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Ross Fulton Analysis: 4 Players On Ohio State's Defense Who Need To Play More · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, September 23rd. I'm
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  Speaker 1: welcoming back in Ross Fulton, one of the scheme insiders
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  Speaker 1: we are going to be looking at the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: defense on this show. And we're going to be taking
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  Speaker 1: a look at some of the guys that Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: singled out during his press conference on Tuesday in terms
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  Speaker 1: of people who he was very impressed with. But before
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  Speaker 1: we get into that, Ross, we're just going to start
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  Speaker 1: with some stuff they were able to do to limit
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  Speaker 1: Kent State in the run game. Because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: after the game, there was a lot of, boy, they
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  Speaker 1: really didn't do as much against Kent State as you
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  Speaker 1: thought they would. And you went back and watched it.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, Kent State didn't really generate anything
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  Speaker 1: on the ground or in the air.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I actually think that they... Ohio State defense
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  Speaker 2: under Matt Patricia actually made quite a few adjustments in
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  Speaker 2: response to the Texas game in both the run game
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  Speaker 2: and the pass game. I would put them under the
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  Speaker 2: general framework of being more aggressive and bringing more rushers.
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  Speaker 2: This first one, as you said, this is a run blitz,
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  Speaker 2: but we saw more of this on Saturday as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to sitting back. These double three tech you sometimes see
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  Speaker 2: from Patricia and it's basically like a, sometimes like people
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  Speaker 2: call it a build a bear because you're, you're bringing
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  Speaker 2: one inside linebacker. He's attacking the a gap opposite the
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  Speaker 2: way the center talks.
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  Speaker 1: Steps.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, if you pause it, right, you'll
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  Speaker 2: have a five man front with the linebacker then taking
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  Speaker 2: one of the a gap. And that allows Christian Allegro.
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  Speaker 2: And he, you know, one of those guys that day
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  Speaker 2: talked about is sort of being one of the leaders
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  Speaker 2: of the defense that they're building around. able to then
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  Speaker 2: flow to the football and basically close off all the lanes. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: so I, you know, that you saw, I think quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit of these like different types of five man, uh,
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  Speaker 2: cover one pressures, uh, both in the, as run and
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  Speaker 2: pass responses.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So next we're going to look at one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that Ryan day talked about as someone
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  Speaker 1: who they really are going to kind of build the
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  Speaker 1: defense around you almost looking as out at looking at
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  Speaker 1: as sort of a foundational piece, uh, And that is
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  Speaker 1: linebacker Christian Allegro, the transfer from Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we saw how they used him there
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  Speaker 2: as an inside linebacker, flowing and off the ball. On
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  Speaker 2: the ball, he was pretty disruptive again, and they obviously
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  Speaker 2: like him in this Arvel Reese role in the penny
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  Speaker 2: or odd front, for lack of a better term. But again, schematically,
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  Speaker 2: this is another five-man cover one pressure. They played a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of cover one against Ball State as well before
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  Speaker 2: obviously doing very little of that against Texas. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll see, I mean, Illinois has a pretty
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  Speaker 2: successful passing offense. And so it'll be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: how they approach that. But I just thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just there's like more bodies near the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: more pressuring, you know, pressuring the offense. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: here they bring a letter off the edge. He's just
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  Speaker 2: very aggressive coming downhill and a pretty impactful. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I see why, Ryan Day pointed that out
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  Speaker 2: and we'll talk about Riley Pettijohn here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I think, and Allegro sort of touched on this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things I, in my opinion, like Allegro
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  Speaker 2: and Pettijohn have been the two best linebackers by a
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  Speaker 2: pretty clear margin thus far, but they both have sort
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  Speaker 2: of been playing the same kind of position, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Arville Reese position, if you will, playing like Sam and Will.
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  Speaker 2: And so see how the two of them work together.
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  Speaker 2: you know, how they, how they use the two of
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  Speaker 2: them together on, on Saturday, we saw, I think Reese
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  Speaker 2: or Reese, we saw Pettijohn and Mike and Allegro sort
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  Speaker 2: of staying on the edge, but then Allegro, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on Tuesday talked about that he was playing
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  Speaker 2: some Mike with Pettijohn on the edge. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think they're probably going to, you know, this still is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a work in progress and figuring
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  Speaker 2: out how those pieces, those two guys fit together best and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, which position maximizes their strengths.
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  Speaker 1: Next guy that I know Ryan Day is super, super,
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  Speaker 1: super high on is Jay Timmons. And that's a name
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  Speaker 1: that people have heard us talk about for at least
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  Speaker 1: a month or two pretty consistently. But he continues to
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  Speaker 1: be really, really impressive. And not just impressive in one
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  Speaker 1: area of the game. The next two plays, he plays
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  Speaker 1: a significant role in both of those. This first one,
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  Speaker 1: he just comes flying out of the secondary to make
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  Speaker 1: a really good open field tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Timmons is just, he's really... Like Allegro,
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  Speaker 2: like he flies downhill. And so, you know, the one thing,
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  Speaker 2: the more they can do with Timmons and then another
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  Speaker 2: one of the guys that Ryan Day mentioned, Earl Little,
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  Speaker 2: the more versatility gives them. For instance, like here, they have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Little over the slot receiver to the
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  Speaker 2: boundary and Timmons being the guy coming downhill and cover
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  Speaker 2: three and sort of cover one, excuse me, buzz look.
