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Chip Kelly On Coaching The Ducks, Playing In Autzen Stadium, Dan Lanning's Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a special bonus episode of Buckeyes tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 1: I'm Tom Or You're going to here today from a
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Speaker 1: man with some connections to both sides of this weekend's
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Speaker 1: enormous number two versus Number three matchup between the Ohio
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Speaker 1: State Buckeyes and the Oregon Ducks. That is Ohio State
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. Kelly spent two seasons and seasons
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Speaker 1: as an assistant for the Ducks under Mike Bolatti, and
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Speaker 1: then four seasons as their head coach, going forty six
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Speaker 1: and seven and including a Rose Bowl win, a Fiesta
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Speaker 1: Bowl win, and finishing third, fourth, and second respectively in
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Speaker 1: his final three seasons in the ap POL. Pretty remarkable
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Speaker 1: run for Chip Kelly out of Oregon. Now he's the
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator for Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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Speaker 1: But how special is it going to be for Chip
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Speaker 1: Kelly to go back to the program he helped build?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I didn't build a program. Rich Books and
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Speaker 2: Mike Bellotti built the program. I just kind of jumped
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Speaker 2: in after Mike. But it's a special place, and I
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Speaker 2: think it's great for our players, you know, a chance
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Speaker 2: for them to play in one of the special places
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Speaker 2: in college football, and you know, they came out here
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago and got to play in
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Speaker 2: the shoe. We get to go play in outstin Stadium
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Speaker 2: and it's Addsin Stadium at that time of day. It's
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Speaker 2: it's truly special. So I think our guys are excited.
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Speaker 2: They're a really good team, you know, and I think
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Speaker 2: that that'll that'll give your attention right away when you
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Speaker 2: look at the film. And then I have, you know,
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Speaker 2: family there, have a brother in law and sister in
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Speaker 2: law and three nephews, so I'll get a chance to
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Speaker 2: see them. And then some of the coaches that I've
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Speaker 2: coached with, Nick Ellioti, John Neil, Don Pelham, Steve greg Win,
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Speaker 2: a couple.
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Speaker 3: Of guys we've text messaged.
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Speaker 2: So besides family and those coaches that I worked with,
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Speaker 2: that I'll get a chance to see very quickly. It's
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Speaker 2: about the game, you know, and it's I'm fired up
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Speaker 2: for our players because it is a really special place
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Speaker 2: to play.
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Speaker 1: Chick Kelly was part of a lot of high flying,
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Speaker 1: high scoring offenses during his days out in Eugene. But
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Speaker 1: it being high flying and or high scoring this weekend,
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Speaker 1: that's going to be a challenge because the Oregon Duck
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Speaker 1: defense is pretty darn good. So what stands out about
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Speaker 1: the Ducks on defense?
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Speaker 2: I think the way Jordan Burch is playing right now
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Speaker 2: up front. You know, they've got a lot of seniors
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Speaker 2: on their defense. I think there's nine of them in
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Speaker 2: that starting lineup. You know, every in the back end,
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Speaker 2: the two linebackers, the one linebacker, Bassa seems like he's
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Speaker 2: been there for a long time. And then Betcher I
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Speaker 2: hope i'm pronouncing his name right, number twenty eight, who's
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Speaker 2: a really good player baseball player, has played really really well.
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Speaker 2: Is kind of seems like he's the heart and soul
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Speaker 2: of that defense. And then they have veterans in the secondary.
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Speaker 2: They're all I know they're transfer kids, but they're all
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Speaker 2: seniors that have played a lot of football.
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Speaker 3: So I think they're really gelling together as a group.
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Speaker 2: You know, they're going to present a lot of different looks,
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Speaker 2: so we've got to be ready for everything they can
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Speaker 2: throw at you. And they're gonna throw a lot of
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Speaker 2: things at you, so you know, that's the challenge when
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Speaker 2: you're going to play a team like this, So you
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Speaker 2: get excited about it.
