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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Chip Kelly Continues To Grow The Ohio State Run Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, November fourteenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or. The Northwestern game is in two days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in sixteen days. Today we are
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  Speaker 1: looking at back at the Perdue game with our buddy
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  Speaker 1: Ross Fulton, the ex's and nosguru bucke Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: have one, two, three, four, five, six plays we're breaking
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  Speaker 1: down for you today. One of them I watched the
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  Speaker 1: rewatch the game after I thought, oh boy, I hope
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  Speaker 1: Ross does this play this week, and I forgot to
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  Speaker 1: message him, and good news, it's in here. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that in a little bit. But Ross, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with one. Buckey's running inside zone against
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  Speaker 1: a five to one front. This is sort of an
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  Speaker 1: unusual combination here and normally I will try and tell people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hey, this is the play where this happened.
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  Speaker 1: If you're just listening to the podcast, this was a
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  Speaker 1: short run by quin John Judkins, so extremely unmemorable in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways. But what is there to learn
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  Speaker 1: from this one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there were a few of these unmemorable runs, and
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I just wanted to take a
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  Speaker 2: moment to point out why that was during the game.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's some disquiet about some of this, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, Ryan Day talked about this going into the game.
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  Speaker 2: Seth mclachland touched on it after the game. Purdue is
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  Speaker 2: a base front under Ryan Walters is sort of unique.
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  Speaker 2: It's this five down, one linebacker look where I Dave
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  Speaker 2: referred to it as a bear, you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: actually bear, double eagle, whatever term you want to use. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: they're covering up every offensive lineman right and so Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State's based run play this year under Chip Kelly has
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  Speaker 2: been inside zone and the goal with that is to
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  Speaker 2: create double teams and then climb to the second level
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  Speaker 2: so you can get movement. And what this front does
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  Speaker 2: effectively is it limits you on getting double teams and like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can see that, you know, you can
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  Speaker 2: set her see the overall concept from the wide angle
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  Speaker 2: and then from behind the defense you get a little
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  Speaker 2: bit even more of the flavor of it. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: with each offensive lineman, you know, like Seth McLaughlan, as
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  Speaker 2: the center has a single block on the nose tackle,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Carson Hinsman has to single block the defensive tackle.
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  Speaker 3: Donovan Jackson has to climb to the linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Producer doubled down on that by they like us on
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  Speaker 2: this play, they brought a corner blitz from the boundary
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  Speaker 2: frequently into this look. Honestly, you know, I would consider
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  Speaker 2: this like a fairly successful one of these plays because
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  Speaker 2: they got they got five yards. They brought the tight
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  Speaker 2: end to the backside a few times like this to
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  Speaker 2: pick up the extra defender and they're able to dig
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  Speaker 2: out the corner blitzing here and Quijahn Juckkins they kind
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  Speaker 2: of picked up as the game is going on, like
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  Speaker 2: basically immediately cut back to the backside where the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: run element would be. You know, Will Howard did have
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  Speaker 2: a big run on this. So the long and the
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  Speaker 2: short of it was that this defense is basically designed
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  Speaker 2: to take away inside zone. You know, when obviously did
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  Speaker 2: not get this run from Purdue. They have big chunk
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  Speaker 2: plays on inside zone. You know that two minute drive
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  Speaker 2: as being one example. Trevon Henderson had a couple. So
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  Speaker 2: more about the front. I think that in this game,
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  Speaker 2: you know a few examples of other run plays. But
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  Speaker 2: as we talked about last week, like this is Purdue,
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna go probably guns are blazing on your
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  Speaker 2: you know, run game diversity here. And I think as
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  Speaker 2: Seth McLachlan sort of put after the game, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: they knew they were going to have to kind of
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  Speaker 2: just throw some jabs into a tough front at times
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  Speaker 2: against the boiler Makers on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And the next one's a little more exciting and plays
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  Speaker 1: it's probably a little more memorable. But again something that
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  Speaker 1: o'hist it has shown a bunch over the years. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked about the sale concept a bunch. That's something that
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day will use in the passing game. This is
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  Speaker 1: the long pass to Carnel Tape that was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit underthrown and he had this kind of come back
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  Speaker 1: for it.
