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BONUS: Ohio State vs. USC Pregame LIVE Part 1 · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Buckeye Weekly Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Tony Gerdeman, here as always with Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Or Tom, how's it going?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Tony, we would like to first start off by
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  Speaker 3: apologizing for being just a little bit late. Got caught
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  Speaker 3: in LA traffic, as per usual, somewhere between the breakfast
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  Speaker 3: downstairs and here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we are on the fifth floor. It is the
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  Speaker 1: highest floor in the hotel, so it did take a
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  Speaker 1: while to get here.
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  Speaker 2: But we are here, and we want to thank you
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  Speaker 2: all for joining us. And as you get in, feel
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  Speaker 2: free to throw some questions in there. We've talked about
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  Speaker 2: this game a lot. We're still going to continue talking
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  Speaker 2: about it until it is done. Then we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about it afterwards as well. But if there's anything
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  Speaker 2: you guys want us to touch on, we will absolutely
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  Speaker 2: do that. And I, you know, Tom, I think the
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  Speaker 2: main two stories here are a new quarterback for Iowa
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  Speaker 2: state and what's going to happen with Jay Timmons. And
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  Speaker 2: we've kind of talked these through these two things throughout.
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  Speaker 2: Is there, well, with those being the.
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  Speaker 1: Two main stories, what's, what's the third biggest story?
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  Speaker 3: Here. Behind Luke Fahey and Jay Timmons, I would say personnel-wise,
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  Speaker 3: to me, it's Austin Searveld. And what happens with Austin Searveld,
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  Speaker 3: he's playing. He's been off the availability report all week.
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  Speaker 3: So we know he's playing. I think the two questions
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  Speaker 3: are where and how much. And I think we have
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  Speaker 3: a better sense for where than we do for how much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be right tackle.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Ryan Day said.
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  Speaker 1: He said he can also play guard. He can also
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  Speaker 1: play left tackle, which we know, Ryan. We've seen it done.
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  Speaker 2: Uh so yes expecting that but like how much uh
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be dependent upon how much he can
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  Speaker 2: handle with the wind and that frankly like what if
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  Speaker 2: he's not playing well how long do you let him
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  Speaker 2: play through that or do you put philip daniels back out.
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  Speaker 1: There i think they're going to give him a pretty
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  Speaker 1: long rope to just work his way through and see
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  Speaker 1: how it.
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  Speaker 2: Goes because you want him better as the game goes
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  Speaker 2: on that's just i don't know if he will get
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  Speaker 2: better as the game goes.
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  Speaker 3: On that's kind of the interesting question and i know
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  Speaker 3: that People are going to say, well, Philip Daniels was
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  Speaker 3: really bad against Indiana, so you have to let Austin
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  Speaker 3: Searveld play through it. And remember, Philip Daniels was coming
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  Speaker 3: back from a multi-week injury during the Indiana game. So
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  Speaker 3: there's probably a little bit of a reason that he
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  Speaker 3: looked a little bit rusty in that game. So I
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  Speaker 3: would assume that, number one, Austin Searveld may be playing
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  Speaker 3: through some of that rust as well. but also that
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  Speaker 3: Philip Daniels is probably a lot more up-to-game speed and
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more in-game shape than he was a
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  Speaker 3: couple weeks ago. So maybe that makes it more likely
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  Speaker 3: that you see more Philip Daniels than we're thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and both could be playing well, and you still
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  Speaker 2: continue to rotate them just because it makes everybody better.
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  Speaker 1: So the Austin Cierreveld.
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  Speaker 2: Thing, I'm also going to be very interested to see
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  Speaker 2: how aggressive these two defensive coordinators are.
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  Speaker 1: Because I wrote... friday night that whoever blitzes the.
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  Speaker 2: Least will lose essentially like the least aggressive defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 2: is going to lose this game because there's really i
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  Speaker 2: don't think there's much reason to not be aggressive in
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  Speaker 2: this one because we keep talking about what wisconsin was
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  Speaker 2: able to do against jayden mayaba and usc they just
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmed the offensive line overwhelmed quarterback now you've got an
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  Speaker 2: ohio state offensive line that's going through some shuffling And
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  Speaker 2: a true freshman quarterback. If you just sit back and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we can't let him beat us with his legs, you're
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  Speaker 2: an idiot. And make things move fast. Because I think
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  Speaker 2: everybody saw how fast the game was moving for Luke
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  Speaker 2: Fahey against Indiana. It should slow down this week. But
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to help him out on that. You
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  Speaker 2: can go ahead and try to keep things moving as
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  Speaker 2: quickly as possible for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's exactly the move is you have to,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Tony, we're in California. We're not in Silicon Valley,
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  Speaker 3: but we're in the same state.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the motto? Move fast and break things.
