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Everything Penn State QB Drew Allar Said About Ohio State · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Tom got a little bonus show for
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  Speaker 1: you here. We turned a ton of content from Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten Media Days last week and not all that made
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  Speaker 1: it into the podcast feeds. So here you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit of Penn State talk and it's
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  Speaker 1: really Penn State talking about Ohio State. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: hear from Penn State quarterback Drew Aller. The Nitney Allons
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  Speaker 1: were voted the favorites to win the Big Ten this year.
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  Speaker 1: Will they do it well? They got to get over
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  Speaker 1: the hump against Ohio State and probably a few other
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  Speaker 1: opponents this year. So here is everything that Penn State
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Drew Ahler had to say about Ohio State. We're
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  Speaker 1: back at Big Ten Media Days and Ohio State State
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  Speaker 1: is done here, but the Ohio State Buckeyes still a
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  Speaker 1: very hot topic here among some of the other teams
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  Speaker 1: that are still getting interviewed. One of those teams today
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  Speaker 1: was Penn State. Nate, let you hear a lot from
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  Speaker 1: Penn State quarterback Drew Aler. Not a huge surprise that
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes came up a bunch during his conversation. He
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  Speaker 1: of course, is an Ohio native, So you get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of an in state tie there, the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: have also represented a little bit of a hurdle that
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  Speaker 1: Penn State is still working to get over. They've not
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  Speaker 1: beaten the Buckeye since twenty sixteen, and with the Nitney
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  Speaker 1: Lions projected to win the Big Ten this year, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to probably have to do that in order to
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  Speaker 1: reach their goals. So let's start with one common tie
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  Speaker 1: among those two teams, which is new penn State defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator Jim Noles. Owles was Ohio State's defensive cordator in
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  Speaker 1: the National Championship winning season last year, then went east,
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  Speaker 1: headed back to his home state of Pennsylvania to take
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  Speaker 1: over as the DC under James Franklin. So what has
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  Speaker 1: Drew Aller gotten out of sitting down with Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 1: to talk about last year's game where Noles was on
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  Speaker 1: the other sideline and was charged with stopping Drew Eller
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  Speaker 1: and how and why Knowles did what he did and
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  Speaker 1: defended Aler the way that he did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've actually been able to sit down with him
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  Speaker 2: and a couple of guys that he brought over from
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State and really sit back and watch the game
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  Speaker 2: from last year and just really understand their philosophy behind
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  Speaker 2: the like why they were calling certain things, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: the tells that we I had we had as an offense,
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  Speaker 2: so all those sorts of things, Like he was able
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  Speaker 2: to show me the scouting report that they had on
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  Speaker 2: me and other guys, So I thought it was really
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  Speaker 2: positive feedback from the standpoint, Like I knew there was
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  Speaker 2: areas I needed to work on, but those kind of
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  Speaker 2: reconfirmed it. So like just knowing that those areas that
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  Speaker 2: showed up on films, trying to make those into strengths
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  Speaker 2: for me this year so those things don't happen. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm really excited to go against him and
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  Speaker 2: the defense is fall camp because I think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the best defense in the country, and I
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  Speaker 2: know our goal for offense is to be the best
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  Speaker 2: offense in the country, So to be able to go
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  Speaker 2: against them every day is going to be really fun.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's gonna be some challenging days, but that's
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  Speaker 2: what's going to payoff in the long run.
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  Speaker 1: During the season, mentioned earlier that one of the big
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  Speaker 1: themes for Penn State is getting over the hump in
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  Speaker 1: close games. In marquee games. Ohigho State is obviously some
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  Speaker 1: of those games, but they also narrowly lost to Oregon
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  Speaker 1: in Big Ten championship game, narrowly lost to Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 1: and the College Football playoffs my finals. Just what do
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  Speaker 1: they have to do to sort of take that next
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  Speaker 1: step to get over the hump in games like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've talked about a little bit with Coach Franklin
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  Speaker 2: and coach k and for us, you know, there, we
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  Speaker 2: definitely need to get over that hump, there's no question
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  Speaker 2: about it. But we've also been one of the most
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  Speaker 2: consistent programs over his ten years, especially the last eleven
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  Speaker 2: years or whatever he's been the Penn State head coach.
