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How Did Julian Sayin Perform In Ohio State's Win Over Texas? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Monday, September. First
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  Speaker 1: Buck Guys open their season on Saturday in the Horseshoe. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: pretty darn good day. Not perfect, but you always want
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  Speaker 1: to get your first game out of the way, let
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot more about what you need to
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  Speaker 1: do moving forward. If you can do that with a win,
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  Speaker 1: well that's all the better. So today you're going to
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  Speaker 1: hear a little bit about Ryan Day's postgame thoughts to
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  Speaker 1: give in some interesting takes on a bunch of different topics.
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  Speaker 1: Just we'll start with just his overall thoughts on the
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  Speaker 1: game and especially the fan base that showed up on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to start out by given Texas a
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  Speaker 2: lot of credit. You know, the number one team in
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  Speaker 2: a country and Sark and what they do. A great team.
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  Speaker 2: But I also want to thank the fans. What an
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable atmosphere from you know, driving in this morning from
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  Speaker 2: my house, seeing everybody a game day at big, big,
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  Speaker 2: big noon kickoff, seeing people around the stadium tailgating, and
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  Speaker 2: then the atmosphere in the stadium when we came out
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  Speaker 2: from warm ups. I mean, there wasn't very many empty
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  Speaker 2: seats and for a noon kickoff to have that many people.
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  Speaker 3: In the stadium was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And so for an atmosphere like that week one to
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  Speaker 2: bring everybody together, it was great for our team and
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  Speaker 2: I think it made a huge difference in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to thank if I say all the time,
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  Speaker 2: it takes everybody, and the fans certainly brought it tonight
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  Speaker 2: or today, and man, I'm just proud of our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Just a gritty win to start the season.
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  Speaker 1: The battle for the starting quarterback position is one of
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  Speaker 1: the big topics of conversation all year long. Got settled
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and so far looks like
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  Speaker 1: that decision it seems it's working out just fine. So
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  Speaker 1: what was Brian Day's breakdown of how Julian Saying performed?
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  Speaker 1: This actually turns into an answer about their approach on
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  Speaker 1: the offense on the whole, which is kind of interesting too.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, I said in the locker room, I thought
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  Speaker 2: he handled himself well. I thought he took care of
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  Speaker 2: the ball, made some throws when he need to, a
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  Speaker 2: couple of times when it wasn't there.
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  Speaker 3: He did not force it. Could we have opened it
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  Speaker 3: up more in.
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  Speaker 2: The second half, Yeah, But I thought Brian called an
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  Speaker 2: unselfish game.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the defense was playing well.
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  Speaker 2: When we got the ball back on the ten yard
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  Speaker 2: line there with eight minutes to go, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: we ended up running off about four minutes off the clock,
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  Speaker 2: and we thought that that was important. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: it this week. You know, in week one, we can't
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  Speaker 2: beat ourselves. We wanted to let them beat us. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, for a first time starter, you just don't
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  Speaker 2: want to put him in that situation, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: hindsight says we did the right thing, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just you're never too sure. But I thought that
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  Speaker 2: the drive that the off had there in the first half,
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  Speaker 2: I think we ate up over eight minutes off the
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  Speaker 2: clock was which was part of the game plan because
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  Speaker 2: you know, we wanted to keep you know, keep their
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  Speaker 2: offense off the field, and then to finish it with
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  Speaker 2: that fourth and one was big, and then the play
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  Speaker 2: by Carnell.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the story of the game was the defense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Matt, I felt put a gig game plan together,
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  Speaker 2: the coaches put a good game plan together, but I
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  Speaker 2: just the grittiness of our guys running around. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot we can build on here, a lot we have
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  Speaker 2: to improve on. The team you see right now will
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  Speaker 2: not even be close to the team you see halfway
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  Speaker 2: through the season or at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 2: but it certainly makes the corrections a lot easier to make.
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  Speaker 3: After a win against, you know, a top five opponent
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  Speaker 3: like this.
