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BONUS: How Much Can Ohio State Fix Before The Oregon Game? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right. If you did not enjoy the other bonus show,
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  Speaker 1: we just dropped looking backwards at the USC game. I
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  Speaker 1: get it. So we're going to take a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more of a forward facing look on this episode. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this is all going to be clips from Ryan day's
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday press conference where he had a lot of interesting
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  Speaker 1: stuff to say. Here was the first question that was
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  Speaker 1: a little more pointed than you typically get for a
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  Speaker 1: Ryan day press conference in the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Has he considered making any changes to the coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that, uh, I'm against any of
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  Speaker 2: that if it's appropriate. I'm not in that frame of
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  Speaker 2: mind right now. But at the same time, I think, again,
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  Speaker 2: going back to what we were talking about before, you
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  Speaker 2: have to identify, is it the personnel? So maybe we
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  Speaker 2: need to move some guys around. I think it does
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  Speaker 2: hurt missing some guys. But I think at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, we feel like we have enough here
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  Speaker 2: to win these games. Then you look at scheme. And
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  Speaker 2: when I go back through the scheme, there are definitely
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  Speaker 2: some plays that on both sides of the ball that
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  Speaker 2: I think schematically we can do better. There are, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not an overall like issue that we're like running
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  Speaker 2: bad plays or we're running bad defense. I don't, I
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  Speaker 2: don't see that as a major problem. There's always things
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  Speaker 2: we can do better. Certainly recognize that to me, we
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  Speaker 2: have to coach it better. We've got to coach it better.
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  Speaker 2: And again, that starts right here, but then it goes
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  Speaker 2: to the coordinators and then it goes to position coaches.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, that's our job to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that we're coaching better. And, Now, the players, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they have to hold themselves accountable, too. And there's a
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  Speaker 2: certain level of accountability for these guys that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're expected to do their job at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the way that I'm approaching this week is
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  Speaker 2: that we all have to coach this better and take
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  Speaker 2: responsibility as a player. And, you know, that's the way
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  Speaker 2: that I've evaluated coming out of the USC game.
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  Speaker 1: A familiar face will be coming back to Ohio Stadium
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, Dylan Riola, who at one point was committed
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  Speaker 1: to be Ohio State's quarterback of the future. He then decommitted.
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  Speaker 1: He went to a couple other places and ended up
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  Speaker 1: actually playing for Nebraska. Then he left Nebraska. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: at Oregon. He was the backup before Dante Moore, and
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  Speaker 1: then Dante Moore got hurt, and now Dylan Riola is
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  Speaker 1: the starter for Oregon, and he will be the starter
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. So what kind of a challenge does he
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the Oregon team provide for the
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, they have as much talent as anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the country. This team is excellent. I know that
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  Speaker 2: they've lost three games, but put the film on. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they have NFL players all over the field and they
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  Speaker 2: have speed at wide out. They have a good offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: a really good tight end. The running backs run hard.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, Rayola has played a lot of
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  Speaker 2: football as an experienced quarterback. So this is a major
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  Speaker 2: challenge for us. And You saw the way that they
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  Speaker 2: played against USC, and we just lost to USC. So
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  Speaker 2: I know that maybe some of these records or whatever
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  Speaker 2: this season seem a little bit out of whack, but
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  Speaker 2: this team going into the season was predicted to be
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  Speaker 2: the national champ, and they haven't lost a whole bunch
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  Speaker 2: of players. They're really talented. They're very, very good on
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  Speaker 2: defense as well. I mean, this is as good of
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  Speaker 2: a team as we've played all year in terms of talent,
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  Speaker 2: and when they're on, they're on and, and they played
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  Speaker 2: really good last week. So, um, you know, and Dylan
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  Speaker 2: in particular, you know, he's played a lot of football
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  Speaker 2: and he has got a strong arm. He understands what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. He's an older guy. So, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about it before that, you know, the March
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  Speaker 2: for error here is tiny. And so, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: better recognize that if we don't get these things fixed
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  Speaker 2: and play better, like this is, this isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: get any better against Oregon. We, we gotta be better than, uh,
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  Speaker 2: than they are in all phases. And so, um, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the challenge for this week and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to go well if we don't get
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  Speaker 2: these things fixed like now. And so the urgency had
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  Speaker 2: better be really high for everybody, coaches and players included.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of times during the press conference on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day talked about the need for them to coach better.
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  Speaker 1: What does that look like? What does that actually change?
