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BONUS: How Jason Moore Become One Of The Pleasant Surprises On Ohio State's Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a special bonus episode. You're going to get
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  Speaker 1: to hear a little bit from Ohio State head coach
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day in the wake of the Buckeyes' 59-3 win
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  Speaker 1: over Kent State. And they look ahead to this weekend's
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten opener against Illinois. We're going to start with
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  Speaker 1: a show about the defense. We've got to show just
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  Speaker 1: sort of some general stuff about the team. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to show about the offense as well. But we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start with this show about the defense. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys who I think has come up as
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  Speaker 1: maybe not one of the bright spots, someone who's maybe
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  Speaker 1: expected to do a little bit more so far this
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  Speaker 1: season than has shown up in the field, that's defensive
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  Speaker 1: tackle Edric Houston. He hasn't been bad, but he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily taken that next big step. So is he someone
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  Speaker 1: who needs to step up more as the season goes along?
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  Speaker 2: We see a player who's now been multiple years into
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  Speaker 2: the program who has power, strength, the ability to hold
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  Speaker 2: the point of attack at a at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, now that we're heading into conference play,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be somebody that we're going to count
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  Speaker 2: on inside to do that. I think when you look inside,
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  Speaker 2: you know, guys like Edrick, Jason Moore, you know, multiple
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  Speaker 2: years in the program are starting to come into their
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  Speaker 2: own a little bit. But to your point now, these
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  Speaker 2: are the guys that we're going to have to count
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  Speaker 2: on throughout the season. And it isn't just flashing, it's
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  Speaker 2: the consistent play over an extended period of time. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what we're going to need. And that's when you
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  Speaker 2: step into these roles, it's important. And Edrick's one of
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  Speaker 2: those guys and he has the ability to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And so this would be a great opportunity this week
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  Speaker 2: for him to step up into some conference play and
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  Speaker 2: give us the reps that we need to solidify the inside.
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  Speaker 1: One of the pleasant surprises on this year's Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: team is true freshman nickel Jay Timmons. He was someone
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  Speaker 1: who we saw some impressive stuff from in the spring,
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  Speaker 1: but then who really took a huge leap in fall
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  Speaker 1: camp this year and really just completely owned the starting
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  Speaker 1: nickel position. almost from day one of fall camp. So
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  Speaker 1: what was it that Ryan Day saw from Jay Timmons
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  Speaker 1: that made him be someone who he thought could start
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  Speaker 1: on day one?
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  Speaker 2: Competitiveness was the first thing. When he first got here,
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  Speaker 2: you could just see he was a gritty player, got
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  Speaker 2: his hands on a lot of balls. You could feel
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  Speaker 2: his energy every day. He'd come off the edge and
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  Speaker 2: show up. He would tackle at a high level. Just
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  Speaker 2: an overall really good football player. And then when you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at freshmen, you say, how much can they handle?
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  Speaker 2: he just keeps coming and keeps getting better and keeps
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  Speaker 2: taking on more. So that's a great sign for a
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  Speaker 2: young player.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier, Jay Timmons as one of the pleasant surprises
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  Speaker 1: for this year's Ohio State team. And he is a
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  Speaker 1: very young, pleasant surprise. Jason Moore, he has been around
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot longer than Jay Timmons, but he's been
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  Speaker 1: a really pleasant surprise too. This is a season where
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it takes a while for the light to come
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  Speaker 1: on for guys and for things to really kind of click.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like things have finally clicked for Jason
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  Speaker 1: Moore this season. So What has that been like to
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  Speaker 1: see him take that step?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody has their own journey. And for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these guys, it's just going to put one day in
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  Speaker 2: front of the other and stacking days over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: which is what Jason has done. And just when you think, man,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't right for me. Ohio State's not the right
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  Speaker 2: place for me. I got to try maybe looking somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: He just kept working and working and working. And then
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  Speaker 2: you find himself in a backup role. And then before
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  Speaker 2: you know it, now he's finding himself getting a lot
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  Speaker 2: more reps. And that's what this is all about. And that's, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: what some of the stuff that goes on now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys don't have the opportunity to work through all that.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great example of that very thing. Guys who've
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  Speaker 2: been in the program for multiple years, who have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: gone through our off-season program, you know, understand the scheme, have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, put their time in, and now you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: them play their best football. And some guys like Jay
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  Speaker 2: Timmons and, you know, you're going to see you know,
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  Speaker 2: Brock Boyd and Chris Henry. These are guys that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Bo Jackson last year, these are guys who play his
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  Speaker 2: freshman right away, Jeremiah Smith. Then there's guys that it takes,
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  Speaker 2: takes a few years. You know, you look at the
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  Speaker 2: way Ty Hamilton's career went, you look at now how
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  Speaker 2: Jason Moore's career is going. Now, you know, he's into
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  Speaker 2: multiple years and he's playing. So it just goes to
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  Speaker 2: show that, you know, hard work still pays off. And then,
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  Speaker 2: So now Jason's becoming a more important guy for us,
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  Speaker 2: and that'll take on a new role because he's going
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  Speaker 2: to have to play more, and we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to count on him to make plays. He's not just
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  Speaker 2: going to come in in a backup role. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to be more of a foundation up front for us.
