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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Chip Kelly's Playcalling Is Paying Off · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, October second.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Iowa game is in
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  Speaker 1: three days. The game agains to Michigan in fifty nine days.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be talking to our buddy, Ross Fulton, the ex's
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  Speaker 1: So the Ohio State offense, well, they were eating, they
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  Speaker 1: were eating some, they were doing some fine dining on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night at Michigan State put up another very solid,
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  Speaker 1: well balanced, pretty diverse day on offense, put the ball
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone plenty, ended up with a pretty
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  Speaker 1: comfortable night for the most part. Was it perfect. We'll
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  Speaker 1: start We're going to start with eating our vegetables. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to the stake a little later. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: start with eating our vegetables just a little some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that didn't work. Ross, Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: run game, because it felt like it for it took
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  Speaker 1: a little while for the run game to get going
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  Speaker 1: for the Buckeyes on Saturday and night at times, and
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  Speaker 1: it was sort of fits and starts. They didn't, heaven forbid,
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  Speaker 1: have two running backs who ran for twelve yards to carry,
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  Speaker 1: so things are obviously going straight to crap brous What
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  Speaker 1: was not working exactly right for the Ohio State run game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that for me, there were too many
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  Speaker 2: runs that were not successful. And I mean that in
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  Speaker 2: the statistical sense of you know, on first and ten,
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  Speaker 2: you want to gain four yards. Second and you want
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  Speaker 2: to gain half the yards you need for a third down.
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  Speaker 2: On third down you want to convert, right, I thought
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  Speaker 2: they had too many runs that were you know, one, two,
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  Speaker 2: three yards And there are a couple of things at issue.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Michigan State has a they as
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  Speaker 2: I said, for the game, they're like twenty second and
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  Speaker 2: sp plus going into the game at defense. So they
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  Speaker 2: had a good defense. So it you know, obviously a
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  Speaker 2: step up in competition. But I do think there were
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  Speaker 2: some issues that popped up. And I grabbed this clip
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it was like in I would say,
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  Speaker 2: a combination of identification of blocks and or just not
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  Speaker 2: getting movement at the point of attack, and some of
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  Speaker 2: that was what like Michigan State was doing. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: like if we look at this run play right from
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  Speaker 2: the end zone angle this is it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a this might be inside zone, it may be actually
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  Speaker 2: like sort of a base block. It's actually kind of
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  Speaker 2: interesting because each offensive linement is basically because of the
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  Speaker 2: spread look responsible for one defensive player, right, so you've
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  Speaker 2: got four defensive linement and a linebacker here. Michigan State
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  Speaker 2: was sort of using if you look over like Teger's Shabola,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a two eye alignment with their noseguard. That
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  Speaker 2: means they're a little bit wider then they're not, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's not right in the gap between Shabola and Seth McLachlan.
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  Speaker 2: He's you know, sort of more over two eye. He's
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  Speaker 2: more over the eye of Teger Shabola.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That limits double teams, and all have to say it
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  Speaker 2: was running inside zone to the three technique, which you
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  Speaker 2: know further limited double teams because the center is stepping
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  Speaker 2: up sit and so you ended up with like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of base blocks from the guards one on one
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  Speaker 2: with the Michigan State defensive tackles, and like, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: there were just too many stalemates like you see here,
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  Speaker 2: Like they don't get movement at the point of attack,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, they got got stood up, and that
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  Speaker 2: just makes it difficult, uh, you know, to successfully execute
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  Speaker 2: a run play when you're not creating forward movement. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: like the goal with a lot of these runs is
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  Speaker 2: to create doubles so you can get movement and then
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  Speaker 2: get to the linebackers. And as I said, just because
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  Speaker 2: of like the way Michigan State was aligning things, the
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  Speaker 2: way Ohio State was running zone to the three technique,
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  Speaker 2: there just were too many where they just they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get double teams and they couldn't get movement. And then
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  Speaker 2: as I said, there were little things like you know,
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  Speaker 2: on like a buck sweep or on pracked toss. Again,
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  Speaker 2: they just weren't quite identifying the right players. So I
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  Speaker 2: think there's there are things that despite a successful offensive
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  Speaker 2: performance again that I still think they can be cleaned up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I do think we'll see here too, Like
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're obviously rotating shabola and Austin Sarahvilde. From
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, I think Sarahville is earning more and more time.
