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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, September tenth. I'm
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- 0:26Speaker 2: Today.
- 0:27Speaker 1: All right, so we're talking about the Grambling game, and
- 0:30Speaker 1: it was a game where ohiouse Ate could do basically
- 0:32Speaker 1: whatever it wanted to and sort of had their way
- 0:36Speaker 1: for the full game one seventy to nothing.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Okay, we're all going to stipulate. Okay, it was Grambling.
- 0:42Speaker 2: We know this is not the caliber of competition they
- 0:44Speaker 2: play the rest of game. Okay, good, now we got
- 0:45Speaker 2: that out of the way early.
- 0:46Speaker 1: So now we can talk about some of the stuff
- 0:49Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball that.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Looked good, the areas where they were maybe showing some improvement.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Don't worry.
- 0:54Speaker 1: We'll talk about that interception that everyone's everyone wants to
- 0:56Speaker 1: talk about. We'll talk about that at the end, But
- 0:58Speaker 1: first ross we're going to talk about the run game,
- 1:00Speaker 1: some of the stuff they were doing. And as Ryan
- 1:03Speaker 1: Day has talked about in the past, the run game
- 1:05Speaker 1: also includes.
- 1:06Speaker 3: RPOs exactly, And so Day talked about how he wanted
- 1:11Speaker 3: to open the offense up more some right and sort
- 1:15Speaker 3: of take the training wheels off of Julian Saying to
- 1:19Speaker 3: continue that analogy, and one of the ways he explicitly
- 1:23Speaker 3: said was with the RPOs broadly. So I think I
- 1:27Speaker 3: heard it said they when Sam was in. I think
- 1:29Speaker 3: they threw it sixty three percent of the snaps he
- 1:32Speaker 3: was in, but I'd say probably five of those were reliefs, RPOs,
- 1:38Speaker 3: whatever term you want to use. So that gets closer
- 1:41Speaker 3: to maybe a fifty to fifty actual play calling. But
- 1:44Speaker 3: saying was pretty apt in this game when he had
- 1:47Speaker 3: the opportunity to pull and throw and so I grabbed one.
- 1:51Speaker 3: Most of these that you saw in the game were
- 1:54Speaker 3: of the pre snap relief variety, right, and by that
- 1:58Speaker 3: I just mean wide receiver screens where you're reading the
- 2:01Speaker 3: numbers pre snap and deciding where to throw. There was
- 2:04Speaker 3: one backside hitch that's saying through to jeremih Smith, that's
- 2:11Speaker 3: a similar sort of like reading leverage less like second
- 2:15Speaker 3: or third level post snap reads. So again like slowly progressing,
- 2:19Speaker 3: not doing the full panoply of RPOs that they probably
- 2:23Speaker 3: have in their system. But this first one one thing
- 2:26Speaker 3: to take note of. Also, it's so it's unbalanced into
- 2:30Speaker 3: the boundary. We've been seeing quite a bit these last
- 2:32Speaker 3: two weeks of a high state using variety of unbalanced formations.
- 2:36Speaker 3: And by unbalanced we just mean that the you know,
- 2:40Speaker 3: tight end or tackle is covered. So you've got four
- 2:42Speaker 3: guys to one side of the formation. You actually have
- 2:44Speaker 3: five if you're counting the running back as a threat,
- 2:46Speaker 3: all into the boundary. So the tackle or the tight
- 2:49Speaker 3: end is covered, right, So that just means he's ineligible
- 2:52Speaker 3: as a receiver and just forcing the defense to adjust
- 2:55Speaker 3: defend things in different ways. So this one it's a
- 2:59Speaker 3: just a side zone with this now screen just means
- 3:02Speaker 3: like instead of a bubble we were kind of going outside.
- 3:05Speaker 3: This is just stepping back and throwing it again. You
- 3:09Speaker 3: could say this is three over three. There are a
- 3:10Speaker 3: couple of times we're saying, as I said, not sure,
- 3:13Speaker 3: like the quite the numbers are there? Just one thing
- 3:16Speaker 3: to note, It's like, on the one hand, the easier
- 3:19Speaker 3: to tord to that is it's grambling, so like you
- 3:21Speaker 3: get away with that, maybe you don't against a better team.
