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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Chip Kelly Can Attack The Oregon Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, October ninth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Oregon game is in
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  Speaker 1: menu and make a reservation today. Buck Eys made a
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  Speaker 1: reservation in the end zone a few times last Saturday
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  Speaker 1: against a pretty stout Iowa defense. It was not always easy,
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  Speaker 1: it was not always pretty, but they got the job
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  Speaker 1: done eventually thanks to no puting, thanks in no large
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  Speaker 1: part to Chip Kelly getting into his bag quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're looking at some of the stuff that worked
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  Speaker 1: against Iowa and some of the stuff that may be
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  Speaker 1: something that is sort of key stuff to keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye out for this weekend against Oregon and Ross. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with a series of plays it's all
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  Speaker 1: the same base principles. Out of the pistol, it's inside zone,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a lot of different ways that they the
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  Speaker 1: buck guys can use that to attack the defense. So
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  Speaker 1: let's start with the first one, where they're going up
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  Speaker 1: against Cover three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so each week we just see sort of new
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  Speaker 2: and different things from Chip Kelly, and so on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: against Iowa, they use a lot of pistol, I think
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  Speaker 2: more so than we've seen up to this point this season.
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  Speaker 2: My guess is that they expected and guessed correctly that
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  Speaker 2: in response to pistol looks which you know, running back
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  Speaker 2: lined up directly behind the quarterback and shotgun I would
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  Speaker 2: would would roll from they are based out of a
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  Speaker 2: cover four quarters look, that they would roll to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Cover three. So bring a safety down because
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a more run heavy look, and as
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  Speaker 2: we talked about in the past at times under Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day was a very run heavy look, and so they
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  Speaker 2: they were sort of anticipating that Cover three and worked
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  Speaker 2: a lot off of that. And so yeah, we saw
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  Speaker 2: a lot of you know, this first play is just
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  Speaker 2: inside zone, right, so everyone's zone blocking. A couple interesting
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  Speaker 2: things about it is the quarterbacks actually opening up away
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  Speaker 2: from the handoff, and so we saw that a lot
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, both not only just with inside zone from Pistol,
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  Speaker 2: but also counter.
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  Speaker 3: The uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think this gives a couple uh you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: another interesting Chip Kelly wrinkle, a couple of different pieces
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  Speaker 2: to it. It does by opening up, it does hold
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  Speaker 2: the backside linebackers, so it's just another constraint on the
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  Speaker 2: linebackers themselves.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it creates a natural bend back for the tailback.
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  Speaker 2: And then but by opening up to the backside also,
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  Speaker 2: as we'll see, it opens up the possibility of using
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  Speaker 2: r pos and run reads. And so you know, we
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  Speaker 2: saw this inside zone play from Pistol a lot Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: different window dressing to it. On this example, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: they fake a fly sweep and you'll see the backside
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  Speaker 2: linebacker have to widen for that, and you know, so
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  Speaker 2: they fake that a couple of times. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they ran it, you know, trips opposite and so Iowa
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  Speaker 2: would have to put four or three. But like all
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  Speaker 2: these things, like again the offensive line is blocking these
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  Speaker 2: zone combinations better than they did last year. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of that is like is seth McLaughlan at center, Like
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  Speaker 2: on this rep, you see him, he's really good to
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  Speaker 2: like he'll punch defensive tackle to help out then climb
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  Speaker 2: to the second level and you know, so you're getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of like locking up second level run defenders.
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  Speaker 2: They are putting a lot on the offensive guards and
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  Speaker 2: these looks like we talked about this against Michigan State
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  Speaker 2: as well, to be able to maintain single blocks and
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  Speaker 2: sort of keep integrity inside. But like the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: blocking is just being helped by Like they're getting much
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  Speaker 2: cleaner looks, right, because defenses have to respect the backside
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  Speaker 2: I run threat, the backside RPO threat, all these different things.
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  Speaker 2: This fly swoop action, so like it's much easier for
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  Speaker 2: identifying blocks, for aiming points, and there's just like less
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  Speaker 2: defenses can do.
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  Speaker 3: Less games inside because they have.
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  Speaker 2: To worry about, you know, what could happen on the perimeter.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that's that's a nice sort of straightforward one.
