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TreVeyon Henderson's Unheralded Impact On Ohio State's Win At Michigan State · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Guys tomorrow morning from Monday, September thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Iowa game in five days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in sixty one days. The Buck
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  Speaker 1: Guys are back home following your thirty eight to seven
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  Speaker 1: win over Michigan State over the weekend. They are four
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  Speaker 1: and oh. They are turning the page to not only
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  Speaker 1: the Iowah Hawkeys, but also the month of October September.
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  Speaker 1: And now when the rearview mirror four relatively easy wins
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  Speaker 1: behind them, now the task gets a little tougher. Today
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be hearing from Ohio State head coach
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day some of his thoughts after the game. If
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Saturday Night, Buck guys started a little slow.
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  Speaker 1: It was an interesting game up until just before halftime,
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  Speaker 1: but right before the half, it felt like momentum really
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  Speaker 1: swung the Bucky's got to stop on defense, got the ball,
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  Speaker 1: went sixty yards and six plays and finishing it up
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  Speaker 1: with that crazy seventeen yard touchdown reception by Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 1: the second of his one handed catches in the span
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  Speaker 1: of a couple of minutes that extended the lead to
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven and basically was the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game for all intensive purposes. So how important was
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  Speaker 1: that sequence there right before halftime? Also, we will apologize
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  Speaker 1: in advance. The camera's going to bounce up and down
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  Speaker 1: a couple times during this show, including at the start
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  Speaker 1: of this this answer. The camera is on a riser
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  Speaker 1: yet because there were multiple levels of cameras, and anytime
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  Speaker 1: anyone stepped on or off or adjusted their weight on
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  Speaker 1: that bound on that camera riser, everyone's camera bounced, So
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  Speaker 1: apologize for that. So here's Ryan Day's thoughts on the
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  Speaker 1: sequence right before the halftime.
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  Speaker 2: It really sort of change things, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, something we spent a lot of time talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Now you guys have seen how much we've we've you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get some of those two minute drills on
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  Speaker 3: the first few games. But you know, that middle eight
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  Speaker 3: is important. And we felt like if we could get
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  Speaker 3: a stopped there on the second down, we're gonna call
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  Speaker 3: that time out. We got to stop on that third down,
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  Speaker 3: call the timeout, and then it gave us an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to to take a shot at scoring. And I think
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  Speaker 3: we ended up getting the ball at the minus forty.
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  Speaker 2: I think, if if my.
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  Speaker 3: My memory is right on that and then and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, just some tremendous plays, you know, the play
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  Speaker 3: by Jeremiah and then you know we we.
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  Speaker 2: At least have a field goal there. So we got
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  Speaker 2: to play smart.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought Chip was aggressive, did a really good
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  Speaker 3: job of calling him and and Devin stepped up in
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  Speaker 3: a big way, came in for for Will and delivered
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  Speaker 3: that throw. But I mean, what an unbelievable catch it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I couldn't believe he caught it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just just a tremendous play. But but then I thought
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  Speaker 3: we came out in the second second half too, and
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  Speaker 3: continued that because, uh, twenty eight to seven and a half,
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  Speaker 3: and we wanted to get the thing to at least
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  Speaker 3: thirty five. And you know, I think when you know,
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  Speaker 3: you come out and you can you can you know,
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  Speaker 3: get a three and out or I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it was exactly a three and out and then get
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  Speaker 3: the ball back and score another touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: It just it flips the game.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought we that was kind of where the
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  Speaker 3: game turned.
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  Speaker 1: One of the reasons the game was interesting so close
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  Speaker 1: to halftime was that the defense did not get off
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  Speaker 1: to a great start. First quarter was pretty rocky, and
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  Speaker 1: even in the in the second quarter, there were definitely
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  Speaker 1: some issues. So what were those issues for the defense
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  Speaker 1: in the first half against Michigan State.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, when you look at the at you know,
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  Speaker 3: the sum total of it all fifty plays and two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and forty six yards and seven points. He'd come
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  Speaker 3: away and he said, geez, well, what a great performance.