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to like traditionally, like, you know, you might
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  Speaker 2: have your nickel being the guy over the slot receiver
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  Speaker 2: and little in that position. And so they can sort
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  Speaker 2: of rotate the defense more like they could do last year. And,
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  Speaker 2: but this is just, again, obviously a great example of how,
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  Speaker 2: you know, decisive Timmons is then coming downhill once you
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  Speaker 2: within the scheme.
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  Speaker 1: This next one, you get a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: two for two guys that we have been talking about
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  Speaker 1: already on this show. One is Jay Timmons who comes
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  Speaker 1: off the corner early, and just gets enough of the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback's arm to kind of impact the pass. And the
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  Speaker 1: other guy is Riley Pettyjohn, who is just right there.
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  Speaker 1: That's something Ryan Day has talked about. He is just
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the right spot and can slide off
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  Speaker 1: of blocks and just sort of be a difference maker.
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  Speaker 1: This is the play where Pettyjohn ended up with an interception.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, I would sort of push back against
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  Speaker 2: the concept that they didn't really do anything different or
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  Speaker 2: new against Ball State. Again, I think Patricia was more
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  Speaker 2: aggressive there. and bringing five man pressures. Um, so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: here you have a fire zone, so it's a three deep,
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  Speaker 2: three under zone blitz, uh, you know, um, Balmanac, always
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  Speaker 2: a great fallen X, put a few, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: these up from the Patricia use on Saturday, but you're
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  Speaker 2: basically looping the, the defensive end, uh, to Tim is
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  Speaker 2: a side inside the defensive tackle. And then, uh, so
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  Speaker 2: you got like a tech stunt going on and then
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  Speaker 2: you're bringing Tim is off the edge. Obviously like he's again,
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  Speaker 2: this is sort of taking advantage of his aggressiveness. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously I said post Texas, like need to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think they're going to need to use
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  Speaker 2: more like four man sim pressures and more five man
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  Speaker 2: fire zones to generate pressure. But I do think you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing with the guys that day mentioned, like it's both
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  Speaker 2: a matter of like the scheme, but then also sort
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  Speaker 2: of like, okay, who are our best pieces? And then like,
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  Speaker 2: what do they do best and how can we maximize
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  Speaker 2: them within the defense? And so I think they're, you know,
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  Speaker 2: using Timmons and then Earl Little, as we showed during Texas,
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  Speaker 2: pretty aggressively to like fit from depth and be impactful.
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  Speaker 1: Something else that would have seemed kind of crazy a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago is the idea that you'd see three
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State defensive tackles on the field at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like you would generally just sort of see, okay,
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  Speaker 1: they've got their three tech, they've got their nose, you've
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  Speaker 1: got your two defensive ends. That has changed a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about a bunch of different variations of that
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years since Matt Patricia has
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  Speaker 1: shown up, but one of the guys who's been a
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  Speaker 1: difference maker among the defensive tackles this year and somebody who,
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  Speaker 1: who Ryan Day also singled out earlier in the week
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  Speaker 1: is Jason Moore. And this is one where Jason Moore
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  Speaker 1: kind of has to eat a double team and sort
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  Speaker 1: of holds up and is part of, you know, there,
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  Speaker 1: there are several other guys who probably got credit on
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  Speaker 1: the stat sheet, but this was a pretty nice play
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  Speaker 1: by Jason Moore too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of speculated, you know, like Patricia likes to
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  Speaker 2: have like bulk on defense, right? Like he likes Allegro
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  Speaker 2: cause he's a big linebacker. Like he liked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought when he brought in the transfer D tackles,
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  Speaker 2: like that he would want to do some of this
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  Speaker 2: with the penny front with three defensive tackles inside. And
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  Speaker 2: so you've seen some of that, but I like Jason
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  Speaker 2: Moore has to be the most pleasant surprise for high
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  Speaker 2: state this year. Like he, you know, Patricia likes this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even though this is an actually they're like
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  Speaker 2: bumped into an even look from the penny. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he likes having that head up nose guard and obviously
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  Speaker 2: like more has the most heft of any of those guys,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been playing great. And this allows them to
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  Speaker 2: put John Walker, who's also another transfer who's playing well,
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  Speaker 2: like as more of like the three tech or like
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  Speaker 2: a four eye where I think he's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more impactful. And so in, you know, again, then using
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  Speaker 2: this sort of three high look, we saw it a
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  Speaker 2: lot against Texas, like basically Earl little serves from that
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  Speaker 2: Aztec position, like Kayla downs is kind of the will
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  Speaker 2: linebacker filling. But this, you know, the last thing I'd
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  Speaker 2: point out, this sort of gets to what I said
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  Speaker 2: about the, like, Allegro and Petitjean like this is a
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  Speaker 2: nice off ball play by Petitjean in terms of uh
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  Speaker 2: filling out inside out they they showed the wonder in
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast where he overran his gap um but you
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  Speaker 2: know I think that this is you know it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: all just like it's not just like he's you know
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  Speaker 2: sort of flying around out there and not playing his
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  Speaker 2: responsibilities I think that would be too much of an
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  Speaker 2: overstatement but again it will be interesting to see you
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  Speaker 2: know in this sort of look like Do they go
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  Speaker 2: if the two of them are together more like do
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  Speaker 2: they do they flip them and play Allegro as this
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  Speaker 2: Mike and a petit john on the edge or you
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  Speaker 2: know even back and forth between that those two.
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  Speaker 1: All right there you go a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: breakdown of the ohio state defense and the why behind
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  Speaker 1: some of what ryan day said earlier in the week
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  Speaker 1: about guys who might be sort of foundational players for
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  Speaker 1: this year's Ohio State defense. Not necessarily the names we
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  Speaker 1: would have been thinking a couple weeks ago, but it
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