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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Chip Kelly And Ryan Day Broke The Oregon Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. From Monday, January sixth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or. The Cotton Bowl game against Texas
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  Speaker 1: is in four days, the game against Michigan in three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven days. Today we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: taking a look back at the Ohio State offense against
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  Speaker 1: Oregon in the Rose Bowl. I'm sure everyone is going
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  Speaker 1: preservation Today. Well, the attention to detail for the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State offense was simply unmatched during the Rose Bowl as well.
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  Speaker 1: That is one of the most dominant performances I can
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  Speaker 1: ever remember seeing, especially against pretty good competition. So Ross,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start with the first bolt of lightning
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  Speaker 1: during the game, which was the Jeremiah Smith touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so you saw a lot of the same
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  Speaker 2: concepts against Organ continuation if you will, from Tennessee. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of use of two tight ends in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Some of that's obviously game situation with o high staving
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  Speaker 2: a big lead, just like against Tennessee, but a good
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  Speaker 2: chunk of that is also trying to force teams into
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  Speaker 2: one high, getting favorable matchups, being able to shift strength around,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of formation into boundary from a lot of state.
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  Speaker 2: That can can all some problems for the Nick Saban
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  Speaker 2: Curb be smart, especially like this Cover seven split safety stuff,
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  Speaker 2: because ideally they want to have you know, four over
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  Speaker 2: three to the field and three over two to the boundary,
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  Speaker 2: and then if it's the formations into the boundary, you
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  Speaker 2: have to make some choices.
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  Speaker 3: And so a high state a lot of motion and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of shifting.
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  Speaker 2: All that's to say they're just you know, hunting for matchups,
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  Speaker 2: especially like trying to get Organ in single high, you
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  Speaker 2: know Cover one or Cover three and targeting Jeremi Smith obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and so right away they go right back to you know,
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  Speaker 2: they hit the big they get in twelve personnel, They
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  Speaker 2: fake the screen out wide, go empty, hit gisk on
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  Speaker 2: the wheel route left uncovered. Then the third play they
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  Speaker 2: come back right to what they know us so successfully
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  Speaker 2: against Tennessee, which is this you know counter g GT counter,
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  Speaker 2: which to.
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  Speaker 3: The guard and the tackle are pulling.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone on the front side is blocking down and obviously
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  Speaker 2: you're putting again the strength run strength into the boundary
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  Speaker 2: and then you're just running a slide rpo to Jeremi Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and so Will Howard just reading that backside uh
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  Speaker 2: will linebacker. The other thing you'll notice is like I
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  Speaker 2: think Ohio State, particularly early before they had the game
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  Speaker 2: put away, use tempo very strategically, like you'll see on
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  Speaker 2: this play, and we'll show you us show another one
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  Speaker 2: a couple of plays where Oregon's not lined up. They're
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  Speaker 2: trying to communicate, they're trying to get set a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of like payback from the first game organed to
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  Speaker 2: the Ohio State defense. But you know, just again simple
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  Speaker 2: read Will Howard's reading. As I said that backside linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: He plays the run pull and throw to Jeremi Smith.
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  Speaker 2: And this is like where you know, what we talked
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  Speaker 2: about follow in Michigan is like you know, you don't
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  Speaker 2: need to throw vertically to jeremih Smith all the time,
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  Speaker 2: like he's great with the run after the catch, and
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  Speaker 2: I just think there's just you know, I concerned effort.
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk about a little bit more where I see
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  Speaker 2: it to get him the ball regardless of what kind
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  Speaker 2: of coverages or how teams are trying to roll coverage
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  Speaker 2: to him or play different coverages. Just like, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: less follow follow what the you know, the play sheet
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  Speaker 2: or the concept would show on paper, and more like
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  Speaker 2: if he's got a one on one matchup, getting the
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  Speaker 2: ball all right.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned there that you know, some of the
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  Speaker 1: Nick Saban Tree kind of defenses will struggle with some
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  Speaker 1: of those concepts that were running against against Oregon. And
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  Speaker 1: I can hear people asking because I thought the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkishould obviously coached under Nick Saban Did he bring
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  Speaker 1: a Nick Sabin Tree defensive coordinator over with him to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is no, that is Pete Witkowski. He went
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  Speaker 1: he coached at Boise State in Washington before. So this
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  Speaker 1: is not necessary. You're not necessarily looking at the same,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the same stuff necessarily working against against that
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  Speaker 1: that has worked against Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you do get some of like the same
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  Speaker 2: a lot of odd front right which Oregon uses. Oregon
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  Speaker 2: actually didn't use quite as much on front or early
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  Speaker 2: on at least as they did in Game one. But again,
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  Speaker 2: like it's a game where you want to get the
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  Speaker 2: ball as particularly the run game. We'll talk about like
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  Speaker 2: off tackle and outside.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that having we started watching some of the
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  Speaker 1: Texas defensive the Texas games for the Buckeye Weekly. The
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  Speaker 1: Buckeye Weekly shows that we do rewatching some of the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming opponents previous games and the inter that.
