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Ohio State vs. Notre Dame Preview: Live From South Bend · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to the campus of the University of Notre Dame. You probably recognize what's
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  on camera right now if you're watching us on YouTube, and if you're not,
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  well, uh, it's it's a rather famous mural on the side of
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  the Notre Dame Library clock. We only known as touchdown Jesus. We are
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  here at Notre Dame. I am Tom or joined by Tony Gerdeman of Buckeyeheall
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  dot Com. Tony, I am so excited to be here. I forgot
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  to start the show the way I normally do. So thank you, Tony.
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  Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Saturday, September twenty three. I'm your
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  host, Tom Moore. The Notre Dame game, Tony is today the game
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  becaus fichallyget in sixty three days. Tony, I've been here before a game
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  before. You have not What What are your first impressions of the campus of
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  Notre Dame. My first impression as we were setting up for this, I'm
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  like, are we allowed to be on the grass and then watching because we're
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  on I don't know what their version of the oval is called, but that's
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  where we are, and I know this is a small school, because in
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  the twenty minutes I've been standing here waiting to get set up, I've seen
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  like four different groups payers of students say hey, like recognize each other.
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  Like I probably went four and a half years at Ohio State walking across the
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  oval and only recognize like two or three people. So you know, that's
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  that was the two things that caught my eye. But other than that,
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  I like the uniformity of the buildings, the same breaks and all that stuff.
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  Yeah, and then anytime touchdown Jesus. For me as a it's a
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  bucket list item. I posted on Facebook for the first time like three years
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  as as an indication wait to post about the hamburger that we had. It
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  was it was good. That was at the linebacker in or the linebacker lounge,
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  depending on who you ask. Why do I say it like that,
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  Well you'll just have to watch the video a little later on and find out.
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  But yeah, this is Notre Dame is a just incredibly pretty campus.
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  It is gorgeous. In the fall leaves not I mean, you're getting a
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  little bit of a little bit of the fall leaf scenario thing going on,
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  but yeah, touching on Jesus, it's just the whole thing here. It's
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  the same sensation I had the first time I went to a game at Wrigley
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  Field or Finway Park or you know, it's just kind of like it's this
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  thing you've seen a million you know, you've seen a million times before.
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  But then it's like, oh, hey, like there's the Eiffel Tower.
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  It's the same sensation, like you know, no, there's Big Bend.
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  There's like you happen to be driving in California, It's like, that's the
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  Brady Bunch House. I need to take a picture. Let's go do a
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  live show in front of the Greedy Bunch House. That's here's a story I've
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  had that I've had that I've had that sensation so many times in my life.
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  So yes, So we're actually been talking a little bit about the football
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  game here and not just about the campus and the atmosphere. It is.
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  We we got a chance to go, well we we Kevin and I got
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  a chance to go into the stadium a little bit ago, just to give
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  you a little shoot a little behind the scenes. Look at the tunnel that
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  Notre Dame goes down, and you know you can sind of see the play
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  play like a champion to day sign here. It's just everything about this place
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  is so iconic, and you know, you get like, you get that
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  if you're a sports fan, because you watched them on Notre on NBC for
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  years and years and years. Grown up, you get it. If you've
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  seen Rudy, you get It's just it's just it's a whole bunch of like,
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  oh yeah, there's that thing. Oh yeah, there's that thing.
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  It's just everything everything here is sort of a landmark in some way or another.
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  So we walked pasts hoard we we did. Didn't he didn't he take
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  a cart past us? I didn't. I didn't notice him doesn't walk.
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  I didn't hear it. Yeah I didn't hear the cackling, So I didn't
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  even notice. But yes, so are you sure we feel guestment hard didn't
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  hear anything? Uh So, okay, here we are at Notre Dame.
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  We got to talk a little bit about the football game itself, because man,
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  it is this is a game where you know, this is a stadium
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  where you look forward to seeing a game. It's two programs. It's a
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  big name programs. Like even if they were both you know, if if
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  this is uh they're both seven and two or you know, six and three
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  or something like that. This is still like an oh kind of game,
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  like you stick, you stop flipping through channels and you see these two teams
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  played together. But this is not two seven and two six and three kind
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  of teams. These are two unbeaten teams number six Ohio State, number nine,
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  Notre Dame. You know, this is a game that I feel like
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  neither one has really played a great opponent yet and made it not if you
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  even played a really good opponent yet. So this feels like this game is
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  gonna be a really good barometer in terms of okay, contender versus pretender like
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  him pressful. As you'd talk about November separating contenders from dettenders, this might
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  be a September against Yeah, and it's gonna be obviously the biggest win for
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  either of these teams. I'll be interested that interested to see how this affects
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  their rankings. Nothing we care about rankings, but because as I've said before,
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  I think this would be the biggest best win of anybody so far this
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  season, and so it should be recognized as sex for whoever does it Notre
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  Dame. Right now, I think it's right ninth three point underdog. This
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  is uh, this is one of those women. As soon as it's scheduled,
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  you're like, I'm looking forward to being there, and so here we
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  are, and it's the game I am looking forward to. Just I hope
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  the windows are open. You're gonna be down on the field, so you're
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  gonna get to experience it. We're gonna get to watch it through press boxes.
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  It's gonna be a different experience. Yeah, it's it's definitely a different
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  experience. And it's you know, this is one of those things where everything
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  about it. You see the slashes in the end zone instead of the names,
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  like, oh, I know where we are. You hear the fights
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  on. You don't have to, you know, you hear one bar of
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  that flights on. You're like, I know what this is. The uniforms,
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  the helmets, the whole thing. It's just it's it is definitely going
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  to be an exciting experience. It is you know, yes, you'll be
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  in the press box, but you'll be inside the stadium. I mean tickets,
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  last time I look at tickets to get in price including fees were still
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  I think north of six hundred dollars or pushing six hundred dollars, So this
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  is definitely a hot ticket, you know. And one of the questions we
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  get all the time is, Okay, how many House state fans are gonna
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  be there? And generally the answer is way more than you would expect for
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  a road game. I don't know this is gonna be I mean, this
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  is such a hot pick it and you know, the Ohio State fans through
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  two weeks of the season, we're a little bit skittish about what this team
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  really looked like. This is also maybe maybe the best Notre Dame team,
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  potentially most complete Noted Dame team they've seen it in quite a while, where
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  the excitement here is legit. Yeah, somebody asked me what I thought the
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  numbers would be. I said ninety tons, because I think it's going to
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  be very difficult for a higher state fans to get into this building. Uh.
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  The where I go for most of my Ohio State information is from my
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  mother in law, and she said that she saw on the news that their
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  Notre Dame was trying to keep Ohio State fans spread out like no no Ohio
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  State section per se. Now, I can't confirm that because you may have
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  seen it in a chain email forward forward for and for and forward forward forward
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  noted Dame Ohio state tickets. That would be wise now so far today,
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  I would put it at about ninety five to five because people are still traveling,
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  We're still getting there right now. It's a very Notre Dame centric stump
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  situation going on, as you would expect, they're by the bad words.
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  Yes, there are some Scarlet Pride Buckeye fans here. The yeah we have
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  seen we started two High State fans. But yeah, this is you know,
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  four game, that's a Saturday night game. You're not expecting the High
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  State fans necessarily to show up on a Friday or Friday early afternoon. So
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  we'll definitly be keeping it on that. I'm gonna say I'll take the over
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  on ten percent High State fan I sort of I sort of reflectively at one
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  point ten like, I don't know, like thirty percent High State FANSA that
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  feels that feels high, you know, maybe more like eighty twenty. But
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  it's gonna be not be as many, I think as you're used to seeing
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  it a Hio state profile. When I was picking up the rental car,
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  Jen Ables shout out Jen. She said that she paid for I think four
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  tickets about four eighty apiece, and so she got him a little while ago
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  and she got in under the going right now. So not that she's gonna
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  sell those tickets, but I think if you can get in here under under
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  five hundred and try and I don't know what the that the prices are going
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  to be twenty minutes before kickoff, and yeah, that's that's I could never
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  I can never be that person to wait. I need to have the tickets.
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  Yeah, I always I always advise people wait until the last a minute
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  because outside of the really really really unique situations, you it almost always drops
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  at the last possible minute. If you're willing to wait a little out to
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  kickoff, we'll see if that happens. But again, we're we're in.
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  It's not that's not our problem. That's someone else's problem. Our problem is
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  to break down the game and figure out what's going to happen during this game.
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  And I guess let's start with when Notre Dame has the football, because
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  Notre Dame for the first time since Brady Quinn. Maybe I mean, you
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  want to say Ian book like I can kind of squint and go yeah.
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  But for the first time in a long time, Notre Dame has a quarterback
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  that is a okay, this is a complete quarterback who can throw it downfield,
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  he can make the right read. He's gonna be patient, you're not
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  gonna fluster him. He can run a little bit like Sam Hartman feels like
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  he's not necessarily the singular key to the game. But if you want to
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  feel good about Notre Dame, the fact that they have Sam Hartman this year
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  instead of Tyler Buckler last year, that's one big reason why. Yeah,
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  with Tyler Buckner, the ceiling for that offense is here. With Sam Hartman,
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  it's much higher, and you can't expect Sam Hartman to give you a
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  possession or two. You've got to take him now, you can't take something.
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  You know he will grow interceptions. But with the Tyler Buckler it's it's
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  only so you know, you can only go so high. It's pretty limited.
