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Are the True Freshmen the Answer to the Buckeyes Issues in the Run Game? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, October twenty sixth.
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Speaker 1: field against Penn State on Saturday, what is the running
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Speaker 1: game going to look like? And what is that running
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Speaker 1: back rotation going to look like? That is one of
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Speaker 2: Hey it's Chuck. We are not bemoaning the noon kickoff.
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Speaker 2: We're now owning it. It's a badge of honor. We're
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Speaker 2: the lunatic fringe that defines our coaches legacy when it
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Speaker 2: comes to this game. They don't get to define that
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Speaker 2: outside the family who were cut from a different cloth.
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Speaker 2: Bro hioans he's got it all, man, He's even got
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Speaker 2: the jaw. You know the jaw. You see that jaw
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Speaker 2: and you're just like, yeah, man, that's a that's a dude.
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Speaker 2: Do I want Michigan to beat Oklahoma? No way in hell.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what world I'm living in. This is
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Speaker 2: insane to me. And if you saw my outburst, I apologize.
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Speaker 2: It's showtime. Now. It is showtime, Bucky Huddled, prime Time.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate y'all for joining me. I am back. It's been
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Speaker 2: a while. It's been a while. I was on vacation
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Speaker 2: last week. Did not have the kind of signal I needed,
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Speaker 2: uh to go live and maintain a signal, and I
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Speaker 2: was looking forward to getting home. I got home and
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Speaker 2: when you know it, my fiber internet was down. It
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Speaker 2: had gone down the sixteenth. I got home the eighteenth
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Speaker 2: and it was still down. But we are back up.
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Speaker 2: We are rocking and rolling. We're live, and uh, I
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Speaker 2: am so happy to be with you guys. It's been
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Speaker 2: a it's been a minute, it's been minutes since I
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Speaker 2: had a live show. We got a lot to talk about,
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Speaker 2: a lot going on in the world of college football,
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Speaker 2: a lot going on with our Buck guys, and we
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Speaker 2: have got to discuss some things. The rushing attack maybe
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Speaker 2: I don't know, one of the maybe the only kind
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Speaker 2: of spot on this team right now. We got to
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Speaker 2: talk about Julian saying his quest for history the Big Ten,
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Speaker 2: and in the Big Ten's playoff hopes took a serious
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Speaker 2: hit over the weekend in the competition for the national championship.
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Speaker 2: Who is your biggest fear? Who do you think it
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Speaker 2: presents the biggest toughest matchup for the buck Eyes should
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Speaker 2: they go the distance. Here the Buck guys on a
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Speaker 2: quest now, obviously for the first ever back to back
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Speaker 2: national championship in the history of the school. And if
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Speaker 2: that happens, what a just surreal experience that'll be. And
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Speaker 2: as we see here right now, maybe the most nationally
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Speaker 2: successful spot we've ever been in as a program, like
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Speaker 2: right now, as were the national champions and sitting here
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Speaker 2: number one halfway through the season. We can go back
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Speaker 2: to twenty fifteen and say, well, we were in this
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Speaker 2: spot in twenty fifteen, and we were, but it felt
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Speaker 2: very different. In twenty fifteen, the team kind of felt
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Speaker 2: like they were on their way out the door, already
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Speaker 2: half of them one foot out the door. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: feel like that this year, not at all. And I
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Speaker 2: was talking to Mark Gibler about that on the postgame
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Speaker 2: show and he's right, man, when you lose, it's almost
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Speaker 2: better to lose your championship roster but still have a
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Speaker 2: couple of the core players than to have them return.
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Speaker 2: But the other thing is Ryan Day is Ryan Day
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Speaker 2: is a wizard, and I think if Ryan Day was
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Speaker 2: in charge back then with that twenty fifteen team, it
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Speaker 2: might not have been that way. He's just the culture
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Speaker 2: that he has developed around Ohio State. It's never been
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Speaker 2: as good at Ohio State. I think it's second to
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Speaker 2: none in the country. And everybody pulls in the same
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Speaker 2: direction at all times, and it's really difficult to get
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Speaker 2: that done. He gets it done. So there is an
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Speaker 2: argument that right now we are living in the most
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Speaker 2: dominant period nationally of Ohio State football. Of course, I'm
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Speaker 2: saying nationally because I'm leaving out the rivalry, but if
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Speaker 2: Ohio State does win the rivalry this year and wins
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Speaker 2: the national championship, unequivocally, we will be living in the
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Speaker 2: greatest period of Ohio State football of our lives. And
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Speaker 2: I don't care how old you are. That stands for
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Speaker 2: anybody watching this. We're almost there. I think Ohio State
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Speaker 2: at the end of this year, in addition to being
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Speaker 2: in the greatest position we've ever been as a program,
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Speaker 2: is going to supplant Georgia as the number one program
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Speaker 2: in the country hands down. I don't think there'll be
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Speaker 2: any more debate on that. Providing OSU goes further than
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Speaker 2: Georgia this year in the playoffs, I think they're taking
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Speaker 2: that crown over and that's something that really irks me.
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Speaker 2: If you ask me one program that I hope we
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Speaker 2: get to see in the playoffs this year, it is Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Georgia kind of crowned the number one program for about
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Speaker 2: the last three and a half years. They're a declining program,
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Speaker 2: and I'm a little obsessed with taking them down because
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Speaker 2: of that game we played against them, and because Ryan
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Speaker 2: Day in his legacy hinged on that game and on
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Speaker 2: one kick, that's when Kirby became the greatest coach in
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Speaker 2: college football. And Ryan Day, now with his one national championship,
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Speaker 2: still not as good as Kirby because Kirby's got two.
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Speaker 2: It all hinged on that one kick in that one game.
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Speaker 2: Kirby and the Bulldogs have been on the decline for
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Speaker 2: a couple of years. They lost to Auburn a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks ago. I'm sorry they won against Auburn a
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, and they shouldn't have won, and
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Speaker 2: Kirby even said that afterwards. And then this last week
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Speaker 2: against Auburn on Saturday, they were down nine points in
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Speaker 2: the fourth and just like that, they come back at
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Speaker 2: the end of the game and they beat Ole Miss.
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Speaker 2: These guys are hard to kill, man, They're hard to kill.
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Speaker 2: And that's why I really want to match up with
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Speaker 2: them in the playoffs. Like that would make me so happy.
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Speaker 2: And another thing that's irritating me right now is when
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Speaker 2: we go back to twenty twenty one. After Georgia won
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Speaker 2: their first national championship in twenty twenty two, that entire
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Speaker 2: year it was all about Georgia. All the buzz was
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Speaker 2: about Georgia that whole year, Kirby gonna be the you know,
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Speaker 2: is he the next Nick Saban? It's all we heard
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Speaker 2: all year, and this year Ohio State gets none of that.
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Speaker 2: They try to poke holes in Ohio State NonStop. The resume.
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Speaker 2: The Buckeyes are the clear number one in the AP pole,
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Speaker 2: and that makes everybody really mad, and we're seeing a
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Speaker 2: lot of pushback on that from a lot of the
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Speaker 2: national media types. I was arguing with some people today
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Speaker 2: about it does Ohio State deserve the number one ranking?
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Speaker 2: And I got an issue with that right off the rip.
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Speaker 2: There is no deserving. It's not an award, it's not
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Speaker 2: something you earn. It's an objective ranking. It's a take.
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Speaker 2: And there's some people taking shots at Ohio State saying
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Speaker 2: they don't have the resume, so they don't deserve to
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Speaker 2: be number one. Well, this has never been a resume ranking.
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Speaker 2: This has never been about who has the best resume.
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Speaker 2: I understand that it's been really popular recently to kind
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Speaker 2: of go after the AP and the AP pole in
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Speaker 2: general and the voters, and there's some validity to that
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Speaker 2: because a lot of them for a long time have
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Speaker 2: not really paid attention and it's it's you know, there's
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Speaker 2: been some really some people there that shouldn't be there,
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Speaker 2: and this kind of big push this year to get
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Speaker 2: on the AP and to go through their public ballots
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Speaker 2: and call them out. There's some good that's come out
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Speaker 2: of it. But one thing I've found interesting throughout this
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Speaker 2: whole thing is there's a lot of people who apparently
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Speaker 2: thought that they were ranking all this time off of
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Speaker 2: strictly resume, and that is not what's been going on. Ever,
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Speaker 2: the AP poll or polls in general, have never been
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Speaker 2: a resume ranker. If it was, we just use a computer,
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Speaker 2: It's never been that. It's always been about you use
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Speaker 2: the resume as part of your criteria in judging who
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Speaker 2: you think the best teams are. It's someone's opinion. I
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Speaker 2: do remember one time there was a voter who strictly
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Speaker 2: voted by resume and it became a national story because
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Speaker 2: it looked kind of crazy early on in the season.