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  Speaker 2: So our process has been working, but we definitely need
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  Speaker 2: to find different ways to you know, come out with
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  Speaker 2: different results in those games. And I think for us,
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  Speaker 2: at least me specifically, it's just about execution of us
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  Speaker 2: from a player standpoint, like there hasn't been at least
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  Speaker 2: in my career, Like we haven't really been blown out
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  Speaker 2: of the water by any any team. So it's really
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  Speaker 2: just about finding those areas to make one or two
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  Speaker 2: more plays throughout those games. Because those types of games,
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  Speaker 2: when you're going against those great opponents that have equal
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  Speaker 2: talent as you and also equal coaching staff and that
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing. It comes down to maybe just four
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  Speaker 2: or five plays throughout the game, So finding a way
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  Speaker 2: to maybe get into a better play or make one
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  Speaker 2: more throw that maybe I didn't make. It's all the difference.
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  Speaker 2: So just finding different ways to you know, the little
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  Speaker 2: things that add up into big things over time is
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  Speaker 2: going to be our focus.
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  Speaker 1: Having a history like that could be a positive thing
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  Speaker 1: or a negative thing, depending on how you want to
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  Speaker 1: look at it. You want to say negative, it's a boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a mental block. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to say positive, it's like, boy, you've got some experience.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're close, you know the margin is very fine.
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  Speaker 1: So is that a positive or a negative thing? In
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  Speaker 1: Drew Aller's mind?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the experience definitely helps because we know
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  Speaker 2: what those situations feel like. We know what it is
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  Speaker 2: like to be on both ends of it, the winning
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  Speaker 2: side and the losing side. So you know, just channeling
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  Speaker 2: that and just flushing in the moment and staying in
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  Speaker 2: that present moment when those opportunities do come, I think
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the biggest thing for us.
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  Speaker 1: Aller is of course a native of Madina, Ohio up
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  Speaker 1: near Cleveland. So what is it going to mean to
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  Speaker 1: him to have a chance to go back and start
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  Speaker 1: in his home state in Ohio Stadium this fall.
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  Speaker 2: I think, well, obviously, being able to go back to
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  Speaker 2: home to Ohio and play in my home state is
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  Speaker 2: definitely a a blessing because I was able to obviously
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  Speaker 2: have more family members there, more friends there, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: they have a great environment, great program, great team, great players,
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  Speaker 2: and great coaches. So when that opportunity do comes, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be looking forward to it, just for the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go back home and play play them, because obviously they're
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  Speaker 2: a great team and obviously they accomplished whatever your team
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  Speaker 2: in America wants to accomplish last year, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: when the opportunity douce comes, I'll be excited for it.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, it's always about going one to zero,
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  Speaker 2: never looking to overlooking the opponents because again, like we
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  Speaker 2: played in Nevada week one, So when we get through
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  Speaker 2: that part of training camp where it's we're shifting our
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  Speaker 2: focus to the season, I will put all my focus
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  Speaker 2: on Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: You'll sometimes hear people say that all their losses are lessons.
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  Speaker 1: So what were the lessons that Dureller took from close
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  Speaker 1: games against Oregon and Ohio State last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Oregon game specifically, I played well
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  Speaker 2: in for the most part, but there was two costly mistakes. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the first interception. We were down what like twenty one
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  Speaker 2: to ten at that point. I threw an interception which
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  Speaker 2: was basically a pick six since they got out on
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  Speaker 2: the one. It was one play like run, like half
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  Speaker 2: back dive or whatever. So now we're down twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: to ten. But the thing I took from that game
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  Speaker 2: is the way we battled back, Like we came back
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  Speaker 2: and rattled off two scores. So but again, like if
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  Speaker 2: I don't have those two costly interceptions, maybe it's a
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  Speaker 2: different outcome for us. And because we were we were
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  Speaker 2: having a pretty good game offensively from that standpoint, I
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  Speaker 2: was playing pretty well besides like maybe like five or
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  Speaker 2: six plays. And then the Ohio State game, again it's
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  Speaker 2: like like just one or two different plays. Obviously they
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  Speaker 2: had a great goal line stand they made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of plays when they needed to make plays, So credit
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  Speaker 2: to them. They have again, like a really good ball club,
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  Speaker 2: really good coaching staff. So they're gonna make plays, but
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  Speaker 2: it's about just finding one or two more plays to
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  Speaker 2: make throughout that game that can maybe change that outcome.
