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Ohio State vs Notre Dame: Chip Kelly Against The Fighting Irish Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes Tomorrow morning for Wednesday, January fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host Tom Moore. The National Championship game against
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame in four days, the game against Michigan in
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and seventeen days. Get a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Chip Kelly and Jim Knowles, the High State's offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator and defensive coordinator. On Tuesday. On the show, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be hearing from Chip Kelly some of the
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  Speaker 1: most interesting things that he had to say, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of interesting takeaways from that Chip Kelly interview.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with a little bit of a look back
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  Speaker 1: at the Cotton Bowl, what Texas did to take Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Smith away from the Buckeyes and how Ohio States offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator is going to approach something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they rolled some things to Jeremiah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to try to take him away. You know, there's some
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  Speaker 2: bracket coverages and guy inside, guy outside, guy over the top,
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  Speaker 2: and Will did a great job of diagnosing what they
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  Speaker 2: were doing, you know. And I think Cornell had a
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  Speaker 2: huge game for us Mechad five. Cornell had seven that
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  Speaker 2: the tight ends, you know, the combination at G and
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  Speaker 2: Will did a great job, and then obviously the back
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  Speaker 2: out of the backfield. So the beauty of what we
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  Speaker 2: have here is that we have more than one weapon.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the quarterback has to make really good
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  Speaker 2: decisions on what they're trying to take away and then
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  Speaker 2: adjust accordingly. And I think Will did a really good
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  Speaker 2: job in that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the plays that could have been a very
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  Speaker 1: big deal in that Cotton Bowl game against Texas that
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  Speaker 1: ended up just sort of being a funny side story
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  Speaker 1: was Will Howard taking that QB power on fourth and
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  Speaker 1: two and tripping and falling. He picked up the first down,
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  Speaker 1: he could have had a touchdown, but he tripped and
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  Speaker 1: fell instead. The one really touched him. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: Buckuys finished that drive with a touchdown and then winning game.
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  Speaker 1: So now you can go look back and laugh at it.
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  Speaker 1: But Chip Kelly said over the headsets he was kind
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  Speaker 1: of given Will Howard a little bit of a hard
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  Speaker 1: time about tripping on that run. So he was talking
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  Speaker 1: about that, and then you'll hear a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: back and forth with Austin ward.
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  Speaker 2: He can't respond, so I can say whatever I want.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like being married reversed reversed, So do.
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  Speaker 1: You take that opportunity much to maybe ever lighten the
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  Speaker 1: mood or it.
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  Speaker 2: All depends on the situation. I can't really pinpoint one
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  Speaker 2: thing or another. It was just that was a huge
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  Speaker 2: play for us. It was fourth and two. We had
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  Speaker 2: to convert keep the drive alive, and I talked to him,
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  Speaker 2: but it wasn't the next play was you know, in
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  Speaker 2: between series we had an opportunity to chat about that,
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  Speaker 2: so because we still had to go down at score.
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  Speaker 1: So Chip Kelly is much more than just the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's offensive coordinator. He's also a good friend of Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 1: going back to when Day was just a kid basically
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  Speaker 1: entering college at New Hampshire. So what is Chip Kelly's
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on Ryan Day and the last month of Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day's life. Go back to mid December, and boy, it
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  Speaker 1: was a very different time around the Ohio State program
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  Speaker 1: and around Columbus Ohio as people were sort of sharing
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  Speaker 1: their thoughts about the loss of Michigan and what it
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  Speaker 1: might mean moving forward. So how happy is chip Kelly
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  Speaker 1: for Ryan Day and how things have changed in the
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  Speaker 1: last month.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am, and I think the one thing that
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  Speaker 2: knowing him for so long, I'm not surprised. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I told him a long time ago. He was built
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  Speaker 2: for this. You know, he understands the gravity of what
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  Speaker 2: you have to do to be a head coach here,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he's handled it tremendously. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: the same person every day. I think the consistency and
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  Speaker 2: how he shows up here every day and what his
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  Speaker 2: mission is and how he drives this entire program, coaches
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  Speaker 2: people in the building, players, whatever is is very very evident,
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  Speaker 2: and we get a chance to play one more game.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's what the mantra had been since the
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  Speaker 2: last game of the regular season. You know, we got
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  Speaker 2: to keep this group together, and everything he's talked about
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  Speaker 2: since that day we've done, so you know we got
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  Speaker 2: to continue it.
