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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Matt Patricia Confused Arch Manning And Texas · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, September fourth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Moore. The Grambling game is in two days,
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  Speaker 1: all due respect to Grambling, got to talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about that Texas game. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing that today with our buddy Ross Fulton, the ex'es
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  Speaker 1: the week to talk about the Ohio State offense and
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  Speaker 1: how they performed in the fourteen to seven win over Texas,
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  Speaker 1: now we get a chance to talk about the defense,
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  Speaker 1: and man, there was a lot to like about the defense,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a lot of new stuff to like
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  Speaker 1: about the Ohio State defense. They got pretty creative in
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  Speaker 1: holding Archmanning in Texas to just seven points.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think at a high level, right,
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  Speaker 2: the first thing we're looking at is there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talk this offseason, including from US, as to how
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  Speaker 2: much continuity there would be with from what Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 2: has done. I know that we talked about Ryan Day
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  Speaker 2: kind of analogized to Nick Stavens experience with the offense
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  Speaker 2: and his last few years at Alabama and you know,
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  Speaker 2: having different coordinators but keeping the same bones or structure
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  Speaker 2: in place. And I would say, while there's some continuity,
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  Speaker 2: I would say there is a lot more difference than
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  Speaker 2: maybe many expected, particularly upfront.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna look at a couple of those now.
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  Speaker 2: I will say there's tons of great stuff out there
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  Speaker 2: about the i A defense versus Texas that I highly recommend,
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  Speaker 2: like if you want to really get into the nady gritty,
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  Speaker 2: particularly in these fronts, you know, from Cody Alexander, Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Mayins at Bolman Act, our own Michael Pettitt on Buckeye Huddle.
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  Speaker 2: But so you know, I'll touch on them at a
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  Speaker 2: high level. But I think you know, there's two fronts
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  Speaker 2: that stood out, and the first one is you know
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  Speaker 2: what you'd call You could call it a rush front
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  Speaker 2: or double three technique or lag front. Basically, the concept
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  Speaker 2: though is I have a both defensive tackle circle. They
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  Speaker 2: are both in three techniques, which means that they are
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  Speaker 2: lined up, both of them between the guard and the tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Usually like when Ohio States played their traditional overfront, and
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  Speaker 2: you could see that probably a little bit better from
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  Speaker 2: the back angle. The nose guard would be in the
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  Speaker 2: one technique, so he would be between the garden and
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  Speaker 2: the center. That's more of like a traditional overfront with
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  Speaker 2: the three technique as the name describes, and the three
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  Speaker 2: technique right, but so here you have them both and
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of see on the clip sunny styles
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  Speaker 2: are sort of directing traffic and telling you know, Kate
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  Speaker 2: McDonald which way to move at the snap. But the
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  Speaker 2: concept is like it's effective against zone runs and it
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  Speaker 2: has some things in common with the off front. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about because you know, zone runs
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  Speaker 2: really try to hit those gaps for the offense or
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  Speaker 2: you know, between the guard and the center, so you
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  Speaker 2: can sort of get away with the lagging and that
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  Speaker 2: the eventsive tackles can kind of control a gap and
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  Speaker 2: a half and push towards the football like you can
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  Speaker 2: see Kay McDonald do here, and let the linebackers flow
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  Speaker 2: over the top.
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  Speaker 3: So this is one, as I said, that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, sort of you know a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a variation on the four down front.
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  Speaker 3: That they've done.
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  Speaker 2: But I think and they you know, according to Tyler
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  Speaker 2: manswurd Baumanack, I think they ran this about you know,
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  Speaker 2: like twenty five percent of the time, give or take.
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  Speaker 3: So definitely was not just like a bit thing.