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  Speaker 1: There was plenty of talk nationally that Matt Patricia was
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  Speaker 1: about to get stuffed in a locker by Texas and
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  Speaker 1: their brilliant offensive line Steve Sarkisian. And then Matt Patricia's
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  Speaker 1: defense shut out Texas for the first fifty six minutes
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  Speaker 1: of the game, give up seven points on the whole. So, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day, is this validation that Matt Patricia was the
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  Speaker 1: right join ways for the job.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have to prove ourselves every time we're in
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  Speaker 2: that arena.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just what you do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you stop feeling like you have to
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  Speaker 2: prove yourself, then you stop improving. And so that's the
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  Speaker 2: way we feel. But all that being said, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know what kind of a coach mat is because
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  Speaker 2: I see him every day. You know, you guys don't.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the thing about football, and I share that
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  Speaker 2: with the guys. All the work that you put in
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  Speaker 2: in the dark doesn't come to light until this first game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And that's sometimes a sobering thing about football.
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  Speaker 3: You put all this.
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  Speaker 2: Work in just to give you a chance and then
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  Speaker 2: you know you have X number of plays to go
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  Speaker 2: make it happen. But that's what competitive excellence is. And
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  Speaker 2: again a great start. I thought the game plan was excellent,
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  Speaker 2: but the buy in is what's most important. You know,
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  Speaker 2: plays are plays, Scheme is scheme, But what matters is
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  Speaker 2: the guys and the warriors on the field, you know,
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  Speaker 2: believing in it and the work that's put in. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you how much time Larry Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: James Orniitis and Matt and Tim Walton, how about the
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  Speaker 2: dbs and Jermaine and igb making that play down there on?
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  Speaker 3: Uh In the in the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these guys they worked their tails off to
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  Speaker 2: prepare their players and the great out of Champion to
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  Speaker 2: do their job, and a lot of guys did their job.
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  Speaker 3: Again, was it perfect?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, There's a lot of things that we got
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  Speaker 2: to improve on a ton, but at least we have
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  Speaker 2: a starting point.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great win. Everyone left the stadium happy,
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  Speaker 1: but of course it wasn't perfect. There's still plenty of
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  Speaker 1: stuff for the coaching staff and the players to work
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  Speaker 1: on coming out of that game. One of the question
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  Speaker 1: marks was the run game. On offense, they averaged two
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  Speaker 1: point three yards per carry. So all right, what did
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  Speaker 1: Ryan A see there on the on the run game?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'll have to look at the film and see.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a that's a stout front. There was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys in there, and yeah, when we
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  Speaker 2: play them again, I don't think it's going to look
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  Speaker 2: the same way. But you know, we were, you know,
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  Speaker 2: leaning on some of our tight ends in there, and
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  Speaker 2: there was there was some good runs in there. I
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  Speaker 2: gotta I gotta really look hard now at the film
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  Speaker 2: and see, you know where things didn't go perfect because
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  Speaker 2: you know, we were we were pretty tied in on
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  Speaker 2: both edges there, and so you know those are downhill runs.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking to really get physical and push guys around.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that we were getting movement up there.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a high scoring game. I think we
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  Speaker 2: had four possessions in the first half. When it's time
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  Speaker 2: to spread everybody out and narrow out, we'll do that
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  Speaker 2: and create more space. But this is a team that
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  Speaker 2: has great teams defense, that has great team speed, great
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  Speaker 2: team speed, and so we took that into consideration putting
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  Speaker 2: the game plan together. It certainly wasn't perfect, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a start.
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  Speaker 1: The buck guys only forced one turnover technically, but they
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  Speaker 1: did get off the field four other times by forcing
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  Speaker 1: Texas to go for and fail on fourth down. So
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  Speaker 1: they Texas just one four to five on fourth downs
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  Speaker 1: on the day. So and that was a big key
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  Speaker 1: in what was an impressive day for a young defense.
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  Speaker 2: Situational football becomes big and when you're huddling and slowing
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  Speaker 2: the game down sort of like we are, that means
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  Speaker 2: the situation has become more and more critical, and understanding
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  Speaker 2: what that is and spending time on these sits situations
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  Speaker 2: is what you know, we do and making sure that
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  Speaker 2: we're prepared for them, but you got to go do it.
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  Speaker 2: And every time you get a fourth down stop, it's
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  Speaker 2: like a turnover. So you know, the interception was huge,
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  Speaker 2: but when you start getting fourth down stops at midfield,
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  Speaker 2: those those flipped the entire field, then it's like getting
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  Speaker 2: a turnover. So how many fourth down said?