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  Speaker 1: You saw the Buck guys use more twelve personnel against Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Just as a reminder, when you talk about a number
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the personnel grouping on offense number, the
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  Speaker 1: first number you hear is the number of running backs
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  Speaker 1: on the field. The second number you hear is the
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  Speaker 1: number of tight ends on the field. So twelve personnel
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  Speaker 1: is one running back and two tight ends. Eleven personnel
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  Speaker 1: that would be one running back and one tight end
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  Speaker 1: and then the wide receivers just five minus whatever. The
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  Speaker 1: other two numbers are the one tight end, one running back.
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  Speaker 1: That means three wide receivers. One tight end to one
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  Speaker 1: running back. Two tight ends would be two wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. There's your little football terminology nugget
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  Speaker 1: for the day. So Chip Kelly was asked about using
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  Speaker 1: more twelve personnel, one running back, two tight ends, two
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers against Texas, whether he thought that might be
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  Speaker 1: something to look do more of against Notre Dame, and
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  Speaker 1: what he likes about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it depends on how the other team
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  Speaker 2: deploys when you put that in the game, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So there's always a response to we put a personnel
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  Speaker 2: grouping in. They have an opportunity to match that personnel.
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  Speaker 2: They have an opportunity to say, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: play it in this grouping and then do we think
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  Speaker 2: that matchup is favorable to us or is it favorable
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  Speaker 2: to them? So, you know, I think when you look
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  Speaker 2: at how Notre Dame does it, there's they're good, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's it's a that would be an
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  Speaker 2: interesting matchup along with our eleven personnel and along with
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  Speaker 2: some of our other personnel groupings, and that's part of
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  Speaker 2: the game that goes on within a game. So but
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how they decide that they're going to handle it,
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  Speaker 2: and then if it's how we thought it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be, then maybe we'll continue that. But if it
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  Speaker 2: may not be what we thought it was going to be,
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  Speaker 2: and then we say, then that's not probably a personal
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  Speaker 2: grouping we're going to use to that.
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  Speaker 1: One of these somewhat surprising storylines on the offense all playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: all playoffs long, has been a situation at guard where
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  Speaker 1: the Buck Eyes have played three different guys between two positions,
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  Speaker 1: Luke Montgomery, Austin Siriveld, and Tager Shabola. They have kind
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  Speaker 1: of mixed those guys around. You've seen Luke Montgomery at
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  Speaker 1: left hook guard with both Seerveld and Tiger Shabola at
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  Speaker 1: right guard. You've seen Austin Siravil Thatt left guard with
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  Speaker 1: Tager Shabolt at right guard. It's just kind of been
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of everything during the course of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Now that changed a little bit against Texas, where Luke
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery played every snap of the game at left guard.
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  Speaker 1: Against the Longhorns. So how did Luke Montgomery great out?
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  Speaker 2: I think looked at a really nice job. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think part of the other the rotation part was
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  Speaker 2: Austin was banged up a little bit, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: how much could we get from him? And he's a
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  Speaker 2: warrior and and gave us everything he had. So those
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  Speaker 2: decisions on the reps of what we're going to do
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  Speaker 2: with those guys will be based upon, you know, where's
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  Speaker 2: our health when we get to next Sunday and Monday
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  Speaker 2: when we start to talk about depth. But I thought
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  Speaker 2: Luke with extended playing STAPs did a really really nice round.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the final four teams in the
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  Speaker 1: college football Playoff, all of them have one thing in common.
