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BONUS: Juck's Quick Hitters Following Ohio State's 59-3 Win Over Kent State · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeye Insiders post-game show as we are joining
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Speaker 1: you here from the shoe. The Buckeyes game number three
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Speaker 1: of the season get back on the winning end of things.
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Speaker 1: Two and one now as they beat the Kent State
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Speaker 1: Golden Flashes by a score of 59 to three in
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Speaker 1: front of an announced attendance of 1,009. So they got
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Speaker 1: that 100,000 mark by nine folks. Congrats to Buckeye Nation
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Speaker 1: for beating that by nine. It was a great day.
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Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day out here. And I was
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Speaker 1: going to do the postgame show from the field. And
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Speaker 1: then immediately following the game, we got the big warning
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Speaker 1: on the scoreboard saying, you know, be careful on your
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Speaker 1: way home. And all of a sudden it starts raining
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Speaker 1: cats and dogs. I think it's kind of calmed down
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Speaker 1: a little bit now. But we were able to get
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Speaker 1: the full game in. There's been delays across the country
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Speaker 1: for a lot of games going on today. But we
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Speaker 1: got the full Buckeyes game in. And in a game
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Speaker 1: like this, you know, we talked in the pregame show,
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Speaker 1: what can you really take away after you go to Texas?
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Speaker 1: You got, you know, this nasty taste in your mouth.
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Speaker 1: And sure, you can wipe that nasty taste out of
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Speaker 1: your mouth by, you know, coming in and whooping up
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Speaker 1: on a Mac team. But can we learn anything from
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Speaker 1: watching the game? I don't know that positionally we can,
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Speaker 1: but we can with maybe a couple of the decisions
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Speaker 1: the coaches made. as well as certainly some individual performances,
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Speaker 1: and primarily we're looking for some of those from some
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Speaker 1: young guys, and we'll go over a few of those.
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Speaker 1: But I got three big takeaways, I think our biggest
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Speaker 1: takeaways from the game here from my view, and that'll
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Speaker 1: start with number one, and we got to start with
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah as Jeremiah breaks the all-time Ohio State receiving yards
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Speaker 1: record today, and they do it quick, second possession of
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Speaker 1: the game, He needed, what, 26 yards to go ahead
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Speaker 1: and break that and pass Michael Jenkins in a record
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Speaker 1: that has stood for over 20 years. And it's just
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Speaker 1: amazing to me, to be quite honest, that Michael Jenkins
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Speaker 1: was able to hold on to that for so long
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Speaker 1: with all the great wide receivers who've come through here
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Speaker 1: since Jenks, who, of course, was awesome, but played in
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Speaker 1: a time where the Buckeyes didn't throw the ball that much. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: David Boston's still on there as number four, which is awesome.
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Speaker 1: Kerry Williams, number five. Like, look at these guys, all
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Speaker 1: the young guys. Of course, many of them are, you know,
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Speaker 1: one or two good seasons and out when the older
2:30
Speaker 1: guys used to stick around a little longer. But you
2:33
Speaker 1: look at that list, you think all the guys that
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Speaker 1: have run through here in the last 20 years, and
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Speaker 1: it's just amazing that he's been able to do this in,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, 36 games or something, 33 or 36. Fantastic, man.
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Speaker 1: And it's awesome to see. It was awesome to see
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Speaker 1: it here. We were wondering pregame, what will we see
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Speaker 1: when it happened? Would we see the game stopped, potentially
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Speaker 1: honor him or something? None of that. So they just
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Speaker 1: kept right on rolling. And I believe on that possession,
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Speaker 1: we saw a touchdown from Jacoby Jackson, which can kind
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Speaker 1: of lead us into maybe takeaway number two. Takeaway number two,
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Speaker 1: when we talk about the Ohio State rushing game, the
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Speaker 1: rushing attack today, Game number one, they ended up breaking
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Speaker 1: off a couple of explosives against Ball State. And even
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Speaker 1: though the offensive line didn't look very well for definitely
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Speaker 1: the first half, but really, you know, on a whole,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't that great. 6.8 yards per carry because you
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Speaker 1: busted off a couple of explosives. Today, you end the
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Speaker 1: day with a total of 3.8 yards per carry. We
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Speaker 1: talked again in the pregame show, you know, what is there?
