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Was Toughness Or Aggressiveness The Difference In Ohio State's Loss To Michigan? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning from Monday, November twenty seventh. I'm your
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  host, Tom Moore. The game against Michigan in three hundred and sixty nine
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  days. Everything else about Ohio State football a little bit up in the air
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  right now. After the Buckeyes lost thirty to twenty four up in ann Arbor
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  on Saturday. They're going to need a little help if they're going to make
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  it back into the college Football Playoff this year. That will either come or
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  won't come this upcoming weekend, and then we'll have a lot more of a
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  sense what's next for this team. But for the moment, we're going to
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  take a little bit of a look back at Saturday. What went wrong for
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  the buck Eyes, What went right for the buck Eyes in that close loss
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  up in ann Arbor. Let's start with Ohio State head coach Ryan Day and
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  his view on what happened on that last play, the interception by Rod Moore
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  of a pass by Kyle McCord. Yeah, they were in his own coverage
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  and you know, we need a touchdown there. I think, you know,
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  right inside of thirty seconds and they were in a deep coverage there,
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  So I'm not sure even if he had gotten hit, you know what would
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  have happened there. But you know, yeah, that looked like you got
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  hit and then and then you know, they made a nice play. Ohio
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  State fans obviously know that was a real gut punch of a way to lose
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  that game. What did it feel like for Ryan Day to lose a game
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  like that right up the end? Hard to describe, now, you know,
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  just sick the fact that you know, you know, we came up
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  short in this game. You worked your whole whole year for it, and
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  we came up short. So yeah, Ryan Day was on the receiving end
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  of quite a bit of criticism for maybe playing things a little too conservatively at
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  times. Chose to punt the ball on fourth and one from his own forty
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  six in the first half, and then chose not to go for it and
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  set for a fifty two yard field goal attempt from Jaden Fielding right before halftime.
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  It was actually five yards longer than any field goal Fielding had made all
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  season long. So what went into those two decisions for Ryan Day? Yeah,
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  well, I felt like at fifty two yards it was worth a field
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  goal there. If you don't get it on flighting. It was what fourth
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  and two, fourth and three, somewhere in there, you had no points,
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  and I felt like it was it was worth the opportunity to kick the
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  field goal at least if we come up short there, then this turnal run
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  down. So I felt like that was the right move. And then early
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  in the game around midfield, just don't want to give them any momentum,
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  felt like we could pin them down and play defense. I thought we were
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  playing pretty good early on. Part of that criticism for Day came because there
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  was a really neat easy contrast on the other sideline. Michigan interim coach Sharon
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  Moore went for it on fourth down three times. Now, all those were
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  in the Ohio state end of the fields, that makes it a little bit
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  of an easier decision. But Michigan went three for three on those fourth down
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  conversions. So why did Sharon Moore decide to be so aggressive on fourth down?
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  I mean, it goes back to the kids, how they prepare,
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  how they attack things, and how they work. So I'd be doing them
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  at disservice if I try to be conservative when they're going out there running one
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  fifties in the summer, blood sweat and tears, working their tails off in
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  the way with everything they can. They put the trust in me as a
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  play call on offense to be aggressive in these games. That's what they want,
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  So that's what we gave them. All. Right, now, let's
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  go back to Ryan day. What was the conversation like in the Ohio State
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  locker room after that game. Yeah, I try to keep you know,
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  what we talk about in the locker room to ourselves, but we're all disappointed.
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  But we know that what this game means to so many people, and
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  so to come up short is certainly crushing, not only just because you invest
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  you a whole year in it. We know at Ohio State what this game
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  means, and so you know there's there's a locker room in there. It's
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  devastated. And it wasn't a lack of effort. But again, you know,
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  we didn't win the rushing yards, we didn't win the turnover battle,
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  So you're not gonna win a game. Most of the conversation after the game
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  was about the Ohio State offense and a couple of really big turnovers that they
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  made. But the defense in the second half give up points on every single
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  second half drive. They get two three and outs to start the game and
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  did not have another three and out the whole rest of the game. So
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  what was Ryan Day's view on how the defense played in the second half.
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  Yeah, you know, I felt like they they were able to establish a
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  run a little bit there and kept the good rhythm rhythm going. I felt
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  like, you know that that happens a lot, and and you know,
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  games like this you kind of go back and forth a little bit in the
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  second half. So that was that was, you know, fairly normal.
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  I felt like the guys were doing a good job early on in the game,
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  but but ultimately it comes down to get in stops and then finishing drives.
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  There was one drive in the third quarter where the Buckeyes just ran the
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  ball directly down Michigan's throat, but outside that, they really struggled to run
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  the ball consistently throughout the rest of the game. Was there any common denominator
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  to that, No, I mean, I think there was some traction for
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  sure. Yeah, I mean there was certainly one drive in particular. I
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  felt like we were really rocking off the ball and we were we were doing
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  a good job, and I don't know, ultimately what the final numbers were.
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  But but but I feel I feel like when you go into this game,
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  you gotta you gotta win, win rushing yards, and it didn't happen.
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  I you know, I don't know what the final numbers were, but
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  they had more than we did. And that's a big part of controling the
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  game certainly has to do with the last couple of drives and then also you
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  know, and then turn over battle and you know, I'd like to say
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  it's more than that, but I'm not sure it is. The final interception
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  of the game thrown by Kyle McCord is going to be the one that everyone
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  remembers for decades and decades. But he threw another one in the first quarter
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  as well that kind of set up the first Michigan touchdown. The Michigan offense
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  had to only go seven yards to get a seven point lead. What did
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  Ryan da see on that first interception by Kyle McCord. Not a good start.
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  You know, you want to have a quick start. You know,
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  the kid had a nice play. Johnson jumped inside on a slant and it
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  made a nice play. You know, I have to see it on film.
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  But he I know, he's playing a little bit inside leverage there,
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  and you know, Kyle, you know, I think just kind of fired
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  in there and on a slant play. You know, you know, it's
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  a bang bang play. And then so I'll have to look at the film
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  and find out exactly what took what took place on the play. But that's
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  what I saw from my vantage point. That was the communication that we had
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  in the sideline. The Buckeye defense did a much better job limiting big plays
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  than they did a year ago, but Michigan did still get them a couple
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  times, including that half back pass from Donovan Edwards on a trick play.
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  Did Ohio State have some of those kind of similar trick play kind of things
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  saved up for the game, and you know, did they use them?
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  Where were they? No? I mean, I felt like we had some
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  good stuff. I felt like, you know, we kind of got a
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  little bit of rhythm there in the second half. I thought some of the
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  runs really hit. I thought a couple explosive plays. I don't know what
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  the explosive play breakdown was. That's usually something we figure out afterwards, but
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  I thought we were fairly explosive because that is a big factor in this game
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  as well, so I have to look and see. But I thought,
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  when you look at it, how do you create explosives? I felt like,
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  you know that part, we were doing a pretty decent job on offense.
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  One of the big storylines around this game the last few years has been
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  toughness and that Michigan wins it because they're just tougher than Ohio State and you
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  know you're going to have your mileage. May vary on how much that played
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  into the game on Saturday, but Michigan wide receiver Roman Wilson was asked about
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  that, and I'm just gonna let you hear the question here how quickly Roman
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  Wilson answers and hear what Roman Wilson had to say after the game. All
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  right, and for all of you, how State made a big deal this
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  year I'll be more physical. Did you get a sense if they were more
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  physical? Definitely not. I mean, like I told the receivers this whole
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  week, like you got guys back there, like there's a thing that I
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  thought too, like guys who you want to put on like the Louis V
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  like the thousand dollars outfit, like you want to act hard. But when
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  we were out there, like they're not hard like I see the film,
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  like, you're not tough like and I don't think I'm the toughest guy in
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  the world, but you know, I'm out there, I'm getting physical like
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  I don't think they wanted it like how I wanted it. You guys agree
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  with that? Yeah, And finally, here's another one where I'm gonna let
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  you hear the question just because I don't even want to try and paraphrase it.
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  It's about all the other stuff that's been going on the last month or
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  so around Michigan football and what this game means in relation to all of that.
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  It's been a lot of talk on bands of the other team's side,
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  a lots of time to beat these guys. It was something to do with
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  with something other than you guys, what do you think you guys proved in
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  that regard today? You know, I didn't think we proved any of those
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  guys wrong, or you know that was our intention. We proved ourselves right.
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  We know who we are as a team, we know all the work
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  that we put in, and we just wanted to go out there and display
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  it for the world to see. And you know, obviously extremely happy with
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  the way we did it well. While the Michigan Wolverines are headed to Indianapolis
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  to face Iowa and the Big Ten Championship game, and the Buckeyes are back
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  in limbo waiting to see how things shake out next weekend on conference championship game
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  weekend. They got some help last year got into the College Football Playoff.
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  We'll see if that can happen again for them this week. They will need
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  a little bit of help. We'll keep an eye on that for you this
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  week. Track the College Football Playoff selection show on Tuesday and figure out where
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  things stand at that point. And then, of course Early Signing Day coming
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  up later this month. We're gonna have plenty of recruiting talk coming in less
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  than a month, as the Buck guys will be signing their twenty twenty four
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  recruiting class and finally talking a little x's and o's. This week as well,
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  with Ross Fulton the Buckeyehuddle dot Com, we will be breaking down all
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  of the things you need to know about this weekend's game, what went right,
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  what went wrong, what it all means for the future of the Ohio
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  State football program. We'll be talking about all of that this week and We'll
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  be talking about all that this week as well at buckey huddle dot com.
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  I hope you can join us there. That will do it for today.
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  I thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll
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  talk to you tomorrow