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  With Sam Hartman and the limitations go way up, and he makes everybody
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  around him better, makes the receivers better, makes the two tight ends better,
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  obviously makes the running game better. So having just that experience that we
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  talked about, Kyla Corbian, calm and cool. This guy looks like he's
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  thirty nine years old and he should be in his last legs as an NFL
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  guy. But he's exactly what Notre Dame needs right now. And you know
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  something else to Notre Dame needs. It's to be able to run the football,
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  because you're not going to do it solely with the passing gaming. It's
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  o higo state. They don't have a state secondary pretty good this year.
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  They're gonna be festive in the way they have it. But I don't you
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  know, I don't think you're necessarily going to be able to just make your
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  living throwing at Denzel Burke and Davidson ignoson all night. So they're gonna have
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  to be able to run the ball. They've gone outer estimate who is not
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  you know, he's we talked earlier the three he's linebacker times. He's five
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  to eleven and a half and two hundred and twenty seven pounds in it because
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  what he's listed at so he is pretty much steel chamber sized and he is
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  someone who is not going to be the breakaway, hit the after burners kind
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  of guy, but he might be the guy who can break that one tackle
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  and you know, get that third and fourth yard on third and three,
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  or you know, hit that hit the line on fourth, you know,
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  fourth and one and get just enough push to get across the line. And
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  he's running behind a pretty good offensive line as well, so that Notre Dame,
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  that Notre Dame run game. If Notre Dame is running for five yards
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  of carry, I think I look at that and say that's an uh oh
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  for Ohio State. And if Notre Dame is below four yards a carry,
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  I think that's gonna be pretty hard for Notre Dame to win this game.
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  Yeah, and they held him in check really well last year, but this
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  year, I don't. If you are a consistent offense, and so far
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  they have been, a seventeen yard carry is perfectly acceptable for an offense because
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  you just keep him a change moving, you've got another first down, Like,
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  they don't need to go boom boom or bust bus boom type of thing.
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  They could just churn and charn and churn and they'd be perfectly happy with
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  that. And that's what he could do. Now. He had the eighty
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  yard or two weeks ago against North Carolina State. That's not who he is
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  but if he's done it, you know, that means he could do it
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  again if you're not careful, and if you take him take him too lightly,
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  and if you do take him too lately, he's gonna play right and
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  he's someone he is not. They don't need him to go eighty yard.
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  They need him to get them into second and six, third and two,
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  where sure they could probably run for it on third and two. But also,
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  if you suck up, if you get if Josh Proker gets a little
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  too aggressive in that you can hit something, run a little play action off
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  of that, you just have to They have to be able to do both,
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  you know, get you know, you know, get you an offense.
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  It can do both basically, like, if they can run the ball
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  and pass the ball, they don't have to be they don't throwing the ball
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  thirty yards down the field all the time. They've got to be able to
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  just stay on schedule, keep the change moving, be methodical, be efficient,
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  and get down the field. Now. I think there's also I think
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  people have this this expectation based on last year's game. Okay, well,
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  High State is gonna hold Notre Dame to ten points because yeah, sure,
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  norder games offense is better, but Notre Dame's High State's defense is better,
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  so it should wash out, so it should be ten points again. And
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  Marcus Freeman talked about that a little bit at his press conference earlier in the
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  week, said they were a little bit too cautious last year and then that's
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  you know, you had a new they had a quarterback, and it's Marcus
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  Freeman's first game as a head coach, and so they didn't want to lose
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  the game on offense last year, and they didn't, but they didn't win
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  the game on offense either, Just like Ryan Day, Ryan Day talked about
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  being a little bit, you know, being having a little bit more of
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  an aggressive mentality. Marcus Freeman talked about that as well. My conclusion there
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  is you're going to have more than thirty one total points and then you know,
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  I picked Ohio State two. You know, tween twenty eight, twenty
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  seven, you know, get into the high twenties. But that's it is
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  there. You know what, how likely is it that if both teams are
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  going for it and being more aggressive, you might get more turnovers, which
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  might get more short field but you also might get more big plays. Is
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  this a game that is there a way that this game ends up forty two
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  thirty eight or something like that. I would be shocked. I think there
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  is a way because you have a bunch of skilled players, and if there
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  is a defensive touchdown here there, that's gonna excuse some things as well.
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  But I'm with you. I see it in the twenties. Maybe one team
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  you can get into the thirties. I don't expect both teams to get into
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  the thirties. I think you've got two pretty decent defenses, and they may
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  be two very good defenses. We don't really we haven't seen enough to know.
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  They haven't seen enough opponents to know. We'll know more after this one.
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  But I'm with you, it's it's into twenties. Similar all right,
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  we have a super chat we got to get to daw does notre dame release
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  and injury reports? Does notre dame release and injury report? And the answer
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  is, I don't know. It's private school. It is a private well
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  more so than a private school. It's an independent school. And Ohio State
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  releases it's kind of done it for a couple of years. They have to
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  do it this year because of the Big ten and I don't know the answer
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  to that. We get emails from oh shoot about media resources and things like
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  that. I don't recall seeing anything like that along those lines of the independence.
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  Did you see the dude walking Catholics Versus Conference is spent on the old
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  Catholics Versus Convicts shirt from the nineteen eighties, the Notre Dame Miami rivalry back
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  in the you know, nineteen eighty eight or so. Yes, I thought
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  Catholics Versus Conference was a was a tremendous t shirt. Uh yeah. So
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  we gotta tell you. We've talked about quarterbacks. We've talked about running backs.
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  We haven't talked about what do we every time there's a game? What
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  do we say? Where's the game? One? Tony front? So let's
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  talk about upfront. Notre Dame has a talented pair of tackles. Joelf especially.
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  You're gonna hear a bunch about him, and then you're gonna hear mel
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  Kiper talking about him next year. Top ten ish NFL draft prospect at left
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  tackle. The middle of the defensive line of the offensive line for Notre Dame
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  is it's okay, It's not bad. It's just not great. And when
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  you're going up against J. T. Twey malo on, Jack Sweyer on
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  the edges and Kayden Curry and Kenetta Jackson and Mitchell Melton. You know you
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  need good tackles. But if I'm going up against my Call or Tyleie Williams
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  or Tye Hamilton on the interior of that defensive line, how are you feeling
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  if you're going in with a good but not necessarily great interior offensive and interior
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  offensive line, Yeah, I don't think you're feeling great, especially with the
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  way Tylik Williams has been playing. As they watch more film on him,
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  they see him pop up, they will certainly remember my call last year and
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  realize that you're gonna story about him. But also the inside blitzes against Notre
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  Dame beneffective that we've seen in Spurts, So there's some of that being aware
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  of Tommy Eikenberg what he's doing. So I think they definitely have to be
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  concerned about that. And your tackles can hold up just fine. But if
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  the interior rush is forcing Sam Hartman into a defensive and who is being blocked
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  like Joe, I'll just gave up a sack. And I said, yeah,
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  no, I didn't I see the quarterback playing right, it was the
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  other guy. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's gonna be so interesting because it
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  feels like if Notre Dame can't run the ball inside, you can't run the
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  ball between the tackles, then you're spilling it outside and that's where you get
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  into Hey, this turns into a big game for Tommy Eikenberg, a big
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  game for steel Chambers, because that's what Jim Holes wants to do. On
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  defense. Ros Fulton talks about spill and kill all the time. Spill and
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  kill means you're not necessarily looking for your defensive lineman to make a million tackles.
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  You're looking for your interior defensive lineman to hold up not let them run
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  the ball between the tackles. Have to balance the ball outside and then the
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  kill a portion of that is and then Tommy Eichenberger is there and then he
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  takes your soul. That's the way it's drawn up. How will it work.
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  We'll see if they have trouble running between the tackles, that might be
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  a real big red flag for Notre Dame's offense in the early to middle going
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  of that game, and we will probably have a pretty good idea right away,
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  because they need to run between the tackles. They want to establish that
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  running game, and they want to assert their dominance and just set the tone
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  for this game. So Higher State is holding up there, then that's gonna
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  spell good news all over the place because that also kicks out audect estimate and
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  that's not necessarily his game. But we'll see what they do. Have some
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  decent change of pace guys that are different than estimated running back. You can
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  get Chris ti reinvolved again on sweeps and things like that. He was a
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  running back, saw him as a running back last year's now a slot receiver,
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  so he could be involved in a number of ways. Wouldn't shock me
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  if they do involve him in a number of ways, kind of like a
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  Higher State has done with Xavier Johnson, just because it's one more guy to
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  worry about. And I don't think they've done it that much this year.
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  No, they haven't. And it feels like you're going to see some stuff
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  you haven't seen out of Ohio State and Notre Dame both on Saturday. One
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  thing we saw out of Ohio State for the first time last year last week
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  was Hey, this looks like an Ohio State offense and you hadn't really seen
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  that for the first couple of weeks. Twenty three points, thirty five points,
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  sixty three points. If these trends continue, hey, I mean,
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  it's not quite a Fibonaci sequence of offense, but it's not not if Fibonaci
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  sequence of offense or Ohio State the first three weeks of the season, they're
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  obviously not getting the sixty three, But I think how far they get is
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  going to start much like Notre Dame, where's it gonna mattle? It's gonna
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  matter in the trenches. So you know, we talked about Notre Dame's offense
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  feels great about the tackles and okay about the inside if Ohio State's feeling pretty
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  good about at least the guard positions right now, and then the question is,
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  okay, the tackles and the center spot, especially the left tackle Josh
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  Simmons. It feels like if you tell me how Josh Shimmons could play.
