Latest / Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning / 3 Takeaways From Miami's 10-3 Win Over Texas A&M

Transcript

3 Takeaways From Miami's 10-3 Win Over Texas A&M · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, December twenty. First
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: time your host Tom wore the Cotton Bowl game against
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Miami in ten days the game against Michigan in three
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty two days. If you're planning a next event,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: make it unforgettable. With Grateful Griddle, Columbus's favorite food truck
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: serving up Smashberger scoremet sandwich is and good vibes Booker
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: catering today at Gratefulgriddle, oh dot com. All right, we
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: finally do know who the Buckeyes are playing in the
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl. It will be the Miami Hurricanes, who had
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: a scintillating is probably not the right word. It was
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: a competitive, close, dramatic ten to three win over the
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Texas A and m Aggies in Kyle Field. I'm joined
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: by Tony Gerdmann at buck Huddle dot com. Tony, I
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: feel like we need to just preface all these conversations
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: with we both picked Miami to win, so this was
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: not a big surprise. I think we're both expecting a
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: low scoring game, which is also not really a surprise,
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: but man, the degree to which that was a low
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: scoring game On Saturday in Kyle field, zero zero at halftime,
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: three nothing after three quarters. That was a little bit surprising.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: Two front sevens that were winning every every possession basically
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: and dominating up front the line of scrimmage. And you know,
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: even when you'd see a one of the offenses pick up,
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: you know, thirteen yards, then the next play would be
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: like a four yard loss on a stretch player or
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: something like that, or a bad screen, and the defense
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: has always had an answer and the offenses could never
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: quite just continue to stay on point. And we talked
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: about it before the game on the previews show about
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: the struggling that would happen in the red zone, and
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: we saw that one in this as well. So yes,
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: struggles abounding for both offenses, and yet you know Miami
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: was able to do enough. Did they think the ten
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: points was going to win this one? I wonder going
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: into the game they probably thought, do we need twenty one?
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: That's probably more than they thought. I bet if they
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: get I bet they went in this game thinking if
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: we score seventeen, we'll either be leading or we'll we'll
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: have a shot to win it in a four quarter
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: with one possession.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you and I were both around twenty
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: four to twenty twenty seventeen something like that with our
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: score predictions for that one. And yeah, I think that
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: was a reasonable expectation for where that might have ended up.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: And it was incredibly windy, and that I think impacted
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: things a lot too. And I wanted to look at
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: three three kind of takeaways from this game that may
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: you know, reasons why. I think you and I both thought, hey,
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Miami might be able to give Ohio State a better
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: game than Texas A and M would if they face
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: off in the Cotton Bowl. And I think we saw
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: little bits and pieces of that. And one thing that
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: surprised me was how well Miami ran the ball against
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M. The I guess had not had
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: a great rush defense by any means this season, but
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Mark Fletcher seventeen carries for one hundred and seventy two yards,
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: more than ten yards per carry for him, and it
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: was not all you know, it wasn't that he had
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: a ninety eight yard rush or something like that. He
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: had a fifty eight yard but he had a bunch
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: of ten and twelve and fifteen kind of yard runs
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: as well. You know, I'm not expecting him to run
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: for ten yards a carry against Ohio State. But if
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: he can run for four and a half yards of
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: carry against Ohio State, that would be probably a good
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: first step for Miami in terms of being able to
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: score enough points to make this one an interesting game
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also make each drive a little more achievable
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: on third down where if you are picking up four
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: or five yards a pop, not that you're running it first, second,
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: and third down, but if you are staying on schedule,
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: that makes those third downs a situation where you can
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: do whatever you want. And if you only have to
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: throw three yards. We know that Miami likes to only
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: throw three yards at times, and so if you've got
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: that running game going, that also allows you to keep
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: with that short passing game and the screen game and
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: those sorts of things and the short passes that are
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: just beyond the sticks and you only need to pick
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: up four yards. So if they are able to run
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: the ball, I don't expect one hundred and seventy yards
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: from Miami against Ohio State. But if you saw some
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: capability and you saw Fletcher bounce back from a couple
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: of rough games, and this was I think fourth one
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: hundred yard rushing games, so they have a history of that.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: They don't have a consistent history of that, though, And
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: now you're gonna be facing the best defense you've faced
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: all season long, with time to prepare for you and
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: time to really scout you out, and of course Miami
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: will have that same amount of time. But yeah, we
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: saw more capability from the Miami running game for sure.
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: I wonder how much of it translates, but we know
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: Mark Fletcher, former Ohio State running back commit, is a big,
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: strong runner who can fall forward, and sometimes the falling
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: forward is just enough.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't have to run for three hundred yards,
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: but if they can just sort of stay on schedule,
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: that can keep things. Maybe, you know, if they can
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: be multi dimensional on offense, that could help them a lot.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: And I think one other element of this on the
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball Miami that I don't want
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: I think Ohio State fans need to really take into
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: account is it was real, real windy there. So Miami
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: did not throw the ball worth a darn in this game.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Carson Beck finished the game with fourteen passes fourteen completions
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: for twenty fourteen for twenty passing the ball one hundred
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: and three yards and a touchdown, and the touchdown was
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: him flipping the ball about six inches forward in the air,
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: so it was not exactly a downfield throw. But there
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: was a lot of wind.
