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Ohio State 31, Iowa 14: 3 Things We Learned From A Comfortable Buckeyes Win · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, October 4th. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Orr. The Maryland game in six days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in 55 days. Today's episode presented
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  Speaker 1: here on the field at Kinnick Stadium, Buckeyes A 31-14
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  Speaker 1: winner over Iowa on Saturday on a gorgeous day here. Really,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just a phenomenal day of football. This feels
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  Speaker 1: like a game where it wasn't perfect, but Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: fans should be walking away from this one feeling pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. You got everything you wanted to get accomplished, including
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  Speaker 2: some things you need to work on, and you come
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  Speaker 2: away with a win and a cover in a week
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of people were saying they thought Iowa
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  Speaker 2: was going to jump up and beat Ohio State potentially.
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  Speaker 2: And the Buckeyes kind of handled this from start to finish.
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  Speaker 2: But again, yeah, some things to work on for sure.
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  Speaker 2: As this team, you know, I kind of naively thought
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  Speaker 2: they might know what was, you know, what was best
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  Speaker 2: for them and how they were going to best be
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  Speaker 2: utilized a little earlier. That was probably unrealistic with all
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  Speaker 2: the new guys, but we're seeing improvement week to week.
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  Speaker 2: I think in all the areas we keep referencing need improvement.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought we saw it again today.
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  Speaker 1: One area that does not need any improvement is just
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  Speaker 1: fine as it is. Thank you very much. It is
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  Speaker 1: a guy that wears number four on offense. Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 1: first player in Ohio State history to have back-to-back 200-yard
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  Speaker 1: receiving games. Is it? Currently the Ohio State career leader
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  Speaker 1: in receiving yardage, receiving touchdowns, receptions. That's it. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the records. He has them all. He's played five games
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  Speaker 1: in his third season. Not bad. He had 207 yards,
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  Speaker 1: another couple touchdowns. Just another day where, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the conversation was up in the press box, but
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  Speaker 1: in the photo workroom, there was just a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Iowa people just kind of going, man, that's just not fair.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Tom. The first one where he
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  Speaker 2: caught it and kind of got loose in open field
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  Speaker 2: was such a burst that from up there in that view,
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  Speaker 2: it was just such a different thing than anything else
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  Speaker 2: on the field watching him do it. It was the
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  Speaker 2: first time it really hit me like, this is so...
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  Speaker 2: the speed is so different. Sometimes he'll hit the jets
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  Speaker 2: in a way that's just different. And that first one
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  Speaker 2: was like that, but yeah, I mean another, another day
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  Speaker 2: where also you feed him 15 or so targets, which
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  Speaker 2: is like, man, Art Smith wasn't playing when he talked
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the week, like we're moving them around in
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  Speaker 2: different ways and getting them the ball. And they sure did.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think that anybody would have guessed that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at Iowa, he was going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to not just hit the record, but hit some big ones.
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  Speaker 2: Because I think everybody thought, you know, Phil Parker's going
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  Speaker 2: to make sure he's going to shut that down.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't think it was possible.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's going to be able to shut
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  Speaker 2: this guy down this year. It's just too different, and
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State's too determined to make it happen. But so impressive,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm so upset that you missed the Heisman pose
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  Speaker 2: with the long lens.
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  Speaker 1: I heard you're not standing over there.
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  Speaker 2: Because that happened to me. I'm just getting used to
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  Speaker 2: the photography thing. You've got to have the short lens
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  Speaker 2: when you're up close.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You got stuck. Well, and I had my wide-angle lens...
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  Speaker 1: For the first half when I'm like, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: need the wide stadium shots for the wave. And then
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  Speaker 1: I probably don't need it. I'm going to leave it
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  Speaker 1: in the photo room. I'm just going to have the
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  Speaker 1: long lens because I'm mostly shooting from a distance. And
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  Speaker 1: then he does the Heisman pose five feet in front
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  Speaker 1: of me. Well, I've got a great shot from him
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  Speaker 1: from like there to about his belly button. And it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: his hand is kind of down there and his head's
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  Speaker 1: up there. But you know what he's doing. So I
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  Speaker 1: will contact the Pulitzer people and see what they think. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the running game today. I thought was really
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  Speaker 1: impressive for the Buckeyes as well, where it was not explosive.