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  Speaker 1: Feels like, now let's move on to sort of the
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  Speaker 1: next iteration. This is now they're going to be throwing.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to see Will Howard bootleg out on this one.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first a mecha Abuka touchdown of the day.
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  Speaker 1: If you were listening and not watching, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is that's the play we're talking about here, as Ross
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  Speaker 1: is describing it.
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  Speaker 3: So go ahead, Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And so as I've said in previous seasons, there were
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  Speaker 2: times that Ohio State would be like ninety five plus
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  Speaker 2: percent run for the pistol.
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  Speaker 3: That is not the case this year.
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  Speaker 2: Like they got in this early, they ran the first
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  Speaker 2: third and one conversion to Treyvon Henderson on this opening
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  Speaker 2: drive was this pistol on sets out and then they
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  Speaker 2: come right off of it right and run a bootleg off.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, again showing this inside quarterback opens up
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  Speaker 2: the backside showing the same inside action, but now you're
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  Speaker 2: just running a flood concept, which just means you're, you know,
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  Speaker 2: attacking three levels to the edge. A lot of what
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  Speaker 2: we saw on Saturday in the past game was getting
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  Speaker 2: a Mecca Buca in the slot on uh. You know,
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  Speaker 2: linebackers or Nickels overhangs h and iowas cover four because
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  Speaker 2: they'd have to carry receivers or even safety. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: here you get the cover four Iowa safety uh, and
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  Speaker 2: of Mecca gets leverage on him, beats him to the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and you know, so you could tell on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: it so sort of as a digression, like they missed
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  Speaker 2: Carnel Tait like it does limit I think having like
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  Speaker 2: three viable receiving options from one side to the other
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  Speaker 2: makes a big difference. But I can understand why, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to take a Mecca Buka out of
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  Speaker 2: the slot because he's just so critical. They're both like
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  Speaker 2: on the relief in our plays, but also just like
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  Speaker 2: the matchups that they can create. You know, we saw
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  Speaker 2: that here, we saw it on all his touchdowns, and
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  Speaker 2: so when you can get him singing it up on
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  Speaker 2: in tier defenders.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so now you've had you had a run,
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  Speaker 1: You've had the handoff, nice successful play, You've had the pass,
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  Speaker 1: nice successful play. Now here's the third iteration here, this one, Well,
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  Speaker 1: Howard's going to make it read, He's going to keep
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  Speaker 1: it and he's going to have another nice game here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So, as I said, they kept you know, iterating
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  Speaker 2: off the same concept all game, right, and like you know,
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  Speaker 2: pretty consistently could expect that they would get cover three
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  Speaker 2: looks against it and attack it. And so you know
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  Speaker 2: the series before this, they ran a rpo off of it,
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  Speaker 2: where a buco ran like an out quick out route
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  Speaker 2: got like fifteen yards off of that. But we saw
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  Speaker 2: much more of Will Howard as a runner on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: against Iowa that we have seen this year. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 2: both i was both on design runs. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: ran that boundary pinned pull a couple of times from empty.
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  Speaker 2: The one was blocked up really well, Will Howard slipped
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  Speaker 2: obviously the fourth and one that was stopped was a
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  Speaker 2: less successful variation of inside zone with the QB.
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  Speaker 3: You know, again you're just trying to get numbers.
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  Speaker 2: But also you know he was pretty successful on read plays,
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  Speaker 2: and so again by by opening up backside, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get this everyone blocking down and now Howard and
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  Speaker 2: he's actually not reading the defensive end.
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  Speaker 3: He's reading that overhang defender.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we talked about that a lot, that
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  Speaker 2: linebacker who sort of outside the offensive tackle or nickel,
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  Speaker 2: that guy crashes down to play the run, and so
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  Speaker 2: Howard keeps and so you know, I thought he was
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  Speaker 2: he was a little tentative, to be on honest, on
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  Speaker 2: some of the design quarterback runs. I would have liked
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  Speaker 2: to have seen him, you know, commit a little bit
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  Speaker 2: quicker and cut up field. But I thought he was
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  Speaker 2: very effective and has been all season on these read plays, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: he's very adapt at reading them and then getting outside
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  Speaker 2: of the contained.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly and upfield.
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  Speaker 2: And you know saw that on his touchdown run again,
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  Speaker 2: saw that here, So you know you're both taking advantage.