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: There was.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: I had someone I knew at the game who said
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: it was the wind was blowing at cowboy hats off
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: of people's heads in case we're wondering if the game
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: was in Miami or Kyle Field.
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: So it was.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: You know that that is not going to be a
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: concern in the in the game in Jerry World and
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl, So I think people need to not
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: you know, over index. Oh boy, Miami can't throw the
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: ball at all, and they have enough different stuff in
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: terms of you know, the passing game where you know,
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: the use Malachai Tony a bunch of different ways. He
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: didn't do a whole heck of a lot in this game.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: But they were able to sort of, even in bad conditions,
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: be able to sort of scrape together enough to keep things,
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: you know, keep them interesting long enough to win the game.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: Well, the first half they had one pass Miami did
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: over ten yards, actually over eight yards, and that was
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: fourteen yard completion on third and eight, and then I
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: think in the second half they realized we need to
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: be more aggressive, and they had completions of fifteen, twenty, ten, twelve,
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: and eleven and the only completion they did not have
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: over ten yards was a four yard completion on second
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: and nine. So they were throwing the ball further downfield,
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: but also making more plays after the catch, and they
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: weren't necessarily so many of their throws in the first
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: half were behind the line of scrimmage, were at the
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage, and the second half, I think they
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: changed that up and it was effective enough to eventually
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: land them a touchdown.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: So there's a couple sort of things to sort of
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: note on offense there for Miami. One thing that is
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: a consistent note and has been a consistent note for
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: us as we've been talking about Miami in the lead
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: up to this game is, boy, howdy, is that defensive
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: line pretty darn good? And you saw a keen Messador,
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: you saw Ruben Bain. They were all over the Texas
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: A and M backfield kind of consistently in the game.
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: But they have four four and a half sacks. It
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: was it was an impressive performance that to me, you know,
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna we will undoubtedly do ay. If Ohio
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: State wins the game, here's how that happens. If Miami
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: wins the game, here's how that happened. Show. I think
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: the Miami defensive ends and what they can do in
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: the pass rush is probably going to be the first
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: bullet point on that rundown for how does Miami win
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: this football game?
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one where you just you just state it.
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: If Ohio State of Phillip Daniels and Austin Sierraveld are
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: never heard from, then Ohio State wins the game. Because
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: if they're not heard from, then you're probably not gonna
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: hear from m Keey Messador or Ruben Bain and it'll
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: just be like, boy, things have sure been quiet, and yes,
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: Ohio State, that's why they have twenty one points. It's
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: because the defensive ends have been quiet. And if wire
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: State only has zero points or seven points, it's going
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: to be like, well, Julian Sane just has not had
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: enough time to throw the ball. Those defensive ends have
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: been getting after him, chasing him out of the pocket.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: He's not comfortable. You can tell he's not comfortable. He's
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: looking for you he feels the pressure before it's even there,
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: and he's already out of the pocket, or he's he's
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: checking down, he's not allowing the place to develop, and
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: he's already thrown to an outlet rather than waiting for
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: something to develop downfield. And really tom with those two
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: defensive ends, that's they don't need to get to the quarterback.
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: If they can just force Julian Saying to check down,
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: it may keep the change moving, but it's still a
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: win for them because you'd rather take that check down
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: than that fifty to fifty or eighty twenty ball down
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: the field of Jeremiah Smith or Carnal Tate.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because if they can limit the Ohio State downfield
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: passing game with the pass rush, then you don't need
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: to allocate, you know, a deep safeties and have guys
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: playing fifteen yards from the line of scrimmage, which then
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: means that would potentially open up the rushing game for
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: Ohio State if they did have to play this deep safeties.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: If you don't, that might limit the rushing game a
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: little bit. So it feels like a lot of that
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: game could come down to that individual matchup between Ohio
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: States tackles and Miami's defensive ends. We will have plenty
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: more time to talk about that in the coming days
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: and weeks as we count down the days to that
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl game. If you're an Ohio State fan in
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: the area of Texas, I realize it is a big area,
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: but if you were in the Metroplex or anywhere anywhere
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: a few hours drive from Dallas, I would expect those
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: ticket prices for the Cotton Bowl to drop precipitously now
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: that a whole bunch of Texas A and M fans
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: are probably going to be selling their tickets. The current
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: check in standing room tickets coming in at one hundred
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: and seventy five dollars at this moment as your get
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: in price, but I would expect those to probably drop
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: and probably some more tickets to hit the market. So
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: you've been ee own those tickets, and if you are
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: going to be heading to the game, make sure you
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: say hi to us, because we will be down there
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: as well covering that Cotton Ball game down in down
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: in DFW for the third straight season. Buck Guy's going
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: to take on the Miami Hurricanes on New Year's Eve.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: We'll have plenty of coverage coming up for you all
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: week long at bucket huddle dot com. Monday, we're gonna
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: be talking to Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, players
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: on the offense in the morning, players on the defense
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: in the evening, and then we'll get a chance to
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: watch a little bit of practice on the day after Christmas,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: so we'll have a lot to talk about there as well.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have content all week long for you at
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: bucke Huddle dot com, on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed,
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: buck Guys Tomorrow Morning podcast feed, and of course at
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. For today, thank you
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: will talk to you tomorrow