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10 Interesting Things Tennessee's Coordinators Said About Facing Ohio State · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a special bonus episode for you. Got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to talk about this week, and we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: a lot about the buck Eyes, but I want to
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  Speaker 1: let you hear a little bit from the Tennessee side
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  Speaker 1: of things. Got a chance to hear from Tennessee's defensive
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  Speaker 1: and offensive coordinators earlier in the week. That's some interesting
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  Speaker 1: stuff to say. So we're going to let you hear
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  Speaker 1: a little bit directly from them today. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: start with defensive coordinator Tim Banks. He actually is pretty
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  Speaker 1: familiar with not only Ohio State, but the Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: offense at Ohio State. He was a Penn State defensive
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  Speaker 1: assistant from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty and now is
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  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator of course at Tennessee. So here we
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  Speaker 1: go with Tim Banks. Let's start with an easy one.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out about the Ohio State offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at the skill. You know, they got
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  Speaker 2: really good skill. You know, traditionally they've always had really
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  Speaker 2: good wide outs. You know schematically, you know, they put
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  Speaker 2: you in a lot of situations to try to put
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  Speaker 2: stress on the defense. So you know, they got good coaches,
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  Speaker 2: good players. You know, they're Ohio State team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the sayings I've seen in the past, they're
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  Speaker 2: very similar to that.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one of these questions that get gets asked and
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  Speaker 1: everyone goes, Oh, that's a good question, and then they
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  Speaker 1: never want to answer it. But here you go, what
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  Speaker 1: did Michigan do to slow down the buck eye offense?
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  Speaker 1: And how can Tennessee try to take advantage of that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just like anything as a rivalry game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those guys, you know, place extremely hard against
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  Speaker 2: each other, and you know, Michigan did a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good things. But you know, for us, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: look at those guys just like I said, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great scale from the running backs to the receivers,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, obviously they got a lot of pride
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  Speaker 2: up front, you know how they go about their business.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I just think anytime you play a
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  Speaker 2: rivalry game, you know, anything can happen. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously Michigan was very fortunate that day.
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  Speaker 1: Since Tim Banks got to Tennessee in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: what has he seen that has it made him realize
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  Speaker 1: it was possible to get the program from where it was,
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  Speaker 1: which was kind of lost in the wilderness for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of decades. Now back in the College Football Playoff.
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  Speaker 2: You're saying us as a program, the success we've had. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the fan base, I think it starts there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're very passionate, you know, about the University of Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: and rightfully so, you know, it's a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 2: truth to this program in terms of what they've done
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  Speaker 2: in the past. And you know, we felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: giving the right you know environment, you can have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to be very, very successful. So I think it
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  Speaker 2: just starts with the guys we've been able to recruit,
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  Speaker 2: the guys we've been able to keep here in the program,
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  Speaker 2: and again just the fan base. So you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: been very fortunate, you know, to be able to win
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  Speaker 2: a lot of games here. And I think again it
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  Speaker 2: just starts with the passion the fans have. The way
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  Speaker 2: we play at Nyland Stadium because of the energy those
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  Speaker 2: guys bring, you know, weekend and week out, has been
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  Speaker 2: very exciting to say the least. So I just think
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  Speaker 2: this is a very passionate fan base, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: very passionate university that wants to win, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're just you know, extremely grateful to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the conversation around the Ohio state offense
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  Speaker 1: centered around the wide receivers. Not really surprise if you're
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the Ohio state wide receivers. But what kind
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  Speaker 1: of stress does Ohio State Wide Receiver Corp Put on
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee secondary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'll be a great challenge, you know
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  Speaker 2: for our guys. You know, you know the way they
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  Speaker 2: run the ball, you know, to set up the play
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  Speaker 2: action pass and things that nature. You know, we're going
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  Speaker 2: have to do a really good job of you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously helping our guys on the back end, but you
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  Speaker 2: know our dna is you know, we want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to stop the run. So yeah, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a great challenge. You know, our guys are eager for
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  Speaker 2: that challenge. You know, they worked their whole this whole season,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to be in these type of venues and
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  Speaker 2: have these type of opportunities, so they'll they'll be very excited.