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  Speaker 3: Like this feels like this is probably a move fast
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  Speaker 3: and break things kind of day for both defensive coordinators
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  Speaker 3: where you have an opportunity to get pressure on people
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  Speaker 3: who the last time we saw them did not handle
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  Speaker 3: that pressure particularly well. So you would assume that You
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  Speaker 3: would be willing to try and be.
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  Speaker 1: A little more risky, a little more, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, a little less risk averse maybe in terms of
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  Speaker 3: how you're approaching things. When you've seen pressure, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pressure burst pipes, pressure makes diamonds. We saw more burst
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  Speaker 3: pipes the last.
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  Speaker 1: Time we saw both of these quarterbacks than diamonds. You
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  Speaker 1: do wonder why you don't see more diamonds from burst.
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  Speaker 1: Just got to give it time. Just got to give
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  Speaker 1: it time. Actually, once the pipe is burst, the pressure
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  Speaker 1: is gone. That's true. There you go. There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get a– let's hit a super chat real quick
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  Speaker 3: here from Six String Buckeye. Will the offensive game plan
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  Speaker 3: be similar to the one that we saw in Julian
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  Speaker 3: Sands' first start?
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  Speaker 1: That's something we've talked about where he was– I can't
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  Speaker 1: pull it up. He was like 13 for 19 for
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  Speaker 1: like 140 yards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: With maybe a touchdown and that nature. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that was a very conservative approach to Ryan Dayson
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  Speaker 2: after the fact.
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  Speaker 1: They could have asked him to do more.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't feel comfortable in putting him in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: This is a little bit different because I was saying
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  Speaker 2: second year. This is Luke Fahey's first year. So he's
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  Speaker 2: not been in the offense as long. But he's made strides.
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  Speaker 2: He's the backup. I mean, Julian Sane was not the
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  Speaker 2: backup his freshman year.
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  Speaker 1: Competition not the same. He went standing. But I like.
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  Speaker 2: I keep going back and forth between, yes, I expect
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  Speaker 2: that kind of approach, but also, they weren't being conservative
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  Speaker 2: with him against Indiana when he was thrust into the game.
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  Speaker 3: No, and that was a situation where you haven't game-planned
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  Speaker 3: for him. The game plan at that point is whatever
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  Speaker 3: the game plan was for Julian Sane, and you don't
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  Speaker 3: have a completely separate plan B ready to go in
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  Speaker 3: case Luke Fahey comes in. And the game state sort
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  Speaker 3: of determines what you have to do at that point anyway.
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  Speaker 3: If they were up by 30 points, I think they
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  Speaker 3: probably would have just had him hand off and get.
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  Speaker 1: Out of there. Some of the what's the game plan
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  Speaker 1: for Luke Fahey depends on what's the defense doing? How's
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  Speaker 1: the USC offense going?
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  Speaker 3: Because what allowed them to be so conservative with Julian
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  Speaker 3: Sand against Texas last year was the Texas offense.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't do anything for about 55 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: If the USC has zero points through 55 minutes of
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  Speaker 3: this game, I would assume you're probably not going to
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  Speaker 3: see a particularly risky Ohio State approach on offense. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not expecting that, but that was the case against Texas
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  Speaker 3: last year. There's a lot of factors that go into this.
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  Speaker 3: How much do they trust him? How do they feel
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  Speaker 3: about the offensive line? How do they feel about the
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  Speaker 3: running game?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you can just curl up in a
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  Speaker 1: ball like Buster Bluth and just turtle at the first
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  Speaker 1: sign of any kind of conflict because you.
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  Speaker 3: Have Jeremiah Smith. You still have Jeremiah Smith. You have
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  Speaker 3: to get Jeremiah Smith involved. And then if USC is going, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to put three guys in Jeremiah Smith. Chris
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  Speaker 3: Henry Jr., Devin McEwen, Phillip Bell, Nate Roberts, whoever it
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  Speaker 3: is on the other side of the field, get them
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  Speaker 3: involved because there's going to be opportunities there.