- 3:24Speaker 3: The flip side, you could say, are you who are
- 3:27Speaker 3: your best players on offense Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Maybe it's it's good to force the issue and get
- 3:33Speaker 3: the ball in their hands outside when in doubt versus
- 3:38Speaker 3: you know, using the run game. You know, five seven
- 3:41Speaker 3: yards off these is fantastic. It's that would be considered
- 3:45Speaker 3: really a successful run. So this one though, you know,
- 3:48Speaker 3: even though it's sort of three over three, I think
- 3:51Speaker 3: I sort of underline that overhang or nickel player there
- 3:54Speaker 3: he sort of sits right and kind of is watching
- 3:56Speaker 3: the run. I think that gives the leverage that you
- 3:59Speaker 3: would be looking for either way. And then a nice
- 4:01Speaker 3: clock by NS. So again it's all a different variety
- 4:04Speaker 3: of reliefs. And as I said, the one hitch, but
- 4:08Speaker 3: certainly you know, putting more on sand to make those
- 4:11Speaker 3: reads and he gets the ball quickly in his accurate
- 4:14Speaker 3: so obviously and if you're not going to run the quarterback,
- 4:17Speaker 3: as we talked about last week, got a shotgun. Looks
- 4:19Speaker 3: like you need to keep these, you know, pretty be
- 4:24Speaker 3: a consistent part of your attack to keep defenses honest.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Well, and one thing that Jake but talked about on
- 4:31Speaker 1: the broadcast was the fact that, you know, when Keenholes
- 4:34Speaker 1: came into the game later, they allowed him to pull
- 4:38Speaker 1: the ball and take off running with it. He said
- 4:41Speaker 1: that they did not have those polls in for Julian say,
- 4:44Speaker 1: and at least you know, obviously it's grambling. I would
- 4:47Speaker 1: assume that that's something that probably will change at some point,
- 4:51Speaker 1: whether that's Washington or Illinois or Penn State. You know,
- 4:54Speaker 1: at some point that they're probably going to put those
- 4:56Speaker 1: back in that you would assume.
- 4:58Speaker 3: Maybe, I mean, you can hold out, but you can
- 5:00Speaker 3: also just you can accomplish similar goals as a set
- 5:04Speaker 3: of constraining the backside of the defense with these reliefs
- 5:06Speaker 3: and RPOs. So it just depends, you know, do you
- 5:09Speaker 3: want Julian sand running the ball or do you want
- 5:11Speaker 3: him throwing a screen to Jeremiah Smith and Colonel Tate
- 5:13Speaker 3: like he would, you rather have the ball in the
- 5:15Speaker 3: hands of so you know, I don't doubt that there'll
- 5:18Speaker 3: be a situation where like the numbers present themselves, particularly
- 5:22Speaker 3: like near the goal line, it's pretty effective, right Like
- 5:27Speaker 3: we just the Vikings did that with JJ McCarthy the
- 5:29Speaker 3: other you know, against the Bears on my Nay football, Like,
- 5:31Speaker 3: you get a certain strategic situation. But I think it's
- 5:35Speaker 3: certainly going to be much more like C. J. Stroud
- 5:37Speaker 3: was with Day where like they pulled that out against
- 5:39Speaker 3: Northwestern in that game with the horrible weather because they
- 5:41Speaker 3: didn't really have a choice. But like it's it was
- 5:43Speaker 3: pretty few and far between, all right.
- 5:48Speaker 1: So the next one we go to staying with the
- 5:49Speaker 1: run game. This is a James People's run and we
- 5:52Speaker 1: talked on one of the shows I think last week
- 5:54Speaker 1: about Max player and his blocking was kind of not great.
- 5:58Speaker 1: This is one where player goes in motion and is
- 6:02Speaker 1: you know, a pretty fairly effective blocker gets gets to
- 6:06Speaker 1: a couple different guys on this one.
