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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Illinois Used Tempo To Attack Matt Patricia's Ohio State Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Frodday, October seventeenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host Tom Moore. The Wisconsin game in one day,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in forty three days. Today, we're
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  Speaker 1: looking at the Ohio State defense, how it performed against
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  Speaker 1: the Illinois offense, whether the align I have maybe stumbled
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  Speaker 1: upon something that might help opposing teams attack Matt Patricia's defense.
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  Speaker 1: And we're gonna be talking about that with our buddy
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  Speaker 1: Ross Folton, the ex's and OS guru at buckey Huddle
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  Speaker 1: a reservation today. All right, So before we get to Ross,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you hear from one of our other
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  Speaker 1: good friends, Brett Bilama, Illinois head coach. After the game,
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  Speaker 1: he had some rather pointed thoughts. We're gonna hear the
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  Speaker 1: audio drop out here.
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  Speaker 2: At one point.
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  Speaker 1: That's because Brett says a word you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: say on TV. So it was asked about the use
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  Speaker 1: of tempo by the Illinois offense and how that helped
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  Speaker 1: them maybe achieve some things at other teams have not,
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  Speaker 1: such as reaching double digits, scoring multiple touchdowns, and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: That was all in the second half of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So here's Brett Brielamo's quick thoughts on how they used
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  Speaker 1: tempo in the game.
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  Speaker 3: I knew I actually wanted to go tumple the whole
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  Speaker 3: freaking game because they couldn't do with it right, Like
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  Speaker 3: we were doing a lot of really good things. So
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  Speaker 3: in retrospect, I think we could have done that a
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  Speaker 3: little bit sooner, a little bit quicker. Our quarterbacks really
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  Speaker 3: good with it, but they got good players all over
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  Speaker 3: the plays Mass obviously a very talented coordinator. They got
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  Speaker 3: really good personnel. But it seemed like when we went
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  Speaker 3: tempo that things really began to work our way. We
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  Speaker 3: just needed to go to it probably a little sooner,
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  Speaker 3: a little more often.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, So there's Brett Beielma's thoughts. Now, much more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: let's get Ross Fulton's thoughts on that. Ross We're going
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  Speaker 1: to start. We've got three plays here from the portion
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  Speaker 1: of the game where Illinois was running tempo. The first one,
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  Speaker 1: they have some success on the ground, and that is
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  Speaker 1: not something that teams have had a lot of success
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  Speaker 1: against Ohio State with this year. How much did the
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  Speaker 1: tempo kind of factor into all of the success that
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin had and then maybe the success they had on
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  Speaker 1: this drive in this play?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Illinois they you know, I know, Beelman
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  Speaker 4: talks about how, you know, he went back and watched
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  Speaker 4: old Patriots games and thought he needed to use tempo
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  Speaker 4: and spread out Matt Patricia's defense, and I think there's
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  Speaker 4: probably a little something to it. I think also, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think we need a little bit more like a
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  Speaker 4: sample size because there's like the other factor at play
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  Speaker 4: here is without Lorenzo Styles, I think they were a
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  Speaker 4: little bit limited in what they could do in the
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  Speaker 4: back end because you know, Jermaine Matthews obviously was impactful
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  Speaker 4: as a nickel as we'll see, but like a lot
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  Speaker 4: of what Styles does, as we talked about, is play safety,
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  Speaker 4: and that allows them to sort of like rotate disguise more,
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  Speaker 4: rotate guys more, breakdowns down in the box more. And
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  Speaker 4: I think they seemed a little bit more hesitant to
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  Speaker 4: have Matthew's function as an actual safety who's much more
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  Speaker 4: in that like additional slot nickel role. So those I
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  Speaker 4: think those factors are both at play in terms of
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  Speaker 4: in this game. But I do think the tempo probably
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  Speaker 4: limited a little bit in terms of like the disguise
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  Speaker 4: and what they could do. I mean, but they can
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  Speaker 4: bind it here. So for instance, like this is a
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  Speaker 4: four by zero unbalanced look. So obviously when you do
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  Speaker 4: that with tempo, like the defense has to respond quickly
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  Speaker 4: to match that personnel and a just and honestly doesn't
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  Speaker 4: find here. I mean, they're lined up, they're getting a
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  Speaker 4: cover one over, which is like you know, pretty simple
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  Speaker 4: but an easy way to deal with it, and they
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  Speaker 4: have every gap accounted for.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that the backside safety here, Dylan.