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  Speaker 1: For Tennessee's leading tackler this year is linebacker Arian Carter.
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  Speaker 1: He wears number seven, so you can watch for him
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Leading tackler on the team this year, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you'll hear Banks answering the question about
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  Speaker 1: how Aria and Carter has grown. You're also going to
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  Speaker 1: hear him mention KP that as Keenan Peely, he was
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  Speaker 1: a starting linebacker until he heard his knee earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the season and now is out for the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, losing KP early, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the year, you know, was devastating for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought, you know, the way those guys have
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  Speaker 2: stepped up, you know, Ac included, you know, from a
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  Speaker 2: verbal perspective, you know, being a lot more vocal with
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  Speaker 2: you know, what's going on in terms of our play calling.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think the leadership, you know, he I know,
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  Speaker 2: he's always had it in them. You know, he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of forced into it when we lost KP. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's definitely stepped up his game as far as leadership.
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  Speaker 1: If you listen to Tony Gerdaman and I break down some
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  Speaker 1: of the Tennessee games that we've watched, you've heard us
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot about their cornerbacks. Jermad McCoy he wears
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  Speaker 1: number three, and Ricky Gibson he wears number one. Those
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  Speaker 1: two guys get put on islands a lot in this
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  Speaker 1: Tim Banks defense. So how much trust does Banks have
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  Speaker 1: in them going into this game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a lot of trust in those guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you breed confidence, you know, by your play, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and those guys have played extremely well all year. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, anytime you got good corners, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: takes some stress off other positions and allows us to
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  Speaker 2: do different things, you know, schematically. But we're gonna need everybody.
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  Speaker 2: He gonna need the corners, gonna need it obviously, the
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  Speaker 2: front and the linebackers, you know, to be successful in
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  Speaker 2: this game. So like I said earlier, you know, having
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  Speaker 2: those guys on those edges is definitely a help stake
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk around the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: program about the fact that they're not rotating their defensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman enough. Tennessee, they've rotated their defenseman defensive lineman a ton.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven guys in the defensive line have at least one
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  Speaker 1: hundred snaps this season, only eight on the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: defensive line just for comparison. So how has that helped
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  Speaker 1: keep guys fresh and maybe ready for this game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if we can say fresh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but it's definitely, you know, great to have that many,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and be able to rotate those guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it must as we have. It has been awesome and
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  Speaker 2: we don't need them all, you know, to be successful
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. So I think when you build the defense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you always want to build it from the
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  Speaker 2: front to the back, you know, and obviously on a perimeter,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And we've been very blessed to have enough
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  Speaker 2: depth up front to be able to rotate those guys
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  Speaker 2: and still keep the standard to standard.
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  Speaker 1: Before the year, Banks set improvement in the red zone
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  Speaker 1: as a goal for the volunteers team. Last year, they
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  Speaker 1: were eighty eighth nationally in terms of allowing points on
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  Speaker 1: eighty five point four percent of opponent red zone trips.
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  Speaker 1: This year, they've gone from eighty eighth nationally to eleventh
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  Speaker 1: in the country. So what has helped Tennessee make that
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  Speaker 1: big of a jump.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think they play on a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We play a lot of guys up front, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so I think we're rush you know, particularly in those moments.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of it has to do with
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  Speaker 2: the back end, and you know how high level those
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  Speaker 2: guys are playing that. But yeah, you know, we've obviously
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  Speaker 2: concentrated on it coming into the season, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just like anything, you love to see the fruits of
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  Speaker 2: your labor, and those guys work really hard at it
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  Speaker 2: and it's great to see those guys that played well.
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  Speaker 1: Let them mentioned mind together that Tennessee is eleventh in
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  Speaker 1: the country allowing points on seventy three point five percent
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  Speaker 1: of red zone trips. The Buckeyes, just for comparison, they
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  Speaker 1: are first nationally just fifty five point two percent of
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  Speaker 1: opponent red zone trips ending end points this year. So
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  Speaker 1: all right on to the last question for Banks. Are
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  Speaker 1: they trying to treat this week just like any other.