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Speaker 1: Is there a number that maybe they rushed for under
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Speaker 1: this many yards of carry that you would find pretty unsatisfactory.
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Speaker 1: My number was five. You rush for less than five
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Speaker 1: yards of carry against a team like Kent State, and,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's an issue. Well, let's take away the
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Speaker 1: second half and just go back to the first half.
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Speaker 1: Sack adjusted, I believe, and this, you know, Julian, I think,
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Speaker 1: had two sacks. Take away the sacks and the lost
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Speaker 1: yardage from that, and you were still under five yards
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Speaker 1: of carry in the first half. And I think that
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Speaker 1: there were some times there where there were some holes
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Speaker 1: that you or I could have run through and that
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Speaker 1: the backs weren't quite getting it done as well as
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Speaker 1: you'd like to see. Game number three of the season. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's somewhat concerning here. At this point, I
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Speaker 1: think they are what they are. You're going to get,
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Speaker 1: you know, hit and miss performances out of these guys.
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Speaker 1: But I did think that Jacoby Jackson ran really well today.
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Speaker 1: And I think he made the most out of what
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Speaker 1: he got blocked up for him. So props to him.
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Speaker 1: But One thing we were all looking forward to was
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Speaker 1: seeing freshman legend Bay. We got to see him for
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Speaker 1: maybe a snap. And then we saw him down here
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Speaker 1: at the bench, walking into the, into the, what do
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Speaker 1: you call it? The thing into the red thing. He
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Speaker 1: was limping and he came out and they had his
5:02
Speaker 1: ankle spatted up with like three inches of tape. And
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Speaker 1: I'm watching him walk and he can't even hardly move
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Speaker 1: with this thing. So yeah, His day was done before
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Speaker 1: he ever really got it started. And that was one
5:13
Speaker 1: of the biggest talking points coming into today was what
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Speaker 1: were we going to see out of legend? Ryan Day
5:19
Speaker 1: talked about going down to Texas last week. They just
5:22
Speaker 1: wanted to get the win. That's all they cared about
5:24
Speaker 1: was getting the win. And then when they came back,
5:26
Speaker 1: they were going to worry about the younger guys. I
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Speaker 1: thought getting the win would have included putting in one
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Speaker 1: of your most explosive players. It didn't. That meant today.
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Speaker 1: And before it even started, it was over. And of course,
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Speaker 1: Kari Wilder, We'll hit on him when we get to
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Speaker 1: that section. But let's get to major takeaway number three
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Speaker 1: here in the three-point stance. And my third big takeaway
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Speaker 1: of the day, which is hugely consequential, maybe for this year,
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Speaker 1: certainly for next year and the future. In 2024, when
5:58
Speaker 1: we looked at the roster, you had Will Howard. You
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Speaker 1: knew where you were going from there to Julian Sane.
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Speaker 1: And then after that, you had a five-star freshman in
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Speaker 1: Tavian St. Clair, a local kid who was coming in.
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Speaker 1: to the program, a five-star top three quarterback in the class, big, strong,
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Speaker 1: all the tools. And now as we are here in
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Speaker 1: game three of his second year, he has been officially
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Speaker 1: surpassed by freshman Luke Fahey, who is the number two
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Speaker 1: quarterback on this team. And I think it's just a
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Speaker 1: hugely consequential thing moving forward. We're going to see Luke
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Speaker 1: Fahey getting all the number two reps in the season
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Speaker 1: in practice. We're going to see Luke Fahey getting the
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Speaker 1: number two reps unless he messes up. And he had
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Speaker 1: a good performance again. So he comes out here in
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Speaker 1: game number three through an interception. That's the kind of
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Speaker 1: quarterback he is. He's also going to throw you a
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Speaker 1: lot of great balls and run the offense really competently,
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Speaker 1: which is why Ryan Day believes in him. He knows
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Speaker 1: the down and distance. Everything moves the way it's supposed
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Speaker 1: to move under Fahey. And this guy has officially won
7:02
Speaker 1: the backup job. And it is a massive story because
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Speaker 1: now as we look ahead, the transfer portal, starts January 2nd.