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  Speaker 4: McLain has to play the backside the gap, which, like
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've talked about like safety is having to
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  Speaker 4: fill into your gaps, like not necessarily ideal, but having
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  Speaker 4: your safety do it is not the worst. He just
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  Speaker 4: takes a bad angle rank like he's too late to it.
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  Speaker 4: He comes downhill to vertically and so they get to
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  Speaker 4: the edge and then they're obviously no other support out
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  Speaker 4: there with the end balance. So Illinois hit a couple
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  Speaker 4: of plays out of this, like four by zero running
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  Speaker 4: the ball. That was you know, I'd say the majority
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  Speaker 4: did their success on the ground those two run plays,
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  Speaker 4: So not a lot, but.
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  Speaker 2: You know there's some design to it on that one,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, that was a little bit of a running
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  Speaker 1: success plit story for Illinois. Now let's get to a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a passing success story. They did not
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  Speaker 1: have a ton of success growing downfield against Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: This is one example where they did. Is this one
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  Speaker 1: where you're chalking up the tempo? Is this when you're
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  Speaker 1: chalking it up to the absence of Lorenzo styles or
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  Speaker 1: is there something else at play here?
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  Speaker 4: This one I would actually talk chalk up to the
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  Speaker 4: this is the sim pressure scheme not getting home. And
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  Speaker 4: so you know, this happened a few times where I'd say,
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  Speaker 4: Matt Patricia, he's using some like zone blitz five or
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  Speaker 4: more rusher schemes, but a lot of it is like
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  Speaker 4: dizzy sim pressure, right, And this one is a boundary
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  Speaker 4: corner blitz combined with a non traditional tampa. So that
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  Speaker 4: just means that like you're again, you're we talked about
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  Speaker 4: the disguise, you're like rotating.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing Tampa too.
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  Speaker 4: So you have two D four hunner with Caleb Downs
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  Speaker 4: as the pole runner, but your guys are getting into
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  Speaker 4: it from different positions. So like you know, bo Atkinson's
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  Speaker 4: dropping back here as the hook curl, and so Downs
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  Speaker 4: obviously is dropping from back from the deep middle, the
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  Speaker 4: place where I think Ohio State has been a little
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  Speaker 4: bit vulnerable as the season's progress has been on these
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  Speaker 4: like middle of the field throws, both like kind of quick.
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  Speaker 2: Game as well as like these mid range throws.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I guess you'd kind of expect that against
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  Speaker 4: Prince primarily zone defense. You know this one, I think
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  Speaker 4: you know, they just get underneath kind of this dagger concepts,
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  Speaker 4: So you get the hole runner getting pulled by that
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  Speaker 4: seam route and then throw the deep dig underneath. A
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  Speaker 4: good design against Camp two, But again it was like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you run the sim pressure and the
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  Speaker 4: boundary corner, Platz doesn't get there eventually, Like in a zone,
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  Speaker 4: especially like when you're spot dropping, there'll be some holes
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  Speaker 4: for a good quarterback, which Almeyer is to find some gaps.
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  Speaker 2: So again a couple of times they hit those, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the thing is, it's weird about the final
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  Speaker 4: stats are actually like don't tell the story of this
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  Speaker 4: game very well. You know, we like the park are flaming.
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  Speaker 4: I like to talk about, like how bad did we
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  Speaker 4: get beat? Like Illinois actually like had a higher success rate,
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  Speaker 4: but so much of it's in the fourth quarter when
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  Speaker 4: it's not considered like you know, these these advanced statues,
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  Speaker 4: garbage time is twenty eight or more points. I honestly
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  Speaker 4: it was up twenty four, so the garbage time didn't
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  Speaker 4: kick in. But honestly, they put their backups in. So
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  Speaker 4: Illinois had one touchdown drive against the starters that those
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  Speaker 4: two plays were on where they use the tempo, and
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  Speaker 4: then the second one was you know, obviously put some
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  Speaker 4: backups in.
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  Speaker 2: It was that fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, Illinois like game over one hundred yards
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  Speaker 4: in that fourth quarter when the game is largely over.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think there's like any significant causes for concern,
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  Speaker 4: but obviously to the tempo and certainly attacking the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the field will be something I'll continue to watch.