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  Speaker 2: No, I, again, all of a sudden you don't just
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  Speaker 2: change everything, but you have to recognize, you know, what,
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  Speaker 2: what needs to change. And when you come out of
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  Speaker 2: a game like that, um, you know, there's just a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that we need to get answered, you know,
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  Speaker 2: why these things happen. And as you can imagine, you know,
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  Speaker 2: having a freshman quarterback, there's a lot of my, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my time was with the quarterbacks and meetings and everything
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  Speaker 2: like that. So still obviously with the team, addressing the
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  Speaker 2: team meetings, addressing before the game, you know, one-off situations
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  Speaker 2: involved with all the special teams. But we need everyone
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  Speaker 2: to step up and that's the bottom line. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone needs to understand that. And so, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: the head coach, it's my job to make sure I'm
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  Speaker 2: directing exactly what the expectations are and making sure everybody's
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  Speaker 2: being held accountable. And that starts right with me. Then
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  Speaker 2: it goes to coordinators and down, right on down the
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  Speaker 2: list from everybody in the building. And that's the expectations here.
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  Speaker 2: Like we said, when we lost Julian, it didn't change. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, said it before, we're not allowed to lose games. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when that happens, you know, there's consequences. That's
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  Speaker 2: just the way it is. And if you don't like it,
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  Speaker 2: then don't come to Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio State offense has been leaning a lot on
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  Speaker 1: the tight ends this year. So what do they get
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  Speaker 1: out of that position group and are they getting what
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  Speaker 1: they need to out of the tight end room?
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  Speaker 2: The reason you change up groupings is to attack the
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  Speaker 2: defense from a couple different surfaces. So as you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you have one tight end in the game, it's
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  Speaker 2: a three-surface side, three receivers in the game. When you
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  Speaker 2: have multiple tight ends, there's ways to get to four
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  Speaker 2: surfaces or three surfaces on both sides, which changes the personnel,
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  Speaker 2: which changes the fits, changes the stress on the defense.
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  Speaker 2: So the ability to go in and out of groupings
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  Speaker 2: can really be a positive. I think the tight ends
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  Speaker 2: have been solid as a group, but we always have
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  Speaker 2: to evaluate and be real and figure out what is
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  Speaker 2: the give and take on all that. I still think
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  Speaker 2: that there's a lot of value to what we're doing
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  Speaker 2: in terms of having them in the game, but um,
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  Speaker 2: we'll keep evaluating it this week and, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: can't be, you know, slamming our head against the wall either.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another real pointed question for you. Tyler Bowen came
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  Speaker 1: in before last season and the offensive line play was
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  Speaker 1: not great. They decided to bring him back this year.
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  Speaker 1: Has that decision paid off? Has he been rewarded for
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  Speaker 1: bringing Tyler Bowen back this year?
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  Speaker 2: Something that, you know, you got to evaluate everybody and, and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's, uh, that's the thing about being at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state. You know, the expectations are very high. Um,
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that there's definitely some positive things
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  Speaker 2: that have gone on there. But when you come out
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  Speaker 2: of the last game or two, I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's just been, you know, too many mistakes there. And
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  Speaker 2: so we have to improve on that. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he would tell you that, you know, he's working as
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  Speaker 2: hard as he can to get those things fixed and
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  Speaker 2: try to figure out ways to put these guys in
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  Speaker 2: better situations and coach them better. And that's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: So we know what needs to get done. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've had too many penalties. Too many missed assignments. I
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  Speaker 2: think everybody in that room would tell you that. There's
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  Speaker 2: no guys skirting around any of that. I think he
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  Speaker 2: would tell you the same thing. He's going to get
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  Speaker 2: back to work and we all know what the expectation is.
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  Speaker 1: Do the Buckeyes actually know who their best five players
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive line are and is it too late
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  Speaker 1: to make a change there?
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  Speaker 2: You can make them. We'll see how the health shakes
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  Speaker 2: out this week and then try to put the best
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  Speaker 2: five out there because part of that at this time
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  Speaker 2: of year is that, you know, we had Phillips out,
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  Speaker 2: then we had Austin that was out. So the good
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  Speaker 2: news is we do have some versatility there. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, we've got to find the right five
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  Speaker 2: that's available this week, and that's what we're going to do. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can move some guys because they've done it before.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of these guys have experience. So this
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  Speaker 2: is not like this is new.
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  Speaker 1: The left tackle position is kind of up in the
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  Speaker 1: air for this weekend as Ian Moore is dealing with
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  Speaker 1: an injury. Our buddy Tony Gerderman asked Ryan Day to
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  Speaker 1: clarify if he is trying to still find the best
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  Speaker 1: five or just find where those five players belong when
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  Speaker 1: everyone's out there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I know where they belong for the
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  Speaker 2: most part. When we had the injury, we moved Austin
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  Speaker 2: over and moved in Gabe. And then when Austin went out,
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  Speaker 2: Phil went in. So that's sort of, you know, took
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  Speaker 2: care of itself. We'll see how this week goes. But yeah, to, to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was a point there, I think maybe
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  Speaker 2: in the Iowa week where, you know, we were, we're
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  Speaker 2: moving pretty good. And then the Indiana game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had too much, too many issues going on in the,
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  Speaker 2: in protection. I thought we, we blocked them pretty good
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  Speaker 2: in the run game against Indiana. You know, they, you know, there,
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  Speaker 2: there was some really good runs in there for the
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  Speaker 2: most part. I actually don't think that we hit some
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  Speaker 2: of the holes great going back to that game, but
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  Speaker 2: this game right here and, and, You saw the explosive runs.