- 6:09Speaker 3: Yeah, And one thing you know, just personnel wise we
- 6:12Speaker 3: talked about last week was you have a situation where
- 6:14Speaker 3: clear is clearly the best receiving tight end, but maybe
- 6:19Speaker 3: the fourth best blocker of them. And so just like
- 6:22Speaker 3: you can break tendencies with plays calls in a game
- 6:26Speaker 3: like this for future opponents, like you can also break
- 6:29Speaker 3: it with tight end usage, right, or any personnel usage.
- 6:34Speaker 3: So we saw I feel like there was an emphasis
- 6:37Speaker 3: on this game, like to keep Max player in the
- 6:40Speaker 3: game on run plays and then throw to some of
- 6:42Speaker 3: the other tight ends, right, So like that so that
- 6:45Speaker 3: your future opponents aren't like just looking at what tight
- 6:48Speaker 3: ends are in the game. It's like, oh, well, Cosmeerksen
- 6:50Speaker 3: probably going to be a run. Max player's end probably
- 6:53Speaker 3: going to be a pass. So you got that. This
- 6:56Speaker 3: is kind of I just you know, so we got
- 6:59Speaker 3: I Still I would say the counter is probably their
- 7:02Speaker 3: principal run playing and I think there were some improvements
- 7:06Speaker 3: in the execution of that from week one to week
- 7:09Speaker 3: two that we'll get into here in a second, but
- 7:11Speaker 3: we did see a little bit more variety in one
- 7:13Speaker 3: of which was bringing back some boundary stretch or outside zone.
- 7:19Speaker 3: And this is sort of a wrinkle off of it. Right,
- 7:20Speaker 3: So we have this lead motion here and it's kind
- 7:24Speaker 3: of like a analogous to the Shannahan tree. You know,
- 7:30Speaker 3: the forty nine ers have done this a long time
- 7:32Speaker 3: of like this, it's like a zoro block where you
- 7:34Speaker 3: send this guy in motion and he's basically like banging
- 7:37Speaker 3: into this defensive end to create this crease and then
- 7:40Speaker 3: trying to get a field and meanwhile you have another
- 7:44Speaker 3: tight end Jelanie Thurman in this kind of nasty split.
- 7:46Speaker 3: By that, we just mean like he's three yards off
- 7:48Speaker 3: the tackle and he's blocking back. So it's less of
- 7:52Speaker 3: like a true zone playing where you're like allowing the
- 7:54Speaker 3: running back to cut back, and much more like a
- 7:56Speaker 3: defined going for a hole. So it has a little
- 7:59Speaker 3: bit more in common with a gap run play, So
- 8:02Speaker 3: kind of a hybrid here, But they ran this a
- 8:04Speaker 3: few times this game. I thought, I thought James People's
- 8:09Speaker 3: though looked pretty good on these outside zone plays. I
- 8:12Speaker 3: thought he saw it pretty well. We'll talk about gap
- 8:14Speaker 3: as well. I thought both the backs did a better
- 8:17Speaker 3: job bouncing things and getting to the outside than they
- 8:20Speaker 3: did in week one. We talked about that as an issue.
- 8:23Speaker 3: So some improvements there and obviously twelve personnel here, but
- 8:26Speaker 3: I think there is a little bit a little bit
- 8:28Speaker 3: more spread out formations in this game. Like even here
- 8:31Speaker 3: we're in twelve, they're in twelve, but they're you know,
- 8:34Speaker 3: spread out and a lot more eleven usage, So again
- 8:37Speaker 3: sort of expanding the offense, more tempo, more back to
- 8:40Speaker 3: I guess a little bit more of what you think
- 8:43Speaker 3: of with Ryan day overs ten year Ohio State compared
- 8:46Speaker 3: to what they did against Texas, but again sort of
- 8:49Speaker 3: expanding the playbook going forward.
