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Ross Fulton Analysis: Understanding How Teams Are Defending Jeremiah Smith · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Ross Fulton. He's one of our scheme insiders at BuckeyeInsiders.com.
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  Speaker 1: He is my guest on today's show as well. I
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  Speaker 1: always enjoy talking football with Ross on the Insiders Board. Ross,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about the Ohio State offense
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  Speaker 1: both today and tomorrow. Today, we're looking at some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that's going to be sort of carrying forward,
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  Speaker 1: things that we've sort of saw against Indiana that we
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  Speaker 1: can learn from, what it might mean for the USC game.
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  Speaker 1: And then on tomorrow's show, we're going to be looking
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  Speaker 1: at Luke Fahey and what to expect from him as
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  Speaker 1: he is presumably going to be Ohio State's starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: whether Ryan Day wants to announce that publicly or not. So, Ross,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to start with sort of the guy who
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  Speaker 1: is the centerpiece of the Ohio State offense this year,
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  Speaker 1: and that's Jeremiah Smith. No Julian saying maybe no problem
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  Speaker 1: with Jeremiah Smith coming back, but teams just continue to
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  Speaker 1: throw a lot of coverage at Jeremiah Smith. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: a look at some of the things that Indiana tried
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I wanted to look back at the Indiana game.
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  Speaker 3: It's specifically like how they addressed or tried to defend
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith, because I do think that has a lot
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  Speaker 3: of applicability going forward, whether or not, you know, regardless
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  Speaker 3: of who's a quarterback and probably will be stuff Ohio
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  Speaker 3: state sees, because I think Indiana was pretty successful doing it.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, a couple of things to that
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  Speaker 3: to me. So there are two things, main things to
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  Speaker 3: me that Indiana did the first one, was what we're
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  Speaker 3: going to see here. When Jeremiah Smith was in the slot, which,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he was quite a bit on Saturday and
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  Speaker 3: has been throughout the season, Indiana bracketed him. And so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, obviously there's been a lot of talk about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Ryan Day has, you know, you can't just
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  Speaker 3: go three by one and leave Jeremiah Smith solo on
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  Speaker 3: the X because you can, you know, shade or cone
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  Speaker 3: coverage over him. But there's also ways, you know, being
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  Speaker 3: in the slot isn't a panacea for that kind of tactics, right?
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  Speaker 3: So like, you get a lot of what Indiana did,
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  Speaker 3: which is cover four concepts where you bracket him. And
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  Speaker 3: so I put a triangle here. Ohio State ran this
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  Speaker 3: a lot on Saturday. A wide cross is one of
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Day's favorites forever. And so you get that deep
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  Speaker 3: cross and then the dig behind it. And you'll see
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  Speaker 3: Indiana's basically running those three guys over Smith. So if
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  Speaker 3: Smith breaks in, the nickel is going to carry him in.
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  Speaker 3: if he breaks out that corners on the outside of them,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have the deep safety over the top
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  Speaker 3: and you can sit consistently saw this kind of inside outside,
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  Speaker 3: you know, first in first out concept with, with him
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  Speaker 3: in the slot. And, you know, this does lead like
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  Speaker 3: the backside safety then has to pick up Devin McEwen
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  Speaker 3: on this deep over, you know, Julian saying, obviously through
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  Speaker 3: this behind the open receiver here. I mean, this obviously
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  Speaker 3: was not, you know, one of Julian saying is, best
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  Speaker 3: games to say the least in terms of particularly in
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  Speaker 3: terms of his accuracy, just sort of seemed off the
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  Speaker 3: entire game, even before the injury. And you basically, so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Indiana was banking on when Smith was in
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  Speaker 3: the slot that they can leave, you know, here it's
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  Speaker 3: a tight end, but we also saw it a couple
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  Speaker 3: of times early with Brandon Innes. You can recall there
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  Speaker 3: was like an early third down where, you know, Sands
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  Speaker 3: response often to this was to throw to that single
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  Speaker 3: coverage side of the single receiver opposite. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Indiana is basically banking on like when it's missing the slot,
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be some kind of concept that they're
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  Speaker 3: using to either get the ball to Jeremiah Smith or
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  Speaker 3: play off of that. And so they're kind of making
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  Speaker 3: a gamble that we can bracket and sort of leave
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  Speaker 3: the other side solo coverage without a safety.