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Speaker 1: Since Kelly arrived in Columbus. It is coincided with a
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Speaker 1: remarkable increase in the efficiency of the Buckeyes in the
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Speaker 1: red zone. Why have they been so successful in the
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Speaker 1: red zone this season?
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Speaker 2: I think our players are just executing, you know, And
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Speaker 2: I would attribute to our players. I think they really
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Speaker 2: grasp the plan each week, and the plan is different
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Speaker 2: because we play different people on a weekly basis. But
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Speaker 2: they've really executed, and it starts and our practice sessions.
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Speaker 3: I think they've been really sharp.
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Speaker 2: You know, this group really practices really really well, you know,
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Speaker 2: so kind of what we've done in practice on Wednesdays
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Speaker 2: and Thursdays, which is our red zone days, they've gone
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Speaker 2: out and executed at a really high level. I thought
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Speaker 2: our receivers have caught the ball really well down there,
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Speaker 2: and I thought Will's located the ball down there when
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Speaker 2: we've had to throw it.
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Speaker 3: But you have to run the ball in there.
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Speaker 2: And I think, O, the way our offensive line is playing,
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Speaker 2: our tight ends are playing, and we get into some
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Speaker 2: of those bigger sets have provided us, you know, the
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Speaker 2: ability to either run it in or throw it in
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 1: So, just to be clear TOI, Kelly is not taking
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Speaker 1: any credit for himself here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's always the players. You know, they have to execute.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can call a play, but they still
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Speaker 2: have to go out and execute that play. And I
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Speaker 2: think that's what we got. We've got a bunch of
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Speaker 2: guys that spend a lot of time. This group works
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Speaker 2: extremely hard at the game, you know, and they take
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Speaker 2: everything we do.
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Speaker 3: They're really serious about it.
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Speaker 2: So when you watch our red zone practices on Wednesday
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Speaker 2: and Thursday, that's really the reason we're successful on Saturdays
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Speaker 2: is because of how they train and how they prepare
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Speaker 2: on Wednesdays and Thursdays for for those scenarios that will
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Speaker 2: come up in a game.
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Speaker 1: Chip Kelly and Brian Day go way back to their
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Speaker 1: shared hometown of Manchester, New Hampshire, way back when before
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Speaker 1: Day was even a college quarterback. So all those shared
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Speaker 1: experiences with Ryan Day over the years, how does that
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Speaker 1: impact their relationship with him coaching together now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think we've been around each other for
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Speaker 2: so long that we share a lot of the same
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Speaker 2: views of how the game is supposed to look, you know.
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Speaker 2: So it's when he has an idea, it's not something
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Speaker 2: that you're like, wow, where did that come from? You know,
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Speaker 2: you have an understanding because we spend time together coaching together,
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Speaker 2: and I coached coached him, but then I also got
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Speaker 2: the coach with him, so, you know, I think we
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Speaker 2: shared experience. Sometimes he'll talk about a route that we
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Speaker 2: may have run when we were together in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Remember when we played the Cowboys and we did it
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Speaker 2: this way. You know, I'm like, oh, yeah, let's get
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Speaker 2: that tape out. Let's take a look at that. So
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Speaker 2: I think our familiarity in understanding how we see the
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Speaker 2: game when we see the game similar that I think
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Speaker 2: that makes it so much easier.
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Speaker 1: Kelly served as Day's coach, Kelly served as Day's boss,
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Speaker 1: and Nowaday is Kelly's boss. So what has it been
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Speaker 1: like for Chip Kelly to work with Ryan Day.
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Speaker 3: It's been great. I mean, it's it's all about what
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Speaker 3: we really care about.
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Speaker 2: It's about football, and he gets pulled out of some
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Speaker 2: meetings sometimes and obviously that's what happens to a head coach.
