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Everything Ryan Day Said About Arch Manning And The Texas Longhorns · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Thursday, August twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: Today Show, you're going to get to hear directly from
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Speaker 1: Ohio State head coach Ryan Day. He had plenty of
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Speaker 1: interesting stuff to say when we got a chance to
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Speaker 1: talk to him earlier in the day. You're going to
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Speaker 1: get to hear pretty much all of it. There are
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Speaker 1: a few questions that touch on some stuff completely outside
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Speaker 1: of this weekend's game against Texas and some of the
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Speaker 1: other sort of big picture stuff with new starters and
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Speaker 1: all that, but you're going to get to hear the
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Speaker 1: vast majority of it. So we're going to start, well,
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Speaker 1: this is a Big ten team, so we're going to
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Speaker 1: start we're all special teams. One of the first questions
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Speaker 1: of Ryan Day is, Okay, we haven't actually heard from
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Speaker 1: you any specifics on who you're expecting to start at
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Speaker 1: kicker or punter, who was also asked about the kick
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Speaker 1: returners punt returners, didn't answer that, but he did have
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Speaker 1: some thoughts on who would be kicking and punting for
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Speaker 1: them this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we we allowed both of those guys
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Speaker 2: to have competitions, you know, at kicker and at punter,
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Speaker 2: and so you know, both guys, both incumbents, have done
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Speaker 2: a great job in camp. So you know, we still
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Speaker 2: have to go through this week of practice, but you know,
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Speaker 2: our expectation is that Jane and Joey will handle the kicking.
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Speaker 1: All right, we have gotten our contractually obligated Big Ten
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Speaker 1: Special teams talk out of the way. Now let's talk
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Speaker 1: about the starting quarterback new starter for Ohio States on
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Speaker 1: one of the team, and about fans. I think are
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Speaker 1: very excited for former five star recruit Julian Sayan getting
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Speaker 1: his first start on Saturday. What are Ryan Day's expectations
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Speaker 1: for Julian saying against Texas?
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Speaker 2: Well, the message you just win, find a way to win.
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Speaker 2: I think when you start setting expectations, you can get
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Speaker 2: yourself out of whack. We're going to take it one
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Speaker 2: play at a time. He's got a good group of
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Speaker 2: guys around him. He's got a good defense, he's got
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Speaker 2: good special teams, a good offensive line, good skill guys.
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Speaker 2: He needs to lean into those those players and find
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Speaker 2: a way to win the game. You know, we'll try
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Speaker 2: to get him into a rhythm and then go from there.
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Speaker 2: And that's that's really it. You know, it's a start.
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Speaker 2: It's it's the first game, and we're excited for him.
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Speaker 2: You know, you're seeing him every day get more and
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Speaker 2: more confident, more and more comfortable and what we're trying
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Speaker 2: to do. But you know, we got to get out
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Speaker 2: the field and play, and it's it's about time.
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Speaker 1: Another position where the buck Eyes are sort of figuring
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Speaker 1: out who is going to be their starter is at
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Speaker 1: right tackle. And while Ryan Day doesn't give you a
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Speaker 1: direct answer here, it does sound like he's much more
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Speaker 1: confident one guy playing there than the other. So that
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Speaker 1: may be your answer.
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Speaker 2: I think we're going to kind of leave that towards
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Speaker 2: the end of the week and we'll, you know, let
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Speaker 2: the week play out, let these guys compete. Certainly, Phil
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Speaker 2: will play a lot, you know, whether we rotate or not,
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Speaker 2: we'll we'll decide, But but he's he's had a really
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Speaker 2: good preseason and he's ready to play.
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Speaker 1: There have been plenty of years in the past where
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Speaker 1: one early season loss could largely doom you to a
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Speaker 1: no more chance to play for the national championship. That
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Speaker 1: is no longer the case with the college football playoff.
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Speaker 1: You can afford a loss or to so get a
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Speaker 1: chance to play for the national title. So how do
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Speaker 1: you balance the fact that this is an enormous game
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Speaker 1: week one, one of the biggest games of the season,
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Speaker 1: but it's also not really a do or die game anymore.
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Speaker 1: How do you balance that with the messaging to the
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Speaker 1: team this week?
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Speaker 3: First off, I.
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Speaker 2: Think it's great for college football playing a game like
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Speaker 2: this opening weekend. And I have a tremendous amount of
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Speaker 2: respect for for Sark, for his coaching staff, for the players,
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Speaker 2: and we're excited to play these guys. You know, it's
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Speaker 2: rare that you would, you know, kind of play someone
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Speaker 2: like this towards the end of the season and start
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Speaker 2: the regular season with them. But but here we are,
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Speaker 2: and and I think it's going to give us a
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Speaker 2: great barometer coming out of the first game. But for us,
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Speaker 2: as we've talked about before. The preparation starts really early
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Speaker 2: because you've got to be on point and we got
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Speaker 2: to play a clean game.
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Speaker 3: That's very, very important.
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Speaker 2: And so you know, as you you know, get closer
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Speaker 2: and closer to the game, you know, you just do
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Speaker 2: everything you can to prepare the guys. I think when
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Speaker 2: you look at our season, which is unique this year,
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Speaker 2: you know, one of your goals should be to win
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Speaker 2: the opener. I mean, that's that's clear. We did that
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Speaker 2: when we had big ten games to open the season.
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Speaker 2: Win the opener, and then you kind of go from there,
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Speaker 2: which allows us an opportunity to focus on one game
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Speaker 2: at a time. And then you know, once this game's over,
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Speaker 2: we'll figure out what we did well we need to
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Speaker 2: improve on. The issues will be there, they'll surface, and
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Speaker 2: then we address them. So you know, it's an exciting
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Speaker 2: time of year because now we get on the field
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Speaker 2: and figure out where we're at, figure out where the
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Speaker 2: guys are at, and go from there. But it's important
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Speaker 2: that we play clean in game one.