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  Speaker 1: Are they trying to ramp things up knowing that this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the biggest game they play all season.
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  Speaker 1: What's the approach there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, our routine is our routine, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the way we get ready, our process, so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: is our process. So the kids are always excited, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to play the game. And I think that's what I
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  Speaker 2: love about this team. You know, they just want to play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they want to put the ball down and
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity and you know, hopefully we'll get four
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  Speaker 2: opportunities at this thing. You know it starts with you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State this weekend, and you know it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a great challenge. But just the way those guys
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  Speaker 2: have approached this game has been very consistent. Who we've
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  Speaker 2: been all year.
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  Speaker 1: Now on to the offensive side of the ball and
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  Speaker 1: Jolley Halsley, the offensive coordinator. He was with Josh Heipel
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  Speaker 1: at UCF and then came with him to Tennessee first
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  Speaker 1: as a quarterback coach and then as an offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: starting last year. Let's start with the quarterback then, Nico Iamaliava.
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  Speaker 1: How has he improved with getting through his progressions and
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  Speaker 1: reading the defense as he's gone through his first full
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  Speaker 1: season as a starter.
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  Speaker 3: Just for any young quarterback, just getting unscouted looks each
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  Speaker 3: and every week. He's reacting to him quicker and quicker
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  Speaker 3: as it's going on. I think that's why you've seen
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  Speaker 3: on this back half of the season, he's completing passes
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  Speaker 3: at almost a seventy percent clip, hitting a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: big plays down the field.
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  Speaker 4: He's made a bunch of huge plays for.
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  Speaker 3: Us in these last couple of games that we needed
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  Speaker 3: to get going and to go get in this playoff
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  Speaker 3: right here, So his attention to detail has never wavered.
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  Speaker 3: It's been the same since preseason into season. There's just
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  Speaker 3: nothing like game reps. There's just absolutely nothing like it.
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  Speaker 3: You can try to create it as much as you want,
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  Speaker 3: as much scrimmage, but man, it's just a different animal
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  Speaker 3: when there's live, live bullets going out there and you're
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  Speaker 3: getting completely different looks and you know, you got play
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  Speaker 3: clock and you got everything going like that.
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  Speaker 4: So just him settling into all that, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Been really cool to see and really bright future for him,
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  Speaker 3: so we're excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: Another young player to watch is true freshman wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Mike Matthews. He really didn't do a whole heck of
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  Speaker 1: what you're early in the season, but really started to
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  Speaker 1: come along later on in the year, and then when
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  Speaker 1: they suffered a couple injuries in the wide receiver corp
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  Speaker 1: against Vanderbilt, he stepped up a touchdown pass nearly had
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  Speaker 1: another one. So is he in line to contribute in
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  Speaker 1: the playoff.
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  Speaker 3: No, We fully intend on on Mike being a big
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  Speaker 3: part of everything we're doing. It's the same thing now,
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  Speaker 3: like if this goes away you wanted to go, you
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  Speaker 3: have four games left. You know, you got a quarter
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  Speaker 3: of a season left to play right here. All those
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  Speaker 3: guys that are here and that are going, we expect
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  Speaker 3: them to play at a high level. We feel comfortable
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  Speaker 3: throwing anybody out there. Our guys are prepared, they're ready
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  Speaker 3: to play, and they're dang good players. So anybody that's
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  Speaker 3: called upon, we expect that they go out and they
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  Speaker 3: play at a high level.
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  Speaker 4: And we expect to see that here every week.
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  Speaker 1: Niko iam Aliava has grown quite a bit just over
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  Speaker 1: the last month or so, which is normal for a
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  Speaker 1: first year starting quarterback to kind of step up and
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  Speaker 1: take on a bigger role later in his first season.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, going back to the Georgia game, how
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  Speaker 1: did that happen?