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Speaker 2: You know, there there are other things on his plate
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Speaker 2: besides just the offense. And the fact that I can
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Speaker 2: stay in there with Brian Hartline and Justin Fryn, Carlos
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Speaker 2: Lachlan and Keenan Bailey. You know, well, we'll continue to
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Speaker 2: grind on what we got to do, and then when
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Speaker 2: he comes back in, we kind of present what we
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Speaker 2: came up with. And most of the time we're we're
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Speaker 2: always on the same page, or you know, it's hey,
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Speaker 2: did you look why do you look at a little
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Speaker 2: bit like this? And then they can kind of give
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Speaker 2: you a new idea and you can you can get
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Speaker 2: some a little bit more traction doing it that way.
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Speaker 2: But I think we understand we're both of our background,
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Speaker 2: So I think that's what makes it so easy to
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Speaker 2: for for us to have conversations about it.
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Speaker 1: Back to the Oregon defense now, and the Ducks have
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Speaker 1: a number of difference makers, chief among them Jordan Birch
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Speaker 1: two and a half sacks last week against Michigan State.
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Speaker 1: What makes Jordan burg which is so special as a
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Speaker 1: defensive end, Yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Think his athletic ability for such a big player. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's listed at six five to ninety, but he plays
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Speaker 2: defensive end. Most guys that bigger are the interior defensive lineman,
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Speaker 2: you know, so he he's got He's a really athletic
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Speaker 2: guy and you know, he had a huge game against
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Speaker 2: Michigan State last Friday, night, you know, and really kind
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Speaker 2: of showed up.
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Speaker 3: I think he's he's really starting to embrace.
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Speaker 2: That role that uh Tosh and and Dan have put
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Speaker 2: him in, and you know, you got to know where
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Speaker 2: he is on every play. But he's a he's one
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Speaker 2: of those guys that can disrupt the football game.
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Speaker 1: Austin Stadium is a place where it's renowned as one
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Speaker 1: of the loudest places to play and hardest places to
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Speaker 1: play in college football. Oregon the top team in the
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Speaker 1: nation over the last few years in terms of home
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Speaker 1: winning percentage. Jim Kelly obviously has played more than a
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Speaker 1: few games there in the Audston Stadium and in Eugene.
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Speaker 1: So what's he going to tell the Buckeyes about going
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Speaker 1: into Audtin State.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's like any advice you give anybody
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Speaker 2: is that it's really not about the crowd, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's about what do we do and how do we prepare?
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: It's I think everywhere you go in this league, it's
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Speaker 2: it's going to be loud, you know, that's just a
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Speaker 2: nature of it. At the stadiums in the Midwest are gigantic,
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Speaker 2: you know, and I think this group has got a
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Speaker 2: lot has had a lot of experience playing in big stadiums.
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Speaker 3: So you know, I think no matter where we were going,
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Speaker 3: whether it.
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Speaker 2: Was that the Odds and or to the Big House
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Speaker 2: or up the Camp Randle or any place like that
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Speaker 2: in between, is that you really don't concentrate on the stadium.
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Speaker 2: You're really concentrating on the opponent and and you just
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Speaker 2: turn the tape on and that will have your attention.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's about the Ohio State football players versus
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Speaker 2: the Oregon football players, and it's not about the environment
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Speaker 2: that you're playing, and it's about the game itself.
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Speaker 1: So one of the things that has really kept the
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Speaker 1: Ohio State offense churning this year is the dynamic duo
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Speaker 1: of Quinshawn Judkins and Treveon Henderson at running back. So
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Speaker 1: what has Chip Kelly learned so far about Quinshawn Judkins
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Speaker 1: now that he's been able to see him played or
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Speaker 1: in game.
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Speaker 2: I've had just seen highlights because obviously, you know, we
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Speaker 2: didn't weren't weren't in the same league and didn't play them,
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Speaker 2: So you know, I'd see highlights on a Saturday and
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Speaker 2: knew he was really talented, knew he had run for
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Speaker 2: a lot of yards there, came from a really well
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Speaker 2: coached game.
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Speaker 3: Lane does a great job and did a great job
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Speaker 3: with him.