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Speaker 2: That was Dougla Mae about fifteen years ago. People went
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Speaker 2: absolutely insane because if you rank strictly by resume, you
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Speaker 2: end up with I don't know early on in the season,
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Speaker 2: like Pitt at number two and things like that. People
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Speaker 2: went nuts over it. It was like literally all the
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Speaker 2: talk of college football back before the Internet, when it
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Speaker 2: was in print, and Doug la Maurice was responsible for that. Well,
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Speaker 2: now apparently all these Johnny cum Lately's think that this
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Speaker 2: is nothing but a resume ranker. It's clearly not. But
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Speaker 2: Chris Vanini, Oh, look at this buffoon here. This was
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Speaker 2: last week Miami, Texas Tech, Ohio State, Indiana, Alabama. That's
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Speaker 2: his eye test, So I now know how much I
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Speaker 2: should respect his eyes. But Chris Vanini, a Michigan State
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Speaker 2: guy going after the Buckeyes. Dave Ubbin from the Athletic
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Speaker 2: Covers the Big Twelve. These are not even SEC guys,
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Speaker 2: but they're trying to say that Indiana should be number
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Speaker 2: one now because of Indiana's best win. Last week it
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Speaker 2: was Miami because of their best win. And I've just
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Speaker 2: been sitting here trying to figure out why everybody's pushing
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Speaker 2: back so hard against Ohio State being the number one
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Speaker 2: team when they're clearly the number one team. And I
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Speaker 2: think I figured it out now. They've been pushing this
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Speaker 2: era as all of this parody and this is all
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Speaker 2: we've heard for the last couple of years. Talent spreading
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Speaker 2: out the death of the super team, and you look
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Speaker 2: at all these teams that can win the national championship.
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Speaker 2: The absolute opposite of that narrative they've been pushing is
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Speaker 2: to have one team come out here that's considered better
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Speaker 2: than everybody else, that steam rolls through the season and
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Speaker 2: wins back to back national championships. In that team happens
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Speaker 2: to be the number one program in the history of
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Speaker 2: college football. That would make their last two years if
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Speaker 2: narrative and writing look pretty stupid, the era of the
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Speaker 2: super team would not in fact be over. This would
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Speaker 2: be it. This would be the super team if Ohio
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Speaker 2: State wins it again. And they don't want that, so
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Speaker 2: they're trying to talk themselves into thinking that's not the
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Speaker 2: most likely scenario, but it clearly is. The Buckeye's resume
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Speaker 2: is making them mad. And obviously the Buck guys played
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Speaker 2: Texas to start the season, a big out of conference banger.
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Speaker 2: They had no I mean, like, what are we supposed
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Speaker 2: to do here? Texas goes out and lays a couple
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Speaker 2: of eggs. They look terrible this week too. They didn't lose,
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Speaker 2: they still only have two losses, and they can make
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Speaker 2: it to the playoffs. But it looked like it was
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Speaker 2: going to be a really challenging game, and it was
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Speaker 2: for us in game one. I don't think it would
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Speaker 2: be if we played them this weekend. They were hoping
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Speaker 2: Ohio State had a real challenging game against Illinois. They
10:29
Speaker 2: were hoping Ohio State was going to have a challenging
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Speaker 2: game against Penn State, and so was. I doesn't look
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Speaker 2: that way. They just lost to Iowa. We won't see
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Speaker 2: another challenging game until the game. And if you're a
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Speaker 2: fan of another program, I understand why that might be
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Speaker 2: obnoxious to see. Ohio State know they're gonna be undefeated
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Speaker 2: until they get to the game. They know that, I
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Speaker 2: know that. You know that unless they lay an egg.
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Speaker 2: But Ryan Day doesn't lay eggs in games where he's
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Speaker 2: a big favorite. He never has one time, and it
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Speaker 2: was in the game. Which is a separate category. But
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten makes the schedule. Next year's Ohio State
11:05
Speaker 2: schedule in the Big Ten is insane. We've got Oregon, Indiana, Texas, USC, Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan.
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Speaker 2: That's an insane like we're going to be up every
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Speaker 2: other week at the pyramid, Like it's going to be
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Speaker 2: so awesome. Oh oh, we got a questionnaire from Ohio
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Speaker 2: State football at Buckeye Huddle. Juck, did you see the
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Speaker 2: ESPN YouTube college football Highlights show on Saturday? Lament the
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Speaker 2: fact that they're not allowed to show more Ohio State
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Speaker 2: highlights due to business reasons. He actually said backdoor or
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Speaker 2: back room or something like that. Yes, I sure did,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to get to it on today's show.
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Speaker 2: It was something, man, it was really something saying the
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Speaker 2: quiet part out loud. Though some people have pushed back
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Speaker 2: on that, I think that it absolutely so Basically what
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Speaker 2: happened was they're doing this highlights show on ESPN and
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Speaker 2: they're running their highlights and they do the little Ohio
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Speaker 2: State highlight and this guy basically is talking about Julian
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Speaker 2: Saying and the Heisman. He's like, I wish we could
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Speaker 2: show more Big ten highlights, but due to some some
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Speaker 2: and he gets real quick some backdoor business dealings, so
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Speaker 2: you know, we're not allowed. And immediately, you know, fans
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Speaker 2: of Big ten teams Ohio State were like, oh okay,
12:28
Speaker 2: so here we got e SECPN in which everybody's been
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Speaker 2: calling them forever, now that they are strictly the the
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Speaker 2: SEC's primary guy, and Fox is, you know, the Big ten.
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Speaker 2: Now they're saying it out loud that they are actually
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Speaker 2: pushing the SEC more, and that would be a big
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Speaker 2: issue because you know, you could say, well, Fox has
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Speaker 2: their outlet. Fox is the Big ten's outlet, but ESPN
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Speaker 2: is the worldwide leader. They're on every day. They have
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Speaker 2: a much bigger market share in the highlight realm, they
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Speaker 2: have much more employees, and they literally own the college
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Speaker 2: football playoff right and all those rights to that. So
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Speaker 2: them being in the bag for the SEC and literally
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Speaker 2: admitting it would be pretty huge. Then you got all
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Speaker 2: these other people pushing back saying they're clearly just talking
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Speaker 2: about or that gentleman was clearly just talking about the
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Speaker 2: package that CBS because CBS had the game sent out
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Speaker 2: for highlights. He was saying, now that they don't have
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Speaker 2: access to the Big ten games, that they have to
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Speaker 2: rely on the only thing they can show is what
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Speaker 2: the other networks send them as a highlight package. So
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Speaker 2: if we don't cover the game for our network, we
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Speaker 2: got to rely on them to send us a little
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Speaker 2: highlight package, and maybe it's not big enough. Maybe that's
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Speaker 2: what he was saying. If that's what he was saying.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he would have said backdoor business dealings,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So I think he said
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Speaker 2: the quiet part out loud. I really do. And some
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Speaker 2: could say, look, maybe there's not a problem with that.
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Speaker 2: I maybe there's not as long as everybody knows the deal.
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Speaker 2: But the thing is, like you and I, people who
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Speaker 2: pay attention to college football like this, we know the deal.
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Speaker 2: We know that ESPN is pushing the SEC, and we
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Speaker 2: know that Fox. Who's Fox's biggest guy, Joel Klett, he
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Speaker 2: calls the SEC the other conference, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: So like we know the deal, but my mom doesn't
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Speaker 2: know the deal, and sometimes she'll watch Sports Center or
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Speaker 2: she'll watch a college football program to see what, you know,
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Speaker 2: what's going on with college football. Not really, but you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like somebody's mom might and they're
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Speaker 2: going to be fooled into thinking the SEC is just
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Speaker 2: so much better than everybody else because they're being unethical.
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Speaker 2: In my opinion, it's it's kind of the same split
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Speaker 2: that we saw about twenty five years ago when you
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Speaker 2: used to just watch the news and it would just
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Speaker 2: be the news, and then you saw cable news and
14:52
Speaker 2: then they realized it was better to pick a side
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Speaker 2: and go with the side. And now you got to know, Okay,
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Speaker 2: well that's what this news station said, But what's their angle?
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Now you've got to do
15:02
Speaker 2: it with sports stations. It's crazy anyway, now that I've
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Speaker 2: gone off on that tangent. Coming into this year, Ohio
15:10
Speaker 2: State schedule was ranked twenty fifth twenty fifth in the
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Speaker 2: strength of scheduled metrics, which pretty good, pretty good, And
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Speaker 2: now it's obviously not looking as good because Penn State
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Speaker 2: imploded and Texas obviously did their thing. Illinois was probably
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Speaker 2: supposed to be a little bit better, I would think
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Speaker 2: most people thought, but I thought they were pretty good.
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Speaker 2: The other thing is when Ohio State's done beating these teams,
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Speaker 2: they look a lot less good. Minnesota, for instance, Minnesota
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Speaker 2: looked like a rag doll against Ohio State and they
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Speaker 2: just potentially knocked Nebraska's playoff hopes out of the water. Nebraska,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people thought might make the playoffs. They
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Speaker 2: go up there on Friday night in Minnesota beat the
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Speaker 2: crap out of them. They sacked rail and nine times
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Speaker 2: and looked like clearly the better team and that's Minnesota's
16:00
Speaker 2: tea was. I mean, it was a warm up for
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Speaker 2: the Buckeyes. The Buckeyes made them look horrible, and I
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Speaker 2: thought Nebraska would definitely win that game. Not so much so.