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  Speaker 3: And it got knocked away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I sort of want to touch on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, another I think sort of grouse you hear
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  Speaker 2: is about Will Howards and his you know, deep ball
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  Speaker 2: prowess or lack thereof. You know, statistically, he's actually in
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good spot, whether you're looking at like compared
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  Speaker 2: to other college quarterbacks, whether you know, twenty yards in
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  Speaker 2: the air, thirty yards in the air. But there have
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  Speaker 2: been a few that have been underthrown, and several of
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  Speaker 2: them I actually think are less to just do with
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  Speaker 2: his technique or arm strength, although we can get into
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  Speaker 2: that a little bit here in just the concept where
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  Speaker 2: the guy who's opened downfield isn't really the read and
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  Speaker 2: so by the time he gets to him, the guy
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  Speaker 2: has broken free, but it's sort of he's late to
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  Speaker 2: it because that's not what's going on here. So right,
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  Speaker 2: so we talked about this. This is the exact same
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  Speaker 2: play they used against Penn State where Jeremiah Smith was
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  Speaker 2: open and Howard third iceed deep ball to him, but
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  Speaker 2: Smith pulled up off his route. And the reason is
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  Speaker 2: because the concept really is to run off like this
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  Speaker 2: is a cover three look from Purdue, right, So like
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  Speaker 2: you have a deep corner, deep safety, the deep route
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  Speaker 2: is supposed to run off the corner, and so you
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  Speaker 2: open up this like deep out cut right, like the
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote Sale Route. You know, it's just like a
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  Speaker 2: twenty yard deep out underneath of it. Cardinal Tate was
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  Speaker 2: opened against on it against Penn State, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day actually discussed that play last week and said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I partially Jeremi Smith was sort of thought
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  Speaker 2: he was capped by the safety and the ball was
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  Speaker 2: going to Cardinal Tate, which is why I saw down
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  Speaker 2: here you have a situation where a mecha BUCA on
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  Speaker 2: the Sale route would have been opened but for the
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  Speaker 2: fact the Purdue cornerback slips and backtracking, and you could
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  Speaker 2: see that from this wide angle, and so he then
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  Speaker 2: ended up sort of on a BUCA and.
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  Speaker 3: Leaving Cardinal Tate open.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, that ball to Tate and ideally
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  Speaker 2: would have been out when he's at the forty yard line.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't happen because he's that's not the first read, right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I do think on these throws like I
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  Speaker 2: would like to see Will Howard step into them a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess I'd say that if you had to choose better
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  Speaker 2: to underthrow than overthrow on these, I just don't think
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  Speaker 2: big picture, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see this as like a big issue. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think that.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you want to concede that throwing a pretty
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  Speaker 2: just forty yard go ball is not Will Howard's strength.
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  Speaker 2: To me, that's sort of like having a running back
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  Speaker 2: that can break an eighty yard run, like it's a
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  Speaker 2: nice thing to have, but it's not. Sort of there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot more things that are more important before you
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  Speaker 2: get to that sort of cherry on top. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't think that's holding back the Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: offense by any means. But I do think, particularly as
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk, we'll show one of them here. He had
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  Speaker 2: several other throws in this game on vertical shots that
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  Speaker 2: were very well, you know, nicely placed, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: second play of the game to Jeremiah Smith being one example.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I think when the timing's on, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's it works well. It's just some of these
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  Speaker 2: that are I think stuck in people's minds as underthrows
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  Speaker 2: are sometimes because it's not it's not the first read
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  Speaker 2: and by the time he gets to it, it's just
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  Speaker 2: like a hair too late.
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  Speaker 1: And earlier in the week, Tony Garderman and I did
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  Speaker 1: a rewatch of the Michigan game for the Buckeye Weekly podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and then did a rewatch of the Ohio State Purdue game.
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  Speaker 1: I actually watched those games back to back. So if
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to hear about an offense that has problems,
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you about the Michigan offense. But boy,
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  Speaker 1: the High State offense looked great when I was watching
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  Speaker 1: them right after that Michigan Indiana again. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: let's get the next one. This is not the play
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  Speaker 1: you just talked about to Jeremiah Smith. It is a
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  Speaker 1: different one. This is actually the one where Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: looked like he maybe got the first down and then
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  Speaker 1: on replay they.