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  Speaker 3: And certainly I thought we did a really good job
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  Speaker 3: of shutting down, especially in the second half. But but
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  Speaker 3: but there's some things we got to look at in
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  Speaker 3: the film and figure out, you know, kind of early on,
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  Speaker 3: like you said, some explosive plays in there that we
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  Speaker 3: got to clean up. I think that we were watching
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  Speaker 3: the film at halftime. We were close to getting to
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback with a couple of things. We just needed
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  Speaker 3: to hang on car for just to tick longer. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, listen, they're they're a good team, and they're
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  Speaker 3: well coached and they have good players too. But I
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  Speaker 3: thought we responded and made the change is appropriate and
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  Speaker 3: in game adjustments were solid.
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  Speaker 2: This one's relatively quick.
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  Speaker 1: Just updates on will Howard, who left the game after
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  Speaker 1: a big hit in the second quarter. Obviously came back
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  Speaker 1: in so he was okay. But just an update on
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  Speaker 1: him and then TYLERK. Williams. Ryan Day told us Friday
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  Speaker 1: night when they Buckeyes landed in He's Lansing that Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Williams was going to be available, and there were folks
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  Speaker 1: in our live chat that said always going to play,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, not so fast. My friends available and
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  Speaker 1: going to play not always the same thing. He did
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  Speaker 1: not play on Saturday night, so okay, So after he
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  Speaker 1: was available, why didn't he play against the spart.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we will. It's good to go.
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  Speaker 3: Just you know, took a shot there, as you guys
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  Speaker 3: saw ti league was available, he was going to be
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  Speaker 3: was available in an emergency role. If we felt like
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  Speaker 3: we needed them, we were going to put him in
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  Speaker 3: the game. He was cleared, but felt like one more week,
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  Speaker 3: almost like the Donovan situation, one more week of rest,
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  Speaker 3: you know, will get him to one hundred percent, which
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  Speaker 3: we felt like was the right thing to do. If
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  Speaker 3: we needed to, we could have put him in the game.
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  Speaker 2: We decided we didn't need him.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeye defense had a little bit of a rough
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  Speaker 1: start against the Spartans, but they also forced three turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: Also got off the field on a fourth down stop
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  Speaker 1: on a really big hit by Cody Simon right over
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  Speaker 1: the center just boom met the ball carrier stopped him
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  Speaker 1: before he got to the line of scrimmage. Huge play
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  Speaker 1: to get off the field. How big was that for
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  Speaker 1: the defense to be able to find different ways to
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  Speaker 1: get off the field.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean the turnover battle was huge and
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  Speaker 3: in this game, and you know, if we don't get
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  Speaker 3: those turnovers, you know, maybe it's a different game for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But that's the game, and you know, we got to
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  Speaker 3: make sure we're winning the situations. So you know, we'll
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  Speaker 3: take a look at the film and figure out where
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  Speaker 3: it's at. But but I thought the atmosphere was was
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  Speaker 3: excellent early on. I thought, you know, they came out,
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  Speaker 3: played really really hard. I think again, Johnson's doing a
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  Speaker 3: really good job of you know, putting his culture.
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  Speaker 2: Into in his thumb print on the program here.
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  Speaker 3: You can see it going and got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: resp for him and his staff. But but but I
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  Speaker 3: thought our guys responded well and and had some really
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  Speaker 3: good poise. That was something that we talked about coming
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  Speaker 3: into the game, is having poise and the noise, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting down in there. Some of those fourth down conversions
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  Speaker 3: are pretty clutch.
