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Ohio State Football Insider: 3 Things We Learned From Matt Patricia · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: for whom the attention to detail is simply unmatch his
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt Patricia. Now we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: you Tony in a minute, But Ohio State defensive quarner
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  Speaker 1: to Mattvatricia, when you talk to players about him and
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  Speaker 1: what he does with them, it is like James Smith
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  Speaker 1: was talking about spending like an hour and a half
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  Speaker 1: with him at the end of the night in the spring,
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  Speaker 1: just watching NFL film over and over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again to look at like real minote details. So
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia a smooth transition from Jeff Rubies of Columbus
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  Speaker 1: today on the show. Tony Germand Buckeye Insiders dot Com
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  Speaker 1: joins me he was over with Matt Patricia a chance
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him after practice on Thursday, and I
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  Speaker 1: think the story of the year for Ohio State and
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  Speaker 1: especially on defense is new players and how much that's
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  Speaker 1: going to mean in terms of a new look for
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  Speaker 1: the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for a guy like Matt Patris, who's
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  Speaker 2: a creative guy, there's gotta be some sort of excitement
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  Speaker 2: where you're you've got to have. Now it's a clean
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  Speaker 2: slate and you've got to try to match or possibly
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  Speaker 2: even exceed last year with entirely different players. And I
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  Speaker 2: did ask him, how do you balance trying to replace
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  Speaker 2: what you've lost in terms of well, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: find the rvel reach, we've got to find the sunny
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  Speaker 2: versus just putting your defense out there that you have
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  Speaker 2: And he said, last year is gone. It was fun.
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  Speaker 2: I love all those guys, looking forward to watching them
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  Speaker 2: in preseason games, but it's now it's about this year's team.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, that's not exactly what I was saying.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, how much time do you spend trying to
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  Speaker 2: find the next RVL rease. How much time is are
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  Speaker 2: you putting Christian Dellegro inside of outside? How much time
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  Speaker 2: are you focused on that rather than like you just
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  Speaker 2: look at what you have and say, this is what
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  Speaker 2: this program, this year's defense can do. So there's still
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  Speaker 2: plenty of that going on right now. They're kind of
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  Speaker 2: you know, they've been in patch for almost a week now,
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  Speaker 2: but he said they're working on fundamentals this week and
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  Speaker 2: then they'll start to branch out in terms of what
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  Speaker 2: guys can do. But overall, it's it's been I think
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  Speaker 2: a fun thing for him to do, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: all of these coaches talk about urban will talk about
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  Speaker 2: drawing on the napkins and stuff, where I do wonder
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  Speaker 2: last year, is it more fun to have those things
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  Speaker 2: and figure out those things, or then is it how
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  Speaker 2: much fun is it now to try to figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to replace all of that and do it all again.
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  Speaker 2: And these are questions that I'm trying to get asked,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just it's a it's a madhouse when you're
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  Speaker 2: dealing with a coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I would assume that it is probably more
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  Speaker 1: fun to have by far the best players on the field,
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  Speaker 1: like I would assume as a coach, it's not as
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  Speaker 1: much of a challenge but just sort of winning and
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  Speaker 1: being able to push whatever button you push and it works.
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  Speaker 1: There's probably a certain appeal to that. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you were a coach, Mett Patricia was a literal
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  Speaker 1: rocket scientist in a previous career, so you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is not a dumb guy, and he has gone through
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of years, I'm sure to the NFL guy
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  Speaker 1: in him, it's appealing to have a more challenging schedule
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  Speaker 1: and also have to sort of figure it out and
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  Speaker 1: not just have Well, we've got two linebackers and they're
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  Speaker 1: both going to get drafted in the top seven of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. So the linebackers not at all a question
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  Speaker 1: this year. I would better imagine it's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of fun to sort of go through that process. And
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  Speaker 1: you sort of talked about it a little bit, but
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  Speaker 1: it does sound like that is a process where they
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily you know, we're a week into fall camp
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  Speaker 1: at this point, and they don't necessarily have all the
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  Speaker 1: answers in terms of how all the pieces are going
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  Speaker 1: to fit together and what it's going to mean on Saturdays.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and one of the last things he said is
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  Speaker 2: he does think he's going to there there will be
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  Speaker 2: more players playing because you have fewer players that can
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  Speaker 2: do everything like they did last year. Caleb can do whatever,
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  Speaker 2: our val Race can do whatever Sony style. So it's
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  Speaker 2: like you need six guys to replace those three, and
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  Speaker 2: so that's that's what they'll be doing, but then finding
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  Speaker 2: places to implement those klay Russa talked about how I'm
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  Speaker 2: a third down pass specialist, you know, subpackaged kind of guy,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the plan for him. So it's just finding
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  Speaker 2: all of these different plans for each of these guys.
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  Speaker 2: As we're saying, without being too predictable, but yes, on
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  Speaker 2: third and long you are going to bring in your
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  Speaker 2: past rush specialist, and so it's what are those who
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  Speaker 2: excels in these different situations that way, when you're just
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  Speaker 2: putting him in them in situations things are already predictable,
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  Speaker 2: you know. That's that's why you're putting those guys in
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  Speaker 2: there and finding who is the best third and long safety,
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  Speaker 2: who is the best third and two safety, who's the
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  Speaker 2: best third and long second defensive end.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just the game situations that are going
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  Speaker 1: to determine who plays on defense. Sometimes it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be what the offense is doing which determines who plays,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a whole we've we've started talking about this
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit because it feels like it's been sort
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  Speaker 1: of one of the like real undercurrents of Fall Camp
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  Speaker 1: in terms of storylines. Four two five versus four to three.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they'd love to run a four to three five.