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  Speaker 3: Said he was just short.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you can code a picture it in your
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  Speaker 1: mind if you're listening on a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And this is just sort of my coda to
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  Speaker 2: my point before, Like, this is a great throw by
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  Speaker 2: Will Howard on time. He moves well in the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is a twenty yard curl route. All right,
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  Speaker 2: That's not an easy throw to make, either across to
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  Speaker 2: the hash or to the numbers. So and he throws
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  Speaker 2: out on time, in the right spot like third and seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: It is difficult, you know. The other thing I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to use this as an example of ish the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State did use a lot of different protection schemes, and
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  Speaker 2: so like one thing we talked about with Pen against
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  Speaker 2: Penn State is you know, leaving Donovan Jackson on an
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  Speaker 2: island and choosing to work the running back to the
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  Speaker 2: opposite side. They did a lot of things in this
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  Speaker 2: game that sort of helped him in particular, Like right
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  Speaker 2: here you have g Scott and sort of this wide
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  Speaker 2: kind of like nasty split it sometimes called, like he's
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  Speaker 2: sort of like three or four yards off the white
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage, and he looks like, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's in a pass you know, position to run off
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  Speaker 2: a route. And said he comes in and chips, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive end before he releases, uh, buying Donovan
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  Speaker 2: Jackson a second. So this is a six man protection.
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  Speaker 2: Saw quite a few different types of seven man protections.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's certainly times where they let left Donovan
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  Speaker 2: Jackson alone. I think they're just what you what, I
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  Speaker 2: what my takeaway was is they're really trying to change job.
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  Speaker 2: The protection scheme so that opponents cannot guess what we
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether it's gonna be a five man, six man,
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  Speaker 2: seven man, and where guys are coming from to try
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  Speaker 2: to really isolate that left side. And you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: again I thought Donovan Jackson did a nice job in
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  Speaker 2: pass protection this game, but again only a second game
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  Speaker 2: playing left tackle is after playing his entire career as
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  Speaker 2: a guard. So I think he'll just continue to see
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of variation in the pass protection like
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  Speaker 2: anything else. But again, like Howard, you know, does a
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  Speaker 2: lot here, you know, going back to him, like whether
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  Speaker 2: it's this, you know, they run those naked bootlegs where
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  Speaker 2: he like they have no one blocking the backside on purpose,
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  Speaker 2: and he does a great job like buying depth. He
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  Speaker 2: had the one like throw across another completion of Jeremia
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  Speaker 2: Smith across them and all that, or obviously what he
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  Speaker 2: adds in the run game getting the ball out on
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  Speaker 2: time and keeping ahead of schedule. So again I think,
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  Speaker 2: if anything, I guess my takeaway is I just feel
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  Speaker 2: like there's like a little bit of under selling Will
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  Speaker 2: Howard at the point, both both among Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 2: and nationally. You know, he is really sort of the
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  Speaker 2: engine that's making the Ohio State offense go. And I
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  Speaker 2: just think that people don't quite appreciate what he's what
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  Speaker 2: he's bringing every Saturday for the High State.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, We've talked about that a bunch on the Show
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  Speaker 1: and other places. They don't need him to be a
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  Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner. If you're looking for a Heisman Trophy winner,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to put up Dwayne Haskins stats this year.
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  Speaker 1: They just need a guy to kind of keep them
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  Speaker 1: on schedule and keep things moving. And he has been
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  Speaker 1: very efficient at that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and even that, like I mean, Ryan Day says it,
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  Speaker 2: but like the I mean, Dwayne Haskins was running twenty
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  Speaker 2: more plays a game than Ohio State currently is. Like
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  Speaker 2: between the change, the change in the rule has caused
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  Speaker 2: like a sea change in how college football operates generally,
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  Speaker 2: Like Ohio State huddled on Saturday most of the game,
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  Speaker 2: but everyone that Ohio State plays against huddles and runs
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  Speaker 2: every play within five seconds of the play clock expiring,
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  Speaker 2: just trying to run short in the game and run
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  Speaker 2: it down. And so you know, I know it's it's
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  Speaker 2: sort of it's tricked to say on the one end,
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  Speaker 2: but it is true that you know, twyn Haskins is
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  Speaker 2: probably running that team in twenty eighteen was running eighty
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  Speaker 2: two plays a game on average, and this team's running
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  Speaker 2: sixty three or whatever. So that's you know, makes a
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  Speaker 2: big difference when you're trying to compare seasons and statistics.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I just you know, when you look out
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  Speaker 2: at the landscape of college football, I don't you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of strange that right now Ohio State is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at least number one in FBI and SP
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  Speaker 2: plus the odds on you know, have really good national
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  Speaker 2: title odds and sort of have no one in the
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  Speaker 2: National Heisman or other award.
