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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Ohio State's Offense Attacked Texas · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Columbus because there was a lot of celebrating to do
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Speaker 1: after the buck Eyes knocked off Texas ranked Texas fourteen
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Speaker 1: to seven. Inside the Horseshoe today, we're going to be
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Speaker 1: talking to Ross about the offensive side of the ball. Defense.
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Speaker 1: Feels like everyone's very happy with things offense. Ross, we
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Speaker 1: know Ohio fans they love to win, but what they
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Speaker 1: love even more than that is to win but also
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Speaker 1: have some to complain about. So get a good chance
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Speaker 1: to talk about some of the some of the offense
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Speaker 1: and the Let's start with the thing that people were
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Speaker 1: maybe complaining about the most, which was the run game.
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Speaker 1: The lack of success in the run game. You know,
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Speaker 1: this is I know, sort of a complicated, a complicated issue.
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Speaker 1: But how much of that do you think was related
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Speaker 1: to offensive line versus Hey, Texas is pretty good versus hey,
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Speaker 1: running backs maybe not hitting the holes, reading plays right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure the answer is kind of a
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Speaker 1: combination of all of those. But how do you sort
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Speaker 1: of see that, you know, the blame kind of being
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Speaker 1: spread around there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say all the above.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I know you had a post on Buckey
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Speaker 3: Huddle that I would co sign off on, which is
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Speaker 3: and we'll talk about it some here. The plan obviously
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Speaker 3: was keeping the training wheels on with a first time
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Speaker 3: starting quarterback and Julian saying and we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 3: And they wanted to play pretty conservative and then that
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Speaker 3: was obviously aided by the fact that they got the lead.
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Speaker 3: Texas could not move the football and so in some
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Speaker 3: ways they got then even more conservative from what they
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Speaker 3: started out doing. And I'll point some of that out,
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Speaker 3: but it's honestly, like hard to blame them. Like as
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Speaker 3: you said, like not everything's in a vacuum, Like your
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Speaker 3: goal is to win this game. And Brandy even talked
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Speaker 3: about it going into the game. It's like you basically
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Speaker 3: want to win this game anyway you can. You then
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Speaker 3: have a month to sort of regroup and then you
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Speaker 3: kind of build from there. Right, so if you have
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Speaker 3: a lead and like you're sitting on it and Texas
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Speaker 3: doesn't have much chance of success for most of the day, offensively,
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Speaker 3: you know, it makes sense why they were conservative. But
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Speaker 3: you know, the run game, it will show here. Some
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Speaker 3: of it was execution. Some of it is just like
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Speaker 3: you know, they're putting more bodies in there. Ohio State
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Speaker 3: is right, which Texas can then match. And some of
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Speaker 3: it is like we'll talk about like they took away
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Speaker 3: the reads, they took away the RPOs, the reliefs, and
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Speaker 3: so you know you're in the gun, you're trying to
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Speaker 3: run it and they's just in Texas is good.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: So it just so you know, I do think that
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Speaker 3: they are missing. I've seen a little bit of explosiveness
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Speaker 3: at the running back position.
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Speaker 2: I thought CJ.
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Speaker 3: Donaldson ran well, like he's a big guy, Like he
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Speaker 3: did what he's going to do right, Like he's a
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Speaker 3: one cut runner, he's gonna get downhill, he'll make yards
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Speaker 3: after contact, you know, a James People's it's sort of
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Speaker 3: like a TBD. Like it was a disappointing performance. I
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Speaker 3: think after watching the All twenty two I was probably
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Speaker 3: too harsh on him live in terms of his like
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Speaker 3: reading holes. But it's still I think it remains to
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Speaker 3: be seen, like what what's he bringing to the table
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Speaker 3: exactly right, Like he's not the biggest guy and so
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Speaker 3: like he's not like a Donaldson, right, he doesn't have
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Speaker 3: that kind of size.
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Speaker 2: And so like you know, the shiftiness. We just didn't
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Speaker 2: see a lot of it.