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Speaker 2: Ohio State strength of schedule right now is at thirty
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Speaker 2: three thirty third in the country, which, by the way,
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Speaker 2: that's right in the middle right sixty eight Power four teams,
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Speaker 2: So that's an average schedule, and it's currently ranked higher
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Speaker 2: or harder than a couple of SEC schools that might
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Speaker 2: make the playoffs, like Old miss like Missouri, but nobody's
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Speaker 2: schedule gets scrutinized like the Buckeyes. And I understand why
16:34
Speaker 2: that feels terrible as a fan of another program that
16:37
Speaker 2: you don't want to see Ohio State just run right
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Speaker 2: to the playoffs and not get challenged. Everybody wants to
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Speaker 2: see how good they really are. It's annoying. I want
16:46
Speaker 2: to see how good they really are. I want to
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Speaker 2: see them play a team that's up there with them.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately we're not going to see it for a little while,
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Speaker 2: and we just got to watch them dust off the
16:56
Speaker 2: rest of the Big Ten. My honest opinion is that
16:59
Speaker 2: if you're someone who's really paying attention to college football,
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Speaker 2: watching Ohio State, watching Alabama, watching these other programs, regardless
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Speaker 2: of who Ohio State's played. If you've watched them, and
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Speaker 2: you've watched those other teams, and if you don't think
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Speaker 2: Ohio State is the best team in the country right now,
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Speaker 2: one of three things are going on. You are either
17:17
Speaker 2: board of Ohio State being so good and you're being
17:20
Speaker 2: obtuse you hate Ohio State, or you're being obtuse you
17:25
Speaker 2: are someone who just likes to rank off of resumes,
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Speaker 2: which is fine with me if that's the way you
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Speaker 2: go about it personally, that's not how the AP does it.
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Speaker 2: Or you don't have a clue what you're looking at.
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Speaker 2: It's one of those three. Like if you watch Ohio
17:37
Speaker 2: State's defense and your thought is, let's see what happens
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Speaker 2: when they play a real team, they'll score forty on them,
17:42
Speaker 2: you're clueless. Same with the offense. If you watch that
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Speaker 2: offense and you watch Julian saying, throw these indefensible balls
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Speaker 2: for first down, first down, Carnel Tate reaching on the sideline,
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Speaker 2: If you think that's going to be stopped by a
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Speaker 2: better defense, you're just clueless. These dudes are really really good.
18:01
Speaker 2: There's one potential week spot here and that is the
18:04
Speaker 2: running game. And we saw the RPO game really clicking
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Speaker 2: last week. If that keeps going, I don't know, man,
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Speaker 2: I don't know who's stopping these Buckeyes. I don't know
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Speaker 2: who's the top competition. We're you know, at the halfway mark.
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Speaker 2: Now things are starting to shape up. We just saw
18:21
Speaker 2: Miami go down. Boy, that was delightful. I was. I
18:25
Speaker 2: was on the airplane and it was probably six minutes
18:29
Speaker 2: left in the game before the plane got too high
18:31
Speaker 2: and my signal cutout, so I had to wait till
18:34
Speaker 2: the plane landed. Well, it was almost landed, and I
18:37
Speaker 2: start my phone starts binging, bing and binging with text
18:40
Speaker 2: messages from my son and my brother that Miami went down,
18:45
Speaker 2: and they were telling me turn it on and wait
18:47
Speaker 2: till you see the last play, which of course I did,
18:49
Speaker 2: and I saw Carson Beck's final pick, which was his fourth,
18:53
Speaker 2: which was actually his fifth because the one guy to
18:57
Speaker 2: overturn with that garbage roughing the passer call, which that
19:01
Speaker 2: makes me so mad. But anyway, Miami falls off the
19:06
Speaker 2: face of the earth. They'll still make the playoffs. I
19:08
Speaker 2: wanted them. I really wanted them because people were waxed
19:11
Speaker 2: in Miami like they were so great. I wanted to
19:14
Speaker 2: get them undefeated and due to them what we just
19:16
Speaker 2: saw Louisville do to them. Obviously, it's Miami, man, They're
19:20
Speaker 2: not there yet. Number five Old Miss they lost to
19:24
Speaker 2: number nine Georgia. Old Miss I think is pretty fraudulent.
19:27
Speaker 2: I would gladly take that matchup. Number seven Texas Tech
19:30
Speaker 2: they lost to Arizona State. They weren't beating Ohio State
19:34
Speaker 2: in a playoff. Number ten LSU they lost to Vanderbilt,
19:38
Speaker 2: and that's hilarious as that is LSU's second loss. Brian
19:41
Speaker 2: Kelly gonna miss the playoffs. Gonna miss the playoffs. He's
19:44
Speaker 2: still gotta play Bama and Texas A and m He's
19:47
Speaker 2: not getting there, and I hate that guy. I hate him.
19:51
Speaker 2: So gonna be fun to watch the LSU fans freak
19:54
Speaker 2: out as he is not making the playoffs again. We
19:57
Speaker 2: also got to see USC my second most hated program
20:00
Speaker 2: in the country, get absolutely physically mutilated by Notre Dame.
20:05
Speaker 2: The score was a lot closer than it was. Notre
20:08
Speaker 2: Dame ran for a million yards on them in the rain.
20:11
Speaker 2: I mean, that was a fun game to watch. Really,
20:13
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley and his soft little Trojans are still soft.
20:17
Speaker 2: And then we saw the Texas game. Texas wins this
20:20
Speaker 2: game that they actually lost, like they lost by every
20:23
Speaker 2: statistical metric and somehow won this game in overtime. Steve Sarkisian,
20:28
Speaker 2: when you look at the Ryan Day blueprint, Ryan Day,
20:31
Speaker 2: an offensive dude, takes over Ohio State's program as the
20:35
Speaker 2: head coach, calls the plays up until twenty twenty four,
20:39
Speaker 2: when he gives up play calling, becomes the CEO, and
20:42
Speaker 2: wins the national Championship. Now, a lot of Texas fans
20:45
Speaker 2: want to see Sarkisian go about it the same way.
20:49
Speaker 2: And sark came out and said, absolutely not. Play callings
20:52
Speaker 2: his greatest strength. He got the job because he's a
20:55
Speaker 2: great play caller and he's not going to give up
20:57
Speaker 2: play calling. And this is a guy who just lost
21:00
Speaker 2: Ryan Day two times in less than a year and
21:03
Speaker 2: lost to Kirby Smart two times in less than a year.
21:06
Speaker 2: Kirby a defensive guy who has a defensive coordinator. And
21:11
Speaker 2: there's nothing more stubborn than college football coaches, you know
21:14
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, these guys are so stubborn. Billy
21:16
Speaker 2: Napier literally lost his job this weekend because he wouldn't
21:19
Speaker 2: give up play calling. Who knows if it would have helped,
21:22
Speaker 2: but he never would do it. They were calling for
21:24
Speaker 2: him to do it, he never would do it. So
21:26
Speaker 2: props to Ryan Day for actually making that change, and
21:29
Speaker 2: the program has been better for that decision. I don't know, man,
21:34
Speaker 2: but Texas they're four and two. They still got the
21:37
Speaker 2: potential to make the playoffs. We'll see what happens. I
21:40
Speaker 2: would like for them to make the playoffs. Not that
21:43
Speaker 2: it matters, right, the whole resume discussion is null and
21:46
Speaker 2: void for the buck Eyes. So long as they don't
21:49
Speaker 2: lose three games now next year it might matter. This year,
21:53
Speaker 2: it's not gonna Michigan beach Washington. Demand Williams was not good,
21:58
Speaker 2: a bunch of turnovers. But Michigan to make the playoffs
22:01
Speaker 2: has to go through Ohio State. Last year, Ohio State
22:06
Speaker 2: beat three playoff teams in the regular season. This year,
22:09
Speaker 2: it looks like they're not going to get an opportunity
22:10
Speaker 2: to beat one. But as we sit here looking at
22:12
Speaker 2: the Big ten, Ohio State in Indiana both undefeated Oregon
22:17
Speaker 2: six and one, and everybody else has at least two losses.
22:22
Speaker 2: In the Big Ten, the only ones that really have
22:25
Speaker 2: a realistic potential of making the playoffs would be Michigan
22:28
Speaker 2: if they beat Ohio State, or maybe USC still has
22:32
Speaker 2: a shot, but they got to beat Nebraska, Iowa, Oregon,
22:36
Speaker 2: and Ucla. Ucla who's three and one since the coaching change,
22:42
Speaker 2: which means it's pretty unlikely that the Big Ten gets
22:45
Speaker 2: more than those three in the playoff. It is likely
22:47
Speaker 2: that the SEC gets five. Now, last year the Big
22:50
Speaker 2: Ten had four, the SEC had three. So if they
22:53
Speaker 2: get five and the Big Ten gets three in a
22:56
Speaker 2: year where the two best teams in the country are
22:58
Speaker 2: clearly Big Ten teams, maybe even the three best teams,
23:02
Speaker 2: like people are gonna flip. And that's just gonna be
23:05
Speaker 2: really a strange thing, right because now you're saying, all right, well,
23:09
Speaker 2: if you've got three the three clearly best teams in
23:11
Speaker 2: this conference, wouldn't it make sense that maybe they took
23:16
Speaker 2: an additional or gave an additional loss to that next
23:19
Speaker 2: rung of teams. And that's why there's a little more
23:21
Speaker 2: separation versus the other conference that got five. But there's
23:25
Speaker 2: no really great teams and that's why they're kind of
23:28
Speaker 2: clustered at the top. You could argue that, you certainly could.
23:32
Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll find out in the playoffs. I
23:35
Speaker 2: think Ohio State steam rolls every one of those SEC
23:38
Speaker 2: teams in Alabama. I think it'd be the toughest match.
