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Did Will Howard Play Well Enough To Win At Oregon? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Eyes Tomorrow Morning for Tuesday, October fifteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Nebraska game is in
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  Speaker 1: eleven days, the game against Michigan in forty six days.
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  Speaker 1: So on Yesterdays show, we talked about the Ohio State defense,
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  Speaker 1: what went wrong, some of the issues they had against
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  Speaker 1: the Orgon Ducks. On offense, more stuff went right than
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  Speaker 1: went wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Generally.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the course of the evening, buck Guys put up
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  Speaker 1: thirty one points, put up six point nine yards per carry.
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  Speaker 1: All those are generally winning numbers more often than not
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  Speaker 1: for a team they were not on Saturday night. Buckeys
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  Speaker 1: came up just short against the Orgon Ducks. Today, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to hear a little bit from Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio State quarterback Will Howard on why that happened,
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  Speaker 1: what worked, what didn't work, and why they came up
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  Speaker 1: just short. Let's start with Ryan Day. Buck gys had
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  Speaker 1: a dramatic last drive, real chance to win the game,
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  Speaker 1: got the ball down into field goal range, had a
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  Speaker 1: crucial penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Go against them.
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  Speaker 1: That offensive pass interference call against Jeremiah Smith ended up game.
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  Speaker 1: The clock ran out on them on that final play.
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  Speaker 1: So Ryan day. What was it was his assessment of
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  Speaker 1: that final drug.
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  Speaker 3: And we did a great job agatting down the field
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  Speaker 3: and continue to fight. But you know on the one
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  Speaker 3: player there, you know, Dbs grabbing on Jeremiah. Jeremi is
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  Speaker 3: fighting there, and they called the flag there and that
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  Speaker 3: that cost us.
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  Speaker 2: And but it shouldn't come down to one play.
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  Speaker 3: And you said that before, and you know, we want
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  Speaker 3: to leave no doubt and I felt like we should
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  Speaker 3: have done that tonight. We did not, and so and
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  Speaker 3: then you know, you put in the you know, the
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  Speaker 3: hands of of of a call and you don't get it,
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  Speaker 3: and that that's on us. You know, we should never
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  Speaker 3: come down to that situation. We had too many xplays tonight.
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  Speaker 3: We turned them all over in the first half and
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  Speaker 3: it cost us. And so you know, we got to
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  Speaker 3: do a better job of handling those situations and playing
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  Speaker 3: better overall. Just too many explosive plays on on defensive side.
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  Speaker 1: The buck guys really did play pretty well on offense
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  Speaker 1: for most of the game. They did have a couple
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  Speaker 1: of really critical mistakes too. One was a turnover, one
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  Speaker 1: was kind of a turnover adjacent wasn't a turnover in
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  Speaker 1: the scoreesheet but really kind of functionally acted like one.
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  Speaker 1: The fumble by Quinn Shawn Judkins, the ball was stripped
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  Speaker 1: out that setup Organ's first touchdown. That was one very
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  Speaker 1: big mistake for the buck Eyes. The other Oregon executing
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  Speaker 1: that on side kick after the after the personal foul
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  Speaker 1: penalty on Jordan Hancock, let them kick off from the fifty.
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  Speaker 1: That ball hit Caleb Downs gave Oregon an extra possession.
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  Speaker 1: They kicked a field goal on that one, and those
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  Speaker 1: three points ended up being a real, real big part
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  Speaker 1: of that game. So what what was that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just two mistakes, but it feels like that really cost
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  Speaker 1: the buck Eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. And I mean, you know, we hammer
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  Speaker 2: it home.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we we drilled the heck out of it,
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  Speaker 3: and we talk about take care of the football and
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  Speaker 3: and you know too to have the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 3: turn the ball over right there and give it to
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  Speaker 3: him and plus territory that that was that was a
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  Speaker 3: huge play in the game. And then you know, we
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  Speaker 3: worked hard this week actually on you know, returned the
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  Speaker 3: ball after after a penalty on the fifty yard line.
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  Speaker 3: We knew they were going to do something like that,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, they hit hit it right into Caleb
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  Speaker 3: and and you know, so that was that was that
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  Speaker 3: was you know, well designed by them.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that one hurt.
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  Speaker 3: But we kept fighting, we kept hanging in there, and
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  Speaker 3: after all that, it was you know, they were one
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  Speaker 3: and by one at halftime. So we felt like we'd
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  Speaker 3: come out and play if we just got lined up
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  Speaker 3: and you know, communicated well and fit the runs better
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  Speaker 3: and kind of went back and forth, but couldn't quite
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  Speaker 3: get the stops and we needed him to and they
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  Speaker 3: couldn't didn't finish it. And you know, again we talk
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  Speaker 3: about leaving no doubt and not coming down to one play,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what that's what happened in this game. And
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  Speaker 3: so you know, we can sit here and look at
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  Speaker 3: one play here, one play there, or you know, complain
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  Speaker 3: about a call, but we're not.
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  Speaker 2: Going to do that. We're going to own it. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got to get a fixed.
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  Speaker 1: The buck guys are headed into their week off now,
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  Speaker 1: and that off week comes at a very good time
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  Speaker 1: because they have some stuff to figure out. Diggersha Bola
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  Speaker 1: went down with an injury in the first half and
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  Speaker 1: he came back later in the game, so he's probably
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  Speaker 1: presumably going to be okay moving forward, but there is
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  Speaker 1: a big, big, big looming question at left tackle for
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes. Josh Shimmons went down, he was carted off
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  Speaker 1: after the game. You're gonna hear Ryan, they talk about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it does not look good for Josh
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  Speaker 1: Shivens to return this year. So what is the plan
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  Speaker 1: going to be at the offensive line as they try
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  Speaker 1: and replace their starting left tackle?
