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Is Ohio State Prepared For Its Top-3 Showdown With Oregon? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Got another bonus episode for you. Now you heard from
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel, the Oregon quarterback a little earlier. Now you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get to hear from Ohio State quarterback Will Howard.
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  Speaker 1: He had a lot of stuff to say after the game.
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  Speaker 1: He's another great interview, much like Dylan Gabriel, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of interesting stuff to say as a veteran college football player,
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting perspective on some of these things as well.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with this one. Rian Day has talked
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that they really try to rattle Will
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  Speaker 1: Howard in practice, right, make practice harder than the games.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not easy to rattle Will Howard in practice
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  Speaker 1: or in games. So how is Will Howard having thrown
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  Speaker 1: a pick not having been perfect? How is Will Howard
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  Speaker 1: feeling coming out of that Iowa game on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a big emphasis and I say
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  Speaker 2: it every week. You know, obviously you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: have the turnovers and the bad plays, But the thing
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  Speaker 2: is is, you know it's going to happen. It's football,
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  Speaker 2: and you know you're not going to be perfect. And
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  Speaker 2: that's just the reality of being a human being. And
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  Speaker 2: it's all about how you bounce back. And in my
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  Speaker 2: long career, and and one of the things that I've
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  Speaker 2: learned is that, you know, you can't let the one
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  Speaker 2: the play before affect the next play. And I think
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten a lot better at that as I've as
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  Speaker 2: I've grown and gotten older and just had more reps
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  Speaker 2: and more experience. But you know, yeah, he tries to
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  Speaker 2: emulate that at practice, and he tries to get in
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  Speaker 2: my head, and you know, he tries to make practice
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  Speaker 2: harder than the games, and and he does. And I
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  Speaker 2: think we do that as well. You know, we we
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  Speaker 2: push ourselves in practice so that it is truly harder
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  Speaker 2: than the games and then you can come out here
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  Speaker 2: and just play free and not worry about things, and
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, just the confidence that I have
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  Speaker 2: right now, especially with the guys I have around me,
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  Speaker 2: like stuff like that's not going to shake me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And I think I've done a good job of that
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  Speaker 2: thus far this season. Obviously, don't want to have you know,
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  Speaker 2: the pick there and and the turnovers and that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: got to clean that up. But you know, in the moment,
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  Speaker 2: what you have to do is you have to move on.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I think I did a good job
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  Speaker 2: of that, and I think we as a team did
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  Speaker 2: a good job of that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that helped keep the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: offense on tree on Saturday was the fact that every
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  Speaker 1: time they gave the ball to Travon Henderson and quin
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Judd kids, it felt like they were just gonna
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  Speaker 1: get four five yards, just kind of keeping things on schedule,
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  Speaker 1: keep things chugging away. How big is that for the offense?
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  Speaker 1: And then you're also gonna hear a brief moment where
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  Speaker 1: he's talking to Ameca Buka off camera in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of this answer. Figure, i'n let you know otherwise it's
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  Speaker 1: a little a little confusing.
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  Speaker 2: A ton man. That was that was a huge emphasis
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  Speaker 2: coming into this game. You know, we knew we needed
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  Speaker 2: to be physical, played downhill football and go at them.
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  Speaker 2: And I think our O line took that challenge and
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  Speaker 2: ran with it. Man. And those dudes are are bad,
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  Speaker 2: sobs man, and they're they're coming downhill and just rocking
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  Speaker 2: people off the ball. And I think they're playing really
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  Speaker 2: really good football net right now. They're getting they're just
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  Speaker 2: continuing to get better every single week. I think they
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  Speaker 2: played really well last week. I think they played really
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  Speaker 2: I haven't watched the film yet, but I think they
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  Speaker 2: played really really well this week. I love you who
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  Speaker 2: was that? Mack? Love you mech uh. But the overall, man,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are Those guys are playing. They're playing their
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  Speaker 2: butts off. And then you know, I mean you let
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  Speaker 2: Q and Trey do the rest. And you know, we
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  Speaker 2: say we want to have our O line get to
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  Speaker 2: and our backs get to every single play. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think our line is getting us four and our
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  Speaker 2: backs can get us you know, sixty plus. So I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's it's it's good. And I mean our O
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  Speaker 2: linees playing at a really really high level right now,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, across the board, I'm really proud of
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  Speaker 2: those guys.