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  Speaker 2: So again, like all these games that we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: come down to like a handful of plays. Obviously they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be really tight games just because of the talent
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  Speaker 2: on both sides of the both sides of the field.
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  Speaker 2: So again, those are the opportunities that you know, I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to come to Penn State to play and those
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  Speaker 2: types of games and looking forward to just again kind
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  Speaker 2: of just having one more go at it for my
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  Speaker 2: senior year.
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  Speaker 1: This time last year at Big Ten Media Days, one
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  Speaker 1: of the hot topics was how Hihost had had all
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  Speaker 1: these veteran players coming back because they had unfinished business
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  Speaker 1: to handle. So did Penn State, which now has a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of veteran players coming back to handle some unfinished business.
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  Speaker 1: Did they look at what happened with Ohio State the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they reached a lot of their goals last
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  Speaker 1: year winning the national championship. But that's something he and
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  Speaker 1: his teammates looked at and part of their decision.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of hard to say it, but
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  Speaker 2: I think for us, like again, it kind of relates
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  Speaker 2: back to my message earlier, like for us, Like I know,
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  Speaker 2: for me, we had a I wanted to accomplish a
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  Speaker 2: lot more as a team, and individually I could say
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  Speaker 2: the same for all the guys that made that decision
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  Speaker 2: to come back. So I think for us it was
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  Speaker 2: about reflecting on each person's journey because obviously everybody had
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  Speaker 2: a different decision to make. Everybody's decision wasn't like mine
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  Speaker 2: or that sort of thing. So making those decisions, and
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  Speaker 2: then when we sent back foot and last for our
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  Speaker 2: first lift of the winner, like just realizing, all right now,
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  Speaker 2: it's like we're here, Like we didn't just come back
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  Speaker 2: to come back. We came back for a reason, and
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  Speaker 2: we need to push everybody around us to be the
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  Speaker 2: best they possibly can, and we're I think we've done
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  Speaker 2: a really good job of that. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great leaders on both sides of the wall, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of experience, So I'm really looking forward to just
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  Speaker 2: again playing football and competing against us one fall camp
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  Speaker 2: comes around.
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  Speaker 1: Ohiostdates certainly benefited from having a lot of those veteran
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  Speaker 1: players back last year. What's the value of having so
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  Speaker 1: much experience and veteran depth in close games like the
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  Speaker 1: ones we've been talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just like you said, it's experienced. The more
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  Speaker 2: you're being you're in those moments, the more you know
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  Speaker 2: what it feels like on both outcomes, good and bad.
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  Speaker 2: So just knowing like when those moments do come, like
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  Speaker 2: all right, like now, resetting your mind to focus on
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  Speaker 2: the present, not thinking about the outcome or anything like,
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  Speaker 2: just focusing on the process of everything to hopefully come
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  Speaker 2: out with different outcomes and those opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that Eller had been working with Jim Knowles.
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  Speaker 1: What does that give and take like with an offensive
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  Speaker 1: player talking to the defensive coordinator in terms of what
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  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator can bring to him and what Aler
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  Speaker 1: can maybe bring to Knowles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really good conversations, honestly. We'll talk a lot
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  Speaker 2: about a lot of different things, honestly, like whether it's
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  Speaker 2: like offensive football, defensive football, what he sees young guys
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  Speaker 2: in our program that you know, we think are going
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  Speaker 2: to be really good players for us. And also just
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  Speaker 2: kind of just talking about football in general, like how
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  Speaker 2: I see the game, how he sees the game, picking
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  Speaker 2: his brain about like how he tries to disguise on
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  Speaker 2: defense and that sort of thing, and just giving him
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  Speaker 2: any tips that I have, like maybe tells that I
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  Speaker 2: have from him or things that helped me gather information
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  Speaker 2: pre snap and him doing the same for me. So
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  Speaker 2: I think, again, like the one thing that's cool about
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  Speaker 2: our program is obviously we competing everything we do, but
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  Speaker 2: we also want to see each other succeed. So I
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  Speaker 2: think that's just the culture we have at Penn State.
