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Ross Fulton Analysis: Good News, Bad News For Ohio State Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, September twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Michigan State game is
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  Speaker 1: in two days. The game against Michigan in sixty five days.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in the week, we had Ross Fulton, one of
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  Speaker 1: the x's and no's gurus of bucke huddle on talk
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  Speaker 1: about the Ohio State offense that was just nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a good time in the words of Poison, lots of touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the defense. There is no
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ross, This was a game where Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: won by five touchdowns, and no one was real happy
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  Speaker 1: with the defense. Afterwards, when we talked to Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: and Jim Knowles on Tuesday, everyone seemed like they were
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit of a surly mood. So you said,
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  Speaker 1: before we're recording, this is one of these things where
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  Speaker 1: there's potentially good news potentially bad news here. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and start walking people. Let's let's use some
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  Speaker 1: therapy words, thinking, feeling, I think, I feel, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Let's try and get everyone through this. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State defense.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, well, yeah, so right. So the optimist take is
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  Speaker 2: that Jim Knowles has purposely been keeping things vanilla. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you want to challenge your players and situations that aren't
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  Speaker 2: schematically ideal, that they are aware of these issues and
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  Speaker 2: that you know they will be buttoned up going forward.
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  Speaker 2: And I can give an example of why that might
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  Speaker 2: be the case. I think the pessimistic take are the
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  Speaker 2: things that we're going to that I'm going to point
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  Speaker 2: out here are issues that we've discussed before on the
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  Speaker 2: show that have troubled me. There things that we saw
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  Speaker 2: against Michigan last year, against Missouri and the bowl game,
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  Speaker 2: And so the pessimistic take is they either are okay
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  Speaker 2: living with it, which I guess you can. You can
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  Speaker 2: do that, you're gonna give You're gonna leave yourself vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: to giving up these sort of you know drives when
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  Speaker 2: you do that, or there's just disconnect on the staff
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  Speaker 2: in terms of what needs to happen to fix some
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  Speaker 2: of these issues. So, uh, you know, but I think
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  Speaker 2: this to me explains what the problems were against Marshall
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  Speaker 2: more than anyone else.
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  Speaker 3: Marshall out of bye week.
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  Speaker 2: They had a chance to scout, obviously, and they they
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  Speaker 2: exploited areas that have you know, myself and others have
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  Speaker 2: pointed out in the path for the High State defense.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the first two plays we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing here, it's the offense is in a basically
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  Speaker 1: the same formation two by two detached. Ohio State does
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  Speaker 1: two different things. The first one we're going to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: They're in cover for So let's walk us through this
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  Speaker 1: first play.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So we've talked about this that Jim Noles and
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  Speaker 2: our states have been increasingly using this cover four sort
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  Speaker 2: of a base cover four where the corners are over
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  Speaker 2: the top, the safeties are able to come downhill Marshall
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  Speaker 2: really spread Ohio State out. And what Jim Noles likes
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  Speaker 2: to do is he is he wants to cover people up. Right,
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  Speaker 2: if you're the you know, the number two or inside
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  Speaker 2: slot receivers. So marsh Ball is one on both sides here,
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  Speaker 2: He's going to make sure there's there's bodies over them.
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  Speaker 2: There's plus and minuses. That helps take away RPOs and reliefs.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. It leaves you light in the box.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously, like you know, it is not a fancy
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  Speaker 2: football concept to understand that if you have two deep safeties,
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  Speaker 2: you have one less body of your eleven players to
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  Speaker 2: put closer to the line of scrimmage than if you
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  Speaker 2: have one deep safety. And so when you play split
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  Speaker 2: safety coverage like cover four like Ohio State is doing here,
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  Speaker 2: and you have spread out and you want to up
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  Speaker 2: both uh slot receivers, now you only have five defenders
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  Speaker 2: inside the tackle box, right, and so Marshall has five
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  Speaker 2: offensive linemen. They have a running back and obviously they
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  Speaker 2: have a quarterback that they can run as well. So
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  Speaker 2: now and there's with five even in this look, with
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  Speaker 2: five offensive linemen, you have six gaps to account for.
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  Speaker 2: So you have you know, c gaps on both sides
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  Speaker 2: of the outside the tackles, B gaps between the guards
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  Speaker 2: and tackles, and A gaps between the center and guards
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  Speaker 2: on both sides.
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  Speaker 3: But you only have five guys in the box.