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  Speaker 4: Texas defensive line looks real stout. So yeah, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely gonna definitely not gonna want to run between the
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  Speaker 1: tackles too much. That's probably not gonna be where you
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  Speaker 1: find the most success. Next one, another place where Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State found success against Oregon downfield passing. This next play
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  Speaker 1: is the Amecca Abuka touchdown that made it fourteen nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly again like, yeah, it's not in this clip,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, use of motion to change the strength
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  Speaker 2: here from the boundary to the field Organs and cover two.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what we talked about going in the game
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  Speaker 2: is like, particularly in the split safety stuff, Oregon would
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  Speaker 2: bust coverages and that happened to get Ohio State. And
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  Speaker 2: so you know again like this is how you tack
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  Speaker 2: split safeties, right, you run up the three verticals, or
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  Speaker 2: it could be a ye cross like attacking between the
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  Speaker 2: two deep safeties.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to be Tampa with how that linebacker Nichol is
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  Speaker 2: trying to carry a BUCA but he's obviously late to
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  Speaker 2: the read and uh so Abuka has a step and
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  Speaker 2: like this is a great throw, like we talked about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Will Howard on that interception against tennessee the
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  Speaker 2: very similar situation with Jeremiah Smith running down this scene
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  Speaker 2: against split safeties, and you know, this is a throw
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  Speaker 2: you'll you'll take every day, particular with how accurate Howard's
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  Speaker 2: being where the guy is in you know, he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to keep up, but he's and you just have to
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  Speaker 2: put it over him. And you have late hands on
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  Speaker 2: the receiver, so you don't want to give away when
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  Speaker 2: the ball is coming because he's that secondary of defender.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have a chance to turn around, right, He's
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  Speaker 2: just trying to catch up.
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  Speaker 3: So great throw.
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  Speaker 2: But again you're like against split safeties, you're seeing them
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  Speaker 2: now attack vertically. And whether it was difficulty getting lined
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  Speaker 2: up in matching some of this stuff, or whether it
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  Speaker 2: was like game flow and the fact that like Oregon
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  Speaker 2: quickly got behind and so they sort of had to
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  Speaker 2: try to, you know, be more aggressive to get the
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  Speaker 2: ball back and figure out Ohio State would sort of
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  Speaker 2: take the pedal off the metal. Like you saw them
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  Speaker 2: pretty quickly get out of a lot of their split
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  Speaker 2: safety stuff and play a lot more Cover one and
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  Speaker 2: Cover three.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to the next one. Next two, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: are both against Cover one. This first one is it
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  Speaker 1: was a long pass down the left sideline to Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Smith where I think it was a third a third
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  Speaker 1: down play and they picked up a first down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is kind of what I was referring to earlier,
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  Speaker 2: where if you're going to play Cover one and organ
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  Speaker 2: as we talked about coming a game, they like to
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  Speaker 2: play a lot of man on third down, you know
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna target Jeremi Smith at this point, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: post Mischee, Like you can see in like the last
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  Speaker 2: month of the season. It's sort of hard to quantify, right,
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  Speaker 2: but like Cardinal Tates roll the at least the number
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  Speaker 2: of targets he had increased more and more. And that
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  Speaker 2: was because like teams were shading coverage to Jeremi Smith
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  Speaker 2: or trying to help out or as I was sort
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  Speaker 2: of alluding to earlier, like that's you know, the progression
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  Speaker 2: that the court that Will Howard goes through. They're being
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  Speaker 2: much more aggressive now, or Will Howard is like if
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  Speaker 2: I see single coverage, I'm getting the ball to Jeremi
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  Speaker 2: Smith right, particularly on these go routes like we saw
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  Speaker 2: that RPO against Tennessee. We see this one, like they
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  Speaker 2: do run a you know, the trips to the field.