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  Speaker 1: They will probably get called for some penalties for too
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  Speaker 1: many men on the field if they try that. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, four two five versus four to three, how
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  Speaker 1: are you sort of structuring that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Or you could do the Notre Dame four one.
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  Speaker 1: Five that it was I leave a three two five
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  Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, they were short a defensive end
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  Speaker 1: on the goal line.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, as as Matt Patricia said, as Ross Fulton
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  Speaker 2: has said, as everybody has said, in terms of offenses,
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  Speaker 2: what is new is ald Again that's Arthur Smith said
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  Speaker 2: the exact same thing the day before, where you're bringing
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  Speaker 2: in bigger lineups, more twelve personnel, two tight ends, one
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  Speaker 2: running back, so you have to have bigger defense handle
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  Speaker 2: that and not gone are the days of the spread offense.
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  Speaker 2: But back are the days of bigger offensive packages with
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  Speaker 2: more tight ends. And I mean, you're not four wide
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  Speaker 2: receivers is a rarity that's always been a rarity at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State. But you're just you've got two tight ends,
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  Speaker 2: and if you don't have three running three wide receivers,
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  Speaker 2: then you can go with three linebackers, provided those linebackers
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  Speaker 2: can cover. And basically said the same thing about whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a free safety look because it's still now. Now
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  Speaker 2: you're kind of in between where that safety has to
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  Speaker 2: be big enough to handle the run and also quick
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  Speaker 2: enough to handle the coverage. So why not just go
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  Speaker 2: to the corner or a linebacker in those situations where
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  Speaker 2: you can do the best of those worlds rather than
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  Speaker 2: I guess least of none. You know that sort of
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  Speaker 2: thing where going to coverage, then bring in a corner
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  Speaker 2: if you want to run stop, or put in a linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: So these are all things that are bouncing out against Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna play three linebackers against Texas, maybe maybe the
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  Speaker 2: four two five, and so you just you go with
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  Speaker 2: the game plan that suits the opponent.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like based on what he said, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to be we want to put these standard
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  Speaker 1: preseason camp happy talk disclaimer on all of this. And
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia is an extremely upbeat guy. You are not
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  Speaker 1: going to get a lot of yeah, that guy stinks
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  Speaker 1: out of Matt Patricia, but he does seem legitimately excited
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  Speaker 1: about what he does have to work with at linebacker,
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  Speaker 1: because it's very easy to frame the conversation around the
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  Speaker 1: guys that aren't there anymore, but the guys that are there.
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  Speaker 1: You may not have one guy who can just do
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  Speaker 1: everything like our Bell Reese, but man, the combination of
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  Speaker 1: players there and skill sets there feels like he's like
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  Speaker 1: legitimately intrigued.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's talked about the importance of the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the defense. That's where the communication goes out from,
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  Speaker 2: and so you need good communicators there. And he talked
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  Speaker 2: about how he said, in terms of just overall play,
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  Speaker 2: I like where Peyton's at, That's his exact quote. In
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  Speaker 2: terms of the communication, he said, Peyton and Christian are
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  Speaker 2: doing a good job, Kristin Olegro and then he said,
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  Speaker 2: also TJ and Riley are coming along. It kind of
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  Speaker 2: gives you a hint of the top two, which is
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  Speaker 2: what we've suspected for a while now, but overall he
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  Speaker 2: said he likes the depth. He even mentioned Eli Lee
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  Speaker 2: in terms of guys that are making plays. So anytime somebody,
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  Speaker 2: some group is out there, he feels okay about it
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  Speaker 2: and they're making plays. I think that's a credit to
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  Speaker 2: James laurenniis credit to the players, of course, but he
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  Speaker 2: can throw different groups out there, and at this point
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  Speaker 2: there's no like, well scrap that. I mean, sure, throw
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  Speaker 2: freshman with the ones are gonna make some mistakes, but
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  Speaker 2: like you know better than to do stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But everything that they're putting out there so far and
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  Speaker 2: trying to see will this work, I guess has been
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  Speaker 2: positive enough to continue considering it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's what they're trying to do right now.
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  Speaker 1: You figure out what's not working, and when you eliminate
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff it hasn't worked, then you kind of
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  Speaker 1: know what you're working with and then you sort of
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  Speaker 1: refine your process from there. So there you go. Some
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  Speaker 1: updates on a few things we learned from Matt Patricia
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. We will be back in the Woody on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday talking to Ohouse Date head coach Ryan Day, but
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have plenty more coverage all week long. We
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  Speaker 1: got we got interviews with James Smith. There were some
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  Speaker 1: good stuff with him. There's some good stuff in Kwaiy Russol.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to get some shows cut up with those in
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of days. We'll to hear more from
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, will have to hear more from Matt Patricia.
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  Speaker 1: We got a bunch of stuff coming up, and then
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