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  Speaker 3: I think the way he was able to get to
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  Speaker 3: that is he doesn't blink, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And I said that from the very beginning, the kids
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  Speaker 3: got a very even heart rate. But man, his decision
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  Speaker 3: making and more than anything, his getting rid of the
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  Speaker 3: first read into the second, into the third, like he
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  Speaker 3: was getting all the way through stuff really quickly. That's
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  Speaker 3: why you were seeing, like you brought up the Georgia
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  Speaker 3: game early in that game, like we're going one, two, three,
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  Speaker 3: and that guy's getting the ball out and were hitting
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  Speaker 3: big plays all over the field. So you're just seeing
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  Speaker 3: him being able to make his decision making, which was
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  Speaker 3: always good. He's even taking it to a higher level.
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  Speaker 3: So we're looking forward for that to keep growing for him.
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  Speaker 1: One example of Iamliava and the Tennessee offense not flinching
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  Speaker 1: at a potentially bad situation. They were down fourteen to
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  Speaker 1: nothing just five minutes in against Vanderbilt, and they got
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  Speaker 1: the ball and what took the offense right down the
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  Speaker 1: field for a touchdown completely turn the game round. Is
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  Speaker 1: that the kind of thing that he's talking about and.
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  Speaker 3: For him and really the whole offense, Like, we got
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  Speaker 3: the ball for the first time. We well not the
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  Speaker 3: first time. We had two snaps and we had the turnover.
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  Speaker 3: But so our third snap of the game, it's fourteen
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  Speaker 3: to oh, and I asked on the headset because I'm
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  Speaker 3: up top, I said, how do we.
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  Speaker 4: Look down there? And to a man, every coach like
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  Speaker 4: we're good.
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  Speaker 3: Like nobody's blinking, nobody's worried, they all know what's about
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  Speaker 3: to happen. And we go down, drive, score, get a stop,
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  Speaker 3: score and then roll from there, so that that drive
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  Speaker 3: was huge. And what I loved about what he did
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  Speaker 3: in that drive is he didn't, you know, fall into himself.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't start. I'm just gonna I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: mess anything up. I don't want to have anything bad happen,
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  Speaker 3: because something bad has already happened. Like, no, it's that's
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  Speaker 3: the ball there, I got Tay and I'm driving this
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  Speaker 3: thing down the field for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: So exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: That was a very good representation of where we're at
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  Speaker 3: as an offense and where he's at as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio States defense is at the very top of the
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  Speaker 1: list nationally in just about every significant category. But you
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  Speaker 1: know that numbers are great, but what do you actually
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  Speaker 1: see with the defense when you turn on the film?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got starters, really good players across the board.
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  Speaker 3: They roll out there, they play extremely aggressive brand of defense.
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  Speaker 3: They pressure a bunch, they'll come, they'll press their corners,
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  Speaker 3: they'll press their safeties, their nickel. They let their defensive
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  Speaker 3: linemen change up their rush techniques. Like everything they do
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  Speaker 3: is designed to try to create negatives and to try
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  Speaker 3: to take the will of an offense. So they present
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  Speaker 3: a very unique challenge there are really good defense. That's why,
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  Speaker 3: as you said, their numbers are at the top, if
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  Speaker 3: not the top, of every defensive category right there.
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  Speaker 4: It's a unique challenge.
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  Speaker 3: We feel like our guys are ready for it and
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  Speaker 3: they're looking forward to what that challenge is going to
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  Speaker 3: be on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked in the past about Ohio State like and
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  Speaker 1: use twelve personnel in a certain circumstances on offense, twelve
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  Speaker 1: personnel being one running back and two tight ends. So
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  Speaker 1: when Tennessee does that, what does that bring both in
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  Speaker 1: the throw and the run game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bunch and like you said, in the
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  Speaker 3: passing game too, created a bunch of individual matchups for
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  Speaker 3: us out wide, and you know the twelve personnel passing
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  Speaker 3: game and when people were playing wide, it created big
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  Speaker 3: holes inside. So it's been a really really good addition
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  Speaker 3: for us. The tight end room led us to be
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  Speaker 3: able to do that. We had some really good players
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  Speaker 3: in there, and I think there's a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: like when you get big, it's to run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, you get big and you got those
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  Speaker 3: whiteouts out there that can run the way our guys can.