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Speaker 1: This was an interesting question from our buddy Tony Gerdaman
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Speaker 1: at Bucky Huddle dot com. But scripting the first couple
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Speaker 1: drives of the game and that's something that Steve sarkisian
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Speaker 1: Texas coach and offensive guru. He is really known for it.
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Speaker 1: But how much of a challenge is it to put
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Speaker 1: together a good script when you're going up against a
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Speaker 1: brand new DC who does not worked in college in
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Speaker 1: twenty something years, like Matt Patricia, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: You know, Steve's a great play call, always has been,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I'm sure he has his method for
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Speaker 2: doing that. Usually, you know, most guys who are you know,
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Speaker 2: scripting games are trying to get the quarterback into a rhythm,
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Speaker 2: you know, So I'm sure they're going to want to
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Speaker 2: do that with with Arch and uh. And then he's
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Speaker 2: probably trying to identify what he's got out there, you know,
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Speaker 2: and and you know, different formations, different groupings, trying to
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Speaker 2: id what is going on in the field, and and
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Speaker 2: so it's it's usually a combination of those things. You
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Speaker 2: want to move the ball, but you also want to
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Speaker 2: get down the field and you want to score and
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Speaker 2: and then also also identify what's going on on the field,
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Speaker 2: what are you seeing? And I'm sure that's that'll be
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Speaker 2: his plan. His scripts are are very well known for
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Speaker 2: having a lot of success, So you know, we got
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Speaker 2: to do a great job of recognizing what they're trying
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Speaker 2: to do and get him on the ground.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that you'll hear people talk about
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Speaker 1: on TV all the time is in game adjustments. And
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Speaker 1: with an early season week one game, no previous preseason
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Speaker 1: games for either Texas or Ohio State, is one where
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Speaker 1: your initial plan is maybe not going to be the
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Speaker 1: one that carries you through the full sixty minutes. So
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Speaker 1: is this game where those important game adjustments are maybe
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Speaker 1: a little more important? And how and when do those
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Speaker 1: adjustments really happen?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: As always, you know, the first half is you know,
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Speaker 2: you can make adjustments now pretty quickly on the sideline
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Speaker 2: with the tablets, but halftime is really where a lot
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Speaker 2: of adjustments get made. You know, we got to get
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Speaker 2: out there and play clean and get a feel for
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Speaker 2: what we got. And then I always say to the guys,
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Speaker 2: you know, at halftime where they're tied, winning or losing,
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Speaker 2: and then we have to come out and play well
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Speaker 2: in the second half. So yeah, how quick we can
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Speaker 2: identify that. I think what you're getting at is you
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Speaker 2: got to have continguency plans in place for what you
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Speaker 2: may see just because they've shown it in the past,
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that that's what they're necessarily going to do.
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Speaker 2: So we have to be ready for everything. And they're
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Speaker 2: a great coaching staff, so they definitely will have their wrinkles.
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Speaker 1: Next one, Ryan Day was asked about if he remembers
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Speaker 1: the first game where he was a play caller. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, this is Brian Hartline's first game as a
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Speaker 1: play caller. So does Ryan Day remember the ant remember
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Speaker 1: that you'll hear him say no. Someone later chimed in
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Speaker 1: and let him know. It was he was coaching at Temple.
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Speaker 1: It was against Villanova. They won that game forty one
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Speaker 1: to ten.
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Speaker 3: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Now you know the end of the story. Even though
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day and this answer does not remember all the details.
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Speaker 1: But what you know, his first game as a play caller,
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Speaker 1: how has he grown is as a play caller since then?
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Speaker 2: I don't actually remember the first game that I called.
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Speaker 2: I remember the first year I was at Temple, and
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Speaker 2: you know, you just you learn every time you come
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Speaker 2: out of a game, you learn more and more about that.
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Speaker 2: But one thing that I've I feel strongly about is
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Speaker 2: that you know, the more organized you are, the easier
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Speaker 2: it is to call. And what I mean organized, the
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Speaker 2: staff's organized, the practices organized, the game plans organized, how
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Speaker 2: we're calling plays is organized, so everybody knows exactly what's
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Speaker 2: going to be done ahead of time. You know. I
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Speaker 2: think one of the things that you know, probably you
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Speaker 2: know gets lost is the fact, like you don't just
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Speaker 2: go out there and just randomly call plays. You know,
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Speaker 2: all of these situations have been thought out very very well.
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Speaker 2: And now you know the way that we're playing football
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Speaker 2: where you get about ten possessions. Game situations are a
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Speaker 2: higher percentage of the game, so it allows you to
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Speaker 2: be more specific and more efficient in your play calling.
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Speaker 1: College football coaches are folks who will kind of tend
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Speaker 1: to fill the time that they have. If they have
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Speaker 1: a week to get ready for a game, they are
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Speaker 1: going to cram that week full of game prep. If
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Speaker 1: they have two weeks to get ready for a game,
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Speaker 1: they will cram those two weeks full of game prep.
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Speaker 1: If they have seven months for a game, how do
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Speaker 1: you avoid overthinking a game this big where you have
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Speaker 1: seven months to prepare?
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Speaker 2: And I think it's a great point because you can
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Speaker 2: do that, you can find yourself going you know, a
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Speaker 2: whole part, whole many times during this process. You know,
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Speaker 2: I feel like during that run at the end, you know,
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Speaker 2: those ten days was like a kind of a nice
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Speaker 2: sweet spot for us.
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Speaker 3: But we also had a body of work. This is
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Speaker 3: a new group of guys.
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Speaker 2: So just because it's a good play doesn't mean it's
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Speaker 2: necessarily going to work, because you know, we have guys
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Speaker 2: who are different than last year, just like they do.
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Speaker 3: You know, they have to replace people.
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Speaker 2: So you're what you're trying to do is find something
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Speaker 2: that you perceive is going to be a successful play
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Speaker 2: against what you're going to see, but also that you're
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Speaker 2: guys can execute. And so that's where you go back
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Speaker 2: and forth. And then, like we said, you know, you
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Speaker 2: may have to adjust along the way and making sure
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Speaker 2: you have enough because in game one there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of unknowns. So that's the balance that we try to find.