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  Speaker 1: All right. The next one, this is one that as
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the game live, I thought, I hope
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  Speaker 1: Ross does this play because I have an assumption what
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  Speaker 1: happened here, but I want to get kind of sanity
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  Speaker 1: check this with you. This is one where there's very
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  Speaker 1: clearly a miscommunication. You do not need to know very
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  Speaker 1: much at all to understand there's a miscommunication. My assumption
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  Speaker 1: here between a third-year player who is a multi-year starter
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  Speaker 1: and a true freshman wide receiver is that Chris Henry Jr.
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  Speaker 1: probably broke off his route when he should not have
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  Speaker 1: broken off his route, but walk us through this one,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm guessing there will be other stuff beyond
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  Speaker 1: that that you want to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the other, when Smith was, so I
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  Speaker 3: just talked about what Indiana traded you when Smith was
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  Speaker 3: in the slot when he was the outside receiver, particularly
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  Speaker 3: on third down, they ran what was called one double.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's cover one, but instead of like a
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  Speaker 3: middle of the field safety, that deep safety is just
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  Speaker 3: basically playing over the top of Jeremiah Smith. So it's
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  Speaker 3: like the equivalent of running like cover five. We've talked
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  Speaker 3: about like two deep man under, except that safety is
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  Speaker 3: just going to sit over that. And that lets the
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  Speaker 3: corner be very aggressive because he doesn't have to worry
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  Speaker 3: about getting beat deep.
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  Speaker 2: And you basically got two guys.
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  Speaker 3: And again, Indiana's just taking their chances that all the
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  Speaker 3: other receivers one-on-one either aren't going to get open or
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  Speaker 3: Julian Sane isn't going to feel comfortable with what he's seen.
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  Speaker 2: And that kind of happened. Again, I talked about like.
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  Speaker 3: We can get into like Ohio State's response and you
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  Speaker 3: started to see it here. So what they started to
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  Speaker 3: do and we'll see that the next play is like
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  Speaker 3: put Chris Henry as the solo receiver opposite Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 3: because they basically, if they're going to double, then you're
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  Speaker 3: trying to get, the impact of having an X receiver
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  Speaker 3: without your X receiver on the opposite side, where you're
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  Speaker 3: getting someone who can win one-on-one. And, but, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so saying, as I said, his response often when he
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  Speaker 3: saw like Smith double covered was to just throw the
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  Speaker 3: vertical route opposite immediately, which isn't necessarily a bad read.
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  Speaker 3: Cause you have solo coverage, but here you obviously have
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  Speaker 3: a mistake. As you said, like, this is to me,
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  Speaker 3: definitely on Chris Henry, like he's got press coverage. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the receiver has to read that with press coverage. You're
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  Speaker 3: going to run the vertical. if the quarterback bailed, he
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  Speaker 3: would then run the comeback, which he does here. But
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  Speaker 3: that's why, you know, seeing this live, like the ball
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  Speaker 3: was not within, you know, 20 yards of anyone.
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  Speaker 2: That's, that's what happened here.
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  Speaker 3: I do think, again, this is like another wide cross
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  Speaker 3: concept with McEwen. I, you know, I think he breaks
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  Speaker 3: open here again, saying didn't really give it time in
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  Speaker 3: the progression to look at that. But I do think like, again, I,
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  Speaker 3: as we're looking for like teams are going to continue
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  Speaker 3: to throw resources at Ohio state, other receivers.
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  Speaker 2: Are going to need to win.
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  Speaker 3: And like, quarterback presumably luke fey is gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: feel comfortable i do think mccune is open pretty often
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  Speaker 3: and i think that they need to also like use
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  Speaker 3: mccune more in like short area space because i think
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  Speaker 3: he's pretty good in those situations and again i just
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  Speaker 3: think like too much of the game plan against indiana
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  Speaker 3: was like predicated on these vertical pass concepts you know
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  Speaker 3: four verts y cross post dig like just really like
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  Speaker 3: trying to push the ball downfield to like all like
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  Speaker 3: kind of an over the top amount. I think they
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  Speaker 3: were just like trying to hit that one more knockout
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  Speaker 3: shot and end the game. But like, you know, as
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  Speaker 3: we look at like a Luke Fahey, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think they're going to need to run more shallow crosses,
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  Speaker 3: you know, short area stuff, particularly if you're getting this
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  Speaker 3: much man and like teams have been pretty effective in,
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  Speaker 3: in man against.
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  Speaker 2: Them for this reason.
