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Is A Shakeup Coming On The Buckeyes' Offensive Line? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeye Tomorrow morning for Thursday, December twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: very merry Christmas to all of you. I got you
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  Speaker 1: a Ryan Day press conference. Hope that's what you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for this year. We're going to start with some of
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day's thoughts on one of the big stories of
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  Speaker 1: the week, and that was the fact that Tager Shabola
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  Speaker 1: is going to be out right guard for the at
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  Speaker 1: least for the first game, potentially longer than that. Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day kept the timeline a little vague, as you are
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  Speaker 1: going to hear in a minute, but with Taker Shabola
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  Speaker 1: out for the Cotton Bowl game against Miami means potentially
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Van Sickle or Josh Bidia, one of them, are
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  Speaker 1: he going to be the starting right guard for the
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  Speaker 1: first time this season. So all right, let's talk specifically
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  Speaker 1: about Gabe Van Sickle. He has certainly earned a bigger
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  Speaker 1: role this season. So what has he done and is
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  Speaker 1: he going to be the one who is starting in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs? And then you will hear a quick follow
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  Speaker 1: up from Dave Biddle of Buck Knots about the health
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  Speaker 1: status Takershible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it starts in practice and you know, gaining trust
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  Speaker 2: with you know, with you with your coaches and with
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  Speaker 2: your with your teammates. And he's done that and you know,
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  Speaker 2: has shown in games what he can do, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know he and Josh will continue to roll right now.
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  Speaker 2: But we feel confident with both of those guys in
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  Speaker 2: the game. They've they've shown some really good things and
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  Speaker 2: you know, gave it a good job. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: went in there, you know in some of these recent games.
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  Speaker 2: So you know that's that's been good for us, you
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  Speaker 2: know in terms of the depth. But you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that position is going to be important, you know as
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  Speaker 2: we go into these playoffs where you know, Tiger had
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  Speaker 2: been in there most of the season, so you know
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  Speaker 2: that this week of practice will be very important for
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  Speaker 2: those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Is he out for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're going to take it, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: it goes, but you know, probably be a little while, maybe,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at least, you know, a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, one of the other big storylines this month has
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  Speaker 1: been the fact that Ohio State offensive coordinator Brian Hartline
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  Speaker 1: is departing to take the head coaching job with the
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  Speaker 1: South Florida Bowls. Now Heartline is still going to stay
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  Speaker 1: with the team throughout the playoff run, however, his role
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  Speaker 1: is going to be changing a little bit. So Brian
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  Speaker 1: day sort of outlines the plan for the offensive play
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  Speaker 1: calling in the Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: You know, first off, you know, we just really happy
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  Speaker 2: for for Brian and the opportunity that he's getting. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's such a strange calendar, and the timing is is brutal,
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  Speaker 2: and but you know he's handled it great as you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine. And and so you know, right now, as
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  Speaker 2: we move forward, he's coaching the receivers. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot on his plate. It's a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to manage. So we're kind of taking it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: day to day right now, just in terms of as
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  Speaker 2: we move forward going into the game, you know, it'll
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  Speaker 2: be a group effort. You know, Keenan will be very
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  Speaker 2: much involved, everybody will be involved with the play calling.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately will be my decision. You know, what calls go
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  Speaker 2: into the game, and in this game, you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of wanted to take that off of Brian's plate as
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  Speaker 2: as we head in the playoffs because he's got so
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  Speaker 2: much going on with what he's trying to do. But
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  Speaker 2: but he's he's working hard towards it and we're just
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  Speaker 2: going to keep evaluating it every day to see what's
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  Speaker 2: best for the group.
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  Speaker 1: Two years ago, while we were at the Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 1: and Eli Drinkwitz, the Missouri head coach, was at a
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  Speaker 1: press conference sitting about five feet away from Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: and talked about how great it was that he had
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  Speaker 1: decided to give up calling plays. Drinkwotz had done that
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the year and how beneficial that was, and
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  Speaker 1: Day sat there and listened to it, and then after
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  Speaker 1: that ended up bringing in Chip Kelly and giving up
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  Speaker 1: playing calling plays and has talked about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: has allowed him to do some other stuff. So now
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  Speaker 1: that he's going back to being the one who is
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  Speaker 1: going to be calling the plays during the game. Is
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  Speaker 1: that at any kind of a concern to.
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  Speaker 2: Him, No, not at all, you know, I do think
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes the best setting is, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you're up in the box and you have everything organized,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as opposed to being down on the field.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, done it before and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have a great group of guys here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: between Keenan and Billie and Tyler Locke, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is a great group of guys and everybody else that's
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  Speaker 2: part of it. So you know, we're going to work
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  Speaker 2: hard putting his game plan together. Today's a big practice
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  Speaker 2: for us as we move forward, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: our job to put the guys in the best position
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  Speaker 2: to be successful. So as you know, a big part
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  Speaker 2: of it is the organization and making sure the game
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  Speaker 2: plans right and what we're doing, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: the play calling will organize and make sure it's efficient.
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  Speaker 1: Randa his obviously called plays at Ohio State before. But
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  Speaker 1: is it still going to be a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an adjustment in terms of his game day routine to
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  Speaker 1: going back to calling those plays.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm involved with most of what goes
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  Speaker 2: on anyway, so we'll be good. We have good guys,
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  Speaker 2: and it'll be a group effort, but now it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think you know players would tell you that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're all involved with it anyways, so a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the decisions have been made before it even happens. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's part of play calling, is making sure
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  Speaker 2: you're organized so that you know when you get into situations,
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  Speaker 2: we already know what the call is, and when you're
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  Speaker 2: at your best, the players already what the call is
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  Speaker 2: before it even happens, so you know, we'll make sure
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  Speaker 2: we're organized and make sure again like it's really really efficient.