- 8:52Speaker 1: All right, so we've mentioned a little bit using motion,
- 8:54Speaker 1: you talked about counter earlier. Going to get to see
- 8:57Speaker 1: a little bit of both of those here. This is
- 8:59Speaker 1: one where it was a long game for CJ. Donaldson,
- 9:02Speaker 1: but you saw a little bit of motion, saw some
- 9:05Speaker 1: saw some pullers in the run game. Always love to
- 9:07Speaker 1: see you always see the big fellows getting out there
- 9:09Speaker 1: and uh and lead blocking for CJ.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Donaldson. So let's let's get the next one.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:15Speaker 3: So you know, one thing I would say is like,
- 9:17Speaker 3: even from the transition to Chip Kelly to Brian Hartline,
- 9:20Speaker 3: like the offense basically looks identical into what you saw
- 9:24Speaker 3: last year with a lot of these concepts. And this
- 9:26Speaker 3: is another one you saw with this this sort of
- 9:29Speaker 3: orbit motion. They went through the whole series uh in
- 9:32Speaker 3: this game. Right, So like early in the game they
- 9:35Speaker 3: ran it's basically just like a lead outside zone, gave
- 9:38Speaker 3: it to Brandon Inness right on that motion and just
- 9:40Speaker 3: everyone blocks outside zone. The tailback is the lead blocker.
- 9:44Speaker 3: So then here they fake it and run counter counter
- 9:48Speaker 3: gh back the otherwise the guards pulling and kicking and
- 9:51Speaker 3: the tight ends leading this one. It's like because of
- 9:55Speaker 3: the orbit the fly motion and you see like that
- 9:57Speaker 3: defensive back rotation, like there's basically knowing for Geelong and
- 10:00Speaker 3: Thurman to block like I would like when that happens,
- 10:04Speaker 3: there's a tendency for like people like Lineman er tight
- 10:07Speaker 3: ends like he does here to sort of sit. It's like,
- 10:09Speaker 3: get up field, keep going like there's gonna be someone
- 10:11Speaker 3: else to block downfield. That's how you really get an
- 10:13Speaker 3: explosive but a nice kickout block. One thing you did
- 10:16Speaker 3: see in this game the polars on counter Like if
- 10:20Speaker 3: you're gonna run a lot, you got to execute it
- 10:21Speaker 3: all right. And they kept a much tighter pole path
- 10:25Speaker 3: to the line of scrimmage. So I have to assume
- 10:27Speaker 3: that was a point of infinite emphasis. Following Week one
- 10:30Speaker 3: against Texas, I thought it would. They cleaned up the
- 10:32Speaker 3: blocking on counters. They also did a better job like
- 10:37Speaker 3: as I mentioned, not didn't need to in this play,
- 10:40Speaker 3: but when you know Grambling when they would crash down
- 10:44Speaker 3: and the polar would have to log that defender instead
- 10:47Speaker 3: of kicking him out. He there's a better recognition of that,
- 10:51Speaker 3: and as I said, a better job by the backs
- 10:53Speaker 3: of seeing that and bouncing outside. Like there are misofferate
- 10:57Speaker 3: yards on the field against Texas from those and I
- 10:59Speaker 3: thought both So I said, both people's and Donaldson in
- 11:03Speaker 3: the first half and then obviously Bo Jackson in the
- 11:05Speaker 3: second half did a nice job with that in this game,
- 11:10Speaker 3: all right.
- 11:10Speaker 1: And we're gonna stay with the theme of motion here.
- 11:13Speaker 1: I don't know if Ross this would do. This would
- 11:15Speaker 1: constitute eye candy. That was a phrase we heard a
- 11:17Speaker 1: lot in terms of Steve Sarkasian in Texas in week one.
- 11:20Speaker 1: But this is one where you get a little pre
- 11:22Speaker 1: snap motion. But then this ends up with that real
- 11:25Speaker 1: long downfield pass to Carnell Tape down the middle.
- 11:28Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, So we're you know, we're just we're expanding
- 11:31Speaker 3: off this fly series again, like putting some different stuff
- 11:34Speaker 3: on tape. You know, all plays we've seen from Ohio
- 11:37Speaker 3: State before. Again, so we're now thinking the outside zone.