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  Speaker 1: All have very good defenses. In the opponents scoring Penn
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  Speaker 1: State was eighth in the nation in scoring defense, Texas
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  Speaker 1: was fourth. Notre Dame second in the nation in scoring defense,
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  Speaker 1: behind only Ohio State. So what kind of challenge is
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  Speaker 1: that Notre Dame defense going to to present to the
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  Speaker 1: buck Eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, and I think both teams have proven that
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  Speaker 2: and that's why we're here. But they do an outstanding job,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and they've got some real veteran leaders. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Cross and Kaiser I think have been there. This is
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  Speaker 2: year six for both those guys. Watson, the secondary has
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  Speaker 2: been around for a long time, so they've got depth,
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  Speaker 2: you know, up front, second level, and third level. They're
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  Speaker 2: really mart Like you can watch their communication that goes
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  Speaker 2: on during the play and you can see how in
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  Speaker 2: tune they are to what the coaching staff is ask
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  Speaker 2: him to do. So that's a huge challenge for us
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, going up against a really, really well coached
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  Speaker 2: defense that has some really really good players that have
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  Speaker 2: played a lot of football. You know, I think both
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  Speaker 2: teams have guys that have played a lot of football
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  Speaker 2: and that experience has shown through through the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll hear coaches talk about how like certain mistakes
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  Speaker 1: are a little bit excusable. There are some that are
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  Speaker 1: just inexcusable mistakes, but there's some where you're willing to
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  Speaker 1: kind of overlook it because it's an aggressive mistake. So
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  Speaker 1: Will Howard's interception at the start of the third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: is that an example of an aggressive mistake that a
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  Speaker 1: coach is kind of willing to sort of let let
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  Speaker 1: go or excuse a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he just didn't see the linebacker underneath and the coverage.
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  Speaker 2: He read the top of the coverage really well, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't see the underneath part of the coverage, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So we discuss it, just like we normally do between
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  Speaker 2: each series, about what just transpired and then what are
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  Speaker 2: we going to do next? And you know, the one
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  Speaker 2: thing about Will is he owns everything he does, because
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  Speaker 2: if you don't own it, then you're going to make
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  Speaker 2: the same mistake again because you don't realize how you
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  Speaker 2: did it. He knew right away he just didn't see
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  Speaker 2: the linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: He felt like the top of the coverage was deep
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  Speaker 2: enough and Jeremiah had pushed them out where he could
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  Speaker 2: throw that ball to him, but he didn't spot the
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  Speaker 2: underneath coverage. So you know, it's something he'll learn from
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully the one thing I love about Will is
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  Speaker 2: usually doesn't make the same mistake twice, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's hope he has that out of a system.
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame Secondary is going to be a big topic
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  Speaker 1: of conversation heading into the National Championship game. They are
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  Speaker 1: missing Benjamin Morrison. He was their best corner. He heared
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  Speaker 1: his hip against Stanford. He's out for the year. So
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  Speaker 1: now they're playing a bunch of young guys. Christian Gray
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  Speaker 1: is on one side. Leonard Moore, a true freshman, has
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  Speaker 1: stepped in and his look better than you'd expect a
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  Speaker 1: true freshman to look, at least through two games that
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerderman and I have watched. So what's Chip Kelly's
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  Speaker 1: view of the Notre Dame secondary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the whole secondary. You look at how
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  Speaker 2: much man they play, and the reason they do it
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  Speaker 2: is because they can, you know, and no one's really
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  Speaker 2: exploited that with him, so I think they all can cover,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so it's not like, well, just stay away
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  Speaker 2: from him and throw against this guy. All of them
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  Speaker 2: are really really skilled, and I think how coordinated it
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  Speaker 2: is with the whole group. You know that they all
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  Speaker 2: have an understanding of where they're supposed to be when
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  Speaker 2: they're supposed to be there, and they do a really
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  Speaker 2: good job with it. So I know they did lose
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  Speaker 2: a corner early in the season, but they've seemed to
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  Speaker 2: just continue to roll on defense and the statistics. So
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  Speaker 2: to show you.
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  Speaker 1: That the Buckeye coaching staff has sort of been managing
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  Speaker 1: things in terms of knowing that it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a long season. They maybe have sort of shifted some
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  Speaker 1: of the snap counts and that kind of stuff for guys,
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  Speaker 1: managed how they've paced games throughout the course of the season,
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  Speaker 1: maybe manage how they call games to a certain degree
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  Speaker 1: to the course of the season. Knowing that, yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to probably have to play sixteen games if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to win the National championship this year, and that's
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  Speaker 1: more than any college player has really been asked to
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  Speaker 1: play in the past. So knowing now that this is
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  Speaker 1: the last game, you don't have another week to save
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  Speaker 1: guys for, you don't have another week to save plays for.