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  Speaker 2: And this could be one of those games where they
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  Speaker 2: use Jeremiah's gravity and send him in motion.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, there's an alert.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to throw a quick screen to him or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. And then maybe do something off of that.
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  Speaker 2: But you also still need to give him the ball
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  Speaker 2: in space quickly, like I hate to take a return
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  Speaker 2: in space, but get into him quickly. You know, that
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  Speaker 2: way it's just, it's not even a read. It's just,
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  Speaker 2: this is the play. It's going to him and everybody
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  Speaker 2: else is out there blocking. And how many times can
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  Speaker 2: they do that?
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  Speaker 1: How effective is that?
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  Speaker 2: I am fascinated to see how he is against the blitz.
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  Speaker 1: And is he hitting his hot reads?
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  Speaker 2: Is he getting it out quickly? Is he going to
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  Speaker 2: the right spots? I think they could be effective with
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  Speaker 2: the play action. I just think some of these play
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  Speaker 2: actions take way too long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And they're waiting for the, you know, way too long.
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  Speaker 2: And that, with the offensive line being as questionable as
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  Speaker 2: it has been in past blocking realm. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you can do these long, turn your back to the
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  Speaker 2: defense and just try to be deceptive because I think
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  Speaker 2: there's always going to be somebody that isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: buy that and just go after the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I am pretty sure that they are, they know
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  Speaker 3: that and that they're going to have to, I think
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to take a shot downfield, you're probably
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  Speaker 3: rolling him out and you've got, couple levels to your,
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  Speaker 3: to your route tree. And you've got, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: got your guy who's five yards downfield and you got
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  Speaker 3: your guy who's 15 yards downfield. And maybe you've got
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  Speaker 3: someone 30 or 40 yards downfield coming from the other side.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't expect a lot of the hard play
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  Speaker 3: action under center. And like, I think it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be keep things relatively simple for Fahey, get the ball
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  Speaker 3: out relatively quickly because USC's defensive front, feels like that's
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  Speaker 3: an area where they maybe have an advantage, where they
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  Speaker 3: can at least generate some real serious havoc in the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State backfield if Jakeem Stewart's playing. You know, we'll
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  Speaker 3: see how Luke Waifle does. There are moving parts there
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  Speaker 3: as well, but I tend to think they're going to
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  Speaker 3: keep things as simple as they can for Fahey while
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  Speaker 3: also trying to be aggressive in certain ways and just
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  Speaker 3: sort of be smartly aggressive and have, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you've got two reads and then if nothing's there, run.
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  Speaker 3: Take the three yards, eight yards, whatever it is, but
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  Speaker 3: don't stand back in the pocket, patting the football for
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  Speaker 3: six seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Cause bad things are going to happen. I do that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're still trying to, you're going to try
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  Speaker 1: to win the game on offense. Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: And not just be like, well, it's just, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to be a four quarter game. I'm sure right.
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  Speaker 1: It is telling everybody it's going to be a four
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  Speaker 1: quarter game, but you don't have to play into those. Right.
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  Speaker 3: It has been very careful not to say the phrase
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  Speaker 3: four quarter this week.
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  Speaker 2: And that's interesting. Um, And he's not always wrong about that.
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  Speaker 2: He's not always right about that. But that is something
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  Speaker 2: that has not been said at all. Obviously, the main
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  Speaker 2: goal for the quarterback is to go win the game.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's got to step up. He said those things, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he has not said that phrase. Does that mean there's
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  Speaker 2: a certain level of confidence in how this offense is
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  Speaker 2: going to go?
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  Speaker 3: Does he recognize that he's getting crap from people who
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  Speaker 3: take that phrase the wrong way?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think once you put a block on death threats.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing can get through to you in terms of what
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  Speaker 2: people are saying. But, I mean, he was saying it
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  Speaker 2: after there was some grief. And they won. So it's
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  Speaker 2: like you can almost just continue to say what you
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  Speaker 2: want because you keep winning.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it is interesting that he has not
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  Speaker 1: said that. Now maybe.