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  Speaker 3: Like they're basically doubling up Smith and, you know, daring
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  Speaker 3: Ohio state to beat them with other receivers. And so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it would have been nice to see some
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  Speaker 3: mash or other concepts, but like, even without Fahey, even
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  Speaker 3: if Julian Sane hadn't gotten hurt, I would have said
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  Speaker 3: the same. There's too much dependence on vertical shot plays
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  Speaker 3: that are both stressing the protection. Obviously, Julian Sane was
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  Speaker 3: getting hit a ton before the injury and just leading
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  Speaker 3: to low percentage throws. I think that's going to have to...
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  Speaker 3: It's incumbent on them to sort of... I think those
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  Speaker 3: plays have a purpose. You have Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 3: obviously loves taking shots. But I just think there just
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  Speaker 3: needs to be much more emphasis on like the timing
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  Speaker 3: passing game and like, you know, taking singles and doubles
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  Speaker 3: when they're there.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Next up, this is another pass to Chris
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  Speaker 1: Henry and this time it's completed, but this is one
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  Speaker 1: where I'm sure you're going to talk about Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: a little more, but this is one where I watched this.
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  Speaker 1: And the first thing I see is boy, they are
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  Speaker 1: still not picking up twists and stunts particularly well. And
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  Speaker 1: Julian saying gets hit pretty hard here as a result.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so Ryan Day talked on his radio
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  Speaker 3: show in depth, you know, about the number of sacks
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  Speaker 3: that Ohio State's given up. And he basically said there's
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  Speaker 3: two issues. One, they're not picking up twists. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've pointed that out, you know, umpteen times here and
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  Speaker 3: others have as well. Justin Whitlatch has as well. And two,
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  Speaker 3: like the quarterback's holding the ball too long. That's obviously
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  Speaker 3: been on Julian Sand. You know, again, like Julian Sand's
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  Speaker 3: not going to be available.
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  Speaker 2: So that is... it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And we can talk about like maybe the impact of,
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  Speaker 3: of a Luke Fahey, um, on that issue because like
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  Speaker 3: Julian saying to his credit, like he, he stands in
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  Speaker 3: there and hangs back and like wants to take these shots, um,
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  Speaker 3: which leaves him vulnerable. But like, yeah, here's a perfect
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  Speaker 3: example where you have your, you know, um, you have,
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  Speaker 3: you're doing a half slide protection in Indian. Obviously, like
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  Speaker 3: we talked about going into the game, talked about last year,
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  Speaker 3: like they love using these games up front. Right. So they,
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  Speaker 3: basically use Ohio State's protection against them, like knowing that
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State likes to half slide.
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  Speaker 2: And so they.
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  Speaker 3: Attacked basically between, you know, where if you have three
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  Speaker 3: guys going to the right and two guys half sliding
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  Speaker 3: to the left, they're going to attack right between where
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  Speaker 3: that half slide happens. And so here they do it with,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the defensive end, faking at Phil Daniels and
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  Speaker 3: then cutting back inside Carson Hinsman. You have Luke Montgomery
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  Speaker 3: just sitting there, not blocking anyone again, like got to
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  Speaker 3: have eyes up, you know, at this, at this plate rate, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm a little skeptical that like, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Luke Montgomery and Carson Hinsman have dozens of starts between them.
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  Speaker 3: This has like been a constant issue for them. You know,
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  Speaker 3: how much of that's going to improve at this point?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously got to keep working on it, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: one thing looking at the past concept, as I said, like,
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  Speaker 3: they start out the game. Like when you put Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: Smith in the slot, you know, it kind of leads
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  Speaker 3: to like, you bump then your slot receiver, Brandon Ennis outside.
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  Speaker 3: And like, you know, for, for his various skillset, like
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  Speaker 3: him being an outside receiver running like these vertical stem routes,
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  Speaker 3: like he's not a tall guy is not ideal.
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  Speaker 2: So they did adjust and put Chris Henry.