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Speaker 2: But you know, I think seeing his physicality because normally,
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Speaker 2: you know, we're not tackling and taking guys down in practice,
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Speaker 2: so you know, we're usually just studying the running back
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Speaker 2: up and the running back has to give a little
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Speaker 2: bit because he's not trying to run over defensivelayer because
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Speaker 2: the defense player is not trying to tackle him. So
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Speaker 2: you know, when you really see him live in games
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Speaker 2: and see here comes an unblocked guy, you know, and
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Speaker 2: you know, I look back to the Marshall game where
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Speaker 2: the linebackers unblocked and he just kind of tossed him
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Speaker 2: to the ground. You know, I think it's his physicality
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Speaker 2: running with the football. Not that I didn't think he
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Speaker 2: had it, It's just I wasn't. I've never seen him
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Speaker 2: in those situations before. So he's got really good vision
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Speaker 2: and he's got great feet for a big player. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's two hundred and twenty pounds, and you know, I'd
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Speaker 2: noticed that right at the beginning because when we're doing
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Speaker 2: run throughs and things like that, you watch him navigate
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Speaker 2: and make a decision on where he's going through a
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Speaker 2: hole and then when he sticks his foot in the
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Speaker 2: ground he takes off. But then I think when you
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Speaker 2: see him in games, like you guys have seen him
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Speaker 2: in games, and for us, it's really the first five
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Speaker 2: times I've seen him the same five times you guys
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Speaker 2: have seen him in a game, and it's his physicality
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Speaker 2: when he has the ball in his hands that I
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Speaker 2: think kind of can separate him from some other backs.
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Speaker 1: The High State offense has had a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: success this year and very few failures sprinkled in here
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Speaker 1: and there. One of them was a failed fourth down
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Speaker 1: attempt last weekend when Will Howard was trying to keep
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Speaker 1: it and just got stuffed in the backfield. What happened
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Speaker 1: on that play and does that impact the decision making
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Speaker 1: on fourth downs moving forward?
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Speaker 2: No, I think every game is different, so how people
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Speaker 2: defend certain things, it's you know, sometimes you got to
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Speaker 2: give credit to them. I think they did a decent
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Speaker 2: job with penetration, you know, and kind of re establishing
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Speaker 2: the line of scrimmae there a little bit. So we
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Speaker 2: couldn't stay on track in terms of the path that
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Speaker 2: we wanted to start the quarterback on and really was
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Speaker 2: just a little bit of knockback that affected us on
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Speaker 2: that But when it's fourth and two, a little bit
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Speaker 2: of knockback can effect you.
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Speaker 1: This will not be the first time that Chip Kelly
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Speaker 1: and Dan Lanning go head to head to faced off
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Speaker 1: when Kelly was still the head coach at UCLA and
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Speaker 1: the Bruins had a statistically pretty good day. So what
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Speaker 1: is it that he liked about going up against that
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Speaker 1: landing defense and what did he learn from that experience?
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Speaker 2: I can start wars that I didn't like is that
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Speaker 2: we were behind. So we threw the ball a lot
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Speaker 2: more in that game because we were behind. And that's
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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes I think if you just look at
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Speaker 2: the statistics of a game and say, hey, you guys
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Speaker 2: had x amount offense, well, are they playing the same
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Speaker 2: defense that they would play if it was a little
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Speaker 2: bit closer score And I don't know if that's the
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Speaker 2: case when you go back and look at that game.
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Speaker 2: You know, we face a lot of soft zones in
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Speaker 2: the second half because we were down, so we had
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Speaker 2: to throw the ball to try to get within a
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Speaker 2: score or two. You know, when we kind of made
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Speaker 2: it a little bit closer at the end, so you know,
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Speaker 2: they're really well coached. He comes from a really good
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Speaker 2: coaching tree starting with coach Shaban and Kirby at both
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Speaker 2: Alabama and Georgia. So you know they're going to be sound,
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Speaker 2: They're going to move their front. You know, they played
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Speaker 2: very very close in coverage, are very sticky in the
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Speaker 2: coverage in terms of challenging your receivers. And there's a
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Speaker 2: lot on the plates of the linebackers. And but I
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Speaker 2: think their linebackers are really well coached. I think they
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Speaker 2: handle it really well.