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  Speaker 3: Conversations on the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, would you rather win the Heisman
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  Speaker 1: or the national championship? That's you know, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is a season that Ohio State fans if they were
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  Speaker 1: in the Dwayne Haskins year when they had a Heisman
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  Speaker 1: finalist and we're not winning the national championship, we're saying,
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  Speaker 1: but we want to win the national championship. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so far, so good. We'll see how the last to
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  Speaker 1: last three games of the regular season have go and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of that after that, but we still have
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  Speaker 1: three more plays to go. So let's run through these.
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  Speaker 1: These you're all kind of related. The first one is
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  Speaker 1: the Brandon Innis reception that then he kind of like
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  Speaker 1: fumbled out of bounds at the end of the play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that they were doing a lot of on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday was flipping the roles of people in the offense
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  Speaker 2: and moving people interchangeably.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I again, Purdue plays, like we talked about the Penny front,
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  Speaker 2: they also play a lot of cover one as a
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  Speaker 2: result of that, a lot of man coverage, and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure some of it is, like you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you ask Chim Kelly, we gained plan for every opponent specifically,
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  Speaker 2: like Perdue tries to match personnel with personnel. So if
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  Speaker 2: we put a wide receiver in the backfield and running
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  Speaker 2: back out wide, as we'll discuss here, like you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get positive matchups. But I think more broadly, right, there's
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  Speaker 2: two there's two rules or two schools of thought. You
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  Speaker 2: try to save plays for the big game, right, or
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  Speaker 2: you want to put stuff on film that other opponents
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  Speaker 2: have to prepare for. And I certainly think there were
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  Speaker 2: some of that going on Saturday, in terms of putting
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  Speaker 2: people in different positions right where like people are going
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  Speaker 2: to have to account for that, so and they again
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  Speaker 2: making plays look like right. So like this Brandon and
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  Speaker 2: his wheel. Early in the game, they ran this exact
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  Speaker 2: same play not successfully, but this it was a lead
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  Speaker 2: outside zone to Quinchawn Judkins where he came in motion
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  Speaker 2: like this, and Brendan Andis was blocking out on the
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  Speaker 2: cornerback right, So they give them the same exact motion
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  Speaker 2: you fake and this even slows down faking like he's
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  Speaker 2: going to block the corner and then runs that wheel
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  Speaker 2: route for an easy completion. So I think beyond just
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  Speaker 2: like the personal mismatches you're looking for here, you're getting
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  Speaker 2: Chip Kelly has done a great job all season, Matt,
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  Speaker 2: like marrying plays together right, Like every run has a
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  Speaker 2: couple of pass plays off of it. Formations and looks
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  Speaker 2: work together, you know, whether it's this, whether it's the
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  Speaker 2: throwback touchdown at g Scott where they're you know, in
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  Speaker 2: pistol right, which is like a run heavy look, and
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  Speaker 2: then they fake the fly sweep to a Mecca Buca
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  Speaker 2: coming the other way. Then they fake the mid zone
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  Speaker 2: to Treya Henderson and then eventually like Scott leaks out,
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  Speaker 2: you're just getting a lot better marrying of concepts this
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  Speaker 2: year for Ohio State. So this combination of putting people
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  Speaker 2: in different spots and then you know, making run and
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  Speaker 2: pass plays work together in the same game.
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  Speaker 1: All right, The next one, this is the one that
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  Speaker 1: when I was rewatching the game, I thought, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I hope Ross talks about this one. And good news,
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  Speaker 1: Ross is talking about this one. This is the long
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  Speaker 1: run of the day for Travon Henderson, like the really
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  Speaker 1: just cool looking counterplay. Josh Fryer absolutely blows someone up
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  Speaker 1: on the front side of this play. I was really
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  Speaker 1: hoping this is part of the show, and great news,
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  Speaker 1: it is part of the s show.
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  Speaker 2: Good I've been waiting here this entire time, breathlessly wondering
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  Speaker 2: which play it was that you wanted to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: So but I got it, all right? So again, right,
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  Speaker 2: so we started making plays look alike. They use this
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  Speaker 2: exact same orbit motion like and by that I just
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  Speaker 2: mean like quinch On Junkins. Right, So the first thing,
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  Speaker 2: I should go back multiple plays on Saturday for the
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  Speaker 2: first time, I believe with Juckkins and Henderson on.
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  Speaker 3: The field together.
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  Speaker 2: So that's obviously a package people have talked about people
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  Speaker 2: have discussed, you know, like anything else comes with positives
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  Speaker 2: and mind it says you have.
