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Ohio State vs USC UPDATES Are NOT What I was EXPECTING! | Buckeyes | Trojans · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: On to the Big Ten presented by PrizePix, Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: and USC. Man, this one is probably more interesting than
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  Speaker 1: we might have thought just due to quarterback situation. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: for both teams. I mean, he might have a certain
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  Speaker 1: amount of play, but is he going to play well?
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  Speaker 1: Because he certainly didn't last week in Camp Randall. So
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  Speaker 1: Tom Hannafin, it's do or die for USC. They are
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  Speaker 1: at home. They need to find a way to win
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  Speaker 1: some of these games down the stretch, really all of
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  Speaker 1: these games down the stretch because their margin for error
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  Speaker 1: has evaporated with a loss at Wisconsin. Can they pull
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  Speaker 1: this upset against an Ohio State team that won't have
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  Speaker 1: Julian San back there?
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  Speaker 2: How much does Matt Patricia get paid per year? Is
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  Speaker 2: it about $ 3 million a year?
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you his salary in a second.
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  Speaker 2: Believe that. This is where Matt Patricia is going to
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  Speaker 2: make his money. This is a situation where Ryan Day
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  Speaker 2: walks into his office and says, hey, put Jaden Maiava
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  Speaker 2: in a blender. And there is at least the example
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  Speaker 2: of what happened just last week to USC on the road, granted,
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  Speaker 2: at one of the more difficult places to play in
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten in Madison, Wisconsin. So the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Madison and Wisconsin were able to trouble Jane Maiava throughout
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  Speaker 2: this game, not much of a running game to speak
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  Speaker 2: of for USC. They were able to keep Jaden Maiava
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  Speaker 2: off his feet pretty consistent and keep him moving around.
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  Speaker 2: They kept him guessing when it came to the passing game,
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  Speaker 2: neutralized that passing attack. The evidence is there, and if anything,
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  Speaker 2: I think Ohio State probably has better personnel to execute
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  Speaker 2: something similar and to really make this difficult for Maiava.
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  Speaker 2: The issue for Ohio State throughout the season has been
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  Speaker 2: they don't have a tremendous pass rush. They don't have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to get home with just four passes. So
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  Speaker 2: if you are sending multiple guys, you've got to constantly
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  Speaker 2: be changing the picture for Jaden Maiava so he is
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  Speaker 2: guessing on a regular basis. So I think Matt Patricia
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  Speaker 2: and this defense are going to be relied upon heavily.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting, during the offseason, the three of us had
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  Speaker 2: a conversation here on The Power 2, the greatest show
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  Speaker 2: in the history of college football on the College Football
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  Speaker 2: Addiction YouTube channel, that, okay, who's the better wide receiver?
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  Speaker 2: Which one would you prefer to have, Malachi Toney or
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith? And we've seen the way that Miami utilizes
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  Speaker 2: Malachi Toney in that you just need to throw the
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  Speaker 2: man a bubble screen and in space he can kill you.
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  Speaker 2: You can double him. He can still kill you. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: Smith is still that lethal, but he's not the same
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  Speaker 2: athlete in that you can do more with Malachi Toney
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  Speaker 2: because he is smaller, he's quicker, he's more nimble in space.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith is not the type of dude that, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I can put him in a phone booth and he's
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  Speaker 2: going to win. He's closer to a Julio Jones or
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  Speaker 2: a Larry Fitzgerald, as we've talked about before. Bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback needs to be able to get Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 2: the football, and this entire offense all season long under
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  Speaker 2: Arthur Smith has been spam number four as often as
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  Speaker 2: humanly possible. If this is Fahey as your starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: is this kind of a service academy-style offense? where it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to try and limit him to maybe 15
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  Speaker 2: pass attempts? Do you trust him a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: what we saw his last time out when Sane came
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  Speaker 2: out into the game and was put into a sling?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a different starting quarterback? We've heard Octavian St.
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  Speaker 2: Clair has been in the mix, but not necessarily overwhelmed anyone.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked about Justin Martin being a part of that
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  Speaker 2: quarterback room. He started Big Ten games, so I'm curious
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  Speaker 2: to see what Ohio State does here, but entirely different.
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  Speaker 2: hinges on that. I think this is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a low-scoring affair. I think the over-under in this game
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  Speaker 2: is 51.5. Like all great Big Ten games this season,
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  Speaker 2: take the under, in my opinion, because I don't think
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State is going to be putting up tons and
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  Speaker 2: tons of points, and it's going to be reliant upon
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  Speaker 2: Matt Patricia and his defense limiting Jade Maiava. I think
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  Speaker 2: USC obviously is desperate. They have something to play for.