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Speaker 2: But ultimately, it's the coach's job to make sure these
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Speaker 2: guys can play fast, because that's it.
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Speaker 3: You know, we do have a fast team.
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Speaker 2: They have a fast team, but you know, how well
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Speaker 2: you coach them, how well you prepare them, will allow
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Speaker 2: them play faster.
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Speaker 3: And that's that's the key. As a coach. We can't
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Speaker 3: bog them down.
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Speaker 1: One of the positions where there's a lot of questions
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Speaker 1: at least coming out of the fall of the spring
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Speaker 1: camp and then kind of all throughout fall is the
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Speaker 1: depth at defensive tackle. You kind of have a sense
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Speaker 1: that it's Edric Houston and it's Cad McDonald. They feel
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Speaker 1: pretty good about those guys, but who are the top
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Speaker 1: backups behind those guys? And you will notice as he
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Speaker 1: answers this and names a couple different guys, he does
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Speaker 1: not mention Jason Moore. Just Moore has been in a
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Speaker 1: walking moot recently. I would guess he will probably not
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Speaker 1: be there out on the field this weekend.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say one guy because we're going to roll
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Speaker 2: those guys pretty good. I feel like we've developed some
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Speaker 2: depth there and I feel like we're going to, you know,
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Speaker 2: feel good about putting different guys in the game. So
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Speaker 2: you know, between Edric and k Maack and will you know,
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Speaker 2: uh Taiwan Malone, you know, even Jarquez, you've gotta see
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Speaker 2: guys kind of mix in and out of there. So
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Speaker 2: good news is we have depth there, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I feel like we made progress at that position. So
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Speaker 2: you know, now they got to go play, and we
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Speaker 2: got to go put it on the field against a
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Speaker 2: really good front.
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Speaker 1: One of the names you heard Ryan Day say just
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Speaker 1: there is Jarquez, and that would be Jarqus Carter, true freshman.
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Speaker 1: So to be in that kind of company as a
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Speaker 1: true freshman this early in the season at a spot
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Speaker 1: like the interer of the defensive line, that's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 1: So how impressed is Ryan Day with Jarqus Carter?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, he's got he's got twitch. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I think again, whether it's in game one or down
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Speaker 2: the road, these guys are going to help us. I
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Speaker 2: think that's the other thing too. It's like, as you
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Speaker 2: go into game one, you have a certain mindset, but
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Speaker 2: then it's also a long season, and so some of
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Speaker 2: these guys that are definitely gonna make an impact for
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Speaker 2: us this this year may or may not play in
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Speaker 2: Game one, don't know, because you know, we can't be
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Speaker 2: in a game like this game and just you know,
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Speaker 2: be trying to figure out what we're going to get
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Speaker 2: for type of play and performance, you know, So you know,
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Speaker 2: we'll usually err on the guys that have played before,
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Speaker 2: but you'll see some some fresh faces in there as well.
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Speaker 1: Randy made it clear that yes, Brian Hartline is going
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Speaker 1: to be calling plays, but as the head coach, especially
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Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, he has veto
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Speaker 1: power on play calls. He has been on the other
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Speaker 1: side of that dynamic before when he was the offensive
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Speaker 1: play caller and urban Meyer was the head coach on
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Speaker 1: the headset going no, no, no, no no. So what
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Speaker 1: was that like to be on the other side of that,
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Speaker 1: to be the play call to be the play caller
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Speaker 1: who was getting told no sometimes by someone like urban Meyer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I always say that if they ever recorded what is
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Speaker 2: said on the headsets, that you can make a lot
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Speaker 2: of money. Because yeah, and back then too, Coach Meyer
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Speaker 2: and I used to go at it. But I think
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Speaker 2: the thing that I really respected about Coach and he
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Speaker 2: respected about me was, you know, he would challenge me
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Speaker 2: and then I would go right back at him because
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Speaker 2: I felt strong about what we did, you know, and
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Speaker 2: as long as you were strong about it, then he
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Speaker 2: respected that. You know, no, you better be right. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's the same thing now, you know, and I do that.
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Speaker 2: The same thing is like I challenge guys, I challenge
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Speaker 2: them about their players, I challenge them about scheme, I
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Speaker 2: challenge them about their technique and if guys don't feel
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Speaker 2: really confident coming back at you saying no, no, we're
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Speaker 2: going to do this, because that's what you want as
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Speaker 2: a coach. You know, you call a play and you're like,
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Speaker 2: this play is not going to work, you know, and
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Speaker 2: they all come back, yeah it is, well, okay, good,
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Speaker 2: Well then let's see and that's that's kind of what
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Speaker 2: you're looking for. But as the head coach, you constantly
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Speaker 2: have to challenge these guys and then you also find
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Speaker 2: out what they like, what they feel.
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Speaker 3: Confident in their players in.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's it's a lot of back and forth,
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Speaker 2: but most of that conversation happens during the week when
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Speaker 2: we're on the board on the film put the game
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Speaker 2: plan together, because you know, we only have certain amount
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Speaker 2: of calls. Let's just call it on third and one,
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Speaker 2: so you know he's picking one or three and we've
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Speaker 2: all said that these are good and I think that's
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Speaker 2: a part of the offensive staff too. That and same
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Speaker 2: thing on defense is that if we've all put it
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Speaker 2: on the board, we feel good about it, we've made
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Speaker 2: a big check mark. Then when it's called in the game,
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Speaker 2: we all got to get behind it, and it's the
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Speaker 2: same thing on defense and if we don't like it,
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Speaker 2: take it out.
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Speaker 1: On yesterday show, you got a chance to hear Steve
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Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian sharing his thoughts on the Texas team. One
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Speaker 1: of the questions that he got was about the personality
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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five Texas team. So, okay, Ryan
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Speaker 1: Day got the same question, what's the personality of the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Ohio State team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think it always shows until you
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Speaker 2: get on the field and actually play games.
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Speaker 3: But it's competitive, it's edgy.
