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Live: Buckeyes Arrive In Michigan For The Game, Ryan Day Interview · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to a very very, very very special live edition at buck Eye tomorrow
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morning for Saturday in November twenty fifth. I'm your host, Tom Moore.
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The game against Michigan is today. I'm joined by Tony Gurnaman of Guys Huddle
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Blucky Huddle dot Com. That's actually the reason it is for very special today,
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Oh it is. It is the day, Tony. It is the
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day everyone waits for all year long. Ohio State Michigan number two versus number
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three. I'm sure there are some other storylines we could talk about it if
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we really think about it, but this feels this feels like it could be
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a consequential football game for the future of two different football programs and for two
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very different reasons. Yes, but what's one of the reasons why both teams
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want this one really really badly? Because I don't think any Ohio head coaches
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ever wanted to send somebody out in such a fashion as could happen tomorrow,
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And likewise, no Michigan players or coaches have probably ever woned a game as
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badly as these guys do. These guys do, so somebody is going to
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be devastated, and somebody is going to be happier than they've ever been.
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And that's kind of what the arrival we should do every every year almost,
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Yeah, and there's always what's at stake, and the first thing is bragging
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rights, and oh boid there's so many bragging rights on the line and so
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much narrative on the line. It does feel like this is going to This
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is almost three games in one for Ohio State because the Hearestate goes into Michigan
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Stadium and wins as an underdog in a year when everyone is, you know,
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said, this is the best Michigan team in decades at the least.
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Boy that it's left couple of years potentially a little different, and you know,
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I be able might may wipe those two games away at some point in
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the future, but Ohio State could, you know, at least from their
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perspective, kind of you know, get the old mister clean magic eraser out
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and wipe those away, you know, at least at least for themselves about
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this time tomorrow. Yeah, if Ohio State wins, they won't need the
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NCAAA to come in and vacate the previous two wins. They will have done
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it themselves based on the narrative that they will be able to write. And
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I think that is not lost on the Buckeyes, the Ryan Day, the
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coaching staff, the fan base. I mean, everybody sees sees the writing
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on that wall if they can go ahead and put their own mark on that
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wall. And that's why it is more than just one game. It's like
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it's the game, but it's more than the game. It's more than any
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game previously just based on the surroundings. It's the stakes are different. And
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we can argue which is the biggest game of this series of all time,
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and we probably will get into that, but there have never been the kind
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of these kinds of stakes in terms of what else it means other than the
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on field football stuff. Yeah, I mean in a series with a game
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like nineteen sixty nine, is a game like nineteen two thousand and six.
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I mean, there are plenty of these games that have had massive implications.
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This one's at least in that conversation. I don't know if it's at the
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top of the list. I kind of think it's in you know, it's
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in the family picture of the big it's not one versus two, and you
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know, some of it in terms of how big the game ends up being
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you only figure out in retrospect if one of these teams goes on wins the
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national championship, that makes, you know, makes it a little bit bigger.
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But you know, if it's not number one, it's in the top
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ten of all time pretty clearly, and maybe the top five. And when
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you you know, when you think about the history of this series, that's
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pretty pretty rare. Air. We are standing outside in the cold right now,
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waiting for the High State Tour. Didn't notice, no, uh,
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we were waiting for Ohio States buses to arrive at their team hotel. The
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estimated arrival time the ballpark is probably about twenty minutes. We're so give or
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take maybe fifteen. And we're doing this very scientifically based on when someone tweeted
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out a picture of the buses being in Bowling Green, Ohio, about forty
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minutes or so ago. To be honest, I'm as an Ohio and that
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is generally how we measure time. It's how far away someone was on a
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highway. So we know, you can just do the math. And now
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we don't need like the stones that the Vikings use, like we have our
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own way of measuring time and distance. And if you can see if you
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can get a look at the picture of deut Perry Stadium that everyone is required
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to take as they drive by, if you can tell how blurried is,
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you can tell how fast they're going. That's the other piece of scientific Ohio
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travel calculation that you can do. So Ryan in the Buckeyes. We'll be
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here probably you get six fifteen ish, give or take. You might as
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We want to talk more about this game with you, So we'll have another
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predictions tonight show as well. Yeah, so we will do our Bucky Weekly
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Bold Prediction show coming up on that live stream a little later on when we
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were in when we're inside in a little warmer, we will open a window
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for effect. Well, of course you got to it's the Big ten.