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  Speaker 1: This was Will Howard's first road game as a Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: and had a few bad moments, maybe a couple bad plays,
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  Speaker 1: but overall pretty solid. How did Ryan Day assess the
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  Speaker 1: play of Will Howard?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the biggest one was the interception. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he knows, I mean that was that was not a
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  Speaker 3: good play and it could have cost us, so something
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  Speaker 3: to learn from. You just had to move on from
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  Speaker 3: it and and you know, work through his progression there.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, when when you're going through you know,
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  Speaker 3: learning a new offense and everything is going to be
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  Speaker 3: some of these growing opportunities and learning from those opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: So but overall I thought he was solid.
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  Speaker 3: He was he was poised, made some big, big, big
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  Speaker 3: throws and then and then you know, a couple of runs,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of tough runs in there that that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you can see what a difference it makes when you
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  Speaker 3: have somebody who can run.
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  Speaker 1: All of the talk on social media, on our board,
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  Speaker 1: at buckey huddle dot com and seemingly everywhere else on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night was about Jeremiah Smith. It feels like Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State fans have been had enormous expectations for him basically
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  Speaker 1: since he stepped on campus. Feels like the national audience
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  Speaker 1: is sort of slowly trying to, you know, starting to
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  Speaker 1: figure it out as well, that this kid is the
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  Speaker 1: real deal. So how has Jeremiah Smith managed to meet
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  Speaker 1: or even exceed what we're absolutely insanely high expectations for
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  Speaker 1: him entering the season's work ethic?
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  Speaker 3: He does it every day in practice, I mean, just
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  Speaker 3: doesn't say a word, but works his tail off. Its
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  Speaker 3: disciplined as humility. He loves being a Buckeye. You can
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  Speaker 3: tell just with the way he works with his teammates
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  Speaker 3: and he's coming out of his shell a little bit too,
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  Speaker 3: which is great to see. But I mean, the talent
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  Speaker 3: speaks for itself. I just am impressed with the discipline
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  Speaker 3: and the hard work and being able to step in
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  Speaker 3: at such a young age. The only way you do
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  Speaker 3: that is if you go in and put the work in,
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  Speaker 3: and he came in with that work ethic. Brian certainly
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  Speaker 3: taken it from there, but this is a specially young man.
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  Speaker 1: Another guy who came into the season with crazy high expectations,
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  Speaker 1: had a couple relatively quiet games to start the season,
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  Speaker 1: but had a nice, really big coming out party on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night was Caleb Downs. Obviously, he was a freshman
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  Speaker 1: All American. He's not exactly an unknown quantity by any means,
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  Speaker 1: but he had a team high six tackles, high for
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  Speaker 1: the team high with six tackles, had a big tackle
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  Speaker 1: for loss at one point. How big is it for
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  Speaker 1: the team to have Caleb Downs really kind of taking
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  Speaker 1: that step forward and being the player that they expected
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  Speaker 1: him to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought Caleb played great tonight, showed up in
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  Speaker 3: a big way on a bunch of different spots and
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  Speaker 3: you can just see the acceleration, how fast he plays,
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  Speaker 3: and a part of that is his athleticism, but another
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  Speaker 3: part is just the way he prepares. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: prepares as hard as anybody on our team. And you
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  Speaker 3: know he was he was all over the place tonight
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  Speaker 3: and huge. He made a huge difference. And you said,
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  Speaker 3: in kind of turning that that point where they were
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  Speaker 3: moving the ball some and he got he got us
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  Speaker 3: going a little bit back there. And though those were
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  Speaker 3: some big plays and I think it kind of felt
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  Speaker 3: like it turned the momentum for us on defense.
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  Speaker 1: What of the really underrated moments of the game came
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  Speaker 1: after two things we talked about. One was the injury
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  Speaker 1: to Will Howard. He went down right before the half.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Brown had to come in cold off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: He finished that touchdown drive, made that touchdown throw to
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith on that seventeen yard yarder to make it
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. How impressed was Ryan Day with
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  Speaker 1: Devin Brown just being able to come in cold off
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  Speaker 1: the bench and finish that drive off.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a clutch play. It was a clutch play.