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Speaker 3: But again, as we said, like we can get into
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Speaker 3: the individual place here, but like they have a chance
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Speaker 3: to sort of regroup now and build from this obviously,
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Speaker 3: and you take this win and it punches your ticket
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Speaker 3: based of the playoff almost so yeah, win it any
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Speaker 3: way you can.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy. It is to sound they are functionally
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Speaker 1: unless something really crazy happens, probably largely more or less
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Speaker 1: in the playoff and had sort of punched that ticket
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Speaker 1: before it was even Labor Day, so you could still
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Speaker 1: be wearing white, and Ohio State had punched their ticket
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Speaker 1: more or less to the college football playoffs. So there
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Speaker 1: you go. There's your fashion tip for the day. I
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Speaker 1: guess the question now, you know you mentioned we've got
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Speaker 1: to play here with Donaldson. I do want to sort
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Speaker 1: of preface all of this with all of the good
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Speaker 1: stuff we're talking about, it's just week one. All of
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Speaker 1: the bad stuff we're talking about, it's just week one.
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Speaker 1: I put something on Twitter during the game that was like,
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Speaker 1: just take those arches of bus takes and just stick
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Speaker 1: them back in the holster. A lot of stuff's going
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Speaker 1: to change between now and the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: So I think we do need to preface all of
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Speaker 1: this with it's just week one. Everyone take a deep breath.
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Speaker 1: So okay, so all right, let's take a look now
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Speaker 1: at the first CJ. Donaldson play here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would just echo that before we get
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Speaker 3: into it. I mean, week one is always we said
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Speaker 3: that before the game, right, They're always sloppy, The defense
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Speaker 3: is always ahead of the offense. You make mistake frankly, like,
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Speaker 3: this is a fairly mistake for a game Like we'll
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Speaker 3: show some of an execution, but yeah, you're just again,
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Speaker 3: you're just.
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Speaker 2: Building, so okay.
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Speaker 3: We talked about one of the questions coming in this
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Speaker 3: year was like how much was the run game going
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Speaker 3: to continue to look like what they did in the
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Speaker 3: playoffs with more gap runs versus going back to more
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Speaker 3: soone base. This was a very gap heavy game plan.
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Speaker 3: A lot of counter. Some windback will show, but so
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Speaker 3: both kinds of counter. So by that I mean GH
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Speaker 3: counter where you're pulling the backside guard in the backside
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Speaker 3: tight end like display, and then we'll show another one
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Speaker 3: was GT counter where you're pulling the backside guard and tackle.
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Speaker 3: So again, Texas, compared to what they did against Ohio
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Speaker 3: State in the playoffs, you had a lot more four
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Speaker 3: down lines here for you know, four guys their hands
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Speaker 3: in the dirt. You had much more single high which
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Speaker 3: makes sense given all the amount of twelve and even
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Speaker 3: thirteen personnel with multiple tight ends. Obviously was playing display
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Speaker 3: they're actually just an eleven and so you've got you're
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Speaker 3: pulling your backside guard Luke Montgomery and you're pulling Max
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Speaker 3: Claire and you're running This is counter right, I will say,
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Speaker 3: you know, they did this a lot on Saturday. From
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Speaker 3: the gun, which I just by that, I mean the
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Speaker 3: half backs to the side of the quarterback. This is
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Speaker 3: not my favorite counter I've ever seen, as opposed to
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Speaker 3: like running it. You know, you can run it to
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Speaker 3: the same side of the running back. Obviously from the pistol.
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Speaker 3: It's a little bit different just because you kind of
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Speaker 3: lose a little bit of counteraction. And like some of
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Speaker 3: these plays, I think they just took a long time
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Speaker 3: to develop. You're going awfully sideway as you're kind of
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Speaker 3: begging for the defense to sort of to have to
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Speaker 3: like log it, which just means like they're going to
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Speaker 3: crash down. You're going to the guards that are kicking out,
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Speaker 3: he's going to come around and log him in. And
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Speaker 3: running back needs to bounce. Fortunately, Hi State's running backs
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Speaker 3: were not bouncing anything, which is part of an issue.