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You gotta play in the conditions, all right, So let's talk a little
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bit about this game. I'm sure we'll get to all the storylines at some
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point, but just the game itself. The weather is supposed to be chilly,
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like high twenties, maybe in the low thirties by the time the game
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kicks off. But no big rain, no big snow, no wind,
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no no meaningful wind. It should be chilly, but otherwise fine. So
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you know, it doesn't seem like that's something that's going to have a huge
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impact on this game. No, it's football weather, you know, overcast,
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just like you would expect. And the conditions, as Ryan Da says,
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everybody has to play in them. And I don't know cold who does
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that affect more in terms of Ohio State or Michigan. I don't know that
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is there. I don't know that benefits anybody more than the other. Obviously,
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with the Ohio State's passing game, you would think they would prefer the
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better weather, the warmer weather, So maybe there's some impact there, But
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I don't think Ohio State relying on the run is such a bad thing either.
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No, And we'll you know o High State has been able to rely
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on the run a lot more the last few weeks since Trevion Henderson came back.
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The Ohio State running game looked one specific way kind of through the Penn
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State game and then Mayan Williams kind of handed the baton off the Trevion Henderson
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and it has looked a very different way for a good chunk of the last
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month. And they have not played incredible defenses. Lest you know, it
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was what Wisconsin and then Michigan State and then Minnesota and none of those are
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incredible defenses, but they have done on the ground to those defenses sort of
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what you would expect a pretty good Ohio sed it run game to do.
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Yeah, and Trayvon Henderson obviously been has been the main reason for that.
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Is rushed for over one hundred yards I think in his last four games and
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well over and looking good and not just getting the bulk of his yards on
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one long carry. He's been consistent. He gets the five into six and
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then the twenty five and the thirty six. You know, he's he builds
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on it and stays strong and stays productive, and right now, this is
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the best we've seen him as a Buckeye. He had flashes like this,
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but I think the best thing is where I say, he's not flashing.
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This is just him right now. This isn't up and down. There are
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no peaks and valleys. It's just all peaks at this point. Well,
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he averaged nine point seven yards of carry against was that Minnesota? I think
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either Minnesota or Michigan State had nine point seven yards per carry and did not
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have you know, the one long run that you know, the eighty yard
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run that really skewed the numbers. It was just kind of boy, he's
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consistently getting eight to ten to twelve yards per carry in that range. I
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don't it's act him to do that on Saturday. But what does he have
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to do, you know, set aside the you know, if he has
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a sexy yard or we'll just sort of put that one to the side.
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What does he have to average for you to feel like, boy, Ohio
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State is and pretty good chap. I like Ohio State chances, not that
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they're guaranteed, but the high of states chances. If he x yards per
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play, if he's at five yards to carry, I like, I need
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to go back and go do that tonight and shut down. I think that
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is running the ball a little bit. But five or better. I think
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that's pretty good for Ohio State. And what's interesting is you you're trying to
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get to five or so yards per carry. Part of that's going to depend
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on how does the outfensive line play. And one of the reasons that that's
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so important is because if you can get the five yards per carry, that
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takes some of the pressure off the offensive line in the pass progue area,
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because that feels like, you know, if there's a concern for Ohio State
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up front, I think it's Carson Hinzman in pass pro in particular, and
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really maybe in the run game too. But Kyle McCord getting pressure in his
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face is not the best Kyle McCord there is. You have seen him struggle
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in under pressure at times this year. If they can keep him clean,
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give him time to throw, I think there are opportunities in the past game,
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but a lot of that comes down to does Kyle McCord have time to
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throw. Yeah, Kevin, do we have a super chat uptown Daniel with
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a super chat. Let's talk about the video of Kyle McCord limping to the
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team bus. Video that Adam King Channel ten posted of Kyle Accord limping to
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the team bus and did you get a chance to watch it? I watched
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it. It's a very slight lip. It's I don't I wouldn't make nearly
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as much of it as everybody else seems to be to be making of it.
