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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Ohio State's Offense Set The Stage For A Top-5 Showdown With Indiana · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Wednesday, November twentieth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Or. The Indiana game is in three days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in ten days. Today we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be taking a look at the Ohio State offense,
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  Speaker 1: how they performed against Northwestern and what that might mean
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  Speaker 1: heading into this weekend's game against the Hoosiers. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing that with our buddy Ross Fulton, the
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that I'm looking at in terms
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  Speaker 1: of this weekend's game against against Indiana is how well
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  Speaker 1: can the Buckeyes run the ball against the Hoosiers. Because
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  Speaker 1: the Hooters have the number two rush defense in the
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  Speaker 1: nation in terms of yards per Kerry allowed, house the
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  Speaker 1: actually number three just behind them, and so We're going
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  Speaker 1: to start with this one. Normally, I'll tell you this
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  Speaker 1: is you know, this is the play where this play
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  Speaker 1: happened Ross. This was a fairly non descript run play
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  Speaker 1: where quin Shawn Judgin's got tackled for basically no gain.
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  Speaker 1: So this is not going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: help for the people listening. But run us through this
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  Speaker 1: first one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I did think Northwestern did some things early
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  Speaker 2: with slanting and studying their defensive line. They caused some
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  Speaker 2: dead plays for High State in the run game or
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  Speaker 2: non unsuccessful ones. And so you know, this is like
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  Speaker 2: an example, there was a few of these where they
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  Speaker 2: liked to slant towards the tight end. So I know
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  Speaker 2: this is from the behind the end zone view, but
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  Speaker 2: Ohio States is in a trips to the white side
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  Speaker 2: of the field and the tight end to the boundary. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: that is a typical formation that Ryan Dan and Chim
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  Speaker 2: Kelly liked to use to run the football to the
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  Speaker 2: often the short side. This run in fact goes to
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  Speaker 2: the white side. But what Northwestern was doing was they
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  Speaker 2: were slanting towards the tight end side here and basically
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  Speaker 2: they had a few of these. Is like a mid
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  Speaker 2: zone where the guard. This is Carson Hinsman, but also
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  Speaker 2: this happened to Tiger Shabola as well. They kind of
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  Speaker 2: get stuck in no man's land, like they have this
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  Speaker 2: what I would can see you know, one technique like
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  Speaker 2: between the center and the left guard right, and so
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  Speaker 2: I think Kinsman, what they want to try to do
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  Speaker 2: is like post like get a get their backside arm
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  Speaker 2: on that guy to help the center overtake before working
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  Speaker 2: their way to the play side. And but by jumping
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  Speaker 2: inside right away, like their steps are just not you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's chopping, he's not getting lateral at all.
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  Speaker 3: And Donovan Jackson doesn't get a hand on him either.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, this happened to the to the other
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  Speaker 2: side too, and so this guy just this defensive ends
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  Speaker 2: kind of in a no man's land, uh and comes free.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they bring them the guy off the edge
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  Speaker 2: of Jackson you see coming to the screen and pick up.
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  Speaker 2: So as I said, they were doing a few things
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  Speaker 2: up front with games to Steimy Ohio States inside Zone
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  Speaker 2: run game early. But the you know, the good news
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  Speaker 2: is this to here is with the greater run game
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  Speaker 2: diversity that Chip Kelly has brought to Ohio, state. It
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  Speaker 2: gives them more options to respond to what they're seeing
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  Speaker 2: early in the game, and so they were, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pretty quickly able to adjust and have some success.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so here's one. Next one.
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  Speaker 1: Next one is inside zone. This is we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have two RPO plays back to back. This first one
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  Speaker 1: well gets given to Trayvon Henderson and it is a
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  Speaker 1: nice game for the Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so one thing that they did was they took
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  Speaker 2: the tight end off the line of scrimmage and they
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  Speaker 2: put them in the backfield. And so this is you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a split fit back. Look, you know, you can
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  Speaker 2: call it twenty personnel even though it's a tight end.