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  Speaker 2: I think things look a little cleaner with him in
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  Speaker 2: their ability to get to the second level. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see how that progresses going forward.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So sort of an encouraging end to that one.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the bad news. So now you get
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  Speaker 1: your vegetables out of the way. Time to time to feast.
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  Speaker 1: And this is an interesting series because this is all
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  Speaker 1: three the next three plays, we're going to go through
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  Speaker 1: them one by one, all from the same drive. So
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of getting a chance to watch chip
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  Speaker 1: Kelly get into his bag a little bit. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with one that sounds like someone is
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  Speaker 1: fishing in your DMS ross. What is an influence trap?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we as we said, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: we talk a lot about chip Kelly being creative, doing
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  Speaker 2: a variety of things, diversified. So but it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: fun to look at it concretely and like, here's three
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  Speaker 2: plays back to back to back. Let's see what he did.
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  Speaker 2: So the first thing when we talk about ren diversity.
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  Speaker 2: Trap trap is an old play that is often associated
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  Speaker 2: with like option or the wing te You don't see
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  Speaker 2: that that much in modern football, particularly from spread sets.
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  Speaker 2: But actually Chip Kelly's had a version of this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can find it all the way back in his
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  Speaker 2: organ run books or playbooks. And so by influence trap,
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  Speaker 2: what I mean is that both guards are pulling and kicking,
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  Speaker 2: and so the play is designed. It's going up the
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  Speaker 2: left side right, And so I guess the first thing
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  Speaker 2: I should know before we even get to the actual
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  Speaker 2: blocking scheme is the formation alignment. So Ohio State's a
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  Speaker 2: very open formation here right, So you got trips to
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  Speaker 2: the field or the wide side, and you got open
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  Speaker 2: no tight end look here, or you have the I
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  Speaker 2: should say Je Scott's on the field, but the Titans
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  Speaker 2: split out wide, so you have a single receiver to
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  Speaker 2: one side, trips the other, so very spread out. Treavon
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  Speaker 2: Henderson comes in motion in the backfield, so you're giving
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  Speaker 2: a pass look.
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  Speaker 3: And you can see how Michigan States plays this.
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  Speaker 2: They've got two high safeties, they've got three over three
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  Speaker 2: with the trips receivers. You know, again we saw Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State particularly how they open the games.
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  Speaker 3: It's like hitch you with RPOs bam bam, bam.
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  Speaker 2: Like you saw the ball get out right away to
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  Speaker 2: Colonel Tate, you saw get out in right away to
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  Speaker 2: a Mecca Abuka. It's sort of like the jab right.
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  Speaker 2: And so the goal here is like defenses are going
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  Speaker 2: to stop cheating eventually, and like they're going to honor
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  Speaker 2: the threat of the wide receiver reliefs outside and that
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  Speaker 2: gives you advantageous numbers inside. So then as I was saying,
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  Speaker 2: so you're you're going to get an influenced trap, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's somewhat easier to see from the end zone camera,
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  Speaker 2: but you've got basically the left guard is going to
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  Speaker 2: kick out the defensive end and the goal. The term
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  Speaker 2: influence right is you want that defensive tackle when he
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  Speaker 2: sees that occur to widen out and that sets up
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  Speaker 2: the trap. So then the trap's coming from the right
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  Speaker 2: guard kicking him out.
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  Speaker 3: It's just an old school trap principle.
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  Speaker 2: So like the center is going to block back on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive tackle, the play side tackle is going to
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  Speaker 2: crack down on the playside linebacker and the goal and
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  Speaker 2: then the single receiver Jeremy Smith is going to crack
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  Speaker 2: the safety because you know, good rule thump don't block corners,
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  Speaker 2: block safeties, let make corners.
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  Speaker 3: Tackle is sort of the old rule.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know again it's it's so you hits
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  Speaker 2: up the middle, and then the goal is to be
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  Speaker 2: able to bounce it outside like a curs and try
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  Speaker 2: von Henderson's off to the races.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So then the next one, this is one we actually
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  Speaker 1: talked about, I think it was last week, talked about
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  Speaker 1: super counter, but this time a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: different formation and then also some motion to sort of
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  Speaker 1: dress things up beforehand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So again this is Chip Kelly. Right.