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  Speaker 2: They put Jeremi Smith opposite single receiver, you know that safety.
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  Speaker 2: They run a little bit of like a man beater
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  Speaker 2: with Abecca Buka to the field. That's sort of trying
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  Speaker 2: to run an aero route. But ultimately, like Howard just
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  Speaker 2: c Smith even he throws it. And like you know
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  Speaker 2: they said, once the game got put away, you saw
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  Speaker 2: Hi State do some like different stuff. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: thought they tried to they tried to get the ball
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  Speaker 2: to Cornel Tait a little bit more. They tried, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they ran like a g quarterback gt counter where he
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  Speaker 2: was like the bash player and then there was a
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  Speaker 2: few times he was open and he kind of had
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  Speaker 2: his hands up.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about that at different points this season.
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  Speaker 2: But again it's like all trade offs, right, Like there
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  Speaker 2: are times and like no colonel takes a great receiver
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  Speaker 2: in his own right, but like you take these shots
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  Speaker 2: to Jeremi Smith and like we saw it again, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was the drive before this one. They ran
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  Speaker 2: like a smash concept to the corner and it was
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  Speaker 2: cover three and like that's not really the read against
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  Speaker 2: Cover three, but he was him on a corner and
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  Speaker 2: will Auer put the ball in a great place and
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  Speaker 2: got a foot in or on the the you know,
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  Speaker 2: last the final touchdown drive for Ohio State Oregon obviously
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  Speaker 2: like back to back, you know, made a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a contest, and like two third downs in a row,
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  Speaker 2: they went to Jeremi Smith. They sing it on them
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  Speaker 2: up like this and ran a slant route. They ran
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  Speaker 2: them on a corner route. So you see the focus
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  Speaker 2: like went it doubt we're gonna get the ball to
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  Speaker 2: Jeremi Smith. And then obviously like once the game's in hand,
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  Speaker 2: trying to break some tendencies.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one area where Ohio State had a ton of
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  Speaker 1: success was on third down. They didn't really need to
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  Speaker 1: have very much success on third down though, because in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter of the game they put up two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three yards of offense, including two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twelve of the air, and only got the third
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  Speaker 1: down three times. If you can do that in one
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  Speaker 1: quarter of football, you have a pretty good chance of
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  Speaker 1: winning the game. This was one of the third downs
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  Speaker 1: that they got to. It ended up they This is
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  Speaker 1: again another cover one concept they're facing here, and this
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  Speaker 1: is one where it just it just looked so easy
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State, you know, long stretches of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just really I grabbed this because I really
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  Speaker 2: liked this concept and like to me again like not
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  Speaker 2: to always go back to the mission game, but like
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  Speaker 2: just the third down concept. You're seeing obviously like a
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  Speaker 2: lot more Cover one here versus as compared to his own,
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  Speaker 2: but just like compared to those like mirror routes that
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  Speaker 2: we discussed that we're just like not there. You're just
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  Speaker 2: seeing a lot more like using like Staple Ryan Day
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  Speaker 2: air rate concepts here in motion and shifts right, so
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  Speaker 2: like here you bring a Meco Buka again. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going from trips now we're bringing this like we're putting
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  Speaker 2: both Smith and Abuka to the same side, and we're like,
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  Speaker 2: this is like a little like wheel level route, right,
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  Speaker 2: and so he's like going to come out and do
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  Speaker 2: a switch and then just break inside. And so it
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  Speaker 2: just it makes it hard like the you know, defenders
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  Speaker 2: have to figure out are we trading off, how are
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  Speaker 2: we you know, how are we handling this? So just
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  Speaker 2: much more of the full complement of past concepts, and
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  Speaker 2: as I said, like I think a big goal that
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  Speaker 2: you see from from Chip Kelly and Ryan Day is
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  Speaker 2: like trying to force teams into this you know, man
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  Speaker 2: coverage or single high just by like making it very
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  Speaker 2: difficult to stay in split safety principles with formation and
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  Speaker 2: shifts and motion and then dialing up these these sort
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  Speaker 2: of single hot beaters.
