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Ross Fulton Analysis: 5 Keys To The Ohio State vs. Miami Cotton Bowl · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, December thirty.
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  Speaker 2: First time your host Tom Or the Cotton Bowl game
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  Speaker 2: against Miami is today the giving espishially gate in three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty two days. We are on today's show.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking to our buddy Ross Fulton, our ex'es and
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  Speaker 2: so Ross, we are going to be previewing the Cotton
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  Speaker 2: Bowl game against Miami. We have some questions from Buckeye
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  Speaker 2: Huddle members as well as a couple of Twitter but
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  Speaker 2: I think let's just sort of start with some broad
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  Speaker 2: strokes on the Miami offense, and maybe let's start with
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  Speaker 2: I guess one of the first questions that we need
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  Speaker 2: to get to is someone asking something about you wrote
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  Speaker 2: something you wrote in the game preview, and what you
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  Speaker 2: wrote is Miami's inside zone and duo based run game
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  Speaker 2: is not a good match up against Ohio State's Penny front,
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  Speaker 2: and Scott is one if you were saying that matchup
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  Speaker 2: favorite Ohio State and Miami, and you know, just sort
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  Speaker 2: of go into what that means and why why that
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  Speaker 2: is or isn't a good batch for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as we've talked about all year, the Penny front
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  Speaker 3: is it's really designed to stop zone run games because
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  Speaker 3: you've got five guys up or even a six one
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  Speaker 3: at times, and so it takes away double teams, which
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  Speaker 3: is the you know, the goal with zone or even
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  Speaker 3: duo is to get double teams at the first level
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  Speaker 3: and then come off to the linebacker. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: difficult to do when you have a head up nose guard,
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  Speaker 3: you know, two defensive ends between the guard and the
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  Speaker 3: tackle and then two guys outside because so it just
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  Speaker 3: creates a lot of single blocks. And then within that,
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  Speaker 3: Kate McDonald's obviously been so difficult to run against, and
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  Speaker 3: he uses that lag technique, which you know, if the
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  Speaker 3: center goes to the right, for instance, he's going to
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  Speaker 3: come back and take the backside a gap behind him,
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  Speaker 3: and he's just been really disruptive. And so you know
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  Speaker 3: where we've seen teams have success at Ohio State is
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  Speaker 3: you know, in recent weeks we've talked about they put
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  Speaker 3: you know, a team offense will put trips to the field,
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  Speaker 3: three wide receivers wide and then run like GT counter
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  Speaker 3: back to the boundary, just trying to get numbers and
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  Speaker 3: force the boundary corner into the run fit. And so
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  Speaker 3: I just haven't seen a ton of counter or gap
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  Speaker 3: schemes from Miami, and so that's that's what led me
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  Speaker 3: to say that that's why I wasn't it's not a
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  Speaker 3: great matchup for the Miami run game. I'm sure that
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  Speaker 3: they will try to use those kind of run plays,
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  Speaker 3: but again, you know, Fletcher is much more of a
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  Speaker 3: downhill north south runner.
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  Speaker 2: Next one is from Dirty Steve, which I suspect is
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  Speaker 2: not his government name. Steve wants to know how do
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  Speaker 2: the Buckeyes contain Malachai Tony, of course, the immensely talented
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  Speaker 2: true freshman slot receiver who does a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: everything for the Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 1: What would be your game plan to try and keep
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  Speaker 1: him under wraps?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that you know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of what it starts with getting him the ball horizontally
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  Speaker 3: in space. So like we were just talking about with the
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  Speaker 3: you know, pre snapper leafs, you know, getting three over two.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the good news from Ohio Stateta we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about this year is even when they've been out numbered
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  Speaker 3: on those, it's they're difficult to block. In particular, calebe
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  Speaker 3: Downs is great playing those inside out, and so you
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  Speaker 3: always have to account for him, you know, you have
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  Speaker 3: to be prepared for the direct snaps to Tony and
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  Speaker 3: re equate numbers and have a plan for that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And then I just think it coverage wise, like you
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  Speaker 3: just want to mix things up, you know, I don't think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I would have tried to avoid the situations
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  Speaker 3: like we showed against Indiana those third and long where
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  Speaker 3: it was you know, pretty telegraft that it was cover
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  Speaker 3: one and they could you know, throw a slot fade
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  Speaker 3: to Tony. I think that, you know, I would not
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  Speaker 3: say he's like a refined route runner downfield as of yet.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think, you know the goal is just
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  Speaker 3: to get Miami behind schedule and then use some more
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  Speaker 3: exotic looks to throw a person back and.