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  Speaker 2: For the offense, it's the same play, but for the
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  Speaker 2: defense it's a very different look. Last week we talked
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  Speaker 2: about it, we had thirteen personnel on the field, three
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  Speaker 2: tight ends, right, so now we have twelve, so we
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  Speaker 2: solve two tight ends.
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  Speaker 3: But now a Mecca Buka is coming into.
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  Speaker 2: This sort of a short motion to this tight bunch
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  Speaker 2: that Chip Kelly loves going in and out of these
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  Speaker 2: tight bunch sets. So they're going to run super counter
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to see so by supercunter we mean
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  Speaker 2: the again, everyone on the front side, they're running back
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  Speaker 2: to the boundary. Everyone on the front side is blocking
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  Speaker 2: down the right guard here at Sarah Bell is pulling
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  Speaker 2: to kick, and this kind of goes to what I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about earlier about his sort of recognition on
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  Speaker 2: the field. He correctly notes that the defensive end crash
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  Speaker 2: it or follows the puller down tight, and so he
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  Speaker 2: actually logs that guy, which is great. So that just
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  Speaker 2: it bounces the playout wide that you let the defensive
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  Speaker 2: player take himself out. Then you have Bennett Christian, who
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  Speaker 2: you know continues to be used in sort of these
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  Speaker 2: blocking twelve personnel alignments.
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  Speaker 3: He then becomes basically trades responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: He kicked out and then you got this great lead
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  Speaker 2: block by a Mecca Buca. You know Chip Kelly again,
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  Speaker 2: when I remember us talking in the off season, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people think of his organ days and all
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  Speaker 2: the spread and p at UCLA, he really started doing
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  Speaker 2: this with like sort of these tight formations and using
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  Speaker 2: wide receivers as additional blockers, as pollers. Because you, on
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  Speaker 2: the one hand, you've dictated, you know, as we see
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  Speaker 2: with the Visa defense, like would they match certain personnel
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  Speaker 2: for groups? Right, So twelve personnel seems less heavy than
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  Speaker 2: thirteen obviously, but you're still getting the same exact action,
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  Speaker 2: and so you get this great lead bock by Buka
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  Speaker 2: and again off to the races, and again, just like
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  Speaker 2: last week, you get that sort of sprint out action
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  Speaker 2: where it looks like you're going to get a row
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  Speaker 2: to the flat you know, by the initial to the
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  Speaker 2: tight bunch side, so keeping the defense sort of having
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  Speaker 2: to play both sides of the field.
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  Speaker 1: All right, And the next one we are back in
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  Speaker 1: tight bunch once again. This is a this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the one that Jeremiah Smith scored that the
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  Speaker 1: rushing touchdown, not the passing touchdown, the rushing touchdown that
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith scored. And this is this feels like this
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  Speaker 1: is sort of variations and stuff we've talked about before,
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  Speaker 1: because we've talked about g H counter before. It's the
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  Speaker 1: guard and the tight end pulling on this one, and
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  Speaker 1: but this time different variation of that, and it's jeremih
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  Speaker 1: they're giving it Jeremiah Smith going the other way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And so this is again the very next play
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  Speaker 2: after that that super counter, so very similar. Look as
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  Speaker 2: you can see pre snap, we've got a Buka back
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  Speaker 2: in this in this tight bunch with two tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a we're going to give that exact same action,
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  Speaker 2: And so I circled the linebackers because you have to
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  Speaker 2: watch the linebackers at the snap, and then you have
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  Speaker 2: the you have Sarahville pull again, so you're really selling
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  Speaker 2: the the gh counter.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, you see g.
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  Speaker 2: Scott as the hy offer, you know, off the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage. He starts, he takes a couple of steps
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  Speaker 2: as if he's pulling it leading and then he basically
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  Speaker 2: reverse his course and leads out on the on the reverse,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, then you have a buka to set
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  Speaker 2: the edge for the reverse. And obviously Will Howard and
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  Speaker 2: Quinchhn Jenkins fake the counter that you use sort of
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  Speaker 2: a Will Howard reverses out and so you know, hands
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  Speaker 2: the ball behind him to jeremih Smith, which obviously like
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  Speaker 2: good faking turning having the quarterback turn his back to
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  Speaker 2: the defense.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously you don't know what's gonna happen with the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, and then.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, you can watch the Michigan State linebackers
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  Speaker 2: because just like we talked about last week with the
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  Speaker 2: Marshall boundary safety after seeing crack toss, like I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to let that happen again. These linebackers are flowing
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  Speaker 2: hard over the top. They've seen the super counter, they
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  Speaker 2: know it comes from this formation. Ohio State just ran it.