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  Speaker 2: After the game he'll be like, I told the team
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  Speaker 2: I was going to be in the fourth quarter. And
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  Speaker 2: we've all predicted it. four quarters since we missed on
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  Speaker 2: our scores. So, I mean, it's no shame in that, especially, again,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing comes down to a freshman quarterback just
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  Speaker 2: having no idea what to expect now. The people who
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  Speaker 2: have the best idea of what to expect are the
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  Speaker 2: coaches who are watching this and devising this game plan
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  Speaker 2: for them. And I guess we'll know by the end
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  Speaker 2: of the first quarter how they feel about him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think, well, and they might know a
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  Speaker 3: lot more about him after that first quarter or first
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  Speaker 3: drive as well, because I think you've seen him in practice.
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  Speaker 1: They've seen him in practice.
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  Speaker 3: They've seen him in the games, in the limited situations
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  Speaker 3: he's been in there. But you've never seen what the
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  Speaker 3: game plan they have drawn up for him is, because
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  Speaker 3: it's always been, here's the game plan. And then Luke
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  Speaker 3: Fahey comes in and starts executing that game plan at
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  Speaker 3: some point. We haven't seen them draw up a game
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  Speaker 3: plan for Luke Fahey, and I suspect that's going to
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  Speaker 3: look a little different than the game plan, Luke Fahey
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  Speaker 3: executing someone else's game plan. I think you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see Luke Fahey probably being a little more of a threat.
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  Speaker 1: In the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're going to see Luke Fahey probably being
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  Speaker 3: a little more elusive in the pocket, maybe being able
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  Speaker 3: to avoid the rush a little bit more than Julian
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  Speaker 3: Sand did. But I also assume that you're not going
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  Speaker 3: to see the accuracy that you saw from Julian Sand,
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  Speaker 3: at least. for the 2025 season and maybe the first
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  Speaker 3: little bit of the 2026 season before we both think
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  Speaker 3: he probably has been dealing with something injury-wise the last
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  Speaker 3: few weeks because he just hasn't looked right. Now, can
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  Speaker 3: Luke Fahey be as accurate or more as Julian San
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  Speaker 3: against Indiana?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I think he can. I don't think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be as accurate as he.
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  Speaker 3: Was against Wisconsin or UCLA or something in 2025, but
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  Speaker 3: I think he can be good enough to get them
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  Speaker 3: into the, you know, what, mid-20s wins this game, probably.
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  Speaker 2: It's always interesting to see another quarterback come in where
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  Speaker 2: Julian Sands' accuracy at this point is being taken for granted.
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  Speaker 2: And so what he makes those that are off, it's
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  Speaker 2: just like, holy crap, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 1: And now you're going to see a quarterback who's probably
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  Speaker 1: not going to be as accurate. You're going to be like, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: Julian would have made that throw.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he wouldn't have picked up that third down on
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  Speaker 2: the scramble that Luke.
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  Speaker 1: Fahey just did.
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  Speaker 2: So there's always going to be some gives and takes,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll be interested to see how accurate Luke Fahey
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  Speaker 2: is or isn't, how easy it looks for him, how
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  Speaker 2: difficult it looks for him. I guarantee you, though, he's
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  Speaker 2: excited as all heck for this game because he's a.
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  Speaker 1: Guy who's been challenged in football his entire time as
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback. He kind of thrives on that.
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  Speaker 2: He wouldn't be at Ohio State if he didn't think
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  Speaker 2: he could play at Ohio State. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: my I said the same thing about the Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 2: and Lincoln-Keynotes. You know, what would have happened if Devin
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  Speaker 2: Brown went down? Like, this is exciting because you have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what to expect.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best thing about college football is you have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what to expect. And we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: that today, tonight, where it's just like anything could happen.
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  Speaker 2: And that's pretty fun. He could be like a new
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  Speaker 2: star is born, or he could be 6 of 19
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  Speaker 2: for 64 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at least now we know. Yeah, well, and.
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  Speaker 3: This also feels like we don't have all the information
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  Speaker 3: on exactly what's going on with Julian saying. You get
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  Speaker 3: the sense Julian saying made the trip out to California.
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  Speaker 3: He has been around the team. He continued to be engaged.
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  Speaker 3: He's not acting like someone who is checked out on
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  Speaker 3: the season or just preparing to go to the portal
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  Speaker 3: or any of that kind of stuff. So you sort
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  Speaker 3: of reading the room, you get the sense of Julian
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  Speaker 3: saying maybe back next year. If Luke Fahey goes and is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, 28 for 35 for 330 yards and four touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not expecting it.
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  Speaker 1: But if it happens, that tells you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, then you have one conversation about next year's
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  Speaker 3: quarterback situation. Luke Fahey goes six for 19 for 58
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  Speaker 3: yards and throw two picks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's, you know, he had time to improve before
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season.