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  Speaker 1: So the next one, this is one that watching this live,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching this from the field through a camera lens,
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  Speaker 1: and all I saw is Jeremiah Smith is standing there
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  Speaker 1: wide open, like no one within fifteen yards of him
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  Speaker 1: by the end zone, and it's like.
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  Speaker 4: How the heck did they do that?
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  Speaker 1: How could you possibly lose Jeremiah Smith on the field
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  Speaker 1: and then going back and watching it, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: this one where they use formation to maybe open him up.
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  Speaker 1: This is the second Jeremiah Smith touchdown, and you got
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  Speaker 1: him in an advantageous matchup and then got the safety's
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  Speaker 1: hips turned and going the wrong way. But man, this
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  Speaker 1: this is one where it just looks like Oregon was
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  Speaker 1: doomed from before the ball even got snapped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so you know again this is using motion
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  Speaker 2: right to make Jeremi Smith, the number two or inside
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  Speaker 2: slot receiver, a pretty similar look to what they've done
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  Speaker 2: on that slide RPO and then you know, getting him again,
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  Speaker 2: like if you're going to play cover three, then you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to account for him as the side
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  Speaker 2: receiver moving him around. If for those on X James
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  Speaker 2: Light posted this is Ryan Day has called this play
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  Speaker 2: poker and he posted it and then Kenyan Bailey quip
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  Speaker 2: back in response to Jim's light because like it's described
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  Speaker 2: as a split safety play and said works plenty well
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  Speaker 2: against single high coverage too, obviously, because you see that
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  Speaker 2: here right, and so again just like this heavy play action. Look,
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  Speaker 2: you're pulling the center back and then this throwback like
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  Speaker 2: it again looks kind of similar to like the tight
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  Speaker 2: end leak plays that they often run in this situation,
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  Speaker 2: and Jeremi Smith just you know, turns the safety in
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  Speaker 2: circles great, you know, great faking great throw and it
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  Speaker 2: just gives you again, like as opposed to having him
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  Speaker 2: outside all the time, making it much less predictable for
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  Speaker 2: the defense.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So the next one, we're going from lots
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  Speaker 1: of passing plays to what of the long running plays
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  Speaker 1: is the long Travon Henderson run at the d sort
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  Speaker 1: of towards the middle of the second quarter. I guess
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  Speaker 1: that made it thirty one nothing. And before you get
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  Speaker 1: to this one, I want to ask, do you buy
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  Speaker 1: into the concept that they're throwing to set up the
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  Speaker 1: run like you typically think of running to set up
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  Speaker 1: the pass. Are they throwing to set up the run?
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  Speaker 1: Is that why things are opening up?
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  Speaker 4: Or is that not? Is that maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of an oversimplification.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's fair, right, I mean, they are
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  Speaker 2: throwing to get a lead and then turning back to
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  Speaker 2: the run game, and I think they're sort of that
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  Speaker 2: softens up the defense right when they're worried about getting
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  Speaker 2: hit over the top of the explosive plays and gets
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  Speaker 2: the secondary less apt to fill and provide for support.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of it's just like you know, building
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  Speaker 2: off of each other, right, Like this is the same
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  Speaker 2: concept just with that RPO slide. Now now they run
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  Speaker 2: it with Carnel Tait again as I mentioned, like trying
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  Speaker 2: to get him more involved as a game progressed. But Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: like now you have Oregan wants to keep a deep
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  Speaker 2: safety over these twins receivers to the top of the screen.
