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Ross Fulton Analysis: 4 Questions About The Ohio State Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: pitch over, let's talk some football. It was another night,
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  Speaker 1: another night where the Ohio State Buckeyes held the opponent
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  Speaker 1: to under ten points to seven points for the Michigan
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  Speaker 1: State Spartans. Buck guys, number one in the nation in
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  Speaker 1: scoring defense. Don't let Jim Knowles hear you say that
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  Speaker 1: he called that rat poison earlier in the week. A
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  Speaker 1: little nick Saban shout out there, But we're so in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of everyone's still a little bit grumpy even
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  Speaker 1: though the defense is number one of the nation in
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  Speaker 1: scoring defense. We're going to start with some of the
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  Speaker 1: bad stuff that happened before we get to some of
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  Speaker 1: the good stuff. So to give you the why behind
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  Speaker 1: some of the stuff that did not work, We're going
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  Speaker 1: to start with the very first play of the game,
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  Speaker 1: long run. It ended up being the long run of
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  Speaker 1: the night for the Michigan State Spartans ross What went
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  Speaker 1: wrong here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I have to say that I think that
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  Speaker 2: scoring number is a bit misleading. Obviously, when you create
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  Speaker 2: two turnovers inside your own red or the inside the twenty,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to help you when you you know, Michigan
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  Speaker 2: State did move the ball early, right, But I will
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  Speaker 2: say that that the there's it certainly was not the
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  Speaker 2: case that the problems scheme wise that we saw against Marshall.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like run that back, And in fact
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  Speaker 2: it was a very different game plan a lot of
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  Speaker 2: addressing a lot of the issues we talked about. It
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  Speaker 2: was a far more aggressive game plan, which we'll see here.
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  Speaker 2: And you could actually see that right off the bat,
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  Speaker 2: so you got right away, I think this is a
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  Speaker 2: cover two. It's almost I think i'd call it a
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  Speaker 2: corner blitz from both corners. I'm guessing this was a
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  Speaker 2: game specific check against Michigan State when they get in
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  Speaker 2: these sort of tight bunch sets.
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  Speaker 3: And they would you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I think that was probably a tell to Ohio
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  Speaker 2: say that Michigan State must run the ball a lot
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  Speaker 2: from these situations. Right away we talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the week before, playing with the heavy technique stunting getting
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  Speaker 2: inside so like the removing conflict. Like right off the bat,
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  Speaker 2: you see that here the defensive line pinches inside. So
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  Speaker 2: that just means everyone's coming down to an interior gap
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  Speaker 2: from where they lined up. So you have the defensive
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  Speaker 2: tackles for the A gaps. You have the defensive ends
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  Speaker 2: coming inside. You'll see Jack Sawyer, the Denzel Burke then
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  Speaker 2: coming off the edge has the D gap that leaves
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  Speaker 2: Sunny Styles here he is now in this look. This
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  Speaker 2: is a four to three. Ohio State played a lot
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  Speaker 2: of four to three on Saturday. You know, Jordan Hancock
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  Speaker 2: I think had like twenty snaps. Obviously that was somewhat
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  Speaker 2: because the starters did not play in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: But nevertheless, whenever Michigan State went to twelve or you know,
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  Speaker 2: two tight ends tight ends in a fullback went to
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  Speaker 2: a four to three. When they do that, they also
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  Speaker 2: shuffle their linebackers around right, so you have Sunny styles
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  Speaker 2: who in their base four two five is the will linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: He's moving to Sam, so he's got different responsibilities. So
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  Speaker 2: here you can see from the end zone view he
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  Speaker 2: has the sea gap, and like this is just really
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  Speaker 2: more of like this is less scheme to me, and
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  Speaker 2: this is more execution. You know, he there's too much
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  Speaker 2: space there, he gets sucked inside. He lets the tight
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  Speaker 2: end seal him inside or get enough of him to
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  Speaker 2: seal him inside, and it just creates an open gap.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously they're doing this cover two where they have
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  Speaker 2: the safety is pretty deep protecting because as I said,
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  Speaker 2: they're bringing the corners off the edge. Maybe you could
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  Speaker 2: criticize Denzel Burks like blitz pack path he takes here
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  Speaker 2: to help create this big gap. But like really, like
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  Speaker 2: I just saw it, there were too many times where styles,
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  Speaker 2: especially as a SAM linebacker playing the sort of four
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  Speaker 2: to three over where he has the sea gap, he
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  Speaker 2: just he was just getting too far inside.
