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Ohio State 19, Indiana 15: 3 Things We Learned From A Wild Win · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, October 18th. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Moore. The USC game in 13 days.
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  Speaker 1: The game against Michigan in 41 days. Thanks to our
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  Speaker 1: As we speak right now, the Ohio State Buckeyes are
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  Speaker 1: on a plane headed back to Columbus, Ohio. I don't know, they...
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  Speaker 1: Based on Ryan Day's mood after the game, they may
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  Speaker 1: hit Jeff Rubies to a celebratory team dinner or something
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  Speaker 1: after that game. What an emotionally complicated game that was.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State 19, Indiana 15. The Buckeyes get their top
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  Speaker 1: five matchup. Chuck Mileti of BuckeyeInsiders.com. I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: could have the, this is like we could do the good,
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  Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly show. But let's start with
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  Speaker 1: the good. You go on the road. You beat the
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  Speaker 1: defending national champions. You do it despite a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: stuff not going your way. I think you have to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when Ryan Day was happy, I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's happier than I thought. Then I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's stupid. Of course he's happy. He was thrilled.
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  Speaker 2: He was thrilled, which is much different than the comment
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  Speaker 2: section when I took over to start the live show.
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  Speaker 2: But I usually try to gauge how I feel by
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  Speaker 2: the head coach because he's a very honest guy when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to his opinions. He wears it on his sleeve.
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  Speaker 2: And the players were thrilled. And of course, the way
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  Speaker 2: that ended could have been a lot different, right? One
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  Speaker 2: step away. So a super gritty win when not everything
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  Speaker 2: went well, when your starting quarterback was a little off
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  Speaker 2: his game today, when he gets knocked out of the
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  Speaker 2: game and that could have deflated a whole lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the defense played really well. But just all
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  Speaker 2: in all, a gritty win, a top five win. And
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  Speaker 2: we just talked, you needed to, number one, prevent injuries.
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  Speaker 2: a four-game skid in matchup games, you did that. You
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  Speaker 2: did it on the road in a place where this
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  Speaker 2: was not like a normal Ohio State game here. Those
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  Speaker 2: were white towels they gave away for Tyreek Tucker today.
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  Speaker 2: It was all Tyreek Tucker towels. The environment was awesome
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  Speaker 2: for a top-five game. The Indiana fans, they're the ones
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  Speaker 2: that left sad today, and the Buckeye fans certainly shouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: You get a big win. And now that win, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: so much more important as you look at Julian Sane
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  Speaker 2: with potentially a couple of weeks out here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and everyone is in this huge rush to declare, well,
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  Speaker 1: now the season's over. Based on what? They just went
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  Speaker 1: on the road and beat a top five team. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see how long Julian Sane's out. If Julian Sane's out
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  Speaker 1: for the year, that's obviously not great. We don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: We'll probably find out a little more middle of this week.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're supposed to talk to Ryan Day on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday or so this week. We'll see how how that
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  Speaker 1: maybe changes based on the news of the day. But
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  Speaker 1: this is an Ohio State team that lost a game
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  Speaker 1: at Texas where you lost on the last play of
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  Speaker 1: the game. You could have lost on the last play
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  Speaker 1: of the game again here. You didn't. Two games are
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  Speaker 1: basically a coin flip. So it landed heads once, it
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  Speaker 1: landed tails once. Now you've got a week off. Then
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  Speaker 1: you've got to go to USC, you've got Oregon, you've
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  Speaker 1: got Nebraska, you've got Northwestern at Nebraska, and then Michigan again.
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  Speaker 1: It is not an easy schedule, but there's also no
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  Speaker 1: one on that schedule that you look at and you go, well,
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  Speaker 1: they can't beat that team. Maybe if Julian Sane's still
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  Speaker 1: out and Dante Moore is back for Oregon. Maybe. But
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  Speaker 1: other than that, I don't think there's an unwinnable game there,
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  Speaker 1: which means all of their goals are still very much
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  Speaker 1: on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Without a doubt. And, you know, obviously, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: if it's a year-long injury, that's one thing. If it's not,
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  Speaker 2: and again, to why this is so big now, If
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  Speaker 2: you take your second loss here, then you might be
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  Speaker 2: in trouble, might be in danger and not miss him.