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  Someone asked earlier in the week, you know, if you could, who
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  would who would Ohio State picked to play the best game of his career?
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  And I think the answer might be Josh Simmons. If Josh Simmons has a
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  good game, that probably is another Like, Okay, this tells me a
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  lot about how this game could go. Yeah, he's a guy who's been
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  penalized. I think maybe each game so far, and not that it's been
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  a lot of penalties, but it just pops up. But I thought he
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  played better last week than he had the previous week. So, as you
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  said, if these trends continue, I as as I said before, I
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  still think Carson Heinzman is one to watch because of he's gonna be making the
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  calls. It's gonna be loud. This is his first real road environment.
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  All due respect to Memorial Stadium leader, this is going to be the first
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  real road environment for him and it's gonna be Yes, you have three career
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  starts, this is going to be a brand new thing. And how he
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  holds up, Yeah, he and Josh Simmons, those two guys pulled up.
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  Then that's gonna be really good news for Ohio State. It's gonna be
• 19:52
  good news for staying ahead of a schedule, running the ball like those two
• 19:56
  guys played well, and everybody else's plays as they normally do. That's me
• 20:00
  Spuzzinglis date with yeah, and you know this is the you mentioned three career
• 20:06
  starts for Carson Hinsman before today or tomorrow today, I get, I get
• 20:10
  the bit of how this show works Saturday. Three career starts for Carson Hinsmen
• 20:14
  before Saturday. It'll be the fourth career fourth career starts already for Kyle McCord.
• 20:19
  And he's another one where if you tell me how Kyle McCord plays,
• 20:22
  I have a decent sense for how this game goes for Ohio State. They
• 20:26
  don't need Kyle McCord to put up Dwayne Haskins twenty eighteen numbers they need They
• 20:32
  need him to be efficient. If he's completing seventy seven percent of his passes,
• 20:37
  that's probably pretty good. If he's not turning the ball over, that's
• 20:40
  probably pretty good. He doesn't have to throw for fifteen yards per ten.
• 20:45
  If he throws four nine yards per at ten and it's completing seventy percent of
• 20:52
  his passes, that's a that's probably along the lines of what they need to
• 20:56
  win, assuming they can run the ball a little bit and we'll get it
• 21:00
  the ball in a minute. But it doesn't feel like are they gonna Are
• 21:03
  they gonna try and be cautious with Kyle McCord and not put too much on
• 21:07
  his plate in his first true, truly hostile road atmosphere start, or do
• 21:12
  they look at him and say, hey, you know, if Ryan Day
• 21:15
  wants to go for it, going forward involves Kyle McCord, let him loose.
• 21:19
  Ryan Day said they're gonna let it rip this week. So this is
• 21:23
  to me, it's just a precursor to the Michigan game. So if you
• 21:27
  don't want to be cautious in that one, don't be cautious in this week.
• 21:30
  What's the reason to be cautious. This is what he won the job.
• 21:34
  So go out there, and I understand being cautious the first game of
• 21:38
  the season that they were a year ago. He's a start trying to figure
• 21:41
  things out. You don't know what the defense is gonna do either, even
• 21:44
  though you have so much more information right now. Don't don't practice what you
• 21:48
  preach. It worked against Georgia. It wasn't the offense's fault. You know,
• 21:53
  they scored enough points to win. Generally, they scored enough to points
• 21:57
  to win, and literally every other Ohio State game ever played, they've never
• 22:00
  never lost when scoring that many points before. So, but I will say
• 22:04
  if Kylo Court is throwing for like four hundred and sixty yards, that's a
• 22:07
  bad thing. That's a catchup type of thing, yes, or perhaps a
• 22:11
  Utah type of thing, which I'm not expecting that, But if he's throwing
• 22:14
  for it, I view like a four hundred yards four hundred fifty yards like
• 22:18
  CJ. Strowt against Oregon in twenty twenty one, where you can't do anything
• 22:21
  else and you've got a catch up, and that's me would be a pig
• 22:25
  numbers bad news. Yeah you might. It sounds so backwards to say,
• 22:30
  but you would rather almost if you're an Ohio State fan, see him throw
• 22:33
  for two hundred and thirty yards and four hundred and sixty yards, because four
• 22:36
  hundred and sixty yards paints a very specific picture of the kind of game it.
• 22:40
  Maybe it turns into a crazy shootout and like both teams blast through the
• 22:44
  over under number by themselves. I don't expect that to happen. I'm expecting
• 22:49
  a game in the high twenties, low thirties, and if you're in the
• 22:52
  high twenties, low thirties and you're thrown four hundred and sixty yards. You're
• 22:57
  behind and you're not converting in the red zone and you're probably turning the ball
• 23:02
  over or you have seven eighty yard completions, which is that would get you
• 23:07
  to five hundred and sixty. But yes, you go, there's some losses
• 23:10
  on the screenplay. Oh yeah, sorry, that's that's what's understood. That's
• 23:12
  my fault. Strongly implied there. Something that is strongly implied is Marvin Harrison
• 23:18
  is probably going to get the ball a bunch and Mecca Buka is probably gonna
• 23:22
  get the ball a bunch. Whatever commic coord it's passing yard. It showed
• 23:23
  was I'm expecting those two guys to have a decent chunk of it. If
• 23:30
  your Notre dame, do you look at those guys and say, we're gonna
• 23:33
  take those guys away, And you know, Kid Stover and Julian Fleming and
• 23:37
  Carnel Tate and Xavier Johnson and the running game have to beat us. We're
• 23:41
  not going to let these two guys beat us. You got to do it
• 23:45
  the different difficult, the more difficult way. Well, then then you run
• 23:48
  the ball. Then you you know, you look at the numbers. That's
• 23:51
  the RPO stuff where if the numbers dictator run, you hand it off and
• 23:55
  you go get five six forty five yards and if they want to go ahead,
• 24:00
  and if you want to, I don't know how you double team both
• 24:03
  of them, you know, But if you want to focus on those two,
• 24:06
  there are three other guys that could be involved in this game. And
• 24:10
  right now, I think the over undered, caged over receiving yards is like
• 24:12
  twenty six and a half or twenty seven and a half over. That's what
• 24:15
  I'm thinking in this one because what two games ago or he didn't he didn't
• 24:19
  catch a single pass. But if you allow things to open up and if
• 24:23
  you're worried about the receivers, which you should be, I feel like he's
• 24:26
  going to have a decent forty fifty sixty seventy yards in this room. It
• 24:30
  feels like they were looking at him a lot in those kind of closer,
• 24:33
  more competitive games last year where he had a huge game against Wisconsin. I
• 24:37
  know they targeted him a bunch against Michigan and the a couple that he wasn't
• 24:41
  able to bring in. Mike Scene was still made a really nice playing one
• 24:44
  of them. But they tend to look for him in those big moments.
• 24:45
  So yeah, I would expect him to play a decent sized role in this
• 24:48
  thing. The run game for all Higher State kind of the last thing we
• 24:52
  got to talk about unless we want to go deep on special teams. But
• 24:56
  and if you have questions, please feel free to leave those in the comm
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  Actually hit that thumbs up button for us as well. That will That is
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  a nice little thing you can do for us that helps other folks find these
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  shows. So the run game for Ohio State a lot of it hinges on
• 25:10
  the stuff we talked about earlier with the offensive line and what does that look
• 25:12
  like? Is this a is this a Travon Henderson game? Is this a
• 25:18
  chip training game? Is this a Mine Williams game? They have a whole
• 25:21
  menu of running backs they can choose from, and it's like which one fits
• 25:25
  this particular scenario. You know, one of my bullet predictions was that Travon
• 25:29
  Henderson essentially has a pretty good day. But I don't I'm gonna be surprised
• 25:33
  if I see because it's been so long since we've seen him have a big
• 25:37
  game against a big opponent, and frankly, it's been a while since we've
• 25:40
  had seen any Ohio State running back have a big game against a big opponent,
• 25:44
  So I if it's it feels like this is a chip or maybe mine
• 25:48
  comes out of the bullpen and I feel bad almost because Travia and Henderson has
• 25:53
  been fantastic this season. But I'm to the point where I still I still
• 25:56
  want to see it against a real, live, physical opponent, and not
• 26:02
  that he can't do it. I just want to see it because we all
• 26:04
  know it's there. He's made some he's made some dudes miss, he's run
• 26:08
  with power, he's feeling as better as as good as he's ever felt better.
• 26:12
  Perhaps everybody's thrilled. Don't think Ryan Day can't talk about him enough,
• 26:17
  So there's every reason to think that he's going to be good enough. But
• 26:22
  at this point I want to see it before I'm going to back to go
• 26:26
  for you know, one hundred twenty yards like his over under I think is
• 26:30
  like sixty six and a half yards or sixty three and a half yards.
• 26:32
  Yeah, I don't. I'm not comfortable touch enough. Yeah he's I mean,
• 26:34
  last year he was hurt for so much of the year, and then
• 26:37
  this year they've been splitting carry so many ways that he hasn't had the twenty
• 26:41
  carries you would need to get to one hundred and fifty yards. You know,
• 26:44
  that's just he's not gonna you know, he's not gonna have a sixteen
• 26:47
  yards of carry. So if he's got hitting twelve carries a game, well,
• 26:51
  there's only so high that number goes. He's been really good this year,
• 26:53
  but the top line numbers haven't been just you know, just in terms
• 26:57
  of pure yardage just hasn't really wow. But again, if you're getting twelve
• 27:02
  fourteen carries a game, it's not going to vow you. So yeah,
• 27:06
  well I'm expecting him to get the bulk of the carries on Saturday. How
• 27:12
  he does might be one of the great You know, what is Traven Henderson's
• 27:17
  yardage and yards per carry? Like, what is he what are his numbers?