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  Speaker 2: That's Matt Patrician defense, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a couple of things that did not go
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  Speaker 1: particularly well for the Ohio State defense. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the day went pretty well or really well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a little bit, but first off,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to take a look at some of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: where they're just showing some different looks in coverage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're, you know, again our high State every week.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Patricia keeps expanding, I feel like a little by
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  Speaker 4: a little of the playbook, right, and so this is
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  Speaker 4: actually like half quarter quarter. So this is a or
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  Speaker 4: at least that's what Big Fangio calls it. So you're
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  Speaker 4: playing cover two to the field and cover four to
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  Speaker 4: the battery. So we talked about quarter quarter a half
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  Speaker 4: before to that, which is where you're playing cover four
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  Speaker 4: to the field and cover to the boundary. So a
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  Speaker 4: little bit different look here. You've got the two underneath
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  Speaker 4: linebackers and sort of robbers. We talked about how, you know,
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  Speaker 4: teams have had some success gets Ohio State with these
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  Speaker 4: sort of quick game underneath throws or middle of the field,
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  Speaker 4: so you're trying to minimize that. Obviously they Illinois some
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  Speaker 4: completes this for a short game, but again, just different
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  Speaker 4: looks that Ohio State is presenting quarterbacks. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: so far, you always worry about, like we talked about this,
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  Speaker 4: the offense that you know, the more you put on
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  Speaker 4: people's plates, the more bust you have or you know,
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  Speaker 4: miss assignments or execution. But so far the Ohigo State
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  Speaker 4: defense has been effectively handling like more and more scheme.
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  Speaker 4: So obviously the more things you can run, particularly in
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  Speaker 4: the back end, the more difficult you make for best quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and so next up we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: here we go to the happy portion of the of
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  Speaker 1: the show, and this is Jerem Jermaine Matthews. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about him earlier and I saw a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: asking should he just stay in the slot, And it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the answer in your mind is probably not,
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  Speaker 1: just because of some of the other stuff that that
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  Speaker 1: Lorenzo styles lets them do and all that in terms
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  Speaker 1: of being able to play that sort of safety role.
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  Speaker 1: But man, Oman, when you looked at him in the
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  Speaker 1: slot against Hank Batty, you understood why do people you know,
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  Speaker 1: why people thought, hey, this might be a you know,
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  Speaker 1: something that they want to think about long term. Because
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  Speaker 1: Hank Baby came in as their leading receiver for Illinois
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  Speaker 1: and Matthews, who really hasn't gotten thrown on all that
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  Speaker 1: much this year when when Illinois was throwing the ball
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  Speaker 1: with his way, he was making stuff happen. This first
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  Speaker 1: one exam is an example of that sort that tipped
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  Speaker 1: pass that ends up getting picked off by Peyton Pierce.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, you know, A for the reasons
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  Speaker 4: I said about styles and B because you want to
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  Speaker 4: put your best eleven out there, I don't think they have.
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  Speaker 2: Devin Sanchez is ready as a corner.
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  Speaker 4: Like Illinois went after him right away, he's sort of
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  Speaker 4: gotten picked on when he's been out there. That's you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's a true freshman. So it's not like it's not
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  Speaker 4: like anything bad per se. It's just I don't think
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  Speaker 4: you're putting your best eleven if you're doing that that said,
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  Speaker 4: I do if you were playing a ton of Cover one,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, again is not exactly not what all
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  Speaker 4: Saints doing, right. They're playing some, but what's really like
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  Speaker 4: where they've been really successful is with the disguise and
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  Speaker 4: like mixing you know, zone and.
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  Speaker 2: Man coverages that.
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  Speaker 4: But if you were playing a tone of Cover one,
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  Speaker 4: obviously Jermaine Matthews here is going to be a better
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  Speaker 4: man coverage player than Lorenzo Styles is particularly against as
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  Speaker 4: you said, Hank Baby is as a slot receiver. So
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  Speaker 4: this is obviously a way to take away some of
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  Speaker 4: those quick game throws by playing cover one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every every coverage.