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  Speaker 4: The passing Miami passing offense.
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  Speaker 1: Off from Dino schnag.
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  Speaker 2: He says, you mentioned in your game pick that Miami
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  Speaker 2: uses a lot of fire zone. If their front four
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  Speaker 2: is so good, why do you think they feel the
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  Speaker 2: need to often bring a fifth pass rusher? It feels
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  Speaker 2: see that's been a that's been a big topic this
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  Speaker 2: week is the two defensive ends from.
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  Speaker 1: Miami and Key Messador and Ruby Vain.
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  Speaker 2: And they're effective, but I mean you as you've talked
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  Speaker 2: about that, they don't necessarily do things exactly the way
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  Speaker 2: That is the most challenging for Ohio State this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, at least from what we've seen from Ohio States
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  Speaker 3: thus far, I cannot remember many, if any situations where
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  Speaker 3: you know, offensive tackles were just getting beat one on
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  Speaker 3: one with you know, straight ahead rush techniques. It's much
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  Speaker 3: more picking up you know, simulated pressure stunts, you know loopers,
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  Speaker 3: you know where people have to trade off responsibilities. And
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  Speaker 3: so I mean I think Miami it's it's much more
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  Speaker 3: is kind of in the concept right, Like they're a
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  Speaker 3: very single high predominant team. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Cover three, even more so than Ohio State plays. But
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  Speaker 3: they'll they'll make it a little bit of Cover one
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  Speaker 3: and so from that structure, you're already getting eight in
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  Speaker 3: the box. So the zone blitz it makes sense. You're
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  Speaker 3: you're basically canceling out every gap in the run game
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  Speaker 3: and you're trying to you know, kill things on early
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  Speaker 3: downs to get into again good teams behind schedule. And so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think obviously when we talk about sacks,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times sack numbers are on the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: not the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: There's obviously exceptions to that.
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  Speaker 3: I think, as Julian Saying himself said about the Indiana
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  Speaker 3: game for instance, like some of those sacks were definitely
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  Speaker 3: on Julian say it. And similarly, Miami had a gaudy
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  Speaker 3: you know, sack numbers against Texas A and M but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that was just like Marcel read not,
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  Speaker 3: you know, managing the pocket well, not navigating it well,
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  Speaker 3: fading out or scrambling when he shouldn't have instead of
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  Speaker 3: stepping up. And so you know, I think I'm not
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  Speaker 3: I'm not as convinced that Miami can just organically generate
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  Speaker 3: pressure with four against Ohio State. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure you know how much you know, five and six
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  Speaker 3: man pressures are good consistent idea against Ohio State because
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  Speaker 3: of how.
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  Speaker 4: Well Saying attacks underneath zones.