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  Speaker 2: We ran for, I think, it was like 220 yards.
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  Speaker 2: I know we had some sacks and things. So it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like we weren't blocking them there. But when it
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  Speaker 2: gets down into the red zone, when we need it
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  Speaker 2: the most, and then in protection, to me, is where
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  Speaker 2: things have broken down. And so that's where we've got
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  Speaker 2: to be better. And the only way to do that
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  Speaker 2: is get back to work. So it's not completely broken here.
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  Speaker 2: It's just we've got to coach it better, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the way that I'm looking at it.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes committed 11 penalties in that game and a
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  Speaker 1: ton of mistakes on top of that as well. Does
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  Speaker 1: he feel like they're close to being a really good
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  Speaker 1: football team right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would, I would have said going into the game,
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  Speaker 2: I thought we were very close. I didn't come out
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  Speaker 2: of the game feeling that way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just being dead honest. Yeah. The penalties, you know, are
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous and the mistakes are ridiculous. So ultimately, you know, that,
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  Speaker 2: that leads me to believe that we're not where we
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  Speaker 2: need to be. So we've got an opportunity here against
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  Speaker 2: Oregon now to go turn that around. I think now
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  Speaker 2: is just, you know, two hours away from our Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: meeting and we better get those things fixed. But if
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  Speaker 2: we're going to let that stuff linger around in here,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to affect our game against Oregon. And so
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  Speaker 2: I know we're debriefing here on last week's game, but
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  Speaker 2: like everybody in the winning needs to come in here,
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  Speaker 2: learn the lessons from getting on the film Sunday, getting
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  Speaker 2: on the film a little bit yesterday, but it's on
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  Speaker 2: to Oregon. And so we got to get those things
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  Speaker 2: fixed and feel the urgency of that because this is
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  Speaker 2: a very, very good team. And so now we got
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  Speaker 2: these guys at home and I think, um, you know, we,
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  Speaker 2: we have to have, um, you know, a great approach
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  Speaker 2: going into this week. And I think, you know, having
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  Speaker 2: the home crowd behind us is a big deal in
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  Speaker 2: this game. Having, um, you know, that type of environment,
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  Speaker 2: one of the hostile environments, um, you know, that, that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Ohio state's known for, you know, when these
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  Speaker 2: guys come in here, because, um, we need everybody. When
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  Speaker 2: I talk about we need everybody to rally around the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: that means the fans. We have the greatest fans in
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  Speaker 2: the world. We need to give them something to cheer for,
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  Speaker 2: but we need them to be there for us. I
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  Speaker 2: think all of that stuff needs to be the focus
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  Speaker 2: now because we can't sit here and dwell on what's
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  Speaker 2: gone in the past. We better learn from it pretty
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  Speaker 2: damn quick, though.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Fahey is going to make his second career start
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. Ryan Day said he was definitely going to
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  Speaker 1: be the starter against Oregon. So into your second career start,
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  Speaker 1: now playing in front of a home crowd, is there
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  Speaker 1: room to ask Luke Fahey to do more this week?
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  Speaker 2: That's the balance. That's the balance of trying to be aggressive,
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  Speaker 2: trying to give him enough that he can handle where
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  Speaker 2: we know that he doesn't have a lot of experience
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  Speaker 2: playing in these games and playing against a very good team.
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  Speaker 2: But also, we can't crawl up into a ball. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to go attack. And so I do think in
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  Speaker 2: that game, we did. There were a lot of opportunities there.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're going to have to be the same
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  Speaker 2: way in this game. But that is the balance you
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  Speaker 2: try to strike as a coach when he's going into
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  Speaker 2: a second start ever.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: much more content coming for you this week because there
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  Speaker 1: is a lot to talk about. We're still looking back
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  Speaker 1: a little bit at that USC game, have some scheme
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  Speaker 1: coverage for you from our scheme insiders. If you've not
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  Speaker 1: or on the front page at BuckeyeInsiders.com. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of stuff coming this weekend as well.
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  Speaker 1: And in the lead up to the Oregon game, still
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  Speaker 1: a very, very consequential game for Ohio State as they
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  Speaker 1: try to position themselves for a college football playoff berth.
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  Speaker 1: The Oregon Ducks just trying to maybe keep hope alive
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  Speaker 1: if they can run the table and maybe sneak into
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff themselves. But a lot on the
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