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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Will Ohio State Defend Washington's Demond Williams? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Thursday, September twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom or the Washington game in two days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in sixty five days. Today's show,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to bring in Ross Fulton, our ex'es and
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  Speaker 1: nose guru to talk a little bit about the Washington
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the Washington offense. And they
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  Speaker 1: have scored twenty one straight times on non kneel down possessions.
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  Speaker 1: We do not need our ex's nose guru to tell
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  Speaker 1: us that is pretty good. There are certainly some questions
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  Speaker 1: about the competition that they're playing, but let's talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about that offense. It feels like there are
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  Speaker 1: three names we need to know when we go through
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  Speaker 1: each of those three names in a minute, but I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to start up front with the offensive line. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to get your thoughts because Tony Gerderman and
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  Speaker 1: I watched two of their three games. I actually watched
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  Speaker 1: decent amount of their third one as well, and their
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  Speaker 1: offensive line has seemed kind of consistently fine, pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: They get a little decent push in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: but they really haven't played anyone yet. Is there anything
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  Speaker 1: that really stands out about the Washington offensive line when
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  Speaker 1: you watch them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really inexperienced at the left guard, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of what they're able to do
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  Speaker 2: is enabled by the tailback and the quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 2: their scope position players. They are a heavy zone team,
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  Speaker 2: so you're gonna get a lot of inside zun outside zone.
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  Speaker 2: They will get under center a little bit, but a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it's predicated on the QB run threat and
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  Speaker 2: that opening things up as opposed to you know, the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line play itself.
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  Speaker 1: And when you say they're inexperienced at left guard, John
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  Speaker 1: Milter left guard. He wears number seventy two. He is
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  Speaker 1: a true freshman and he is seventeen years old. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you were doing when you were
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  Speaker 1: seventeen years old. I was not trying to block Edward
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  Speaker 1: Houston or Taiwan Malone. So you know that's probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a challenge for them. Let's
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  Speaker 1: move on to the skill position, guys, because I think
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  Speaker 1: there really are three names you need to know on
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  Speaker 1: this offense. The first one is quarterback Demon Williams. He
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  Speaker 1: has the armed makes and throws downfield. He has the
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  Speaker 1: legs to extend some plays. He has the legs to
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  Speaker 1: buy some time. He has legs to avoid the pass
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  Speaker 1: rush and pick up a first down here and there.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see when you see when you watch
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  Speaker 1: Demon Williams on film?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's a couy. He has a lot
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  Speaker 2: of quickness, you know, right like high states faced mobile quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd say Williams has much more short air quickness
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  Speaker 2: pre electric with the ball in his hands, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know that's the biggest thing they're in an account
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  Speaker 2: for a cop to account for.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, Washington's a very heavy zone team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: their gap run percentages is below what you see from
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  Speaker 2: the typical college football team. So I think you're going
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  Speaker 2: to see a lot of the penny front from the
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  Speaker 2: highest where you get you know, your five one, and
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  Speaker 2: then you're gonna have to play games on the backside, right,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's r VL Reese accounting for the quarterback, scrape
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  Speaker 2: exchanging bringing Caleb downs down as a plus one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and single high look, so you know you're you're messing
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  Speaker 2: with Demand Williams as reeds on the backside, but trying
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  Speaker 2: to account for the quarterback and then obviously on third down.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we talked about last week, Matt Patricia has
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  Speaker 2: done a really nice job thus far having the defensive
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  Speaker 2: line maintained rush lanes.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then we saw our Roll Reese as a spy
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  Speaker 2: against ou and I think you'll see more of the same,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that odd sort of double mugged look where
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  Speaker 2: you have even r VL Reese to one side, Senny
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  Speaker 2: Styles to the other, and they're both sort of acting
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  Speaker 2: as spies with a double mirror concept. It's called where
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  Speaker 2: they're you know, kind of as I said, like we
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  Speaker 2: saw with r VL rees To against navarrofrou like literally
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  Speaker 2: mirroring his movements. So I think you'll see a lot
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  Speaker 2: of focus as a set on early downs accounting for
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback run threat to the backside, and then on
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  Speaker 2: passing downs making sure that there's eyes on Demond Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Is that where this game plan really starts to you?
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  Speaker 1: Because I mean Demond Williams the quarterback, Joanah Coleman the
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  Speaker 1: running back, Denzel Boston the wide receiver. Those are all
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  Speaker 1: three talented players who we've seen do a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Jonah Coleman has been the Big Ten Offensive Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Week twice this season. Demond Williams was the Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten Offensive Player of the Week last week. So there's
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  Speaker 1: plenty of talent in a couple different areas here. Where
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  Speaker 1: does the game plan in your mind for Matt Patricia start?