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Speaker 1: This was an interesting question. Kelly at his first head
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Speaker 1: coaching job at the University of Oregon, So how did
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Speaker 1: his time there impact his philosophy as a coach.
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Speaker 2: Well, I had a chance to work for a great
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Speaker 2: head coach and Mike Blattis when I was there for
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Speaker 2: two years as an assistant. But more important than that,
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Speaker 2: I think Mike's staff was together a lot of those
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Speaker 2: guys for twenty plus years, which was even a rarity
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Speaker 2: back then.
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Speaker 3: You know Gary Campbell.
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Speaker 2: When Gary retired at running back coach, he had been
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Speaker 2: there for thirty some odd years. Nick Allioti was twenty
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Speaker 2: plus years, Steve Greatwood was twenty plus years, John Neil
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Speaker 2: fifteen years, tom Os won fifteen years. Don Pelham twenty
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Speaker 2: plus years. So I came in and I was the
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Speaker 2: youngest guy there in the least amount of time on staff.
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Speaker 2: But there was such a wealth of knowledge from that
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Speaker 2: coaching staff that you couldn't help but learn from those guys,
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Speaker 2: and it was and they welcomed me.
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Speaker 3: They welcomed me with open arms.
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Speaker 2: So it was just a really cool experience for me
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Speaker 2: to spend three years in assistant before he became a
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Speaker 2: head coach, and then when I became a head coach,
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Speaker 2: those guys were all there with me, So it was
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Speaker 2: like I had five or six other head coaches with
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Speaker 2: me that kind of shepherded me along the way as
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Speaker 2: we kept going. But the big thing there is that
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Speaker 2: we had great players, you know, and the success we
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Speaker 2: had when I was there was a direct correlation to
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Speaker 2: how good our players were.
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Speaker 3: Is you know, he shows how many a coach with
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Speaker 3: a good record, I'll.
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Speaker 2: Show you guys got a bunch of talented football players
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Speaker 2: on the team, and that's what we had. So but
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Speaker 2: I learned a ton not only from the coaches, ever
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Speaker 2: from the players I had an opportunity to coach.
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Speaker 1: This is a question where the answer ended up going
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a different place than you might
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Speaker 1: expect just based on the question itself. But he was
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Speaker 1: asked to compare his experiences coaching at Oregon and Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing goes through my mind. And I don't mean
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Speaker 2: it that way because I never think of that. Like
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Speaker 2: I learned a long time ago. I think it was
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Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson, the comparison is a thief of joy. And
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Speaker 2: I don't compare my experience at one school to my
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Speaker 2: experience at another school because number one, I don't have
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Speaker 2: time to do that. But number two, maybe when I
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Speaker 2: retire or I can sit back and kind of think
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Speaker 2: about it. But I don't really think about it. I
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Speaker 2: just think of it. This game has given me so much,
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Speaker 2: and it's been so special that I've had an opportunity.
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Speaker 2: You know, I got a chance to coach at Oregon,
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Speaker 2: like I have never dreamed of that as a little kid.
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Speaker 2: I got a chance to coach at the Ohio State
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Speaker 2: Like wow, I mean that's pretty special.
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Speaker 3: So I think both of them are different.
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Speaker 2: I think every experience is different, just because all universities
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Speaker 2: and the people that you deal with are different. But
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Speaker 2: both places are really special to me though.
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Speaker 1: All Right, so Kelly didn't want to make a big
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Speaker 1: comparison there, but is he at least excited to go
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Speaker 1: back to Iowa.
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Speaker 3: I love my time there.
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Speaker 2: I mean it was and I met so many great people,
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Speaker 2: you know, besides the coaches and the players that I
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Speaker 2: got a chance to coach, the pill and Penny Knights
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Speaker 2: and the Pat kill Kennys and Stephanie kill Kennys and
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Speaker 2: edn Alitias and so many people that care very deeply
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Speaker 2: about that university. That's the one thing I can tell
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Speaker 2: you about being there is the passion that those guys
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Speaker 2: have for the University of Oregon is is second to none,
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Speaker 2: Just like the people here, their passion for this place
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Speaker 2: is second to none. So I think there aren't many
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Speaker 2: people that got a chance to coach at both places,
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Speaker 2: and I just feel very fortunate than I could.