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Speaker 1: January 2nd. The semifinals start January 1st. And Ohio State's
7:17
Speaker 1: going to need a decision by Julian Sane before that,
7:20
Speaker 1: which means Julian Sane makes his decision. Let's say he's leaving.
7:24
Speaker 1: The Buckeyes now need to go into the portal, most likely,
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Speaker 1: to bring in not a Justin Martin type, but a
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Speaker 1: guy who's going to compete for the starting role. And
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Speaker 1: quarterback in 27 is up in the air. But quarterback
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Speaker 1: this year, backup quarterback, should you need it, Right now,
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Speaker 1: it's Luke Fahey, and that is, you know, something that
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Speaker 1: nobody saw coming, even if you liked him coming out
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Speaker 1: of high school, out of Mission Viejo, a guy who
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Speaker 1: threw to Phillip Bell at Mission Viejo. So, just a
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Speaker 1: really interesting story, largely consequential on a day where we
7:56
Speaker 1: didn't learn a ton, as again, the Buckeyes not only
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Speaker 1: whooped Kent State, but also covered, 52.5 was the line,
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Speaker 1: the over, I believe 59.5, so They covered, they got
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Speaker 1: the over. We got a big man touchdown, Jameer Perez.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit about those younger guys, but
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Speaker 1: first let's get into Julian Sane, who after the game
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Speaker 1: against Texas was, I think, 16 or 18 targets to Jeremiah,
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Speaker 1: 16 targets to Jeremiah, eight completions, and then he went
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Speaker 1: eight incompletions to Jeremiah. Those eight incompletions represented more targets
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Speaker 1: than all the other wide receivers got combined. And when
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Speaker 1: we looked at today with Julian out there, did he
8:40
Speaker 1: spread it out a little more? What I was really
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Speaker 1: hoping to see was a little more Devin McEwen involved
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Speaker 1: and Devin McEwen got two targets on the day. So
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Speaker 1: that wasn't great. Jeremiah only got six. So it's not
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Speaker 1: like he had a boatload, but I really wanted to
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Speaker 1: see Devin McEwen get involved. Julian, for the most part
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Speaker 1: was accurate as he usually is 18 for 22, 241
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Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. Of course, You got the Hail
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Speaker 1: Mary to Brandon Innes at the end of the first half,
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Speaker 1: which was cool for everybody. It throws off the stats
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Speaker 1: a little bit, I think, as you know, that's not
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Speaker 1: really your intended receiver. He put it in the right spot.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: But what I didn't see was a whole lot of
9:21
Speaker 1: middle of the field stuff, which is what was missing
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Speaker 1: at Texas. And I think that's something that I thought
9:27
Speaker 1: this year we were going to start to see a
9:29
Speaker 1: little more of the graph of where he threw the
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Speaker 1: ball against Texas. There was like nothing in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the field. And he's got to start adding that
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Speaker 1: into the game. Moving on to short yardage inside the
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Speaker 1: red zone. I think Ohio State was seven trips. They
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Speaker 1: scored five touchdowns in the red zone, which is good.
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Speaker 1: You want to be certainly up close to, I think,
9:52
Speaker 1: 75 or 80 percent is where they want to be.
9:56
Speaker 1: So that was good stuff there. A total of 15
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Speaker 1: offensive touchdowns. drives today, and they were currently averaging 11.5
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Speaker 1: coming into today, which was 2.5 more than last season.
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Speaker 1: Last season, they averaged 9.5 yards or 9.5 drives a game.