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  Speaker 2: So now we're really iterating plays off of one another
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  Speaker 2: here for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've had a couple of plays in a
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  Speaker 1: row where it sounds like Bok has been doing some
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  Speaker 1: good work blocking on the outside, and now Mega Buka
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  Speaker 1: gets his reward on this one. This is why cross
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  Speaker 1: this is a Ryan Day staple. But they're running this
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  Speaker 1: against cover one six man pressure, so Michigan State bringing
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit of heat, but Ohio State really
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  Speaker 1: makes it pay off here. So walk us through this
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  Speaker 1: last one.
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  Speaker 2: On that last touchdown, it was a Jeremiah Smith, and
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  Speaker 2: obviously he had the two spectacular catches and continues to
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  Speaker 2: be a focus. But I think even despite having a
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  Speaker 2: couple of drops, like Abuca is blocking was great and
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  Speaker 2: I think you really see him in these high leverage
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  Speaker 2: situations and by that I just mean you know, third
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  Speaker 2: or fourth down where they really need to make a play.
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  Speaker 2: They really turned to him and that actually kind of
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  Speaker 2: caught Will Howard so the on his interception.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So we obviously had like that was probably the worst
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  Speaker 2: play for Will Howard maybe we've seen this year and
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  Speaker 2: you know, credit to Michigan State, they fooled him on that.
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  Speaker 2: They ran like a Cover two trap. We've talked about
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  Speaker 2: that for Ohio State defense. Right, And so I think
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  Speaker 2: Howard the series before I completed that exact same route
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  Speaker 2: to a Buka on third down. It was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they had Smith run off the coverage outside Abuka ran
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  Speaker 2: like a little hitch short of the sticks and hit
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  Speaker 2: him in the flat against Cover three. But that time
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  Speaker 2: they brought pressure, they trapped him, so he threw where
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  Speaker 2: the pressure was coming from and it was a bad pick, right,
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  Speaker 2: But it does show their confidence in Howard that again,
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  Speaker 2: like in high leverage situations they can count on him
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  Speaker 2: to make plays. They come right back after that interception,
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  Speaker 2: they threw a deep sale route to a Buka again.
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  Speaker 3: Like so as I said, like I think.
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  Speaker 2: When they really want to count on someone when they
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  Speaker 2: need to make a play and get things going again,
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  Speaker 2: like he's the guy they're looking to. So they threw
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  Speaker 2: that deep, deep out route to a bukah on that's
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  Speaker 2: in that situation. And here again you go to Whitecross.
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  Speaker 2: So like you know, people talk about Howard not having
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  Speaker 2: completed a ton of vertical routes down the field, and like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he probably even wouldn't dispute like his arms,
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  Speaker 2: Like he does not have the arm of a Jeff George,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like it's like your traditional gunslinger types. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, he made plenty of throws, including this one
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  Speaker 2: in that game, that were fifteen to twenty yards at
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  Speaker 2: least in the air long right. And the key thing
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  Speaker 2: is that I think is underrated is he's very accurate
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  Speaker 2: on these throws. You know, your deep crosses, your deep outs, right,
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  Speaker 2: so this this is another six man pressure just like
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State showed to him on the interception, and you
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  Speaker 2: know they pretty much telegraph right that it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be cover one. And so as you said, this is
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  Speaker 2: a Ryan Day Chip Kelly staple. It's called wye cross.
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  Speaker 2: So a meca buca is the inside receivers running like
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  Speaker 2: a deep cross or deep over route. You have the
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  Speaker 2: dig coming behind it that can often be completed and
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  Speaker 2: then they kind of there's a couple of ways that
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  Speaker 2: can run it. But they also have Cheermi Smith on
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  Speaker 2: the drag right across. But you know a couple of
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  Speaker 2: things to note here. One, the pass protection is great, right,
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  Speaker 2: and so Treyvon Henderson rightly has got a lot of plaudits,
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  Speaker 2: including out of that game for his pass protection. He
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  Speaker 2: does a great job picking up the linebacker blitz here.
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  Speaker 2: But I also I think the offensive line did a
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  Speaker 2: really nice job and like the pass protection throughout the
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  Speaker 2: game was excellent.
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  Speaker 3: And that's not just like in one on one blocking.