- 11:40Speaker 3: They're running bomber basically, which is just like a deep
- 11:44Speaker 3: comeback with a post pattern, just a two man route, right,
- 11:48Speaker 3: This is the play they ran against Organ on the
- 11:50Speaker 3: one long Jeremiah Smith touchdown, except he was the post
- 11:55Speaker 3: the post route, and so, you know, pretty accurate throw here.
- 11:59Speaker 3: I mean, you know, one thing people wanted to see
- 12:01Speaker 3: among others from Julian sand is him pushing the football vertically.
- 12:05Speaker 3: And I mean he's a very accurate passer. You know,
- 12:08Speaker 3: maybe this one he could have led Tate a little
- 12:10Speaker 3: bit more and that maybe would have been a touchdown.
- 12:12Speaker 3: But you know, he certainly has the arm strength for
- 12:16Speaker 3: these kind of kind of plays. But again, just sort
- 12:19Speaker 3: of expanding out the system, getting more explosives out of
- 12:22Speaker 3: heavy play action. You know, it was obviously a point
- 12:25Speaker 3: of emphasis, all right.
- 12:27Speaker 2: The next one was one I was hoping we would do.
- 12:29Speaker 2: I was pretty sure you'd do.
- 12:31Speaker 1: But this is the eighty seven yard touchdown to Jeremiah
- 12:33Speaker 1: Smith where I'm on the behind the end zone and
- 12:37Speaker 1: I'm just shooting and he throws the pass and I
- 12:40Speaker 1: hand my camera over and I find Jeremiah Smith, and
- 12:43Speaker 1: I'm going, how on earth did they lose track of
- 12:45Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith? So, okay, Ross, how on earth do you
- 12:49Speaker 1: lose track of all people of Jeremiah Smith.
- 12:53Speaker 3: Yeah, Gramly was kind of running an interesting cover too.
- 12:55Speaker 3: A lot of the game where they were running Tampa,
- 12:59Speaker 3: but instead of usually when you run Tampa like the
- 13:02Speaker 3: pole runner that guy we talked about, it goes down
- 13:03Speaker 3: the deep middle is the mic linebacker. They were doing
- 13:07Speaker 3: it with their will linebacker, which and then leaving their
- 13:10Speaker 3: mic to the place side curl flat, which leaves a
- 13:14Speaker 3: lot of the boundary uncovered. And so you know, that's
- 13:20Speaker 3: basically the long and the short of how they lost it.
- 13:22Speaker 3: Most teams when they run cover two, if there's not
- 13:26Speaker 3: like an immediate threat to the flat, the corner will
- 13:29Speaker 3: keep sinking like with that Smith route. And obviously the
- 13:33Speaker 3: safety bit on that deep over from Tate and let
- 13:38Speaker 3: that left Smith wide open on this sort of reel route.
- 13:41Speaker 3: So again we've seen like this is kind of a
- 13:43Speaker 3: playoff of they've ran so much curl flat, like we
- 13:46Speaker 3: talked about that last week. First play the game was
- 13:49Speaker 3: a variation of curl flat against the same Tampa looks,
- 13:52Speaker 3: So they're sort of they're sort of playing off that
- 13:54Speaker 3: yere which what looks initially like curl flat becomes a
- 13:56Speaker 3: deep over and same thing like Smith instead of running
- 13:58Speaker 3: a curl is running and out and up. So again
- 14:02Speaker 3: they're sort of they're pushing the football downfield. They're hunting
- 14:05Speaker 3: explosives much more. But also just you know, this is
- 14:09Speaker 3: a good job by saying Smith is not his first
- 14:13Speaker 3: read here, Like you can see him, especially from the
- 14:15Speaker 3: end zone camera, how he works. He works from the
- 14:19Speaker 3: right side and looks a tape back to Smith and
- 14:23Speaker 3: you know he's correctly reading that Will running the poll,
- 14:26Speaker 3: and that just leaves a lot of that area open
- 14:29Speaker 3: to the boundary. So you know, that's why he was
- 14:31Speaker 3: probably a little late, frankly getting into Smith because he's
- 14:34Speaker 3: coming across to him. But again, with a young quarterback,
- 14:36Speaker 3: you'd like to see him working from one side of
- 14:38Speaker 3: the field to the other in progressions so that you
- 14:41Speaker 3: know another both area again trying to create explosives, have
- 14:47Speaker 3: stands developing an action and you know it's grambling, but
- 14:51Speaker 3: like going seventeen for seventeen against air is difficult, so
- 14:55Speaker 3: I think like that shouldn't be discounted. Like again, the
- 14:59Speaker 3: accuracy and the timing from him is it's a pretty
- 15:02Speaker 3: natural attribute of his so that should be taken for granted.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Earlier with the tight ends.