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  Speaker 3: But that's potentially a very different conversation about next year's
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  Speaker 3: quarterback situation.
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  Speaker 1: At Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know, John, if he goes out there
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  Speaker 2: and goes 28 for 35, 340 yards, he'll be like.
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  Speaker 1: I said it could happen.
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  Speaker 2: I said on the pregame show that it could happen.
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  Speaker 1: I predicted this exact stat line.
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying it's unlikely now, but once it happens,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be like, remember what I said?
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  Speaker 1: 330 yards? I'm going to have an envelope. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to hold it to my forehead.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm... I like the unknown college football, and there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing more unknown than a true freshman quarterback going out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes it can completely revitalize your program like you
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  Speaker 2: did with Tommy Carr.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: For a half. Well, yeah. And here's the other thing.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: The second half of the, which game was that? Penn State.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Penn State, right? Yeah. Bryce Underwood plays the first half.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: It's 3-0 Penn State at halftime, and Tommy Carr comes in.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: It's not bad. Yeah.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Tommy Carr comes in, and they score 21 points in
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: the second half, and it's, wow, Christmas is saved.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: All right, how about that?
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: And then you kind of look under the hood of
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: the car, and one drive was two plays where he
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: threw an incomplete pass, and then a running back ran
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: 40 yards, or 43 yards for a touchdown after a turnover.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: One was about a 13-yard drive after a turnover, and
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: it's like, okay, well, they had one legitimate drive, and
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: also that was after a turnover.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: And.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: So you can have the defense helping out a young quarterback.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: You can have the running game, helping out a young quarterback.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: You can have the wide receivers helping out a young quarterback.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: There are lots of ways that you can put Luke
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Fahey in a position to succeed. And he can just
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: sort of like get you over the edge with, Hey,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: if you can put him in a position where just, Hey,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: can you pick up a third and six with your
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: legs a couple of times and Can you make a
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: throw to find the open guy on two receivers and
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: then run.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Kind of concepts?
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Can you just sort of do the basic stuff? It's
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: really unfair to ask him to go up to the line,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: and they're not going to. To go up to the
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: line and do what Julian Sane's doing with two plays
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: and then read the defense and make.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Your checks, I think that's all going to be out
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the window for this game.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: They're going to try and put him in a position
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: where he can succeed. Like Larry Johnson. Larry Johnson, when
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: he plays true freshman... He had like a very simple
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: goal for the true freshman. I think that's defensive line.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: This is quarterback. But I think the goal is kind
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: of the same here. Well, and I've got a buddy
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: who is an Ohio State fan lifelong.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: And he texted me and said, if Ohio State's $ 10
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: million head coach and $ 2 million offense coordinator can't come
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: up with 24 or 28 points in this game, then
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: they're the ones responsible.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Not the quarterback. And now he's also been out on
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: day for a period. And then he wasn't. And then,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: of course, he is again. But I think there's some
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: truth to this.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: And this is where Arthur Smith earns his money in
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: terms of, well, I can't send him up there with
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: two plays. So I'm going to send him up there
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: with the right one play. And then Ryan Day will
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: tell you his quarterbacks need to get them out of
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: bad plays once the plays begin. Like, make something happen
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: with this. They've given you a bad play. It was
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: just a test to see how prepared you were. That
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: sort of thing. But then, you know, once it breaks down,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: go make something happen. And Luke Fahey is that kind
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: of quarterback. Now, is he that kind of quarterback as
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: a true freshman as opposed to like a fifth-year senior
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: where he's seen it all.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: And he's been through it all? He's going to be
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: much more. He's going to be much better down the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: road than he will be today in this one. But
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I still think we're going to see flashes.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: And you saw flashes immediately against Indiana on that third
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: low where he took off scrambling.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, okay, there's something here. And then there
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't anything there after that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: But you saw like, well, there's something.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: There's, there's definitely something there and, and there are areas
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: where it's going to be different slash better than it
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: was with Julian saying, and there's going to be areas
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: where it's different slash not as good as it was
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: with Julian saying, and, and it's just, it's going to
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: be different. That's the only thing I can tell you
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: for sure. It is going to be different.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And so that's, that's, you know, that's the only thing
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: that's really truly predictable here.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Um, I saw someone asking why we're up so early,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: like when, when we're out here for two days, we
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: stay on East coast time. There's no, no reason to, uh,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: No reason to switch your body clock over. But yeah,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: it is going to be a fun, fun, fun, fun game.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to getting over there. We are
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: doing this live from our hotel because we can't get
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: over there.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: They won't let us in the stadium until three hours