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Speaker 3: But again you can see here more from the backs
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Speaker 3: I cam. You know, Texas was really they were prepared
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Speaker 3: for gap plays. They were really when they saw that
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Speaker 3: down block, they were coming down hard with it. I
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Speaker 3: thought the tight end blocking on counter or just you
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Speaker 3: know when they were pulling left something to be desired,
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Speaker 3: both just in terms of like the path they were taking,
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Speaker 3: reading what they were supposed to be doing. You know,
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Speaker 3: one issue, obviously it's going to have to deal with
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Speaker 3: is Max Claire is by far their best receiving option.
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Speaker 3: In fact, just like watching what Julian Saint did on Saturday,
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Speaker 3: I would go far to say that, like in Sane's mind,
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Speaker 3: it's it's like Smith is number one, Max Claire is
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Speaker 3: his number two option, probably Carnell Tate number three. However,
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Speaker 3: we saw I think Claire only played like twenty three snaps,
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Speaker 3: and part of that's because he's probably the fourth or
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Speaker 3: fifth best blocker of the tight ends, and so you know,
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Speaker 3: particularly on these pole plays, he looked a little loss
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Speaker 3: like you can see here he does not you know,
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Speaker 3: he needs to lead up on that play side linebacker
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Speaker 3: and said he goes out onto the nickel, which leads
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Speaker 3: that place side linebacker on blocked. It doesn't help that
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Speaker 3: on this play like C. J. Daniels kind of blocks
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Speaker 3: air and his loss. Like again, I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: when we talk about mistakes in Week one stuff, I
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Speaker 3: think there were some execution issues on the offensive line
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Speaker 3: and the tight ends in terms of like identify to
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Speaker 3: find who they're blocking as things are moving and getting
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Speaker 3: the correct guy and so like when Texas is squeezing down,
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Speaker 3: they sort of lost.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's different than being on a blackboard.
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Speaker 3: So some of the run game, as I said, was
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Speaker 3: all these issues, and some of them will get into
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Speaker 3: like again when you're just taking away like a lot
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Speaker 3: of the reads or even like reliefs to the outside
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Speaker 3: and you're running from the gun, like you know, we've
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Speaker 3: talked about that before, Like there's tendencies there and there's
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Speaker 3: only so many bodies and so so all those issues
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Speaker 3: I think are a combination of factors for the run game.
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Speaker 3: I grabbed this second one because I don't want to
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Speaker 3: say that it was all doom and gloom, right, Like,
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Speaker 3: there were lots of positive plays and in particular, I
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Speaker 3: think Ohio State when they could get Texas you know
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Speaker 3: in more of like a split safety look like on
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Speaker 3: the second one, or they got the numbers correct and
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Speaker 3: they identified the bodies right, they were able to block
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Speaker 3: things up well and gain positive yards. So this is
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Speaker 3: like i'd say, like counter was definitely what they ran
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Speaker 3: the most. This is probably the second most, which is windback,
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Speaker 3: which is we've talked about this before, or it's duo essentially,
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Speaker 3: like you're down blocking everyone just like you do on
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Speaker 3: other gap runs, except you don't have a polar. What
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Speaker 3: you're doing is using that wide receiver here at Colonel
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Speaker 3: Tate a Mega Buka served this role last year, So
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Speaker 3: they bring Tate and Tight a lot to the formation,
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Speaker 3: like this is Chim Kelly started this for us date
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Speaker 3: like this is definitely like a carryover, and he kind
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Speaker 3: of comes back and leads onto the boundary corner and
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Speaker 3: again you're getting kind of a counteraction to set up
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Speaker 3: the blocks and get up field.
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Speaker 2: And so again, I don't think you can say that
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Speaker 2: you know this is all.
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Speaker 3: It's all, you know, big major issues Like I saw
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Speaker 3: great double team blocks like there was going on Twitter
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Speaker 3: an early double team between Cartson and Hinsman and Luke
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Speaker 3: Montgomery where they drove Texas's notes to tackle back five yards.
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Speaker 3: So I think there's pieces there. I do think, as
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Speaker 3: I said, though, I guess my one of my concerns
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Speaker 3: is just like, you know, how much can you expect
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Speaker 3: the running backs to create after you know what the
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Speaker 3: line blocks up right? What are they bringing in addition
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Speaker 3: to whatever's blocked up for them obviously, Like this run
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Speaker 3: to me is like going to kind of what I
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Speaker 3: would expect from CJ.