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  Speaker 2: Coliseum is not a difficult place to play. I think
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State is going to be able to be more
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  Speaker 2: physical and is still going to be able to run
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  Speaker 2: the football against USC. That's something we've known throughout the years,
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  Speaker 2: that USC's defense is going to give up points, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's to Jeremiah Smith or not. But a lot of
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  Speaker 2: this hinges on the quarterback position, obviously, for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: I just think this is something where the Buckeye defense
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  Speaker 2: has to be the star of the show.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get right back to this clip of the power
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  Speaker 1: to with Tom Hannafin and Cole Thompson here on the
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  Speaker 1: college football addiction network. But first we made all of
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  Speaker 1: these picks over on the live show. You can go
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  Speaker 1: check that out to see all the picks, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what right now, what I like Jaden ball.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the more on his rushing total. I think
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  Speaker 1: you can get over the 77.5. I think Florida will
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  Speaker 1: need to establish the run for this game to be competitive.
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  Speaker 1: I like Gunnar Stockton's passing touchdowns. Give me the more
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  Speaker 1: on that 1.5. And then I love the pairing of
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Ball's anytime touchdowns and Nate Frazier's anytime touchdowns. Give
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  Speaker 3: Go check them out. Yeah, I would agree. $ 3. 75 million
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  Speaker 3: is what Matt Patricia thinks. So, yeah, again, you're not wrong.
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  Speaker 3: On the same token, though, let's flip it to the
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  Speaker 3: other side.
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  Speaker 4: You are right.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is going to be one of those
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  Speaker 3: games where you need to take the ball out of
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  Speaker 3: Fahey's hands until he gets into a groove of things. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the thing that you have to look at is if
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  Speaker 3: you play zone coverage against Jeremiah Smith, And it's been
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  Speaker 3: proven by every single game that we have seen this
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  Speaker 3: year with Iowa, with the first half against Texas, with
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  Speaker 3: insert team here. You play zone defense against Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 3: he's cooking you. At this point, it's just, do you
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  Speaker 3: have a guy in Fahey or St.
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  Speaker 2: Clair?
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  Speaker 3: And I say both. I think it's going to be Fahey.
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  Speaker 3: But until it's official, we can say both. Are we
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  Speaker 3: going to see one of them be able just to
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  Speaker 3: find an open crease and get the ball to him?
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  Speaker 3: But this is also a game where you can kind
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  Speaker 3: of show you are multifaceted in your offense if you
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  Speaker 3: are Ohio State underneath Arthur Smith. with the rushing attack.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you do lean more into what you have with
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  Speaker 3: West and Jackson. Maybe you do lean a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more into some run option plays if you're going to
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  Speaker 3: use Fahey's legs or you're going to use Tavion St.
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  Speaker 3: Clair's legs. Maybe you do just go ahead and try
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  Speaker 3: to get some dink and dunk success and get the
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  Speaker 3: ball to guys like Innes and Henry and your tight
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  Speaker 3: ends and get them involved. And it's not just the
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith show because as we've talked about, Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 3: is accounting for over 51% of their offense and literally
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  Speaker 3: just fine four. So you need to have a counterpunch
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  Speaker 3: just in case you don't have a guy like Julian
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  Speaker 3: Sandback for the rest of the year. And you are
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  Speaker 3: trying to play within structure. On the flip side, though,
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  Speaker 3: for a team like USC, this is where Gary Patterson
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  Speaker 3: can make his crawling card. This is where Gary Patterson
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  Speaker 3: can step on up and say, I pressured a young
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  Speaker 3: quarterback into making mistakes. You play a lot of press
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  Speaker 3: man coverage. You get a lot of pressure at the middle.
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  Speaker 3: You go up against what is a good offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: I want to preface this. Ohio State is a good
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  Speaker 3: offensive line. It's nowhere near as good as it's been
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  Speaker 3: in the last few years underneath this current regime.
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  Speaker 4: It's nowhere near it.
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  Speaker 3: Can you win with your outside opportunities with swat and
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  Speaker 3: swims and stunts and formations to get pressure on Fahey
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  Speaker 3: to make the rookie mistakes for a quarterback playing on
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  Speaker 3: the road?
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  Speaker 4: Against a competition that's in wounded animal mode. Can you
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  Speaker 4: have that opportunity?
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  Speaker 3: And on the flip side, when it comes to the offense,
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  Speaker 3: we've seen Jada Maiava be able to take over games.
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  Speaker 4: But the question is, what happens.
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  Speaker 3: If it's a very similar construct to what Wisconsin did
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  Speaker 3: last week?
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  Speaker 4: And Wisconsin's a really good defense.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Wisconsin underneath Luke Fickle has always been a progressive defense.