• 27:18
  Because if you know, if he's at one hundred and if he's at
• 27:22
  one hundred and fifty yards, they are almost certainly winning this game. Yeah,
• 27:26
  and if he's at one hundred, what is the biggest chunk on one
• 27:29
  play and there's at a forty or fifty yard or something like that, because
• 27:32
  I don't know if there are seventeen carries in this game for him, I
• 27:34
  think he has thirty on the year thereabouts and twelve has been his high water
• 27:40
  mark. And they obviously want to get other guys involved in They're certainly gonna
• 27:44
  want to get Chip involved because of his physicality in fact that he is also
• 27:48
  a two hundred and thirty pound guy and can bring them something different and again
• 27:52
  set the tone, maybe make that offensive line a little bit more physical,
• 27:55
  and maybe they walk a little bit more physically with him. So I know,
• 27:59
  I just don't know how many carries their art and go. Right,
• 28:03
  Just watch a Notre Dame student walk by in a Yankees jersey. Who do
• 28:07
  you think his favorite Cowboys player is? H Old? So? Is this
• 28:14
  is this we're talking about this as a close game? Is this a game
• 28:18
  that comes down to field goal kicking? I mean Notre Dame's kicker. We
• 28:22
  watch We watched the North Carolina State game earlier in the week for a kind
• 28:25
  of rewatch recap kind of show, and he hit a what forty two year
• 28:30
  fifty two yard or fifty four yarder and then drinked one from fifty six that
• 28:33
  was like two thirds of the way up the upright. That was that was
• 28:37
  a wow, like this guy could they could potentially try him out for one
• 28:42
  at midfield or even a yard or two behind, and it wouldn't be like
• 28:45
  this is a terrible idea, like a clearly terrible idea. They don't want
• 28:49
  to do that, but you know that might be a desperate times call for
• 28:52
  desperate measures, so down too and it's uh, you know there's three seconds
• 28:56
  last and that wouldn't be completely insane. We OHI a state. Jaden Fielding
• 29:03
  has not had to make any kind of real pressure kicks yet this year.
• 29:07
  Is there is there a team that you think has a clear advantage of special
• 29:11
  teams or is that just one more thing you can sort of throw in the
• 29:14
  pile of, like, yeah, this might be a close game. Well,
• 29:15
  I think notre Name with their kicking advantage. I do view that as
• 29:19
  an advantage because he has made long once he has been involved in that,
• 29:23
  Jaden Fielding, this is just to be his fourth game kicking placements basically,
• 29:30
  so, and it's going to be a very different environment because one kicker has
• 29:33
  kicked here before the other one has. So yeah, I like none of
• 29:37
  the Dame's advantage there. One thing I noticed when I was inside the stadium
• 29:38
  earlier. I had forgotten they went to turf here. I always think of
• 29:41
  this as a natural grass field. It was for a long long time.
• 29:45
  Now it's turf. So you still see those little slash lines in the end
• 29:48
  zone and it looks exactly the same as always has. But it is a
• 29:52
  turf field now, so and it clear. You know, the weather is
• 29:53
  supposed to be perfectly fine, no rain in the forecast. Last night's aw
• 29:57
  not getting a million degree. He's not gonna be thirty degrees. He should
• 30:00
  you know, whether should not be a factor? Field condition shouldn't be a
• 30:03
  factor? Kevin, do we want to go through some viewer questions? Dragon,
• 30:11
  who has a bigger impact on the game? Henderson? Jack or JT.
• 30:14
  Tolout? Okay, so, who has a bigger impact in the game?
• 30:17
  Travion Henderson, Jack Sawyer or JT. Twe molo Out. I thought
• 30:21
  Jack, sorry, may have played his best game last week, So I
• 30:23
  would say, whoever is facing the right tackle, and if that's Travion Henderson,
• 30:29
  done him? Yeah? Typically last last week? I think, uh,
• 30:34
  And I think most weeks this year you've seen J. T. Twey
• 30:38
  molo al going up against the left tackle and Jack sorry going against the right
• 30:41
  tackles. So that's uh, you know. I mean I think if you
• 30:47
  tell me one of them, if you tell Ryan Day, one of these
• 30:49
  players is going to have a really good game. I think he's choosing Trayvon
• 30:53
  Henderson. Although you know, we saw a JT twee molo a game at
• 30:57
  Penn State last year where he didn't win the game single handedly, but he
• 31:02
  also did not win the game single handedly. Yeah he covered single handed.
• 31:06
  Yeah he sure did. He sure did. Super chat, super chat,
• 31:08
  Ryan does? Who would you pick the habit JT versus PSC game? All
• 31:14
  Right, there you go, smooth transition. Our viewers are better producing the
• 31:18
  show than Kevin there. I mean Tony was thinking it. I just I
• 31:21
  just he didn't want to say it. What do you keep pointing at me
• 31:23
  when you want to said it? Well, you were, you had said
• 31:26
  it earlier, and I just didn't want to have it be behind Kevin's back
• 31:29
  and make it awkward anybody anyway, So can can can you pick JT TWI
• 31:37
  Molow out to have a JT TWI Molow versus Penn saga? I don't know
• 31:40
  that I'm expecting that going up against the Notre Dame tackles. What about or
• 31:45
  can you think somebody do have a JT. Barrett against Penn State game?
• 31:48
  Well? Is there is there is there a second JT on this team?
• 31:52
  Yeah? Yeah. If comcord has a JT. Barrett game against you know,
• 31:59
  and this one, that would be pretty fascinating to watch his rise to
• 32:02
  McCord as the quarterback at Ohio State, which since Ryan Day has been here
• 32:07
  has been well since every Meyer has been here has been elevated, and of
• 32:10
  course Troy Smith winning hisman before those guys were over here. But we kind
• 32:15
  of McCord is he's under the radar right now. I think some sort of
• 32:20
  a performance, a Ron Powlis esque performance here would lift his name among the
• 32:28
  rafters the other three time Heisman winners. And you know, I'm not I'm
• 32:34
  not expecting that, but I mean, no one's expecting that. If you
• 32:36
  look at the look at the discourse online the I saw and I have no
• 32:42
  idea, I did not see this from an official source, but it was
• 32:44
  like eighty five percent of the bets coming in or coming in on Notre Dame
• 32:46
  and the vast majority of National predictions, you know, National College football writer
• 32:52
  predictions coming in on Notre Dame, and a lot of that is, well,
• 32:57
  they have a proving quarterback in Ohio State, doesn't. The narrative around
• 33:00
  kymccord is going to change quite a bit depending on how this game goes,
• 33:07
  because this is you know, we talk all the time about September Higsman winners.
• 33:10
  You know, if you put up a big game in this game and
• 33:14
  then you continue, then you're not just a September Highman winning. You might
• 33:16
  be Oisland winner. Yeah, for sure. I also think there's a narrative
• 33:22
  about Ohio State based on what is happening against Michigan. So they're seeing hire
• 33:25
  State is not a physical opponent. Notre Dame is a seen as a physical
• 33:30
  opponent because they have a running game and they run the ball, so they
• 33:34
  are seen as having that kind of advantage. If Ohio State loses this game,
• 33:38
  that narrative will only get louder and continue and get wider. If Ohio
• 33:43
  State wins this one, it won't go away because it'll be like, well
• 33:45
  that's just what Notre Dame does. The better Dame doesn't win these games,
• 33:47
  so it's almost it's it's a no win situation. For a higher state.
• 33:52
  But they're gladly that the narrative continue quickly within And just to get back real
• 33:54
  quick to Ryan's question, And if you're looking at someone on defense to have
• 33:59
  the JT. Tweeen molo of versus Penn State type game, maybe Mike Call.
• 34:04
  Like you've seen the flashes from him over the years. I don't think
• 34:08
  you're going up against this like immovable object in the middle of that notre name
• 34:12
  offensive line. You can't double everyone. And if he can kind of bottle
• 34:16
  stuff up on the inside and get Sam Donald, you know, pressure,
• 34:21
  I've not Sam Donald. Goodness, Marcus Hartman. I was just not Marcus
• 34:24
  Harman either. Sam Hartman Goodness, I got there eventually. I'm about to
• 34:29
  be out with mono nucleos would in definitely mono nucleosis. Goodness. That was
• 34:32
  That was quite a sequence. Uh, it was. Yeah, if he
• 34:36
  can get in there and pressure Sam Hartman Man, that would kind of a
• 34:42
  mess. That would be a you know, that would be a game changer,
• 34:46
  even if it doesn't trump any sex column, which is Larry Johnson thing.