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Speaker 2: Donaldson, right Like, as I said, get.
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Speaker 3: Downhill, he's carrying guys another three yards, Like that's his
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Speaker 3: m and he was pretty productive. So I think again,
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Speaker 3: I will give people's an incomplate and sort of let's
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Speaker 3: see what he does against a couple of games to
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Speaker 3: get his feed under him against lesser competition.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, someone else who can definitely make things
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Speaker 1: happen and get a few extra yards after you think
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Speaker 1: he might be down. His name is Jeremiah Smith, and
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Speaker 1: Ohio State felt like they were very keenly aware of
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Speaker 1: the fact that he had one catch for three yards
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Speaker 1: against Texas the last time, and they were doing their
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Speaker 1: very best to get him the ball whenever and wherever
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Speaker 1: they could. I think he had ten targets and six
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Speaker 1: catches and then you know, the numbers at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day were not flashy, but they were very
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Speaker 1: clearly trying to get him the ball in key moments.
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Speaker 1: So let's look at one of those right here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the next couple like they to your point,
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Speaker 3: like they did a very focused job onlining Smith up
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Speaker 3: in different spots and using motion to change him from
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Speaker 3: being you know, the number two receiver, meaning like the
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Speaker 3: second guy into the number three receiver. Will show a
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Speaker 3: couple of these here and feature him on these reliefs, right.
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately he dropped a couple. Uh the first one he
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Speaker 3: dropped would have been a big game, and you could
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Speaker 3: tell he was looking up field. But again, so this
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Speaker 3: is just this is GT counter, right, So you're pulling
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Speaker 3: the backside guard and tackle and you're getting three over two,
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Speaker 3: you know, and so saying this is all pre snap
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Speaker 3: read right, like he's not reading anyone post app He
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Speaker 3: just looks, he sees that your guy he knows with
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Speaker 3: Brennan and is coming in motion.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna have.
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Speaker 3: Three blockers for two Texas is in what looks like
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Speaker 3: a cover two here, and so they're just gonna throw
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Speaker 3: it out to Jeremih Smith and let him make plays
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Speaker 3: after run after the catch.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 3: But this is where I'm talking about how conservative like
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Speaker 3: the run game was almost it was probably better early
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Speaker 3: on when they were attaching these kind of reliefs to it, right, Like,
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Speaker 3: so if Sayan's not gonna be a run threat, you
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Speaker 3: have to at least do this stuff if you want
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Speaker 3: to run from the gun, as well as effective play
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Speaker 3: action to constrain defenders right from overloading the box. And
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Speaker 3: so once they sort of got the two score lead
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Speaker 3: and even disabled this because again like they're just training
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Speaker 3: wheels on last thing we want is a mistake from
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Speaker 3: our new quarterback in terms of like it that even
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Speaker 3: further limited the run games. So I think that for
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Speaker 3: people again that are like, really, I don't know why
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Speaker 3: you would be really nervous about the State offense, Like
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Speaker 3: they got great playmakers, you know, they've I guess, as
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Speaker 3: I said, if I was going to list my offensive concerns,
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Speaker 3: it's sort of like the running backs are sort of
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Speaker 3: TVD for me, you know, I would say I was
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Speaker 3: probably a little disappointing how Austin Seaville blocked as a
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Speaker 3: run blocker. Interestingly enough, at left tackle, I thought his
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Speaker 3: pass protection was really good. And then you have this
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Speaker 3: tight end situation where you you know, you want to
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Speaker 3: play one guy on passing downs and others on rundowns.
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Speaker 3: But like they got weapons outside, once you put these
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Speaker 3: reliefs in it, it will open up the run game.
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Speaker 3: And but Situationally, I get why they sort of shut
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Speaker 3: it down, as I said, just to get the win.