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  Speaker 3: We have three?
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  Speaker 1: Four?
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  Speaker 2: Now there you go, you know, the one to end
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  Speaker 2: the game, but three before that's that's almost four turnovers
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  Speaker 2: and that that plays into it. And you know there
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  Speaker 2: was you know, that opportunity we had early in the
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  Speaker 2: game on that fourth down. And that was the other
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  Speaker 2: thing with Julian. You know, early on I thought he
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  Speaker 2: threw some good balls. We actually had a few drops,
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  Speaker 2: which is rare around here, and that made have made
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  Speaker 2: have been a different games. Never know how it starts
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  Speaker 2: or how it's going to finish. But but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know those fourth down stops were.
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  Speaker 1: Big, Julian saying, now has his first career start in
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  Speaker 1: his review mirror, and it was a big one. So
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  Speaker 1: now how much more is there in there for him
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  Speaker 1: to now continue to improve from that first game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: A ton, But I thought he had I was impressed
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  Speaker 2: with his poise. He had a good look in his
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  Speaker 2: eye and what he was saying and what he was
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  Speaker 2: seeing was exactly what was going on.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great sign.
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  Speaker 2: I remember CJ's first start, you know, I remember Justin's
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  Speaker 2: first start, and what I mean first start, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: in big games, Dwayne, you know Kyle, you know, Will
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  Speaker 2: was different because he'd played a lot of football. But
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  Speaker 2: when you have that first start and you're out there,
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  Speaker 2: there are so many things to take into consideration. When
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  Speaker 2: you're the quarterback at Ohio State and you're playing number
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  Speaker 2: one Texas against one of the top defenses in the country,
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  Speaker 2: which we have a tremendous amount of respect for. Like,
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  Speaker 2: the one thing we didn't want to do and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to do, was put him in a bad spot.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not fair to him now coming out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Quite honestly, I think he probably could have handled it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but we weren't going to do that because
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  Speaker 2: we know it's a long season and that was the
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  Speaker 2: decision that was made, and so we'll go from here.
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  Speaker 1: Buck guys are obviously coming off of a national championship season,
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  Speaker 1: but they also lost a whole lot of players, a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of new faces to new coordinators, eight new
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  Speaker 1: starters on defense, new starting quarterback, all you get new
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  Speaker 1: starters pretty much everywhere around the offense as well. So
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  Speaker 1: what kind of a statement was it to have a
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  Speaker 1: whole new team and still be able to beat the
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  Speaker 1: number one team in the country.
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  Speaker 2: We said that we want to set the tone. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you start a season, you want to set the
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  Speaker 2: tone for the season. And there's a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: who are stepping into roles for the first time ever.
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  Speaker 2: And for these guys to step in and really have
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  Speaker 2: a great energy about them, I thought they were poised.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the moment was not too big for them,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe just because of the run that we went
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  Speaker 2: on last year and those guys being in those games,
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  Speaker 2: or even for the guys who weren't being a part
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  Speaker 2: of it. Like take a guy like Devin Sanchez who
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  Speaker 2: played today. He was with us for those two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: so he saw what it was like. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think those guys batter An Peyton Pierce played well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got to watch the film and see,
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  Speaker 2: but but there was good play across the board and
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  Speaker 2: it's a reference point as we move forward for the
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  Speaker 2: first game of the year. You know when you I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: when I looked at the schedule and I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you open up with Texas at home, with it with
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  Speaker 2: the freshman or with a young quarterback, it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it might be nice to have a few
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  Speaker 2: non conference games to lead up to the season, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, as we got closer, it was just like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, this is actually a great way to
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  Speaker 2: start because everyone's got to be on their game preseason.
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  Speaker 2: As we talked about July was was was edgy, August
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  Speaker 2: was edgy.
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  Speaker 3: We knew we had to bring it this first game.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think I think they fed off the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the crowd was strong today. And so this
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  Speaker 2: is their team, this is their story, and here's the
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  Speaker 2: first chapter.