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  Speaker 3: So again, you see, you know, Jeremiah Smith in slot,
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  Speaker 3: you get another form of like inside out coverage on
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  Speaker 3: him between that, the nickel and safety, and then they're
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  Speaker 3: running poach. And so, the backside safety is basically picking
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  Speaker 3: up the trip side and is responsible for number three
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  Speaker 3: on that deep cross. And so like all that's to
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  Speaker 3: say that like that basically leaves Chris Henry in single coverage.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think it was, you know, they got
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  Speaker 3: a couple of quick catches out of him. I think
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  Speaker 3: the more of the teams want to double Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 3: I think they're going to need more and more from
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  Speaker 3: Chris Henry in particular as like the outside receiver on
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  Speaker 3: the opposite side, because he's sort of like, again, like
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  Speaker 3: he can fill the X role if Smith is, is
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  Speaker 3: being doubled or, you know, bracketed like this.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Next up, we have another one where the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana throws a twist at the D at the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: It does. They do not pick it up. Once again,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit, this is, as you said, kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a recurring issue here. So you might kind
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  Speaker 1: of be where you are right now with some of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, it's sort of like, I hate to like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, give a post-mortem, um, but it's, it's just
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  Speaker 3: like a bad combination with, you know, Julian saying as
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  Speaker 3: like such a pocket passer and just like not, you know,
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  Speaker 3: limited mobility in the sense, like he just doesn't like,
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  Speaker 3: like even shift, you know, subtly in the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know, he has all kinds of strengths.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be, as we talked about last, like
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  Speaker 3: really difficult to replace him to say the least. But like,
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  Speaker 3: it's a fairly statuesque quarterback with an offensive line that,
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  Speaker 3: struggles picking this stuff up and like you got all
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  Speaker 3: these deep drop concepts you're using. So it's like kind of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're not throwing like quick game stuff like
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  Speaker 3: I keep talking about. So it's like kind of exacerbating
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  Speaker 3: the issue, but this is one again, another. So again,
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  Speaker 3: we have Jeremiah Smith, you know, as the inside receiver,
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  Speaker 3: at least to start with, you got another bracket of him.
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  Speaker 3: You can see it with the corner and the safety,
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  Speaker 3: another Y cross concept. This time Julian saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: stands in there, takes the hit. again, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: can see this another way. Indiana is attacking the half
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  Speaker 3: slide protection, right? So they send the first tackle stunt
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  Speaker 3: at right at Carson Hinsman's. Carson Hinsman's sliding right. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to attack his left hip. Then they're going to
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  Speaker 3: loop around and, you know, you see Luke Montgomery is
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  Speaker 3: responsible for the left side, but he gets locked on
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  Speaker 3: even though he should not on that first tackle stunt inside.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's not his gap. That's not his responsibility. At
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  Speaker 3: least leaves the second, you know, tackle coming free, but
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  Speaker 3: looking at the past concept, I, I, my like personal
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  Speaker 3: position is that like following the Iowa game, there was
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  Speaker 3: way too much made about Julian saying, throwing to Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: Smith in quote unquote, double coverage. And I honestly think
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  Speaker 3: he like, it made him somewhat uncomfortable. And like, this
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  Speaker 3: is a good example. Like sometimes you should throw it
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  Speaker 3: to Jeremiah Smith and double coverage. Like he's bracketed, but
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  Speaker 3: it turns out to be a great play. And like, I,
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  Speaker 3: that would go for Luke Fahey too. Like, When in doubt,
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  Speaker 3: like throw it to Jeremiah Smith. Like he's can, he
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  Speaker 3: can make these plays when other guys that single coverage can't.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think that this should.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I don't think these bracketing, like I've showed examples
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  Speaker 3: of how they can use it to their advantage to
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  Speaker 3: get other guys open, but I, I don't think it
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  Speaker 3: should necessarily lead particularly a young quarterback. As long as
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  Speaker 3: you put the ball in the right place from, you know,
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  Speaker 3: dissuading them entirely from throwing it to number four.
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  Speaker 1: As Ryan Day said to us during one of the
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  Speaker 1: interviews a couple weeks ago, if the same single coverage
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  Speaker 1: is open, if he's in double coverage, he's sometimes still open.
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  Speaker 1: Triple coverage, that's kind of a different story. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think Ryan Day and you are on the same
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  Speaker 1: page on that one. And I'm going to guess that
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  Speaker 1: Luke Fahey may be leaning on number four a decent
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  Speaker 1: amount in the upcoming weeks. I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: in time. We're going to go back in time to
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  Speaker 1: the start of the game and that opening drive. where
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  Speaker 1: it looked for the first couple snaps like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be the Mason-Williams game, and then
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  Speaker 1: you never saw Mason-Williams again. But what was it that
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State found on that opening drive to really make
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  Speaker 1: the tight end a really solid weapon against Indiana?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they just attacked the flats, and this
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  Speaker 3: kind of picks up what I was saying about using
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  Speaker 3: underneath concepts more.