• 34:51
  If you're getting him off as if you're getting him off platform, you're
• 34:53
  disrupting time and you're getting the running that you know, you're bottling up the
• 34:57
  inter your running game. You can have a JT. Twee Gate dream rollo
• 35:00
  while versus Penn State pipe game without necessarily having that stat line. You could
• 35:05
  have no tackles and four quarterback hurries and you will be the defensive player of
• 35:08
  the game. That certain thing where the offensive line feels you. Every time
• 35:13
  you win your reps, you cause problems and if it doesn't lead to us,
• 35:16
  that it doesn't lead to us that as long as it leads to an
• 35:19
  incompletion. That's that's what they were, all right, Kevin, what else
• 35:22
  we got? Get back to the questions, Wingman ten sol Plack seems to
• 35:28
  think that whoever gonna have the bigger defensive line presence is going to be the
• 35:30
  victor. Do you think that the d line will be that crucial or just
• 35:35
  another of many factors in a big game? So, basically, is the
• 35:37
  defensive line the single deciding factor in the game. If so, don't you
• 35:43
  like our High State's chances? The defensive line is going up against the offensive
• 35:49
  line. So if it's purely defensive line in a vacuum, I take a
• 35:52
  High States defensive line in the purely in a vacuum. I take no Dames
• 35:55
  offensive line, So I think this is a strength on strength kind of thing,
• 35:59
  and I think I think that I think the battle in the trenches is
• 36:05
  pretty close, which is one of the reasons I'm thinking the game is going
• 36:07
  to be pretty close as well. You know, I think he's right in
• 36:10
  that if one of the defensive lines has a dominant game and the other one
• 36:16
  doesn't, that probably decides the game. I just I don't know that I'm
• 36:22
  expecting it, but if it happens, then that's who wins. Well.
• 36:25
  And it's interesting because I think Notre Dame's offensive line is too good to be
• 36:29
  dominated and Ohio State's skill is good enough to overcome some struggles on the offensive
• 36:36
  line, So it feels like I'm like, it's kind of a wash with
• 36:40
  those two areas. But I guess that's why if one does end up superteating
• 36:45
  the other, then yeah, go with that one. When Ohio State fans
• 36:51
  think back to Javonte Jean Baptiste's days at Ohio State and when he was on
• 36:54
  the field, there's some frustration. So he's their starting defensive if they're starting
• 37:00
  defensive ends and all, would you be shocked if this is his best game?
• 37:07
  Because I also I wouldn't be shocking to his best game. I would
• 37:09
  be shocked if we don't hear from him. Yeah, he had five tackles.
• 37:14
  I think it was last week. So he's been you know, he's
• 37:15
  a starter, and that's you know, he's been impactful for them. But
• 37:21
  you know this is this is like when your old backup quarterback goes somewhere and
• 37:24
  then you play that team and it's like, well, you weren't You didn't
• 37:30
  start here, so are you know? And I have not watched every single
• 37:35
  noted name game this year, and I didn't notice him a ton during the
• 37:39
  North Carolina State game. Rewatch, we did. But you know, he's
• 37:43
  been, he's been on the field. No, I mean I looked at
• 37:45
  the statute for a last week's game against Central Michigan and they, you know,
• 37:51
  in five tackles, Like that's okay, but that's not dominant. I
• 37:52
  would be you know, I would be surprised if he had a two sack
• 37:58
  kind of game. But you know, I'm expecting to hear his name hold
• 38:02
  in something other than a you know, Harry here is a fun fact kind
• 38:06
  of situation because his big performances were usually against Well, yeah, he would
• 38:12
  as a New Jersey native, he and Tyler Friday would start against Rutgers and
• 38:15
  you get big, big tackle numbers for them against Ruckers because you're a New
• 38:17
  Jersey native and you can do that. You can you can honor the home
• 38:21
  state guy when you're playing Rutgers because it's Rutgers. You're not honoring the home
• 38:24
  state guy when you're playing Notre Dame or Ohio State because it's a much bigger
• 38:30
  platform. Maybe Cayden Curry starts. Maybe you know, I would not be
• 38:36
  if I tell you right now, either Kayden Curry or Jante Jean Baptiste has
• 38:40
  more tackles for loss and or sacks than the other guy. Which one are
• 38:44
  you pitching? Yeah, and he's gonna be coming off of the bench.
• 38:47
  He's gonna be fur of the rotation class wing butterfly with a fun one.
• 38:52
  What was the best song y'all heard on the drive over? Any one sing
• 38:55
  along? What was the best song we heard on the drive over? And
• 39:00
  did anyone sing along? The only thing I remember from the radio was a
• 39:05
  guest on a radio show. We were listening to a new streaming very loudly
• 39:08
  in the backseat. Uh. And then the Timmy Trumpets song coming on at
• 39:14
  the restaurant where we did our hungry Hungry huddle segment up for a munch,
• 39:19
  and Kevin basically screaming very loudly, do you have a Did you have a
• 39:22
  favorite song? On the way over? No, because I don't like Kevin's
• 39:24
  music and he had control. He had the opscord as the kids sing.
• 39:28
  It was just the White Winged Dove song on repeat one the whole way over,
• 39:31
  which I mean, we all listen. Is it some new music is
• 39:35
  a subjective thing. I'm just kidding. I like so of Kevin's music mostly
• 39:38
  is his own stuff. You got one from Mike mccambler. Oh yeah,
• 39:45
  how does it feel to be had a one percent campus? And then in
• 39:47
  the world, I guess he meets top lopers and campus in the world.
• 39:51
  Can't you smell the well? Go drop your platinum AMEX on the counter at
• 39:54
  the Notre Dame bookstore. Best campus ever? Did a platinum m X?
• 39:59
  Does he I have a black card? Couldn't be. I thought you were
• 40:01
  a Notre Dame fan. Yes, And we said earlier, this is Notre
• 40:06
  Dame is a lovely campus. I've been here before, Tony has not,
• 40:07
  but it is. It is a fantastic campus. You know, iconic stuff
• 40:13
  all over the place, and you know, a great school too. You
• 40:17
  know. You look around and certainly I see nothing but on subway alums around
• 40:24
  walking around. It is. It's pretty nice. It's now that Michael is
• 40:29
  here. It's like any other campus. Frankly, buildings, this could be
• 40:31
  anywhere. This could be otter Bund also a private school of iron call top
• 40:37
  one percent. Not to brag, John Alexander, I really don't care about
• 40:42
  predictions, and I don't care if we three to two, as long as
• 40:44
  we win and keep this juggernaut rolling. John Alexander does not careful High of
• 40:49
  State and Notre Dame. Reenact the famous Auburn Mississippi State grade to two game
• 40:52
  that was that just was a day in history, a couple of tall years
• 40:58
  ago, maybe a week ago, and that was like shockingly long ago.
• 41:00
  I think that was like two thousand and four, and I kind of went,
• 41:02
  oh, that's one of those like oh, we're getting old. Yeah,
• 41:07
  this is this is win baby game. If they win seventeen, they're
• 41:14
  gonna be happy. If they win fifty six fifty two, they're gonna be
• 41:16
  happy. They would much rather win three to two than lose fifty six fifty
• 41:22
  two with both offenses coming out to let it rip. How how frustrating?
• 41:28
  How much of a slap fight would this look like? If they're both letting
• 41:30
  it rip and it's only three to two, like just in completion after incompletion,
• 41:35
  fumble after fumble, would that really be a good thing to him?
• 41:37
  The news that came out this week about Ryan Day's new pay structure, people
• 41:43
  didn't stand far enough down in the contract to see. He also does have
• 41:45
  to score twenty five points a game, so he I'm sure he's I'm sure
• 41:49
  he can be aiming pretty high for that. Next up, super Chat,
• 41:52
  Mike Karino, do you remember how many total career receptions every tight end and
• 41:57
  wide receiver other than JSN entering the Indie game last year? So the total
• 42:02
  number of receptions for every Ohio state receiver minus Jackson's for the JAGBA last year,
• 42:07
  and remind me, I want to talk about Jacksons for the JIGBA in
• 42:10
  a minute, every Ohio state wide receiver and tight end had coming into that
• 42:14
  game last year, excluding Jackson Smith and Jagba. I feel like the number
• 42:19
  was it was really low. Look, you think Marvin Harrison had a huge
• 42:22
  year and he didn't. I think it was in the twenties. I think
• 42:23
  a mecca I was Marvin was something like that, and I think it was.
• 42:31
  I think it was in the twenties or maybe low thirties. Do we
• 42:36
  do we know the answer? Oh? Well, you know or do we
• 42:42
  know? There's no way to know. There's no way to know. You
• 42:45
  have better access to the internet right now than we probably do, so you
• 42:47
  may be able to answer that one faster than us. But it was not.
• 42:50
  It was not many. And you know what, I wanted to talk
• 42:52
  a little bit about Jacksons and the Jigba because that's something we haven't really talked
• 42:54
  about it in the context of last year's game, where it's not it's not
• 43:00
  quite Ted Gain in the Florida National Championship game. But that was a guy
• 43:04
  who was very obviously going to be the centerpiece or one of the centerpieces of
• 43:07
  that offense and the offensive game plan for that game, either in terms of
• 43:10
  him catching a million passes or him drawing a ton of attention and opening things
• 43:15
  up for other guys. And then he goes down in the first quarter on
• 43:17
  that that hit where he just falls so strangely and then screws up his hamstring
• 43:22
  and then that was basically the end of his Ohio State career. You know,
• 43:25
  Ohio State scored twenty one points against Notre Dame last year and you know
• 43:30
  a goal they had c J. Stroud and WI scored twenty one points,
• 43:31
  and so how are they going to possibly score more from that this year?