10:13
Speaker 1: So bump that up to 11.5, and that'll bump up
10:16
Speaker 1: even higher after 15 offensive drives today. The rushing attack,
10:21
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson had 11 for 73 with a touchdown, a 6.6 average,
10:26
Speaker 1: and that was good. Bo certainly had an opportunity, I think,
10:30
Speaker 1: to have an even bigger day. Didn't hit a couple
10:33
Speaker 1: of opportunities to get some breakaway runs, and you didn't
10:36
Speaker 1: get many explosives today. You got a couple of rushes
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Speaker 1: that were over 10 yards as a team, and quite frankly,
10:43
Speaker 1: they want to do much better than that. Jacoby Jackson,
10:45
Speaker 1: 8 for 47 with a couple of touchdowns, and I thought,
10:50
Speaker 1: based on what he had blocked up for him, he
10:52
Speaker 1: was the most impressive of the day. Isaiah West, not
10:55
Speaker 1: a great day in the first time that he really
10:57
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to get a couple carries in a while.
11:01
Speaker 1: I think he's only had seven carries on the entire
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Speaker 1: year coming into today, and that's obviously been a little
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Speaker 1: bit puzzling, but, you know, didn't really get it done today.
11:11
Speaker 1: And you'll have those games. It'll happen. It's running back.
11:14
Speaker 1: It's one of those positions. A couple of injuries, or
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Speaker 1: at least one, outside of legend bay we did see
11:21
Speaker 1: james smith go down a little later in the game
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Speaker 1: holding his hand i believe it was his hand or
11:27
Speaker 1: his wrist and he was down and i had my
11:30
Speaker 1: binoculars and i was looking in pretty close and he
11:32
Speaker 1: looked like he was in a lot of pain whatever
11:34
Speaker 1: that means don't know but when we look at that
11:37
Speaker 1: defensive line right now coming into this game you know
11:41
Speaker 1: my thought was after the texas game you know it's
11:43
Speaker 1: kind of an area where we talked about leading into
11:46
Speaker 1: this season okay you don't have a guy guy, right?
11:49
Speaker 1: You don't got a Caden McDonald. You don't got a
11:51
Speaker 1: Caden Curry. You don't got that type of dude, but
11:54
Speaker 1: do you have enough depth to make up for it
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Speaker 1: where you're constantly rolling in fresh guys and you know,
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Speaker 1: you're keeping it going based on that. And it hasn't
12:03
Speaker 1: been great. Losing him certainly doesn't help. I think maybe
12:08
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that we've seen that has been a
12:11
Speaker 1: surprise outside of Kari Wilder and what his ceiling looks
12:14
Speaker 1: like is Jason Moore, who is, Larry Johnson two years
12:19
Speaker 1: ago called the ideal three tech. That's what he said
12:21
Speaker 1: about him. He is the ideal three tech on my
12:23
Speaker 1: defensive line. No longer a three tech. He is now bigger, birthier,
12:29
Speaker 1: and they're putting him at nose. And so far, so good,
12:33
Speaker 1: which is excellent. I don't think he ever had the
12:35
Speaker 1: speed to get it done at three tech. Certainly had
12:38
Speaker 1: the size and the length. But right now, the physicality,
12:41
Speaker 1: he's doing well. The big fourth down stop, he torpedoed,
12:46
Speaker 1: you know, for a guy as tall and as long.
12:47
Speaker 1: He got under everybody, got under those offensive linemen, and
12:50
Speaker 1: was a big part of stopping that on fourth down.
12:53
Speaker 1: So that was really good stuff by him. We also
12:56
Speaker 1: saw quite a bit of Bo Atkinson there and not
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Speaker 1: Kari Wilder. And this just puzzles the hell out of me.
13:04
Speaker 1: So Kari Wilder placed five snaps last week. We all
13:06
Speaker 1: know what he did. He was one of the big
13:08
Speaker 1: topics coming into today. What were we going to see
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Speaker 1: out of Kari Wilder? How much were we going to
13:12
Speaker 1: see Kari Wilder? We saw him play a play early.