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  Speaker 2: So this gets the first issue, which is that Sunny
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  Speaker 2: Styles as the will linebacker, he's walked out over the
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  Speaker 2: boundary h slot receiver. He has to both play and
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  Speaker 2: cover four here this flat the boundary flat, so he's
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  Speaker 2: one of the three underneath defenders. But he's also responsible
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  Speaker 2: for the A gap to his side between the center
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  Speaker 2: and the and the guard. And I think you know,
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  Speaker 2: as you can see just from a little shot, that's
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit of distance to cover. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: once you run the play, what Marshall does is they canbine.
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  Speaker 2: We just talked about this with our state. They combine
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  Speaker 2: a hitch to Styles aside, so an RPO hitch with
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  Speaker 2: the inside run. And so what Styles needs to do
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  Speaker 2: is he is now what would be called put in conflict.
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  Speaker 2: He has two different jobs. He needs to sit on
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  Speaker 2: the hitch or he and he also needs to fill
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  Speaker 2: the A gap run. And so because he's sitting on
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  Speaker 2: the hitch, though it's going to be really difficult for
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  Speaker 2: him to get to the a gap which we see here,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know then if you go to the
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  Speaker 2: behind the offensive line angle you can see the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, I diagramed out here that you know,
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  Speaker 2: the each gap. Again, as I said, we've got you know,
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  Speaker 2: Cody Simon, who has this as the mic linebacker, is
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  Speaker 2: the one linebacker left in the box. He has the
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  Speaker 2: gap to the running back side and Styles is going
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  Speaker 2: to have the backside a gap. But as you can see,
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  Speaker 2: like with the diagram, Styles is obviously nowhere in the
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  Speaker 2: picture that gap needs to be covered. So in effect,
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  Speaker 2: what happens when Marshall runs this play Cody Simon needs
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  Speaker 2: to do. He basically has to tread water, and he is.
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  Speaker 2: He is not literally two gapping. He doesn't have both gaps,
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  Speaker 2: But in effect that's what occurs because Styles has to
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  Speaker 2: play the RPO. So Simon's trying to do a sort
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  Speaker 2: of high behind the nose tackle and you literally can
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  Speaker 2: see him kind of popping in place. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: you hear people can playing well the linebackers aren't playing downhill. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a reason if he plays down hill and commits
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  Speaker 2: to one of those gaps, the running back's just going
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  Speaker 2: to cut the other way. And it's a big game,
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  Speaker 2: and so I mean that happens anyways because it's really
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  Speaker 2: hard to do what he's trying to do. But what
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's again this is this gets to some
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  Speaker 2: of my frustration, I guess, and this is sort of
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  Speaker 2: a continuing thing because there are techniques to do. I
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about like support playing cover four split safeties,
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  Speaker 2: especially like in the modern RPO game. Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: we just heard mel kiper Can playing last week that
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  Speaker 2: they should outlaw split safeties at the NFL level, Like
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  Speaker 2: there's a reason that this is being effective at limiting
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  Speaker 2: big plays, taking away the passing game. So I conceptually
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  Speaker 2: I don't want them to stop doing it, but there's
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  Speaker 2: things they could do, so like little things, right, so
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  Speaker 2: like if you go back to the design where you
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  Speaker 2: see the behind them the front seven, so like for instance,
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  Speaker 2: one thing they could do is to the side where
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  Speaker 2: you want to flip your defensive tackles, so like the
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  Speaker 2: side the linebacker is overhanging, you want that guy that
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  Speaker 2: to be the side where the one technique is the
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  Speaker 2: guy between the center and the tack guard instead of
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  Speaker 2: three techniques. Why just because it's just simply one less
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  Speaker 2: gap that Styles needs to come all the way over
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  Speaker 2: to cover, right, So now he'd have the B gap
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  Speaker 2: instead of the A gap.
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  Speaker 3: So that's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Another thing you can do is, you know, the football
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  Speaker 2: term for it is called have your defensive end play
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  Speaker 2: a heavy technique. All that means is, like the defensive
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  Speaker 2: end is to like to the style side where you're
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  Speaker 2: at the overhang is and by the overhang, I just
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  Speaker 2: been between the tackle and the wide the slot ride receiver,
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  Speaker 2: Like he reads that that offensive lineman and so when
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line that blocks to him, he basically squeezes
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  Speaker 2: inside and essentially tries to take away the B gap.