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: before the game, and we don't know what we're going
• 19:32
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• 19:34
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• 19:35
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• 20:17
  Speaker 3: slash insider. So I saw someone asking about Austin Searveld
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: and whether he's going to play today.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: The answer is yes.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: But as we said earlier, the question is how much?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: How much? We don't know. And that's up to him
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and the stamina and how well he plays. And they've tried.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: He said, right.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: He said Austin has tried to stay active. in as
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: best game condition as you can dealing with an illness,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: which as everybody knows, it takes a little bit of
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: time to come back from that. And even when you
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: think you're back, like you could go to Kroger and
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: just like, man, I am beat from, you know, shopping, whatever,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: just regular day-to-day activities.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So it's just a matter of how much he can handle. And,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you know, do you think they're going to rotate? I
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: think they, I think you're going to see two right
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: tackles in this game.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe just, even if Austin is playing well, maybe like,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Give him a third series off just to see how
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: he's doing and let him assess things and go from there.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Because, again, he is coming back from something, so you
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: don't want to push him too much.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: But, hey, you know, a couple of quick touchdown drives
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and you may not have to sit.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, so much of this game is going to
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: hinge on how that first quarter goes. Because if Ohio
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: State can score early, get an early touchdown, and get
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: a stop or two. And you just end the first
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: quarter up 7-0 or 10-0, something like that. Boy, that
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: changes the game completely from the scenario where Luke Fahey
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: comes out and throws an early pick and USC's forced
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: an early touchdown. Because I think the USC crowd, I
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: have not pulled up the StubHub number.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: $ 37. $ 37 is your get-in price.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: The get-in price was $ 160 or so on like Tuesday
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: this week.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So that gives you an indication no one is buying tickets. And.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: so I think the USC crowd, the USA fan base
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: is kind of out on Lincoln Riley at this point.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Just don't give them an opportunity to get back in
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: on Lincoln Riley. Like I think, I think this is
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a game where USC could get booed at home. The
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: cheers for Ohio state could be louder than the cheers
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: for USC. You know, I don't, I get the sense
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: that this may not be a game where they need
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to go with a silent count. Cause I think there's
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: gonna be a decent number of Ohio state fans and
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: there's going to be a decent number of USC fans
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: dressed up as empty seats for Halloween. So I, I
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: think there's a real possibility that this is not a like.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: True road environment. It's more of a neutral site kind
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of thing.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: And if you can just don't give USC a reason
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: to hope, like don't give them a reason to think, oh,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: maybe we can win this game. Like just if they
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: get ahead, can sort of stay ahead. Boy, that makes
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: things a little better for Matt Patricia, where if USC
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: can't run the ball and USC trailing, well, then you're
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: in more predictable situations and then you can get a
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: little more aggressive.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: And I keep saying, like, the Wisconsin game last week
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: completely opened my eyes on the ability to get after
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Maiava and affect him negatively with the blitz. And Wisconsin
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: just swallowed up the offensive line. Sometimes there's only five guys,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: but a lot of sim pressures and things like that
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: where nobody knew where anybody was coming from because they're
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: all bunched up there at the line. And then they
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: just got after him. They got after him very, very effectively.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: So I think it would be crazy for Matt Patricia
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: to just sit back and let Nature take its course
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: here on this one.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Sounds like a gazelle at the watering hole.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: No, just get after him. Be the crocodile. Yeah. Rather
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: than the waterboard virus that will eventually get you later
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: on down the road.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I saw someone asking if we could change the background
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: of the window so we could see sunny SoCal.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you, nope.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Does not exist. We do have mountains in the background.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: We do have mountains in the background, but it is
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: cloudy and gray. And the furniture land on the corner. Yeah.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Now that I've opened the curtain, we have a terrible
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: mixture of color temperatures because the lights are extremely yellow
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: and the light outside is like very white. And now
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: the media person inside me is extremely bothered by that.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So you're welcome, everyone. All right. Somebody was asking about
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the pressure on Lincoln Riley and USC. Like, this is
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: a new game. for USC.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: And that's another thing that is interesting is, and I
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: think we talked about this earlier in the week, what
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: kind of fight does USC have in this and how
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: much are they fighting for their head coach?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Because, again, they are 6-2. They're very much in the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: playoff hunt.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: A win here will put you very much into the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: playoff hunt as long as you don't lose again. And
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: even if you do lose again, this is going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: be one of the best wins of the season.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So it can carry a lot of weight. Yeah, this is,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: if USC wins this game, They're seven and two, right?