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  Speaker 2: But you can afford to potentially lose another game here
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  Speaker 2: and still be okay as far as the college football
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  Speaker 2: playoff looks. And if Julian's coming back in four weeks
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  Speaker 2: or so, I mean, you're good to go there from
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  Speaker 2: that standpoint. Luke Fahey obviously didn't play great today. An
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  Speaker 2: impossible spot for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, with two weeks under his belt, knowing he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be the starter. I think we'll see, and
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  Speaker 2: what we have seen so far this year, granted against
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  Speaker 2: MAAC teams and mop-up duty, he's a poised character. There's
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  Speaker 2: a reason he came in and beat Tavian St.
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  Speaker 1: Clair out.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of faith in him. He really owns
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  Speaker 2: the huddle. He does the little things right, and they
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  Speaker 2: trust him to do that stuff. So as far as
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  Speaker 2: holding down the fort moving forward, I think he got
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's going to be, it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be perfect right away. He's a true freshman. And, you know, he,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, it really was an impossible situation that
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  Speaker 1: he got thrown into. So I would not take the
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  Speaker 1: 0 for 2 there and treat that as well. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to go 0 for forever. Like it's, it's two
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  Speaker 1: throws on the road, an difficult spot with momentum going
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  Speaker 1: against you in a second and 28 situation. Like that is,
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  Speaker 1: that is not a great place to sort of get
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  Speaker 1: thrown into. So So that's Julian Sane slash Luke Fahey
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  Speaker 1: slash the whole quarterback situation. I think you walk out
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  Speaker 1: of this game feeling better about the defense than you
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  Speaker 1: have all season long. Tony and I were doing the
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  Speaker 1: postgame show and going through and it was like, boy,
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  Speaker 1: you know who had a great game? Edward Houston had
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  Speaker 1: a great game. You know who else had a great game? Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Kenyatta Jackson had a great game. Earl Little had a
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  Speaker 1: great game. Will Smith. Oh, man, Will Smith had a
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  Speaker 1: great game. Jay Timmons. Jay Timmons had a great game.
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  Speaker 1: Riley Pettyjohn had a great game. Zion Grady had a
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  Speaker 1: great game. And it's like, we just named like nine
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  Speaker 1: guys and said they had a great game. Matt Patricia
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  Speaker 1: had a pretty good game, I thought, calling the defense.
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  Speaker 1: This was a game where they've had plenty of games
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  Speaker 1: over the years where the offense has to win the
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  Speaker 1: game and the defense is just sort of like there
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  Speaker 1: along for the ride. This is when the defense kind
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  Speaker 1: of had to win.
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  Speaker 2: They carried it in that first half. They were fantastic. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Indiana gets a little bit of momentum in
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  Speaker 2: the second half. And, you know, you're bound to give
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  Speaker 2: up some when you've got a guy throwing the ball
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  Speaker 2: 40 times against you.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, all in all, we had some performances that
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  Speaker 2: I think, once again, we talked in the pregame show
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  Speaker 2: that you had two games in a row from both
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  Speaker 2: Kwe Rusaw and Edrick Houston that looked kind of like
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  Speaker 2: their best games and now all of a sudden you've
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  Speaker 2: built now three games in a row for Edrick Houston
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  Speaker 2: where he looks like man now maybe he is going
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  Speaker 2: to be that dominant three tech that everybody had hoped
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  Speaker 2: he was going to at some point turn that page
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  Speaker 2: and get to you got three games in a row
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  Speaker 2: of evidence and he did look once again on several
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  Speaker 2: plays you know without re-watching the TV copy I saw
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  Speaker 2: him looking dominant pushing guys around which I did think
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  Speaker 2: he was going to eat number 58 today and I
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  Speaker 2: think he did kind of well Jay Timmons is just
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  Speaker 2: a disaster out there. He just kills people.
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  Speaker 1: He's awesome. He is a disaster, brackets, complimentary. A good disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Not a disaster for Ohio State. A disaster for them.
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  Speaker 1: He had a really good game. Edric Houston was just...
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  Speaker 1: You saw him push the guard for Indiana, the left
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  Speaker 1: guard for Indiana, straight back into the quarterback. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was on the opening drive. I think it just
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  Speaker 1: forced an incompletion, but it was like the Joey Bosa...
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  Speaker 1: pushing the running back into the quarterback, into Christian Hackenberg
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. That, but with a guard. Like, Edward Houston,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what made the light switch flip, but
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  Speaker 1: the light switch has flipped. And because that was a
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  Speaker 1: spot where coming into the year, we thought, well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how good the interior of the defensive line is.