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  Speaker 1: It was not a huge number, but it was just
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  Speaker 1: so consistent. It was efficient. You know, Ryan Day talks
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  Speaker 1: about efficient, and Ryan Day talks about explosive. It was
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  Speaker 1: not explosive, but man, it just felt like every time
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  Speaker 1: they gave Jacoby Jackson or Bo Jackson the ball, until
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  Speaker 1: that final drive where they were kind of, everyone in
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  Speaker 1: the stadium knew they were going to run it, and
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  Speaker 1: they were kind of just running out the clock, for
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  Speaker 1: the first three quarters of the game they really there
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  Speaker 1: was an awful lot of five yards six yards eight
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  Speaker 1: yards some tens some twelves but just so many fives
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  Speaker 1: and sixes if you can just kind of do that
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  Speaker 1: man that that really that's all they really need on
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  Speaker 1: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we talked in the pregame show and i think
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  Speaker 2: the number we kind of said is you know get
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  Speaker 2: four and a half a carry uh you're golden that's
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  Speaker 2: about what they did isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Right about yeah well yeah but uh Jacoby Jackson finished
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  Speaker 1: with 5.1. Bo Jackson finished with 4.4. There we go.
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  Speaker 2: And 46 carries was, wow. I mean, you're not running
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  Speaker 2: it that many times if you're not feeling like it's effective.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day certainly liked the running game today. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking all week is this situation where we
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  Speaker 2: kind of start to see Jacoby maybe kind of take
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  Speaker 2: the lead role here. And we did see him come
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  Speaker 2: in first, but it was off a turnover. So you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of inside the 20. So maybe it doesn't really.
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  Speaker 2: But then second possession, here he comes again. And he
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  Speaker 2: was super today. I thought he was, the effort that he,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was getting leverage and driving with his
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  Speaker 2: legs when he would make contact. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if not before now, he kind of seems like he
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  Speaker 2: is definitely taking that role as the lead back. But
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  Speaker 2: Bo also, you know, put up another. over four yards
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  Speaker 2: of carry, and that was good. I thought Isaiah looked
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  Speaker 2: good in a couple of runs. A couple of them
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  Speaker 2: he had no chance, which kind of hurt his average.
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  Speaker 2: We had some breakdowns there on a few of those,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought he looked good as well. So all
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  Speaker 2: three of those guys looked really well for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. The last couple, you know, once they were
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  Speaker 1: inside the last couple minutes of the game, he had
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  Speaker 1: three negative four and two. There we go. From the
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  Speaker 1: first four runs of the game for him, two, six, four, eight.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to take that ten times out of ten,
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  Speaker 1: I think. last thing we got to talk about is
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  Speaker 1: a defense. Cause man, you look at, you go back
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  Speaker 1: and look at our game thread on our board or
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  Speaker 1: you look at Twitter. And if you want, if you
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  Speaker 1: just look at the first half, you think Ohio state's
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  Speaker 1: going to have, they're well on their way to have
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  Speaker 1: another 55, 24 loss here. And then in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa just did like nothing until very, very late. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that last, the last drive, they did score a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: at the end, but that was when the game was
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  Speaker 1: well out, you know, well in hand. From the second
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  Speaker 1: quarter until the fourth quarter, so the middle two quarters
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  Speaker 1: of the game, four plays, 26 yards punt, six plays,
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  Speaker 1: 20 yards punt, one play, two yards to the half,
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  Speaker 1: three plays, three yards punt, three plays, zero yards punt,
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  Speaker 1: seven plays, 25 yards interception. The back-to-back three and outs
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  Speaker 1: at the start of the third quarter, that was the
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  Speaker 1: moment where it felt like, you know, Ohio State had
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  Speaker 1: scored before the half, and it felt like, okay, they've
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  Speaker 1: sort of taken control of the game. That's where they
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  Speaker 1: just kind of choked the life out of it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's great to see that coming out of halftime