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  Speaker 2: And it was, I think, frustrating to me. They ran this,
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  Speaker 2: and the first play of the game was sort of
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: that delay RPO. Then you use bootleg.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: They went back to both concepts on the first drive
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: of the second half and they both worked and they
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: didn't use them again. They did try to run a
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: bootleg with Luke Fahey that called off for a false.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Start right away.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: But, you know, Indiana, again, like this is also how
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: they were defending our state. So they had their linebackers
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: be super aggressive, particularly in stretch, like coming downhill. And
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: if they got past coverage, they had them get a
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: ton of depth as the underneath droppers to try to
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: get underneath Jeremiah Smith on these mid range routes. So,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: You know, you can see that right here with, he's
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: basically again, another way to essentially bracket Jeremiah Smith where
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: you're in cover three, but you have that deep receiver
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: and that just leaves a lot of room in the
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: flats and other teams that had success against Indiana attacking
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: the flats. You know, again, I, I, even if Julian
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: saying was healthy, I would say they need to do
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: this more often with Luke Fahey. They definitely need to
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: do it more often and use different kinds of bootleg
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: and sprint out concepts and, and, attack these, the flats,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: get him moving a little bit. But I would say, yeah,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: as I, as I noted, it was sort of one
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: of the disappointing things I think about the game plan
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: was they kind of, they had obviously like came in
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: with these concepts in mind and they then got away
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: with it, um, hunting shots downfield.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: All right. And the last one, we're going to go
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: into the red zone and this is a running play
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: that you watched and you thought, well, that, you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: didn't really go anywhere. And they watch on the all
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: 22 and it's like, oh boy. And there is, there
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: was something there. It was just not what they were running.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: And this is one where you look at Luke Fahey,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: you know, what Julian saying, the threat of pulling it
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: and running is not really necessarily there that much with
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Luke Fahey. You kind of wonder, does this maybe look
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: a little different with a different quarterback taking the snap?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: I thought that the red zone, you know, for all
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: the talk, it was, I found it frustrating at times. Um,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: this first drive being one where like they got here
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: and it was very uninspired between this and the second
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: down play call, you know, obviously they had other issues,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: but like they run a, so they're in the, the
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: bison package and they run a, a, you.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Know, split zone to the split.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: And so, you know, Jeremiah Smith, again, like the benefit
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: they have, and we'll talk about like, you know, with
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: a young quarterback, you'll kind of expect teams particularly by
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: down a distance to, to stack the line and try
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: to outnumber you. I mean, teams still have to account
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: for Smith. So Indiana's got a safety over there. So
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: in theory, they have eight for eight blockers, not counting
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: that corner coming down. You know, Luke Montgomery gets beat
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: here by the defensive tackle. And, you know, I would
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: not say that Luke Montgomery had his best game against Indiana,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: but it still is just like, as you said, like
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: big picture wise, like when they're getting in these situations, just,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: you got a lot of bodies in here and just
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: one miss block is a killer. And obviously Indiana has
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: no concern for, You know, this isn't, yes, Jeremiah Smith's
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: running a glance route. I don't think it's really an RPO,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: the way he's saying bootlegs out. And, you know, obviously
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Faye's not the tallest guy. He's a little, you know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: he's a little sturdy. But, you know, you can only
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: expose him so much. But I do think one area
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: where it can help them is in the red zone
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: in particular, where you're, like, more comfortable running the quarterback. And, like,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: you know, an occasional– re-concept here where like teams are
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: not respecting the backside at all could really help. You know,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: you can use occasional lead quarterback run. And I do
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: think they can diversify their run game a little bit,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: you know, with like some bash concepts, things where the
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: quarterback's at least a threat. And we can talk about
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: that more, you know, tomorrow. But I do think that
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: that offers a possibility for some different concepts, particularly in
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: the low red zone.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: So there are a look through six plays from the Buckeyes.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: against Indiana. And as Ross said, we've got more coming tomorrow.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Going to take a look ahead at Luke Fahey, how
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: things may change with him taking snaps for Ohio State
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: this weekend in Los Angeles. We will be there covering
• 19:20
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• 19:23
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• 19:29
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• 19:32
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• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a true freshman quarterback who we really have not seen
• 19:38
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• 19:41
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• 19:44
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• 19:47
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• 19:49
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• 19:52
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• 20:26
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