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  Speaker 3: He was just letting the ball bounce out side.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't taking on a lead blocker with his you know,
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  Speaker 2: you want to take on the lead blocker with your
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  Speaker 2: inside shoulder towards the football so you can keep your
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  Speaker 2: outside arm free. You want to try to force the
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  Speaker 2: football back inside, and I always say, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State and we're going to see it on the
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  Speaker 2: next play too. Had like a good game plan to
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  Speaker 2: start with, but a lot of it was just sort
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  Speaker 2: of you know, picking on sunny styles for lack of
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  Speaker 2: a better term, and like I you know.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Knowles talked.
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  Speaker 2: I know, he was asked about styles, and you know
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  Speaker 2: his response was, well, you know, we're asking him to
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  Speaker 2: try to play three different positions, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: obvious retort to that is like, well, why are you
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  Speaker 2: doing that? Like he's not succeeding in any of them,
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  Speaker 2: so like maybe we should cut that down. Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: on record that I'm not a big fan of them
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  Speaker 2: playing this four to three or automatically going to it
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  Speaker 2: when teams play multiple tight ends, partially because I'm just like,
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  Speaker 2: as a general matter, I don't think you should let
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  Speaker 2: the offense dictate your personnel package is automatically, but also
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  Speaker 2: just because like Jordan Hancock's better than their linebackers, and
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  Speaker 2: so like why I take a better player off the field,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just even more so like when you're then
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  Speaker 2: shuffling all the linebackers around you're just putting more on
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  Speaker 2: their plate.
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  Speaker 1: So why wasn't Jordan Hancock playing more? That was one
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  Speaker 1: of the questions. We got a bunch during our post
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  Speaker 1: game show that I kind of jotted down and said,
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  Speaker 1: I got to ask Ross about that this week. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. That is one of your questions answered. Oh
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  Speaker 1: here's another one, Ross, Why the heck are they playing
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  Speaker 1: so far off the line of scrimmage with these corners.
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  Speaker 1: These corners can certainly play some bump and run coverage
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  Speaker 1: that Greg Ciano used to pound the table and say,
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  Speaker 1: this is a press we're a press man team. And
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  Speaker 1: now suddenly they have better corners and they're not always
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  Speaker 1: a pressman team, or not nearly as much a pressman team,
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  Speaker 1: So what's going on with that?
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  Speaker 2: There are times where they play press, but like you
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  Speaker 2: want to be varied, right, Like if you did that
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  Speaker 2: all the time. We saw that with Greg Ciano, like
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  Speaker 2: they were predictable, got picked on and so here like
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  Speaker 2: you'll see them play press, but you also see them
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  Speaker 2: play off man. And one benefit of off man, I
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  Speaker 2: mean there's few is it sets up their other coverages, right,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't necessarily know what you're getting at the
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  Speaker 2: snap and so like I grab this example, this is
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  Speaker 2: quarter quarter half. We saw again, so like a lot
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  Speaker 2: less cover four in this game, or the split safety
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  Speaker 2: concept that we talked about.
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  Speaker 3: Against Marshall.
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  Speaker 2: You saw a lot some cover cover half, quarter quarter
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  Speaker 2: a half, a lot more cover three, a lot more
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  Speaker 2: cover once. You're getting a lot more single high safety stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But like this is quarter half, so you do have
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  Speaker 2: like as you can see, like Denzel Burke is in
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  Speaker 2: a trap cover two position to the boundary, So like
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  Speaker 2: quarter quarter a half just means playing cover two to
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  Speaker 2: the boundary, right, so you can see like denzil Burk
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  Speaker 2: stuff towards the line, and Lathan Ransom is like a
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  Speaker 2: deep half safety and then you're playing cover four to
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  Speaker 2: the field. And so that means that Caleb Downs, David
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  Speaker 2: Davison a Banosa each have a quarter of the deep
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  Speaker 2: part of the field, right, and so you can see
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  Speaker 2: that play out here.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing I would say is this again, like
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  Speaker 2: I have not as much problem with the scheme, you
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  Speaker 2: know there it's more of the technique, Like I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why Igmundosen is giving him such a free release
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  Speaker 2: to the sideline or his help is to the inside
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  Speaker 2: you saw that in Cover one too, like you've got
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  Speaker 2: a middle of the field safety and so Magui's.