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  Speaker 2: It was a you know, a sizeable part of the
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  Speaker 2: scheme against Texas. But I do think the next front,
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  Speaker 2: the Penny Front, is much more of a sizeable change
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  Speaker 2: and had a much more noticeable impact on the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Penny Front will obviously get right into that,
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  Speaker 1: but this is one where we saw r Vel rees
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  Speaker 1: playing all over the place. Tony Gerderman had a really
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  Speaker 1: fun chart on the Buckeye huddle board with all the
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  Speaker 1: different places that r Vel Reese lined up. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of those places he was kind of like outside
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  Speaker 1: the left tackle and it's just like, oh boy, he
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  Speaker 1: can do some crazy stuff from over there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll touch on sort of the scheme concept
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  Speaker 2: and then talk about it like sort of how it
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  Speaker 2: fits the personnel as well.
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  Speaker 3: But like you know, I do think back to your question.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in addition to.
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  Speaker 2: Reees, I thought both defensive tackles were really influential in
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  Speaker 2: this game.
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  Speaker 3: They control the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: They really steal made it even beat Texas's guards pretty frequently,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, when Texas would block down they similar
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  Speaker 2: to what Texas I showed against Ohio States offense, Like
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  Speaker 2: the defensive tackles really did a nice job flowing over
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  Speaker 2: the top and sort of.
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  Speaker 3: Matching that offensive line movement.
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  Speaker 2: Then came McDonald had eight tackles, which is a really
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  Speaker 2: high number for a nose tackle. So but this Penny front, right,
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  Speaker 2: So this is like when we talked about Matt Patricia,
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  Speaker 2: Like the Patriots were traditionally a three to four team
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  Speaker 2: under Bill Belichick. An odd front, right, so that the
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  Speaker 2: most noticeable thing about an on front is you have
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  Speaker 2: a head up news guard rader for the center. The
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  Speaker 2: Penny front is sort of of the spread airrors. Answer,
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  Speaker 2: uh to stay to the equivalent to a four two
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  Speaker 2: five right for the three four, So you know the
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  Speaker 2: traditional three four or five two. Even before that you
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  Speaker 2: have three downlinemen. You have the two outside linebackers and
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  Speaker 2: the two inside linebackers. The penny is a way to
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  Speaker 2: still get those like five guys up on the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage, but keep a nickel in the game. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So now you're playing a five to one basically up front,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's called a penny because you just have
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  Speaker 2: the one linebacker, so penny. And then but so you
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  Speaker 2: get that same like odd look. Right, so you got
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  Speaker 2: as I said, a head up nigan see from behind
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  Speaker 2: the line scrimmage ahead up nose guard.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then just like that the uh double three techniques
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  Speaker 2: I showed, you've got two three techniques or even pushing
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  Speaker 2: towards four eyes.
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  Speaker 3: So again like over the garden center.
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  Speaker 2: So the same concept of this is really tough against
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  Speaker 2: zone for zone blocking teams, right because like we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about bear fronts in the past, again, this is sort
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  Speaker 2: of also picks up on that right where you can't
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  Speaker 2: get double teams on there. Each the center and guards
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  Speaker 2: are each manned up. As Cody Alexander talks about a
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  Speaker 2: lot and getting back to Arvill Reeves, like one of
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  Speaker 2: the benefits from Ohio State beyond it, Like this is
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  Speaker 2: sort of Matt Patricia's DNA is an odd front guy
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  Speaker 2: right coming through. But Arvo reese Is gives you a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things you can do with him and his
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  Speaker 2: skill set. So as you talked about here, he basically
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  Speaker 2: is an outside linebacker in this set, right, He's sort
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  Speaker 2: of like a Sam outside. He can he can rush,
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  Speaker 2: he can drop it coverage, he can control the tight
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  Speaker 2: end as you see here, like he's really effective coming
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  Speaker 2: down here hill taking on the counter block. Like gap
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  Speaker 2: runs in theory are really good against penny fronts. There
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  Speaker 2: is a back and forth on X between Cody Alexander
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  Speaker 2: and Chris Brown about how you know Belichick in North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina on Monday night ran a bunch of penny fronts
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  Speaker 2: and TCU gashed him with with gap plays. Texas tried
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of gap plays against our state. They weren't really effective.