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll see more of him in the run
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  Speaker 2: game against organ as a continuation of that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: especially get someone like the odd front looks that Oregon
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  Speaker 2: likes to use. But also again like making plays look alike.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, yes, the offensive line is playing better, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the running game has two really good running backs like
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  Speaker 2: quinnch On Junkins had that great straight arm in the
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  Speaker 2: hole on all big ten linebacker. But also like just
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  Speaker 2: the run game is just being made so much more
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  Speaker 2: effective by protecting it with these constraint plays and making
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  Speaker 2: from the same formations of the same design and so
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  Speaker 2: you know, again you can see it from the backside
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  Speaker 2: of this play as well as you know, the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line all blocks up inside zone and Will Howard just
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  Speaker 2: able to read the Iowa overhang and you know as
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  Speaker 2: soon as he commits the run, he's he's able to keep.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things we warned you about on this
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  Speaker 1: show last week was it's not going to be easy.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to be fun. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: have a whole lot of high flying downfield passing. I
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  Speaker 1: was just sort of they're going to try and spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the time trying.
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  Speaker 3: To take that away.
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  Speaker 1: They definitely spent a good bit of Saturday trying to
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  Speaker 1: take that away.
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  Speaker 3: It eventually worked. We'll get there later, but first we're going.
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  Speaker 1: To take a look at some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to do to take away some of
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  Speaker 1: that downfield passing staff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, it's funny because this is like
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  Speaker 2: always the danger of saying things live.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: For my first watch, I was like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like an awful lot of sluder like short
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  Speaker 2: pearl routes and what not. It gets cover four, which
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  Speaker 2: is not really what you would expect. But as I said,
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  Speaker 2: the things I say was doing, I was actually giving
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  Speaker 2: them a lot of cover three and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: blitz looks probably try to create some disruption. And so
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  Speaker 2: you know, what we saw made actually a lot of
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  Speaker 2: sense because iowa, as you said, like I was a
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  Speaker 2: very good defense, like you know, Ohio State had quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit of success against it. But what makes them
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  Speaker 2: a very sound defense is they do not want to
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  Speaker 2: get beat deep, right, and they know that they are
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  Speaker 2: I assume they know that they don't have the athletes
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  Speaker 2: to match up to Jeremia Smith one on one, and
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  Speaker 2: so they were making every effort to ensure that he
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  Speaker 2: did not get downfield. And so you know, you this
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  Speaker 2: is this concept is sort of a good example of it, right,
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  Speaker 2: And so they did this a couple of times. They'd
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  Speaker 2: send Abuka in this free step motion and get him
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  Speaker 2: basically stacked behind Jeremi Smith. This gives you a you know,
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  Speaker 2: gives him a free release. And this is just a
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  Speaker 2: essentially a smash concept or a china some people call it.
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  Speaker 2: So like Smith's running a deep corner route and a
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  Speaker 2: Buka is just running underneath hitch right, and like you
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  Speaker 2: can see from Will Howard's progressions here, like he's he
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  Speaker 2: wants to get the football downfield. Like I feel like
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of effort coming out in the
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  Speaker 2: second half, like we have to create some explosive plays,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like Howard Howard is like he he's great
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  Speaker 2: and like when he sees like that first initial like
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  Speaker 2: at that eight yard curls are like that ball's out
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  Speaker 2: right and he throws it accurately, you know, he as
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  Speaker 2: we there. I know there's been some frustration with him
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  Speaker 2: pushing the football down the field or concern, I guess
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  Speaker 2: would be maybe the better word.
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  Speaker 3: I just didn't see a lot.
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  Speaker 2: There that, like at least early on this game where
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  Speaker 2: it was like, oh that that was that downfield throw
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  Speaker 2: was there, like he should have taken it, Like they
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  Speaker 2: were doing a lot of things to keep jearing my
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  Speaker 2: Smith at check. You know, like here the the linebacker
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  Speaker 2: carries Smith deep and then that corner is just is
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  Speaker 2: just sinking and getting more and more depth, and so
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  Speaker 2: he takes the right throw here. You know, on his
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  Speaker 2: interception he actually had a BUCA had leverage. That was
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  Speaker 2: more a case where like he had he had a
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  Speaker 2: linebacker on him again like he was getting breaking it
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  Speaker 2: outside like that throw was probably a second late. And
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  Speaker 2: then Howard was sort of if you go back and watch,
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  Speaker 2: like I would dig get pressure on that instance, and
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  Speaker 2: he sort of he didn't fully step into his throw.