13:17
Speaker 1: And then he got in when all the freshmen got
13:20
Speaker 1: all his classmates got in here in the last series
13:22
Speaker 1: or two. And he probably played a little less than
13:26
Speaker 1: most of them. So Ryan Day was asked after the game,
13:30
Speaker 1: you know, what's that about? You know, everybody was kind
13:32
Speaker 1: of expecting we're going to see this expanded role for
13:34
Speaker 1: Kari Wilder. Ryan Day had said after the game against Texas,
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Speaker 1: we got to figure out a way to get him
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Speaker 1: on the field. And it's kind of like, well, you
13:41
Speaker 1: can just maybe put him at his position. It's right
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Speaker 1: over there on the end. And that's not what happened.
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Speaker 1: So he said about him, you know, he is with
13:51
Speaker 1: the ones in that package, right, that third down package.
13:54
Speaker 1: He's with the ones there, but kind of with the
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Speaker 1: backups when he's not in that package. One of the
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Speaker 1: guys that he's behind currently in that package where he's
14:03
Speaker 1: apparently one of the backups is Bo Atkinson, who we
14:05
Speaker 1: saw a lot of today, who didn't have a terrible
14:07
Speaker 1: game today. Take out of that whatever you will. It
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Speaker 1: was against Kent State. But we've seen kind of him
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Speaker 1: drop down the depth chart. And I just don't understand
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Speaker 1: why in a game like Kent State, you're not giving
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Speaker 1: him the opportunity, Kari, not Bo Atkinson, giving him the
14:22
Speaker 1: opportunity to go out and potentially make a play or
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Speaker 1: make a mistake or two, because it doesn't matter based
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Speaker 1: on what the game is before you enter Big Ten play.
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Speaker 1: To me, it almost felt like there's something else going
14:35
Speaker 1: on that we don't know about. I don't know. They
14:37
Speaker 1: also did play a lot of three defensive tackles today.
14:41
Speaker 1: when they weren't playing Bo Atkinson and Kwee Rusaw on
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Speaker 1: the edge. Kwee Rusaw did have a tackle for loss.
14:47
Speaker 1: He should have been flagged for an illegal hands to
14:49
Speaker 1: the face on that play as he ripped the guy's
14:51
Speaker 1: helmet off. But whatever, it was a good aggressive play.
14:55
Speaker 1: And it's nice to see him finally make a good
14:56
Speaker 1: aggressive play because that was really the first one we've
14:58
Speaker 1: seen out of him. But this defensive line, John Walker,
15:03
Speaker 1: solid game. Jason Moore, solid game. Will Smith, solid game. And,
15:09
Speaker 1: you know, the interior is still somewhat concerning moving forward.
15:14
Speaker 1: I think you're going to need really good play out
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Speaker 1: of your linebackers to continue to get the most out
15:19
Speaker 1: of those guys. And they're going to need to get
15:20
Speaker 1: more creative with them. Ohio State goes against a lot
15:23
Speaker 1: of inferior teams. And what do they do to take
15:25
Speaker 1: advantage of Ohio State's offensive line? They twist. They stunt.
15:28
Speaker 1: They create havoc by movement. And the Ohio State defensive
15:31
Speaker 1: line currently doesn't do that. They haven't had to when
15:34
Speaker 1: they're overpowering you or out-talenting you. This defensive line doesn't
15:39
Speaker 1: really have that big talent gap. They need to get
15:41
Speaker 1: some movement. They need to get some things rolling here.
15:44
Speaker 1: So we are just talking to you here for a
15:49
Speaker 1: couple of more minutes, guys, as we lead you into
15:51
Speaker 1: Tom and Tony. Tom and Tony from the interview room
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Speaker 1: where they just got done wrapping up with Ryan Day
15:57
Speaker 1: and the players. We did hear from Jalen McClain, who
16:00
Speaker 1: had a really solid game. We heard from Riley Pettijohn,
16:02
Speaker 1: who got an interception. As we move on to... the
16:07
Speaker 1: helmet stickers of the week. I got a couple to
16:09
Speaker 1: give out here. And Riley, not on there. I think
16:12
Speaker 1: I probably should have put him on there. But we
16:15
Speaker 1: do got some other guys on there. And I wanted
16:16
Speaker 1: to go with maybe outside of Jay Timmons, just some
16:20
Speaker 1: kind of off the beaten path guys. Now, Chris Henry Jr.
