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BONUS: Juck's First Thoughts Following Ohio State's 45-16 Win Over Maryland · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: And welcome into Buckeye Insiders. Appreciate you so much for
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Speaker 1: joining us on the postgame show. As we are done
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Speaker 1: here with press conferences, Ryan Day wraps it up. There
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Speaker 1: will be no Carson Hinsman. They will get him during
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Speaker 1: the week. He was going to come. So we heard
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Speaker 1: from Ryan Day. We heard from Julian Sayen. And now
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Speaker 1: it is time to get into the game. Appreciate you
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Speaker 1: all so much for joining us live here on the
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Speaker 1: Buckeye Insiders postgame show. I'm Chuck. I'm going to leave
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Speaker 1: you off here. And then we're kicking to Tom and Tony.
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Speaker 1: As the Buckeyes with the big win today, 45 to
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Speaker 1: 16 over Maryland for homecoming. And I can see a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of you want to talk about the offensive line.
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Speaker 1: We'll definitely talk about the offensive line because I think
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Speaker 1: the issue might be not what you're thinking with the
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Speaker 1: offensive line. You know, obviously you walk into today, number one,
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Speaker 1: a really dreary day here to set the scene at
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Speaker 1: the shoe and a lot of empty seats more than
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Speaker 1: I thought there'd be today for homecoming, especially as hard
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Speaker 1: as it was. to get in here, and it was tough, man.
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Speaker 1: I had a really rough time getting into the place,
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Speaker 1: even three and a half, four hours before. Can you
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Speaker 1: not hear me, Duke? I hope my microphone's working good.
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Speaker 1: Can you guys hear me? So we're in the press box,
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Speaker 1: and there's other people around, so I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be too loud. Here's what I'll do. Is that better?
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Speaker 1: That's probably better without that big windscreen. Okay, I bet
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Speaker 1: you can hear me better now. So obviously, we get
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Speaker 1: news right before the game. We had gone over the
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Speaker 1: availability reports all week, right? And certainly some surprising names
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Speaker 1: were on that ability report this week. We had Christian
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Speaker 1: Allegro pop up this morning. And Christian Allegro was one
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Speaker 1: that we weren't thinking we were going to see. But
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Speaker 1: the most surprising one was, and I didn't even hear
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Speaker 1: this till I got here to the stadium, Austin Sereveld
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Speaker 1: had popped up on that list. Now, of course, we
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Speaker 1: knew Phil Daniels was probable, or I'm sorry, not probable,
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Speaker 1: like probably not. Whatever designation is for probably not, he
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Speaker 1: was that. And then we get here and find out
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Speaker 1: Austin Sereveld is not going to go today. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sitting here looking at Tony going, wait a second, no Phil,
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Speaker 1: no Austin Sereveld, where does that leave you? Well, you're next,
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Speaker 1: I mean, Your next designated tackles are Carter Lowe, sophomore
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Speaker 1: Carter Lowe, junior Deontay Armstrong. And the last time that
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Speaker 1: we saw Carter Lowe was in the spring game. He's
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Speaker 1: played a couple of snaps here and there, but in
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Speaker 1: the spring game, granted against Kenyatta Jackson, a really awesome
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Speaker 1: older veteran player. It was a really rough performance for
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Speaker 1: Carter Lowe. So rough that Kenyatta was kind of looked
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Speaker 1: like he kind of felt bad. He was helping him
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Speaker 1: out throughout the game. it didn't look like Carter Lowe
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Speaker 1: was ready for primetime. Put it that way. Deontay Armstrong,
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Speaker 1: who has been improving, still likely not there, not ready
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Speaker 1: to start a Big Ten game. So what do you do?
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Speaker 1: And Ryan Day talked about it in his post-game show,
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Speaker 1: post-game press conference. And he said they had the option
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Speaker 1: of potentially kicking Luke out there to tackle, but they
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Speaker 1: chose to go with Gabe Van Sickle at tackle and
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Speaker 1: Jake Cook at guard. And That is how they went
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Speaker 1: with it for the majority of the game. We did
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Speaker 1: see when they wanted to run the bison package, where
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Speaker 1: they wanted to put Jake Cook at fullback or tight end.