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  Speaker 2: He was kind of anticipating in the contact. I think
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  Speaker 2: that resulted in him probably being a hair late and
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  Speaker 2: inside with that throw, which is all it took. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, you could see they were like doing things
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  Speaker 2: to get Jeremih Smith the ball early because they were
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  Speaker 2: having trouble getting to him downfield, you know, with the
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  Speaker 2: great tunnel screen that unfortunately for them results into fumble
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  Speaker 2: or the reverse. But so that's why you got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of a Mecca book, especially without Tate like being
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  Speaker 2: able to work these underneath areas. But like as we'll
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  Speaker 2: see here, they kept trying to iterate and finally were
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  Speaker 2: able to break Iowa so to speak down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this next one is that long touchdown path not
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  Speaker 1: touchdown but almost touchdown pass. Do Jeremiah Smith kind of
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  Speaker 1: a double move, and I think it was Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: during the postgame talked about the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's great do a double move. It worked, great, boy,
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  Speaker 1: You got to protect quite a while to get to
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  Speaker 1: keep Will Howard clean to be able to get that
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  Speaker 1: ball and drive that ball down the field. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: there is a why as to why they don't run
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  Speaker 1: this all the time, but it certainly worked in this case.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so it's funny, Like so the protection I
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  Speaker 2: want to highlight on this and as I.
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  Speaker 3: Said, like they he looks for him.
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  Speaker 2: This is all the same drive, right, so he looks
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  Speaker 2: for him on that corner route he went down below.
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  Speaker 2: Then people may remember it was like second and one
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  Speaker 2: and Will Howard kind of rolled.
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  Speaker 3: Out and he ended up going out of bounds.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember at the time being like, well, just
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  Speaker 2: throw the ball away, like what are you doing? But
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  Speaker 2: like the concept actually was like he was faking, like
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  Speaker 2: he was keeping on his own read and sort of
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  Speaker 2: he sort of tucked the football like he was going
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  Speaker 2: to run and Mecca was supposed to was running a
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  Speaker 2: wheel route, you know, and Iowa covered it right, and
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  Speaker 2: so it was like a kind of a one read play.
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  Speaker 2: And so again they were trying to mess with Iowa,
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  Speaker 2: put players in conflict, and they finally get it here right.
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  Speaker 2: So they always actually runs like two man under or
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  Speaker 2: two deep man under sometimes called cover five, so like
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  Speaker 2: you know, you have five defenders on the interior or
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  Speaker 2: on the five receivers, and then you have the two
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  Speaker 2: deep safeties, which is a difficult concept to pass on.
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  Speaker 2: They were able to do it here by again this
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  Speaker 2: sort of Smith gives the stutter right at the safety,
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  Speaker 2: makes him bite and then go. You know, I know
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  Speaker 2: day was again. I saw some people complain about this
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  Speaker 2: throw from Howard. I know Dave postgame was happy with
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  Speaker 2: where he put this ball in through it. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's the long throw, right, Jeremi Smith can move pretty quickly,
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  Speaker 2: so I think it was a pretty successful play. But
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  Speaker 2: as you said, like the protection as well, like the
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  Speaker 2: pass protection.
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  Speaker 3: Continues to be stellar.
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  Speaker 2: And I think one area where they've really improved this
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  Speaker 2: year is handling stunts up front and so like you
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  Speaker 2: can see it here. So like Iowa comes, they kind
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  Speaker 2: of loop around the defensive end and Donovan Jackson like
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  Speaker 2: you know, Ohio say, it's like an assass five man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you don't have any any running back help here. Really,
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  Speaker 2: they loop inside, Donovan Jackson passes off the defensive tackle,
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  Speaker 2: going inside of him to seth mclachline, and then he's
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  Speaker 2: there ready to pick up the defensive end looping around,
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  Speaker 2: and so you see just a lot of coordination. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: these guys have a lot of starts now they have
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  Speaker 2: both Justify and Chip Kelly and Tim darevno there. I
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  Speaker 2: think these things are all making a difference. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: bigger picture, once they hit that pass to Jeremi Smith.