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  Speaker 2: So you have two backs, no tight end, and three
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  Speaker 2: wide receivers. Now, my guess is that this helped solve
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  Speaker 2: some of the slanting issues or mess with Northwestern's keys.
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  Speaker 2: And then they kind of ran like an insert play
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  Speaker 2: and so instead of like a split block, what they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to do is have the tight end block back,
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  Speaker 2: but he's he's sort of trying to sift through to
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  Speaker 2: get to the actually like the backside linebacker. So like
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  Speaker 2: that guy that was coming off the edge in the
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  Speaker 2: first clip, you can see her like g Scott, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is is going for that backside linebacker to pick him up.
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  Speaker 2: And then yeah, you saw again like not a ton
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  Speaker 2: of wide receiver screen reliefs like prestap instead of they
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  Speaker 2: were running quite a few of these RPOs. And so
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  Speaker 2: Will Howard here is reading the backside safety and actually
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  Speaker 2: to this single wide receiver side. So you can see
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  Speaker 2: like Cornel Tate's running that glance are at right and
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  Speaker 2: Howard sort of turning his head. Uh, this is a cover.
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  Speaker 2: This is Tampa two here Northwestern, And this gets to
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  Speaker 2: your point about Indiana, Like Northwestern was a good warm
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  Speaker 2: up for Indiana because like Indiana, Northwestern like was doing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of disguising their coverages, coming up with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different ways to get to this Tampa two.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, we'll talk about here on a second,
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  Speaker 2: like non tradition Tampa. I mean, this one's traditional, but
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  Speaker 2: like you know, where you're like, what are the corner
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  Speaker 2: is one of the deep half players and you're sort
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  Speaker 2: of rotating guys around. But they mixed in Cover three,
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  Speaker 2: they mixed in some quarters and so they were given
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  Speaker 2: obviously had a lot of different looks and so but
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  Speaker 2: obviously did a few of these where by you know,
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  Speaker 2: combining with the RPO, you can see like how long
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  Speaker 2: Will Howard sort of rides the ball to Henderson before
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  Speaker 2: giving they were able to open up some things in
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  Speaker 2: the run game, keep the safeties out of the box.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And with this sort of two back insert again, we're
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  Speaker 2: able to have some success similar to what they did
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  Speaker 2: against Penn State.
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  Speaker 1: All right, another play where they had some success. Another RPO,
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  Speaker 1: this time well Howard pulls it. This ends up being
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  Speaker 1: the second touchdown reception. We're going a little out of
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  Speaker 1: order here because we're keeping the narrative of the of
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  Speaker 1: the show together, going a little out of order here.
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  Speaker 4: This is the second Carneal tap in a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so slightly different concept, right, but there was a
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  Speaker 2: few RPOs before on those inserts where like he gave,
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  Speaker 2: he gave, Here he finally pulls. This is you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is actually a trip's split zone. So here ge
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  Speaker 2: Scott is blocking back. But it's the same concept where
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  Speaker 2: Will Howard is reading here the second level defender.
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  Speaker 3: So that guy who's sort of you know, a Mecca
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  Speaker 3: Buca is.
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  Speaker 2: In the slot sort of the overhang there outside the
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  Speaker 2: tackle who comes down to play the run, Howard pulls. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Actually again I was talking about like Northwestern changing things
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  Speaker 2: up and coverage. Here, they have their linebacker, right, he
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  Speaker 2: like actually drops back as a deep middle player, and
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  Speaker 2: so the play is actually designed to go to a
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  Speaker 2: Mecca Buke on that glance route. Like it's similar to
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  Speaker 2: the Carnel taite, you know, And by glance I just
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  Speaker 2: mean like a kind of like a skinny slant, like
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  Speaker 2: a little bit deeper than a slant, but same concept.