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  Speaker 1: What is job one? Is it don't let Demond Williams
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  Speaker 1: beat you in sort of the ways that you were
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  Speaker 1: sort of discussing there, is it? Don't let Jonah Coleman
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  Speaker 1: beat you on the ground? What is job one for
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State defense this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Both? So that's why you know, I think you start
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  Speaker 2: with the penny front. As I said, you want to
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  Speaker 2: force those Washington offensive linemen. You know, we talked about
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  Speaker 2: the left guard position, but all of them into single
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  Speaker 2: blocks up front, just like we against Ou. Then you
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  Speaker 2: let that middle linebacker you know generally sunny styles sort
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  Speaker 2: of sift through unblocked, and that accounts for the front
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  Speaker 2: side run game right there, right, so that you're accounting
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  Speaker 2: for the zone run game to the front side. And
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  Speaker 2: then it said on the backside, you want to get
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  Speaker 2: a plus one, whether you're bringing Caleb downs down, spinning
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  Speaker 2: down at the snap and cover one or cover three, uh,
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  Speaker 2: scrape exchanging to the backside. So I think your first focused,
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  Speaker 2: I think, particularly on rundowns, is a run first focus.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll see a lot of single high cover one,
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  Speaker 2: Cover three from Ohio State focused on taking away the
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  Speaker 2: zone read and then Q run game, uh, and then
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  Speaker 2: and then taking it, you know, trying to force them
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  Speaker 2: into third and passing situations, uh and counting on your
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  Speaker 2: defensive backs to hold up and cover one or you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll be quite a bit of principally cover three.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at someone like Denzel Boston, bigger receiver,
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  Speaker 1: someone who can make plays after the catch, make yards
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  Speaker 1: after the catch, but also can be a threat downfield,
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  Speaker 1: is there someone are you do you think? Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: looks and says you got to put davisonting Minosa on
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  Speaker 1: him or is it just side of the field and
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  Speaker 1: whoever whoever's on him is on him? Is that he's
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  Speaker 1: someone you need to try and have safety help over
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  Speaker 1: the top. You know what, what's the what's the plan
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  Speaker 1: for you in terms of defending Denzel Boston because really
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  Speaker 1: there's no one else in that passing game in terms
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  Speaker 1: of tight ends or receivers who has been a real
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  Speaker 1: impact player for Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would not be accounting additional resources to the
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  Speaker 2: passing game, like with what we just talked about, Like
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  Speaker 2: I think it starts with the tailback quarterback combination. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think Ohio State's cornerbacks are good. They have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of length. You know, they've played plenty of good receivers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think you'll have your your as I said,
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  Speaker 2: cover one deep safety. But really it's just mixing it
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  Speaker 2: getting into passing downs. Like Washington's a pretty you know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't throw downfield a lot like their their percentage
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  Speaker 2: of doing says lower than your average college football offense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a lot of some quick games, some
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver screen stuff things near the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I think your the first and foremost focus
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  Speaker 2: for me is a counting equating numbers in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: And as I would, you know, feel confident counting on
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  Speaker 2: Ohio States defensive backs to hold up in the back end.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so complete this sentence for me. If Washington
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  Speaker 1: is going to have this be a close game in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter or even pull off the upset on offense,
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  Speaker 1: they need to fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do what the opposite of what I just said,
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  Speaker 2: which is run the ball well, be able to control
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  Speaker 2: the front side of Ohio States defense. Get explosive plays
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  Speaker 2: out of the run game with Demon Williams, both in
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  Speaker 2: terms of you know, design quarterback reads quarterback you know,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's read plays or design quarterback runs. Get on
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  Speaker 2: third down, have him pick up some third and longs
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  Speaker 2: with his legs, hit some plays out of structure, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, then use the screen game to your advantage
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  Speaker 2: as well. Just really trying to be able to use
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback run threat to create numbers elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like there's a lot of areas on this
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State defense through three games where you can feel
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  Speaker 1: pretty darn good about where they are with things. Hill
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  Speaker 1: Downs has looked quite good, not unsurprisingly. The secondary and
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  Speaker 1: the whole has look pretty good, not unsurprisingly. Our Belle
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  Speaker 1: Reese has really come a long way Sunny styles. But
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  Speaker 1: is there an area like what is the area on
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  Speaker 1: defense where I don't know if it's even an area
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  Speaker 1: of concern, but what is the area that you have
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  Speaker 1: maybe questions about or you're just kind of interested to
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  Speaker 1: see more from right now?
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  Speaker 2: On the ohios did d I think three technique is
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  Speaker 2: the most obvious answer. You know, Edric Houston has been spotty,
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  Speaker 2: seems like he's sort of been in the doghouse. They
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  Speaker 2: liked how Taiwan Malone played there against OU, but obviously
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  Speaker 2: he was not the pencilton starter going forward, and that's
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  Speaker 2: you know, a ton of depths. So they've been really
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  Speaker 2: kitlyn Kate McDonald's been great and knows and as I said,
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  Speaker 2: like with all the odd front, you know they can
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  Speaker 2: somewhat minimize, uh they're used to the three technique. I
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  Speaker 2: also kind of expect them to use some more of
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  Speaker 2: that three three look we talked about against AU or
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  Speaker 2: you're goeing to just three defensive line linemen and all
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  Speaker 2: three linebackers, putting Riley petted John on the field as well,
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  Speaker 2: just to get you some athleticism to sort of match
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback run threat and you can play some games,
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  Speaker 2: but that again counts on your their three defensive ends
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  Speaker 2: to clock or three defensive linemen to clog up in
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  Speaker 2: tyr lane. So that's the first question, and then I
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  Speaker 2: think I guess the second is Nickel. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: Lorenzo styles health. He obviously had the one uh snafu
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  Speaker 2: against Ohio University, and so you know, if he's not
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  Speaker 2: able to go, you know, they use him a lot
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  Speaker 2: as a safety, right Like, he plays a lot of
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  Speaker 2: deep safety, and so when he was out, they were
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  Speaker 2: playing a true freshman at corner and Devin Sanchez bumping
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  Speaker 2: Jermaine Matthews inside. Is that what's something that was like?
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  Speaker 2: Was that just a short term solution or is that
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  Speaker 2: a long term plan? And then you know Texas went
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  Speaker 2: after Sanchez a little bit. So to your earlier question,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I would assume that Washington would be targeting
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  Speaker 2: him when he's at corner.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, there you go a quick little look
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  Speaker 1: at the Washington offense and the Ohio State defense and
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  Speaker 1: what that matchup may look like this weekend. Ross will
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  Speaker 1: be back on tomorrow show to take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the ball. The Washington defense the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State offense can be some interesting matchups there as well.
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We will talk to you tomorrow.