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Just it's a guy that we know his ankle hurts, and you know
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it's I don't think it panned down to see if he was in a boot
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or anything like that. But I when I heard about it, I expected
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it to be worse, like a significant limb, but this was I don't.
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I don't think it was that bad. And plus we know his ankle
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hurts, right, He's been going back to when did he hurt that?
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Was that against Purdue or Penn State? It was it was well over a
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month ago. Yeah, yeah, and he was at Wisconsin all taped up,
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you know, big big wrapping on his ankle. He's been like that
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every game since and he's been progressing there. I'm sure it still is not
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great. You know, if it's a high ankle sprain, that that's not
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gonna be healthy till maybe the Bold game. But he's been fine on it
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the last couple of weeks. And frankly, I don't think he's the quarterback
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with the bigger ankle issues this week. I mean, JJ McCarthy has been
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dealing with a lower body injury that people are saying is an a thing and
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they kind of to keep why And you know, if it's those guys to
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be mobile and be able to cut and all that kind of stuff, it
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would be JJ McCarthy, right, Yeah, for sure escaping and JJ likes
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to escape, you know, he he'll he'll turn and run. They will
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use him as a runner. He's a lot more as a runner than Ohio
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State does with com cord. And also when they get to these matchup games,
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they use him to run the ball even more because they need to find
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yards on the ground. And he's he's got a bad leg, and he's
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got some sort of a shoulder thing perhaps the collar bone thing that people are
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talking about as well. So he's he even said it on Monday that he
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was that was pretty rough on Saturday for him. And that's why I don't
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I don't think you suddenly get healthy in one week, because he admitted he
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was hurting, yeah in that game last week. He didn't magically get better
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in one week, right, Yeah. He sort of framed it as like,
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oh, all good now, which I don't think that's probably going to
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be true. But you know, how much does that limit him in terms
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of stepping into throws? How much does that limit him in terms of,
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you know, avoiding the rush, getting out of the pocket, maybe extending
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plays with his legs, because that's that's what makes him the most dangerous,
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is all of that kind of stuff. He's kind of limited in those areas
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that could be a big deal. And the other thing is it's going to
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potentially limit him in terms of you know, one thing that could be a
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concern. We hear some siren, well, I mean there's no telling.
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Yeah there's siren. Yes, yes, we're yes, so we're hearing siren,
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So that could be Ohio State's arrival. We will it's six o five,
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so it was a little earlier than once you hit the border, like
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you're going from sixty five to satisfy. That's so we'll we'll keep an eye
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on that. But you know, one thing that could make that a bigger
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issue is that Michigan, especially tackle Carson Barnhardt, has nothing great in passcro
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the last couple of weeks, so that I couldn't put more pressure on McCarthy,
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which could create more issues with a bum angle. You know that feels
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like, Yeah, we got lots of questions this week about you know,
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if you could only choose one Buckey to have a career game, and one
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of the options was J T Twoey Moloau. And if j T Twoey molo
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ol can get pressure, can get a couple sexy. It feels this feels
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a game where I'm expecting it to be defensive focused enough. If you can
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get Michigan off schedule with a sack the TfL, that could be a dry
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killer. Yeah, and especially with Michigan not getting a bunch of yards per
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play, if you make them get thirteen yards on the second and third down
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to you pick up the first down, that is a big loss for them.
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I thought one of the things that Maryland did pretty well is they know
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where JJ escaped suit I would have somebody waiting, they would attack that as
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well. But you got to have athletes get after him and slow him down
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when he does try to make you move. And I don't think he's not
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as quick right now, He's not as nimble right now, and that makes
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them an even more attainable target. So it will be interesting to see how
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Jim Mills comes after him. You know, how how much how much of
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you know, the memory of last year of getting giving up those big plays
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sticks with him, and also how much the fact of, like, I
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feel like I could be more aggressive with these guys because the guys in the
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back end are better than they were a year ago. Yeah, the secondary
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has been so much night and day improved from a year ago. Outside of
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Lathan Ransom, they should be healthy in the secondary. They've given up one
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play all year exactly one of forty yards or more, and that was that
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weird fumble Rooskie fourth and run like double handoff play that Rutgers ran. So
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just in terms of line up and play action pass or whatever. No plays
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over forty yards all season, no runs over forty yards all season, had
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like a traditional run running formation. I mean, it has been you know,
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as good a big play defense as they've given, as they've been had
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at Ohio State in a long time. I'm expecting Michigan to play a lot
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of two high safeties and make Ohio State be methodical going down the field.