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Speaker 1: All right. The next one is the play that during
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Speaker 1: the game. Oh boy, I can't wait to talk to
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Speaker 1: Ross about this one. This is the fourth and one
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Speaker 1: play where Julian Sanin ended up going to Max Clayer
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Speaker 1: and he couldn't He did not catch it on that
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Speaker 1: fourth and one. But then you saw the replay on
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Speaker 1: TV and it was like, oh man, oh man, there
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Speaker 1: was something further downfield that was probably the correct read there,
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Speaker 1: and it looked like Ryan Day was talking to Julian
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Speaker 1: saying on the sideline about that because you don't want
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Speaker 1: to do you know, you don't want to ask him
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Speaker 1: to too much, do too much. But also I felt
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Speaker 1: like that was one where Ryan Day would have been
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Speaker 1: okay with a slightly more aggressive approach there on fourth
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Speaker 1: and one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean so yeah.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure a lot of people saw this on the broadcast,
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Speaker 3: as you said, and I would for all the you know, conservativeism,
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Speaker 3: this was obviously a misopportunity. I would say overall, I
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Speaker 3: was very impressed with what Chilian saying did like they
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Speaker 3: didn't put a lot on his play. And we'll talk
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Speaker 3: about it's just similar to the detriment of the offense
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Speaker 3: at certain situations. They but you know, he was poised,
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Speaker 3: he was accurate, you know he was. He delivered a
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Speaker 3: nice football.
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Speaker 2: I'd say.
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Speaker 3: You know, I guess if all his mistakes, this is
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Speaker 3: probably the biggest one, right, And this is one situation
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Speaker 3: where they were not conservative. I mean, you're going fourth
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Speaker 3: and one from me the fifty yard line basically, and
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Speaker 3: they catch Texas though, as you said, so they run
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Speaker 3: sort of like a flood or even a Yankee concept
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Speaker 3: here where you got you know, heavy twelve personnel. So
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Speaker 3: you get Texas in there, three four odd front Texas
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Speaker 3: looks like they're in probably like a quarters or cover
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Speaker 3: four and that boundary safety it reads run and comes
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Speaker 3: flying downhill. So now there's no help to the post
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Speaker 3: on Smith and he's basically one on one, right, And
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Speaker 3: so saying could have just thrown that ball to the
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Speaker 3: hash mark or even inside of it, let him run
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Speaker 3: under it for a touchdown. All that said, you know,
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Speaker 3: he comes off of it to Claire. You would hope
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Speaker 3: that he throws an accurate ball there. You would hope
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Speaker 3: that Claire would make that catch. So, as I said,
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Speaker 3: not everything was perfect misopportunity. But you know, they died
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Speaker 3: up a couple obviously, the second one to Carnel Tate
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Speaker 3: worked out as we'll talk about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get to that one in a couple of plays.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, if that was if Julian Sand's biggest mistake
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Speaker 1: on the day was through it to a different guy
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Speaker 1: who was also open, that's that's not too bad for
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Speaker 1: a first career start against a pretty good defense. So
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Speaker 1: all right, so you mentioned earlier using motion and how
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Speaker 1: they use motion to sort of manipulate things and clear
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Speaker 1: up some spaces. This is one where there's a little
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Speaker 1: bit of motion and you end up with the rarest
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Speaker 1: of sites, Jeremiah Smith with just no one around him,
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Speaker 1: you know, right right in the middle of the field.
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Speaker 1: That this was one of those like ooh, this took
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Speaker 1: a little This took a little creativity to get him
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Speaker 1: that open.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think people should be optimistic taking
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Speaker 3: away that, like they're very cognizant of they're going to
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Speaker 3: move Jeremiah Smith around and create opportunities for him, and like,
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Speaker 3: you know, I would say if anything went in doubt,
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Speaker 3: Julian Sands also, I'm going to lock onto Jeremiah Smith,
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Speaker 3: which you know, I guess there could be worse things
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Speaker 3: to do. As I said, I feel like you could
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Speaker 3: see in his mind it's sort of like for first
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Speaker 3: then eighty six, then seventeen. But here, you know, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you use motion to get Smith as the inside receiver
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Speaker 3: and trips and they run a little, you know, little
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Speaker 3: all curl route or he runs a little sit route
16:11
Speaker 3: under over the middle against like a cover three buzz
16:15
Speaker 3: and gets a completion. But again it's more like a
16:18
Speaker 3: lot of curl routes this game. Again, like I can't
16:20
Speaker 3: emphasize enough, like the training wheels in the passing game,
16:23
Speaker 3: which I think they will gradually come off, but given
16:27
Speaker 3: trying to give Julian Saying an easy read and throw.