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  Speaker 1: When Jay Timmons was a high school recruit, Devin Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: hosted him on his visit at Ohio State, and Timmons
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  Speaker 1: told Sanchez he was going to start as a freshman,
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  Speaker 1: just as a high school player. Yeah, sure, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to start as a freshman at Ohio State. That was
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  Speaker 1: something that we heard from Sanchez a couple weeks ago. Sanchez,
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  Speaker 1: I think at the time kind of went, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: sure kid. And then, all right, now Jay Timmons is
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  Speaker 1: a starter day one. He was not kidding. So is
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  Speaker 1: that something that Jay Timmons had said to Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: as well?
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  Speaker 2: There's something about actually saying something, you know, as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to I'm going to try to start or no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to start. And man, like you put that
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  Speaker 2: out there, that usually means I got to follow through
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  Speaker 2: with it. It's like writing down your goals or saying
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do something. And Jay's that kind of guy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's going to do it. And he's got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of confidence in himself. And even in a
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  Speaker 2: short period of time, he's willing himself. into some really
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  Speaker 2: good football just because of a mindset. And that's important
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of these guys. What is your mindset?
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  Speaker 2: When you put yourself out there like that, when you
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  Speaker 2: actually say it, then a lot of things happen. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a good example of that. He never, I don't think,
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  Speaker 2: said that to me, but I love to hear those
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  Speaker 2: kind of things. And you can see it with his play.
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  Speaker 2: He's a feisty, competitive dude.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of exciting young players on the
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  Speaker 1: defense this year. Riley Pettyjohn, the linebacker, Jay Timmons, who
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier. How big of a role are those
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  Speaker 1: guys really going to play as the season moves along?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's, it's everybody. We have to figure
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  Speaker 2: out who the best guys are that give us a
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  Speaker 2: chance to win. And it doesn't matter what your age
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  Speaker 2: is or how many years you've been here. Uh, we,
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  Speaker 2: we need to get the best guys out there. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: I do think for some guys it does help when
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  Speaker 2: you've been in here more years. You know what's coming.
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  Speaker 2: You understand the expectations. You have a feel for what
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  Speaker 2: comes with a nine-game conference schedule along with a Texas
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  Speaker 2: game like that. It's 10 monster games, and then you
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  Speaker 2: get the playoff run after that. But guys like Christian
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  Speaker 2: Allegro who played in the conference, he's got a good
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  Speaker 2: feel for that already. You can just see him picking
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  Speaker 2: up steam. But guys like Riley is a good example
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  Speaker 2: of that. TJ Alford, who these guys were here last year.
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  Speaker 2: They saw it. They went through it. Now it's year two,
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  Speaker 2: so they have a reference point. And they're also picking
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  Speaker 2: up momentum. But those guys are going to be very,
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  Speaker 2: very important, along with Christian and Peyton. All four of
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  Speaker 2: those guys are going to be an important part of
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  Speaker 2: our defense, special teams, everything that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: In the wake of the Texas game, the Buckeye defense,
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of criticism about how they were
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  Speaker 1: probably a little too conservative and maybe needed to generate
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  Speaker 1: some more pressure on the quarterback. So were they kind
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  Speaker 1: of working through some different pressures and different ways to
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  Speaker 1: generate more sacks and tackles for loss and maybe even
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  Speaker 1: get a little more aggressive with the coverages there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is evolving. I think you did
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  Speaker 2: see some things on Saturday. I know different opponent, but
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  Speaker 2: it's something that we have to have as part of
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  Speaker 2: our packages. And, you know, it, it, it's something that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to continue to work on. We've got to
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  Speaker 2: identify who the best guys are to do it. And then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, which ones fit our scheme the best and then,
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  Speaker 2: and then continue to coach it. So we're committed to it,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we've got to figure out what's right
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  Speaker 2: based on the opponent. We're not just going to do
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  Speaker 2: it to do it. But to your point, when it's
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  Speaker 2: time to go win the game in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: we have to be able to go win the game
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  Speaker 2: when it's time on both sides of the ball. And that's, that's,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it's going to come down to. And, If
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  Speaker 2: that means playing zone, we'll play the zone. If that
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  Speaker 2: means playing man, then we'll play man. If that means blitzing,
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  Speaker 2: then we've got to be able to do that. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to win. But the same goes
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  Speaker 2: for the other side of the ball on offense. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to win the game in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter by running it when we need to and
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  Speaker 2: making big throws. So something that we're working on today.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a couple of things that are focused on
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  Speaker 2: that because we have to justify our coaching. And if
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  Speaker 2: we're not getting it, we've got to figure out ways
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  Speaker 2: to get it done. So all those are part of
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  Speaker 2: our conversations. All right.
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