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  Speaker 2: He put it there.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we told them, you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: have the opportunity to throw it, rip it. Only throw
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  Speaker 3: it where you know, you know the receiver can catch it.
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  Speaker 2: You know. He had a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Different options there if if nothing was there, just throw
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  Speaker 3: it out of bounds and kicked the field goal. And
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  Speaker 3: he did that, and he gave him a chance, and
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  Speaker 3: so it was good. It was good to see him
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  Speaker 3: make that play and that big spot.
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  Speaker 1: Another Buckeye star on offense who had a really nice
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  Speaker 1: night on Saturday night was Traveon Henderson. He had seven carries,
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  Speaker 1: just under ten yards per carry, nine point nine yards
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  Speaker 1: per carry on his seven carries, But the big story
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  Speaker 1: of his I might have actually been something that did
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  Speaker 1: not show up on the statue. Pass protection not the
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  Speaker 1: most exciting part of the game necessarily, but maybe one
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  Speaker 1: of the most important parts of the game in ryan
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  Speaker 1: days eyes. A couple of really big blitz pickups from
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  Speaker 1: from freyvon Henderson just maybe even made a bigger difference
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  Speaker 1: than all those rushing yards.
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  Speaker 3: He had some great pickups, huge pickups, the one on
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  Speaker 3: the touchdown in Jeremiah and the touchdown to a Mecca,
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  Speaker 3: and there was a couple more. He did a really
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  Speaker 3: good job coming across. I got to watch the film,
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  Speaker 3: but there's like three of them in particular. I he
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  Speaker 3: came across and picked up some corner fires and did
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  Speaker 3: a nice job.
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  Speaker 2: That was big.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's becoming that all purpose back that you know
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  Speaker 3: we all know he can be. And you know, again
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  Speaker 3: I thought they ran hard, but yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think where we are right now is we're making progress,
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  Speaker 3: but we got a long way to go, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that you know, our guys have that mindset.
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  Speaker 3: It was good to get this win on the road,
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  Speaker 3: first road win, good environment, but you know, we know
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  Speaker 3: that the challenges are bigger ahead. So we got to
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  Speaker 3: get on his film and stay hung and you know,
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  Speaker 3: keep the journey going. But you know, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: get back to work tomorrow, and we know that we
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  Speaker 3: got a really good Iowa team coming in here next week.
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  Speaker 2: They have had a week off just like always.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're a very very good team, play complimentary football,
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  Speaker 3: and so we know we got a big challenge ahead
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  Speaker 3: of us.
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  Speaker 2: So we got to have a great week of practice.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, it seemed like whenever the Buck guys really
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  Speaker 1: needed a big play, they had something to pull out
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  Speaker 1: of their bag to make a make that big play.
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  Speaker 2: Happen.
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  Speaker 1: One great example that end around to Jeremiah Smith hadn't
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  Speaker 1: shown that yet this season, and then boom when they
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  Speaker 1: needed a nice touchdown run for him nineteen yards. Did
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  Speaker 1: we make it a seventeen to seven lead and kind
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  Speaker 1: of start stretching things back out after Michigan State had scored.
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  Speaker 1: So is that Chip Kelly's influence that creativity? Is that
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day Who's who's behind all those creative solutions?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's everybody on the staff.
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  Speaker 3: There's collaboration, but but Chip's got a great feel for it,
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  Speaker 3: for the game and calling the plays, and it was always,
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  Speaker 3: you know, have some wrinkles in there. We got a
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  Speaker 3: few other ones that you know, we held off on.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's it's a balance of making sure
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  Speaker 3: that you have your fastballs where you're running downhill and
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  Speaker 3: you feel really good about them, but having enough curve
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  Speaker 3: balls that you know, we can create explosive plays. And
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  Speaker 3: that's that's that balance you're constantly looking for. But we
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  Speaker 3: always want to try to find ways to get you know,
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  Speaker 3: the ball to our playmakers in space, and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to keep trying to do that.
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