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  Speaker 4: Has its pluses and minuses, and so you know, cover
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  Speaker 4: one certainly helps take away some of this underneath stuff,
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  Speaker 4: particularly if you're pressed up. And so obviously Illinois tried
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  Speaker 4: to throw this early great play by Matthews on cover
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  Speaker 4: one rat tail downs by rat, we just mean like
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  Speaker 4: the underneath guys, the other safety coming down, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so that's again they are able to play
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  Speaker 4: cover one, and like they will do it. I would
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  Speaker 4: still say it's a change up to their zone. But
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  Speaker 4: I think you'll continue to see, like if teams really
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  Speaker 4: try to throw a lot of quick games stuff like this,
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  Speaker 4: they'll mix it in. And you know which with Matthews,
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  Speaker 4: you can always if a team has like like Baby,
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  Speaker 4: if like they're best receivers in the slot, there's certainly
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  Speaker 4: things they can do in terms of like you know,
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  Speaker 4: flipping guys around or following covers where you know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: you put Lorenzo Styles depending on the formation on the
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  Speaker 4: outside receiver at Matthew's inside.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now the next one. This is the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: defending the run really well. We've talked a bunch over
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years about spill and kill. That
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  Speaker 1: was something we talked about a lot during the Jim
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  Speaker 1: Knowles era. I don't know if this technically counts as
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  Speaker 1: a spill and kill concept or design here, but it
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  Speaker 1: sort of functionally looks like what that's what happens. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing inside, running back goes outside and Caleb downs as
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  Speaker 1: they're waiting for him for not much of a game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's spill in the sense because generally speaking,
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  Speaker 4: you don't want to box counter like by box you're
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  Speaker 4: trying to force the football inside.
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  Speaker 2: You really want to spill counter like this.
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  Speaker 4: I just think like, yes, Illinois hit those a couple
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  Speaker 4: of runs out of tempo, but for the most part,
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  Speaker 4: Ohiose continues to be very difficult to run against, you know,
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  Speaker 4: particularly as I said, ILLINOI spread them.
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  Speaker 2: Out a lot. This is twelve personnel.
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  Speaker 4: Ohio Say continued to largely respond with their three linebackers,
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  Speaker 4: and so this is the six to one look that
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  Speaker 4: you know, Patricia with the Patriots had so much success
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  Speaker 4: against the Rams and the Super Bowl against their run game.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, so and armal Ree has just been you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's hard to even people refer to him as a
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  Speaker 4: linebacker sometimes. I don't know if linebacker is the right
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  Speaker 4: term for him. He plays as much, if not more,
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  Speaker 4: on the edge as he does as a a off
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  Speaker 4: the ball linebacker. And you know, he's really effective in
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  Speaker 4: this role, right And so you know, usually the six
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  Speaker 4: to one people say you want to run gap ski
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  Speaker 4: against it, but he's been pretty effective taking on leave
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  Speaker 4: locks and forcing to spill and obviously when you Kaleen
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  Speaker 4: downs there to spill too, it's a pretty effective combination,
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Next one, this is the play where the receiver was
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  Speaker 1: initially I think rule to catch and then they overturned
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  Speaker 1: it because the receiver had stepped out of bounds and
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  Speaker 1: had not re established inbounds. This is one where there
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  Speaker 1: you can just see Luke Altmeyer scanning the field and
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  Speaker 1: there's very clearly nothing there for him, and Peyton Pierce
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  Speaker 1: is there kind of is almost like a spy to
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  Speaker 1: sort of keep things, you know, keep things in front
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  Speaker 1: of him, and then forced Luke Meyer to make.
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  Speaker 2: A throat again.
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  Speaker 4: So we see these like you know, using some man
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  Speaker 4: against these spread formations.
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  Speaker 2: Right here we have like a wide bunch. Illinois ran
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  Speaker 2: this a lot.
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  Speaker 4: So you get this like cover one where you're playing
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  Speaker 4: locking levels so you can see the three defenders at
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  Speaker 4: different levels so that you don't get like picked or
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  Speaker 4: rupted when these receivers are close to each other, and
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  Speaker 4: then you know you got your This is a ah
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  Speaker 4: a bears uh what putting? Alexander refers to it sim pressure, right,
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  Speaker 4: So you're you're you're basically using the noseguard. He's coming
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  Speaker 4: to the backside Kenya and Jackson's trying to take that
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  Speaker 4: guard and they're trying to free it up for r
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  Speaker 4: VL Reese. We just talked about being not being an
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  Speaker 4: off fall liebacker, but here he is an off fall liebacker,
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  Speaker 4: but being a pass rusher and taking on the running
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  Speaker 4: back and obviously forcing an Erran throw. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: again we're seeing a lot of these, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: different sort of sim pressures. I would say, right right,
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  Speaker 4: you're like here we're running. You got still have like
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  Speaker 4: a rat in the middle of the robber in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the field that actually a double robbers Pierce
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  Speaker 4: like we talked about, but using bringing forward.
