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Did Ryan Day Consider Letting Texas Score Late? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday, September 14th. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom, or the Kent State game in five days,
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  Speaker 1: All right, back home in Ohio after a very busy
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  Speaker 1: and we'll call it an eventful weekend.
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  Speaker 2: In Austin, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes had a 23-3 second half lead, fourth quarter lead,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, and ended up losing 24-23 on a final-minute
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  Speaker 1: touchdown by the Texas Longhorns. It was an exciting game,
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  Speaker 1: not the way the Buckeye fans and the Buckeye team
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  Speaker 1: were hoping it would end, certainly, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: let you hear it a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I know there were a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of people who probably turned off the TVs in disgust
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  Speaker 1: and did not stick around to hear the postgame comments
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  Speaker 1: from Ryan Day, so on today's show, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: let you hear a little bit from the coach, some
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  Speaker 1: of the things he had to say after the game.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to start just with some overall thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to, this is going to start sort
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  Speaker 1: of in a wonky spot. This starts about a sentence
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  Speaker 1: into his first answer due to some technical issues that
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  Speaker 1: we had not, you know, there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people who did not have a great, a great evening
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the evening. We were, our crew
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  Speaker 1: was one of those, one of those groups had some
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  Speaker 1: technical issues right at the beginning of that press conference.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to pick up just like a sentence into
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  Speaker 1: his first answer, but you'll, you'll be able to pick
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  Speaker 1: up where he's, what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 2: He had tips on the field on defense and, and
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  Speaker 2: then certainly, you know, had a chance to kick the
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  Speaker 2: field goal to make it a two score game and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't do that. So, um, yeah, this one, this
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  Speaker 2: one hurts. And, um, you know, I think that, that
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  Speaker 2: was the message of the guys in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we won the first three quarters and did
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  Speaker 2: not obviously win the fourth quarter. And, uh, we know
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  Speaker 2: that that's, you know, the biggest part of the season.
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  Speaker 2: We have to win the fourth quarter, uh, especially on
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  Speaker 2: the road. So, uh, yeah, I can't really sit here
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  Speaker 2: and tell you exactly. I know why that happened. Uh, but,
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  Speaker 2: We all got to take accountability and get this thing
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  Speaker 2: corrected and fixed moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: The heat in Austin was no joke.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you, I was down on the field.
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  Speaker 1: I had a security guard tell me the turf head
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  Speaker 1: was measured at 160 degrees during the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: I can believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I do sort of take a need to take a shot,
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  Speaker 1: like a low angle shot at one point pregame and was,
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  Speaker 1: had my knee down on the turf for about 15
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  Speaker 1: minutes and got up and had like a heat burn
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  Speaker 1: on my knee. So yes, it was very, very, very
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  Speaker 1: hot on the field. Texas actually warmed up on their
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  Speaker 1: indoor facility, which is attached to the stadium. Buckeyes warmed
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  Speaker 1: up outside, and by the end of the game, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like the defense was a little bit gassed,
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  Speaker 1: and three long drives will do that, but just the heat,
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  Speaker 1: everything else, it's going to take it out of you
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So the Buckeyes made a point to
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  Speaker 1: rotate guys because of the heat, try to keep guys
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  Speaker 1: fresh as much as possible, but it looked like they
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  Speaker 1: still sort of seemed to wear down.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was the goal, was to get guys
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  Speaker 2: in and out, rotate, and I thought we were doing
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  Speaker 2: a good job for the majority of the game. I
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  Speaker 2: think we were on the field probably too much in
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  Speaker 2: the second half and certainly in the fourth quarter. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that you have to play complimentary football. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're not getting first downs on offense, you put
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  Speaker 2: those guys right back out there. But I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys played. We knew that was going to
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  Speaker 2: be the case. But ultimately, you know, we didn't get
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  Speaker 2: it done.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime Ohio State loses, there is an immediate sort of
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  Speaker 1: rush to make, here's the 17 things they did wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And some of those were legitimate and some of those
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  Speaker 1: were not. One of the things that I think probably
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  Speaker 1: was legitimate was the idea they probably had a pretty
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  Speaker 1: compelling case to let Texas score. Once it was first
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  Speaker 1: and goal at the one with about a minute and
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  Speaker 1: change left, could have let Texas score. And then you
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  Speaker 1: get the ball back with about a minute left, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a timeout left, depending on how you choose to manage things.
