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BONUS: Ohio State Scheme Insider - 5 Buckeyes Making Big Strides On Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Scheme Insiders from BuckeyeInsiders.com. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Tom Orr, joined by Michael Pettit, one of the Scheme
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  Speaker 1: Insiders from BuckeyeInsiders.com. And we on this show are going
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  Speaker 1: to be taking a look back at the Ohio State defense,
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  Speaker 1: what they did against Maryland to sort of limit the Terps,
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  Speaker 1: and probably taking a little bit of a sneak peek
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  Speaker 1: ahead at what that might mean against the Indiana Hoosiers
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 3: But don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be going in-depth on previewing that Indiana
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  Speaker 1: game with Michael a little bit later on in the week.
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  Speaker 1: But Michael, we're going to start on the first one.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to look at a play where Ohio State's
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  Speaker 1: running cover one against the run. And this is one
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  Speaker 1: of those things where cover one, you're a little more
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable against the pass. Presumably, you got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of an extra body up in the box. Watching this,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, I wonder if they can do this against Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I wanted to start off with an example
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  Speaker 2: of cover one, which You know, as you can see here,
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  Speaker 2: man coverage with the one deep safety is the free man.
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  Speaker 2: The two linebackers are kind of funneling the running back.
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  Speaker 2: So whichever way he were to release, that linebacker would
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  Speaker 2: take him in man. The other one would drop as
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  Speaker 2: kind of an underneath lurk defender. But this is actually
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  Speaker 2: a run play from Maryland here. And the reason I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to highlight it is because, you know, in today's episode,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to not get too nitty-gritty with the scheme
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  Speaker 2: at all times and try to give some guys some
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  Speaker 2: props because this was Ohio State's best defensive performance of
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  Speaker 2: the season. I don't count Kent State or Ball State.
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  Speaker 2: And I know Maryland's not great either, but they're at
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  Speaker 2: least a power-four team. And I saw a lot more
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  Speaker 2: promise on Saturday. I saw a lot more promise. So
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  Speaker 2: what you'll see here is Maryland is running power and
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  Speaker 2: I want you to watch Quay Rousaw here because over
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  Speaker 2: these past couple weeks, Quay Rousaw has really emerged. He's
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  Speaker 2: on a really good upward trajectory right now. So Maryland's
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  Speaker 2: running this one-back power play. So their center, frontside guard,
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  Speaker 2: frontside tackle, and tight end are all down blocking and
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  Speaker 2: trying to combo.
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  Speaker 3: Up to the next level.
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  Speaker 2: The left tackle, backside tackle, is hinging. And the left
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  Speaker 2: guard's going to pull around and try to kick Quay Rousaw.
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  Speaker 2: But you'll see Quay Russo is able to easily just
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  Speaker 2: not only take on the block, but also make a
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  Speaker 2: tackle for a relatively short gain here. And the end
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  Speaker 2: zone view gives you a very good view of that.
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  Speaker 2: But also, I just kind of wanted to point this
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  Speaker 2: play out because Ohio State has run more cover one
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  Speaker 2: over the past couple weeks than they did earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the season. So maybe that's going to continue to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of the game plan. It's certainly interesting to
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  Speaker 2: think about with Indiana coming into town. But yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is just a phenomenal play from Quay Roussard.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the next one, I bet I can tell you
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  Speaker 1: who you're focusing on in on this one. This is
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  Speaker 1: probably an Edrick Houston play. And man, it feels like
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  Speaker 1: Edrick Houston has had a really good couple games, which
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  Speaker 1: could be pretty significant heading into the Indiana game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Edrick's another guy who has really played well these past
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  Speaker 2: couple games. Um, Once again here, Maryland's running one back power,
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  Speaker 2: and Edrick Houston on this play is actually in a
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  Speaker 2: five technique instead of his usual three technique defensive tackle spot.