• 43:35
  You know, if Marvin Harrison goes down in the first quarter of this game,
• 43:38
  well that's gonna change things quite a bit. That changings quite a bit
• 43:42
  last year as well, And you know, I think that's context that has
• 43:45
  sort of gotten forgotten a little bit in the conversation about last year's game as
• 43:50
  compared to this year's game. Yeah, because he was talking with Ryan afterwards,
• 43:52
  he said, yeah, there was a big plan for Jackson's what to
• 43:55
  take, but that was gone. And then talking with the meccabuca afterwards just
• 43:59
  about the difficulty for going being an outside receiver, so now I'm going to
• 44:04
  be basically fault time inside receiver and the difficulty of just that that kind of
• 44:07
  switch. Yeah, everybody knows all of the positions, but it's still and
• 44:12
  there's a period of just getting accustomed to that kind of defender, and so
• 44:16
  that that entire game was kind of almost a lost game for the passenger of
• 44:22
  things well, and it turned into a little bit of a trestle ball game
• 44:24
  in some ways too, where they got they were down ten seven at half,
• 44:30
  Xavier Johnson scores a touchdown in the third quarter. They score again in
• 44:32
  the fourth quarter, and it was kind of like, well, you're up
• 44:37
  eleven points and you're at the Notre Dame hasn't scored in like thirty minutes of
• 44:40
  game time, so just don't do anything stupid and you'll be fine. And
• 44:45
  so, you know, I think it's going to be a much more aggressive
• 44:49
  approach if you've got all your your players. That makes a big difference as
• 44:52
  well. All right, next question, tad Rick, Who's the bigger impact
• 44:59
  was made? He's got or Pike Stover bigger impact this game? Gie Scott
• 45:02
  or Kid Stover. Now you picks g Scott to score a touchdown in the
• 45:07
  Flow Prediction show, which is extremely bold, which is I know people at
• 45:10
  home are like picking their jaws off off the floor, but this is the
• 45:15
  kind of game I think. I think the answer is Kid Stover priv has
• 45:17
  a bigger impact overall. But this is exactly the kind of game where you
• 45:22
  break all your tendencies and you know you leak, you know your roll right,
• 45:28
  and you leak Gie Scot out the backside of the formation and no one's
• 45:30
  covering him in a touchdow one catch for three yards. It's a textdown.
• 45:32
  I think Kate Stover has the larger impact in this one because he's he's just
• 45:37
  been an effective weapon for them in the past. The game, he's gonna
• 45:40
  be on the field more, so I expect it to be used more and
• 45:45
  the opportunity to use some more they'll be there. So I'd go with Kate
• 45:46
  Stover. Super chan from Mikeperino with an answer to the person Superchang. It
• 45:52
  was thirty one eleven nine, five for Stover and five for g one for
• 45:58
  Ballard in zero ex leming without so all right, it's pretty good. I
• 46:01
  was. I was in the neighborhood. I think I said twenties or low
• 46:04
  thirties, So yeah, I was. And that's you know, that was
• 46:07
  a team that came in with you know, everyone looks at Marvin Harrison now
• 46:09
  as proven veteran future Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison, he went into the Rose
• 46:15
  Ball right before that with like five catches and then had six catches and three
• 46:17
  touchdowns and the Rose Bowl and then everyone went, oh, this guy's pretty
• 46:21
  good. But he still came in with only like eleven touches of the previous
• 46:22
  year and in Mecca with nine, like he said, and yeah, I
• 46:27
  mean that is a you know, the Ohio State this year has a much
• 46:30
  more proven skill set in terms of or you know, track record in terms
• 46:35
  of skill players than they did a year ago. Yeah, for sure.
• 46:37
  And if one guy goes down, there are other guys more experienced to turn
• 46:43
  to. You know, we saw what happened when they lost Marvin last year,
• 46:45
  so you don't want to put that into the third but they have a
• 46:49
  number of guys and you could throw Carnal Tay in there as well. Yep,
• 46:53
  wee el Suzabo here. If we don't shut down estimate, it's been
• 46:59
  to me a long day. Yeahs with a great point there. If they
• 47:02
  don't shoot shut down an under estimated running back and he's winning a long day,
• 47:06
  because that's what Notre Dame runs its offense. Their offense runs through,
• 47:09
  run the ball and then throw play action or RPOs off of that. Yeah,
• 47:14
  no's he's the key. I think if you hold him to what they
• 47:16
  did last year and maybe thirty seven yards if he has half of his average.
• 47:22
  So if you keep him at like sixty five and it's twenty for sixty
• 47:25
  five something like that, if he's under four and a half yards per carry,
• 47:28
  under four yards per carry, I think you feel really good about your
• 47:31
  chances. It's it's with if he's got like thirty carries for like ninety yards,
• 47:37
  like that's not great, but they're still establishing something because they have there.
• 47:42
  They have they're continuing to carry the ball. So you've got to stop
• 47:45
  him first down, stop him second down. Just don't let them get into
• 47:47
  a third and three, third and four where they feel good about what they
• 47:52
  could do. They could do either run or pass, and and they'll run
• 47:55
  for short yardage with estimate because he is that kind of guy. And I
• 48:00
  think there's a lot more paths to victory for Ohio State. If Trabe and
• 48:04
  Henderson has fifty five sixty yards, then there are for Notre Dame if estimates
• 48:07
  fifty five sixty yards because there's a lot of other guys would run to the
• 48:10
  ball for Ohio State. Ohio State probably is much more comfortable throwing the ball
• 48:14
  without having a ton of running games. And you know, there's a way
• 48:17
  that that Ohio State's running game is kind of limited and they can still move
• 48:22
  the ball up and down the field if Notre Dame. Notre Dame is running
• 48:24
  game is limited, You're really it's going to be a much bigger uphill climb
• 48:29
  from the day winning take guys. You see many Osa colors, they're supposedly
• 48:35
  empty and putting out all the ticket and now on Buckeye fans. So yeah,
• 48:38
  we still high Steve. We talked about us a little earlier, but
• 48:43
  yeah, it's a we're seeing Ohio State fans. I mean, I'm looking
• 48:45
  over right now when there's some Ohio State fans over the touchdown Jesus Mural is
• 48:51
  right there, and I'm looking over at kind of their version of the oval.
• 48:53
  I guess the quad here Ohio State fans kind of walking through. But
• 48:58
  we're not really going to know until day of the game because they're probably a
• 49:00
  lot of Ohio State fans still at work and then they'll get in the car
• 49:02
  and drive over tonight. It's this is the ticket price has not come down
• 49:08
  here, so the demand is still incredibly high. That typically does not lead
• 49:14
  to a lot of visiting fans getting tickets because this was not one that went
• 49:17
  on public sale and just anyone could swoop in and get it. So if
• 49:21
  ticket prices are still high, demand is still high, that really limits the
• 49:24
  number of visiting fans who can get in because you know, when in doubt,
• 49:28
  you're either going to sell your tickets or you're going to go yourself.
• 49:30
  This is not when where tickets are going unused. So I think Tony said
• 49:32
  earlier ten percent Ohio State fans. I think it might be closer to twenty
• 49:36
  percent, but I don't I'm not expecting you know, the normal sort of
• 49:40
  Ohio State playing somewhere in the state of Indiana, like sixty forty kind of
• 49:44
  distribute. Yeah, then we've got some Ohio State fans. I'm out ready
• 49:46
  to walk by. Talking about Jenna Avis. She got hers for like four
• 49:51
  eighty apiece the seats behind here and we're going for two greend. Yeah,
• 49:53
  I mean that's in the end zone. Yeah, that's it is. It
• 49:57
  is a very tough ticket. And you know the question is also sometimes you'll
• 50:00
  have people come over and drive over. Well, I've got the hotel anyway,
• 50:05
  I'll drive over. I'll do the game day experience. I'll see if
• 50:07
  I can get the you know, see if I can buy tickets day of
• 50:09
  the game and get in, and if not, I'll just go back to
• 50:12
  the hotel. We'll go to a bar or whatever and watch it there.
• 50:14
  So you'll have people doing that, but again that sort of narrows your pool
• 50:16
  because there are people who will just there are people who are willing to do
• 50:20
  that, and if people who are not willing to do that, and that
• 50:21
  sort of narrows your potential ticket pool as well. I got a question via
• 50:25
  direct message on x grown carry Twitter Prtman's completion percentage dropped to sixty one point
• 50:32
  five percent against Central Michigan against versus eighty two point five against Navy. Surely
• 50:38
  our defense is much better than Central Michigan. So sixty one percent completion percentage
• 50:44
  againt Central Michigan for Sam Hartman, and he was right in that sixty or
• 50:46
  sixty two percent completion percentage against North Carolina State as well. I did not
• 50:51
  go back and watching the Central Michigan game because that's one of those like what
• 50:54
  am I going to learn from this? I? You know, yes,
• 50:58
  the Ohio State defense is bad than the Central Michigan defense. I'm guessing that
• 51:02
  Notre Dame has saved some stuff for Ohio State. They didn't feel they need
• 51:06
  to burn through against Central Michigan or North Carolina State or Tennessee State or Navy.
• 51:12
  You know, Navy is Navy is like bad bad this year. So
• 51:15
  I draw almost nothing out of that. I draw almost nothing out of the
• 51:17
  Tennessee State game Tennessee State. I looked up on one of the Saurin Sagurin
• 51:24
  ratings this week and Tennessee State is as far behind Youngstown State as Youngstown State
• 51:30
  is behind North Carolina State. So yeah, it is. There's a big
• 51:35
  gap between what Ohio State played a couple, you know, in terms of
• 51:37
  SCS team and what Notre Dame did. See the chat from the Treasure of
• 51:42
  the Toora, just showing love to my brothers Kevin, Tom and Tony.