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: And then they have a win over, you know, what
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: is currently the number two team in the nation. All
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, then you, they still have to play.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: They have a week off. Then they have to play Indiana,
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: which is, you know, we'll see what Indiana looks like today.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: That's another kind of question mark. Indiana certainly looks beatable
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: right now. We'll see if anyone can beat them, but
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: they certainly look beatable right now. And then at the
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: end of the year, you got USC or UCLA, which
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: is on its second slash third quarterback. which rivalry game,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: it's certainly, you know, that's certainly not out of the
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: realm of possibility. If you run the table, you're, you're
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: in like, I mean, you're comfortably in. So the question
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I think is if you, if USC, this goes back
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to what I was saying earlier, if USC gets off
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: to a reasonably good start and starts to bleed, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: then you can sort of, you can, you know, you're,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: you've got a big offense, a freshman quarterback, but then
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: maybe Ohio state has to get a little predictable and
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: you can sort of tee off on him.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: That's when things could sort of snowball the other direction.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: It's just it's.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Ohio State needs to find a way to give USC
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: a reason to quit, because I think that's a possibility.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: If Ohio State's up by 10, like if we want
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: to be real honest about things, Lincoln Riley teams don't
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: always have a.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Whole lot of heart.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: If we want to be real honest about things like culturally,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I don't think he does a great job building a program.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And they always it's like, boy, they sure are talented.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And oh, boy, the offense and how.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Well, which of which is your favorite Lincoln Riley college
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: football playoff win of all time? I can't personally I
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: can't choose. Yeah, but it feels like he is just
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: his teams are constantly the not ready for primetime players.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Like it's just they can man, they can make Oregon
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: State or, you know, I was going to say Rutgers,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: but they didn't even make Rutgers look bad this year.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: You know, they can make the lesser teams look bad,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: but you get to a certain level of the sport
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: and it's just like, nope. 4-0-4, offense not bound.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, even Louisiana scored 30 against him. But
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley's claim to fame as the Heisman's, I think
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: his most glaring accomplishment is the second year with Caleb
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Williams when they did nothing and were exposed repeatedly.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And that's just kind of what his progress has been.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Although I'm thinking a win here or next week, And
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: they make the playoffs at nine and three with a
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: win over UCLA. They can, again, he could get back
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: to his Oklahoma roots of being a, an easy win
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: for somebody in the playoffs.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Well, and what does the average USC fan want today?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Like I can, I can tell you that there are to.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Go to the beach. Well, they go anywhere. Yeah. Dave
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: K says, what's the itinerary for you guys? I hear
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: there's lots to do in LA.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Sure is.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: And yet, and yet we're going to a football game,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: believe it or not, despite all the things there are
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: to do in LA. Uh, I think as a Columbus
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Blue Jackets fan, I can tell you there are seasons
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: at the end where like, no, you idiots lose this game.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: The franchise would be much better off if you lose
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: this game. That's the only time they win. As a
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Mets fan, it's like, boy, same, extremely same just with
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: a higher payroll. I wonder if there are USC fans
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: who are just kind of like, we're kind of done
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: here with this whole thing. And if you lose this game,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: going into a bye week, like, he might have a
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: different head coach for the Indiana game in a couple weeks,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: and he might be coaching Baylor next season.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Like, that feels like a really likely scenario where if
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season doesn't go great, he might
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: want to go reset the clock.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: On the counter to that, Tom, if Ohio State, they
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: want to try to make USC quit, they can be
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: aggressive in the first quarter, and you try to knock
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: them out first quarter. If that doesn't happen, what's the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: plan then? Like, you've got to have a plan after
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: that as well. It's like, there was a second quarter?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, no.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: So it's like, yes, this is a multi-tiered plan. You
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: try to knock them out and make them quit in
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the first quarter and then you go from there. But
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: if that doesn't happen, you're prepared for step two on
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: this period plan. I took a photo down in the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: hotel lobby of all the things to do.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: In Los Angeles. I sent it to you.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay. I will.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Okay. All the different things that there are
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: All right. I will.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Boy. I will see if we can add that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: All of the different opportunities to go and sightsee and
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: be a part of, see parts of history, experience culture
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: like you've never cultured before, the ability to have your
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: senses heightened. to experience the unbelievable, the unprecedented, the opportunity
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to gaze upon the Hollywood Hills, perhaps see homes of
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: dense celebrities or live celebrities. I think I've said everything
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: that there is to.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Do in this town. And I didn't even mention the beach.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: There's plenty of beaches. There's a river made of smiths,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: which is amazing. You can race cars down it. I've
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: seen that in movies. Yeah, there it is. The list
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: of things you can do in Los Angeles.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Now, it reminds me of Gatlinburg. is it more of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: a Gatlinburg or is it more of a pigeon forage?