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  Speaker 1: The Miami Hurricanes earned their spot in the Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 1: by knocking off Texas A and M three in the
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  Speaker 1: first round of the College Football Playoff. Not exactly the
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful game in the history of the sport, but
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  Speaker 1: a win is a win, and the Hurricanes moved on.
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  Speaker 1: So what were Brian Day's impressions of that game.
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  Speaker 2: Leading up to it. We knew that both teams are
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  Speaker 2: very good. We knew it was going to be a battle,
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  Speaker 2: and that's exactly what it was. I know that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the win played into it, So there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you know, things in the game. You know that
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  Speaker 2: that led to the way it played out. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is a really talented team. I mean really talented.
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  Speaker 2: They got players all over the field, and so I
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  Speaker 2: think our guys knew that. I think they knew that
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  Speaker 2: both teams playing, we're good teams. But but once you know,
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  Speaker 2: once you get done with the game, you finally know
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  Speaker 2: you're playing, so that you know, you kind of get
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  Speaker 2: you know, focused and targeted, and you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of carryover. Some of the guys on our team
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  Speaker 2: know they guy you know, the guys on their team
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  Speaker 2: and grew up around them, so they're excited. There was
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  Speaker 2: just an energy yesterday in the building as we got
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  Speaker 2: to work, and so these guys are excited to get
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  Speaker 2: back in here today for practice.
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  Speaker 1: This time last year, Ohio State was rolling into the
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  Speaker 1: College Football Playoff coming off of a loss. That loss
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  Speaker 1: was a thirteen to ten loss to Michigan that really
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  Speaker 1: forced the Buckeyes to do some soul searching, make some
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  Speaker 1: hard decisions, and probably give them a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an edge in terms of a little bit of anger.
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  Speaker 1: Well this year, great, great news. They are coming off
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  Speaker 1: of a thirteen ten loss, this time to the Indiana Hoosier.
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  Speaker 1: So does that potentially give the team a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of an edge going into this playoffs? And can you
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  Speaker 1: keep that edge, that anger over the span of a
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  Speaker 1: three week.
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  Speaker 2: Wait when you have you know this, this this layoff
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  Speaker 2: in between the regular season and the first game, you
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  Speaker 2: have to identify a lot of different things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: first off, coming off the season, you have your self scull,
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  Speaker 2: you have different things you want you want to look at.
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  Speaker 2: But then also, like you said, keeping your edge and
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  Speaker 2: you know you have to sit on that loss for
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  Speaker 2: a while, and that's that's not fun, but it does
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  Speaker 2: wake us up early in the morning and keep us
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  Speaker 2: here late at night and making sure that we're doing
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  Speaker 2: everything we can because you know, the issues are always there,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, against good opponents, you know they get
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  Speaker 2: brought to the forefront. So those are the things we
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  Speaker 2: have to get fixed and addressed. And you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: been you know, really good practices here, spirited practices, and
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  Speaker 2: these guys are excited to get back on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in the week, Jeremiah Smith talked about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he was really banged up even entering the Michigan game.
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  Speaker 1: He was still coming back from that injury was far
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  Speaker 1: from one hundred percent. Now sounds like he's much closer
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred percent, if not fully one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: So how big is that for the Ohio State offense?
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  Speaker 2: If people really knew, you know, leading up to that game,
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  Speaker 2: what he went through to get himself healthy to play
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  Speaker 2: in that game and then play the way he did
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  Speaker 2: without really practicing much that week, you'd be amazed, I
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  Speaker 2: mean and somewhere with Carnell. And so it's great to
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  Speaker 2: have these guys healthy again and practicing. And a big
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  Speaker 2: part of the rhythm too, is the practicing and the
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  Speaker 2: confidence and the timing of everything that goes with the
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  Speaker 2: passing game. And so having these guys out there on
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  Speaker 2: the field for practice is building everybody's confidence and you
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  Speaker 2: can see it, and that's going to be important here
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  Speaker 2: as we it up to this game.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, speaking of storylines that have been pretty pervasive
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  Speaker 1: around Columbus over the life month or so, Buck guys
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  Speaker 1: have had some struggles in the red zone a bunch
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  Speaker 1: this season. It really came home to roost in that
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten championship game against Indiana. So after Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to sit down and watch the film
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  Speaker 1: what are some of his takeaways from there's red zone
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  Speaker 1: struggles in recent games and particularly against the Hoosiers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as we all know, you know, that's what
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  Speaker 2: it comes down to in these big games, is the situations.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we didn't do a good enough job
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  Speaker 2: on third down in the red zone, and you certainly,
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  Speaker 2: you know you combine short yardage and the red zone
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  Speaker 2: the same spots just wasn't well done. So we gotta
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  Speaker 2: we gotta do a better job down there. And certainly
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  Speaker 2: it's our job to make sure that we have the
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  Speaker 2: right guys in a situation to be successful, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: the right you know, the right calls, the right schemes,
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  Speaker 2: the right groupings like whatever it might be, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's everybody involved with it. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll keep working to make sure that we do a
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  Speaker 2: good job of you know, scoring touchdowns we get down there,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, our guys understand how important that is,
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  Speaker 2: and so we've spent some extra time down there obviously
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  Speaker 2: during during our practices already. And it's the same thing
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  Speaker 2: on defense, you know, when they get down there, we
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  Speaker 2: got to win those those battles, you know, But that's
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  Speaker 2: that's playing, and you know when you look at you
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  Speaker 2: know the teams, even who played this past week. The
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  Speaker 2: teams will score touchdowns and get down there typically win.
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  Speaker 2: The ones who don't or you know, don't get any
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  Speaker 2: points typically put themselves at risk. So it's a tough
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  Speaker 2: lesson to learn, but certainly one that we're going to get. Well.
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