• 51:45
  Enjoy the atmosphere and the game, brother and respect. Let's get the big
• 51:52
  win. As always, Treasure for your support of the show. We always
• 51:57
  appreciate it appreciate all you guys. We love having a lot of familiar names
• 52:00
  and the questions and the chat every week. It's always fun to get to
• 52:04
  interact with you guys. But yeah, no, this is this is a
• 52:07
  great a great atmosphere. I mean, it's this is you know, it
• 52:10
  is already their ESPN is already broadcasting live from from campus. Have been since
• 52:15
  uh noon or one o'clock or so today, So yeah, it is.
• 52:19
  It already kind of feels a little bit like a game day here. The
• 52:22
  Leprica is running around. Yeah, yeah, there's and you know, I
• 52:25
  mean there are still people walking around with backpacks, which like, what are
• 52:30
  we doing here? But yeah, that's okay, that's fine. Get your
• 52:31
  education, that's cool. It's fine. That's that's like how I put you
• 52:37
  guys in the sun. Yeah, maybe here we go. One from Chris
• 52:44
  and Ashley. I'll be surprised if Ohio State ult More Dame below twenty three.
• 52:49
  How does Vincent compared to Michigan's the past two seasons? So how does
• 52:53
  Notre Dame's team compare to Michigan's the last two seasons? I don't think the
• 52:57
  offensive line is quite as good Michigan Michigan has one Joe Moore Award is the
• 53:00
  best nation's best offensive one the last two years. The tackles are up there.
• 53:04
  The interior, okay, quarterback, you know, it's not it's a
• 53:08
  little bit of a different kind of quarterback, but it's you know, comparable.
• 53:12
  The wide receiver talent is probably I give Michigan a little bit of an
• 53:17
  edge. Running back, I probably give Michigan a little bit of an edge.
• 53:21
  I mean disagree with any of that. You know. I compared the
• 53:23
  fighting Irish receivers to what we saw against Michigan, and that there's no like
• 53:29
  star. They're They're good and good enough as we saw last year against Ohio
• 53:34
  State. The quarterback like Sam Hartman is, He's not Kade mcnamarry, he's
• 53:38
  not Jaj McCarthy, and both of those guys have had success. I think
• 53:44
  I think there are some similarities. I just think it's it's also different because
• 53:47
  it's not Michigan, and it's not the kind of level of need to win,
• 53:54
  Like, yes, this is an important game, but it doesn't define
• 53:59
  your season. You can still lose this by a hundred and go beat Michigan
• 54:02
  by two and good. Yeah. Yeah, Well if you lose this.
• 54:07
  If you lose this game and then you go run the table in the Big
• 54:08
  Ten, you're still going to say the college football playoff. Last year it
• 54:13
  worked out for them to get to the playoff losing to Michigan. That is
• 54:15
  not some Egan bank on the year. Sorry, I'm for lol go Bucks.
• 54:22
  Thank you for the super chat, Steve. We appreciate it. All.
• 54:24
  Super chats are welcome. Yeah, and we appreciate everyone super chat.
• 54:28
  We're not, but yeah, we do appreciate you guys joining us on what
• 54:31
  I'm sure is a very very productive Friday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, in
• 54:36
  offices all over at the Great State of Ohio. Really, I'm sure people
• 54:40
  are getting their work done as they're watching this. I'm sure. And I'm
• 54:44
  just I'm looking at all these people walking around campus. I'm thinking about like
• 54:46
  the Friday on in campus at Ohio State before big games, and you know,
• 54:52
  if you're walking to camp to class, you'd walk past, you know,
• 54:54
  it was at one point it was like a flying tomato or oh patio,
• 54:58
  like it's had a bunch of names over the years at fifteenth and High.
• 55:00
  It might be gone now now that I think about it, but probably
• 55:04
  thanks campus partners. But it was you know, you would walk past,
• 55:08
  you'd walk past that place and it would it would just be, uh,
• 55:14
  just people out there, and you'd be walking to class and kind of like,
• 55:17
  oh, hey, look you're having more fun. I am with Kevin.
• 55:21
  Can we get yours in? The guys thoughts on the well Miss Alabama
• 55:24
  game, and they've got a super chat balls all right, go ahead and
• 55:28
  get your thick offer. The super chat is quickly is like, hey,
• 55:30
  another one from speed buck holds at least get a few beers, So thank
• 55:34
  you speed on the old Miss Alabama. It's been a long time since Obama
• 55:38
  has lost two in a rolling pad. But I think this is the time
• 55:43
  that the yes dude who gets the teacher hot toddy all right, Hotti totty
• 55:47
  from Kevin uh Ill Miss Alabama thoughts, I think Jaylen Milroe is their best
• 55:53
  opportunity to when because he can keep plays alive with his legs. Just don't
• 55:59
  throw the ball. Everything is gonna work out. Sprun the ball. I'm
• 56:02
  not convinced Alabama as a defense that is worth writing home about either, but
• 56:07
  I'm not going to pick against Nick Saban at home, so there's a second
• 56:10
  game when Paull Miss is just as wishy washy as anybody. Yeah, I
• 56:16
  picked my son, asked me Rolder in the weekend. I said, old
• 56:19
  Miss, And I think I'm changing my mind. I just it feels like
• 56:23
  if they try and have the same game plan for Jayleen Milrod that they did
• 56:27
  against Texas, it's not gonna work. But I think they know what he
• 56:30
  can and can't do now, and the tailor the plan a little bit more
• 56:34
  around him as a runner and not making him trying to make precision throws down
• 56:38
  the field, and the talent is obviously on Alabama side on the whole.
• 56:45
  I know it's not a typical Alabama off on the line. I know it's
• 56:47
  not a typical Alabama recent vintage quarterback. It's still Nick saban at home.
• 56:52
  And I kind of like, I really need to see someone drive the stake
• 56:58
  through his heart before I really really believe. Okay, the Nick Saban era
• 57:01
  at Alabama is like well and truly dead. Just go back to the offenses
• 57:06
  before they started recruiting quarterbacks, you know, eight years, nine years,
• 57:08
  ten years ago. Yeah, let me get back to our starting questions.
• 57:15
  Roger Hayes a lot of people are counting us out and saying we are going
• 57:19
  to get steam rolled because cal McCord is the first years start. A lot
• 57:23
  of people predicting Ohio State to lose and or get steamrolled because of cal McCord
• 57:29
  first time starter. I mean, you haven't seen him do it on the
• 57:34
  road yet, doesn't mean he can't, doesn't mean he won't. You haven't
• 57:38
  seen him do it. I tend to think that the skill talent is so
• 57:43
  good that if he has time, he'll be fine. And I think they'll
• 57:47
  do a good job of getting him into the flow of the game and getting
• 57:50
  him comfortable and all that. But this is a veteran Notre Dame defense that
• 57:55
  is opportunistic. They're not the most the single most talented defense the country,
• 58:00
  but they're gonna be smart. They're not going to get gashed for big too
• 58:02
  many big plays. So it's going to be a challenge. But I don't
• 58:07
  think this. I'm not I'm certainly not going in this game and going they
• 58:09
  can't win because of that. No, And I go back to the fact
• 58:13
  that people remember the Michigan games the last two years and think that that's how
• 58:19
  both games went. The entire time when it was a one score in the
• 58:22
  fourth quarter of both games. And if this is a one score game in
• 58:25
  the fourth quarter, I don't think anybody's going to be surprised. But if
• 58:30
  Ohio State does just get smashed, that's not a good statement about the way
• 58:36
  things are right now in terms of they're all above the inside the walls football
• 58:44
  speak. If they just go and get smashed in this one, what we've
• 58:47
  seen it before in the States, Yes, yep, because Jiminals move sunny
• 58:55
  styles around this game, like what's it did with Isaiah Simmons. You know,
• 59:00
  I think people have made that comparison before, and I don't know that
• 59:04
  they move him. I mean, I think you're using him in different ways.
• 59:07
  I think he's gonna be if the tight ends out there, he's probably
• 59:10
  on the tight end a lot. But you see him at the boundary safety
• 59:16
  spot and then moving for Laithan Ransom over I can see that. Yeah,
• 59:20
  I mean, it just depends on when he's out there. What alignment are
• 59:23
  they facing him, does the does the tight end on the line, or
• 59:27
  does he split out or you know, is there another receiver that comes in
• 59:30
  that That really is what will dictate where Sonny goes. It's what the offense
• 59:35
  is doing. It's not necessarily we're putting sunny here, and it doesn't matter
• 59:37
  what anybody else is doing, because he's got to defend somebody, unless he's
• 59:40
  just rushing the past. Yeah, but I think you may see him,
• 59:44
  you know, you may see him come off that if he's lined up in
• 59:46
  the slot, you may see him come off that short side like a little
• 59:50
  corner. McCord had had a sixty percent completion percentage week one, two,
• 59:59
  three. Do we see in the nineties this week? Not a serious question
• 1:00:02
  year, Yeah, I mean commic Cord has certainly looked more comfortable every week.
• 1:00:07
  Sixty percent completion, seventy percent completion, eighty percent completion. He's looked
• 1:00:10
  more comfortable in the offense. And you know, the defenses have obviously not
• 1:00:15
  you know, Indian as the bus defense they played so okay. But if
• 1:00:19
  you know, if Sam Hartman and commic Cord are both completion percentages in the
• 1:00:22
  low sixties, that negates what I think might be one of you know,
• 1:00:28
  one of the areas where Notre Dame is perceived to have a big advantage.