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Speaker 2: They like competing, they enjoy being with each other. I
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Speaker 2: think now it's just a lot of these guys got
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Speaker 2: to get on the field and play and then we'll
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Speaker 2: figure out what it is from there, when we have success,
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Speaker 2: when we have setbacks, those types of things as we
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Speaker 2: work through that. But a lot of leadership has risen
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Speaker 2: here and that's a good thing. A lot of young
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Speaker 2: guys are figuring it out. Some guys still don't know
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Speaker 2: what they don't know. You know, it's I say, it's
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Speaker 2: like raising a sun or having children. You know, you
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Speaker 2: bring them along, you show them, you see the growth.
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Speaker 2: But ultimately they have to go live their life. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's the same thing here. They got to go play
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Speaker 2: the game now, and and we're ready to go play.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we can't wait to get on this field
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Speaker 2: and get the season started.
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Speaker 1: This is Julian Sayan's first start as a starting quarterback
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Speaker 1: at the college level, but this is not Ryan Day's
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Speaker 1: first time with a starting quarterback making his first career start.
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Speaker 1: So how can ryanday rely and lean on previous experiences
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Speaker 1: with first time starting quarterbacks that can inform what he
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Speaker 1: does With Julian saying on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: You take what you see in practice and you try
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Speaker 2: to project the best you can. And that's that's the
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Speaker 2: thing about first games is you make a lot of assumptions.
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Speaker 2: You're assuming it's going to look a certain way in
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Speaker 2: the game. Some certain assumptions are going to be right,
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Speaker 2: other assumptions are going to be wrong. That's the job
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Speaker 2: of coaching, and it's it's that you know, experience of
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Speaker 2: seeing it and learning. But then you also trying to
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Speaker 2: label because you know, you see some you say, well
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Speaker 2: he's like him, Well not really. He may have some
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Speaker 2: characteristics like that player, but he's his own player. So
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Speaker 2: there's this you know, again, balance of trying to figure
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Speaker 2: out is this what you can predict and project's going
15:11
Speaker 2: to happen, or are their own set of guys that
15:13
Speaker 2: are going to have their own experience, And so that
15:15
Speaker 2: just comes down with experience. You've got to trust your
15:17
Speaker 2: coaching and make sure that their minds are in that
15:21
Speaker 2: with the right spot and focused on what really matters.
15:23
Speaker 2: We know this week it's going to come down to
15:25
Speaker 2: avoiding distractions. There'll be a lot of distractions this week.
15:27
Speaker 2: It always happens. It's very very predictable, and so we
15:30
Speaker 2: have to make sure that we're avoiding distractions better than Texas.
15:33
Speaker 1: This game between Ohio State and Texas in Week one
15:36
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest Week one games in history.
15:38
Speaker 1: You don't get many one versus two games, and you
15:40
Speaker 1: certainly don't get them in week one where everything's a
15:43
Speaker 1: little bit of a mystery. So how do you go
15:45
Speaker 1: in and balance some of that uncertainty with the magnitude
15:50
Speaker 1: of the game and the quality of the opponent where
15:53
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have the sort of feeling out period
15:56
Speaker 1: that you might if you were playing a lesser opponent
15:58
Speaker 1: week one.
15:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, because when you are late in the season,
16:03
Speaker 2: in your game twelve or thirteen.
16:05
Speaker 3: It's just very very different.
16:06
Speaker 2: I mean, you've played games, you've worked through things, there's
16:08
Speaker 2: a rhythm, there's a roll DECKX of plays. When you're
16:12
Speaker 2: into week one, guys are doing it for the first
16:15
Speaker 2: time and so that's very very different. But you also
16:18
Speaker 2: got to find plays that work against what you're going
16:20
Speaker 2: up against. So again, that's what we're looking for here,
16:23
Speaker 2: and those are all the decisions that are being made
16:24
Speaker 2: and have been made. I feel good about the game
16:26
Speaker 2: plan in all three phases and got to go put
16:28
Speaker 2: it on the field. Now.
16:30
Speaker 1: This is not the first time Ohio State has played
16:31
Speaker 1: a brand name opponent on the opening week of the season.
16:34
Speaker 1: Just a couple of years ago twenty twenty two, they
16:36
Speaker 1: played Notre Dame at home to open the year. So
16:39
Speaker 1: is that something they can kind of look back at
16:41
Speaker 1: and sort of use it to inform what they do
16:44
Speaker 1: in pre preparation for this weekend's big game.
16:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit.
16:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we look at the practice schedules more
16:50
Speaker 2: than anything to figure out how do we ramp ourselves
16:52
Speaker 2: up for a game like this in Week one? Different
16:54
Speaker 2: than maybe in the last couple of years.
16:56
Speaker 1: The Buck guys and Longhorns have already played this calendar year.
17:00
Speaker 1: In fact, the last time Texas was on a football field,
17:02
Speaker 1: it was also against Ohio State. So how much is
17:05
Speaker 1: that game in January factor into the preparation for this game?
17:08
Speaker 1: Given how much has also changed and lots of personnel,
17:11
Speaker 1: lots of coaching changes as well, how much does Matt
17:14
Speaker 1: Patricia's history with Peyton and Eli Manning help with facing
17:17
Speaker 1: facing arch Manning still hear his thoughts on all of.
17:20
Speaker 3: That, Well, I think.
17:24
Speaker 2: You look at everything for sure, you know, sometimes we
17:27
Speaker 2: look at too much, but ultimately it comes down to
17:29
Speaker 2: what our guys can do, especially in week one, so
17:32
Speaker 2: we'll focus on that. You know, certainly I have the
17:36
Speaker 2: utmost respect for the Manning family, starting with Archie the dad.
17:41
Speaker 2: I just I think he's just an unbelievable ambassador for
17:44
Speaker 2: the game. And Eli and Peyton I can't say enough
17:46
Speaker 2: about you know who they are as again, ambassadors of
17:49
Speaker 2: the game, gentlemen, and obviously great players and so and
17:53
Speaker 2: certainly arch is a tremendous player as well, but really
17:56
Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with with this game, and
17:59
Speaker 2: and you know, playing Texas, you know he's an excellent player.