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  Speaker 2: That's also like picking up Michigan State that used a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different stunts and blitzes, right, And you can
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  Speaker 2: see here how well, like you have the the other
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  Speaker 2: linebacker who's walked up towards the field side over Josh Friar.
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  Speaker 2: He loops all the way around, and so you have
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  Speaker 2: the two defensive tackles who kind of who slant towards
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  Speaker 2: the field to let that loop happen, right, And you
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  Speaker 2: can see the interior three offensive lineman here traded off
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  Speaker 2: really well. So Seth McLachlan, then Donovan Jackson passes off
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  Speaker 2: the defensive tackle with Seth McLachlan. He then picks up
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  Speaker 2: the looper, so you got Henderson on the backer, Jackson
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  Speaker 2: riding out the other backer.
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  Speaker 3: So that gives will how our time.
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  Speaker 2: And then as I said, this is you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a twenty yard throw on you know, and he puts
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  Speaker 2: it right where only a Buka can catch it, and
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  Speaker 2: then obviously he Abuka does the rest have for the catch.
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  Speaker 3: So I think despite you know, we talked.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: About earlier with the offensive line, I thought there were
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: some some struggles in the run game a little bit.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: I thought the pass protection was pretty excellent as well
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  Speaker 2: from the you know, both offensive line and running backs.
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  Speaker 3: And then obviously I think, you know it just it.
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  Speaker 2: I would take the accuracy over the downfield, I guess
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  Speaker 2: hitting a forty yard bomb if I had to choose, Like,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I think, you obviously want to be able to do both.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: But I do think that accuracy can't be underrated. And
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, they because of some of those
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: running situations, like they did have a decent number of
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: these third and medium or fourth and medium to longs
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: that they had to convert, and they converted.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: A lot of them.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: So that was that was a positive sign for the
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: passing game and for Howard.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: All right, and before I let you go, do you
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: want to just sort of do a little bit of
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: expectation setting for this weekend. I'm going to be saying
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: this a lot this week. You're not going to put
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: sixty points on Iowa this week, So everybody take a
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: deep breath. Understand, let's have go into this weekend with
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: some reasonable expectations. It is probably to be a little
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: bit of a frustrating game. You're probably not going to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: hit a bunch of real long plays. You might have
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to kind of grind it out. What is it ross
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: about the Iowa defense that makes just they it just
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: feels like they make you earn it. It's not that
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: you can't get it, but you don't get a lot
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: of cheapies against the Iowa defense.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I will caution everyone, right, Iowa's right now,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: seventeenth and sp plus they're first in defense. They are,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: you know, so it's the same Iowa right, Like they're
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: not good on offense. There, I guess they are marginally
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: better than they have been on offense, which is helping them, right,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Like they may be better than Michigan is on offense,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: but they are, But they have Bill Parker is He's
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: just a great defensive coach and like I highly recommend
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: everyone you can find Devin Ratcliffe posted on Buckeheadle last week.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But this great Urban Meyer discussion from a few years
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: ago discussing how Iowa plays the RPO. And so they
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: have a system, right, they keep three linebackers on the field.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: They're comfortable with their linebackers and overhang. It's almost all zone.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: They play a ton of like quarter quarter half, but
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: they will mix in some cover three fire zones to
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: keep you honest. But like how they just they keep
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: you off balance because they trade off responsibility. So like
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the Meyer clip talks about like playing the RPO like
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: they'll have we talked about last week with the Ohio
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: State defense, like using the defensive end in a heavy technique. Right,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: so they'll like spike the defensive end inside a heavy technique.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: They'll then have the safety come down to play the
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: C gap to let that overhang linebacker play the D
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: gap or play the RPO. Excuse me, And so you
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: can the quarterback. You know, there may be situations where
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Howard poles and throws the RPO and it's not as
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: easy as it has been for High State, just because
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: they're very fundamentally sound on those things. So I would agree,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I would not expect this to be a As I said,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I think Iowa perpetually gets underrated because of their offense
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: of issues, but I think it's going to be quite
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: a challenge for the High State offense.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone always likes to laugh and point when the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Iowa over under is thirty two or something like that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And yeah, half of that is Iowa is not very
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: good on offense, but boy, the other half is Iowa
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: is generally pretty good on defense. So it will be
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: definitely a challenge for the Buckeyes this weekend. We'll be
• 19:21
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