16:31
Speaker 3: But again, like I think you will see him Smith
16:34
Speaker 3: continue to move around a lot and be used in
16:35
Speaker 3: different ways. I mean, I think it helps that he
16:38
Speaker 3: has I think, like a little bit more virstaal skill
16:40
Speaker 3: set than even like a Marvin Harrison had, where you
16:42
Speaker 3: can play him in different spots. He's like a little
16:44
Speaker 3: bit more short area of quickness. And so we saw
16:48
Speaker 3: that throughout the game, like a lot of his catches
16:50
Speaker 3: came and when he was inside number two or even
16:53
Speaker 3: number three slot receiver.
16:55
Speaker 1: Well, so you just talked about all the different curl
16:57
Speaker 1: routes that they ran and how money you saw. You
17:00
Speaker 1: can't run more curl than all curl ross. That's that's everyone.
17:03
Speaker 1: Everyone is running a curl, So they did run all curl.
17:07
Speaker 1: For people who are listening, this is the one where
17:10
Speaker 1: it seemed like Texas's corner kind of got right up
17:13
Speaker 1: on the Jeremiah Smith probably a little early on. I
17:16
Speaker 1: think this was a third down play and Jeremiah was
17:19
Speaker 1: not real happy. It was looking for penalty. It did
17:21
Speaker 1: not come. But that's that's the play. If you're listening
17:23
Speaker 1: and you're not watching, that's the play we're gonna be
17:25
Speaker 1: talking about next.
17:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say this drive was sort of her I
17:28
Speaker 3: think Dave mentioned this after the game. Even if they
17:30
Speaker 3: thought they could maybe get something going to start the
17:32
Speaker 3: second half, they came out like they got to second
17:35
Speaker 3: and three, then they had to run for no yards
17:36
Speaker 3: and then this was third down. But again, I just
17:39
Speaker 3: wanted to grab this to real quick, like didn't go
17:42
Speaker 3: back to the training wheelspart. Lots of curl routes right,
17:45
Speaker 3: and Texas is like they're smart too. They saw high,
17:48
Speaker 3: say and lots of curl routes, so they started running
17:50
Speaker 3: more and more cover one. And there's like no worse
17:53
Speaker 3: play against cover one than a curl route because you're
17:55
Speaker 3: just sitting there right, you got to run away from
17:57
Speaker 3: man coverage, so you got all curls. No, really go
18:00
Speaker 3: with the football, as I said, like saying, I think
18:02
Speaker 3: makes the rational choice that like, if everyone's covered, you
18:04
Speaker 3: might as well at least throw it to Jeremiah Smith
18:06
Speaker 3: and he might be able to, you know, pull a
18:08
Speaker 3: rabbit out of a hat. And maybe there was a
18:11
Speaker 3: hold here didn't get called obviously. But again, I think
18:14
Speaker 3: this is sort of like there were just limitations built
18:17
Speaker 3: into the plan. A couple of third downs where they
18:20
Speaker 3: ran crow routes like this, you know, I guess you
18:22
Speaker 3: could say like there was a few few exceptions. You know,
18:26
Speaker 3: they ran a levels route later just that Smith got
18:28
Speaker 3: for first down, and then on that the last drive
18:31
Speaker 3: of the game, before Texas had a chance to go
18:33
Speaker 3: down score and tie, on third down, they ran a
18:35
Speaker 3: shallow cross to Brandon Innis, which I thought was a
18:37
Speaker 3: great design. But the nickel for Texas, like he made
18:40
Speaker 3: a great play like that, that's been a first down
18:42
Speaker 3: for us. Stayed so many times in that situation, and
18:45
Speaker 3: it just they they made a play and got a tackle,
18:48
Speaker 3: So you know, pats off to them. They're a good defense.