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So even though Jim Knowles is playing a lot more conservatively and a lot less
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you know, blitzlitz blitz than he was a year ago, I'm still expecting
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him to probably be the more aggressive of the two coordinators. Yeah, I
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would, I would agree with that. It'll be I'm interested to see what
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Michigan, how aggressive they are, what they do, because I agree that
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when they do, when they do attack and they blitz, will klem Accord
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read it, see it and get it to that guy and maybe some zone
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blitz is where you're trying to replace the blitzer and catch with calm Accord like
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napping and you know, throwing the ball and picking it off something like that.
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But you have the the the knowledge that you're probably not expecting many points
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in this game. So a blitz you have to be smart with it because
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that could lead to the seven points that is the difference in this game.
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So but then also you can't stay two conservative and just let them six eight
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five yards, you know, snap after snap, Well, it's yeah,
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it's it's this really catch twenty two situation where if it's you're expecting a low
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scoring game, you can't give up a touchdown, So you don't want to
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give up the big play, but also you don't want to let them methodically
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get down to the fieldal range, because if it's twenty to seventeen, a
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field goal means a heck of a lot more than it does if you're playing
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in the thirties and forties, especially with limited possessions in this one, which
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you might see because I don't know Ohio State with the with tempo, are
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they if Michigan has like a six minute drive, do you want to go
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tempo right after that or do you want to, like, let's hold the
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ball for a little bit so that, you know, try to extend a
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possession and things like that, Like all of these different little nuances that come
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in in terms of time of possession being what it is, but possession being
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important in a game like this where you might only have nine attempts with the
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football. Well, and the way Michigan has been playing on offense, they're
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not hitting a ton of big plays, certainly not on the ground. So
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in order for Michigan to pick up, you know, put together a six
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minute drive, that's gonna involve picking up a bunch of third downs. It
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feels like so because it feels like Blake Rum and Donovan Edwards have been just
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kind of in the like four ish yards per carry pretty much. I mean,
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I think I think they were both in their like four something yards per
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carry all season long, which is just not that's not what you have seen
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from them in the past. I don't know how much of that is those
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guys, I don't know how much of that is The offensive line is not
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quite what it has been in the past. Do you expect Michigan to be
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able to run the ball to the point where they're picking up a bunch of
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the third downs? You know, I think third and two. I like
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their odds. But if they get behind the you know, behind schedule at
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all, I think that could be an issue for them trying to stay on
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the field. They're really good at getting into the end zone from like the
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one, but they get stopped quite a bit on show yards outside of the
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red zone. They should not be able to run the ball very well against
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the Ohio State defense. That doesn't mean they're not going to try. I
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don't know what if Michigan rush is for more than one sixty like that,
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to me is a big, big, big number for what Ohio State has
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been able to do defensively. And Michigan has not been that good running the
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ball. They've just run it a lot and they build up numbers. Last
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week against Maryland, averaged three point three yards per carry, but ran for
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like, you know, one hundred and sixty or one hundred and eighty yards
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something like that because they ran it like forty five times. If they run
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it for run it forty five times. In this one, it almost doesn't
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matter what they're averaging because they're just controlling the ball and clearly they're picking up
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some third downs right and the third downs against Penn State, they were picking
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them up on the ground. Michigan was that led to scoring drives because they
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were attacking Mandy Diaz his blitzes with the running game. And so I'm sure
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Ohio State obviously watched that game and saw what Michigan likes to do, and
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they will run the ball on third and long. They did it. I
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think half of their third and lungs last week. Especially if you've got j
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J. McCarthy banged up, they're going to try to get some cheap ones,
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some sneaky ones in there. Yeah, And I think a lot of
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Michigan success on the ground is going to depend on whether or high state thanks
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JJ McCarthy can run, and whether Jaie McCarthy actually can run. Maybe not
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necessarily in that order, but possibly because if you have to account for the
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quarterback in the run game, that changes your numbers a little bit. If