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  Speaker 1: And you just would have needed a field goal at
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  Speaker 1: that point to win the game. So I think there's
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  Speaker 1: certainly a compelling argument. to be made that they should
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  Speaker 1: have let them score. Here was Ryan Day's answer as
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  Speaker 1: to why they.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't do that. We did. We talked about it and
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  Speaker 2: decided that, you know, we were going to play defense
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  Speaker 2: on second down. And then, you know, when we get
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  Speaker 2: that stop right there, we said, all right, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to take our chances, put the ball down for one
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  Speaker 2: yard and see if we can stop for two downs
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  Speaker 2: and win the game. If they would have scored there
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  Speaker 2: on second down, then we would have, you know, gone
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  Speaker 2: from there. But yeah, I considered it. But I felt
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  Speaker 2: like at that point, we were just going to go
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  Speaker 2: play defense and see if we could get off the field.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: Again, after any Ohio State loss, there was always whatever
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  Speaker 1: they did was probably the wrong thing. If you think
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  Speaker 1: back to the 2022 Peach Bowl against Georgia, they played
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  Speaker 1: aggressively on defense late in the game, protecting the lead,
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  Speaker 1: gave up some long touchdowns, and everyone said, why did
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  Speaker 1: you do that? In this case, they played a little
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  Speaker 1: more conservatively made Texas, Texas work their way sort of
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  Speaker 1: down the field, methodically three long, very methodical touchdown drives.
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  Speaker 2: Texas has been able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: They were able to sort of follow through and, and
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  Speaker 1: do that and win the game. Was that the plan though,
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  Speaker 1: to sort of make the defense play a little more
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  Speaker 1: conservatively and make Texas sort of work their way very
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  Speaker 1: slowly down the field.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was some, some drop eight for sure, uh,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought for a good portion of the game, um,
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  Speaker 2: was well done. And then when it was time to
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  Speaker 2: get pressure when we needed to, we weren't able to
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  Speaker 2: do that at a high enough rate, and especially when
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  Speaker 2: the game was on the line. That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: And so we'll look at it all, scheme, coaching, and
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  Speaker 2: then obviously personnel.
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  Speaker 1: No question, the end of that game, blowing a 20-point
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  Speaker 1: lead in the fourth quarter, that was a rough way
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  Speaker 1: to end, which sure looked like it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a huge win for pretty much the entire night
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  Speaker 1: up to that fourth quarter. So Now, how does a
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  Speaker 1: team go about bouncing back from that?
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  Speaker 2: It's right after the game, so it's hard to say
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  Speaker 2: we're going to take ownership of this. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: stick together and recognize because it's on all three phases.