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Speaker 1: So talked earlier about the connection between Ryan Day and
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Speaker 1: Chip Kelly and the different dynamics of their friendship over
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Speaker 1: over the years. But what kind of an influence has
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Speaker 1: Chip Kelly had on Ryan Day's career? What was it
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Speaker 1: that he saw from him so early it made him
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Speaker 1: think that Brian Day was going to be a good coach.
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Speaker 2: I think he just had a He's always had a
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Speaker 2: really keen athletic mind.
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Speaker 3: You know, he could process things really fast. You know.
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Speaker 2: He was the catcher on the baseball team, the point
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Speaker 2: guard on the basketball team, the quarterback of the football team.
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Speaker 2: You know, always the guy that had to make decisions
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Speaker 2: while he was a player. So I thought he naturally
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Speaker 2: would transition into being a very good coach. And then
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Speaker 2: just getting a chance to observe him early in his career,
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Speaker 2: you knew, you know, that guy has it, you know,
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Speaker 2: and I think he I knew he had a bright,
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Speaker 2: bright future and.
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Speaker 3: His success wasn't a surprise.
14:37
Speaker 2: But his success wasn't a surprise to anybody that's ever
14:39
Speaker 2: been around him for a while, just because you can
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Speaker 2: tell how he's wired, like he's wired to be successful
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Speaker 2: and what he's doing right now. You know, I think
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Speaker 2: it's it's to some people, I don't know, maybe that
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Speaker 2: they don't know him as well as we do, but
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Speaker 2: it's it's not a surprise to us because I think
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Speaker 2: he's we knew he was going to be successful from
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Speaker 2: a really really young age.
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Speaker 1: Those two guys are both New Hampshire guys. Another high
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Speaker 1: profile college football coach Dan Mullen, former coach at Mississippi
15:02
Speaker 1: State in Florida. He's also a New Hampshire guy. How
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Speaker 1: does he figure into the dynamics between Day and Kelly.
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Speaker 3: We're all from the same hometown, so I think we
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Speaker 3: all grew up within a mile of each other.
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Speaker 2: So it's Dan. I helped Danny get his first job.
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Speaker 2: Sean McDonald, who was that who was a teacher at
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Speaker 2: our hometown that went on to coach college and was
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Speaker 2: a head coach at New Hampshire and coach both myself
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Speaker 2: and Ryan kind of got me involved. I got Danny
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Speaker 2: involved Danny Ryan when Ryan got to Florida. It's because
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Speaker 2: I called Danny because Danny was at Florida at the
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Speaker 2: time and said he was at Boston College and the
15:34
Speaker 2: job came open, so I recommended him to Danny and
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Speaker 2: I kind of went from there. But I think it's
15:38
Speaker 2: about who you know sometimes more than what you know.
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Speaker 2: And I think all he never all Ryan ever needed
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Speaker 2: to do was get in front of some people so
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Speaker 2: we could open a door to get him in front
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Speaker 2: of people. We didn't get him any jobs. He got
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Speaker 2: the jobs himself, but it was just an opportunity. After
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Speaker 2: people met him, they were like, yeah, you know, I
15:52
Speaker 2: wouldn't have recommended him if I didn't think he could
15:53
Speaker 2: do a really good job at it.
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Speaker 3: I knew he would be successful.
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Speaker 1: What if Chip Kelly remember about the first time he
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Speaker 1: had Ryan Day as his quarterback in a big game
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Speaker 1: like this, and what was Ryan Day's demeanor like during
16:04
Speaker 1: that game? You're going to hear that answer and then
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Speaker 1: a quick follow up from Stephen Means of Cleveland dot Com.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was very similar. So he started,
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Speaker 2: you know, right at the beginning. I think we opened
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Speaker 2: up against Rhode Island and he played really well in
16:15
Speaker 2: that opening game.