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Speaker 1: What they did was they brought Padilla in at right
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Speaker 1: guard and they moved Jake. So as Duke says, that
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Speaker 1: freshman from Maryland is better than Colin Simmons, in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: And of course, he's talking about Zion Ellie. Zion Ellie
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Speaker 1: was at one point the number one defensive end in
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Speaker 1: the country throughout the cycle last year. he's a five-star.
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Speaker 1: It's either him or Luke Wafel, number one or number two.
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Speaker 1: And he was, when he was really coming after it,
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Speaker 1: he was something to behold. He is a supreme athlete.
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Speaker 1: He obviously whooped Ian Moore. And if we're talking about
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Speaker 1: the offensive line, you know, honestly, I thought that on
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Speaker 1: that right side, Gabe Van Sickle and Jake, for the
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Speaker 1: most part, they played pretty solid. Yeah, protection wasn't great today.
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Speaker 1: but I'm going to count one two three instances of
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Speaker 1: Ian Moore actually getting getting beat on the offensive line
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Speaker 1: two of which resulted in Julian saying putting the ball
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Speaker 1: on the carpet one of those I thought Julian needs
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Speaker 1: to be a little more aware of his surroundings but
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Speaker 1: both times we saw Julian put the ball on the
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Speaker 1: carpet was left tackle Ian Moore getting beat not those
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Speaker 1: guys on the right so You know, that right there
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Speaker 1: coming off of Ian Moore's worst game we've ever seen
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Speaker 1: from him against Iowa last week where he surrendered five pressures.
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Speaker 1: And then on the heels of that, you come into
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Speaker 1: this game and you get whooped three times, get your
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Speaker 1: quarterback popped three times. No good for me and Moore. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously we're rolling into Indiana next week, which
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Speaker 1: is the big thing we're talking about all week long
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Speaker 1: is this is the final stop. This is the final–
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Speaker 1: get right before you roll into Indiana. And that is
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Speaker 1: not what you want to see is two rough games
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Speaker 1: by your left tackle in a row. So nonetheless, what
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Speaker 1: needs to happen is Austin Searveld, Phil Daniels, hopefully are
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Speaker 1: available for that game because you want to go in
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Speaker 1: there as full strength as you can. When we talk
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Speaker 1: about elite movement, Tyler Bowen talked about it all last year.
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Speaker 1: Elite movement is what this team struggled with. Indiana is
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Speaker 1: the elitist of elite movers. And of course, everybody saw
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Speaker 1: it today. They almost lost. They ended up coming back
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Speaker 1: and beating Nebraska. Big question is, how good is Nebraska?
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Speaker 1: I guess we don't know. Is Indiana all they're cracked
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Speaker 1: up to be this year? They obviously tight with Northwestern
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Speaker 1: and now tight with Nebraska in the only two games
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Speaker 1: they've played. Everything else has been a cream puff for them.
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Speaker 1: But Northwestern looks pretty good. Nebraska looks pretty good. So
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Speaker 1: either way, I know that there's a lot of people
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Speaker 1: who are feeling down about that game next week. um
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Speaker 1: but uh to be honest there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: things that that ohio state kind of dropped the ball
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Speaker 1: on today didn't play good and you still look at
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Speaker 1: him come out with a 45 to 16 victory you
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Speaker 1: know there were a lot of things a lot of
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Speaker 1: areas that he cleaned up there was some sloppy play
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Speaker 1: uh you look at julian saying maybe one of his
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Speaker 1: i don't know he was i think i believe 62
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Speaker 1: completion percentage which is very out of character for julian
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Speaker 1: saying obviously this is a guy who You know, can
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Speaker 1: pepper you with 80% completion percentage all day. On the
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Speaker 1: day he was 12, I'm sorry, that's Malik Washington. No,
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Speaker 1: Malik Washington was under 50%. That is the second week
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Speaker 1: in a row that Ohio State has gone against a
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Speaker 1: quarterback who has completed less than 50% of his balls.