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  Speaker 1: You said Will Smith had a really good game. Edward
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  Speaker 1: Houston had a really good game. You're getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: more out of Jason Moore than you were expecting over
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  Speaker 1: the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The defensive tackles have been maybe one of the more
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  Speaker 1: pleasant surprises for this team this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've stood out more than the edge players,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest. And we look at John Walker, who's
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  Speaker 2: been really, really good all year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, John Walker, too.
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  Speaker 2: So you're looking at five guys that right now you
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  Speaker 2: feel like you can trust and certainly will in a pinch.
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  Speaker 2: But Jason Moore in that three-tackle look, he made another
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  Speaker 2: two really good tackles, I thought, today, stacking and shedding
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  Speaker 2: with those long arms. He's keeping that leverage low for
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  Speaker 2: a guy that's so tall. that's a really good look
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  Speaker 2: when they do that. But yeah, all in all, the
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  Speaker 2: interior defensive line may be the surprise part of the
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  Speaker 2: defense as we sit here. Really, we're truly halfway through now.
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  Speaker 2: I consider this halfway through. You've got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: MAAC games. Seven games, we're halfway through now.
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  Speaker 1: Get to the bye week. Yeah, it's sort of part
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  Speaker 1: one of the season. Act one is done, and now
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  Speaker 1: you've got the intermission, so we'll all sing the Let's
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  Speaker 1: All Go to the Lobby song, and we'll get ourselves
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  Speaker 1: a snack, and then back against USC on Halloween night
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  Speaker 1: and boy how many different ways could that game go
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  Speaker 1: because it's you've you've got five games left in the
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  Speaker 1: regular season Ohio State still has a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: margin for error in the playoff race but you have
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  Speaker 1: to go across the country you got a first time
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  Speaker 1: starter quarter starting quarterback who's from Southern California who is
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  Speaker 1: and you know USC's defense has been no great shakes
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  Speaker 1: this year or any year that Lincoln Riley's been there But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what is the answer? How do they go
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  Speaker 1: about this? Do they go after Luke Fahey? Do they
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  Speaker 1: just say, we're going to take away Jeremiah Smith and
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  Speaker 1: make someone else beat us? Do you take away the
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  Speaker 1: run and make Luke Fahey beat you with the arm?
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  Speaker 1: Or can Luke Fahey, with his legs, he's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be as accurate as Julian Sane, but with his legs,
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  Speaker 1: does that bring a whole other dynamic to the running game?
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  Speaker 2: It certainly does. It certainly does. And I think I'm
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  Speaker 2: most excited to see, you know, we know that Julian
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  Speaker 2: Sane has an amazing connection with Jeremiah Smith. Can Luke
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  Speaker 2: Fahey get that connection with him? But can he also
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  Speaker 2: maybe spread around maybe like we might see a normal
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in a situation, maybe spread things around a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more to some of the other wide receivers? He's
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  Speaker 2: a really good processor, and not that Julian's saying isn't,
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  Speaker 2: but I do feel like at times he might have
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  Speaker 2: gotten stuck in the push the Jeremiah button in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of games here so far. So it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be really interesting. USC's got some young DBs. We saw
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  Speaker 2: uh warren game kind of doing dylan rayola kind of
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  Speaker 2: handle them and if dylan rayola can do it granted
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  Speaker 2: he's very experienced but he's not um you know he's
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  Speaker 2: not as i don't know luke fay he's got some
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  Speaker 2: skills we'll put it that way yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And and he's going to be a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an unknown uh for usc going into that game so
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be uh It's probably good that the
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  Speaker 1: week off comes now because, man, oh, man, is there
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  Speaker 1: going to be a lot to talk about over the
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  Speaker 1: next two weeks as we count down those 13 days
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  Speaker 1: to the USC game on Halloween. We'll find out on
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  Speaker 1: Monday what time, well, unless they do a six-day window,
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  Speaker 1: which sometimes they'll do just to mess with our travel plans.
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  Speaker 1: But we should find out probably when on Monday what
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  Speaker 1: time that kickoff will be for the USC game. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll be talking about that and a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff with you. at BuckeyeInsiders.com. This is one of
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  Speaker 1: these weeks when I cannot wait to talk to our
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  Speaker 1: Schieve Insiders and say, okay, what did they do? Why
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  Speaker 1: did they do that? And okay, what the heck did
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  Speaker 1: they do next? Because there is a lot to talk
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  Speaker 1: about there in terms of this game, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the next game, in terms of the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 1: We would love to talk about it with you all
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  Speaker 1: at BuckeyeInsiders.com. Don't just talk about the team. Junk covers
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes got a commitment earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: huge recruiting weekend coming up for the Oregon game. Going
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Have a great day. We will talk
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