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  Speaker 2: And so Howard resets himself here and then hits Tate
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  Speaker 2: on sort of this like inbreaking dig, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: a Mecca is pulling those safeties back and so kind
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  Speaker 2: of an interesting concept where you're running the RPO, but
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  Speaker 2: you're you're giving yourself a few options here. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: like they were able to then sort of cracked the
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  Speaker 2: code find some success with this sort of insert split
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  Speaker 2: Zonne RPO game to neck gate some of the slanting
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  Speaker 2: and stunning stunting up front that they were seeing.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and the Buck guys did not necessarily run
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  Speaker 1: the ball particularly well early in the game, but once
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  Speaker 1: they got rolling in the second half, they really got rolling.
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  Speaker 1: If you have rewatched the TV copy The trigger to know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: they're about to start running the ball really well is
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  Speaker 1: when Jake Butt on the color commentary says, boy, they
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  Speaker 1: haven't run the ball well immediate at all, and then
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  Speaker 1: immediately they rip off a bunch of fourteen and seventeen
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  Speaker 1: yard runs.
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  Speaker 4: This I believe was one of those.
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  Speaker 1: This is a really nice long game for Judkins once
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes really had kind of started to crack that
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  Speaker 1: run game in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought both Quinn Shawn Jukins and Trevion Henderson
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  Speaker 2: ran well in this game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they broke some plays in the hole.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Judkins is a little bit more patient than
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  Speaker 2: he had been the week before inst Purdue, you know,
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  Speaker 2: putting aside probably the one the speed option where he
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  Speaker 2: tried to cut it outside and did not get the
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  Speaker 2: first down in the fourth quarter. You know, you'd like
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  Speaker 2: need to stick your head up there and get that
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  Speaker 2: first down, and Carlos Lachlan let him know that on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline afterwards, you know. But short of that, I
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  Speaker 2: thought they they both guys, we were on point and
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state the you know, the other concept that I
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  Speaker 2: think they had a lot of success on repeatedly was
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  Speaker 2: outside their wide zone. Obviously, this is was a Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Dave staple for a long time. We've talked about repeatedly.
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  Speaker 3: Pedal.
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  Speaker 2: Do not see it as much with Chip Kelly at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, but probably saw more so in this game
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  Speaker 2: than we've seen in previous games. And so again here
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna run it again to the wide field, not
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  Speaker 2: to the boundary. It's a twelve personnelity you see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Gie Scott goes in motion. You know, a really good
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  Speaker 2: job here by both Josh Fryar and Seth mclachland climbing
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  Speaker 2: to the second level and getting the linebackers. But again,
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  Speaker 2: like you can see, Northwestern here slants back to the boundary.
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  Speaker 2: So that that was great, the same concept that they
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  Speaker 2: were using to stop more of Ohio States inside zone
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  Speaker 2: plays earlier. But now you're getting that louder step from
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  Speaker 2: Teger Shivola instead of trying to like post on that
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  Speaker 2: tech one eye technique. And so he's then able to
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  Speaker 2: get to that slanning defensive end forty one who's coming
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  Speaker 2: into the picture, and again you know, mixing in running
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  Speaker 2: into the wide field. And so again I just think
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  Speaker 2: that you know, Ryan Days talks about this too, Like
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  Speaker 2: sometimes with the run game, it takes like a little
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  Speaker 2: while to crack exactly what's going on. But I do
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  Speaker 2: think they had quite a bit of success, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: like ripping off chunk plays once they got to concepts
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  Speaker 2: that were working against all the movement up front that
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  Speaker 2: Northwestern was using.
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  Speaker 3: And so again I think that.
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  Speaker 2: That should augur well for Ohio State fans when they're
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  Speaker 2: to the extent there's ever concerned about the run game,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, not everything's going to always be perfect,
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that they have they have more
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  Speaker 2: tools in the tool bag, right, and I do think
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  Speaker 2: that they you know, like just technique wise, you see
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  Speaker 2: him doing it like here, a much better job on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line, particularly like getting to.