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Speaker 1: Not too good, but also you got to credit the
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Speaker 1: Buckeye defense with a lot of that as well. So
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Speaker 1: props to them. But Julian Sane was 13 of 21.
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Speaker 1: For 242 yards, 62% completion percentage, threw four touchdown passes,
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Speaker 1: one interception. Julian talked in the post-game press conference, if
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Speaker 1: you guys were watching there. And he said that, you know,
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Speaker 1: it could have been three turnovers. Obviously, you threw the
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Speaker 1: one interception, and he got hit on that interception. And
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Speaker 1: then you, by the way, that was Isaiah West in
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Speaker 1: the one play that he got in. I believe that
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Speaker 1: was his only play of the day. And he was
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Speaker 1: one of the guys that I don't want to be
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Speaker 1: live now. Thought he played good last week, despite his line,
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Speaker 1: not looking good, only seven rushes for 21 yards. But
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Speaker 1: a lot of it was the pocket. Everything got collapsed
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Speaker 1: on before he got an opportunity, the couple of runs
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Speaker 1: where he had a little room to breathe. He looked good.
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Speaker 1: So he gets in for one step today and totally
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Speaker 1: blows his block. It's the play blown up and an
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Speaker 1: interception thrown for a pick six. And then he got
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Speaker 1: yanked and didn't play again. So that was a bummer
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Speaker 1: to see out of Isaiah, but, Julian saying through that interception,
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Speaker 1: then we had a fumble. And then he said in
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Speaker 1: the press conference that, you know, the second fumble that
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Speaker 1: Ohio state recovered, he said it could have been three turnovers,
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Speaker 1: but he forgot to mention the other time where he
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Speaker 1: threw it into triple coverage and the wide or the
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Speaker 1: DB had the ball drop right through his belly and
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Speaker 1: somehow didn't catch it. I have no idea how the
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Speaker 1: kid didn't catch it, but it really could have been
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Speaker 1: four turnovers on the day. And, you know, obviously, again,
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Speaker 1: this is kind of the dress rehearsal before the big
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Speaker 1: showdown for what is the biggest game in Indiana's Memorial
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Speaker 1: Stadium's history is how they've been building it up. And thankfully, look,
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Speaker 1: I know probably like you, normally you're watching them play Nebraska.
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Speaker 1: You were probably rooting for Nebraska to win the game.
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Speaker 1: Like I was too, but then I'm thinking, man, we
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Speaker 1: want this game next week to be as big as possible.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're playing both these teams, right? We got
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Speaker 1: to play them both at their place. But Indiana, I
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Speaker 1: wanted them to be undefeated when we went in there.
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Speaker 1: So I'm watching this like, you know, kind of like,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I want to root for Nebraska, but I
9:22
Speaker 1: need them to be undefeated. But when we look at
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Speaker 1: the offensive possessions in the first half, I want to
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Speaker 1: point this out. As Arthur Smith has just totally, and
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Speaker 1: I'll get to your guys' comments and questions before I
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Speaker 1: turn over to the fellas, but Arthur Smith's offense, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of this was the product of Maryland running
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Speaker 1: a little bit faster but last year there were several
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Speaker 1: games Ohio State ran eight total possessions in the entire
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Speaker 1: game he had eight offensive possessions the first half today
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Speaker 1: you had seven offensive possessions in the first half which
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Speaker 1: I just absolutely love I can't tell you how much
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Speaker 1: I love this. After going through a couple of games
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Speaker 1: last year with eight possessions, seven possessions, I think for
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Speaker 1: one of them, not counting like a, you know, a
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Speaker 1: final possession where you get it and then the game's
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Speaker 1: over with a, with a couple of kneel downs. just
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Speaker 1: unbelievable to finally be playing like looking like a regular
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Speaker 1: offense again and not that turtle offense. So very, very
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Speaker 1: pleased with that. But when we look at how the
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Speaker 1: Buckeyes started the game, you know, they really had this thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of wrapped up by halftime, which is
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Speaker 1: what we'd expect when Ohio State plays a Maryland team
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Speaker 1: that is two and three. And they did come into
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Speaker 1: here two and three. This is a team that UCLA
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Speaker 1: totally mollywhopped. Shout out UCLA, who goes into Autzen Stadium
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Speaker 1: today and beats Oregon. So they're officially the real deal.