16:23
Speaker 1: caught one ball. And obviously, I guess this is an
16:27
Speaker 1: off the beaten path. Chris Henry Jr. catches a ball.
16:31
Speaker 1: And what he looks like is Devin McEwen catching the ball.
16:34
Speaker 1: It's a short, maybe 10-yard route. And he bobs in,
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Speaker 1: bobs out, and he's gone. Takes it the distance for
16:41
Speaker 1: his second touchdown of his career, which was awesome. Also,
16:45
Speaker 1: big shout out to Brock Boyd, who caught, I believe,
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Speaker 1: five balls on the day, maybe four balls on six targets.
16:52
Speaker 1: And that was excellent to see. The one was the
16:54
Speaker 1: really long one where he focused on the ball and
16:57
Speaker 1: kept his feet in bounds. So good stuff to see
16:59
Speaker 1: out of the two. freshman wide receivers. Of course, Jay Timmons,
17:04
Speaker 1: we talked about Riley Pettijohn. He had that interception and
17:07
Speaker 1: that interception was caused by a blitz by Jay Timmons,
17:11
Speaker 1: who got a piece of that ball. Jay was also,
17:14
Speaker 1: he didn't make a lot of tackles today, but there
17:17
Speaker 1: was a couple of times in the Texas game where
17:19
Speaker 1: he was out of position. He was out of place
17:21
Speaker 1: and that did not happen today. And he was flying
17:23
Speaker 1: like a missile. Every game we see him play, I
17:26
Speaker 1: think we're just going to see him to continue to
17:27
Speaker 1: get better and better. We talked about Jacoby Jackson, and
17:30
Speaker 1: I just thought he played with a lot of physicality,
17:33
Speaker 1: got in and out of his cuts really well. And
17:35
Speaker 1: then freshman Braxton Rembert, who definitely is getting a Buckeye
17:40
Speaker 1: sticker from me today. He made not one, but two
17:43
Speaker 1: really good plays. And one of them set up the
17:46
Speaker 1: Jameer Perez big man touchdown. And that was a play
17:51
Speaker 1: that just lit the sideline up in a way I
17:53
Speaker 1: haven't seen in a while. The irony when you get
17:56
Speaker 1: a guy like that scoring a touchdown. Everybody loves it.
17:59
Speaker 1: And Braxton Rember was the one who caused that play
18:02
Speaker 1: coming up like a missile and unloading in a way that, uh, man,
18:07
Speaker 1: he's got it. The dude's got it. He needs to
18:10
Speaker 1: gain weight. We all know that. But when it comes
18:11
Speaker 1: to athleticism instinct, the trigger to go attack and not
18:16
Speaker 1: stand back and catch the dude's got it. And I
18:19
Speaker 1: was really happy to see that. So certainly a, uh,
18:22
Speaker 1: a big time sticker to our guy, Brex, Braxton Rember. Um,
18:29
Speaker 1: Moving on here, a couple of the disappointments for me, obviously,
18:34
Speaker 1: the lack of first half explosives with the first team
18:38
Speaker 1: offense out there against Kent State. I'd like to see
18:42
Speaker 1: some more explosives, particularly in the run game. We didn't
18:45
Speaker 1: see it. And I think that when you're talking about,
18:49
Speaker 1: I do want to say, though, the offensive line, and
18:52
Speaker 1: this is props to Art Smith. Art Smith against Ball State.
18:56
Speaker 1: He's a wide zone guy. This is the offense he runs.
18:59
Speaker 1: Wide zone, and he ran 26 zone scheme to two
19:04
Speaker 1: gap scheme against Ball State. It didn't work out great.