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  Speaker 3: This has been something they've done throughout the year.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, with the injuries to the defensive
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  Speaker 2: end room and on top of that, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: defensive end room not being quite as deep as the
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackle room, they've played some of the defensive tackles
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  Speaker 2: at five tech at times like Edric Houston's done it
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit as here. But yeah, this is just
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  Speaker 2: another example of a guy making a play. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it's like we can get so, or at least
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  Speaker 2: I can get so wound up in the scheme that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes what's most important is just guys being
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  Speaker 2: able to make plays. Ohio State's always had that. And
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  Speaker 2: this year on defense, there's no, there's no one, at
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  Speaker 2: least in the front seven, who's emerged as this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a playmaker on a game-to-game basis. Like in recent years,
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  Speaker 2: you've had Kata McDonald, Arvel Reese, JT Tuomeloau, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: I can go on. But, you know, this is just
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  Speaker 2: a good example of a guy making a play. And
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  Speaker 2: Edgar Houston is another guy who's on an upward trajectory,
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  Speaker 2: just like Quay Russo.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next up. I know we're talking about guys,
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  Speaker 1: but this is a stunt. We've talked about a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different stunts and twists and games you can play
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  Speaker 1: up front. This is one I don't think we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about before. That's a TAM stunt. So explain what a
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  Speaker 1: TAM stunt is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so a TAM stunt is just the three technique
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  Speaker 2: or the tackle stunting into the A gap, hence TAM. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this was an interesting changeup from Patricia, actually. You'll notice here,
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  Speaker 2: rather than having a three tech defensive tackle and a
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  Speaker 2: one tech nose or a two eye tech nose, he's
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  Speaker 2: got two three tech defensive tackles. Usually when Patricia does this,
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  Speaker 2: he likes to take the inside linebackers and blitz them
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  Speaker 2: at the center in one way or another. And he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't do that here.
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  Speaker 3: It's a change up.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, he has Jason Moore on this TAM stunt to
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  Speaker 2: stunt back into the A gap to essentially become a
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  Speaker 2: one tech nose post snap, which is a nice change up.
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  Speaker 2: And I think what this play does more than anything
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  Speaker 2: is it just shows you that you don't always have
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  Speaker 2: to do all this crazy stuff in the back end
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  Speaker 2: or these insane pressure packages to get results. Sometimes just
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  Speaker 2: quick stunts is all you need to kind of throw
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line off and get a nice tackle for
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  Speaker 2: loss or stuff at the line. And obviously that's something
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State's upcoming opponent, Indiana, does very well. So just
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  Speaker 2: an example of Ohio State sort of doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: And a good play by Jason Moore, another guy who's
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  Speaker 2: had a pretty good year.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next up, I know we have talked about
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  Speaker 1: a tech stunt before, because one of my absolute favorite
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  Speaker 1: moments this entire college football season has been, was at
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  Speaker 1: the event that we did, the live event we did
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  Speaker 1: the night before the Texas game down in Austin. We
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  Speaker 1: had a bunch of our members there. We were watching,
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  Speaker 1: I think Rutgers was playing Boston College or something, and
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  Speaker 1: one of the teams ran a tech stunt. And I
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  Speaker 1: turned to one of the people and said, all right,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of stunt was that? And he said it
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  Speaker 1: was a tech stunt because I watched the segment you
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  Speaker 1: do with Michael Pettit this week. And I thought we're
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  Speaker 1: teaching people. We're really making a difference in the world.
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  Speaker 1: So in case you missed the last one, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get a refresher on a tech stunt here.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome to hear. I unfortunately was not able to
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  Speaker 2: make it to Austin. So it's great to hear that story, actually.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so here you're going to get the tech
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  Speaker 2: stunt at the bottom of the screen. And again, a
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  Speaker 2: tech stunt, tackle first, end second, hence techs. So the
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  Speaker 2: tackle is going to go first and kind of become
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  Speaker 2: that contain rusher, while the end is going to go
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  Speaker 2: second and loop around back into the A-gap. And the
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  Speaker 2: stunt almost works here. You know, the quarterback gets rid
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  Speaker 2: of the ball a little quickly, but Kenyatta Jackson does
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  Speaker 2: kind of become a free rusher here. The main point
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  Speaker 2: to make on this play, though, is that Ohio State's
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  Speaker 2: running cover three buzz, which is cool because They ran
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  Speaker 2: cover three a lot last year. Haven't been running it
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  Speaker 2: as much this year, and I've not really been sure why,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: But here are the running cover.
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  Speaker 2: Three buzz, which is a style of cover three where
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  Speaker 2: one of the safeties drops down to one of the
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  Speaker 2: hook zones instead of just having both linebackers in the
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  Speaker 2: hook zones. So here you've got Earl Little, the boundary safety,
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  Speaker 2: dropping into that hook zone to the boundary. Peyton Pierce
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  Speaker 2: is the hook zone to the field. And then you've
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  Speaker 2: got the two curl flat defenders and the three deep
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  Speaker 2: third defenders. And this is a great play by Earl
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  Speaker 2: Little here. Earl Little is another guy who has been solid.