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Speaker 1: Even though Oregon had Dylan Riggle as their backup quarterback
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Speaker 1: in that a lot of people said should be their
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Speaker 1: starter from here on out. He ends up getting pulled,
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Speaker 1: I think, in the third quarter. Tony and I kept
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Speaker 1: as much, you know, our eye on that as much
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Speaker 1: as we could while watching the Buckeyes game. But when
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Speaker 1: we start off this game, you start this sucker off
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Speaker 1: with a punt for your first possession. And special teams,
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Speaker 1: a big part of what Ryan Day wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about all week, right? Tuesday, he brings it up. He talked,
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Speaker 1: you know, Robbie Disher by name and Robbie Disher comes
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Speaker 1: in this year. This is his first year, obviously, with
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Speaker 1: the Buckeyes. And this is supposed to be like, OK,
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Speaker 1: we're going to see the special teams turn around for
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Speaker 1: the special teams have been subpar at Ohio State for
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Speaker 1: a couple of years. And it hasn't been, you know, good.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, it's been flat out bad. We're
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Speaker 1: talking like everything's rated in like the hundreds out of
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Speaker 1: out of 136. And that's where it's been from the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the year till today. So we were hoping
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Speaker 1: to see some good special teams today. And the first
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Speaker 1: punt we see, here's an opportunity to pin them inside
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Speaker 1: the 10. And we see it going to the end zone. So,
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Speaker 1: all right, you're minus one, right? Now, we did see
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Speaker 1: some better special teams play as the game went on.
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Speaker 1: But that was just like right off the rip when
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Speaker 1: you got an opportunity to pin them down and you don't. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: the Bucs get the ball back. And that is when
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Speaker 1: we see the first touchdown. which was, of course, to Jeremiah,
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Speaker 1: who went rumbling down the right sideline. And he was
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Speaker 1: moving so fast that I felt like he was almost
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Speaker 1: going to lose control of his feet. We're like flying
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Speaker 1: out to the sides on that play. And this is
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Speaker 1: kind of a recurring theme here today. You know, I'm
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Speaker 1: sitting here with the all 22 view. A key in
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Speaker 1: a lot of times on the other wide receivers that
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Speaker 1: aren't Jeremiah, because I want to see what, you know,
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Speaker 1: Julian seeing what he's focusing on. But on that play,
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah wasn't his first read. A lot of these plays,
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah's built in as the first read. He wasn't. Julian
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Speaker 1: skipped right over Brock Boyd, who was running a post
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Speaker 1: and had three yards on the guy. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why he didn't pull the trigger. Swings it out to
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah for a little one, and Jeremiah takes it the distance. So, okay,
12:56
Speaker 1: all's well that ends well. But there you have an
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Speaker 1: easy touchdown pass for Julian Sane, for a guy with
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Speaker 1: his arm. Not sure why he didn't pull the trigger.
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Speaker 1: But I think we saw quite a bit of that today.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know what it is about Julian that
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Speaker 1: he can't seem to get in sync with Brock Boyd
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Speaker 1: for some reason. We did see the long pass to
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Speaker 1: Chris Henry Jr. Chris made an excellent adjustment in the air.