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  Speaker 3: The second level, getting to the linebackers. I mean Seth
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  Speaker 3: mclaugh it's been great at that all year. But you
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  Speaker 3: really see good coordination here on the wide zone.
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  Speaker 1: Well. One of the tools that Ohio State has had
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  Speaker 1: in its toolbox all season that they have used with
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  Speaker 1: increasing amounts of glee I think among the fan base
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  Speaker 1: is Jeremiah Smith. This next play is that long the
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  Speaker 1: longest gain of the of the game for him, right
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  Speaker 1: at the start of the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so as I said, like Nebraska is really mixing
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  Speaker 2: up coverages, right, and so here you see it like
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  Speaker 2: you know, non traditional Tampa in the sense like they're
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  Speaker 2: mugged up, and that just means like guys are coming
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  Speaker 2: from different areas right as opposed to like showing you
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  Speaker 2: cover two presap And so here the middle linebacker drops
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  Speaker 2: from up on the line of scrimmage to twenty yards
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  Speaker 2: back and so Ohio State hit this play a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times against this Tampa tube, like you know, because
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  Speaker 2: when you're dropping your mic, right, he's still like the
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  Speaker 2: middle player. Like year, it's a two deep five under,
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  Speaker 2: so he has that middle zone and by Tampa, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're just he's getting more depth to try to take
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  Speaker 2: away the throw. That's like down the seat between the
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  Speaker 2: two cover two safeties, but that can open up the
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  Speaker 2: whole underneath him, right, So like he's working really hard
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  Speaker 2: to get depth here. And then they just hit this
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  Speaker 2: sort of like a levels or follow concept, like the
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  Speaker 2: inside receivers running more of a deeper square in with
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  Speaker 2: the outside wide receiver running more of a shallow in
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  Speaker 2: and you know, like lots of sending a Mecca book
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  Speaker 2: in motion here they do to take Jeremi Smith and
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  Speaker 2: make him the inside slot receiver and Will Howard's great
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  Speaker 2: throw underneath, you know, between the levels of the defense
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  Speaker 2: basically right. They hit this also to Abuca on that
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  Speaker 2: first like third and eight or third and long conversion
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  Speaker 2: to get out of their own end zone on the
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  Speaker 2: second drive, same concept. And so again, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: seeing answers just like increasingly, I was joking today like
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  Speaker 2: there's there's just so much Tampa to being played now
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  Speaker 2: in college football, Like it's really kind of a sea change.
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  Speaker 2: So you see it from all different kinds of angles,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Coach Kup on Twitter has a big breakdown
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  Speaker 2: of Indiana showing them getting to Tampa two from a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different pre snap structure, and so you have
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  Speaker 2: to be ready for with your cover two beaters. You
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  Speaker 2: like great, he also hits g Scott down the scene
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  Speaker 2: against Tampa two, like the linebacker was carrying him down
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  Speaker 2: the hole.
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  Speaker 3: His great throw from Howard, great catch by Scott.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, just increasingly you'll see these cover
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  Speaker 2: two concepts Ohio States using particularly on passing downs when
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  Speaker 2: you you know, more apt to see a cover two
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  Speaker 2: and so again those will be pretty important going forward
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  Speaker 2: as particularly this week. And then obviously, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jeremi Smith, for as big and strong as he is,
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  Speaker 2: like he's also pretty great with the ball after the catch,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, see that again here.
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  Speaker 3: But he you know, he's he's certainly able to take.
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  Speaker 2: You know, intermedia short range throws and turn them into big,
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  Speaker 2: big plays.