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  Speaker 2: I can't sit here and tell you just one area
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  Speaker 2: that we, again, for three quarters, I felt we played solid.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that we played perfectly, any stretch of
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  Speaker 2: the imagination, but then when you look at not being
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  Speaker 2: able to get off the field on defense, when you're
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  Speaker 2: really not able to sustain any drives on offense, and
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  Speaker 2: then we missed the field goal all three phases. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: get it done in the fourth quarter. So we all
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  Speaker 2: got to own that and then make the corrections and
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  Speaker 2: then move on.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned that some of the strategic decisions came in for
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  Speaker 1: some criticism after the game. Some of the defensive strategy
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  Speaker 1: came in for criticism after the game. The offensive game plan,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in the second half, that was certainly something that
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  Speaker 1: got asked about as well. Buckeyes put up 20 points
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  Speaker 1: in the first half, just three after halftime, including back-to-back
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  Speaker 1: three and outs late in the third quarter and early
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. They took up just a minute
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  Speaker 1: five and a minute 30 off the clock at a
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  Speaker 1: point where if they could have just chewed up three,
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  Speaker 1: four minutes off the clock on each of those drives, man,
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  Speaker 1: that would have completely changed the situation for Texas. So
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  Speaker 1: here are Ryan Day's thoughts on the second half game
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  Speaker 1: plan on offense.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime we put a game plan together, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: all talk about it and it goes through, everything goes
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  Speaker 2: through me. And so, you know, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: be one to second guess anything. You know, once it's
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  Speaker 2: on the call sheet, then we all own it. And
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  Speaker 2: that's on all three faces. So ultimately, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: my responsibility. But that being said, I don't think anyone's
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  Speaker 2: got to come out of the locker room and feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we did what we needed to do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on offense in the fourth quarter. We had opportunities in
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter, and like you said, the second half,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't get that done. I thought Jeremiah played his
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  Speaker 2: heart out tonight, but we weren't efficient enough. We never
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  Speaker 2: got ourselves in a rhythm in the second half like
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  Speaker 2: we should have, and that's all of us. We all
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  Speaker 2: got to get that addressed and fixed, and obviously it
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  Speaker 2: starts with me.
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  Speaker 1: There are always a million things you can point to
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  Speaker 1: in a game that comes down to one play, one point.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that you could very easily point
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  Speaker 1: to for the Buckeyes was red zone struggles. They were
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone five times. They scored two touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: kicked two field goals, and had a failed fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a common issue there with the red zone struggles?
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  Speaker 2: No. I don't know if it's just one thing, but
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  Speaker 2: certainly when you're down there, you have to be able
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  Speaker 2: to run the ball consistently down in there. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we hit a couple of good runs, and then went
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  Speaker 2: sideways in the early one, and And then there was
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  Speaker 2: a sack down there. It was kind of just a
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  Speaker 2: mix of things that we just didn't get it done.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have to go back and look at it
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  Speaker 2: and try to find some common themes. But ultimately, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to be more efficient down there. We didn't throw
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  Speaker 2: and catch well enough, and we didn't run the ball consistently.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Day has now been the head coach of Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State for 96 games. He is 83-13 in those 96 games.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty darn good winning percentage. But of those
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  Speaker 1: 13 losses... Many of them have been very close and
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  Speaker 1: come down to just a play here, a bounce there,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was. And this one, a couple fumbles that
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  Speaker 1: Texas put on the ground in the fourth quarter and
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  Speaker 1: managed to get back. That probably would have sealed the
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  Speaker 1: game for Ohio State if they had picked up either
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  Speaker 1: of those. Some fourth downs on defense where Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field. There was an overthrow of
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  Speaker 1: Devin McEwen on what would have been a walk-in touchdown
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  Speaker 1: and just overshot him for an incompletion. The missed field
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  Speaker 1: goal late that probably would have sealed it. Here were
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day's thoughts on All of the what ifs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like you said, the missed field goal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, it's not just one thing. It's a
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  Speaker 2: list of all those things, you know. And like you said,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go back and look at a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the fourth down stops. You know, some of the
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  Speaker 2: other plays. And you're right. It can come down to
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  Speaker 2: one play. And, you know, we weren't able to make
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  Speaker 2: that play in the fourth quarter. And as coaches, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't able to put them, I guess, in enough
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  Speaker 2: situations to make those plays. So we've got to figure
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  Speaker 2: out how to do a better job of that because ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as coaches, we've got to own everything. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do that coming out of this game.
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  Speaker 2: And it certainly starts with me and goes to the
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  Speaker 2: coordinators and down to the position coaches. But yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to go back and it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be painful and frustrating. But, you know, that's our job.
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  Speaker 1: So the good news for Ohio State is it is
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  Speaker 1: the 12-team college football playoff era. So the season is
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  Speaker 1: far from lost at this point. One early loss does
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  Speaker 1: not derail your season the way it used to. Now
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  Speaker 1: they've got to figure out how to get things back
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  Speaker 1: on track. They're going to do that this Saturday, starting
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  Speaker 1: Brian Day always says they want to look at personnel, scheme,
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