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  Speaker 3: Two running backs, it's one less vertical threat.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Although well maybe that's mitigated some by what Travon Henderson did.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: But you obviously can do a lot of things in
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: the run game, both in terms of having a lead
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: blocker or faking. So they ran this earlier where Judkins
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: came in the same sort of motion behind Howard and
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: with Trey Henderson as a lead blocker for so now
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: fake that. They fake that and run back countertrait, you know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: with the guard and the tight end pulling gh counter
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: back the other way. And so you know, the first
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: thing you'll notice, like defensively again, like this fits what
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Purdue wants to do because they have to all the
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: single high, they have to rock and roll the coverage
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: back with the five man front. They like to box everything,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: which is just a fancy term for like they're trying
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: to force the football.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Back inside with that defensive end. You can see him
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: taking on the guard block.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: That's not a very good way to play counter because
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: it creates this massive lane as you can see. For
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: as you said, Josh Fryer to pull through and lead
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: on a defensive back, but then you just get the
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: cool backfield motion right like you do the inside handoff.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: It's sort of like an an old school wing tee
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: the quarterback like spin series. You know, turning your back
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: to the defense and then turning back around is really
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: effective for faking. So again, this just shows like the
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: breadth of what they can do, you know, how much
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: they use the two of them together. I think going
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: forward remains to be seen, but it's certainly something the
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: teams are gonna have to prepare for, and their show
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: that it's there's different things they can do off of it, right.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: And again like also like Trevon Henderson ran about as
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: well as I've ever seen him run on Saturday, both
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: in terms of vision, which is also like breaking tackles,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: running hard. Like here he runs through a couple of tackles.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I think he did that several times, and you know
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: he looks fresh. So the benefit of both having you know,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: two running backs like this that they've been able to
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: reduce their workload is you know, have some games or
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: one is you know, having a better success than the other.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: But I think that they sort of they are building
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: on each other because like while they can run, they
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: can run all the same plays with both of them,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: but I do think that they've honed in more on
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: certain skill sets for each of them. Right, So like
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: they kind of like to use Junkins as sort of
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: like the as again like the jab right, like the
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: more the inside runner, you know, as probably the junkins
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: detriment on Saturday because you're playing against this five down front,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: whereas Henderson's more to like the third down guy, more
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: of the guy in space, kind of like the change
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: up back that you bring in. And so I think
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: that's works pretty effectively for them the last two weeks.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Henderson averaged fourteen point two yards per carry.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: He only had six carries, but was pretty darn efficient
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: on those and pretty darned explosive on those. He was
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: even better in the passing game. Three targets, three receptions,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: fourteen point three yards per pass to Trevian Henderson. So
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: yeah too, if only it was so simple as just
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: keep keep giving it to him and you'll get fourteen
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: yards every time. Not quite that easy, but he did
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: make it look pretty easy. Here's the long pass of
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the day. This was that really nice reception that he
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: had down the right sideline exactly.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And so again here's like the third of three plays
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: where you're changing up spots for players. Right, So like
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: ge Scart, Scott starts as the inside receiver on trips
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: like to the three receiver side. He then comes into
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: motion in the backfield and Trayvon Henderson goes out wide
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: again like Purdue, a lot of man coverage, you know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: some cover three, so they're they're matching personnel.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Right. So we've talked about this with the States defense.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: So you you sent Trey Henderson out and now the
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Mike linebacker has him in solo coverage one on one
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: outside the guy who had g Scott comes into the box,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: so you've put for Doe in a position they did
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: not want to be in. You now have Scott again
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: helping to the left side of the offensive line, you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: so you're using a slide away from him and then
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: to the left tackle, and you're just getting this matchup
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: on Trayvon Henderson one on one on a Mike linebacker
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: on a vertical route. Like again, as we said, like
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: another great throw from Will Howard on a vertical route. Right,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: this is a thirty five yard completion downfield. But also
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: you know, just a great wide receiver skills from Treyvon
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Henderson catching this football, and so again it's just something
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: that opponents coming forward, you know, whether it's Indiana Michigan,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: you know, Big Ten Championship game potentially are going to
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: have to be prepared for the use of guys. You know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: whether it's Innos in the backfield or a Buka in
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the backfield, or it's Treyvon Henderson as a wide receiver.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Things that you know there are these are matchups that
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: they're going to have to be cognizant of, which would
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: you'll make people think twice in terms of how you know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: whether they're playing man coverage, how they match up with
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that or maybe force them out of man coverage.
• 20:22
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