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  Speaker 2: And then you'll notice, unlike the first play to Smith,
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  Speaker 2: here the will linebacker follows the RPOs, so it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a give read for Howard and you know, great
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  Speaker 2: down blocks Henderson obviously makes the other safety miss. I
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's some weird things going on here for Organ,
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't know what Matteo is doing there at
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  Speaker 2: number ten, Like as the like following Josh Fryer down
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  Speaker 2: you can see takes himself completely out of the play,
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  Speaker 2: and so they you know, they took advantage of Organ
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  Speaker 2: sort of getting himselves twisted around. But I do think
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  Speaker 2: like the other thing, and like I'll focus on it
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  Speaker 2: with this in the next one. Like the other thing,
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  Speaker 2: that counter tray and then like some other concepts are
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  Speaker 2: giving them is the ability to bounce the football outside
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  Speaker 2: and so like that even early in the game, like
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  Speaker 2: there was a four yard Trevon Henderson game for a
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  Speaker 2: first down, like you know, ho home run, but he
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  Speaker 2: was able to bounce it to get those yards right
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to like inside zone earlier this year, where
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  Speaker 2: it's just difficult to get the football outside like here
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  Speaker 2: if you you know that you don't perfectly execute the
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  Speaker 2: poll and the lead and read it correctly to law
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  Speaker 2: like quin Shawn Jupkins and Henderson are good enough to
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  Speaker 2: bounce the football outside and you could you sell a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that in this game where teams were trying
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  Speaker 2: to dent against counter and other runs and they were
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  Speaker 2: getting the footba outside. So you're you're just naturally by
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  Speaker 2: like pushing to the off tackle like making it much
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  Speaker 2: more conducive for them to get the football in space
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  Speaker 2: even if it's not perfectly blocked up.
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  Speaker 1: All right, And now our last play you mentioned earlier
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  Speaker 1: how much twelve personnel they used. This is a twelve
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  Speaker 1: personnel play and this is one we've talked about before.
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  Speaker 1: This is wineback, and this was if you're trying. If
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  Speaker 1: you're just listening, you're not watching. This was one of
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  Speaker 1: the long quinch On Judkins runs kind of off left
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  Speaker 1: tackle in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the offensive line certainly wasn't perfect. You know,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: I think they did a very good job in pass protection.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I forgot to mention, like, if you go back to
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: that Jeremiah Smith go route, like Oregon ran a lot
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: of twists up front, particularly gets on in the passing
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: game on pass defense, and like in Ohio State offensive
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: line did a very good job picking those up. Donovan
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Jackson continues to be stellar left tackle. But they once
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: you know, everyone knew they were up there trying to
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: bleed the clock. They did enough in the run game, right,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: like very talking about the passing have the run to
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: milk the game away and get first downs, and like
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: they did it with counter and here they ran wind
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: back several times. I partially grab this because Chip Kelly,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: like whenever he's interviewed, loves to talk about like every
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: game is, you know, specific game planning, and you know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: it's sort of it seems like a cliche, but they
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: ran this play a bunch against organ the first time around,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: and I haven't seen it since then, and they ran
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: it a bunch against Oregon this time. So something about
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the Oregon defense makes Chip Kelly think that this wind
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: back is is a productive and they've ran it well.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: So this is basically just duo. So everyone's just blocking down.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Obviously, again they shift the tight ends over like shifting
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I know you can't see from this angle, but shifting
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: from the formation strengthen to the boundary. Brandon Inness did
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: a great job towards the end of the game as
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: a lead blocker on this. I mean he's almost like
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: a quasi tight end and how he can arc around
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: and it's just it's duo, but with a kind of
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: a counteraction, right, so you're faking one way the running
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: back's coming back, you're using that arc block from the
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: slot receiver. And again it's like another play that you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I think that both. There were a few times to
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: me where like quin Shawn Jukins got too too quick
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: in his reads and didn't let his block set up
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: on off tackle runs and try to cut it back inside,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: and he would cut it right back into down blocks,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: like you know, if they're blocking back on harmon and
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: then like it looks like a hole. But he's he's
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: got the leverage right. But once he he started bouncing
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: things like this and Henderson did it like they were
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: getting pretty big chunk plays.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I state just can upfront continues to be better at
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: executing these down block double teams than zone blocking combinations
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason. But so again, like they're getting enough
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: out of the run game, that is, particularly when you
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: get in twelve for sell and these heavy sets need
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: to respect it, and then obviously creating explosive plays in
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the passing game with that, well Will Howard's playing and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: having Jeremy Smith and a Mecca Buka.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I was going to ask you which
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: one and we're going to save this for the next show.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: We're alsoll being on again a little later on the week,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: But I just want you to think about this for
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: next time. Which unit or which coaching staff had a
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: better Rose Bowl game, the offense or the defense, Because
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: it feels like you're sort of splitting a pluses here,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: like which a plus was a little shinier than the other,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: but it was. That'll be something we talk about the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: next time we talk about this, and that'll be talking
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: about the Buckeye defense and their performance against Oregon in
• 18:35
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• 18:51
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