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  Speaker 1: Next one up is not Jeremiah Smith. It's Carnel Tait
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  Speaker 1: and this is going to be his first touchdown of
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  Speaker 1: the game, one where he took a long play and
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  Speaker 1: turned it into a long play and turned into six points.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that there was there was
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  Speaker 2: certainly an emphasis on trying to throw the ball vertically
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  Speaker 2: this game. Obviously there's a lot of discussion of that
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  Speaker 2: post Purdue. I thought, Howard, like on this one, he
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  Speaker 2: does a really nice job like stepping into the throw.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we talked about how he can short step it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. And then you know, you saw this
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  Speaker 2: concept as well again, so like the Northwestern is in
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  Speaker 2: a cover four here again you know it's how much
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  Speaker 2: can you guess right correctly what kind of coverage they're
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  Speaker 2: going to run and so but but by that they
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  Speaker 2: are basically bracketing a Mecca Buka, Like you can see
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  Speaker 2: both the got the linebacker or nickel over Abuka as
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  Speaker 2: well as the safety watching him. Uh, and so you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing a lot of you know, I think there's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of there's been some discussion at least of
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  Speaker 2: like a mecha Buca is having a relatively minor role
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  Speaker 2: these past couple of weeks. I think I'm I personally
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  Speaker 2: am seeing a lot of coverage role to him or
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  Speaker 2: focus on him, which is obviously opening up by other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But that you know, so that's a fancy way to
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  Speaker 2: say by bracketing him, that leaves his corner and one
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  Speaker 2: on one coverage and they you know, Cardel Tate ses
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  Speaker 2: to stop and go route.
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  Speaker 3: Nice nice protection, nice throw here.
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  Speaker 2: I the last thing I would offer, Like on this
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  Speaker 2: protection you have Trayvon Henderson sort of check spot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: check for pass protection and then release, but a lot
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  Speaker 2: more five man protection this game that I think went
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. I thought Donovan Jackson in particular blocks well
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  Speaker 2: on the edge. You know, obviously, Ken there's only so
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  Speaker 2: many abdual carters out there, but he seems to be
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  Speaker 2: getting more comfortable, I think, and you know, I know
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  Speaker 2: that Day talked last week, I believe about they had
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  Speaker 2: him lose a few pounds to get more comfortable playing
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  Speaker 2: on the edge, and he seems to be settling in there,
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  Speaker 2: and so they, you know, slide the protection away from him.
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  Speaker 3: He does a nice job to open up this route.
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  Speaker 2: So again good call against the coverage, but again looking forward,
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  Speaker 2: like you try to try to guess right right or
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  Speaker 2: try to give yourselves options against because I just you're
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  Speaker 2: increasingly just seeing teams that are really mixing and matching
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  Speaker 2: things against Ohios date to try in the in the
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  Speaker 2: back end to try to slow them down, and that'll
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  Speaker 2: be pretty important to be correct on Saturday as well well.
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  Speaker 1: And I do want to talk to you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about the offensive line, but we do have
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  Speaker 1: one more play to get to.
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  Speaker 4: This last one.
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  Speaker 1: This was third and two, and there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talk about why were they throwing the ball downfield
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 4: On third and two?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you have you have easier options, you
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  Speaker 1: have easier choices. So it felt to me Ross and
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  Speaker 1: you can correct me if I'm wrong here, but it
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  Speaker 1: felt to me like we've talked about breaking tendencies in
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the past, and you know, maybe there were specific you know,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: match up things that they that they were seeing here
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: that made them do this as well.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: But what was the deal with throwing the ball downfield?
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Because this is this next play was third and two
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: and it was an incomplete pass, so it took took
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: ohaes date to a fourth down, so it didn't always work.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: But what was the thought behind throwing the ball on
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: some of these third and two kind of plays?