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  Speaker 1: Does that change anything with their approach to snap counts
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  Speaker 1: or game plan or played design or anything else heading
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  Speaker 1: into the National Championship game.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I don't think we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: that one yet, but we certainly don't save things going
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  Speaker 2: into games saying, hey, this is a really good deal,
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  Speaker 2: let's not run it because we want to run it
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  Speaker 2: three or four games down the road. Because you don't
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  Speaker 2: know who you're going to have and what you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do. You make your decisions based upon the personnel
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  Speaker 2: that's available that week, and then what's going to help
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  Speaker 2: you win that football game? And those are the same
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  Speaker 2: decisions that are being made now. So snapcount going into
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  Speaker 2: a game, we don't really talk about that. The only
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  Speaker 2: time that ever comes up is when you're up and
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  Speaker 2: you're starting to think about substitute. And so if the
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  Speaker 2: score is forty two to seven and the third, when
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  Speaker 2: are we going to get Donnie out? And when are
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  Speaker 2: we going to get Seth out? You know, because you
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  Speaker 2: hate to lose a guy when the score is forty
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  Speaker 2: two to seven, you know, in a game, because we
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  Speaker 2: do have multiple games to play after that. But that's
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  Speaker 2: the only time we've really talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest plays of the Cotton Bowl came
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  Speaker 1: right before halftime. Texas had just scored to tie the
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  Speaker 1: game at seven, just twenty nine seconds left, the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: are backed up at their own twenty five yard line.
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  Speaker 1: They had it one player, seventy five yard drive, just
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  Speaker 1: a little screen to Travon Henderson that went the distance
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  Speaker 1: and really swung the moment of that game going into halftime.
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  Speaker 1: So what went into that play call and that decision there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, honestly, there was twenty nine seconds to go in
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  Speaker 2: the first half when we were on our twenty five
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  Speaker 2: yard line, So let's see if we can get something
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  Speaker 2: here on the first play. If we can, then we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into two minute mode. But if we can't, then
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  Speaker 2: you're probably gonna take a knee and go in at halftime.
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  Speaker 2: So we thought it was a safe play to run
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  Speaker 2: and see if we could pop something, and obviously it worked.
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  Speaker 2: But it worked because Tray's a pretty good player. So
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  Speaker 2: if he can get him into open spaces like we did,
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  Speaker 2: he can stick his foot in the ground and get
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  Speaker 2: north and south really really fast.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith had just one catch for three yards in
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  Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. It is something that he has really
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  Speaker 1: not experienced yet as a college football player. He came
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  Speaker 1: in had some pretty immediate success and has just sort
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  Speaker 1: of sustained that all season long. So how has Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: responded to having a very very quiet day on a
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  Speaker 1: very big stage in the semi final.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been great. You know, we practiced yesterday and
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  Speaker 2: he was flying around excited about the opportunity to go
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  Speaker 2: play in a national championship. So he's always a forward
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  Speaker 2: looking guy. You know, what's what's next, what's the next
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  Speaker 2: challenge And what do we uh, you know, what do
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  Speaker 2: we get to do? And then that's that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: what his mindset has been like, and that that does
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  Speaker 2: speak to his maturity because he's always what's the next challenge?
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  Speaker 2: And I think that that's one of the things I
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  Speaker 2: love about.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly was asked about his reaction to the Jack Sawyer touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: As it happened. It's that big sack and scoop and
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  Speaker 1: score that really sealed the win for Ohio State. That
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  Speaker 1: the was a little interesting to hear him about, hear
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  Speaker 1: him talking about what they were talking about right before
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  Speaker 1: it happened.
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  Speaker 2: Just excited. I mean, you know, in that situation to
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  Speaker 2: to be where that that drive was, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: first and goal from the one, you know, have to
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  Speaker 2: back to back penalties, and then you know you're in
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  Speaker 2: a one score game and they're tied it up and
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about when we get the ball back, how
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  Speaker 2: much time is left on the clock, and then what
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  Speaker 2: can we do in regulation? And then for that whole
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  Speaker 2: suit is a place just kind of watching them unfold
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  Speaker 2: and what happened. But for Jack in the impact that
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  Speaker 2: he has on this program and to see that whole
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  Speaker 2: thing kind of just out. It was kind of a
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  Speaker 2: storybook happening right in front of it. But it was
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  Speaker 2: anytime our defense can score or we can return punts
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  Speaker 2: for touchdowns, offensive guys get really excited.