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  Speaker 3: Agbanos and given him this like outside release.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know people can play like and cover one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like on Michigan State's touchdown as well, like
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  Speaker 2: he was deeper again that they had stacked receivers, and
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  Speaker 2: so you do want when you're playing man covers to
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  Speaker 2: have like your corners or your defensive backs at different
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  Speaker 2: levels it's called right, like at different depths, so that
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  Speaker 2: if receivers cross, they don't run into each other and
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  Speaker 2: pick each other. So there's reasons for what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I just I that was my my sort of critique. Again,
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  Speaker 2: it's like like with styles, it's more of this is
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  Speaker 2: actually less of like the scheme problems that I saw
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  Speaker 2: last week and more of a technique issue. Is I
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  Speaker 2: don't have a good explanation for why they're giving this
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  Speaker 2: sort of you know, free access to the sideline other
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  Speaker 2: than the fact I will say, like this is a
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  Speaker 2: difficult throw and catch, Like you don't see this very
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  Speaker 2: often in college football, like where you're throwing from the
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  Speaker 2: opposite hash a deep out twenty twenty five yards away,
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  Speaker 2: like I thought that, like the Marshall quarterback, I thought
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  Speaker 2: Chiles made some plays early for Michigan State.
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  Speaker 3: He made some tough throws.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, he kind of reverted to the
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  Speaker 2: mean as the game went on, probably most emblematically. It's
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  Speaker 2: sort of just throwing it up to denzil Burke in
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  Speaker 2: the flat in Cover two for that pick late in
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  Speaker 2: the gamer is like throwing it to no one. But
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  Speaker 2: you know he Yeah, as I said, he made some plays,
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  Speaker 2: and so maybe the concept here is just like we'll
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  Speaker 2: give you that throw if you can make it, but
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  Speaker 2: we're going to take away the easier in breaking routes.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I have less problem with the off coverage.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a time and a place for everything.
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  Speaker 2: I think you got to mix things up and so
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  Speaker 2: can't press every play.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So now we have one more. We're starting
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  Speaker 1: with the bad plays and we'll get to the good.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, there is good. There was plenty of good
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  Speaker 1: for the Ohio State defense on Saturday. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: there in a minute. Here's where this show is going
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  Speaker 1: to take a little of a turn. We're gonna we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hit Cover one. You just we're talking about cover
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  Speaker 1: one a second ago, we're gonna hit a play where
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  Speaker 1: they're in cover one. This ended up going for a
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  Speaker 1: long completion. This was actually for those listening and not watching,
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  Speaker 1: this is the one that ended with the ball getting
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  Speaker 1: punched out. Really really nice play chasing that chasing the
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  Speaker 1: ball down and punching it out. But this is so
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  Speaker 1: this is a long play. We're not even gonna get
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  Speaker 1: into the fumble portion of it because that's not really
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  Speaker 1: relevant here schematically. But this is a free safety blitz.
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  Speaker 1: They're in cover one. Why does this not go well?
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  Speaker 1: Until it does?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: And again so you know, as I said, lots more
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  Speaker 2: single high safety concepts on Saturday against Michigan State. So
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  Speaker 2: more cover one, more blitzeing, more cover three, some three
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  Speaker 2: cloud where you're playing cover three but the corner is
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  Speaker 2: one of the corners is rolled up, so they're under
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  Speaker 2: part of the underneath coverage instead. And obviously, like they
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  Speaker 2: got Caleb downs involved by doing this, right, Like they
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  Speaker 2: let him come up and play at the lot of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: But as we talked about, like there's a trade off, right,
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  Speaker 2: So if you're going to be more aggressive, you are
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  Speaker 2: you are more susceptible to giving up a bit play
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  Speaker 2: and that happens here. And so the downside was I
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  Speaker 2: think part of as I said, part of Michigan State's
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  Speaker 2: game plan early was they wanted to utilize their tight
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  Speaker 2: end and attack styles in the passing game. And so
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  Speaker 2: we saw that in the first series right where they
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  Speaker 2: use this sort of delay where the tight end engage
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  Speaker 2: with styles let him go styles. Attack the quarterback is
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  Speaker 2: easy dump off in the flat here. This is just
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  Speaker 2: more cover one again when you're this is in the
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  Speaker 2: four two five, but when you're bringing downs off the
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  Speaker 2: edge right, the linebacker is going to have to cover someone.
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  Speaker 2: Now again there's like technique issues here gets flat put in.