18:02
Speaker 3: But you know those guys, you know, they've.
18:04
Speaker 2: They've stayed out of it for the most part because
18:06
Speaker 2: they want him to just you know, write his own story.
18:09
Speaker 2: And I got a lot of respect for how they've
18:11
Speaker 2: handled that. And he's got a great future ahead of
18:13
Speaker 2: him and he's a great player. So it's a great
18:14
Speaker 2: challenge for us. But again, this is more about, you know,
18:17
Speaker 2: our preparation and.
18:18
Speaker 3: Doing what we do well.
18:20
Speaker 1: One of the stats that I'm sure you've heard a
18:21
Speaker 1: thousand times this week, and we are guilty of bringing
18:24
Speaker 1: it up several times, I will say for sure, yes, sorry,
18:27
Speaker 1: raise my hand, sorry, you've heard it from us as well.
18:30
Speaker 1: One catch three yards for Jeremiah Smith against Texas in
18:33
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. So with the way the Longhorns were
18:36
Speaker 1: able to take him away in the Cotton Bowl, if
18:38
Speaker 1: they do that again on Saturday, is that okay? If
18:40
Speaker 1: you can just sort of if they're taking him away,
18:42
Speaker 1: that means other guys are going to be open, so
18:43
Speaker 1: you'll be able to take advantage of it in other
18:45
Speaker 1: areas well.
18:46
Speaker 2: I think when you look back on that game, you know,
18:47
Speaker 2: those penalties really hurt us. They set us way behind
18:50
Speaker 2: the sticks, you know, and we have to play better,
18:52
Speaker 2: better football than that. You know, they're a very disciplined team,
18:56
Speaker 2: and we have to do a better job than we
18:57
Speaker 2: did in that game. And so you know, we'll do
19:01
Speaker 2: everything we can to try to get you know, the
19:03
Speaker 2: guys in position.
19:04
Speaker 3: To make plays.
19:05
Speaker 2: But ultimately, you know, we have to have a balance,
19:08
Speaker 2: and if you have a balance, then you've got a
19:10
Speaker 2: chance to attack teams. The goal here is not to
19:14
Speaker 2: get a certain player a certain amount of touches. It's
19:16
Speaker 2: to win the game. Now, in order to win the game,
19:18
Speaker 2: certain guys have touched the ball. So I don't if
19:20
Speaker 2: that makes sense, but like that's it.
19:22
Speaker 3: Like we have to win the game.
19:23
Speaker 2: And when Jeremiah is touching the ball, a lot of
19:26
Speaker 2: good things happen. So that's our job to make sure
19:28
Speaker 2: that that's happening. But at the same time, we've got
19:30
Speaker 2: to make sure we do what we can to win
19:31
Speaker 2: the game and then go from there.
19:33
Speaker 1: When you're calling a game with a first time starting quarterback,
19:37
Speaker 1: how does that impact what you're willing to do and
19:39
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do.
19:41
Speaker 2: Again, it's like number one goal, win the game and
19:44
Speaker 2: then go from there. We know we have a long
19:46
Speaker 2: season ahead of us. And we know we're going to
19:48
Speaker 2: get great information coming out of this game. But like
19:50
Speaker 2: the number one goal is to win the game, win
19:52
Speaker 2: the game, win the game. So what do we need
19:53
Speaker 2: to win the game? You know, we start listing those
19:55
Speaker 2: things and then and then build from there based on
19:57
Speaker 2: what we've seen. You don't know which way the games
20:00
Speaker 2: to go. You know, it could be close. We find
20:02
Speaker 2: we find ourselves out ahead, we find ourselves behind. We
20:05
Speaker 2: have to have, you know, you know, a game plan
20:08
Speaker 2: to be able to respond to those things. So to say,
20:10
Speaker 2: you know, we're going to play it close to the vest,
20:12
Speaker 2: now we're not going to do that. To say we're
20:13
Speaker 2: going to be wide open chucking at sixty times, so
20:15
Speaker 2: now we're not going to do that. It'll be somewhere
20:16
Speaker 2: in between based on what we're seeing, the success we're having,
20:19
Speaker 2: and then where we are in a game in terms
20:21
Speaker 2: of score.
20:22
Speaker 1: All Right, the test is pretty much over pencils down.
20:25
Speaker 1: It is time to get some answers. What's the plan
20:28
Speaker 1: for the coaches in the box versus the coaches on
20:30
Speaker 1: the field now, In a separate answer, he said, yes,
20:33
Speaker 1: Brian Hartline is going to be up in the box.
20:35
Speaker 1: That's what we has sort of been assuming, but we
20:37
Speaker 1: were waiting for them to sort of make that official.
20:38
Speaker 1: So he did answer that later. Matt Patricia up in
20:42
Speaker 1: the box as well. But here's the rest of his
20:44
Speaker 1: answer on you know, the verdict on who's going to
20:46
Speaker 1: be where, And this is one of these things where
20:49
Speaker 1: he starts answering this question and then he goes into
20:51
Speaker 1: a completely almost unrelated answer that ends up with some
20:54
Speaker 1: incredibly interesting eat details about a mock game that they
20:58
Speaker 1: ran last weekend and some of the stuff that they
21:00
Speaker 1: practiced during that during that scrimmage.
21:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we put all that stuff together, and you know,
21:07
Speaker 2: Brian and and you know Matt both feel like, you know,
21:10
Speaker 2: they have a good plan. You know, I won't get
21:12
Speaker 2: into exactly where everybody is because we have so much
21:14
Speaker 2: staff here. I'll forget some people. But but no, I
21:17
Speaker 2: think we have a good plan. And what we did
21:18
Speaker 2: on Saturday was we went to the stadium and kind
21:20
Speaker 2: of went through a mock game. And in that mock game,
21:24
Speaker 2: you know, we everything up until you know, when you
21:27
Speaker 2: get into the stadium.
21:27
Speaker 3: We did.