• 1:00:31
  Yeah, and you figure Ohio State has the more explosive receivers, so they
• 1:00:35
  can they can do a better job of batting six hundred and hitting home runs,
• 1:00:38
  whereas Gooder Dame, their six hundred might be singles and doubles and it
• 1:00:43
  might not be good enough to get into the end zone through the red zone.
• 1:00:46
  Yeah, Billy Tuesday. Any designed runs for Kyle, Any designed runs
• 1:00:53
  for Kyle. I'm one of my bolt predictions is a comm of courd has
• 1:00:59
  a ten yard rush. So yeah, not not many, certainly, I'm
• 1:01:01
  not expecting. I'm not expecting a lot, but you know, you you
• 1:01:07
  might see one here or there. I mean they ran that, they ran
• 1:01:09
  that quarterback design run against was that young sound State on third and goal or
• 1:01:14
  whatever it was, and he just he made the wrong read. That's not
• 1:01:16
  really his game. I do think you're going to see him extend to play
• 1:01:20
  at some point with his legs. You're going to see him probably scramble and
• 1:01:24
  pick up a first down at some point with his legs. But you know,
• 1:01:27
  I'm also not expecting him to have you know, over over under of
• 1:01:31
  fourteen and a half yards rushing. I'm taking the under the under and there
• 1:01:35
  maybe early on it maybe don't get to your third read jessel take off.
• 1:01:38
  Yeah, sort of thing. Get up field. We outlasted our neighbors.
• 1:01:42
  How about that, Ryan Stanson, Tony I would fire back and say that
• 1:01:46
  the interior of Notre Dame's offensive line can absolutely be dominated. They have looked
• 1:01:52
  nowhere near impressive. Yeah. I think we both agree that's that the Notre
• 1:01:58
  Dame interior of the offensive line is the soft spot of the offensive line,
• 1:02:01
  and you know, it can be overloaded. We saw North Carolina stay doing
• 1:02:06
  that with a three man front and then just bringing one or two and sometimes
• 1:02:08
  no blitzers. You know, sometimes they'd bring six guys. Sometimes they'd leave
• 1:02:12
  the three and the offensive line and is having some issues, and then they
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  would really have issues when they bring in some linebackers, do some twists and
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  some blitzer is in there with that three man front. So yeah, I
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  definitely think the interior of the Notre Dame offensive line can be had Odysseus.
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  Does they come out passing to open up the run? Does they come out
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  passing to open up the run? I think you're gonna see them come out
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  and try and get Kyle McCord into the game. I don't think you're gonna
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  see thirty yards shot down field on first and ten. I think you're gonna
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  see is get something out to a wide receiver on the edge. Try and
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  you know, try and get six yards on first down three yards, get
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  get hit, you know. But yeah, are the defensive backs playing off
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  coverage. Take the early easy throws, Get get something, Throw something to
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  Caves over in the flat, throw something to throw a screen to Trayvon Henderson.
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  Whatever it is, you're gonna see short easy throws to try and get
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  him in the game, get him comfortable, get him, get the nerves
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  settled down a little bit. I think that's what I'm expecting. And so
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  I do think it's gonna be throw to set up to run a little bit
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  early, because I don't know that they think they can just come out and
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  just run the ball right at Notre Dame. We're caught up on questions right
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  now. So if you've got something, we can maybe another call for questions
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  to see if we can get some more. We can wear about two hundred
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  and twenty people on the line right all right, So yes, if you
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  guys do have some questions, feel free to throw those in the chat.
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  We have not done score predictions officially yet we got I got a text in
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  the middle of the show. Then I went, oh, I forgot to
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  send in my score prediction for the site, So I'll have to do that
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  when we're done here. But you know, I think this is a game
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  where it's gonna be come down to the trenches. It's gonna come down to
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  does someone make the one big mistake? Can one of these teams run the
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  ball and the other one can't run the ball at all? Is there the
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  one big play in the passing game? This is this is a game to
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  me that gets played in the high twenties. I don't think it's not.
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  You know, the twenty one ten last year was crazy low Notre Dame head
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  first time head coach, nuke starting quarterback who turned out to be not very
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  good, not great, not great skill talent like okay skill taln but not
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  great skill talent. And Ohio State came out and the guy who they had
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  their game plan largely centered around went down in the first quarter and that kind
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  of blew everything up for them too, and it ended up twenty one ten.
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  It's not gonna be twenty one times well over thirty one points this weekend,
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  but I don't know that. I think anyone gets to thirty one points
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  for an individual team like that's probably you know, twenty eight thirty one is
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  probably about right for the winning team. To me, I've got Ohio State
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  twenty eight twenty seven. But that, I mean that tells you how close
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  it is. Not only in term of hey, it's a one point game,
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  so that's literally the closest game you could have, but also that's Ohio
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  State gets a couple of red zone stops, there's Notre Dame get one more
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  red zone stop. Well, then Notre Dame wins twenty seven twenty four.
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  So Ohio State get one fewer, well, Notre Dame wins thirty one twenty
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  eight. I mean it's it's a very close game. To me, there's
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  a way if Ohio State really can't run the ball and Notre Dame's defense force
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  is a couple turnovers, yeah, they could win by two touchdowns. If
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  Ohio State's offense really gets loose and Notre Dame can't get the run going,
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  and you have the one big mistake on offense, then Ohio State could win
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  by fourteen seventy points. But I think it's close. I think it's in
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  the upper twenties. So twenty eight twenty seven Ohio State. If Trevi and
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  Henderson can't run it, they have other options they can go to. I
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  think they have more in deeper options than Notre Dame if Notre Dame can't run
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  it. But it's interesting you only think Ohire State is gonna score four times.
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  I have both teams scoring five times. Don't believe in the Ohio State
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  defense. I believe in red zone defense. So I have an Ohio State
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  twenty seven twenty three, just three field goals for Notre Dame, two field
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  goals for Ohio State. It's the number of touchdowns that is the difference there.
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  I just I feel like this is one in the red zone. I
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  think you'll see some movement between the twenties. That's whoever can finish the drive
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  that will win the game, and it's whoever I guess finishes more drives.
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  I have to acknowledge you also have a higher state I both of us have
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  a higher state score. Giving up five scores, you just have one two
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  or touchdown. So I just wanted to get on the record that I was
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  not correct there. We do have a super Chat super Chat from Mike Marino
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  twenty eight twenty seven. It's also the sp bus prediction, if I'm not
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  mistaken, all right, See that's funny. Well you picked. I saw
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  you talking about the fact that twenty seven twenty three was one of those advanced
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  stat numbers. I saw it somewhere and I can't remember if it was like
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  Stats of War or you know what one of those was it? Okay,
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  yeah, there was. There was one of the one of those advanced at
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  things that had twenty seven twenty three. And then yeah, sp plus having
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  at twenty eight twenty seven is not a surprise at all to me. Yeah,
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  it's it's uh, it's relatively close. Oh oh, special guests,
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  this is like when this is like when game day brings on a guy who
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  knows nothing about college football. Yeah, my name is Kevin, I'm from
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  twenty one pilots. Uh No, I just think that we are giving way
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  too much credit to the Notre Dame defense at this point. They've kind of
• 1:07:30
  faced air at this point, as see, make sure that the SHOT's not
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  his off center. Get over here, Tony. I like Ohio State to
• 1:07:39
  have a little bit more of a consistent offense, be able to run some
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  tempo out there. I think Notre Dame is going to find some tough sledding
• 1:07:45
  in the running game with U with Adrick estime, I think that really,
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  as long as you don't let him get the corner on you, that you
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  can keep him at Bay, Ohio State held on twenty seven yards last year.
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  I'm not sold on the interior offensive line for Notre Dame either, Third
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  five seventeen Ohio State. What are the other twenty pilots think? Thank you,
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  Rascal slats. Life truly is a highways a super chant. Now all
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  right, Gravity has senate to work. Kevin is back on the ground.
• 1:08:16
  Any other questions that we have, Yeah, we have a super chat from
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  rose Ports, Lemonade LFG. I'm screaming godbox got bish. I can't wait
• 1:08:25
  to see my buck guys slap up Golden Elmer's. We rarely play them,
• 1:08:29
  but I still hate them as a gCO brand. That's all they care about.
• 1:08:33
  Thank you for that answer. Let's football gang. So that's uh and
• 1:08:39
  and we will in fact the footballing on Saturday here at Notre Dame uh GCL
• 1:08:44
  of course the Cincinnati High School League. Yes, and because they're from Cincinnati,
• 1:08:54
  what do they do, talk about where they went to high school.
• 1:08:56
  That's how it works. He eat bad chili. Did we have any other
• 1:09:00
  questions we need to get to or are we good to wrap as usual?
• 1:09:05
  Everybody? Okay? Yes, so so for everyone who so every for everyone
• 1:09:13
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• 1:09:18
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• 1:09:21
  We have to let you know, first of all, if you did
• 1:09:25
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• 1:09:27
  a whole bunch of stuff, but basically, position group by position group almost
• 1:09:30
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• 1:09:39
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• 1:09:50
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• 1:09:55
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• 1:10:00
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• 1:10:01
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• 1:10:48
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• 1:10:56
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• 1:11:02
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• 1:11:15
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• 1:11:19
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