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  Speaker 2: This is sort of an example of what I was
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  Speaker 2: just talking about with like having people at different levels,
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  Speaker 2: because he does get sort of tripped up here he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to stay outside the Michigan State wide receiver. Basically
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  Speaker 2: they kind of use like a you know, a weave
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  Speaker 2: or right or a switch concept where like the outside
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  Speaker 2: receiver cuts inside and the tight end kind of comes
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  Speaker 2: out and back in and so he kind of gets
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  Speaker 2: picked a little bit. But again, like these are sort
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  Speaker 2: of the trade offs, as I said, I just I
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  Speaker 2: had less issues schematically for the most part with what
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  Speaker 2: they were doing. But I just think that the result is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the more you play cover one, the more
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  Speaker 2: you can sort of find the fish, as urban Meyer
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  Speaker 2: like to say.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Michigan State had a pretty talented tight end.
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  Speaker 2: He's experienced, right Like, as you get into better players,
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  Speaker 2: these are going to be some of the trade offs.
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  Speaker 2: And so again, this is also partly why I say
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  Speaker 2: to get back to the fourth three issue. I know
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  Speaker 2: this is not this was a four two five rep here,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, in terms of the sam covering the
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  Speaker 2: tight end, like I I again, I would personally like
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  Speaker 2: to take my chances with Jordan Hancock on the field.
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  Speaker 2: He can cover the tight end then and cover one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and if you force him to play inside
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  Speaker 2: the C gap like he's done pretty well at that.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to see a team have success running
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  Speaker 2: on Ohio State in against their base four two five
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  Speaker 2: defense before they switched automatically to four to three. Again,
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  Speaker 2: because you're personnel questions, there's changes and fits and so
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  Speaker 2: that that.
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  Speaker 3: That is sort of a bigger picture issue.
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  Speaker 2: But here it's just again like Michigan State, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there were little things during the game, like why did
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State play so much better in the second half, right.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that they, you know, probably less. They
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  Speaker 2: did run a little bit at Cover four early and
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  Speaker 2: like we saw a few issues with that when they
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  Speaker 2: got spread out, they went away from that. They played
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  Speaker 2: probably less Cover one later put more Cover three. I
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  Speaker 2: think the defensive tackles in particular were more active later
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  Speaker 2: in the game. You know, again, like getting tied Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Williams back will make a big difference because they count
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive tackles to do a lot and control
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  Speaker 2: of the lone of scrimmage and so.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we will get to how they engage Caleb Downs
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  Speaker 2: more and more, but I just think some of it
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  Speaker 2: earlier was like Michigan State had a good game plan
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  Speaker 2: and like they successfully targeted Ohio State the right places,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, they just were some technique breakdowns and they.
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  Speaker 1: Did unleash I think was the word that Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 1: used in terms of what they did with Caleb Downs.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like we went through three games and kind
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  Speaker 1: of he was there, but you didn't really notice him
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  Speaker 1: that often. You saw him on Saturday. You definitely saw
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  Speaker 1: him there. The next play is a cover one invert
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  Speaker 1: and so for those who are you know, I'll do
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  Speaker 1: the I'll do the translation there. Instead of the deep safety,
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  Speaker 1: the free safety, the adjuster, Caleb Downs being being the
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  Speaker 1: deep guy, well they invert it, and the boundary safety,
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  Speaker 1: the bandit safety, Lathan Ransom, he's the deep guy and
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  Speaker 1: that frees up late Caleb Downs to go make a
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  Speaker 1: play right at the line of scrimmage. Ross, how did
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly? Like there's different turns for it.
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  Speaker 2: And to be honest, like sometimes with run plays like
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  Speaker 2: this could be a blitz. It's he's so aggressive coming downhill.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to tell whether he is responsible for the
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  Speaker 2: tight end, if he did release and coverage or not.
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  Speaker 2: There were times where like Downs, you know, they did
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  Speaker 2: roll him down and cover one. I mean they brought
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  Speaker 2: Ransom down. The thing about like I would say again,
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  Speaker 2: like we you know, back to the Hancock discussion, Like
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  Speaker 2: you want to obviously emphasize, no matter what you're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: the strengths of your personnel, right, and like Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: has two really good safeties and you know, for better
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  Speaker 2: or worse, what they're both really good at.
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  Speaker 3: Is coming downhill. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure you'd say either of them are like
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  Speaker 2: a middle of the field Molley cooker type necessarily, but
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  Speaker 2: so you want to give them opportunities to do this.