19:06
Speaker 1: We all saw it. Go down to Texas, and he
19:10
Speaker 1: goes 15 zone, 11 gap. Come out today, and here
19:15
Speaker 1: we are again, and I felt like I don't have
19:18
Speaker 1: the official stats on this. It takes a while for
19:21
Speaker 1: those to come out, but It felt to me like
19:23
Speaker 1: there was a lot of gap scheme. Not only was
19:25
Speaker 1: there a lot of gap scheme, but almost every one
19:27
Speaker 1: of the Ohio State good runs today felt to me
19:30
Speaker 1: like it was a gap scheme, just watching it. And
19:33
Speaker 1: that shows a coach willing to adjust to what his
19:35
Speaker 1: players do best, which a lot of coaches say they do,
19:39
Speaker 1: but really don't. And that's a big thing about Art
19:43
Speaker 1: Smith that I'm really enjoying so far. So that pretty
19:48
Speaker 1: good there. Terry Moore. you know, it was really nice
19:52
Speaker 1: seeing the young guys in there late. I loved it.
19:55
Speaker 1: You got to see all of them, essentially the entire
19:57
Speaker 1: freshman class. Terry Moore was in there playing with them.
20:00
Speaker 1: And this is a guy who I thought was really
20:02
Speaker 1: going to come in and be a contributor out of Duke.
20:04
Speaker 1: Sat out last year with the torn ACL. And it's
20:08
Speaker 1: unfortunate that it doesn't seem like you're getting a whole
20:11
Speaker 1: lot out of him as he's playing with those guys.
20:13
Speaker 1: So that was a little bit of a disappointment. But
20:16
Speaker 1: all in all, the tight ends were maybe my biggest,
20:23
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe irritation coming out of the Texas game.
20:26
Speaker 1: And it's the irritation for me because you don't need
20:29
Speaker 1: to play all these tight ends, right? You're choosing to.
20:32
Speaker 1: And if you choose to, that's fine. They better be
20:36
Speaker 1: playing well. And if you're going to continue to play
20:39
Speaker 1: them a lot when they're not playing well, and a
20:43
Speaker 1: lot would be 42 snaps for Nate Roberts, 25 for
20:47
Speaker 1: Bennett Christian, 23 for Mason Williams. That's what it was
20:50
Speaker 1: against Texas. So my question was, what were they going
20:53
Speaker 1: to do today? And we did see some of the
20:56
Speaker 1: bison package where Jake Cook comes in as your sixth
21:00
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, lines up, puts on the number 81 jersey.
21:05
Speaker 1: And you still saw A lot of heavy personnel, I think,
21:09
Speaker 1: down by the goal line, which our Buckeyes insider, scheme insider,
21:14
Speaker 1: Michael Pettit, discussed in his takeaways. Michael Pettit wanted to
21:18
Speaker 1: talk about this tight end situation, and I'm going to
21:21
Speaker 1: let him take that away here now because Mike breaks
21:25
Speaker 1: this down just as good as anybody. So let's hear Mike,
21:28
Speaker 1: and after we hear Mike, we will kick to, you
21:31
Speaker 1: know what? I'm going to kick it to Tom and Tony,
21:34
Speaker 1: and I'm going to let them play Mike for you.
21:37
Speaker 1: So we're going to head over to Tom and Tony now.
21:40
Speaker 1: And then they're going to leave you in and then
21:42
Speaker 1: they're going to play or play Mike for you guys.
21:44
Speaker 1: And he'll talk to you about tight ends. Tom, Tony,
21:47
Speaker 1: how you doing, guys?
21:49
Speaker 2: Well, Chuck, that's what we call in football. We call
21:52
Speaker 2: that an audible right there. We gave Chuck two plays
21:55
Speaker 2: at the line. That was the one he decided to
21:57
Speaker 2: go with. So we appreciate you calling our number and
22:00
Speaker 2: we appreciate you starting things off. Another football term, kicking
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Speaker 2: things off for us.
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Speaker 1: You got it, guys. Take it away.