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  Speaker 2: And so now Styles, they're basically trading responsibilities, right, so
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  Speaker 2: Jack Seyer would become responsible for the B gap Styles
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  Speaker 2: now is the sea gap. The benefit that is now
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  Speaker 2: he's in less conflict, right, Like he doesn't need to
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  Speaker 2: get in and fill at a gap. If the ball
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  Speaker 2: bounces outside, it's easier for him to then then commit
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  Speaker 2: and play it by that point to.
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  Speaker 3: The sea gap.
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  Speaker 2: So there's these little things that you can do within
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  Speaker 2: like running the same exact scheme that help. Again, it
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  Speaker 2: like it doesn't help on this play.
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  Speaker 3: That like J. T. Twomloo like shoots upfield.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think again like optimist pestimists, like I
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  Speaker 2: think Ohio State planned for or Marshall to be very
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  Speaker 2: pass heavy, Like you can see it in some of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff they did, like the linebackers were sort of
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  Speaker 2: taking past offs when it was like first and ten
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  Speaker 2: or third and short defensive ends. Flying up field though,
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  Speaker 2: is like it's not helpful here, It's just creates a
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  Speaker 2: massiful and like Marshall, everything was like get the ball
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  Speaker 2: out quick RPOs. So like all the more reason I
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  Speaker 2: I to your point about like the Ryan Day press conference,
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  Speaker 2: I personally picked up a sense of Ryan Day sending
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  Speaker 2: a message that like we're here to play the game,
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  Speaker 2: not try to rack up sacks, and like you got
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  Speaker 2: to take what the you got to play the offense
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  Speaker 2: that you're facing and that's not always going to be
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  Speaker 2: a five step drop, and we need you to do
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  Speaker 2: your job. That comes through on this play, but like
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  Speaker 2: beyond just like individuals doing what they're supposed to do. Again,
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  Speaker 2: there's all long ways saying there are techniques. They don't
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  Speaker 2: need to throw the whole thing out there. Are techniques
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  Speaker 2: within this that can help them, you know, be more
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  Speaker 2: successful running cover four s games.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So the next one, same basic offensive formation
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  Speaker 1: two by two DA touched again, but this time Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's in a cover one so that's a very different look.
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  Speaker 1: So how does this one work out for them?
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  Speaker 2: So this is like you know, we talked about there
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  Speaker 2: are different ways to deal with this, right, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know we talked about when you have one high
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  Speaker 2: split safety, now you can cover every all the receivers
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  Speaker 2: up and put your linebacker back in the box. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, this one you can see Marshall checks and
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  Speaker 2: you can see Ohio State check, right. So they they
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  Speaker 2: realized during the game that this is an issue and
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  Speaker 2: they bump over and so Lathan Ransom picks up the
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  Speaker 2: slot receiver. That lets Style slide back in the box
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  Speaker 2: and now he can take his that gap, right, So
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  Speaker 2: now you have six six guys in the box for
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  Speaker 2: six gaps. Now, Marshall, you can see everything's in r po, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like Ransom is playing from depth. So they throw the bubble.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State limits the gain, but like you've now canceled
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  Speaker 2: out the run. So that's what that's what he has
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  Speaker 2: to do. The problem again is you don't want an
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  Speaker 2: offense to be able to dictate to you all the
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  Speaker 2: time what you're doing right. You don't want it to
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  Speaker 2: be like when we see these kind of spread formations,
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  Speaker 2: we have to play single high cover one because then
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  Speaker 2: the offense is going to exploit that. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we know that we're gonna run mesh, We're gonna run
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  Speaker 2: man beaters. Like you need answers within your scheme so
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  Speaker 2: that the offense doesn't necessarily know. So there's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll get into this with the next clip. There's
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  Speaker 2: like stuff again you can do up front, stuff you
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  Speaker 2: can do in the coverages and cover four that allow
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  Speaker 2: you to minimize the conflicts for the linebackers because it's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, again, I have some sympathy, like when
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  Speaker 2: I hear Jim Nole say like, no one played well
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  Speaker 2: enough to be Player of the week in the game,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like that might be true. I'm sure you know,
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  Speaker 2: from a coaching perspective, you want to send a message
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  Speaker 2: like no matter what I call, like I want to
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  Speaker 2: see you guys dominate against the marshall. But like, on
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  Speaker 2: the same hand, like he needs to take the responsibility too,
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  Speaker 2: because it's really hard.
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  Speaker 3: Like a sunny styles.