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  Speaker 3: This year, it's like it's finally arrived. And they took
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  Speaker 3: away the rushing attack. negative 17 rushing yards. They took
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  Speaker 3: away the passing game because they forced a lot of
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  Speaker 3: pressure up the middle. They got against USC's offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: Can a guy like Jada Maiava learn from his mistakes
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  Speaker 3: from last week and be able just to get quick
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  Speaker 3: strikes and deal in a timely manner and just get
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  Speaker 3: the ball out to avoid what would be a loss
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  Speaker 3: of seven or a loss of eight and just find
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  Speaker 3: some success to get a couple of first downs and
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  Speaker 3: move the sticks? I mean, even in a game last
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  Speaker 3: week where they were outscored 24-7, USC still finished with
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  Speaker 3: more offensive yards.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it wasn't much.
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  Speaker 3: It was 241 to 200, but they still finished with
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  Speaker 3: more offensive yards. It was the dumb mistakes like the
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  Speaker 3: three and outs and the missed field goals and the
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  Speaker 3: interceptions back-to-back that really cost them and gave momentum to
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  Speaker 3: a team like Wisconsin to be able to take the
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  Speaker 3: time off the clock. Like, that's it. So can you
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  Speaker 3: do enough offensively in this game that you learned from
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  Speaker 3: last week to Spread the ball around. Hey, I got
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  Speaker 3: Dixon Wyatt on the outside. Can he get a little
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  Speaker 3: swing pass or a little screen and take it up
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  Speaker 3: for seven? Then can I get something going with the
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  Speaker 3: run game, whether it be with Jordan or whether it
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  Speaker 3: be with Miller? And then on first down the next play,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I get to Bowman. You just dink and dunk
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  Speaker 3: your way to success against this Ohio State defense because
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  Speaker 3: I will say if there's one avenue that you could
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  Speaker 3: use if you're USC to get a win, It's putting
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  Speaker 3: pressure on a young quarterback late in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 3: down by a score, to have to drive down the
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  Speaker 3: football field and get into the end zone. I think
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  Speaker 3: that is a massive win in favor of USC. But
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  Speaker 3: the bigger question is, has this team checked on out?
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  Speaker 3: Now with two losses on the season, two really underwhelming losses,
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  Speaker 3: knowing the Oregon game and knowing what that Oregon team
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  Speaker 3: has become. And then Wisconsin, Wisconsin's a militant offense. Like,
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  Speaker 3: say whatever you want about them, they rank 118th in passings.
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  Speaker 3: and they didn't need to pass against you to still
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  Speaker 3: beat you by two scores.
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  Speaker 1: I just, yeah, I, I tried, I tend to think
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  Speaker 1: that this is a really good spot for USC, but
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  Speaker 1: is it a better spot than playing Wisconsin? Like it's
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state with a backup that much. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: scored seven points, man. I know that was on the road,
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  Speaker 1: but I just, I need to see it from USC.
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  Speaker 1: That's just where I'm at. I think Ohio state wins
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  Speaker 1: this game by 10. Like I think it is a
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  Speaker 1: slow grind it out, drag them out game, but I just,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of confidence right now in
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  Speaker 1: the Trojans, but. prove me wrong. I think Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: by 10.
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  Speaker 2: Give me Ohio State 18 to 13.
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  Speaker 1: Real ugly.
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  Speaker 2: Real, real ugly.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go uglier. I think Ohio State blows them out.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I personally think that after what we have seen in
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  Speaker 3: the last two games, I'm with TJ.
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  Speaker 4: I need to see it. I need to know that
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  Speaker 4: you haven't quit.
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  Speaker 3: Because if we already have people, we're not even done
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  Speaker 3: with the season and we have people coming up with
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  Speaker 3: hot boards for open job candidacies where.
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  Speaker 4: Lincoln Riley's name is on it.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a part of me that says, I kind
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  Speaker 3: of think USC at this point is kind of done
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  Speaker 3: with this tenure. If they really are, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: show you on Saturday that they kind of want to
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  Speaker 3: be done with Lincoln Riley. Lincoln Riley kind of wants
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  Speaker 3: to be done with them. I think it's a hard
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  Speaker 3: fought battle, at least for the first half. But until
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  Speaker 3: I see it, I'm not going to believe in it.
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  Speaker 3: You scored seven points against Wisconsin. That was on you
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  Speaker 3: with mental mistakes, with blundering errors. And I said two
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago, there's a world where I could see them
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  Speaker 3: losing Camp Randall and come home against them and win
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  Speaker 3: against Ohio State.
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  Speaker 4: That team still has to show on up.
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  Speaker 3: And until they do, I think in the second half,
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  Speaker 3: that's where you watch as Ohio State maybe runs a
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  Speaker 3: militant offense, but they get points on the board.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe it's like.
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  Speaker 3: 14-14 at halftime, and then it becomes a 28-14 finish.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go 28-17. I think that Ohio State
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  Speaker 4: wins this one by double digits.