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  Speaker 2: As I said that, that sort of opened everything else up,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, from there, I think they were able
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  Speaker 2: to hit some more explosives.
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  Speaker 1: And the last thing we're going to do not explosive,
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  Speaker 1: but efficient, effective, and something we might see a little
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  Speaker 1: later on this week. This is one of those plays
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  Speaker 1: on fourth down where the Buckeyes were successful. They picked
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  Speaker 1: up a couple of very important fourth downs during that
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  Speaker 1: Iowa game. It'd be something they have to do on
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  Speaker 1: the road this weekend in Eugene as well. So let's
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  Speaker 1: run through this last one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so this is really where Will Howard thrives.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a great play call here.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's fourth and three or fourth and two. I obviously
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  Speaker 2: is expecting Rod. They're in a type of Cover four,
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  Speaker 2: but a really aggressive one. It may even be Cover zero.
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  Speaker 2: They have both, you know, the one safety to the
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  Speaker 2: boundary comes down pre snap, the one to the field
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  Speaker 2: comes down post snap.
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  Speaker 3: And so we talked about this once before.
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  Speaker 2: This is like a third level RPO with a glance route,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: which is just sort of a way of saying that
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: somewhere between a slay it and a skinny post. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the guy's breaking to the inside and Howard is turning
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  Speaker 2: his back right at the snap, but like he is
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  Speaker 2: reading that safety pre snap, uh and then probably confirming
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  Speaker 2: he's probably you know, he's looking at that safety for
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: people watching it on YouTube, looking as he's as he's
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: putting the ball in the in the running backs belly
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: to confirm. But he's just he's really accurate on these
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: And you know, again, Organ likes to be pretty nosy
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  Speaker 2: with their linebackers.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Their linebackers like to play downhill.
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  Speaker 2: They count on them to clean up a lot, uh,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: you know, and they they run a lot of coverage variations.
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  Speaker 2: You know that has the benefit of the disguise elements
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  Speaker 2: and keeping people off balance has the downside for Organ
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: of it can lead to bust in the secondary or confusion,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: which he can create opportunities for explosive plays. And so
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: this is like you know, again every no one, no
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: players perfect, right, Howard is just really accurate on these throws,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: like as Ryan Day also point out points to post game,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: like he's really accurate on those throws in the end
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  Speaker 2: zone like that that those are tight windows when you
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: get inside the ten yard line or inside the red zone.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: You know, Ohio States had really good quarterbacks in the
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: past where they've sort of sputtered out down there, and
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: so you know, like on that that wheel route to
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Abuka where you know Ohio State again got a safety
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: singled up on him with a Cover four variation where
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: he looped around and you know that that carried the
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: you know, safety and corner coverage and got him on
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: a linebacker. But that was just a great throw, great
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: catch obviously as well. And so that's that's part of
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: why as much as like the Chip Kelly, the run reads,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the r p O s in the in the red zone,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: have you know, cleaned up the blocking. It's also just
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: like you know, precision the passing game as well. So
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Howard is very accurate on those intermediate throws. So you know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: there's some trade offs obviously with you know, arm strength
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: down field versus intermediate accuracy. But you know, I again
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: back to circling back to Oregon, that will I think
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: both in the red zone like this kind of RPO
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: con as well as you know, I think they'll continue
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: to lean into the run reads, especially near the goal.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Line like they had it. You know, they did.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Howard scored on one they ran that midline concept again
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: we discuss where you know they'll read the defensive tackle
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: and block out the defensive end, and so I just
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: think this, will you.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Know, this is obvious the game.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: If you're going to utilize your quarterback in the run game,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: it's it's you do it. More so in these type
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: of games, particularly as I said, against all the odd
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: fronds that are going to play mix it with inside them.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I always go back to the J. T. Barrett
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: at years where they would run J. T. Barrett twice
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: against Kent State and then twenty times against Penn State.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: We'll see if it's twenty times this weekend, but you're
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: probably going to see, as you said, a lot more,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a lot more of Will Howard in the run game
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: this week. It is going to be a fascinating matchup
• 18:48
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• 18:50
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• 18:53
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• 18:56
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• 18:59
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• 19:01
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• 19:04
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• 19:07
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• 19:11
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• 19:13
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• 19:16
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• 19:18
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• 19:21
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• 19:25
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• 19:28
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• 19:58
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