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  Speaker 2: Any linebacker is never going to get looked good when
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  Speaker 2: you're ten yards outside the tackle box and you both
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  Speaker 2: need to sit on the hitch and then be able
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  Speaker 2: to bill to limit a run to three yards or
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  Speaker 2: less like it just that's not possible even for you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll how to say, player against Marshall.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So now we're going back to cover four
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  Speaker 1: this time instead of two by two where there's two
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  Speaker 1: receivers in each other the field. We're talking about it
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  Speaker 1: trips formation. So there's three Worch receivers on one side
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  Speaker 1: of the field. Walk us through this next one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so okay, this is I've got now two
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  Speaker 2: clips coming up, once once for the pessimists out there,
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  Speaker 2: which of this is, and then the last one I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you an end on a bit of optimism. Right, So,
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  Speaker 2: and I say this is for the pessimists because again
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  Speaker 2: this is an issue like if you go back to
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  Speaker 2: the Afron game, I think I highlighted the same thing
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  Speaker 2: right with trips and how they Acron exploited it to
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  Speaker 2: the boundary and so again same issue, but with trips
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get the and now it's the mic
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  Speaker 2: walked out instead of the will linebacker right, and so
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  Speaker 2: we have the same issue like Cody Simon has to
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  Speaker 2: split the difference. It's called you know, sometimes the term
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  Speaker 2: apex is used between the tackle and the inside trips receiver.
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  Speaker 2: And now again he needs to suppost sit on the
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  Speaker 2: RPO because he has responsibility in that alley and cover four.
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  Speaker 2: But he also has to now fill that place I
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  Speaker 2: be gap that I highlighted, and so again you're just
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  Speaker 2: in the same six on five situation.
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  Speaker 3: I think, what what I highlighted.
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  Speaker 2: About this situation that makes it even potentially works for
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  Speaker 2: our state is that the way they're defending this now
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  Speaker 2: Denzel Burke is responsible.
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  Speaker 3: This is it's called trips nub.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fancy term football term for the fact that
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  Speaker 2: when an offense put three wide receivers to the field
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  Speaker 2: and they're tight end to the boundary, right, so you
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  Speaker 2: now have the passing strength to the white side of the field,
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  Speaker 2: you have the run strength to the boundary. State has
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  Speaker 2: their corner responsible for filling an interior sea gap. And again,
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  Speaker 2: like I, this happened their Missouri scored their touchdown on
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  Speaker 2: the same thing where I say it had to play
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  Speaker 2: had their corner trying to fill on an interior sea
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  Speaker 2: gap and it was you know, it's a tough ask
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  Speaker 2: for any corner. So again, like these are sort of
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  Speaker 2: concerning things, I think because they're just keeping their cover
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  Speaker 2: four so basic, like a concept we've talked about, Like
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  Speaker 2: we talked about what they could do in tier wise right.
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  Speaker 3: So again, like if.
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  Speaker 2: You have the three technique to Cody Simon's side right here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you if you've changed the defensive ends
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  Speaker 2: up such that or the defensive tackles excuse me, such
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  Speaker 2: that they have to fill from you know, less of
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  Speaker 2: a distance right, and if you keep the defensive end,
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  Speaker 2: if you and you don't just need to, you could
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  Speaker 2: you could pinch the defensive end. You could slant. You
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  Speaker 2: saw them s done a little bit more as a
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  Speaker 2: game went on. Anything that gets the defensive end playing
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  Speaker 2: that b gaps of the linebacker can play the further
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  Speaker 2: out gap right. But then you can also do things
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  Speaker 2: in the coverage like here for instance, Like one concept
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  Speaker 2: you could use is mix in a poach coverage concept.
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  Speaker 2: All that means is that like the backside safety here
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  Speaker 2: at Lathan Ransom and they cover four is going to
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  Speaker 2: help to the opposite side on the number three wide receiver.
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  Speaker 2: And so really all you're doing is you're rotating your
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  Speaker 2: passing strength. You're rotating your coverage to the passing strength,
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  Speaker 2: and that allows you to bump your run defense back
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  Speaker 2: towards the boundary or the run strength, right, because if
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  Speaker 2: you have the boundary safety coming over, now your linebackers
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  Speaker 2: can play more towards the run. So again, not things
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  Speaker 2: they have to do every time, it's just things that
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  Speaker 2: they can mix in so that an offensive corner and
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  Speaker 2: can't know, hey, i can get trips nub here and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get to I'm going to get to
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  Speaker 2: lead on Denzel Burke into the boundary or a quarner.