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you don't, if it's just gonna be a handoff and you're basically daring him
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to run the way the teams have treated com accord this year. You know,
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Okay, you're gonna show us you're gonna run a read. Okay,
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well we'll believe that he's gonna keep it when he does. I think,
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ohis it. I don't think Ohisa can be quite that bold in the run
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game, but I think they're gonna they might have to. Michigan might have
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to show that they're willing to run McCarthy and McCarthy's able to run before ohiostate
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totally buys into the Yeah, I think you you force him to keep it
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on the reads a couple of times, one to see how healthy is to
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to try to hit him to make him less healthy. So yeah, yeah,
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you'd much rather have him carry the ball, although right now he is
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honestly one of their most maybe their most explosive carrier. Not now maybe because
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he's heard, but there have been weeks where he has been the most explosive
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guy because he can get out on the edge and everybody else play Corn and
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Donovan Edwards kill ol Mullings up the middle. It's not nearly as productive as
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he was able to be sometimes getting out there. And he is a he's
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a viable weapon when he's healthy. When he's not healthy. You've got to
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see how much of a weapon he is. I think you've forced our hands
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to show that you, for one, will pull it, and then two,
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what does he look like when he's doing it, And we'll have to
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see, yeah, we'll see health to see how much he is willing to
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pull it and run. I'm sure. My assumption is this is going to
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be like J. T. Barrett when Urbin Meyer was here, and it
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was you know, he'd run two times against Rutgers and four times against Maryland
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and then eighteen times against Penn State. I don't think he's running eighteen times
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against Ohio State, but he was two carries for negative seven yards last week
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against Maryland, had eight for thirty four something against Penn State, where it's
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like just enough that like, Okay, you made a couple of plays.
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He extended a couple drives, but you weren't, you know, you were
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obviously not the main focus of the offense. And the week before that against
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Purdue, I think I think he had negative rushing yards in that one too,
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where he has like very clearly they have not been using him on the
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ground as much, but I think they're gonna use him more this weekend removing
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sacks. If I say, if I set the number at seven and a
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half, I feel like eight and a half is like, yeah, for
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just carry scrambles, Harry's rushes, rushes, non sacks, Like seven and
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a half might go over eight and a half because Penn State was eight.
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I just don't know that he's healthy enough to carry the braw that much.
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So it's it's a difficult number, Yeah, it is. It is what's
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wrong with the Michigan run offense. Clay korm And Donovan Edwards. We've we've
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we've been all year. We keep waiting for Donovan Edwards to look like Donovan
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Edwards and Lake Korm to look at Pla Korm. I don't know that Blake
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Korm is one hundred percent after that knee injury last year. I don't understand
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what's going on with Donovan Edwards because he's made plays out of the backfield in
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the thro game, which you've seen over the but just running the ball,
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it just feels like he's constantly at three something yards per carry. Yeah,
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he has been. He's getting tackled in the Backfield's they don't get to the
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second level that offense, for one, and they're not necessarily making the first
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guy miss and they're just running into a bunch of guys. And it's something
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we've talked about at the start of the season with Ohio State when they would
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bring in extra alignment to try to move files. They Michigan will run with
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six offensive linemen, a lot six off the defensive linemen in a tight end.
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There's just a lot of bodies there. And now that's not new for
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them. They've been able to work around it last year and year before that.
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But right now there's not a lot of there there and getting stopped early
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downs and then forcing something to happen on second down, where it's like,
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now we're second and nine, what do we do, Well, let's try
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to run it again. Now you're at third and seven, and the conservative
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aspect of their offense, it just hasn't worked as well as as well as
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it did last year. And I think a lot of it is the offensive
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line. But again, I don't think the running backs are playing nearly as
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well as they did last year. I think Koram, as you said,
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might have an excuse. I don't know what Donovan Edwards what's going on there,
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But the thing with him is he has the potential to go right at
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any moment. And that's that's what you prepare for. Yes, that's the
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game prepared for that, you know, play Korm getting stopped in the backfield
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and kicking it out for another fifty two yards, that's what you prepare for.