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  Speaker 1: The buck guys ended up winning thirty five to seven,
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  Speaker 1: So it must have been an easy game, right, Well
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  Speaker 1: maybe not. It was seven to nothing Buckeyes at halftime.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like in that locker room knowing they're
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  Speaker 1: only up by a touchdown and could be one play
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  Speaker 1: away from a tie game.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say anything was really different, man. It was
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  Speaker 2: we just came out and we said, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a new half, and you know, every we always put
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  Speaker 2: the emphasis on that middle eight, you know, and and
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  Speaker 2: ending the first half the right way and starting the
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  Speaker 2: second half the right way. And we didn't. We did
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  Speaker 2: not execute the middle half in the first half. But
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  Speaker 2: coming out of the halftime, going down getting to score,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting a couple turnovers like that is huge,
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  Speaker 2: and that was you know, our emphasis was, like we
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  Speaker 2: have to come out and start fast. We've got to
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  Speaker 2: go down and get a score. You know, we deferred
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  Speaker 2: so we get the ball first, and then we got
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  Speaker 2: to come out and get some stops. And I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the defense played an unbelievable game today. And when you
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  Speaker 2: got a defense, it is gonna shut them down like
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  Speaker 2: they did. I mean, it's hard, hard not to win
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  Speaker 2: win a lot of games.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things we've talked about a decent about
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  Speaker 1: this fall is the idea that Ohio stated receivers, if
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  Speaker 1: they're covered one on one, Will Howard is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: consider them open. Those are a one on one receiver
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  Speaker 1: is a receiver you can throw the ball to. So
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  Speaker 1: how much does that impact the offense when he can
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  Speaker 1: just sort of put it up to a Mecca, a
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  Speaker 1: Booga or Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, man, it's one on one, you know, is
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  Speaker 2: they're open. And I've said that and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: have all the trust in the world and those guys
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  Speaker 2: and I've seen him do it in practice. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it makes my job easy when I can when I
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  Speaker 2: can throw a ball that Mecca on that on that
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  Speaker 2: corner route that last touched on that that we had
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a great throw honestly, you know, we we we'd
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  Speaker 2: practice that play on the hash mark know where I
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  Speaker 2: had a little more time to throw that and you
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  Speaker 2: know we have it in the right middle, so it's
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  Speaker 2: a little more off the hash we got. I got
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  Speaker 2: to be a little quicker with it and I left
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  Speaker 2: it a little inside and Mac made a great play.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's just like things like that, just
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  Speaker 2: giving guys chances. And I mean, JJ like that one
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  Speaker 2: hand to catches. I mean it's stupid like it's it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, you just let them let them go make plays, man,
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  Speaker 2: and it's and it's fun to watch. It's it's easy,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it makes makes my job, makes my
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  Speaker 2: job pretty nice.