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  Speaker 3: So again, these are issues.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I say, like you'd say, even a vanilla,
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  Speaker 2: they're challenging them, but they do keep popping up. So
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's a systemic issue that should be addressed.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go, so the concern to
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  Speaker 1: people there, you got your time. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get some equal time for the people who are maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more optimistic about things. Last one is
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  Speaker 1: a three deep, three under zone blitz walk us through
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  Speaker 1: this last one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So suddenly after a game and a half or a
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  Speaker 2: half and let's say almost three quarters of this, on
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  Speaker 2: the last drive that the most of the starters were in,
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  Speaker 2: it was like a total role reversal from Jim Knowles.
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  Speaker 3: So on that last drive we.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Saw multiple zone blitzes, a nickel blitz, a boundary safety blitz,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: they ran some three buzz All of this is to
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: say like whether it was Jim Noles finally got tired
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: of it, Jim Knowles wanted to put stuff on film
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: to say like future opponents, not so fast, You're not
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: going to get away with it, or what.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: It was just a pretty big shift.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: So I guess for the optimists out there, like, no,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: it's in the system that they could do it. And
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: so like again, this is another way, right to like
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: mix it up on the defense. Right, so they're showing
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: cover four at the staffer, a split safety look. But
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: what they do then is essentially they rush five. Right,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: So they're bringing the clientebacker arval Reese, who looks like
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: he's in that overhang position. He's now going to blitz
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: into that B gap, right, so he no longer is
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: in conflict.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: He's coming.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: So now you've got all your gaps covered right with
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: five guys coming up front and C. J. Hicks has
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: a six gap, it was still in coverage. You're now
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: rotating down. Caleb downs. Obviously this fools the Marshall quarterback,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: so he's he thinks he sees r VL rees coming.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: He thinks that overhang is now not accounting for the RPO,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: so he pulls to throw and you almost have a
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: pick because you're rotating into it. And so again like
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: not saying that it's like you should do you should
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: zone blitz every time, but I do think that this
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: is another way. There's just another example of how they
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: can change things up. It's in the system. I'd like
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: to see more of it. I think, you know, you
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: see complaints off also about the pass rush generally. Again,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: like I think it has to be tempered by the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: fact that nearly everything Marshall was doing was like an RPO,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Like the ball was getting out very quickly, right, So
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: it's just like your opponent, as Day said, can someone
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: to gate your pass rush right by doing that. But
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: like there are ways to help your pass rush between
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: either like just rushing your front four or bringing like
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: like the one third and eighth they brought a six
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: man cover one blitz. There was no one in the
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: middle of the field, and it was a conversion. Like
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: we've talked about these before. I know probably have nauseum
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: about like using more creepers, which are just the same concept,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: but a four man pressure where you're bringing a linebacker
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: and dropping a defensive end. You know, a zone blitz
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: is bringing five and running like this is a three
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: deep three under behind, So it's essentially like a Cover
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: three variant. But again, so these are ways to help
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: your good pass rushers too, because the offensive line, like
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: anything else, like if they know they can expect I'm
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: gonna have the defensive end coming at me every time,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: it's easier to block. Whereas now if you're moving people
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and they don't know where the rush is coming from,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: that just makes them assists split second slower. And so
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: that that can help your pass rush not just get
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the guy who you're blitzing to home, but to help
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: your regular pass rushers, like at Jack Sawyer, you know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: have a little bit more success.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Is there something that people can kind of look for
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: that's a simple Hey, this is a sign that they're
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: maybe digging a little deeper into the toolbox on Saturday.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that's one of them.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Right, Like if you see guys coming from different angles,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I mean I think you're you know the base case,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: right you're looking for is like if they're in split safeties,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: you know, where are the linebackers?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Are they walked out like I showed you with a
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: styles or like on the two by two or signmon
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: on three by one. So like if you just see
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: them sitting out there in split safeties, then you know
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: it's a pretty base concept. If you see them moving around,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: you know, showing pressure coming from different spots, right, like
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: they show two eyes safeties and they dropped on to
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: one or they're in one and drop back to two.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: That shows that, you know, not to be creatives being
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the right word, just keeping he's keeping the defense. He's
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: reaching more into the toolbox box to keep the offense
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: off balance and making things you know we talked about
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: like on the offensive side, like plays iterating off for
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: each other with Chip Kelly, right like runs, play actions,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: RPOs like this is just the defensive side of that, right,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Like you show cover four, you rotate down to cover three,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: you get to Cover four run Cover four, but you
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: slightly change up the responsibilities in it, just so the
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: offense doesn't know what's coming. And so you know, the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: more you see guys sort of moving from where they
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: were statically pre snap, I think that is sort of
• 20:30
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• 20:34
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