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you go back and look at like the game,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: like played by play, they really didn't start doing it
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: until the fourth quarter, like on these short yardage So
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: it just lends me to believe that they're trying to
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: break tendencies in short yardage using a game where they're
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: in control.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: They don't want teams crowding the line of scrimmage. You know.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I think that there also was a bit of let's
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: try to hit a mecha Buca or another one. They
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: go on fourth down, they roll out and try to
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: throw to carninal Tate on a double move.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I think there.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: You know, they certainly were times when Northwestern was getting
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: pretty nosy, but not really at the corner level. So
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I really just think to some extent it was getting
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: things on tape. Now, maybe they thought they'd get another
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: similar coverage like to the one that they got from
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Cardinal tape on that touchdown, because it's the same very
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: similar concept, right, Like it's a it's a stutter and
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: go by a Mecca Buca like hard play action, but
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: it's it's a two man route and it's a it's
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: cover three, right, So instead of like that corner having
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: underneath responsibilities, he just has the deep third and so
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: he plays it correctly.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: He doesn't bite on the route. It's kind of a sham.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: As you said, third and two, like a Mecca book
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: is wide open on the hitch because the guy's giving
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: him so much space. So like, in terms of like
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: that particular game, I would agree that some of those
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: late short yardage let's chuck it vertically calls were maybe
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: didn't make the most sense in the moment. But that's
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: why I tend to believe that it's trying to put
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: things on film so that opponents can't expect either you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: run or you know, underneath intermediate passing game in these
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: sort of third and fourth and short yardage looks, because
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I do think they could have probably there are probably
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: more efficient ways to pick those up. But I just
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: have to think it's particularly when you're up thirty one
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: to seven in the fourth quarter and you've moved the ball.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Just trying to trying to put some things on film
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: as well as you.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Know, hit a Meca booka for a big play, as
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I said, because he has not been as involved the
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: past few weeks, just in terms of getting the football.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: All right, and just to take a little bit of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: a look ahead at this weekend's game against Indiana. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: feel like every week you could say, boy, I think
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the key is the offensive line, and that's kind of
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: the catch all. Yeah, sure, that's that's the key every
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: week kind of thing. But it feels like this week, boy,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: how does the Ohio State offensive line play against a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: pretty good Indiana defense. The Hoosiers have statistically been one
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: of the best in the nation this year. They're second
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: nationally allowing two point four to six yards per rush,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: they are seventh nationally and yards per attempt five point eight.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Ohio State is third and twentieth there So Ohio State
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: has had a very very good season, but statistically just
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a touch behind Indiana. Of course, Indiana has not played
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the competition that Ohio State has, So there's a little
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: bit of a caveat there as well. Indiana first in
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the Big ten in SACS. How much of this weekend's
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: game and just boils simply down to ken Ohio State
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: run the ball for four yards per carry and ken
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Ohio that give Will Howard time in the pocket. And
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: if they can do both of those things, they probably
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: win this game.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Am I grossly oversimplifying things to say that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I think it starts with identifying what Indiana is doing
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: up front in the back end, as I said that,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of disguise, a lot of you know, showing
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: single high pre snap and dropping to cover two or
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: vice versa, And so I think a lot of it
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: comes down to like can we can we get in
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the right play? Can Will Howard diagnose so well? I
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe I'll I will eat my words, But
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I personally think that if I State's offensive line is
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: in a situation where like they can identify what's going
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: on correctly, I still think they have like the physical
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: advantage versus Indiana and like you know, single block combo
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: blocking situations. So I really think like a lot of
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: it is like how how good of a job. Can
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Indiana do disguising things that throws Ohio State off those
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: in the run game and on third down versus you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: how well is Ohio State, you know, from Chip Kelly
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to Will Howard to the offensive line diagnosing what's going
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: on and able to handle things, because I do think
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: you'll see some of that, you know, stunting like we
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: saw for Northwestern, moving around as I said, you know,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: bringing guys from different angles. So I think a lot
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: of it's going to be on the mental side of
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: it before just you know, matching up physically well.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Should be a very, very exciting and pretty impactful game
• 20:27
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• 20:31
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• 20:37
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• 20:40
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• 20:43
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• 20:46
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• 20:49
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• 20:52
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