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  Speaker 2: But I actually think against Maryland might have been his
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  Speaker 2: best performance of the year. I just felt like he
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  Speaker 2: was making a lot of plays, doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good things. And this was a great rep in zone cut.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next up, we are staying in Cover 3
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  Speaker 1: Buzz in terms of coverage, but doing kind of the
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  Speaker 1: opposite of the tech stunt. That is the exit stunt.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, techs tackle first and end second. Exit
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  Speaker 2: is just the inverse. It's end first, tackle second. So
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get right off the bat. Kenyatta Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: the end, is going to spike inside through that B gap.
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  Speaker 2: And the defensive tackle is going to loop around afterwards
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  Speaker 2: to become the contain rusher. Once again here, you're in
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  Speaker 2: Cover 3 Buzz. Again, this is a successful play. So
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  Speaker 2: I am interested to see how much Cover 3 Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State runs going forward. As it currently stands, I think
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  Speaker 2: they're still figuring out some things on defense as far
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  Speaker 2: as their identity goes. And I know that might not
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  Speaker 2: be the most comforting thing to hear six games into the.
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  Speaker 3: Season, but there are a lot of new players and
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  Speaker 3: there's been a fair amount of injuries throughout the year already.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that, you know, cover three.
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  Speaker 2: Is a good change up if they want to get
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  Speaker 2: into single high covered shells that allow them to get
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  Speaker 2: an extra run defender in there. Because they've been running
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  Speaker 2: cover one more, but cover three is the natural change
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  Speaker 2: up to cover one, obviously. And, you know, cover three
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  Speaker 2: might not expose them to some of the problems they've
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  Speaker 2: had in cover one, such as switching off on pick
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  Speaker 2: routes and also just, you know, pass interference calls. And
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  Speaker 2: just getting beat in general. So I do wonder how
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  Speaker 2: much cover three we're going to see going forward. I
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  Speaker 2: think it might be a good changeup.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so there's a little bit of a look
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  Speaker 1: back at Maryland and what the Buckeyes did to defend
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  Speaker 1: the Terps. Now the question is, okay, got a pretty
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  Speaker 1: big game coming up. this weekend in Bloomington. What are
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  Speaker 1: they going to do that might be a little different
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  Speaker 1: against the Indiana Hoosiers? And don't worry, we have an
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  Speaker 1: episode with Michael looking at the Indiana offense. We got
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  Speaker 1: an episode with Michael looking at the Indiana defense. That
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  Speaker 1: is all still to come, but just Michael, give people
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a teaser ahead to that. What
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  Speaker 1: are some things that you might think the Buckeyes could
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  Speaker 1: be doing a little bit differently or ways they might
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  Speaker 1: have to change things up a little bit this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: given the challenge that the Hoosiers might provide in defense?
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  Speaker 2: The short answer is I'm not really sure. And I
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  Speaker 2: just say that because I look at this Indiana team
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  Speaker 2: and I try to be honest with myself about what
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  Speaker 2: I've seen from the Ohio State defense. And while there
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  Speaker 2: are things that I think would work against this Indiana team,
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  Speaker 2: in theory. I don't know if Ohio State has the
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  Speaker 2: guys where it makes sense to run some of those things. Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: for example, had a lot of success playing cover one
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  Speaker 2: man coverage against Indiana. But, you know, the flip side
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  Speaker 2: of that is it was an away game for Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: which made, you know, getting the snap off and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that naturally just a little tougher. And more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: it was a really windy day. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: probably affected the passing game at least a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you look at Ohio State in cover one,
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  Speaker 2: as I've said, we've looked at in recent weeks that
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  Speaker 2: they've had problems trading off routes and man coverage and
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  Speaker 2: getting picked. And there's been a lot of pass interference penalties,
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  Speaker 2: some that I don't think should have been called, but
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  Speaker 2: you expect those are going to be called even if
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  Speaker 2: they shouldn't, essentially. So yeah, I'm not really sure the
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  Speaker 2: best way to go about it. I think I would
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  Speaker 2: like to see heavier pressure against Indiana, but History has
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  Speaker 2: told us about Matt Patricia that he doesn't really like
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  Speaker 2: blitzing athletic quarterbacks, and Josh Hoover is a pretty athletic quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm expecting a pretty conservative game plan, maybe something
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  Speaker 2: like what they did against Texas, but a touch more
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  Speaker 2: aggressive and probably a touch more sound and disciplined because
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  Speaker 2: some of the alignment issues and stuff like that they
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  Speaker 2: had against Texas definitely seem to be cleaned up at
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  Speaker 2: this point in time.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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