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  Speaker 2: And part of that are you know, it's the success
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  Speaker 2: but not obviously to the level of causing significant issues.
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  Speaker 2: And part of that's just because how well High of
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  Speaker 2: State defended them from these looks.
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  Speaker 3: And part of that's attribute three.
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  Speaker 2: Part of that to the defensive tackles, and so Cody
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  Speaker 2: diagrams again, So I highly recommend the article I can
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  Speaker 2: put in the buck. I had a link the different ways.
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  Speaker 2: Also within the penny front, they lined up Reefs so
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  Speaker 2: like here you see him to the away from the
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  Speaker 2: tight end right sometimes and to the nickel side. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: he would be away from the nickel, which is like
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  Speaker 2: the traditional penny you bring your linebacker down away from
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  Speaker 2: the nickel and play to that side. And so they could.
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  Speaker 2: So Patricia was showing like a lot of versatility. They
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  Speaker 2: moved Reese around a bunch of this.
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  Speaker 3: You know. They also showed different looks.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they're be you know, five out, two guys standing up,
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  Speaker 2: four down, one standing up.
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  Speaker 3: So they're different variations within it. But I think just
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  Speaker 3: from a.
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  Speaker 2: Big a big picture perspective, like you know, again, according
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  Speaker 2: to Tyler Mains, they ran this thirty five percent at
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  Speaker 2: a time, like that's a big chime. That was the
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  Speaker 2: number one front they used against Texas. So teams will
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  Speaker 2: obviously have a chance to prepare for it going forward,
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  Speaker 2: but I would expect to continue to be a sizeable
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  Speaker 2: portion of what Ohio State does, which is a big
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  Speaker 2: shift from since I've been watching high state football.
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  Speaker 3: Leagus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely a real change to the defensive fronts and
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  Speaker 1: so the approach there and they ran so many different
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  Speaker 1: things that you know, now one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I think most people had never heard of a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: and now everyone's going, ah, yes, the coffee house play. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so that's gonna be the next one we get.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you talked about the different places they
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  Speaker 1: could line up r VL Reese and he could drop
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  Speaker 1: into coverage and he could rush. And this is one
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  Speaker 1: where he looks like he's going to drop into coverage
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  Speaker 1: and the blocker goes, okay, we'll move on with life,
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  Speaker 1: and then then he's suddenly passed rushing and it just
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  Speaker 1: felt like they were creating all sorts of confusion for
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  Speaker 1: the blocking assignments for Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we started with the front and now we
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  Speaker 2: can kind of move into how the greater defense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: back to the penny before I forget. Like one thing
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  Speaker 2: you saw with that is that they could use different
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  Speaker 2: coverages with it. It wasn't just like one coverage, right,
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  Speaker 2: they played cover three, They played some cover two. They
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  Speaker 2: could you know, bring reecee and drop the weak side
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  Speaker 2: defensive end, like you know, they mostly use four man
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  Speaker 2: rushes there, wasn't a lot of five or more coming
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  Speaker 2: as like a lot of sim pressures or you know,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about simulator pressures.
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  Speaker 3: You show pressure, you only end up bringing four.
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  Speaker 2: But the offensive line doesn't know prestaff necessarily where it's
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  Speaker 2: coming from. And so Ohio state what the other thing
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  Speaker 2: though they did in the secondary, I would not say that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like in Ryan Day talked about this on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like there's like a bunch of new coverages, right.
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  Speaker 3: They don't.
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  Speaker 2: They're not reinventing the wheel there. Again, like going back
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  Speaker 2: to Tyler, Maine's a bull in the knack for his
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  Speaker 2: like estament. You know, they played primarily Cover three I
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  Speaker 2: think he said fifty five percent of the time, so
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  Speaker 2: you have principally middle of the field closed cover three concepts.