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Speaker 1: And that was great. But we saw him. I thought, like,
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Speaker 1: I knew before he threw that ball to Brock down
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Speaker 1: by the goal line here, the little double move that
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Speaker 1: Brock made, I knew he was throwing it to him
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Speaker 1: before he even threw it to him. So I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: this almost is going to look forced, and it did,
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Speaker 1: and the timing was bad. But, you know, we didn't
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Speaker 1: see a single reception from Brock. Now, Brock did drop one,
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Speaker 1: but I really thought that today was the day we
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Speaker 1: were going to see him potentially catch four or five balls.
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Speaker 1: Didn't happen. We did see Kyle Parker catch a ball,
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Speaker 1: and nothing came of it. You know, we didn't get
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Speaker 1: to see any yards after catch. He had a DB
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Speaker 1: right on him to bring him down immediately. But that
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Speaker 1: catch that Jeremiah made in the catch and run, the
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Speaker 1: first one, was fantastic and then we see the Nate
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Speaker 1: Roberts down the middle streaking down the middle wide open
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Speaker 1: they schemed it perfectly and Nate was so fast when
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Speaker 1: he got in full stride I mean they weren't closing
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Speaker 1: distance at all on him so that was awesome to
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Speaker 1: see you get Nate boom he's on the board with
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Speaker 1: the touchdown and then it's back to Jeremiah this time
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Speaker 1: down on the other end zone to the left side.
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Speaker 1: And this one was almost a lateral. It was maybe
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Speaker 1: a one yard pass. And Jeremiah, to me, it reminded
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Speaker 1: me of Bo Jackson's run against Michigan last year, where,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's no way he's going to get the edge.
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Speaker 1: And then you see him fake in and somehow get
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Speaker 1: the edge. Jeremiah got that edge. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: he got it, but it was just like jaw dropping.
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Speaker 1: It happened kind of right in front of where we're
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Speaker 1: sitting here. And I, It's almost to the point where
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Speaker 1: everybody just kind of giggles. Like, this is just silly
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Speaker 1: at this point, man. It's silly. When you look at
15:02
Speaker 1: the game today, Jeremiah only with, I think, five targets,
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Speaker 1: four receptions. But again, another two touchdowns, 90-some yard day.
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Speaker 1: And what's that? Eight touchdowns in the last three games.
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Speaker 1: Certainly not going to do anything but increase the Heisman
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Speaker 1: buzz as he is currently the big favorite right now.
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Speaker 1: for the Heisman, and I think the only thing that's
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Speaker 1: going to potentially stand in his way is if we
15:26
Speaker 1: start to see one of these quarterbacks up at the
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Speaker 1: top of college football. Maybe Keelan Russell tonight really do
15:31
Speaker 1: well against Georgia to start to push him. That's really
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Speaker 1: the only way that we're not going to see our
15:38
Speaker 1: first Heisman here at Ohio State since Troy Smith in 2006, which, man,
15:42
Speaker 1: I sure hope it happens. Some people don't care about
15:45
Speaker 1: those things. I certainly do. So in addition to that,
15:50
Speaker 1: we also saw in this first half Mason Williams in
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Speaker 1: a play that Julian held onto the ball quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: Look for his guy. I thought maybe he could hit
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Speaker 1: Max LeBlanc in the back of the end zone right
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Speaker 1: off the rip, kind of lofted over, and he didn't.
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Speaker 1: Held onto it. He's running out of bounds. And he
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Speaker 1: hits Mason Williams for a touchdown there. So that was great.
16:10
Speaker 1: And you go into halftime with a nice, healthy lead. Now,
16:14
Speaker 1: as far as the rushing game goes, in the first half,
16:17
Speaker 1: Jacoby Jackson was your clear lead back. At halftime, he
16:21
Speaker 1: had eight carries. Bowe had four carries. Julian had, I think,
16:26
Speaker 1: five rushes in the first half. And I believe that
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Speaker 1: was it. So Jacoby was leading the day, and he
16:35
Speaker 1: was looking good. In the second half, Bowe gets the
16:39
Speaker 1: majority of the carries, and so much so that, as
16:44
Speaker 1: I say, Jacoby doubled him in the first half. When
16:46
Speaker 1: you look at the end of the game statistics, Bo
16:48
Speaker 1: Jackson had 23 rushing attempts to Jacoby's 14, which is wild.