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  Speaker 2: Addressed addressed the issues.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I said all the time, the issues are there,
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  Speaker 3: and you know those issues came up in this game
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  Speaker 3: and we got to get those things fixed. You know,
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna have to sit on this thing for
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  Speaker 3: a week and you know, get them, get them addressed.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we you know, the injury to Josh
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  Speaker 3: Simmons hurt. That was you know, and Zen did a
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  Speaker 3: good job of coming in and competing, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: uh Tiger went down a little bit there and and
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  Speaker 3: so Austin had to go in. So I thought those
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  Speaker 3: guys competed. You know, I often get the update on
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  Speaker 3: on Simmons, but it doesn't look great in terms of
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  Speaker 3: him being able to come back this season.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's a that's a big hit for us.
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  Speaker 3: But but I thought those guys came in and competed
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  Speaker 3: in the game. So we'll have to get all that identified,
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  Speaker 3: figure out, you know exactly what happened to Willcasmeric and
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  Speaker 3: you know, go back to work next week.
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  Speaker 1: You get a two parter here. So of course this
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  Speaker 1: is a tim May question. First of all, the loud environment.
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  Speaker 1: How did Brian Day feel like the Buckeyes handled that
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  Speaker 1: loud and raucous crowd in Autin Stadium? And then the
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  Speaker 1: other piece, what was his message to the team after
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, again, when you go on a road, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna playing great environments. This is a good environment, tight,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, we had a couple of penalties in there,
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  Speaker 3: some of the young guys, you know, some false starts
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  Speaker 3: there that hurt, and you know that's that's ultimately, you know,
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  Speaker 3: things that we we can't accept.
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  Speaker 2: We got to do a better job of that.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I thought guys kept fighting and they
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  Speaker 3: kept swinging, and even down to the one yard line
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  Speaker 3: at the end, I thought the defense got a you know,
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  Speaker 3: a big stop there to give the offense a chance
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  Speaker 3: on one. If they score that touchdown, it's two score game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, games pretty much in hand there. So defense
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  Speaker 3: did get a stop there to give the offensive chance.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when it comes down to offense, defense stats
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  Speaker 3: all that, what's the number one thing. The number one
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  Speaker 3: thing is to win the game. Man, it didn't happen tonight,
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of message with the team, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: halfway through the season.
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  Speaker 2: Some one's going to hurt. Does hurt? Should have won
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  Speaker 2: the game? Give Oregon credit.
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  Speaker 3: They played well, but you know, just too many things
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  Speaker 3: that we could have done better in this game that
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  Speaker 3: we didn't. And so I got a lot of football
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  Speaker 3: ahead of us and we got to get those things fixed.
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  Speaker 1: There was sort of a broad consensus from a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, myself included that if Will Howard just played
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  Speaker 1: efficiently and effectively, more or less mistake free, that was
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  Speaker 1: going to be enough to have the Buckeyes win just
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  Speaker 1: about every game on their schedule. Howard finished twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: for thirty five. That's eighty percent completion. That's pretty darn good,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty six yards, a couple of touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: no interceptions, Really a pretty good day on the whole. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he had definitely had a couple of mistakes, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into those in a little bit. But what was
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day's evaluation of Will Howard's play?
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  Speaker 3: Overall tough, He competed all the way to the end.
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  Speaker 3: I give him credit, And I mean he was fighting
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  Speaker 3: all the way to the end. We were trying to
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  Speaker 3: get you know, three guys into the boundary on the
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  Speaker 3: last play to get that ball completed, and somebody flashed
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  Speaker 3: in his face and he and he scrambled, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be hard on himself, but he was competing all
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  Speaker 3: the way to the end, made some big time throws.
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  Speaker 3: It gave us a chance to be in field goal
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  Speaker 3: rains and threw a good ball to the one to
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah and then you know, I said, there was contact
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  Speaker 3: with Jeremiah. And then then the next play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on the wheel to a mecca, you know it was
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  Speaker 3: contact there. But again, you know, we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: go back and look at those things. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: at this point. I mean, it shouldn't have come down
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  Speaker 3: to that. But I do like the way Will play it.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he competed. I thought he was tough in
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 1: So that was Ryan Day's evaluation of Will Howard. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how about Will Howard's evaluation of Will Howard, and specifically
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  Speaker 1: that last play where he was running trying to pick
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  Speaker 1: up yardage to get the Buckeyes into a more makeable
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  Speaker 1: field goal and didn't get down in time and the
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  Speaker 1: clock ran out.
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  Speaker 4: I thought I did obviously, didn't.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm worried about trying to get enough yards to make
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  Speaker 4: the field goal and get us into field goal range.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: But we gotta gotta go back and look at it
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  Speaker 4: and figure out what we did wrong there. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I gotta I gotta get down, I guess, and you
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  Speaker 4: know it's all good. We we gotta we got to
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  Speaker 4: learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: Howard obviously is a team leader. What is his message
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  Speaker 1: to the team right now after a close loss like that.
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  Speaker 4: I hope it lights a little fire under us, man,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, I still got all the belief in
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  Speaker 4: the world and this team, and you know, this is
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  Speaker 4: a good football team.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they necessarily beat us. I think we
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  Speaker 4: beat ourselves a little bit. You know, I think we
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  Speaker 4: left some stuff out there that you know, we got
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  Speaker 4: to learn from and get better because of. But at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, I think, you know, this
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  Speaker 4: is a good team and we're going to see him again,
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  Speaker 4: and I think a message has to be you know,
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  Speaker 4: we got to grow from this and learn from this,
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  Speaker 4: and you know this obviously isn't how you want to
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  Speaker 4: do it, but you know you can't let them beat
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  Speaker 4: you twice.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes are off this week, but our team at
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