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  Speaker 2: They mix that with like Cover two two and Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: let's just like combine those together another thirty percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time, so you don't know you're gonna get middle
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  Speaker 2: of the field closed. And the first thing right like
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  Speaker 2: they're mixing Cover one was eight percent, So that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot less than they played under Gymnals right where we
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  Speaker 2: talked about that was more like thirty someven percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time they played cover one. I would say there
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  Speaker 2: was more cover one on the last two drives. But
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that they really did well was disguised
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  Speaker 2: and so like here's here's our first example of it. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So again, like they had this three two six look
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  Speaker 2: on passing downs again an off front. They bring in
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  Speaker 2: Devin Stanchez is the sixth defensive back they bumped and
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  Speaker 2: he played corner. Actually they bumped your Maine Matthews in
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  Speaker 2: as a second NA ball and so here you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got everyone again up on the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 2: showing pressure Kale Downs at the snap, they dropped the
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  Speaker 2: entire left side of the offensive line if you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at it from the all twenty two or defensive line,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, and secondary players back and they run what's
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  Speaker 2: called a non traditional Tampa. So by that we just
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  Speaker 2: mean they run in like the Tampa principle where like
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  Speaker 2: Kaleb Downs to the deep pole runner, but you just
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  Speaker 2: have different guys in different spots as opposed to it,
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  Speaker 2: because you're bringing a corner blitz, right, So the other
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  Speaker 2: stafe Jalen McClain's rotating down as the flat defender to
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  Speaker 2: the boundary you've got you know, the defensive end on
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  Speaker 2: the top side playing the curl flats down, So you're
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  Speaker 2: putting people in different spaces. And then that's one thing
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  Speaker 2: like you could see a lot of Matt Patricia trusting
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  Speaker 2: guys to be able to do different roles. And then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you talk about the coffeehouse particular, right, and so
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  Speaker 2: you can see that a lot from the behind the
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  Speaker 2: end zone. So you're bringing arvroll Reese is essentially baking
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  Speaker 2: like he's dropping in the coverage like I'm doing a
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  Speaker 2: sim pressure, I'm sitting back, and then he brings pressure.
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  Speaker 2: So you like, have you have Kenyana Jackson attack the guard,
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  Speaker 2: try to take that and make the tackle come in,
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  Speaker 2: have the corner coming off the edge, and then you
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  Speaker 2: you insert Rville Reees.
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  Speaker 3: Right at the at the offensive tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Uh it's and that creates in fact, Ohigh States actually
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  Speaker 2: they're only sacked the game. As I said, like Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State was not bringing a lot of pressure, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of four man rushes, and like as Day talked about,
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  Speaker 2: they were trying to contain rush to keep arch Manning
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  Speaker 2: in the pocket since he's an effective runner. But you
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  Speaker 2: this is sort of ways that within that four rushes.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, they were changing up where it was
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  Speaker 2: coming from, how they were bringing pressure, to try to
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  Speaker 2: generate pressure without bringing more bodies.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now we're going to take a look more
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  Speaker 1: on the back end of the defense, because it felt
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  Speaker 1: like they had him just constantly confused. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is someone who is literally Amanning, He's grown up with
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  Speaker 1: multiple NFL Hall of Famers in his family. This is
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  Speaker 1: someone who you would think would be pretty difficult to
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  Speaker 1: confuse with stuff, and it just it just looked like
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  Speaker 1: he was on his heels the whole game with some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff they were doing downfield.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Again, so like you know, basically the coverages are similar
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  Speaker 2: to what they've done in the past obviously, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you know, the most you can say is
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  Speaker 2: they mixed in like first trips, they did a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of like Cover seven pattern matching stuff we talked
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  Speaker 2: about Nick Saban to like you know, get three over
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  Speaker 2: two on certain receivers, but like mostly Cover three it's
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  Speaker 2: Cover two. But they disguised it really well, and so
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  Speaker 2: you're putting a lot of bonus on your back seven
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  Speaker 2: defenders to a be able to come from different spots
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  Speaker 2: to their responsibilities and be to trade off responsibilities. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's pretty impressive how effective they were doing that.
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  Speaker 2: You're trading obviously like disguise for soundness at some level,
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  Speaker 2: but there weren't like a lot of execution problems.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, so here right, your McLean's up as.