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  Speaker 3: It creates one on ones and We've had a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of big explosive plays in the twelve personnel passing game,
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  Speaker 3: so it's been a huge addition to what we did.
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  Speaker 3: It was something we knew we wanted to grow starting
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  Speaker 3: in February, and we committed to it, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing the fruits of that here in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee. Expecting to face a hostile crowd this weekend in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Now when you're trying to make a third down play
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  Speaker 1: call and you're really trying to make sure the players
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  Speaker 1: get it right and everyone's on the same page because
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  Speaker 1: you don't have a miscommunication on third down. But also
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  Speaker 1: it's a loud, hostile crowd and it's only going to
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  Speaker 1: get louder and more hostile is that play clock winds
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  Speaker 1: down and they have more time to yell and scream
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  Speaker 1: and cheer. How do you balance getting it right with
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  Speaker 1: not giving the crowd extra time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you said, it's what is the actual
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  Speaker 3: situation that's going on right here? You know, like, are
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  Speaker 3: you in a good situation? Bats what's the momentum, the
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  Speaker 3: feel of the game. The most important thing, like people
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  Speaker 3: talk about our tempo and all that stuff, is running
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  Speaker 3: good efficient football plays like that is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it comes down to. And if we have
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  Speaker 3: to sacrifice the tempo to get everything communicate to get
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  Speaker 3: on the same page, we'll do that. If we can
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  Speaker 3: play with our tempo, we'll do that. If we want
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: to sub and move bodies around to get people in
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  Speaker 3: the right spot to try to create an advance advantageous matchup,
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  Speaker 3: we'll do that.
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  Speaker 4: So there's not really one way to do this thing.
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  Speaker 3: And especially when you go, like you said, into a
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  Speaker 3: hostile environment, the most important thing is always going to
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: be running good football plays efficiently, and then everything else
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: takes a back seat to that.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: And finally, the Buckeyes that defense looks pretty menacing on
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: the stat sheet. They've put up thirty five sacks this year,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: a lot from the defensive line, in particular from.
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  Speaker 4: The edge position.
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  Speaker 1: So how is the highest state defensive line going to
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  Speaker 1: stress Tennessee's tackles and even quarterback Nico iam Alaiava.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's picking your times to push it down
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  Speaker 3: the field with you out being reckless about it. Would
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: they try to talk you out of pushing the ball
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  Speaker 3: down the field? They try to talk you out of
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  Speaker 3: playing aggressively. So we have to not allow that to
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  Speaker 3: be something that we're saying we're going to go play
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: in a box now. But like I said from the
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  Speaker 3: they got really good players and they let them turn
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  Speaker 3: loose and they go play them.
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  Speaker 4: That's the challenge with these guys.
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  Speaker 3: So our tackles, know, our quarterbacks, know, our whole offense
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  Speaker 3: knows what this is going to be on Saturday night.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: It's going to be a fight for sixty minutes. But
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: we're looking forward to that opportunity and a chance to
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  Speaker 3: mix it up with these guys.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: There you go, Now you know a little bit more
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: from both of Tennessee's coordinators. Just thought that was a
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: little bit of an interesting perspective. I'll try and get
• 14:31
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• 14:34
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• 14:36
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• 14:38
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• 14:41
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• 14:43
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• 14:46
  Speaker 1: talk about what Ohio State needs to do to win
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: the game. We'll have our Bold Prediction show. We'll have
• 14:50
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• 14:52
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• 14:54
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• 14:58
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• 15:01
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• 15:03
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• 15:07
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• 15:10
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• 15:12
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• 15:14
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• 15:17
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• 15:18
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• 15:22
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• 15:24
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• 15:26
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• 15:29
  Speaker 1: you there. That'll do it for today. Thank you guys
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk
• 15:33
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