18:51
Speaker 3: But again, I just think both I suppose you can
18:55
Speaker 3: complain that I'll have to say it was conservative, but
18:57
Speaker 3: I think I would think that most people can understand why.
19:01
Speaker 3: And also like there's no reason though to expect that
19:04
Speaker 3: there it's going to be like this going forward. Like
19:06
Speaker 3: Brian Day and Brian Hartline have a track record in
19:09
Speaker 3: terms of the passing game, and I think that you
19:11
Speaker 3: have to take this into a very specific context.
19:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, with a quarterback, a former quarterback, and a former
19:19
Speaker 1: wide receiver, you would assume if they're going to get
19:21
Speaker 1: anything happy, they're going to get pass happy. So yeah,
19:24
Speaker 1: definitely definitely a little bit of a bespoke situation where
19:28
Speaker 1: you got the first time starter against a pretty good defense,
19:31
Speaker 1: number one team in the in the country, So yeah,
19:34
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're going to probably play it a little
19:35
Speaker 1: more cautious. But they didn't play it cautious all game long.
19:39
Speaker 1: They did take you know, they had a couple spots
19:41
Speaker 1: where they were clearly looking to take shots. One was
19:44
Speaker 1: the play at the fourth and one play that we
19:45
Speaker 1: talked about earlier where Julian saying did not throw it downfield.
19:49
Speaker 1: This last one is one where he did throw it
19:52
Speaker 1: downfield don Carnell Tate for the touchdown to make it
19:55
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing.
19:56
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:57
Speaker 3: Again, like he didn't make the same mistake twice, right,
19:59
Speaker 3: And again I'm very pleased with what I saw out
20:02
Speaker 3: of saying for first start in that situation, Like I
20:05
Speaker 3: think Ohio State fans should be hardened by that. They
20:09
Speaker 3: you know, you get Cover one here, they go with
20:11
Speaker 3: heavy play action, you know, pull the guard, which is
20:12
Speaker 3: like a Bryan Day staple to give that sort of
20:15
Speaker 3: heavy look, and the Cover one safety, as you'd probably expect,
20:19
Speaker 3: opens up straight to Jeremiah Smith, leaving Colonel Tate one
20:22
Speaker 3: on one, and you know, saying maybe it was a
20:24
Speaker 3: little late with the ball, but put it in a
20:26
Speaker 3: position at least where Colonel Tate could make a play.
20:28
Speaker 3: So again, I think lots to build on. You know,
20:31
Speaker 3: the most important thing is you got out of there
20:33
Speaker 3: with a win. You know, we'll talk about everything we saw.
20:36
Speaker 3: The defense, which is sort of in the talk of
20:39
Speaker 3: the college football, you know, on ESPN and elsewhere, so
20:43
Speaker 3: what Matt Patricia is bringing, But so I think with
20:47
Speaker 3: how the defense is playing again in context, obviously training
20:50
Speaker 3: wheels on, but things to build.
20:52
Speaker 2: On for sure.
20:54
Speaker 1: And nothing makes college football coaches happier than you get
20:57
Speaker 1: a win in week one and you also have a
20:59
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff to yell to the players about and
21:01
Speaker 1: to teach off of and to improve off of and
21:04
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And Ohio State did that,
21:06
Speaker 1: and Ohio State got that win week one to fourteen
21:09
Speaker 1: two seven over number one Texas. Now they move on
21:12
Speaker 1: to Grambling. Guessing there will be probably a little more explosiveness.
21:15
Speaker 1: Guessing the stats will end up looking pretty shiny after
21:18
Speaker 1: this weekend's game. But we will find out together Saturday
21:21
Speaker 1: three thirty inside the Horseshoe Game on Big ten Network.
21:24
Speaker 1: We'll be there for that, but before we get there,
21:26
Speaker 1: we'll have another show with Ross this week talking about
21:29
Speaker 1: that Matt Patricia and then Ohio State defense and what
21:31
Speaker 1: they did to keep Steve's sarcusian and Archmanning kind of
21:35
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21:37
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