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  Speaker 3: But I think we'll see some of it on rundowns
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  Speaker 3: to try again get Ohio stated and third down where
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  Speaker 3: they can you know, Miami, that's when they'll use some
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  Speaker 3: of like the non traditional tampas stuff, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: And one more BRL wants to know the difference in
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  Speaker 2: not having to do a silent count because Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: obviously was playing in front of a majority of Indiana
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  Speaker 2: fans in the Big Ten Championship game, should should be
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  Speaker 2: a majority of Ohio State fans in the Cotton Bowl tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Why does that make a difference for an offense.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it makes a huge difference because the defense
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  Speaker 3: is harder to time it up. You know how Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State was doing this the silent count. You know, Luke
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  Speaker 3: Montgomery would look back when Julian Sanin would let him
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  Speaker 3: know when he's ready, then he would smack Carson hintsman
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  Speaker 3: and then he usually you know, count to three or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: he snaps it. But you all have to go off
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  Speaker 3: the ball being snapped, especially out wide or a tackle,
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  Speaker 3: and defenses have really been able to time up the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State silent count at times this year. I think
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  Speaker 3: Indiana was doing a pretty effective job of that. And
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  Speaker 3: so if you can vary your snap counts by being
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  Speaker 3: able to verbalize it, I think it makes a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: That's why, you know, I said, in a pretty evenly
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  Speaker 3: matched game, I guess if I had to choose at
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  Speaker 3: the time, I would say I'd rather see Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: out to play in Miami because just not having to
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  Speaker 3: use that silent count should make things a lot easier
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  Speaker 3: on the offense.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to get now just some general
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  Speaker 2: thoughts from you on the game expectations. Let's start with
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  Speaker 2: the Ohio State offense. It feels like we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: the defense in a minute. It feels like they shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have to score that many points to win. If they
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  Speaker 2: get to twenty mid twenties, that's probably going to be enough.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you see Ohio State having success against Miami's
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  Speaker 2: defense and where do you see them maybe having some struggles.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to see, you know, the early down
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  Speaker 3: against all the cover three like second and third level
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  Speaker 3: post snap RPOs, you know, the free access throws that
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  Speaker 3: are you know, Miami's corners and cover three will play
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  Speaker 3: fail to technique. With outside leverage, you can get those
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  Speaker 3: hitch and out routes, the glance routes against safety rotation.
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  Speaker 3: I think Ohio State needs to be ready and willing
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  Speaker 3: to attack the seams.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But you know against cover three we talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: those team throws being there. When when Miami you know,
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  Speaker 3: runs some tampa like Indiana, did you know throw it
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  Speaker 3: over the pole runner?
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think again where Ohio State may be challenged.
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  Speaker 3: I think Miami, as you know we've seen with the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State defense, like if you're a single high team,
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  Speaker 3: you can always outnumber the run game, right, so you
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  Speaker 3: can get Ohio State down minus one. So if Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State is overly committed to running on standard downs, I
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  Speaker 3: think that could be a recipe for getting behind the chains.
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  Speaker 3: Miami's plays aggressively in the secondary, so you know, similar
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  Speaker 3: we were just talking about Caleb downs.
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  Speaker 4: If Ohio State's.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to run a lot of you know, pre pre
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  Speaker 3: snap reliefs like that, you know, the bubbles and now
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  Speaker 3: screens attached to the run game, Miami is good at
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  Speaker 3: attacking that and the blocks even if they're they're down numbers,
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  Speaker 3: just by the number counts so I think for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 3: you know, ideally you see a game plan similar to
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  Speaker 3: what they Ohio State use against Wisconsin, who threw a
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  Speaker 3: ton of Cover three at them, especially on early downs
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  Speaker 3: like RPOs early and often you know, on those hitching
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  Speaker 3: glance routes, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then on the other side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: No one has gotten the seventeen points yet this season
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  Speaker 2: against the buck Eyes. Do you think Miami gets there
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  Speaker 2: without you know, maybe you know, you get a defensive score,
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  Speaker 2: you get a special team score, whatever it is, you're
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  Speaker 2: set up with short fields, but just sort of purely
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  Speaker 2: the offense generating points. Do you see Miami getting to
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  Speaker 2: seventeen points? And if so, how do they do it?
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 1: Where might they find some success against the buck Eye defense?
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  Speaker 2: I do not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're you know there if you go buy
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  Speaker 3: FBI or SP plus, like, you know, they are the
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  Speaker 3: six or seventh best offense Ohio States face this year,
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  Speaker 3: and Ohio States held all those better offenses under that
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  Speaker 3: wing total. And even when teams get closed, it generally
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  Speaker 3: with some kind of shortfield or turnovers. So obviously turnovers
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  Speaker 3: are you know, the easy answer to that. I guess
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  Speaker 3: if Carson back, you know, is playing the game of
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  Speaker 3: his life.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose. I just don't know.
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  Speaker 3: If Miami they can really even threaten Ohio State outside
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  Speaker 3: consistently to do that though, So you know, I agree
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  Speaker 3: with the premise that if Pio State scores three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: they win the game.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: There is our preview of the Ohio State Miami Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: We will have plenty of plenty one way to talk
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  Speaker 2: one way or the other to talk about after this game.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have Ross back on to do a breakdown the
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  Speaker 2: Ohigsted offense and the Ohiostate defense and when he.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We will talk to you tomorrow.