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You don't prepare for the four point yard four four yard to carry play
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Korm, the three yard to carry Donovan Edwards. Yeah, it does feel
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like if Michigan gets down to the two yard line, Blake Korm is gonna
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score like that. He is. He has just been. He's been able
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to do that all season. It feels like if they get down there,
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he's going to do that. Part of getting down there may be Okay,
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how old does JJ McCarthy throw the ball, because he has been he was
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about fifty something percent last week against Maryland. He's been kind of around there
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a few times recently. Roman Wilson was out for a good chunk of last
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week's game. I'm assuming he's going to be back. I don't think we've
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heard an answer one way or the other. But this is one of those
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games where if you can play, you're going to play. Cornelius Johnson had
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a big player to last year against Ohio State and love when the tight end
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had a big touchdown against Ohio State last year. I'm not expecting JJ McCarthy
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to have, you know, complete eighty percent of his passes. And I'm
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not expecting JJ McCarthy to hit as many long ones as he did last year
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because those several of those were just like flat out bus, just like complete
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bus in the secondary and they've done a better job of not having that happen
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this year. Where does you know what what is a winning stat line for
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JJ McCarthy, because I'm assuming Michigan's not going to just be able to run
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for three hundred yards, So JJ McCarthy's going to have to play. You
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know, they're going to have to throw the balls. But what what what
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does that look like? Is what does a winning what does a winning stat
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line look like for JJ McCarthy, Well, he was twelve to twenty four
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last year against Ohio State, but had you know, obviously Yard's passing.
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I think are those the buses coming in right there? I believe those are
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the buses. I think that buses looks like the team is perhaps arriving.
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Maybe maybe I saw there's more buses coming in. There's the police. There
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are the police. No sirens though, which is nice because this is not
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a Buckie Weekly podcast. So they are coming around the crowd here is getting
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excited. Obviously, I believe six buses departed from Columbus. So obviously players
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we're good waiting for coming around the corner. Here is Kevin will show you.
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Once they get past the RV there's the first bus. Ryan Day will
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probably be on that one, so I will back away and try to get
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him there's the Michigan State Patrol and we are going to chase this bus down.
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You get over here and you get Ryan Day right out of here,
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Bryan Day and bust one and set one bus one. They'll come out here
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and we will grab him. Kay I believe Yeah, yeah yeah. Unless
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they have pulled it fast, they'll be popping out here shortly. We've got
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all the television and everybody else here wedding, so this should be the one.
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All right, there's our join another day. Here's the head coach.
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You said you want to get on the bus today with confidence. Did you
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feel like you did? Yeah? We did? Yeah, we did,
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we did. Yeah. You know, just being on the bus on this
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trip, did you just think back on all the different teams that have made
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that same trip and to see some of the people, you know, waiting
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for the bus to go by and waving their their Ohio state flags, it
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meant a lot. It's a great bus trip. Did you see what did
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you see when you looked in your player's eyes this week? You could see
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it. I mean we've been working towards this all year and they've had a
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great look in their eye and can't wait to play in a game ran number
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one team in the nation against the score against the number two team in the
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nation against the score. What did people anticipate tomorrow? A great game?
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A great game, yeah, again, going back to some of the great
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games that have been played in this rivalry before. And you know, I
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can say it's never been bigger than it is this weekend. And our guys
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know that, and so we're gonna have a great night here, continue our
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preparation, wake up with great energy, and go play our best game of
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the year as far as you're concerned. Fans on deck, that's for sure.
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Yeah, good in the playbook this week. No, we've had good
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preparation. We have. I mean, the guys are are working really hard
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and you know we're gonna put it on the field. You can't wait to
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playing a game. What did you say the guys before they got on the
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bush, all kinds of stuff. Yeah, we leave that with with uh
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with the team. But we know we had a good, good walkthrough in
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the in the in the indoor, you know, had had some really good
28:15
meetings and uh yeah, I got on the bus and it rollo coming serious
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this room inside you guys on Tuesdays, who's been leading that this week.
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There's a bunch of leaders in this group, a bunch of guys who played
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this game. Uh, and you don't know how much this game means not
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only do our team, but to so many other people across nation. What's
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this kind of like to get up here inside this state, know that this
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game is right around the water. Yeah, it's it's Uh, it's not
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a long road to get here. And it started, you know, last
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year, early in the winter, and here we are, So time to
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get on the field and they'll play and trust our training. Thanks guys,
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Thanks, that's the