23:41
Speaker 2: And if we look at the odds right now, that's
23:43
Speaker 2: how those are shaping out. So last week Ohio State
23:46
Speaker 2: was plus four to ten, this week plus two seventy.
23:50
Speaker 2: For my non betting friends, that means if you've bet
23:52
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars on Ohio State to win the National Championship,
23:55
Speaker 2: you're only getting two hundred and seventy bucks out of
23:57
Speaker 2: the deal. That's a terrible bet. Would'ven make that bet,
24:00
Speaker 2: and I think the Buckeys are going to win the
24:02
Speaker 2: national Championship. The payoffs just not good enough for the risk.
24:05
Speaker 2: That's just terrible. So who is the stiffest competition per Vegas.
24:09
Speaker 2: They've got Bama at plus six hundred, Ohio State number one,
24:15
Speaker 2: Alabama number two at plus six hundred. Then you got
24:18
Speaker 2: number three Indiana Indiana at plus eight fifty. Indiana, I'm
24:23
Speaker 2: certain has never been sitting at number three at plus
24:25
Speaker 2: eight fifty, So good for them. Oregon plus nine hundred,
24:30
Speaker 2: Texas A and M plus one thousand, Georgia eleven hundred,
24:34
Speaker 2: Notre Dame twelve hundred, and then it drops off a cliff.
24:37
Speaker 2: So that's the top competition. Oregon, Texas A and M, Georgia,
24:41
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, Alabama, Indiana. Which one of those teams do
24:45
Speaker 2: you think presents a matchup that would frighten you? I
24:49
Speaker 2: could tell you right off the rip. Three of those
24:51
Speaker 2: teams that I'm not frightened by at all. Texas A
24:54
Speaker 2: and M not. I mean, they came up and beat
24:57
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, but I'm just I'm not buying it. I
24:59
Speaker 2: don't think I don't think they've got a good shout
25:01
Speaker 2: at Ohio State Notre Dame themselves. I don't see it. Georgia,
25:05
Speaker 2: I don't see them either. Oregon, Indiana, and Alabama. Those
25:10
Speaker 2: three right there, those are matchups that I would be
25:13
Speaker 2: all right. I'm really concerned about this matchup. This could
25:16
Speaker 2: go one way or the other, though I trust the
25:19
Speaker 2: Buckeyes to get it done. But it's those three for me. Alabama, Indiana, Oregon.
25:23
Speaker 2: Let me know in the comments who is the matchup
25:25
Speaker 2: you fear the most. Who do you think presents the
25:27
Speaker 2: most problems for the buck Eyes, and let's all please
25:30
Speaker 2: like the show if we could, and make sure to
25:32
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25:35
Speaker 2: at bucke Huddle dot com. That'd be fantastic. Julian's saying
25:40
Speaker 2: after that Wisconsin game, Guys, my gosh, Julian has had
25:43
Speaker 2: some criticisms, right, had some criticisms as a quarterback. He
25:48
Speaker 2: doesn't push the ball down the field enough and maybe
25:52
Speaker 2: he's a little hesitant, relies on his checkdowns too much.
25:54
Speaker 2: That's one. That's one criticism. We've heard six passes over
26:00
Speaker 2: twenty yards against Wisconsin. That is the most he's had
26:03
Speaker 2: in one game all year. And just two weeks ago,
26:07
Speaker 2: they were saying all around the internet that he wasn't
26:10
Speaker 2: good at throwing the deep ball. That was a narrative
26:12
Speaker 2: that started by the college football nerdios. The college football nerdios.
26:17
Speaker 2: They didn't really say that. I don't want to put
26:19
Speaker 2: words in their mouth that aren't accurate. They said he
26:21
Speaker 2: got an incomplete grade. But then in addition to saying
26:25
Speaker 2: he got an incomplete grade, they went on to go
26:28
Speaker 2: through each one of his deep balls and criticize them
26:31
Speaker 2: as if to say, if there were more of these,
26:34
Speaker 2: we would give him a bad grade. It's basically that's
26:37
Speaker 2: the gist they were putting out there. One of the
26:40
Speaker 2: things they were criticizing him about was the air under
26:42
Speaker 2: the ball. He's got to put so much air under
26:45
Speaker 2: the ball trying to insinuate he has a weak arm,
26:48
Speaker 2: so he's launching it up really, really high. And you
26:51
Speaker 2: know and I know that that's how Ryan Day instructs
26:54
Speaker 2: his quarterbacks to throw those balls because he believes it's
26:57
Speaker 2: to their best advantage with their wide receiver advance to
27:00
Speaker 2: have the ball coming down at that trajectory and let
27:03
Speaker 2: them go up and make a play. You can get
27:05
Speaker 2: a pi or they're going to make the catch. So
27:08
Speaker 2: we know that now. The first attempt against Wisconsin that
27:13
Speaker 2: was over twenty yards was that absolute beautiful ball that
27:19
Speaker 2: he threw to Carnell Tate down the seam, and that
27:22
Speaker 2: ball was a frozen rope that would have traveled fifty yards.
27:26
Speaker 2: He released it from the forty and that thing would
27:28
Speaker 2: have landed at the back of the end zone. Fifty
27:31
Speaker 2: yard ball, frozen rope to Tate. He had to move.
27:35
Speaker 2: He wasn't standing still. He had to move in the
27:37
Speaker 2: pocket to his left reset and make that throw. That
27:40
Speaker 2: was amazing and an amazing catch, and Carnell's helmet came off,
27:45
Speaker 2: which was perfect. Made for the best picture, one of
27:47
Speaker 2: the best pictures of the year. Tom or over at
27:50
Speaker 2: Buckeye Huddle. Go check out the photo gallery that picture
27:53
Speaker 2: of Carnell with his helmet off, looking at the dude.
27:56
Speaker 2: He's just mugging the dude that ripped his helmet off.
27:58
Speaker 2: It's awesome. It is so awesome. When we look at
28:01
Speaker 2: Julian Sand's number now on the deep ball, my personal
28:05
Speaker 2: thought that would be a strength of his. So Will
28:08
Speaker 2: Howard's little extra his little extra oomph was the run
28:11
Speaker 2: game and he didn't run it a ton, He only
28:13
Speaker 2: ended up. I mean he ran it less than four
28:15
Speaker 2: times a game last year, but the threat for him
28:18
Speaker 2: to run gave that little extra oomph. I thought that
28:20
Speaker 2: this year Julian San's little extra oomph would be his
28:24
Speaker 2: deep ball. And when we look at his stats now
28:28
Speaker 2: for his deep ball, first off, his average depth of
28:30
Speaker 2: target for his completions over twenty yards is thirty two,
28:34
Speaker 2: which is really long, so he's pushing it down the field.
28:37
Speaker 2: He has now hit sixteen of twenty three on the year.
28:40
Speaker 2: That is sixty nine percent accuracy. That is number one
28:44
Speaker 2: in the country on deep balls of passes over twenty yards,
28:48
Speaker 2: Julian saying number one. So he's extremely accurate on deep
28:52
Speaker 2: balls as well. So some might say maybe he's just
28:56
Speaker 2: throwing a lot less and that's why he's more accurate
28:58
Speaker 2: right now, and it'll level out. Well, if he was
29:02
Speaker 2: throwing a lot less, he wouldn't lead the country in
29:05
Speaker 2: touchdowns on deep balls, which he does. Of those sixteen completions,
29:10
Speaker 2: nine of them have been touchdowns. That's number one in
29:12
Speaker 2: the country. So he's throwing the most touchdowns over twenty
29:17
Speaker 2: yards of anyone in the entire country, and he's the
29:19
Speaker 2: most accurate. So if he excels at the deep ball,
29:26
Speaker 2: now we got a serious issue, right because this dude
29:29
Speaker 2: in forty two passes against Wisconsin had just six incompletions.
29:34
Speaker 2: What were those incompletions? Well, three of them were kind
29:37
Speaker 2: of fifty to fifty ish balls to Jeremiah over twenty yards.
29:41
Speaker 2: We certainly wanted to keep that up right. That's not
29:43
Speaker 2: a sign of inaccuracy. Doesn't speak to inaccuracy anyway. One
29:48
Speaker 2: of them was a batted ball, which will happen. He's
29:51
Speaker 2: not the tallest quarterback, but it happens to everybody, one
29:54
Speaker 2: of them. He was hit while he threw. And then
29:56
Speaker 2: the sixth one he actually missed it. It was a seven
29:59
Speaker 2: yard out to Arnel where he kind of dirted it.
30:02
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened that ball, but he missed
30:04
Speaker 2: that throw. That was really the only throw that he
30:06
Speaker 2: missed on the day. The accuracy that he's got, it's
30:11
Speaker 2: just something he's blessed with. He's just absolutely blessed with
30:14
Speaker 2: his accuracy. It's just on a different level. You could
30:17
Speaker 2: practice all your life. I mean not you or I,
30:20
Speaker 2: but a skilled quarterback could practice all their lives and
30:23
Speaker 2: would never have the accuracy that he has. It's just
30:26
Speaker 2: totally different. It's incredibly unique, and he is currently on
30:30
Speaker 2: pace to set a serious record. Now. Right now, he's
30:37
Speaker 2: the most accurate quarterback in the country and he is
30:41
Speaker 2: at eighty percent completion percentage. Number two is Fernando Mendoza
30:45
Speaker 2: at seventy two point seven. That is a big gap.