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  Speaker 1: One of the guys who really stood out when I
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  Speaker 1: when I rewatched that game was linebacker Rvel Reese. He
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  Speaker 1: was all over the place. Tony Gerderman actually wrote something
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  Speaker 1: really interesting about that at Buckey Huddle dot Com that
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  Speaker 1: he was literally all over the place. Brian Dy, what
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  Speaker 1: was Rvell Reese's impact on the game?
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  Speaker 3: For r Vel?
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  Speaker 2: Arvel has a lot of versatility when you get up
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  Speaker 2: on Rvel. You can just see he has all the
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  Speaker 2: traits it takes to be a dominant linebacker. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I saw there today was a guy who's running
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  Speaker 2: sideline the sideline from the linebacker position at the second level.
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  Speaker 2: But then also you saw him at the end when
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  Speaker 2: yeah kJ went down, he was playing up front, rushing
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  Speaker 2: the passer and putting pressure on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So he can do all those things.
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  Speaker 2: This is probably the most he's played in a big
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  Speaker 2: game like this, and.
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  Speaker 3: He'll learn a lot from this. We'll see how he
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  Speaker 3: grades out.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard Brian Day talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they were kind of keeping things a little
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  Speaker 1: conservative on offense, but that of course means you're relying
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  Speaker 1: on the defense. Jim Tressel was there to watch this game,
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  Speaker 1: and it was some vintage trestle ball at times, just
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  Speaker 1: kind of keep the clock moving, rely on that defense
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  Speaker 1: that they're not going to give up points, and you
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  Speaker 1: can just kind of get the heck out of dodge.
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  Speaker 1: So what gave them the confidence to be able to
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  Speaker 1: lean onto the defense like that?
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  Speaker 2: I played this game out in my head every day
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  Speaker 2: for the last three months, and I didn't know how
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  Speaker 2: it was going to go, because when you're going against
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  Speaker 2: yourself every day and you have inexperienced players that haven't
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  Speaker 2: actually done it on the field, you're not sure. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I had an idea how it looked, but I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 2: So what I was trying to do early in the
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  Speaker 2: game was get a feel for what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how was our defense holding up up front?
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  Speaker 2: You know, what kind of rhythm were they in, How
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  Speaker 2: fast were they playing? What did we look like in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the front on offense and we move in
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage. How were the running backs running
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  Speaker 2: brand new running backs? Were they taking care of the football?
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  Speaker 2: How was Julian handling it? You know, what were they
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  Speaker 2: doing on defense? And then as as the first quarter
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  Speaker 2: kind of went on, I could see us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting off the field on defense. I felt like we
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  Speaker 2: were moving the line of scrimmage. We had that big
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  Speaker 2: drive we did get you know, kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: screwed down inside the ten yard line early on, and
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  Speaker 2: you could see we decided at one point to take
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  Speaker 2: a play action shot, which which you know, almost to
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  Speaker 2: turn into a disaster. But other than that, we were
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  Speaker 2: fairly conservative because we felt like our defense was playing well,
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  Speaker 2: and that's that was the.
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  Speaker 3: I will say this.
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  Speaker 2: At halftime up seven, you know, coming out, I thought
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  Speaker 2: we could go and really flip the scoreboard.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: And then as that third quarter wore down, it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like our defense can hang in there as
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  Speaker 2: long as we don't give anything cheap on offense. So
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  Speaker 2: that's how we played this game. We'll see where the
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  Speaker 2: next one goes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that'll do it for today's show. We will be
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  Speaker 1: back with much more content for you this week.
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  Speaker 3: Get sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Getting into the general routine of the season at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Get the nice We'll get you into a nice pattern
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  Speaker 1: with both this show the Bucket Weekly Show. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: getting back into our Michigan Monday shows. There also a
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  Speaker 1: rewatch of the Ohio State the Texas game. Things we
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  Speaker 1: maybe learned that we did not notice the first time
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  Speaker 1: we were watching the game, all that fun stuff. Plus, hey,
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  Speaker 1: there's another game coming up on Saturday. Buck Guys and
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  Speaker 1: Grambling kickoff at three thirty on Big ten Network. Tickets
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  Speaker 1: should be a little cheap than they were for the
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  Speaker 1: Texas game last weekend. If you are interested in going
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  Speaker 1: and checking out the game in person, so that will
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  Speaker 1: do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow