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Ohio State 38, Michigan State 7: Jeremiah Smith, Caleb Downs, And 4 Other Takeaways · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, September twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom or the Iowa game in six days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in sixty two days. The Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State Buckeyes dusted off Michigan's well traditionally little brother, I
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  Speaker 1: guess on Saturday Night thirty eight to seven over the
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  Speaker 1: Michigan State Spartans. Yes, I should be careful saying that
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  Speaker 1: they honored Mark D'Antonio, and we know what happens right
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  Speaker 1: after pride happens.
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  Speaker 2: We know what happens there. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So Ohio State thirty eight seven, not the not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: a smooth ride from beginning to end to Mkevin Noonobuckehaddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com Kevin before we get into some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that had people a little concerned in the first
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  Speaker 1: half for the buck Eyes kind of kick things into gear.
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  Speaker 1: Later on we got to talk about Jeremies Holy Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Every week it feels like you see something you've never
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  Speaker 1: seen before. This was another game where you just saw
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff you hadn't seen it before.
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  Speaker 2: When Jeremiah had his two amazing receptions in a small
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  Speaker 2: window of time. I don't know if people have seen
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  Speaker 2: the little the jift file of Joe Rogan at a
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  Speaker 2: UFC thing that was me Grabbingtonia, Like did that just
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  Speaker 2: really happen? Did that really just happen? Because we know
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  Speaker 2: that during practice the receivers loved to mess around and
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  Speaker 2: catch the ball one handed or whatever. But that's certainly
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  Speaker 2: not being covered and not in a high leverage situation
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  Speaker 2: like that. But all Jeremiah Smith does is just amaze people.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he does. And he is moving up the
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  Speaker 2: record books quickly for output of a true freshman at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, and he is going to rewrite a lot
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  Speaker 2: of records before his total of three years in Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State are over. And if I'm part of the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State collective, I'm making sure that I'm passing the hat
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  Speaker 2: right now to reward because it's not paid for playing necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: but to reward him because he is every bit as
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  Speaker 2: good as advertised, maybe better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he has lived up to all of the expectations,
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  Speaker 1: the outsized, ridiculous expectations. Already five catches for eighty three
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  Speaker 1: yards one touchdown, also had a touchdown on the ground
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  Speaker 1: nineteen yards, just another week. Four games in and he's
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  Speaker 1: scored touchdowns in all of them. He scored multiple touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of them he's already hi had Garrett
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  Speaker 1: Wilson for most touchdowns receiving as a true freshman. Both
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  Speaker 1: five think about how good Garrett Wilson's true freshman season was.
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  Speaker 1: It is literally still September and he's already tied Garrett
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  Speaker 1: Wilson's record. So that is one big takeaway from that game.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith good at football. Another takeaway, Mega Abuka showed
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  Speaker 1: for some resilience. He did not have the greatest game
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  Speaker 1: for stretches, had a couple drops, but he also bounced back,
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  Speaker 1: targeted eleven times, seven catches ninety six yards, had a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown reception. That was It wasn't a great performance from
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  Speaker 1: beginning to end, but that was a really veteran performance
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  Speaker 1: where it didn't necessarily start great, but he saw things through.
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  Speaker 2: He's so smooth out there, and yeah, you want to
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  Speaker 2: try and work through those drops. Maybe some miscommunications as well,
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  Speaker 2: but he is also very good at football. And when
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  Speaker 2: you think about that one two punch of Jeremiah and
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  Speaker 2: a Mecca, we're not even even getting into the point
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  Speaker 2: of throwing in Cornel Tait and others as well. It's
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  Speaker 2: just really amazing and it makes a quarterback like Will
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  Speaker 2: Howard look better. And that's not to say that Will
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  Speaker 2: Howard had a bad game. I mean made a couple
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  Speaker 2: of bad decisions. He had an interception, he had a
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  Speaker 2: second one that absolutely should have been an interception. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, he goes twenty one to thirty one, sixty
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  Speaker 2: eight percent passer, two forty four yards, two touchdowns, one interception.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he did what needed to be done in
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  Speaker 2: the game. Oh and he also rushed for a touchdown, which,
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  Speaker 2: for everybody who pays attention to my three shot story,
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  Speaker 2: that was my one pointer. So now I have a
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  Speaker 2: grand field love two points.
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  Speaker 1: Not so easy to make predict things boldly, but you succeeded,
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  Speaker 1: succeeded on Saturday night, So well done on that front.
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  Speaker 1: Well done also to Trevion Henderson, who continues to have
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  Speaker 1: a really light workload. He feels he feels like he's
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  Speaker 1: sort of semi retired or something. Seven carries average nine
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  Speaker 1: point nine yards per carry, again thirty nine thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: yard long. He just he has just been such a
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  Speaker 1: boon to this Ohio State offense because they've not had
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  Speaker 1: to lean on him, which is great for him because
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  Speaker 1: it keeps him healthier fresher longer into the season. But man,
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  Speaker 1: he had twelve yards per carry last week and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: what was he going to do to follow this up?
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  Speaker 1: Merely nine point nine yards per carry on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he went from six carries against Marshall to seven
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  Speaker 2: carries against Michigan State. So there is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of tread on those tires when you get
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  Speaker 2: into November and maybe the weather isn't as great and
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  Speaker 2: certainly when the competition is getting higher, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: carry that into December and January and you know what
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  Speaker 2: could be a long season. But Trevion looks really good.
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  Speaker 2: Scary moment he did get dinged up, had to visit
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  Speaker 2: the injury tent, but you know he wasn't out for long,
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  Speaker 2: came back out again, not necessarily getting a ton of carries,
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  Speaker 2: But that's just a luxury they have because of the
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  Speaker 2: way the offense is going having quin Shawn Judkins, and
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  Speaker 2: then even later in a game, you're not stuck having
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  Speaker 2: to run your one and one a running back when
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  Speaker 2: you have guys like James people's out there that can
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  Speaker 2: sit there and carry the mail laid in a game
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  Speaker 2: to get you across the finish line.
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  Speaker 1: So those were some of the standout players on offense
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  Speaker 1: for the Black Eyes. Now we got to talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit with the defense and the defense it feels
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  Speaker 1: like there's some concern and some consternation around the Ohios
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  Speaker 1: Date defense, which they allowed seven points, wopping seven points.
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  Speaker 1: So you kind of have to take a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of everything with a little bit of a brain of salt.
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  Speaker 1: But you go through the yards per play by quarter
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  Speaker 1: and there's some I don't know if they're red flags,
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  Speaker 1: but they're orange at least. First quarter given up seven
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  Speaker 1: point nine yards per play. Second quarter six point six
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  Speaker 1: yards per play. Once you get past halftime, Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 1: gets in and gets them into the locker room, makes
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  Speaker 1: his adjustments. Third quarter one point seven yards per play,
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  Speaker 1: and then the fourth quarter was kind of irrelevant. It
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  Speaker 1: was three point four, but it was, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of garbage time at that point. How big of
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  Speaker 1: a concern is the slow start that the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: defense seems to get off to almost more often than not.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, I agree, I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 2: it's a red flag, but I think an orange flag
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  Speaker 2: is very apropos you know. Linebackers on the whole kind
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  Speaker 2: of had some struggles. You know. I think they're still
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure some things out there. I think that
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  Speaker 2: there's some issues with just the way that they approach
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  Speaker 2: some things. I think Ohio State did a good job
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  Speaker 2: of speeding up Aiden Childs by getting some pressure in there,
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  Speaker 2: but then there were other times where I don't know
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  Speaker 2: exactly what they were doing. And really kind of what
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  Speaker 2: helped Ohio State win this game by thirty one and
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  Speaker 2: hold Michigan to seven is Michigan State was its own
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  Speaker 2: worst enemy with some turnovers in the red zone and
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  Speaker 2: things of that nature, and that in Ohio State. OACAD
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  Speaker 2: also had a very great fourth and one stop early
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  Speaker 2: in the game where they Cody Simon stood up the
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  Speaker 2: ball carrier for Michigan State and forced a turnover. So
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  Speaker 2: I think there are things that they're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to work out. Iowa is not necessarily going to be
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  Speaker 2: a great test for what Ohio State's defense is per se,
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  Speaker 2: because it all Iowa is is Caleb Johnson rund the ball.
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  Speaker 2: That is all aide McNamara, uh not getting it done
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  Speaker 2: right now. They don't. I mean, Brian Farrens is working
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  Speaker 2: at Target or something. I don't know what's going on there,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think that they've taken any steps there.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know, I'm just warning people, don't don't
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  Speaker 2: don't bite the cheese if Ohio State holds Iowa to
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  Speaker 2: no points or whatever, because Iowa is just not really
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  Speaker 2: a true indication of a big ten offense.
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  Speaker 1: And so there were some concerns on the defense, especially
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  Speaker 1: the front seven, but boy, the back end of the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State defense continues to be really good. Davis Nigudosen
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a break rough night, but Denzel Berg had
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  Speaker 1: an interception. You had a force fumble by lath And Rents,
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  Speaker 1: a force fumble by Jordan Hancock running a running a
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  Speaker 1: ball carrier down way down the field to make a
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  Speaker 1: really really nice play. And we got we finally got
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  Speaker 1: the Caleb Downs experience. It took took four games, but
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  Speaker 1: you saw Caleb Downs. He led the team in tackles
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  Speaker 1: with six three solos, one tackle for loss, some big
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  Speaker 1: hits that felt like the first time. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like welcome to the Ohio State season. Caleb downs,
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  Speaker 1: not that he's played poorly, he just you really haven't
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  Speaker 1: noticed him the way you thought you did. You would
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  Speaker 1: you noticed him on Saturday Night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a couple of those downs tackles were if
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  Speaker 2: he didn't make that, the guy's running for thirty yards,
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  Speaker 2: so he you know, he really flashed. I certainly enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: watching him play last year for Alabama, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that that don Saturday night, that was the bosest that
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  Speaker 2: we've been to seeing that guy. And again it's not,
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  Speaker 2: oh well, Caleb Downs just hasn't been playing well. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's not that's not the case. This is just
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  Speaker 2: the first opportunity that he's been put in that position
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  Speaker 2: and he's certainly made the most of it.
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  Speaker 1: And We'll had touched real quickly on special teams, just
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  Speaker 1: because we talked about special teams a bunch last week
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  Speaker 1: when it was not good.
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  Speaker 2: No problems with special teams.
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  Speaker 1: No enalies, no miskicks, no kickoffs side of bounds. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's what you want to see from the Ohios date
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  Speaker 1: special teams. The ohiostate special teams doesn't need to win
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  Speaker 1: games for them general. Really, you know, maybe maybe in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason a game game with a kicker.
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  Speaker 2: See you like seeing them kick a field goal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to kick a field goal, but I
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  Speaker 2: think that you know, you look at how the season
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  Speaker 2: ended against Georgia the one year and they weren't able
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  Speaker 2: to hit the fifty yard er. I mean they're not
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  Speaker 2: kicking fifty yarders at this point. Now. They are two
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  Speaker 2: for two yeh on the season in field goals. Four games,
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  Speaker 2: two field goals. They're they're generally not settling for three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're kind of checking checking that box. So
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  Speaker 1: that was good news for the buck Eyes as well.
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  Speaker 1: So we will have coverage. We're headed home from Michigan
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  Speaker 1: State on Sunday. We'll have plenty of coverage coming up
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  Speaker 1: all week long as things get a little tougher next weekend.
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  Speaker 1: This was just a little bit of a step forward
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  Speaker 1: for the buck Eyes with that thirty eight seven win
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  Speaker 1: over Michigan State. Thinks you need get a little tougher
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  Speaker 1: week away from the Oregon game. Feels like we've been
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