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  Speaker 2: That's why, like even when we're talking about their Cover four,
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  Speaker 2: I'm good with them playing cover four as long as
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  Speaker 2: they let the safeties trigger aggressively and fill some of
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  Speaker 2: those run gaps and like let the corner sort of
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  Speaker 2: cap routes or be the deep you know, cover deep
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  Speaker 2: in effect. But here, you know, again we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: changing things up using the defensive line to help out right,
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  Speaker 2: So it's not just like Down's flying down. This is
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  Speaker 2: actually a nice concept. So this is a four to three.
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  Speaker 2: This is a four three under, which just means it
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  Speaker 2: styles as the sam is actually like up on the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. So it looks like a five to two, right,
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  Speaker 2: and so he they spike again, spike the defensive end inside.
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  Speaker 2: They let they have styles play contained and so they're
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: letting Downs come straight downhill to play the sea gap.
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  Speaker 2: And so these are what like just like we talked
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  Speaker 2: about with Marshall, like this is one way you can
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  Speaker 2: make up for you know, having guys out of the
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: box going forward is just letting the safeties fill an
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  Speaker 2: into your gap like this, And obviously Downs made a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of plays like this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we saw sort of the.
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  Speaker 2: Downside right of bringing them down with that last tight
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  Speaker 2: end completion against Styles, but I think him, you know,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: they they've also brought Ransom down at times, you know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the child's fumble, most notably with Ransom, and so I
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  Speaker 2: just think that, like that's really the strength of this
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  Speaker 2: defense is just coming up with different ways to like
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  Speaker 2: get the two of those guys coming downhill. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: so that's again why like, well they don't want to
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  Speaker 2: play pressman all the time, because you want your safeties
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: involved in different ways, right, So, like, no matter what,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you don't want to be predictable. I do think now
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: that they are starting through four games, we can the
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: good news is like we can see quite a bit
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: of variety out of what Ohio State's done if you
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: take it collectively through those four games, and so I
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you know, obviously this is really effective. This is basically
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: like staunched a believing so to speak, was letting Downs
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  Speaker 2: make some plays, and so I have to imagine that will.
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  Speaker 3: Be a big part of things going forward.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: All Right, it feels like Sunny Styles has been catching
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: some strays from the Ohio State fan base over the
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  Speaker 1: last week, the last couple of weeks. But here's we're
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: going to wrap up here with a really nice play
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: by Sunday Stales. This was he ended up getting a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: sack on this one. This is a zone blitz look
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: from the buck Eyes Ross walk us through this last one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, I just don't want people to leave
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: with the impression that, like the problems from last week,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: they were the same problems necessarily right, Like they may
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: have gave up yards early, but it was it was
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a very different game plan, a much more varied one.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: And so again we talked about this concept actually against
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Western Michigan when Cody Simon almost intercepted that pass. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: so again this is another trap two concept. So we
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: talked I've talked about using more zone blitz as more
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: creeper pressures where you're bringing four or five plane zone
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: behind it. This is an example, and they ran this
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: concept at least three times in the game, and so
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you know, again you're bringing pressure off the field edge
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and you could tell it's like a steal concept because
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: again like Latham Ransom, how he turns his his shoulders
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: towards the field side right, he's basically read to pick
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: up a receiver breaking in.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: And so again.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: A lot of times quarterbacks, like the old adage is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: to throw where the blitz is coming from, Like this
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: is trying to trap the quarterback into doing so. Right,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: So like denzil Burg stepping hard up into the flat,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Lathan Ransom is coming to like pick in the middle
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: of the field, you basically lock the other side corner.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: So Ignosen is just covering the tight end of man
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: and then you have you still have like a deep
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: defender and downs to the field side.
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  Speaker 3: So they ran this here.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: They ran it when right before the fourth down quarterback
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: sneak stop. They were running this when Ignnosen made the
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: tackle to short of the sticks. So again we are
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: seeing more variety out of the defense. So I do
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: think you know, solved more stunting to hear, they're bringing
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: more pressure. I think you'll see that continue. I don't
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: think it was just because of Michigan State. I think
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: this is sort of the plan and I think you'll
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: see more of that going forward. This particularly because as
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: you said, like I do think I you know, Style's
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: in a tough spot right like he did. In fact,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: he reclassified he played a different position, Like yes, he's
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: sort of been a Sam linebacker before, but now he's
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: playing Will. But he's also asked to be Sam. That's
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: a lot to put on his plate. But he's pretty
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: effective as a blitzer, and so I just I think
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: he'll continue to see hopefully as I've advocated for more
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: of these zone blitz, creeper two and three D coverage concepts.
• 20:28
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