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  Speaker 2: Like what you maybe call like a wide nine, Like
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  Speaker 2: he's outside where the tight end would be at the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage, but at the snap he bails and
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  Speaker 2: goes to the deep third. And so then you're bringing
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  Speaker 2: Caleb downs off a field pressure to the edge. So
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  Speaker 2: like at the snap to arch Manning or to most quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: this looks like cover zero probably right of no deep safety,
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  Speaker 2: everyone sort of inching towards the line, but at the
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  Speaker 2: snap they bail out to cover three. So again you're
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  Speaker 2: just really changing the picture a lot for a young quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and it just it's a lot more disguised than in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, on high State has used in past years
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  Speaker 2: where it was easier to tell pre snap what you're
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  Speaker 2: going to get post snap.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I got another one now, and this is
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  Speaker 1: one where I mean you could tell just based on
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  Speaker 1: the result of the play. This was either just a
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  Speaker 1: prayer or he was real confused where he was throwing,
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  Speaker 1: because this is the one where he throws downfield. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't throw downfield much.
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  Speaker 3: They threw it.
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  Speaker 1: They took a shot down field here, but this was
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  Speaker 1: downfield into really tight double coverage. Not probably one that
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  Speaker 1: he's going to enjoy watching in the film room this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so again like we did also see some
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  Speaker 2: of this three high from Higher State. Again, so picking
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  Speaker 2: up on what Jim Knowles was doing in the second
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  Speaker 2: half of last year and particularly in the playoffs with
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Downs in that sort of middle safety role where
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  Speaker 2: he's closer to the line of scrimmage. And they did
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  Speaker 2: run like the basic coverage from that is Tampa two right,
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  Speaker 2: because they're in those positions. But again there's like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of disguise within this. So and they're running this
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  Speaker 2: from the penny look right, so again like they can
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  Speaker 2: run all their coverages from that. So you get at
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  Speaker 2: the staff, you're again to a young quarterback. You're seeing Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: The way Ohio State even reacts to the motion at
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  Speaker 2: the top of the screen, it looks like, man, that
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  Speaker 2: was the other thing they did that Tricia has them
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  Speaker 2: doing really well, is like use a lot of offenses,
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  Speaker 2: use motion to try to help a young a quarterback.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Note whether it's manner zone right, and Ohio State's not
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: giving that away. They're like they're trailing receivers like they're
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: in man all the time, even if it's down.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: And we'll see that again. But so you're showing Tampa too.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: But here you drop down and they play again a
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: cover three buzz out of Tampa and so you see,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: you know again with the penny you can bring either
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: edge player. So here res drops back to the flat
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: and so again just changing the picture, changing disguise, which
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: is putting a lot a lot of trust in the
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Ohio State Secondary again to handle like varying responsibilities and assignments.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: But they're they're blessed with a really talented, pretty veteran
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: even though some guys there's you know, varying levels of starting,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: but like guys like Jermaine Matthews and Lorenzo Styles got
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: like sizewelve minutes last year and there they're pretty veteran
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: guys at this point. And obviously of Caleb Downs, which
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: you know you can count on him to do a
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: lot of things. But so you know, they went from
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: this play they bran to showing that three high to
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Tampa to cover three. The next play they showed it
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: and brought downs on a blitz. So you can really
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: you know, again just changing the picture, changing the looks,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: making it really difficult on opposing quarterbacks.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: All right, And this last one, it's it's one I
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: feel like I need to describe. These are the people
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: that are listening on the podcast. This is the one
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: where he's kind of running around. Mark Manning is kind
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: of running around and can't find anyone and ends up
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: kind of doing that like Patrick Mahomes kind of like
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: shovel flip thing to a running back for not much
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: of a game. So if you're just listening and you're
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: wondering which play are they talking about, that's the play
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: we're talking about it.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I again, I just want to grab this
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: one to like emphasize people how much they're putting on
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the defensive backs and how difficult they're making it on
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: arch Maanning and presumably imposing quarterbacks going forward. So like again,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: this is like a total man look, right, so you
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: have if you could see it, like they're matched up
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: where the corners are over the wide receiver, so you