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  Speaker 1: Last year where the Buckeyes played Notre Dame, the Irish
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  Speaker 1: limited Marvin Harrison to just three catches. So is there
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  Speaker 1: anything that Chip Kelly cees going back and watching that
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  Speaker 1: game on film now that he thinks might be how
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  Speaker 1: they approach trying to limit Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think we looked at it that way.
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  Speaker 2: But we looked at that game and then we looked
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  Speaker 2: at every game they've played this year. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they've played man and every game they've played, so
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  Speaker 2: it's not like they're doing something special in one game
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  Speaker 2: over another game. So and they've played some good receivers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's some teams they played that have some
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  Speaker 2: really talented receivers, and they've done a great job against everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Where there's Louisville SC people that throw the ball all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. They still have done a great job
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  Speaker 2: in coverage and the numbers will tell you that. So
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  Speaker 2: we got to be prepared for all coverages and that's
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  Speaker 2: the other thing they do. They don't just play one coverage,
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  Speaker 2: so you know they're going to mix it up. They
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  Speaker 2: try to keep you off balanced, they try to keep
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback guessing. They bring different blitzes and attack your
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  Speaker 2: pressures in a really good manner. I think Al's background
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  Speaker 2: is an NFL guy, you know, being with the Lions
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  Speaker 2: and being with the Bengals has really shown there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of NFL concepts that he's running there. And their
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  Speaker 2: players do a great job of adjusting on the fly too,
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  Speaker 2: so because people try to confuse them and line up
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  Speaker 2: in different formations and move and things like that, and
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  Speaker 2: they always seem to sort it out.
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  Speaker 1: So and finally, there has been a lot of conversation
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  Speaker 1: about whether the loss to Michigan was ultimately maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit beneficial to the buck Eyes heading into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's been a narrative that's been discussed. It's certainly something
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  Speaker 1: we've discussed as a possibility on some of our shows.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Kelly was asked about what he thinks about that
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  Speaker 1: narrative that that loss may have ultimately been a little
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  Speaker 1: bit beneficial.
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  Speaker 2: I've learned a long time ago as a coach that
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  Speaker 2: I'm not into narratives. So you know, I think we
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: live in a week to week world, and that's how
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: we've always approached things. And I think our week to
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: week is just it's the beginning of the week, and
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: what do we do on a Monday. What's a Monday
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  Speaker 2: look like, what's a Tuesday look like, what's a Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: look like? How's your preparation? All those other things. Then
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: you go play the game, and you got about twenty
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  Speaker 2: hours to adjust to what happened, whether it was a one,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was a win, or whether it was a loss,
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  Speaker 2: and then you move on to the next game. So
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  Speaker 2: the narrative part of it isn't something I think coaches
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  Speaker 2: really talk about that this set up that, to set
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  Speaker 2: up this, that's you guys are the experts at writing narratives.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: We're we're just trying to get a first down. So
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't look at that from that perspective.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: So we're going to have much more coverage coming up
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: for you this week. You'll get a show getting here
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: from Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles. We're going to
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: have interviews with Brian Day and small high state players
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Wednesday. I've all
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: sorts of coverage from you for you from that, and
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I drop a couple of Ross Fulton bonus shows in
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the feed for you as well, looking back at the
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three or High State
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame games, shows that we did back at the time,
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  Speaker 1: but stuff that might still apply to a certain degree
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: looking forward to this Monday's National Championship game, and have
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: another Ross Fulton schematic breakdown of the Cotton Bowl for
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: you on the Ohised defensive side of the ball that's
• 16:08
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• 16:10
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• 16:12
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• 16:14
  Speaker 1: then it really gets busy. We're gonna have a lot
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  Speaker 1: pm on Friday, Irish Land about five fifteen pm on Friday.
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• 16:27
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• 16:29
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• 16:33
  Speaker 1: in a Notre Dame practice on Saturday and have a
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: lot to talk about there that Sunday at coach press conferences,
• 16:39
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• 16:41
  Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff in between those things as we
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: sort of work our way through what is going to
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: be a very very busy and hectic final few days
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty four college football season. And believe
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the National Championship Game is almore already almost here. I
• 16:55
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• 16:59
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• 17:16
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