- 15:08Speaker 1: You mentioned that breaking tendencies and running with Max player
- 15:11Speaker 1: in there and throwing to Will Kasmeric. Kasmeric of course
- 15:13Speaker 1: had that first touchdown of the game. He also had
- 15:16Speaker 1: another one.
- 15:16Speaker 2: Later in the game.
- 15:17Speaker 1: This is the play we're gonna be talking about. It's
- 15:18Speaker 1: pass out in the flat. This is also an example
- 15:21Speaker 1: that you saw pressure from Brambling sometimes. I thought there
- 15:24Speaker 1: were a couple of times. C. J. Donaldson did a
- 15:26Speaker 1: good job picking up picking up some of the pressure.
- 15:29Speaker 1: This is a good example of Julian Sayan just being
- 15:33Speaker 1: able to just recognize it and get the ball out.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So you know, we like to, you know,
- 15:39Speaker 3: not always focus on the big plays, right, just like
- 15:41Speaker 3: little things where you can see growth and Ohios, Date,
- 15:44Speaker 3: especially against Texas and just generally speaking, likes to use
- 15:48Speaker 3: a lot of six or even seven man protections, right.
- 15:51Speaker 3: They like to make sure the quarterbacks protect it before
- 15:55Speaker 3: you're trying to throw the ball out field. But this
- 15:56Speaker 3: is a five man protection, so you're half sliding. So
- 15:59Speaker 3: that just means when you have a five man protection,
- 16:01Speaker 3: that means you got five guys immediately out in the route, right,
- 16:04Speaker 3: so you don't have the tight end or the running
- 16:05Speaker 3: back check releasing, So that means obviously, like if you're
- 16:09Speaker 3: half sliding, So basically from uh to the from Austin
- 16:15Speaker 3: Sarahvelt to the right of him, everyone's stepping a half
- 16:17Speaker 3: step to their right and picking up in that gap.
- 16:20Speaker 3: And then sarahvilt Has is stepping the opposite way to
- 16:23Speaker 3: his left right, and so Graanlin's bringing two off of
- 16:28Speaker 3: his edge. So there's no one that can account Sarahvelt
- 16:31Speaker 3: correctly picks up the inside threat first and there's no
- 16:34Speaker 3: one that can account for that outside rusher, and so
- 16:38Speaker 3: that's that's on the quarterback then, and he has to
- 16:41Speaker 3: read it and get the ball out immediately, in which
- 16:44Speaker 3: he does. He just hits, you know, the tight end
- 16:47Speaker 3: on this little flat route, which you know, again doesn't
- 16:51Speaker 3: look like a big thing on the score sheet or
- 16:55Speaker 3: the but it are the kind of things you want
- 16:57Speaker 3: to see from a quarterback in his development in terms
- 16:59Speaker 3: of recognizing the pressure, knowing where to go with the
- 17:02Speaker 3: football when you can't you don't have the blockers to
- 17:05Speaker 3: account for a rusher.
- 17:09Speaker 1: All right, And Julian San went eighteen for nineteen on
- 17:12Speaker 1: the game, three hundred and six yards four touchdowns, that
- 17:14Speaker 1: one incompletion, though an interception right at the goal line.