21:28
Speaker 2: We were in the locker room, we came out, we
21:30
Speaker 2: did the pregame warm ups, we did the you know,
21:33
Speaker 2: quick cows. We went through the game, halftime, finished the game,
21:38
Speaker 2: went through the whole operation of TV timeouts, you know,
21:41
Speaker 2: with the young team, I thought that was important. We actually,
21:43
Speaker 2: you know, we sang the Carmen Ohio. We went into
21:45
Speaker 2: the locker room, sang the fight song, and then that
21:47
Speaker 2: was it. Just so that everybody knows, this is what
21:49
Speaker 2: the expectation is, talk through it so that when they're
21:52
Speaker 2: doing it on Saturday, it's not for the first time.
21:54
Speaker 2: And then a part of that was was having guys
21:56
Speaker 2: in a box in the communication.
21:57
Speaker 1: Talked to earlier about the personality of this year Ohio
22:00
Speaker 1: State team. What does Julian say and what role does
22:03
Speaker 1: he play in developing that personality as the starting quarterback.
22:08
Speaker 2: I think for every quarterback they have to find their
22:10
Speaker 2: own voice and lead. And we talk about how do
22:12
Speaker 2: you lead? And you've heard me say this before. It's
22:15
Speaker 2: about who you are as a person, your character. I
22:16
Speaker 2: think he has high character, his connection. I think he
22:20
Speaker 2: connects well, you know, he's found his voice, I believe
22:24
Speaker 2: here in preseason. And then his competency is how well
22:27
Speaker 2: he's going to play in the game. And if you
22:29
Speaker 2: can do all those things, you can lead and you know,
22:33
Speaker 2: we've challenged him to have command of that huddle, have
22:35
Speaker 2: commanded the game plan, and then make great decisions and
22:38
Speaker 2: obviously well on third down, red zone in two minutes.
22:41
Speaker 2: So now now it's time to go put it on
22:44
Speaker 2: the field. But but you're definitely seeing a lot of
22:46
Speaker 2: changes with him and a lot of growth.
22:48
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna get a follow up on that mock
22:50
Speaker 1: game that we talked about that they did on Saturday.
22:52
Speaker 1: Is that something they had done before? And then also
22:55
Speaker 1: the challenge that arch Manning proposes to the Ohio State
22:58
Speaker 1: defense on Saturday.
23:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we've done mock games before. That was probably
23:02
Speaker 2: the most detailed just because of the you know, the
23:05
Speaker 2: inexperience of our team one and then two just you
23:07
Speaker 2: know what what's coming with this first game? Uh yeah,
23:10
Speaker 2: and then with arch man athletic, big strong arm, smart,
23:15
Speaker 2: quick release, accurate, you know all the above. I mean,
23:17
Speaker 2: he checks every box.
23:18
Speaker 1: Arch Manning not the only thing that Ohio State will
23:20
Speaker 1: have to stop. Of course, Texas has a couple of
23:23
Speaker 1: talented running backs coming back as well. What kind of
23:26
Speaker 1: a challenge is that going to be to try and
23:27
Speaker 1: contain the Texas ground game and how important is that
23:31
Speaker 1: in a game like this, well.
23:32
Speaker 2: We'll find out again what we're trying to project what
23:36
Speaker 2: those will look like. But we have you know, we
23:38
Speaker 2: go off of what we see, uh in practice every
23:40
Speaker 2: day and the guys are getting better and you know,
23:42
Speaker 2: today we'll have inside drill. Today, we'll have some team
23:44
Speaker 2: and making sure you know, we have our good percentage
23:47
Speaker 2: of good on good because we know, you know, if
23:50
Speaker 2: we don't stop the run, run the ball, we're not
23:52
Speaker 2: going to win the game. So that's been, you know,
23:55
Speaker 2: something that we've been working on all pre season and
23:58
Speaker 2: you know, we'll see, but guys have been working at
24:00
Speaker 2: it really hard and they know how important it is
24:02
Speaker 2: to win up front. And that's not only in the
24:04
Speaker 2: run game, it's also in protection.
24:06
Speaker 1: One of the big storylines that's going to happen before
24:08
Speaker 1: the game is Lee Corso's final College Game Day appearance,
24:13
Speaker 1: the spot where he did his first head gear pick.
24:15
Speaker 1: That was before a big Ohio State win thirty eight
24:18
Speaker 1: seven over Penn State back in nineteen ninety six in
24:20
Speaker 1: a top five matchup. Now he's going to wrap up
24:23
Speaker 1: his career in the final Gate College Game Day broadcast,
24:27
Speaker 1: another top five matchup inside Ohio stadium Number one, Texas,
24:31
Speaker 1: number two Ohio State. So what is Lee Corso meant
24:36
Speaker 1: for the sport of college football?
24:37
Speaker 2: Another great ambassador of the game, just somebody who's been
24:41
Speaker 2: positive and builds people up. And you know, he's somebody
24:45
Speaker 2: that I remember, you know, just so many years of
24:49
Speaker 2: you know, putting on the mascot heads and just making
24:52
Speaker 2: you know, Saturdays so enjoyable for so many people, and
24:56
Speaker 2: not only as a coach, but you know, as a
24:59
Speaker 2: broad caster and what he's done, He's had a lot
25:01
Speaker 2: of impact on people. And you know, I just feel
25:04
Speaker 2: like when it's all said and done, you know, and
25:07
Speaker 2: now that you know his career obviously coaching, but now
25:09
Speaker 2: as a broadcaster is ending, you know, you look back
25:12
Speaker 2: on the impact that you made, and he certainly made
25:14
Speaker 2: a major impact on a lot of people. And I
25:17
Speaker 2: just remember all the different times, not only when you know,
25:20
Speaker 2: I've been the head coach at Ohio State, but before
25:22
Speaker 2: then of putting on the Brute's head.
25:23
Speaker 3: And what came with that.
25:25
Speaker 2: And so for him to be here for his last
25:27
Speaker 2: you know, mascot game in his last year means a
25:30
Speaker 2: lot to all of us, and we thank him for
25:31
Speaker 2: everything he's done. He's made a lot of impact on
25:33
Speaker 2: a lot of people, and I appreciate him.