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Speaker 1: So Bo ends up with 23 rushing attempts for 107 yards,
16:58
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Finally, we get a nice explosive of 25
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Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown, a 4.7 yard average for Bo. Really,
17:08
Speaker 1: really good stuff. I thought he ran hard. I thought
17:10
Speaker 1: he looked juiced up. And for whatever reason, man, it's
17:14
Speaker 1: just hit or miss. It's one game to the next,
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Speaker 1: you know, which, how you come out feeling about both performances.
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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, one game it's like, eh,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. In the next game, I thought today
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Speaker 1: he just looked like so juiced up and it was
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Speaker 1: great to see, obviously with Indiana on deck and Jacoby
17:33
Speaker 1: was excellent. He's gotten better every week. He's been a
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Speaker 1: Buckeye 14 for 76, had a 15 yard run, a 5.4,
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Speaker 1: yards per carry. And then you got Legend in with
17:45
Speaker 1: a couple of carries. And of course, Legend's been a
17:47
Speaker 1: big topic of conversation this week, the last couple of weeks,
17:50
Speaker 1: all season, but particularly this week. And certainly everybody knows why.
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Speaker 1: But I thought this is just going to be a
17:58
Speaker 1: week to week thing. If he handles the checklist he
18:02
Speaker 1: needs to handle week to week, he'll play that week.
18:05
Speaker 1: And clearly he handled it this week as we see
18:08
Speaker 1: him returning kicks right off the rip. And I do
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Speaker 1: believe we have got legend here on the stat sheet
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Speaker 1: with two kick returns for a total of 46 yards,
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Speaker 1: a 23-yard average with a 29-yard long return. That's excellent.
18:23
Speaker 1: That works. You need that in your special teams. In
18:27
Speaker 1: addition to that, Phil Bell had a really nice return.
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Speaker 1: And not just that, but he made the right decisions
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Speaker 1: on when to field punts, when to go up and
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Speaker 1: catch them. So awesome stuff for Phil. Also, the Buckeyes
18:44
Speaker 1: punt return team sniffed out that fake punt, too. So,
18:48
Speaker 1: shout out to them for that. Ryan Radzinski, stud, 46.
18:52
Speaker 1: Awesome play by Ryan Radzinski. Loved seeing that. Used to
18:56
Speaker 1: watch his dad, Jerry Radzinski, when I was a younger fella.
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Speaker 1: And he was a stud. So, I loved seeing that.
19:03
Speaker 1: And then we've got, what, one more special teams play
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Speaker 1: that I wanted to talk about. What the heck was it?
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: They went for a kick block. They went for a
19:13
Speaker 1: punt block at one point. And Jordan Thomas, freshman Jordan Thomas,
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Speaker 1: comes off the edge, and he had it. He had it.
19:21
Speaker 1: All he's got to do is lay out. And it
19:23
Speaker 1: almost looked like he was scared to get the penalty,
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Speaker 1: so he kind of half laid out and ends up
19:28
Speaker 1: getting the penalty anyway. They're running into the kicker, which,
19:31
Speaker 1: you know, it's either go for it or don't, right?
19:36
Speaker 1: So that is what we had on specials. And all
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Speaker 1: in all, I think that they're going to come out
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Speaker 1: feeling like a net positive when it comes to special
19:43
Speaker 1: teams for the day, which is great. And I think
19:46
Speaker 1: it's maybe the first game of the year, Well, excluding
19:51
Speaker 1: the Mac games, maybe even not excluding the Mac games,
19:53
Speaker 1: but I think that they won the hidden yardage special
19:56
Speaker 1: teams yardage battle. Again, not positive about that. We'll see
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Speaker 1: when we go over the numbers, but I felt like,
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Speaker 1: I felt like they did. Now, when we look at
20:07
Speaker 1: some of the other groups here, Um, the offensive line
20:11
Speaker 1: as a whole, I think that maybe I disagree with
20:14
Speaker 1: the chat. I think under the circumstances, under the circumstances, right.