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  Speaker 2: But freeing up Ree. That's the rusher, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And then our last play, this is another example of
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  Speaker 1: Jermaine Matthews really making stuff happen. This was that strip
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  Speaker 1: sack just on a corner blitz gets Altmeyer for the
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  Speaker 1: backside strip sack and ended up giving the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: really good position where they were able to convert on
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  Speaker 1: that relatively quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Afterwards, every week they just kind of add on more
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  Speaker 4: and more of these simp pressures right where you're still
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  Speaker 4: bringing four, but they're just coming from different places. And
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  Speaker 4: here the U so you're you know, you're walked. You
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  Speaker 4: have Reese walked up. Obviously that's going to threaten the center.
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  Speaker 4: He figs and drops back. So they're just playing a
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  Speaker 4: cover three at the end of the day, right where
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  Speaker 4: you got three deep, you got four under and you're
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  Speaker 4: you're dropping off both your linebackers but as well as
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  Speaker 4: Kenning out of Jackson is playing the boundary pro flat.
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  Speaker 4: But then you're bringing the nickel blitz and we talk
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  Speaker 4: about a con effected again. There's certainly things that Jermaine
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  Speaker 4: Matthews did from that role. They were very effective, and
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  Speaker 4: so this is one of them, right, bringing pressure causing
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  Speaker 4: a fumble and so lead into turnover one of the three.
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  Speaker 2: For h day of the day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, And we had a member on our site
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  Speaker 1: ask if we could do a little bit of a
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: preview if the look ahead game, and we know Ross
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: has obviously not done extraordinarily in depth scouting on Wisconsin
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: and grinding film all week, but wanted to get some
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: kind of more general thoughts on the game. And one
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: of them is, I know we talked earlier at tempo
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: and that not all the issues that people were sort
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: of chalking up to tempo were really caused by tempo.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: But is that something that you're expecting Wisconsin to maybe
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: try or mean, Wisconsin's offense has been terrible, terrible, like
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: no good, very very bad all the time, terrible this year.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: So is that something that could be an advantage for
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: them in some way or does that just get the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: three and out over faster and put their defense back.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: On the field.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, I do not think of them as a
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: team that can use temple. I mean, like what Illinois
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: was doing is fits within their DNA, so to speak,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: and they have a fetcheran quarterback that's very good. I
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: worry that people are like underestimate at Illinoi's offense and
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Lukevaldmeyer like they're very good.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: So I would be surprised if Wisconsin tries to just tempo.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: I think they'll try to like slow the game down
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: and eat possessions or limited possessions. But you know, I
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: guess you can see if imitation is the sincerest form
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: of flattery.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: So all right, so there's just a little bit of
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: a teaser on the Ohio State defense. Now to the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Ohio State offense and what to look for from them
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: this weekend. We've obviously talked on the show earlier in
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the week about the fact that they're probably just sort
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: of working on some stuff and they probably don't have
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: all the RPO tags turned on on some things. With
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: this Beagie game, Lehouse State is once again a big favorite.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Are you expecting this to be another game where Ohio
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: State fans are probably kind of banging their heads against
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the wall and wondering why they're not really opening things up?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Or is this a week where you think Ohio State
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: tries to maybe put a little bit more on sans plate.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I think it's a week where you try to put
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: a little bit more on his plate. Like I think
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: they've had two road games against good teams, right, I mean,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I think if anything, like Washington is better than I
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: think people even gave them credit for at the time,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Like they're still very under ranked and the AP top
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: twenty five relative to like their advanced SAT ratings. We'll
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: see how they do the Saturday, obviously, and Illinois is
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: a really good team at home, and that was a,
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: you know, a difficult spot. So this is their first
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: road game where I think they should you know, can
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: all be expected to win pretty handily. So I think
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: this is a good opportunity on the road to put
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: a little bit more on Julian Sand's plate.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Ryan Day had a comment during his press conference about,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: you know, they've had six games now, trying different things out,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: and they you know, have a I'm obviously paraphrasing here,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: but I took it as, you know, we now know
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: what some guys can do and can't do, and we've
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: got to stop asking guys to do things they can't do.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I took that as a reference to some of the
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: the multi tight end sets and the usage of the
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: tight ends, and so I've firstly a been looking for them.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I think they'll be a little bit more spread out
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: on Saturday. I think we'll see maybe some use of tempo.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I think we'll see some more throwing on early downs.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: And as I said, put a little bit more on
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Saine's plate. And you know that's not just like throwing
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: vertically downfield, but just like giving him some more early
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: down opportunities to throw the football, whether that's off of
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: live RPOs or just you know, down drop back past concepts.
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