30:49
Speaker 2: Julian Sand's average depth of target eight and a half
30:52
Speaker 2: yards down the field. And that's important because when you
30:55
Speaker 2: look at these guys who usually jump out in front
30:57
Speaker 2: of everybody by a lot with accuracy, like we saw
31:00
Speaker 2: Dylan Gabriel last year. Early in the year, he jumps
31:03
Speaker 2: out to a ridiculous accuracy percentage, and it's because he
31:08
Speaker 2: was averaging like four and a half yards down the field. Well,
31:10
Speaker 2: Julian's at eight point five. Carson Beck is number two.
31:14
Speaker 2: He's at seventy two point six. His average depth of
31:17
Speaker 2: target is eight, so Julian's longer than him. Rayl is
31:21
Speaker 2: number four seventy two point four percent average depth of
31:24
Speaker 2: target seven point two, so Julian's longer than him, and
31:28
Speaker 2: Julian being seven and a half percentage points more than
31:32
Speaker 2: second place, He's absolutely going to nail this like this
31:35
Speaker 2: is over. He's gonna get that. So he's gonna get
31:38
Speaker 2: it on the year, which is awesome because Will Howard
31:40
Speaker 2: was top three last year. But just to give you
31:43
Speaker 2: an idea of how like all those guys are, you know,
31:48
Speaker 2: a tenth of a point separates them, and he is
31:50
Speaker 2: seven point three percentage points ahead of them, which is
31:53
Speaker 2: just crazy different. We've seen guys with higher percentages, but
31:57
Speaker 2: they don't throw it down the field long and that
31:59
Speaker 2: includes it's the guy who set the all time record.
32:02
Speaker 2: The guy who set the all time record was Bo
32:05
Speaker 2: Nicks in twenty twenty three. The most accurate season we've
32:08
Speaker 2: ever seen six and a half yards is how far
32:11
Speaker 2: his average dept of target was Julian's two yards longer.
32:15
Speaker 2: But what was Bo Nicks's number with the all time
32:18
Speaker 2: record seventy seven point four percent. Seventy seven point four
32:23
Speaker 2: Julian currently at eighty percent. He is on pace right
32:28
Speaker 2: now to be the most accurate quarterback in the history
32:30
Speaker 2: of college football, two and a half points better than him,
32:34
Speaker 2: and he doesn't play in a dink and dunk offense.
32:37
Speaker 2: Mac Jones in twenty twenty was second, Colt McCoy in
32:40
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight was third, Joe Burrow twenty nineteen
32:44
Speaker 2: was fourth. And Julian's saying, has got a good shot
32:48
Speaker 2: at this record. If we look at the next four opponents,
32:52
Speaker 2: they are a combined three to thirteen in the Big Ten.
32:57
Speaker 2: So I don't see that number going down. It can
33:00
Speaker 2: afford to go down. He's two and a half points ahead,
33:03
Speaker 2: it can afford to. I don't see it happening. Not
33:05
Speaker 2: in the next four games. Then against Michigan perhaps might
33:10
Speaker 2: drop a little bit. Then he's got the Big Ten
33:13
Speaker 2: Championship game, most likely that Big Ten Championship game. There's
33:18
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot on the line, not just the
33:19
Speaker 2: Big Ten Championship. It's looking like Ohio State and Indiana
33:23
Speaker 2: are gonna square off in that thing. We look at
33:25
Speaker 2: the top three of the Heisman odds now and it
33:27
Speaker 2: is number one Ty Simpson Alabama, number two, Bernando Mendoza, Indiana,
33:33
Speaker 2: number three. Julian saying, but they're all really close, and
33:37
Speaker 2: then there's a gap. Heisman voting ends December ninth. The
33:42
Speaker 2: Big Ten Championship is December sixth, which means Mendoza and
33:47
Speaker 2: Julian could be squaring off with two undefeated teams both
33:52
Speaker 2: in the top three of the Heisman odds in that
33:55
Speaker 2: game with the Big Ten Championship on the line, and
33:59
Speaker 2: not just the Big Ten Championship, but keeping your team
34:03
Speaker 2: from having the four game route in the playoffs. The
34:05
Speaker 2: only way you can get that four game route seventeen
34:08
Speaker 2: games total is if you are the loser of that game, which, hey,
34:13
Speaker 2: some people can say I don't care about winning the
34:15
Speaker 2: Big Ten Championship, but I get it. But that seventeen
34:19
Speaker 2: game route you definitely want to win the game. If
34:21
Speaker 2: you're in the game, you want to win the game.
34:22
Speaker 2: If you're in the game, I could like some people
34:25
Speaker 2: have the logically, I don't even want to go. I
34:26
Speaker 2: don't want to be involved. And if you don't, I
34:29
Speaker 2: understand that some games been shipped there. But if you
34:32
Speaker 2: get there, you want to win it. You look at
34:34
Speaker 2: Penn State last year. They got so lucky. They had
34:38
Speaker 2: the four game route. They lost in the Big Ten
34:39
Speaker 2: Championship game, but then they got that ridiculously easy draw
34:44
Speaker 2: with Boise and SMU reverse order SMU first, then Boise,
34:49
Speaker 2: but they did get a home playoff game. I would
34:52
Speaker 2: love to have a home playoff game. Not gonna happen
34:55
Speaker 2: this year because the Buck Guy's going to win the
34:56
Speaker 2: Big Ten Championship. I'm excited to square off against Indiana and Indianapolis.
35:02
Speaker 2: Could you imagine that game. I never used to care
35:06
Speaker 2: much about I don't want to say never. When I
35:08
Speaker 2: was younger, I cared about the Big Ten Championship, and
35:10
Speaker 2: then there was a long spur of years where we
35:14
Speaker 2: seem to just win it so often that it was
35:16
Speaker 2: nothing that got my juices flowing. In fact, I look
35:19
Speaker 2: down here at all the memorabilia I got, I don't
35:21
Speaker 2: have one piece of memorabilia down here that says Big
35:24
Speaker 2: ten champs, not one. When you win national championships, that's
35:28
Speaker 2: just not the biggest deal anymore. But this one would
35:32
Speaker 2: be big to play Indiana and there you know, undefeated,
35:37
Speaker 2: legitimate season and you know the year that they become
35:41
Speaker 2: a real player in Indianapolis. I'm curious to see how
35:47
Speaker 2: this split would be. The Last time I went to
35:49
Speaker 2: an Ohio State Big Ten championship game Michigan State, it
35:54
Speaker 2: was the Urban Meyer eating the cold pizza on the
35:57
Speaker 2: golf cart, remember that famous picture. It was that game.
36:01
Speaker 2: Michigan State won, obviously, but I want to say it
36:04
Speaker 2: was probably seventy five twenty five Buckeye fans. What do
36:09
Speaker 2: you think it would be with Indiana this year? That
36:13
Speaker 2: is something we might get the chance to see. Definitely
36:17
Speaker 2: a game that I'm going to go to without a doubt.
36:21
Speaker 2: But if Julian wins the Heisman that game, it's going
36:25
Speaker 2: to be because of the Buckeye defense. They're gonna have
36:27
Speaker 2: to be the difference because Mendoza, he's got the better
36:32
Speaker 2: story man, and you know how they are with the
36:33
Speaker 2: story and Mendoza runs the ball. Their stats pretty even,
36:38
Speaker 2: except Julian way ahead of him in that accuracy. But
36:41
Speaker 2: Mendoza's got the rushing yards to go with it. He's
36:44
Speaker 2: really nice. He's a very likable kid. I like him.
36:47
Speaker 2: But Julian San gonna need to rely on the defense
36:50
Speaker 2: to show that Mendoza is not all that, and that
36:54
Speaker 2: would be really exciting. But the passing game, the RPOs,
36:58
Speaker 2: they looked really good. Remember they were live. They did
37:01
Speaker 2: not seem to be live in previous games against Wisconsin.
37:04
Speaker 2: They were live. He was opening. He probably hit about
37:06
Speaker 2: eight of them, which a lot of people were saying. Now,
37:09
Speaker 2: Ryan Day did say I wanted to work on the
37:11
Speaker 2: passing this game, and he definitely. They called a lot
37:14
Speaker 2: of passes. Julian threw twice as many times as they ran,
37:18
Speaker 2: and I think it was forty two pass attempts, twenty
37:21
Speaker 2: two called run attempts. And there is some RPOs baked
37:26
Speaker 2: into there where Julian clearly threw more than he handed
37:29
Speaker 2: it off, and that was good. We needed to see that.
37:32
Speaker 2: We saw that against Wisconsin. As we keep seeing a
37:35
Speaker 2: little more and a little more, I think the biggest
37:38
Speaker 2: thing we saw that I loved against Wisconsin was less
37:42
Speaker 2: of the thirteen and fourteen personnel. It was so bad
37:46
Speaker 2: against Illinois because they implemented it's just so clunky in
37:50
Speaker 2: the run game. I don't know why they screwed around
37:53
Speaker 2: so long with it, but it feels like now they're
37:56
Speaker 2: saying okay, because in the press conference on Tuesday last week,
37:59
Speaker 2: Ryan Day said, you know, there's some things now that
38:01
Speaker 2: we've had a lot of we we're halfway through. We've
38:03
Speaker 2: learned a lot. There are some things we need to
38:06
Speaker 2: do better, and there's some things we need to know
38:08
Speaker 2: that maybe you know, paraphrasing, maybe we need to scrap.