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: have Davidson Iguanosen in the slot because Ryan Wingo is
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the inside slot receiver. To the off top of the screen.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: You have Caleb Downs as basically like the boundary corner
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: because that's a tight end down there. And then you're
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: you're having Jermaine Matthews follow this motion and you have
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: one deep stafty so everything is telling the quarterback this
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: is cover one man. But then at the snap they
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: play cover two and so they all again you're just
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: like train of responsibility.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: So here you have your corner.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: David Son Abianosen as the middle of the field safety
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: cover two player, which is like, you know, the spot
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: that Caleb Downs is normally it, and you have Caleb
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Downs as the curl flat player to the bottom of
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the screen. So again you're just like they're just giving
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: a lot. It's a lot more variety, using the same coverages,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: but just like making the pre snap picture very muddy,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: and again just putting a lot on the secondary to execute,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: which they did well, like I would. You know, obviously
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Texas had a little bit more success throwing the football
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: late in the game. I think that, you know, especially
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: like as Honesty was protecting the lead. They use more
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: and more thats dime look, and I think Texas started
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: going after Devin Sanchez, who's obviously a true freshman playing
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: his first time, and so you know, Ohio State started
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: mixing a little bit more man so again, like not perfect,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: but I just think that this shows like how much
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: for first game in particularly, like how much they've installed,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: how much flexibility they have and having different guys in
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the secondary would be able to execute in different spots.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: And then you mix that with as we talked about,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: like what they can do up front and arvale Reese's versatility,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: it gives them a lot of pieces to move around.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of people asking, you know, okay,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you caught Texas off guard in game one. You you know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: obviously they had no idea really what to expect, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: they came out and it was probably not what they
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: were expecting to see from an Ohio State team that
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: had not done a lot of this stuff in the past.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I think the question that a lot of people are
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: been asking is, Okay, that was great for week one,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you caught them off guard. Now the film's out there,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: so how difficult is it to continue to iterate off
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: of this stuff and have an answer in week four
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: at Washington and then Week nine against Penn State, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: then against you know, week fourteen against Michigan and the
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: College Football Playoff. Is this one of these things where
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the secret's out and now it's going to be a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: lot harder to really confuse people or is this something
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that you can kind of just continue to mix and
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: match and sort of iterate on itself.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And so the front obviously that film's going to be
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: out there and that it certainly I'm sure benefited them.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, on the one hand, I
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: say never on a Penny front. On the other hand,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: you know, you're preparing all off season. It is Matt Patricia.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: He's a Belichick guy. Like it's not crazy to think
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: he might throw some od friends at you. And like Penny,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: different's not a new thing. They have the iPads on
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the sideline so they can adjust on the fly. That
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't make it not as easy as wrapping things on
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: a Tuesday and Wednesday and practice, but definitely definitely a benefit.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: But that said, like there's a lot more ries they
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: could do out of these looks too. As I said,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: like they didn't bring a ton of pressure. They didn't
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: bring it like five man zone blitzes a lot. It
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: was mostly four man sim pressures. There's a lot of
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Cover three. They obviously have more things in the bag,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: and you know, the disguise of the disguise, right like
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you're still gonna have college quarterbacks. They're just it's still
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: gonna make it so that they have to process a
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: lot more post snap because the pre snap reads are
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: not going to give away necessarily whether you're getting man
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: in zone, whether you're getting covered two or cover three,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: where the pressure is coming from. So it just puts
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: as long as I was taking continue to execute, being
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: able to putting these different spots in the back end,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: you know, they have a lot of opportunities. And obviously,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: like you know, beyond that, like the talent of the
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: back seven is just really high end. I mean Trumaine Matthews,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Jalen McLain, like all those guys have had varying degrees
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: of playing time, but just a hot lot of high
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: level players in the back seven.
• 21:24
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