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  Speaker 1: The buck Eyes have undoubtedly had this Oregon Games Circle
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  Speaker 1: on their schedule since the schedule first came out, but
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  Speaker 1: they had to get through four games first that were
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  Speaker 1: against lesser opponents, and then you had to get through
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  Speaker 1: the Iowa game, which is a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: a challenge. So what did Will Howard learn about this
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  Speaker 1: team in terms of their preparation and their focus heading
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  Speaker 1: into what could have been a dangerous game against Iowa
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  Speaker 1: that turned out to be a pretty comfortable win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we we said this coming into this game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we were going to learn about this team.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to learn a lot about this team and
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  Speaker 2: our toughness and our you know, our ability to you know,
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  Speaker 2: block out the noise and go down and get to work.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we knew we had a big one
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  Speaker 2: coming up this week, but we knew that this was
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  Speaker 2: a big one too. And I think our ability to
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  Speaker 2: just come out there and play some smash mouth football
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, you know, I think we started well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the first quarter we only had one drive,
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  Speaker 2: but it was fourteen plays and we went down and scored.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the second quarter, you know, just you know,
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  Speaker 2: two turnovers, a turnover on downs. You know, we beat ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's never you know, the other team
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  Speaker 2: beating us, is us beating ourselves? But you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: all about how your spawn. And we came back and
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  Speaker 2: we did a great job. So you know, I'm proud
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  Speaker 2: of the way that we played. But you know, we
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  Speaker 2: got a big one coming up next week.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited now the Buckeyes can officially turn their
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  Speaker 1: focus to Oregon. Duck's going to present a major challenge
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  Speaker 1: for the Buckeyes in Austin Stadium. Going to be a
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  Speaker 1: loud and rowdy crowd out there in Eugene on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: So how confident are prepared? Is Will Howard and this
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State team going into that Oregon game?
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  Speaker 2: I think confidence wise, we feel great. You know, we've
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  Speaker 2: we've continued to iron things out and get better every
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  Speaker 2: single week, and I think that's true. I think we've
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  Speaker 2: learned a lot about ourselves and about this team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think going into this game, you know, we we
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  Speaker 2: know that it's it's a big one, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't really looked at it yet. We knew that
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  Speaker 2: this Iowa team was going to be a good team,
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  Speaker 2: So I mean we you know, I looked at it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, and you know, on the bye week
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  Speaker 2: and I started checking them out and seeing you know
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  Speaker 2: what they're about, and you know, I'm excited. Man, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be It's gonna be a good challenge. You know,
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  Speaker 2: played against Dylan a couple of times. He's a great player.
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  Speaker 2: You know, their their defense is good. You know. I
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  Speaker 2: know Dan coach Lanning is a you know, a good
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  Speaker 2: coach and he's going to have them ready. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to uh to get home now and start watching
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  Speaker 2: some film and get ready for these guys.
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  Speaker 1: And finding a little two parter here number one? Going
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  Speaker 1: into halftime? How was Will Howard feeling knowing it was
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  Speaker 1: only seven to nothing and the offense had not been
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  Speaker 1: able to punch the ball into the end zone after
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  Speaker 1: that opening drive? What changed after that? After that point
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  Speaker 1: that really changed the game? And then second part, facing
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel, another former Big twelve quarterback from the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: and Kansas State days for both of those guys, what
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  Speaker 1: is that going to be like to face him now
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  Speaker 1: in the Big Ten?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'll be fun. Uh you know going into
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  Speaker 2: that going into halftime, Yeah, I was, Uh, I was, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was. I was. I was pissed at myself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because I feel like it's uncharacteristic you know, putting the
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  Speaker 2: ball in harms away like that. You know, I want
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  Speaker 2: to be safe with the ball and my decision making.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to hang my hat on that. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like but at the end of the day, man,
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  Speaker 2: like you just got to flush it and and move on.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't dwell on it too long in the moment.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'll go back right now and I'll go
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  Speaker 2: watch the film and gonna you know, be critical as
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  Speaker 2: critical as possible and say, you know, can't do this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, got to be better. But in the moment, like,
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  Speaker 2: it's very very very important to just move on and
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  Speaker 2: brush it off and then yeah, going into next week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, with Dylan, man, I actually in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: two we played at Oklahoma and that was Adrian was
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  Speaker 2: still playing, so I never actually have got to play
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  Speaker 2: against Dylan, but I know him. He's a good dude, man.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I got one of my one of
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  Speaker 2: my boys from from k State's one of their safeties.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited to go out there. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a fun game. Man.
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