- 17:19Speaker 1: It feels like this was almost a perfect game for
- 17:22Speaker 1: Brian Day and Billy Fessler and Brian hartline where Julian
- 17:27Speaker 1: Sane was almost perfect. But you do have one play
- 17:30Speaker 1: to teach off of here where you had the interception
- 17:33Speaker 1: at the goal line. So I don't know, is this
- 17:34Speaker 1: the perfect game for a coach where everything went right
- 17:38Speaker 1: except you've got something to point at and go, aha,
- 17:41Speaker 1: we got to work on this.
- 17:42Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know there would be like little things.
- 17:45Speaker 3: I mean you could hear in Day's voice following the game, like,
- 17:47Speaker 3: I'm sure they will coach them hard, Like even on
- 17:49Speaker 3: the first the will Kasmeric touchdown right that was covered
- 17:53Speaker 3: two and you sort of had Kasmeric and Brandon and
- 17:57Speaker 3: is in the same spot like and it should have
- 18:00Speaker 3: broke his route off there because you want the three
- 18:02Speaker 3: verticals against cover two, not the four. And so there's
- 18:05Speaker 3: there's plenty of little things right that can get cleaned
- 18:07Speaker 3: up like that that you'll be able to focus on
- 18:11Speaker 3: the mistakes. But this is obviously this is a more
- 18:13Speaker 3: obvious one. And this is again like comment Rand Staple
- 18:19Speaker 3: near the goal line, as we just talked about five
- 18:21Speaker 3: man protection, this is seven man, right, so you just
- 18:24Speaker 3: you have everyone or even an eight man I should say,
- 18:27Speaker 3: like full your everyone's full sliding to the right, so
- 18:30Speaker 3: you have everyone accounted for and you're just running a
- 18:32Speaker 3: two person route where we're running this slant underneath a
- 18:35Speaker 3: corner route. Basically, it just unfortunately for our stay here,
- 18:41Speaker 3: Gramblin had the perfect call on which is they're in man.
- 18:45Speaker 3: But then they have this linebacker to the field, this
- 18:48Speaker 3: shopping right under Jeremiah Smith's slant route. And so that's
- 18:52Speaker 3: why saying works off of that to Tate and by
- 18:54Speaker 3: the time he gets to that throat of Tate, it's
- 18:56Speaker 3: too late, you know. And this again, this is just
- 18:59Speaker 3: a situation, like pretty obvious, like you're too late with
- 19:02Speaker 3: the football. That's a long throw. You know, he needed
- 19:06Speaker 3: to either scramble or try to create some space or
- 19:09Speaker 3: just get rid of just chuck it away and live
- 19:11Speaker 3: to fight another day. So, as you said, this is
- 19:13Speaker 3: it's a teaching moment. I'm sure he pretty immediately knew
- 19:16Speaker 3: what he did wrong there, since it's a pretty obvious one.
- 19:19Speaker 3: But as you said, not perfect. And I'm sure the
- 19:22Speaker 3: focus this week will be on like that and all
- 19:25Speaker 3: the other plenty of little things, whether it's not reading
- 19:29Speaker 3: the numbers correctly on reliefs, you know, pulling a when
- 19:32Speaker 3: you should throw or vice versa, you know, blocking pass routes.
- 19:36Speaker 3: You know, I think day's cliche that the issues are
- 19:39Speaker 3: still there no matter what the score is. So there
- 19:41Speaker 3: are I'm sure things that they're coaching them hard.
- 19:43Speaker 1: On well, and things will get a little more challenging
- 19:47Speaker 1: this weekend as the Ohio Bobcats come to town. Not
- 19:50Speaker 1: you know, this is not the eighty five Bears, but
- 19:52Speaker 1: it'll be a little bit stiffer of of a test
- 19:55Speaker 1: for the for the Buckeyes and for their young quarterback
- 19:57Speaker 1: Julian saying buck Gets just held Rich Rodriguez and West
- 20:01Speaker 1: Virginia to ten points last weekend down in Athens, so we'll.
- 20:05Speaker 2: See how that goes.
- 20:06Speaker 1: We'll be back, of course with the defensive show with
- 20:08Speaker 1: Ross a little later on in the week. Plenty to
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