25:35
Speaker 1: This is a very young Ohio State team. No one
25:38
Speaker 1: on the team is a fifth year player who started
25:41
Speaker 1: his career at Ohio State. So yeah, you got some
25:42
Speaker 1: fifth year players, guys like Lorenzo Styles, Junior Franks, Dariot Ball,
25:46
Speaker 1: but of course he started it Notre Dame. So no
25:48
Speaker 1: guys who are in their fifth year at Ohio State,
25:51
Speaker 1: and really, honestly, not a lot of fourth year guys either.
25:54
Speaker 1: So how big of a role are the third year
25:56
Speaker 1: guys playing? That's not they're not guys who never necessarily
25:59
Speaker 1: are typically captains, but free them are captains this year.
26:03
Speaker 1: So how big of a role are those third year
26:05
Speaker 1: playing third year players going to play this year?
26:08
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, we're young.
26:09
Speaker 2: We've said that before. We are young, but we're also
26:12
Speaker 2: mature in certain areas. There's other areas we've got to
26:15
Speaker 2: get We got to grow up. But you know, when
26:18
Speaker 2: you see guys like Caleb Downs and Sunny Styles and
26:21
Speaker 2: Brandon in this, you know Austin Sayervelt. I mean, these
26:24
Speaker 2: are grown men and they've been through it before, so
26:27
Speaker 2: they know what the standard is. They know what it's
26:29
Speaker 2: supposed to look like here. They know what it means
26:31
Speaker 2: to be a buck eye, and so you know they're
26:33
Speaker 2: the ones that are leading the way on this. But yeah,
26:36
Speaker 2: you know, I think about you know, last year's team,
26:39
Speaker 2: you know, they all decided to come back, and so
26:41
Speaker 2: when that happens, you know, there's almost like a year
26:44
Speaker 2: and a half's worth of guys that when they walk
26:46
Speaker 2: out the door as a big hole that's left and
26:48
Speaker 2: that that's sort of natural in college football. And so
26:52
Speaker 2: there was a lot of you know, production to replace,
26:54
Speaker 2: but a lot of leadership to replace. And those guys
26:55
Speaker 2: understand that and right from the jump, they've jumped into
26:57
Speaker 2: this thing. And now they have their own story to write.
27:00
Speaker 2: And that's what's exciting about college football is every year
27:03
Speaker 2: they get a different story. And here we go, this
27:05
Speaker 2: is going to be their story.
27:06
Speaker 1: With a team that lost as many starters as a
27:08
Speaker 1: date off of last year's roster, Ohio State's going to
27:10
Speaker 1: have a lot of young guys getting a chance to
27:12
Speaker 1: finally step into the spotlight and gets played, maybe step
27:16
Speaker 1: into a starting role. So what does that mean for
27:18
Speaker 1: those guys who are finally they have been waiting for
27:21
Speaker 1: a while waiting behind some very talented players for them
27:24
Speaker 1: to now finally get a chance to step into the
27:26
Speaker 1: me into the spotlight in a game like this.
27:28
Speaker 2: Well, it's their time now, you know Davis and ingg
27:30
Speaker 2: Bunosen like, it's time now to be in the front row.
27:32
Speaker 2: You know kJ Jackson, it's time for him to be
27:34
Speaker 2: in the front row. Kayden Curry, it's time for him
27:36
Speaker 2: to be in the front row. Like, guys now need
27:38
Speaker 2: to step up into those roles. That's why they came
27:40
Speaker 2: here was to be in these moments. And so you know,
27:43
Speaker 2: they've already been part of really good teams, but not
27:45
Speaker 2: as leaders. There's something to be said for that.
27:47
Speaker 1: All fall, when we've been talking about the quarterback battle,
27:49
Speaker 1: you've heard a lot about Lincoln Keenhols's athleticism. But when
27:52
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkashan was talking about Julian Sayan earlier in the week,
27:55
Speaker 1: he talked about Julian Sayan's athleticism and what that maybe
27:58
Speaker 1: can bring to the Buckeye So, all right, Brian Day,
28:00
Speaker 1: what does Julian Sayn's athleticism bring to the Buckeye offense?
28:04
Speaker 1: And maybe who does he remind you of in that area?
28:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got good at quick short area quickness.
28:11
Speaker 2: You've seen maybe in the game, you know a couple
28:13
Speaker 2: he didn't have very many snaps last year, but you
28:14
Speaker 2: saw him move back there. You get to got a
28:16
Speaker 2: chance to see him change direction. And he's gotten stronger.
28:19
Speaker 2: He can see him. He's put on way, he's put
28:21
Speaker 2: on strength power. He's got to need that this season.
28:25
Speaker 2: In terms of somebody similar, I mean, I guess CJ
28:29
Speaker 2: was a little bit bigger, but you know CJ. He's
28:31
Speaker 2: got good movement. Yeah, I probably him, I guess, you know,
28:38
Speaker 2: but he's he's he's quick, he's got good short area quickness,
28:41
Speaker 2: and he can move well in the pocket. Like you've seen,
28:43
Speaker 2: he gets the ball out of his hand quickly and
28:45
Speaker 2: makes quick decisions. And so all positives next up.
28:48
Speaker 1: These are always great questions getting the head coach to
28:51
Speaker 1: look way back when when he was in the spot
28:55
Speaker 1: of the players. So when Ryan Day was a first
28:57
Speaker 1: time starter at quarterback at for New Hampshire way back
29:00
Speaker 1: in the late nineties, what does he remember about that
29:03
Speaker 1: experience that game and what can he convey from that
29:07
Speaker 1: to Julian saying about his experience.