38:12
Speaker 2: And they were running a ton of thirteen and fourteen personnel.
38:15
Speaker 2: The very next game Wisconsin, they run quite a bit
38:18
Speaker 2: less out of those sets. Does that mean we can
38:21
Speaker 2: look forward to seeing it look a little more like
38:23
Speaker 2: that moving forward? I hope so. I sure hope.
38:26
Speaker 1: So.
38:26
Speaker 2: Man, it was just not working the way they intended
38:29
Speaker 2: or the way they envisioned or the way it's coming
38:32
Speaker 2: out in practice was not looking that same way on
38:36
Speaker 2: the field. But the running game was not great, and
38:39
Speaker 2: the running game been kind of hit or missed this year. Altogether,
38:43
Speaker 2: twenty seven carries one hundred and one yards three point
38:47
Speaker 2: seven yards of carry on the day. Curious to see
38:51
Speaker 2: tomorrow what Ryan Day has to say at the press conference,
38:54
Speaker 2: which I'm not even going to go to tomorrow. It's
38:56
Speaker 2: only going to be ten minutes. It's going to be
38:57
Speaker 2: a real quick press conference tomorrow because it's the off week.
39:01
Speaker 2: So Johnny Ohio five e three, let me get some
39:06
Speaker 2: of your comments here and then I'm gonna get into
39:07
Speaker 2: the run game. We do got a super chat to
39:10
Speaker 2: get to as well, Johnny Ohio says, Buckeye Scoop blocked
39:13
Speaker 2: me pretty sure for being critical of the run game.
39:17
Speaker 2: You won't get that here, my man, you won't get
39:19
Speaker 2: that here. Uh. We don't do feelings around here on
39:24
Speaker 2: bucke Hado prime time. No. The God of Buck guys,
39:27
Speaker 2: thank you so much for the super chat. Io brother,
39:29
Speaker 2: appreciate you. Eric Saul says, My only wish is that
39:34
Speaker 2: we get JJ some more completed balls downfield. I was
39:37
Speaker 2: talking about this the other day. I don't know if
39:40
Speaker 2: this is just me, but it seems to me like
39:43
Speaker 2: we've not seen near as many Maybe just because I'm
39:46
Speaker 2: getting used to him, but we've not seen near as
39:49
Speaker 2: many wow catches from JJ this year as we did
39:52
Speaker 2: last year, it seems like just missing, just missing a
39:57
Speaker 2: little more than we're getting that wild play and he's
40:01
Speaker 2: making he's efficient. The stats are there. Obviously, caught a
40:05
Speaker 2: ton of balls, just this most recent game, he's catching
40:07
Speaker 2: a lot of ball. It's getting a ton of targets.
40:09
Speaker 2: But those like incredible moments, we haven't had near as many.
40:14
Speaker 2: And h he almost seems a little frustrated. Just the
40:18
Speaker 2: body languages. It just it feels a little different than
40:21
Speaker 2: last year. And maybe I'm reading too much into it,
40:23
Speaker 2: but that's the way it seems to me. You guys,
40:26
Speaker 2: let me know what you think, and then of course
40:29
Speaker 2: we have got to uh yeah, we'll talk about this.
40:32
Speaker 2: Terry Josh Padia at right guard. So the running game,
40:37
Speaker 2: I got the All twenty two right before the show started,
40:40
Speaker 2: so I havn't a chance to watch it. But obviously
40:43
Speaker 2: Tiger Shabola for the first three games was given fifteen
40:47
Speaker 2: snaps to ethan On, so ethan On Yellen was coming
40:50
Speaker 2: in relieving Tiger at right guard with fifteen snaps, and
40:54
Speaker 2: then at Washington no rotation, Tiger has them all than
41:00
Speaker 2: the following game, we see Josh Padilla, the backup center,
41:05
Speaker 2: coming in at right guard, and he gets those fifteen snaps.
41:09
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, is that just a one game thing. No,
41:12
Speaker 2: the next two games we see Padilla come in with
41:14
Speaker 2: those fifteen snaps, So I really want to dig in
41:17
Speaker 2: on Padilla's fifteen snaps and see what he did. I
41:21
Speaker 2: can just say it looked better when he was in
41:24
Speaker 2: there the running game, so but the running game in
41:28
Speaker 2: the second half was much better all in all. But
41:31
Speaker 2: I am curious to see what Ryan Day says about Tegra.
41:33
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be asked about that tomorrow because it's
41:37
Speaker 2: been like it was very clear right off the rip
41:43
Speaker 2: that he missed a twist and let a guy straight in,
41:46
Speaker 2: and later on he just totally whiffed on a guy
41:49
Speaker 2: and almost got Julian smashed. Julian got flushed up in
41:52
Speaker 2: the pocket. It just seems like every game we see
41:56
Speaker 2: a couple of plays like that that stand out from Tegra.
42:01
Speaker 2: Tegra is a multi year starter at this point, and
42:04
Speaker 2: it's just like every game And I hate it because
42:07
Speaker 2: Teger I really like him. He's an Ohio kid. He's
42:10
Speaker 2: a really smart guy. Like when you listen to him,
42:12
Speaker 2: talk like there's a there's a lot there. Man. That's
42:15
Speaker 2: a cool dude, but it's just not been there. But anyway,
42:20
Speaker 2: the running game in the first half, Bo Jackson did
42:22
Speaker 2: not have space to breathe. He couldn't breathe. I think
42:25
Speaker 2: he was averaging like two yards in the first half.
42:27
Speaker 2: It was bad, man. It definitely got better in the
42:30
Speaker 2: second half. And I wrote an article about the running
42:33
Speaker 2: game on bucke huddle dot com you can check out.
42:37
Speaker 2: But I wanted to go down and kind of just
42:40
Speaker 2: go a little deeper on the stats of these running
42:43
Speaker 2: backs because we know that it's not all the running
42:47
Speaker 2: backs as far as the running game not totally clicking.
42:49
Speaker 2: There's been some tight end issues in there, minimal offensive
42:53
Speaker 2: line issues. I think the offensive line has all in
42:55
Speaker 2: all been pretty well in the run blocking. But if
42:58
Speaker 2: you go down through the statistics, yards per carry CJ.
43:03
Speaker 2: Donaldson four point two yards per carry, that is two
43:07
Speaker 2: hundred and thirteenth out of two hundred and eighty three.
43:09
Speaker 2: That's really bad. Yards after contact, which is this is
43:13
Speaker 2: something Ryan Day feels really big about. Yards after contact
43:18
Speaker 2: two point three five That is two hundred and fifty
43:21
Speaker 2: eighth out of two hundred and eighty three, which you know,
43:25
Speaker 2: that's bottom fifteen percent in the entire country. That's not
43:30
Speaker 2: near good enough. Forced miss tackles two, he's forced two
43:34
Speaker 2: miss tackles. Isaiah West has barely played, and Isaiah West
43:40
Speaker 2: has forced seven missed tackles to see Ja Donaldson's two.
43:45
Speaker 2: That's wild, man, that's a wild stat for a guy
43:47
Speaker 2: like that, for a guy that big, and it's just
43:50
Speaker 2: not good enough, not good enough, and that is out
43:54
Speaker 2: of two hundred and eighty three backs with the baseline
43:56
Speaker 2: of twenty carries or more. James, people's his statistics in
44:00
Speaker 2: that in that area five point one yards per carry.
44:04
Speaker 2: That is acceptable, right, that's that's acceptable to good that's
44:09
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty ninth out of two eighty three.
44:11
Speaker 2: So a little bit above the center line there, we'll
44:14
Speaker 2: take it yards after contact. This is where he you know,
44:19
Speaker 2: comes down below the number two two point eighty five,
44:22
Speaker 2: which is two hundred and third out of two eighty three.
44:26
Speaker 2: But there's room for improvement with James, there's room for
44:29
Speaker 2: improvement there. Miss tackles uh, miss tackles forced, six misstackles forced,
44:35
Speaker 2: which is two hundred and thirty third out of two
44:37
Speaker 2: eighty three. So you know, not good enough there, not
44:41
Speaker 2: good enough in yards after contact. But there's something there.
44:45
Speaker 2: But when we go back to the beginning of the
44:46
Speaker 2: year and talk about these two guys, remember, I mean
44:49
Speaker 2: this was Sonic and Knuckles. You had people comparing James
44:53
Speaker 2: People's to JK. Dobbins like that's that's a serious comp
44:57
Speaker 2: Man and Ohio State, with they've gotten out of these
45:00
Speaker 2: two backs, has been nothing like that at all. CJ.
45:04
Speaker 2: Donaldson is lumbering, He's got no juice, he has poor vision.
45:10
Speaker 2: Sometimes he doesn't even attempt to avoid a guy if
45:12
Speaker 2: he breaks it, you know, past the first first level,
45:14
Speaker 2: he just runs right into him. He didn't even try
45:16
Speaker 2: to put a move on him. Last week against Illinois,
45:19
Speaker 2: he ran up Carson Hinsman's rear end and fell down.