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Speaker 1: It was not a bad performance. You read your rush
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Speaker 1: for 200 yards, right? You can't, yeah. The past pro
20:23
Speaker 1: was not so hot, but you also got to factor
20:26
Speaker 1: in your rush for 200 yards. And a lot of
20:28
Speaker 1: those were, you know, gaping holes that you or I
20:31
Speaker 1: could have run through. So you got to give them
20:33
Speaker 1: credit for that. If you want to knock them for
20:35
Speaker 1: the past pro as well. Um, and also they were
20:39
Speaker 1: in a bit of a spot, right? Three hours before
20:41
Speaker 1: the game, you find out you got a situation here.
20:43
Speaker 1: And I thought for the most part, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: they did fairly well. I'm a little, um, the Ian
20:50
Speaker 1: Moore stuff concerns me. No, no doubt about that. But
20:52
Speaker 1: as a unit, you know, that is kind of a,
20:55
Speaker 1: you build some confidence over a game like that, where
20:57
Speaker 1: you throw guys in at the last minute and they
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Speaker 1: come out and they perform and you rush for 200 yards. That,
21:02
Speaker 1: that can be a confidence builder. for some of the
21:05
Speaker 1: younger guys, Jake Cook and Gabe Van Sickle playing tackle
21:08
Speaker 1: over there on the right side. Gabe had a rough game,
21:10
Speaker 1: his worst he's ever had at Ohio State, I thought,
21:13
Speaker 1: aside from Miami. Of course, aside from Miami. Last week
21:18
Speaker 1: at Iowa, I didn't think he played a very good game.
21:20
Speaker 1: And he definitely played a much better game today. Other
21:25
Speaker 1: questions that, oh, shout out Jalen McClain, certainly our player
21:28
Speaker 1: of the day on defense. Jalen McClain was everywhere. He
21:33
Speaker 1: was so fired up. He was just sniffing everything out,
21:36
Speaker 1: laying the wood like he does, uh, and, and wrapping, um,
21:40
Speaker 1: Kim Calhoun needs to wrap, but Jalen, he was a hammer.
21:45
Speaker 1: And then one of the big questions that I had
21:46
Speaker 1: coming into the game is after, I think what we
21:49
Speaker 1: saw last week was maybe Edgar Houston's best game of
21:52
Speaker 1: his Buckeye career. Can he come out and do it again?
21:55
Speaker 1: Can he come out and make a big play and
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Speaker 1: keep the fire that he had last week? He had
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Speaker 1: so much fire, uh, And he does come out and
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Speaker 1: make a play relatively early, a TFL. I think he
22:07
Speaker 1: had one and a half TFLs on the day, if
22:10
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. And that was great to see from Edrick.
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Speaker 1: Jason Moore also played a pretty good game. Jason Moore
22:17
Speaker 1: made a couple of plays. I was hoping to see
22:20
Speaker 1: Quay Russo, who also might have played certainly his best
22:23
Speaker 1: game as a Buckeye last week, but maybe one of
22:25
Speaker 1: the better games of his career in Iowa. Could we
22:28
Speaker 1: potentially see something out of him to get him rolling again?
22:32
Speaker 1: And we saw Kwe Rusaw with three total tackles, credited
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Speaker 1: with three solos and a TFL. So good on him.
22:43
Speaker 1: Riley Pettijohn got to play a lot today. Two total
22:46
Speaker 1: tackles on the day for him. TJ Alford with four
22:49
Speaker 1: total tackles and two solos. Four total for Peyton Pierce
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Speaker 1: as well. But these guys didn't get a whole lot
22:56
Speaker 1: of offensive plays on Maryland's side. And I think that,
23:01
Speaker 1: you know, that has a lot to do with the
23:03
Speaker 1: lack of statistics. In addition to that, they got the
23:05
Speaker 1: ball out pretty quick. So there wasn't much of an
23:07
Speaker 1: opportunity to get a whole lot of a pass rush.