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  Speaker 2: So we're always gonna, obviously when it's time to play
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  Speaker 2: football that compete against each other and try to win
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  Speaker 2: every drill that we can. But then after the fact
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  Speaker 2: put that and like just be honest with each other
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  Speaker 2: and just say, see what we saw out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And one more question about Jim Knowles, What is it
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  Speaker 1: like going against Jim Knowles, someone as smart as Jim Knowles,
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  Speaker 1: with as many tools in his toolbox as Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 1: in practice every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really fun going against him in practice obviously
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  Speaker 2: because again he's one of the best defensive coordinators in
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  Speaker 2: the country, and now to be going against him every
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  Speaker 2: day in practice, it can only help me, no matter
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  Speaker 2: how challenging his scheme is. Obviously, we have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talented players on that side of the ball, so
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  Speaker 2: that already makes it pretty hard, but going against his
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  Speaker 2: scheme has been really fun throughout spring ball and just
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  Speaker 2: kind of getting to know him a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: about his scheme and like how he's kind of evolved
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  Speaker 2: to call his defense and that sort of thing, just
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  Speaker 2: kind of trying to look at it from a different
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  Speaker 2: perspective and not just always on the offensive side of
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  Speaker 2: the ball, but how maybe defensive coaches adjustment game and
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  Speaker 2: why they adjustment game.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that Aller is a native of Madina, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and again that is up near Cleveland. He is a
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  Speaker 1: lifelong Cleveland brown fans, been going to Browns games ever
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  Speaker 1: since he was a little kid. What is that like
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  Speaker 1: being a Cleveland Browns fan? What does that mean to
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  Speaker 1: him as a football player now? And you'll hear a
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  Speaker 1: quick follow up and the follow up is who's your
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  Speaker 1: favorite Browns player?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely shaped my love of football for sure. I Mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know I've said a ton, but I grew up
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  Speaker 2: going to Cleveland Browns games every Sunday, every home game
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  Speaker 2: from a time I was like six or seven years old.
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  Speaker 2: The only time the first time I missed the Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: Brown's home game was my freshman year at Penn State.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my dad still has the tickets and his name.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he doesn't I don't think he's made one since
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  Speaker 2: I've been in college, but still owns the rights to
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  Speaker 2: the seats, So it means a lot to me. And
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  Speaker 2: I think just growing up in really the Midwest, but
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  Speaker 2: more specifically Northeast Ohio specifically where it's a big football
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  Speaker 2: talent region in general, it's definitely shaped my love. And
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  Speaker 2: then obviously having my dad who who played football in
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  Speaker 2: high school and was fortunate enough to play in college
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  Speaker 2: as well, it really helped me forget that favorite Brown.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of them. It's kind of hard
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  Speaker 2: to name one, but I think one that probably sticks
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  Speaker 2: out to me the most would be like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a tough I love Joe Hayden. I love even
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  Speaker 2: though he's defensive. Guys, I loved you watching Joe Hayden.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. A little Penn State talk, a
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  Speaker 1: little Ohio State talk, a little Cleveland Browns talk, a
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  Speaker 1: little everything for you. So hopefully you guys enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have much more coming up this week. All here
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  Speaker 1: from Big Ten Media days in Las Vegas. I love
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  Speaker 1: playing more. The Oregon Ducks talking today, Penn State talking today,
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  Speaker 1: plus a bunch of other teams, and then Michigan is
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  Speaker 1: here tomorrow. So plenty to talk about this week. You
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  Speaker 1: can talk about it all with us at Buckeyeadle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for now. We'll talk to you later.