45:22
Speaker 2: Two plays later, he ran out in the flat on
45:24
Speaker 2: a for a pass and ran into the defender and
45:27
Speaker 2: fell down. I mean, it's almost comical when you watch
45:29
Speaker 2: it in the in the end zone view. James hasn't
45:32
Speaker 2: been too much better. It's been far for good by
45:35
Speaker 2: the Sonic and Knuckles crew. So no way to sugarcoat that.
45:40
Speaker 2: Just not up to the standard of Ohio State. Running backs.
45:42
Speaker 2: This is Ohio State. Luckily bo Jackson got the opportunity
45:46
Speaker 2: early and he popped up and took the starting running
45:49
Speaker 2: back role by week three, and Ohio State wrestled around
45:54
Speaker 2: with all right, how do we distribute the carries now
45:56
Speaker 2: that Bo's the starting running back? First game they gave
45:59
Speaker 2: with Boe as the starter in Washington, it was either
46:02
Speaker 2: people's or Donaldson got the other bulk share of the
46:05
Speaker 2: carries and the other one just got like three I
46:08
Speaker 2: think was Donaldson. Then they reversed their roles the next game.
46:12
Speaker 2: Then the last game it was something different. It's just
46:14
Speaker 2: felt really clunky as to how do we orchestrate it
46:16
Speaker 2: with these three backs. Nobody really felt like they were
46:20
Speaker 2: getting in a rhythm, and then you combine it with
46:22
Speaker 2: some bad blocking by the tight ends at Illinois, and
46:25
Speaker 2: it's just been looking really clunky and it feels like
46:27
Speaker 2: they got to settle in and get into some kind
46:30
Speaker 2: of rhythm. But at the end of the Illinois game,
46:34
Speaker 2: they gave Isaiah West a couple of opportunities to basically
46:38
Speaker 2: like they were just running out the clock and the
46:41
Speaker 2: runs went nowhere. But the fact that they got Isaiah
46:43
Speaker 2: in there made me think all right, we're going to
46:47
Speaker 2: see Isaiah at Wisconsin. He might get a shot. Now.
46:49
Speaker 2: I had just reached out to him like two weeks
46:51
Speaker 2: ago because I thought he was going to get a
46:54
Speaker 2: shot pretty soon. And he told me, I believe I'll
46:58
Speaker 2: be ready when I get my shot. And he sure was, man,
47:03
Speaker 2: he sure was six point one yards per carry. He
47:06
Speaker 2: got nine carries, led the team in rushing With those
47:09
Speaker 2: nine carries. He had a fourteen yarder, he had a
47:11
Speaker 2: fifteen yarder and his very first carry, he absolutely trucked
47:17
Speaker 2: a dude. It was a more physical run in his
47:19
Speaker 2: first carry than we've seen out of the big physical
47:23
Speaker 2: back CJ. Donaldson all year. Now I'm biased. I love
47:27
Speaker 2: Isaiah West. I don't come into this conversation unbiased. This
47:31
Speaker 2: is a three star dude who his story is just
47:36
Speaker 2: awesome to me. I love stories like this like this
47:38
Speaker 2: is a dude who was committed to Kentucky. That was
47:40
Speaker 2: his biggest offer. And he went to Kentucky because he
47:44
Speaker 2: thought that he was good enough to play in the
47:47
Speaker 2: SEC and that was the best. That was what he thought.
47:50
Speaker 2: And Carlos Loughlin was recruiting him at Oregon and when
47:54
Speaker 2: he got to Ohio State. You had two big dogs
47:57
Speaker 2: on the board, you had Bo Jackson and Jordan Davison,
48:01
Speaker 2: and then there was some talk maybe they'll take three.
48:03
Speaker 2: He offers Isaiah, and at the time people were not
48:07
Speaker 2: happy because they thought if Isaiah committed first, it would
48:11
Speaker 2: probably mean Jordan Davison or Bo Jackson wouldn't commit, And
48:15
Speaker 2: we don't want that three star ruining this for us.
48:17
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, and I get it. But
48:22
Speaker 2: this is a kid who was ranked seven hundred and
48:25
Speaker 2: ninety in the country and nothing about him or his
48:29
Speaker 2: film matched that, and that was very clear. And when
48:34
Speaker 2: I asked him about that ranking if it bothered him,
48:36
Speaker 2: he said, the people who needed to find me found me.
48:40
Speaker 2: And I just love that answer. He's one of the
48:42
Speaker 2: most mature seventeen year olds I've ever talked to. That
48:46
Speaker 2: was about a year ago. The talent undeniable, and I
48:49
Speaker 2: thought that him and Bo neck and neck. But I
48:52
Speaker 2: would give Bo the nod because Bo has the breakaway speed,
48:56
Speaker 2: but Isaiah a physical style of running with great vision,
49:00
Speaker 2: awesome contact balance, and we didn't even get to see
49:04
Speaker 2: all of his skills on display here in this game,
49:08
Speaker 2: but we saw enough. I think that most people understand
49:11
Speaker 2: he's a dude, right, He is a dude, whether or no,
49:14
Speaker 2: no matter where he ranks on your hierarchy of these
49:18
Speaker 2: running backs, he's a dude. Now. This is something I
49:22
Speaker 2: used to talk about in the show all the time.
49:24
Speaker 2: I got laughed at a lot about talking about this
49:27
Speaker 2: three starbacks. So I feel very happy for him, happy
49:30
Speaker 2: for myself as well. He proved me right. But I
49:33
Speaker 2: did not think he would get the opportunity to get
49:36
Speaker 2: to get to play this year. To be honest, he
49:39
Speaker 2: missed all a spring and now that he's gotten this opportunity, obviously,
49:44
Speaker 2: Bo has cemented himself in his role in the backfield.
49:48
Speaker 2: What do they do now? What are they gonna do?
49:51
Speaker 2: Like the toothpaste is out of the bottle, everybody's seeing that.
49:56
Speaker 2: Isaiah West looks like, you know, a more product back
50:00
Speaker 2: at this point in a very small sample size then
50:02
Speaker 2: we've seen out of a couple of them all year.
50:04
Speaker 2: So what do you do? Does it make it more
50:07
Speaker 2: complicated or is it just as complicated as they make it?
50:13
Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is you've got two
50:15
Speaker 2: older guys, three older guys, right, three older guys in
50:19
Speaker 2: Sam Dixon, James Peoples, and CJ. Donaldson that you know,
50:25
Speaker 2: you could say they're about to get passed by two freshmen,
50:27
Speaker 2: and that is an awkward situation. You don't like to
50:30
Speaker 2: find yourselves in situations like that, especially in the middle
50:33
Speaker 2: of the season. But this is a national championship run season.
50:37
Speaker 2: You can't be screwing around with people's feelings or worrying
50:39
Speaker 2: about what someone might do in the portal. Obviously, Donaldson's done,
50:44
Speaker 2: this is his only year. But it's an interesting situation
50:50
Speaker 2: that goes in with all this. And you just got
50:52
Speaker 2: to wonder. You got the next four games, like I said,
50:56
Speaker 2: the next four opponents three and thirteen of the Big ten.
51:00
Speaker 2: So what do you do? You know what I mean?
51:05
Speaker 2: Do you keep rotating? Do you try to come up
51:10
Speaker 2: with a rhythm that feels good because you've never really
51:13
Speaker 2: found a good rhythm yet, and now you've added another
51:16
Speaker 2: running back into the equation. I don't know what you do. Man.
51:19
Speaker 2: Do you keep bringing in Donaldson for these short runs?
51:22
Speaker 2: Which I even understand using him here and there, because
51:26
Speaker 2: using him, in my opinion, in a lot of ways,
51:29
Speaker 2: is just to spell Bo, to keep Bo from the
51:33
Speaker 2: rigors of too many carries. So using Donaldson in that role,
51:38
Speaker 2: even though he's not very good in a game that
51:40
Speaker 2: you're winning easily. Is like whatever, who cares? But using
51:45
Speaker 2: him on the goal line is not good. Using him
51:47
Speaker 2: in short yardage is not good. Isaiah West at two
51:51
Speaker 2: hundred and ten pounds, BO at two twenty four, Donaldson
51:55
Speaker 2: at two twenty seven, though I think he's probably gained
51:57
Speaker 2: a couple of pounds since he was two twenty seven
52:00
Speaker 2: in the preseason. Isaiah brings two hundred and ten pounds
52:04
Speaker 2: to the party every time he plays, so does BO.
52:08
Speaker 2: I don't think CJ. Donaldson does. I don't think he
52:10
Speaker 2: understands leverage. He doesn't know how to use that big body,
52:13
Speaker 2: and I don't think he's good at shortyards at all.
52:15
Speaker 2: He can't get skinny, he can't run anybody over. He
52:18
Speaker 2: has some qualities some but it's not that So. I
52:22
Speaker 2: would love to see Isaiah get those short yards carries
52:25
Speaker 2: if they're not going to give him a bow, because
52:27
Speaker 2: Isaiah runs with a physicality that I've never seen out
52:30
Speaker 2: of Donaldson. But anyway, you got a big decision to
52:33
Speaker 2: make in these next four games. I am so curious
52:36
Speaker 2: to see how they decide to work it out and
52:41
Speaker 2: really easy, reg Red says, Donald's physicality is going to
52:47
Speaker 2: be needed down the stretch. Don't fool yourself. He's not physical.
