is maybe their season average.
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Speaker 4: So it's a a PJ. Fleck line.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's also this is a wisconsinin that is very
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Speaker 1: banged up.
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Speaker 2: There.
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Speaker 1: They one of the reasons the offense is so bad
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Speaker 1: is because they've had so many injuries at quarterback, and
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Speaker 1: they had a bunch of injuries on defense on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of that is that's that's certainly a
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Speaker 1: part of it, and there's some systemic stuff with you're
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Speaker 1: not here to listen to that, but I do think
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Speaker 1: we need to talk a little bit about the run
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Speaker 1: game Ohio State, because again, twenty eight carries ninety eight
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Speaker 1: yards three point five yards per carry, and it was
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Speaker 1: not well, yes, but they had forty seven yards of
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Speaker 1: sack yardage. No, it was Julian Saying had positive rush
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Speaker 1: yardage on the day. And Bo Jackson ten catches, ten
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Speaker 1: carries twenty six yards long of seven Isaiah West a
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Speaker 1: pleasant surprise or a pleasant you know angle to this
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Speaker 1: nine carries fifty five yards.
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Speaker 2: CJ. Donaldson had just two carries for twelve yards. No
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Speaker 2: rushes for James.
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Speaker 1: People's you know, I don't I don't know how much
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Speaker 1: of this to attribute to the offensive line, to the
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Speaker 1: running backs, and are the you know, are the young
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Speaker 1: running backs kind of hitting the freshman ball, especially Bo Jackson,
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Speaker 1: where he's been asked to do probably more than everyone
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Speaker 1: was expecting over the summer, and so that's.
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Speaker 2: Sort of catching up.
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Speaker 1: And how much of this is just well, this is
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Speaker 1: what the rushing offense is and they're just gonna have
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Speaker 1: to figure it out.
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Speaker 4: Well, this is a lot of what it is.
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Speaker 3: But you're also continue growing because you never if you're stagnant,
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Speaker 3: and that's the worst thing that you can be other
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Speaker 3: than of course getting worse. But if you are stagnant,
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Speaker 3: you're getting worse. So they're not they are improving. I
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Speaker 3: think we saw some flashes hear from Isaiah West. I
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Speaker 3: did look to see one of the last time they
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Speaker 3: had a twenty yard carry because they long was like
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Speaker 3: thirteen yards last week by two different guys. James People's
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Speaker 3: against Minnesota had a three thirty three yard late in
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Speaker 3: that game. So that's the last time and this one
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Speaker 3: this week they had the long about fifteen yards of
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Speaker 3: Isaiah West. These are not great numbers, but as Ryan
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Speaker 3: Day said, they're not drawing up the big plays in
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Speaker 3: the running game yet, so which which tells you that
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Speaker 3: they have some or they will have some, but also
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Speaker 3: they're trying to reiterate that we shouldn't have to draw
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Speaker 3: up big play, you know, like big Like I'm not gimmicks,
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Speaker 3: but you should not have to have a perfect, perfectly
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Speaker 3: drawn up play to execute five yards, eight yards, sixteen yards,
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Speaker 3: because right now, three yards of carry that's not getting
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Speaker 3: it done. And he didn't say anything about efficiency today
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Speaker 3: like he did last week, and so I think they're
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Speaker 3: going to go back and see what, you know, see
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Speaker 3: how they feel about Isaiah West. I thought he showed
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Speaker 3: the most wiggle that we've seen in a while, and
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Speaker 3: then he was able to keep his head up, whereas
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Speaker 3: Poe Jackson right now is just keeping his head down
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Speaker 3: and going where the play is designed. I think he
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Speaker 3: needs to maybe get his eyes up and just get
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Speaker 3: back to being what he was earlier in the season. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, maybe this bye week comes out a good
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Speaker 3: time for the freshman running backs except for maybe Isaiah West.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Isaiah West. They say no, no, no, no, right no.
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Speaker 1: Ohio State entered this week and left this week with
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Speaker 1: four rushes of twenty yards or more this season, tied
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Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixth that was entering the entering
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Speaker 1: the week so they can only go down from there.
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Speaker 1: The teams that they're tied with. Among them, I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to read some of them. These are not teams
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Speaker 1: that you want to be in the same breath as Clemson, Delaware, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: Southern Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan State, New Mexico, pitt Purdue, South Carolina, Syracuse.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's those are not teams you want to
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Speaker 1: be listed with in almost any context this season.
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Speaker 4: Did see the losing to SMU today?
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Speaker 2: I did not Saturday Saturday?
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Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, yes, yes, for sure, we definitely will. So
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Speaker 1: that's I think, you know, it's an area that could
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Speaker 1: get again have kind of continued concern. As soon as
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day seems worried about it, I'll probably view it
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Speaker 1: as more of a real worry rather than a well,
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Speaker 1: this is the one area.
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Speaker 2: Where they're really kind of not great.
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Speaker 1: The other area where they're really kind of not great
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Speaker 1: right now as special teams, where it's just sort of
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Speaker 1: been for years it has been well, they don't really
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Speaker 1: do much great, but they're not doing anything really bad.
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Speaker 1: You know that you don't have the horrendous miscommunications the
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Speaker 1: head when Parker Fleming was in charge, so but then
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, another missfield goal, gave up a fourth and
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Speaker 1: fifteen on an uncold It wasn't a fake pont, it
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Speaker 1: was just a well the punter saw an opportunity and
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Speaker 1: picked up a fourth and fifteen. Just a bunch of
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Speaker 1: like little stuff. It just it just feels like this
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Speaker 1: is the kind of stuff that doesn't matter one iota
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Speaker 1: in a game like this. But you could see a
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Speaker 1: scenario where you know, you have seen an Ohio State
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Speaker 1: season that ended with a missed field goal on a
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Speaker 1: long field goal kick.
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Speaker 2: They missed a thirty one eight yarder in this game.
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Speaker 1: You can't afford to be missing thirty eight yarders in
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Speaker 1: games that are closer.
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Speaker 3: Tom, are you familiar with the term dogwork where in
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Speaker 3: plays think they're just like giving dog work, giving dog
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Speaker 3: work just to keep busy Charlie work. And so it's like, well,
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Speaker 3: that's almost how Ryan Day and the coaches feel about
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Speaker 3: special teams, except it's like, no, no, it's exactly there's
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Speaker 3: a reason for it.
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Speaker 4: You know, it is a good thing to be good at.
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Speaker 3: And Ryan Day of course says they need to be
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Speaker 3: strong in all three phases, and at times you're gonna
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Speaker 3: be like what is the third phase that you're talking
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Speaker 3: about your offense?
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Speaker 4: Defense and what else?
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Speaker 3: What are you the waning crescent, the waning crescents, which
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Speaker 3: that was tonight or Saturday night?
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Speaker 4: You're terrible of this, but yeah, like you can talk
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Speaker 4: about it.
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Speaker 3: But he also says the thing that they when they
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Speaker 3: focus on stuff, they usually get some results. I don't
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Speaker 3: know how you focus on be better at field goals.
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Speaker 3: And I don't want to say, Jane feeling has been bad.
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Speaker 3: It's just what we talked about it. You know before
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Speaker 3: where you have so many kickers hitting from fifty and
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Speaker 3: beyond and right now you don't know what you're gonna
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Speaker 3: get from thirty five and beyond.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not bad. It's just inconsistent.
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Speaker 4: It's not a weapon.
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Speaker 2: It's it's not a weapon. Is a great way to
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Speaker 2: frame it.
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Speaker 1: So Buckeyes win thirty four nothing over Wisconsin seven to zero. Now,
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Speaker 1: entering the week off, this will be you know, the
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Speaker 1: coaches will probably spend a lot of time on the
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Speaker 1: road recruiting this week. Then State comes to town in
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Speaker 1: thirteen days. Boy, will that be a game filled with storylines?
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Speaker 1: It is, you know, the Jim Noles storyline is going
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Speaker 1: to be a fascinating one. I would caution everyone to
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Speaker 1: look at that game and say, I don't know exactly
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Speaker 1: what Penn State's going to be, but this is not
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Speaker 1: going to be the Penn State that lost to Northwestern.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be a different team, different quarterback,
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Speaker 1: different head coach. And I'm going to guess that Jim
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Speaker 1: Knowles has given the old Ohio State offense some thinking over.
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Speaker 1: You know, this will not be the first time that
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Speaker 1: he's thinking about it in the wake of the off
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Speaker 1: their Iowa game, So going to be that should be
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Speaker 1: a really interesting game where if Ohio State wins that
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Speaker 1: game by a bunch, no one's going to give him
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Speaker 1: any credit because this is the team that lost at
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Speaker 1: UCLA and Northwestern. If Ohio State wins that game close
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Speaker 1: or loses that game, oh boy, will that get held
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Speaker 1: against Ohio State.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I just continue marching on. Win the
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Speaker 3: most important thing Tom win the game. Scores don't matter
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Speaker 3: in a twelve team playoff when you're looking to win
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Speaker 3: a conference. So if it's if it's three nothing, it
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Speaker 3: still counts. You will hate it, but you will forget
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Speaker 3: about it by the next game. By the next game.
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Speaker 1: Oh Man in Ohio State version of Baby I'm burning
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Speaker 1: a three to two game against Penn State.
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Speaker 4: Many you will be on your feet in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 4: You will.
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Speaker 1: It will be I'm guessing that's not gonna be how
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Speaker 1: it plays out. But you know, for an Ohio State
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Speaker 1: team that is currently number one and number two, Miami
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Speaker 1: lost and you know if they if Ohio State wins
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Speaker 1: out and Indiana wins out, who's number one. We'll take
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Speaker 1: care of itself in Indianapolis in the first week of December.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have a lot to talk about between now
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Speaker 1: and then on the road to the Big Ten Championship
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Speaker 1: and the road to the College Football Playoff. There's a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of fun football coming up in the next
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Speaker 1: month or so.
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Speaker 2: I gotta mention it.
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Speaker 1: Michigan beat Washington and looked pretty okay doing it, and
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Speaker 1: so that Ohio State Michigan game could play a pretty
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Speaker 1: big role in determining who goes to Indianapolis.
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Speaker 2: So we got a lot of stuff to talk about over.
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Speaker 1: The next month or so, and we're gonna be talking
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Speaker 1: about all of it with you at bucke Huddle dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's where we've got our whole team of insiders covering
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Speaker 1: the Buckeyes, covering recruiting, covering x's and o's, all that
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Speaker 1: and more at bucke huddle dot com. We hope to
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Speaker 1: see you there. That'll do it for today. Thank you
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Speaker 1: guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We
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