23:11
Speaker 1: And Ohio State did not get any sacks today on
23:14
Speaker 1: Malik Washington. But this guy, man, you know, he had
23:19
Speaker 1: some opportunities. He had some opportunities. I think Tony and
23:23
Speaker 1: I noted early on in the game that on a
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Speaker 1: couple of third downs, the first maybe two third downs
23:28
Speaker 1: they had, Malik Washington had an opportunity to get a
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Speaker 1: first down with a guy that they schemed open, and
23:34
Speaker 1: he missed him both times. The one was the running
23:38
Speaker 1: back coming out, and he just totally skied it over
23:40
Speaker 1: his head. The other one, they had worked their slot
23:46
Speaker 1: receiver on a wheel route on the left side. He
23:48
Speaker 1: didn't even see him. The kid was wide open. So
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Speaker 1: Malik with not such a great day, and Josh Hoover,
23:56
Speaker 1: going to be better next week. The Indiana wide receivers
23:59
Speaker 1: are going to be better next week, no doubt. What
24:03
Speaker 1: else do we got? Already went over Isaiah West, legend.
24:08
Speaker 1: It's good to see him, obviously. Oh, the penalties. Oh,
24:11
Speaker 1: and I wanted to ask you guys, because I didn't
24:12
Speaker 1: get a chance to see this. Oh, hey, there's Tom
24:15
Speaker 1: and Tony. Hey, guys. The penalties, they were talking in
24:21
Speaker 1: the postgame show. or I'm sorry, in the press conference,
24:25
Speaker 1: and I heard that Ryan Day was very demonstrative. I
24:28
Speaker 1: didn't see this, but he was asked some questions about it.
24:32
Speaker 1: Did you guys hear that? Did you guys see what
24:35
Speaker 1: they were talking about? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Saw some of that on the TV copy, a little
24:42
Speaker 2: bit of that, but I did not see all of it. But, yeah,
24:45
Speaker 2: clearly upset because, you know, these penalties are a reflection
24:48
Speaker 2: of the coach, and if you are, you know, If
24:52
Speaker 2: you're not stopping it, you're allowing it. And so silly,
24:56
Speaker 2: silly stuff that doesn't need to happen. And I know
24:58
Speaker 2: that these are new starters and all of these things
25:00
Speaker 2: that they've got going on, but really can't happen next week.
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Speaker 1: You got to get done with it. No, no, for sure.
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Speaker 3: This is a, you got to get this out of
25:09
Speaker 3: the way. This is, you almost had to treat this
25:11
Speaker 3: as the week before Texas where it's like, you can
25:14
Speaker 3: make your mistakes against fall state and it's not going
25:15
Speaker 3: to come back to haunt you.
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Speaker 1: You know what's on deck. And so you can't you
25:19
Speaker 1: can't just.
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Speaker 3: You know, you can't do that stuff next week. And,
25:23
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's probably to the point that Nate
25:27
Speaker 3: Roberts basically said that, like, it's not bad to have
25:30
Speaker 3: something to learn from. for them because they're going to
25:32
Speaker 3: hear about.
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Speaker 2: It this week yeah and then we could talk about
25:34
Speaker 2: that further but uh jock if you want to it's
25:37
Speaker 2: dark out i know you've got to be heading back
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Speaker 2: home a great shot there you can see the shoe
25:41
Speaker 2: at night uh it's strange covering an afternoon game we
25:45
Speaker 2: don't get to do it all that often it's usually
25:47
Speaker 2: at noon and then it'll be dark but uh jock
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Speaker 2: thanks for handing this off handling the first half of
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Speaker 2: the show or so and we will pick it
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Speaker 1: Up from here