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  Speaker 2: because there were, you know, some things. And, of course,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about it at Buckeye Insiders and where you
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  Speaker 2: can join us on the Buckeye Insiders board if you
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  Speaker 2: want to. But I'm sure most of you probably saw
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  Speaker 2: our scheme guys talk about what was wrong against Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of that schematic fit, a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: alignment fits were much better today. So we saw the
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  Speaker 2: improvement there. We saw it even more so in the
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  Speaker 2: second half where they dialed it in a little more
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  Speaker 2: and just kind of BOA restricted them. to less than
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  Speaker 2: two yards of carry, which Iowa last week was 2.3
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  Speaker 2: yards of carry against Michigan. I was thinking, well, Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State's not going to do that good, but how good
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  Speaker 2: can they do? They beat them at Kinnick in that statistic,
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  Speaker 2: which I was very, very happy about. And then they
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  Speaker 2: held Hank Brown to 53% completion percentage. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: win every time doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Iowa, when Hank Brown was in there, yeah, 12
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  Speaker 1: for 27, actually ended up 44% for Hank Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Because then... Heklinski came in on that last drive and
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  Speaker 1: was five for five. But, you know, at that point,
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  Speaker 1: they're shuffling guys in. And at that point, the game's over.
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  Speaker 1: That game's over to the point where Iowa scored and
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  Speaker 1: didn't even bother onside kicking because they were down three
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  Speaker 1: scores with nine minutes left and they were kind of
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  Speaker 1: waving the white flag at that point, too.
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  Speaker 2: And some promising run defense from Quay Russo today. Made
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  Speaker 2: a couple of nice solo plays on his own. We
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  Speaker 2: got to hear from him after the game. And he
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  Speaker 2: seems like he recognizes that he hasn't done much and
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  Speaker 2: was happy to get it going today. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: something as we talk about that. edge position not being
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  Speaker 2: you know sealed up really it's nice to see him
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  Speaker 2: make some plays in the run game also with a
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  Speaker 2: really good pass rush 1.5 tfl's fantastic news to have
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  Speaker 2: somebody over there get involved in.
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  Speaker 1: The game well and they get zion grady back and
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  Speaker 1: he had four tackles he was very involved early in
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  Speaker 1: the game kenyatta jackson had a strip sack right off
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  Speaker 1: the bat i mean iowa gets the ball and then
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  Speaker 1: boom they've already turned it over like two minutes into
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  Speaker 1: the game and ohio state is basically done the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of what Iowa did the last time where Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: got the ball and Iowa scored immediately. Ohio State gets
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  Speaker 1: the immediate turnover, two plays, 14 yards, touchdown to Devin McEwen.
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  Speaker 1: And they have, I mean, that really took the life
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  Speaker 1: out of the crowd for a little bit here. But
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to see Diane Grady back is good news.
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  Speaker 1: Quay Rousseau making a little bit of impact, good news.
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  Speaker 1: Kenyatta Jackson continues to be very, very good. Edward Houston
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  Speaker 1: felt like he played one of his better games, I think,
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  Speaker 1: this year. It feels like there's some signs of progress.
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  Speaker 1: It is not fixed by any means. It's not like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: everything's solved, hooray, forever. But it feels like there's tangible
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  Speaker 1: signs of progress there and in a lot of other
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  Speaker 1: areas right now.
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  Speaker 2: And you're still limiting points. Two games in a row,
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  Speaker 2: despite some plays, you gave up. You had less explosives today.
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  Speaker 2: You certainly had, you know, two games in a row
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  Speaker 2: where it might have felt like it was really bad
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  Speaker 2: because we're used to ridiculously great Ohio State defenses. But
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  Speaker 2: you're limiting points. And you're always going to win if
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  Speaker 2: you're limiting these teams to 19 and 12 points. It's,
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  Speaker 2: It's a foregone conclusion the way this offense is operating
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  Speaker 2: right now to me. So Buckeyes win, Buckeyes cover, just
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  Speaker 2: like we thought heading into this, and great game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a lot for Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 1: ground game, what's working in the pass game, what's working
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