29:09
Speaker 2: Well, I think the first thing is you can't have expectations,
29:12
Speaker 2: you know, and I think I probably you know, wasn't
29:15
Speaker 2: good in that area because you know, I was like,
29:17
Speaker 2: I'm going to go throw four touchdowns and blow this
29:19
Speaker 2: thing out in the minute something didn't go well. You know,
29:21
Speaker 2: you can fill yourself all right, I'm not fulfilling the
29:23
Speaker 2: expectation of what I thought going into it. And what
29:26
Speaker 2: you can't do in week one is have these crazy
29:29
Speaker 2: expectations other than win the game. Take care of the ball,
29:33
Speaker 2: win the game. If you need to throw it away,
29:35
Speaker 2: throw it away. Don't worry about anything else other than
29:37
Speaker 2: win the game. Win the game is going to be
29:38
Speaker 2: heck of a night. So that's the most important thing,
29:40
Speaker 2: and that's the job of the quarterback. So that'll be
29:43
Speaker 2: my message to him. And then ultimately, you got to
29:44
Speaker 2: go trust your training. You know, you can't play it close.
29:47
Speaker 2: You know when it's time to let it rip. You
29:48
Speaker 2: got to let this thing rip and you'll know when
29:50
Speaker 2: it's right.
29:50
Speaker 1: The Cotton Bowl game against Texas swung on really just
29:53
Speaker 1: a couple of big plays.
29:55
Speaker 3: That screen.
29:55
Speaker 1: That's seventy five yard touchdown to Travon Henderson right before half,
29:59
Speaker 1: and then you probably remember the scoop and score from
30:02
Speaker 1: Jack Sawyer in the final couple of minutes of that game.
30:06
Speaker 1: So those were obviously two rather consequential, very big explosive plays.
30:12
Speaker 1: So how important are explosive plays, big plays like that
30:16
Speaker 1: going to be in a game like the one on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: This is a relatively simple question, and you're actually going
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Speaker 1: to hear some laughter as he starts to answer this
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Speaker 1: question because it is kind of a straightforward question, but
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Speaker 1: then he ends up going into more detail and it
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Speaker 1: is kind of an interesting answer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean, these guys, I think they know that,
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Speaker 2: but you know, I'll remind them, make sure they know
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Speaker 2: they got to make plays. Yeah, that's part of the job.
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Speaker 2: It's going to come down to that. I mean, no,
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Speaker 2: you're right. I mean, when you're in these big, big
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Speaker 2: time matchups, like you said, you know, guys got to perform,
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Speaker 2: they got to step up. And that's been one of
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Speaker 2: the challenges for the guys who are now seniors and
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Speaker 2: juniors is that you know, now you need to step
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Speaker 2: up and take on that role. You need to produce,
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Speaker 2: you need to make the plays knowing that you know,
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Speaker 2: you're not just going to go out there and you
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Speaker 2: know every play that you you know, you have a
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Speaker 2: reception that you're going to make, Like you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to come with four sacks and everything like that.
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Speaker 2: How about just going as hard as you possibly can
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Speaker 2: and trust your training and good things are going to happen. Man,
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Speaker 2: if you play really hard and you play really tough,
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Speaker 2: and ultimately everyone has to do their job. And speaking
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Speaker 2: of that, we need everyone to do their job on Saturday,
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Speaker 2: and that includes the fans. I mentioned this before, you know,
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Speaker 2: I know it's a noon game, but we need everybody
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Speaker 2: in that stadium early.
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Speaker 3: We need them loud.
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Speaker 2: You know, you think back on you know, the Indiana
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Speaker 2: game when Indiana had to go to a silent cadence
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Speaker 2: and they couldn't clap anymore. That was a huge deal
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Speaker 2: for our defense. And it's going to be the same
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Speaker 2: way on Saturday. If the fans are in there early
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Speaker 2: and they're loud when they have the ball. No, when
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Speaker 2: we have the ball, we have the ball, they can
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Speaker 2: be quiet, but when they have the ball, we need
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Speaker 2: them as loud as they possibly can to make this
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Speaker 2: the most hostile environment in the country and we all
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Speaker 2: know it is.
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Speaker 3: So we need everyone to do their job.
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Speaker 1: Arch Manning was a national quarterback recruit five star and
31:53
Speaker 1: Brian Day obviously one of the most respected QB gurus
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Speaker 1: in the nation. So did how much did those guys
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Speaker 1: interact with you know, with Arch Manning and Brian Day
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Speaker 1: and you know, potentially being an Ohio State recruit during
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Speaker 1: that recruiting process.
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Speaker 3: Very little.
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Speaker 2: I think they had their mindset up that they wanted
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Speaker 2: to play, you know, down south, and you we a
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Speaker 2: little bit here and there for sure with his dad, Cooper,
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Speaker 2: but but not a whole bunch. He kind of had
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Speaker 2: his mindset But but yeah, a heck of a player.
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Speaker 1: And finally, a question about this year's running back room.
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Speaker 1: Buck guy's replacing both Trevon Henderson and Quinn John Judkins.
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Speaker 1: Carlos Laughlin seems pretty confident in what they've got there,
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Speaker 1: But how has this running back room grown over the
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Speaker 1: course of the season since the end of last year
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Speaker 1: and where where do things stand right now?
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Speaker 2: I think we've built depth. I think we need to
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Speaker 2: go play and find out where we're at. But I
32:44
Speaker 2: do I think that Locke has built depth there and
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Speaker 2: guys are running hard. You know, protection, as you know,
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Speaker 2: is important, ball securities up most importance in this game,
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Speaker 2: and we'll find out coming out of the game, but
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Speaker 2: we've seen a lot of progress in those areas. James
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Speaker 2: and cj. Bo's stepped up, and so we feel like
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Speaker 2: those three going into the game could could play for us.
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Speaker 2: Isaiah West is coming off of an injury, but he's
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Speaker 2: really popped for us, and so we think that, you know,
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Speaker 2: down the road, he can play. Probably not in this
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Speaker 2: first game, but but you know, it's been a while
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Speaker 2: since we've had four or five backs like that that
33:18
Speaker 2: we can put in a game and feel good about. So,
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Speaker 2: but ultimately it's going to be how they perform and
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Speaker 2: excited to see them play.
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Speaker 1: All right, Hope you guys enjoyed that one. We are
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Speaker 1: the Longhorns number one versus number two. Yes, the last
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Speaker 1: game for a league corpse, so and much much more.
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Speaker 1: It is going to be a monumental game Saturday inside
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