52:49
Speaker 2: It's the thing. That's what I just said. He's got
52:51
Speaker 2: got no physicality. He's terrible physically. That's why his yards
52:55
Speaker 2: after contact is two hundred and seventy eight out of
53:00
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty. There is no physicality. He's nothing
53:04
Speaker 2: but a you know, spell bow for a carry type
53:07
Speaker 2: of dude. Yeah, Donaldson is not gonna learn how to
53:12
Speaker 2: run like a running back, not a tight end because
53:15
Speaker 2: this is his last year. That's this is it for him,
53:18
Speaker 2: Like that's not happening. He runs straight up and down
53:21
Speaker 2: he does so. I don't know what it is, man,
53:26
Speaker 2: I don't know what the answer is. But if it
53:30
Speaker 2: was me, it's Bo and Isaiah and I'm done playing
53:33
Speaker 2: around with all with all the three running backs, give
53:36
Speaker 2: the give the freshman the run here and get him
53:38
Speaker 2: ready for the playoffs. You got four games before the
53:42
Speaker 2: game and the Big Ten championship and hopefully a three
53:45
Speaker 2: game playoff run, five huge games to wrap up the season.
53:50
Speaker 2: You got a four game prep for five huge games
53:53
Speaker 2: to make your run. That's what I would do. I
53:57
Speaker 2: don't know what's gonna happen, but I'm very curious to
53:59
Speaker 2: see what happens. Anyway, I'm gonna wrap with you guys
54:02
Speaker 2: a couple Brandingo, says Juck. I've got that same polo
54:07
Speaker 2: I got on sale for twelve bucks at American Eagle.
54:09
Speaker 2: I believe amazing deal. I did too. That's why I
54:12
Speaker 2: never would have bought it at regular price because look,
54:15
Speaker 2: let's be honest, it's not a great looking shirt. In fact,
54:18
Speaker 2: my wife made fun of me today when I just
54:20
Speaker 2: put it on to wear it down here for the show.
54:23
Speaker 2: It's not a great looking shirt. Like I said, I wouldn't.
54:26
Speaker 2: There's not many opportunities to wear it. We'll put it
54:28
Speaker 2: that way. It's not somebody would wear a lot. But
54:32
Speaker 2: these things are like ninety bucks, and I would never
54:34
Speaker 2: spend ninety bucks on him. But it was on sale.
54:37
Speaker 2: They wanted to get rid of it, and they found
54:39
Speaker 2: a couple of suckers like me and my guy Brandingo
54:42
Speaker 2: to get it. Line Jumper says, remember last year the
54:48
Speaker 2: offensive line struggled for three fourths of the season. No,
54:52
Speaker 2: I don't. Johnny doesn't think the issue is the running backs.
54:58
Speaker 2: It's the awful player right card. That has something to
55:02
Speaker 2: do with it. For sure, that has something to do
55:04
Speaker 2: with it. But when you say, well, I'll just put
55:07
Speaker 2: it to you like this, take a look at this
55:09
Speaker 2: right here. So when you look at bo jackson statistics,
55:15
Speaker 2: and I've highlighted therefore, you look at Bo's yards per
55:17
Speaker 2: carry at six point four with sixty eight carries, he
55:21
Speaker 2: now has more carries. So you can't say he doesn't
55:23
Speaker 2: have as many carries when you look at him at
55:25
Speaker 2: six point four. When you look at him at four
55:27
Speaker 2: point eight yards after contact, he's more than double Donaldson's right,
55:34
Speaker 2: So you can't look at these numbers miss tackles for us.
55:37
Speaker 2: He's got thirteen to Donaldson's two. He's got fourteen ten
55:42
Speaker 2: plus yards runs to Donaldson's six, and about the same carries.
55:46
Speaker 2: So we can't blame it on the offensive line when
55:48
Speaker 2: you've got one guy who is way out performing the
55:52
Speaker 2: other guy. See what I'm saying, they're playing behind the
55:56
Speaker 2: same offensive line. Down at peoples yards after carry versus bow,
56:03
Speaker 2: same deal. Bo's got him about doubled missed forced tackles.
56:07
Speaker 2: You can see the Peoples is three times that of Donaldson,
56:10
Speaker 2: but Bo still has him doubled up, but his ten
56:14
Speaker 2: plus yard runs. He's at six now with twenty less
56:17
Speaker 2: carries than Donaldson. I think the biggest thing that I
56:21
Speaker 2: love here is the miss tackles forced for Isaiah West.
56:25
Speaker 2: Isaiah West has seven miss tackles forced and twenty one carries.
56:29
Speaker 2: That is won every three carries. Donaldson is getting one
56:34
Speaker 2: every thirty carries. That's hysterical anyway. I put that together
56:45
Speaker 2: for you guys. What else we got here? Terry likes
56:50
Speaker 2: Jackson and West to be the best bet for RB
56:53
Speaker 2: one and two. Emily thinks Padilla played better. Julian throws
57:01
Speaker 2: a beautiful ball. He throws the ball up high with
57:04
Speaker 2: the best wide receivers in college football. He has a
57:06
Speaker 2: strong arm for deep throws and has touched for the
57:10
Speaker 2: shorter passes. Absolutely, man, he is. He's just awesome. He's awesome.
57:17
Speaker 2: We got so lucky. We just we fell right into that.
57:21
Speaker 2: You know, the most the most difficult part of that
57:23
Speaker 2: was the decision to take him. That was the most
57:24
Speaker 2: difficult part of the whole thing, which I'm glad they did.
57:33
Speaker 2: I got to share these sales. I do. I do, man,
57:36
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm a merchandise junkie man. Did I
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Speaker 2: show you, guys? Did I not show you? Oh? I
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Speaker 2: moved him back there. I don't know if you guys
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Speaker 2: saw Juck on Bucks this morning. But I ordered these
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Speaker 2: figurines that I thought were so it was Grian Day,
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Speaker 2: Carnell Tate, Jeremiah Smith, and Will Howard, and I thought
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Speaker 2: they were like the size of bottleheads. Because of the price,
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Speaker 2: They're like, these are crylic figurines, and I was gonna
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Speaker 2: put them in the studio. So I ordered these things.
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Speaker 2: They took forever to get here, and they came when
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Speaker 2: I was on vacation. I opened this package up. It's
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Speaker 2: this little package, not knowing what it was in the
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Speaker 2: figurines or the size of Gi Joe's. And they were
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Speaker 2: really expensive. Did I see Urban got a bunch of
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Speaker 2: wooden grill hats. No Ervin got him. I don't think it.
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Speaker 2: I rarely see him in hats. I got one of those.
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Speaker 2: My son turned me onto those. I like it. It's
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Speaker 2: over there. I wanted the red one, but I got
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Speaker 2: it's black. It's corduroy and it's got green bucke leaves
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Speaker 2: on it. Pretty sharp, but it sits a little high.
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Speaker 2: I don't make hats that sits so high. But I
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Speaker 2: love their stuff. I do love their stuff. G I. Jeremiah,
58:53
Speaker 2: there we go, Bart says. B Star says, you can
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Speaker 2: blame it on the O line who blocks the running backs?
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Speaker 2: Stop it? Okay, If two running backs have the same
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Speaker 2: amount of carries and one of them is doing twice
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Speaker 2: as good behind the same O line, who's the problem
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Speaker 2: the O line or the running back. It's very simple,
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Speaker 2: but very simple, Juck. I'm sure you'll address this, but
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Speaker 2: people need to stop being nervous about the Penn State game.
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Speaker 2: Ryan will have the team locked in, ready to go.
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Speaker 2: It's personal. I have not heard any of this. There
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Speaker 2: is no doubt in my mind the Penn State. Look,
59:47
Speaker 2: they still have all the talent, right. They have all
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Speaker 2: the talent that made them the number one team in
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Speaker 2: the world the world. They have all the talent that
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Speaker 2: had them getting all the love, right, that's all still there.
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Speaker 2: All that's missing is Franklin and Drew Aller. Ethan Grokmeyer
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Speaker 2: will have a couple games of experience. Ethan's a good quarterback,
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Speaker 2: and they'll definitely be fired up and ready to go.
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Speaker 2: We saw what happened with UCLA so I can understand
1:00:17
Speaker 2: people thinking that this might be a really scary game. However,
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Speaker 2: they got to play Ohio State. Ohio State was gonna
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Speaker 2: beat them anyway at full strength. They're not there now.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sweating at one bit. Man, I'm not sweating
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Speaker 2: at one bit. What do you think that offense is
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Speaker 2: gonna do to Ohio State's defense? Not a thing, Not
1:00:42
Speaker 2: a thing. Yeah, send me that. Ben BC says Penn
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Speaker 2: State gets more scary only because it's getting more and
1:00:54
Speaker 2: more embarrassing to lose to them. Ah, it would be,
1:00:58
Speaker 2: it would be embarrassing to lose them. But no, with you,
1:01:00
Speaker 2: with the vendetta, it's there. Never forget. Ryan Day really
1:01:05
Speaker 2: called Knowles out and said, you know, I understand you
1:01:09
Speaker 2: know your career and stuff, but it's also about like
1:01:12
Speaker 2: you know your name, you only get one name, meaning
1:01:16
Speaker 2: to say you've sold, you've soiled your name, Pal, you
1:01:19
Speaker 2: soiled your name. Brian does not like him. So anyway, friends,
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