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Speaker 3: But he was he was He's the same that as
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Speaker 3: he is now. He was very well prepared.
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Speaker 2: You know, he knew what he was facing and knew
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Speaker 2: who he was facing, and and studied at any advantage
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Speaker 2: he could get from his preparation he would take advantage of.
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Speaker 2: And and then he was just always just so competitive
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Speaker 2: in every situation that you know. The great thing about
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Speaker 2: him is you never had a motivate im. He didn't
16:37
Speaker 2: have to say, hey, you got to get up to
16:38
Speaker 2: Tuesday practice, and this is who we had.
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Speaker 3: He was. He was already like.
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Speaker 2: That, you know, because he's such an intrinsically motivated person
16:44
Speaker 2: that you know, those are the guys that you love
16:46
Speaker 2: coaching because you have to spend a lot of time
16:49
Speaker 2: on things that aren't exit host because he's already dialed
16:53
Speaker 2: in that way.
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Speaker 4: How much of that actually come with experience versus a
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Speaker 4: guy just Bryan. That guy is kind of built for
17:00
Speaker 4: a moment, regardless of how much experience it does or
17:03
Speaker 4: doesn't happen.
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Speaker 2: I think the experience helps you, but I do think
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Speaker 2: there are some people that are built for the moment,
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Speaker 2: and I've always hoped that he was one of those guys.
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Speaker 1: Dan Lanning is not the defensive coordinator for the Oregon Ducks.
17:14
Speaker 1: That would be Tosh Lupoy. But it is still undoubtedly
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Speaker 1: a Dan Lanning defense that the Ducks are running this year.
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Speaker 1: So what makes a Dan Lanning defense a Dan Lanning defense?
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Speaker 2: I only face them one other time, so I haven't
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Speaker 2: studied Dan to be able to say this is his
17:30
Speaker 2: hallmark traits of this and then, and it was two
17:32
Speaker 2: years ago because we didn't play them in twenty three,
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Speaker 2: so I only played him in twenty two, and that was
17:35
Speaker 2: the first time we faced them so, but I think
17:39
Speaker 2: there's movement involved in the front. You know, they move
17:41
Speaker 2: in and out of three down and four down. They
17:44
Speaker 2: can but butcher you for internally, they can butch you
17:46
Speaker 2: from the edges. And I think they're always seemed like
17:49
Speaker 2: they're close and coverage like there's there's not You don't
17:52
Speaker 2: turn the tape on and see a lot of guys
17:53
Speaker 2: running free, you know. I think they do a really
17:55
Speaker 2: good job of mixing their coverages with their fronts, and
17:59
Speaker 2: it can present some problems to you if you're not
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Speaker 2: prepared for it. So, you know, that's the challenge for
18:03
Speaker 2: us this week is that it's a really well coordinated difference,
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Speaker 2: both on the front end and on the back end.
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Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed that touch up. Kelly had
18:11
Speaker 1: some really fun and interesting things to say during the
18:13
Speaker 1: course of that interview, and obviously it seems to seem
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Speaker 1: like he was pretty loose, pretty relaxed. Might be feeling
18:18
Speaker 1: pretty good about his chances this weekend as the Buckeyes
18:20
Speaker 1: head west to face the Oregon Ducks Saturday night, seven
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Speaker 1: thirty pm on NBC. Should be an absolute banger of
18:27
Speaker 1: a game. Number two versus Number three probably more or
18:31
Speaker 1: less settling one of the spots in the Big Ten
18:33
Speaker 1: championship game, unless something really goes crazy after that could
18:37
Speaker 1: be more or less a college football playoff play in
18:39
Speaker 1: game in certain ways as well, so a lot on
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Speaker 1: the line this weekend. Bucks and Ducks Saturday night, we
18:46
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18:49
Speaker 1: Kevin and I out there covering the game. Will be
18:51
Speaker 1: out there an extra day on the front end of
18:53
Speaker 1: the trip to give you a little extra coverage live
18:56
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Speaker 3: We will be out there for.
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