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Is Los Angeles the Gatlinburg of Southern California or is
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: that San Diego and LA is the pigeon forages?
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe it depends on what part of LA. Like if
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: you're in the fancy part, that's more of a Gatlinburg.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: And the pigeon forage is more of the rustic, you know,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: like we were in old Pasadena. That's more of the Gatlinburg.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Or that's more pigeon forage where, you know, it's a
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: little bit slower. And all of the things to do there,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: it's amazing.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I would recommend being here for three hours during the
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: day without being somewhere else.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a... See, we had fun yesterday. We did.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I see Emily follows one or both of us on
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: social media because she... I'm going to pull up the
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: photo real quick.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: What we did... What we did with our time yesterday.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: It was very constructive.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 1: We were driving around.
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  Speaker 3: We had a little bit of time. We'd finished what
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: we needed to do. We had a little bit of
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: time before we could check into our new hotel for tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And I said to Tony, Tony, we're in Los Angeles.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: The whole city is in front.
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  Speaker 2: Wait till you see how many brochures there are.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Anything you want to do, buddy. What do you want
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: to do to kill an hour? And he said, rate
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: a bunch of us. And it was immediate. It wasn't like,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Let me consider this. It was, I have been waiting
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: my entire life for you to ask me this question.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And so we went to see the Brady Bunch house.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, it was a total joke answer.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know that it was on the back
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: lot of something, some studio or whatever. Well, yeah.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: And then the thing is, it's like 15 minutes from
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: where our hotel is, like on the way to our hotel.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: From where we were. And a nice little neighborhood.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: And we were not the only people there golfing and
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: taking photos, rest assured. Just like at the Goonies house,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: we were not the only people there. And then we
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: spent the rest of the day. What other houses can
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: we drive by and take photos of?
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: The best suggestion that I got on Twitter was Craig's
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: house from Friday, which is unfortunately like way South of here. We're,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: we're way up on the North side of Los Angeles.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: We're not terribly far from Pasadena. We went out and
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: met members of our site out in Pasadena last night,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: but yeah, the Craig's house from Friday was an incredible shout.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: And I, We have a couple hours between when we
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: get kicked out of this hotel and when we go.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not saying we're not going.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying we're going to Craig's house from Friday,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: but I'm not saying it either. So we have the
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Back to the Future house is unfortunately like 30 minutes
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: north of here, which is not the right direction.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot of good choices. I just wish
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: there were more TV houses. Yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: The Wonder Years house, not far away, but really not
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that recognizable.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I will find the photo from the Goonies
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: house because we did that while we were out. That's
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: actually in a story in Washington, but we did that
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: while we were out in the Oregon game a couple
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: of years ago. I'll send that one. Maybe I will
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: if my phone works. I will send that one. Put
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: that on the screen in just a second. But yeah,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: we have, believe it or not, we're kind of.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: What's a nice way to say lame dorks? What's the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: best way to say that?
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: You see other people on the beach, they're tweeting their
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: pictures from the beach or whatever, you know?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Like, we're in Manhattan Beach, we're on this beach or whatever.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: We're at the Brady Bunch house. Johnny Five from Short
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Circuit lived here. That is also in a story. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: can go to the beach. I can go to a
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: beach in Columbus. You can. So, like, I can't go
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to a house in Columbus. The Brady Bumps lived in it.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: That's true. I can't go to a house in Columbus
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: where the Goonies were.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: That's also true. You can't go to a house in
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: LA like that either. Well, now AirDrop is failing me.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Tony?
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Well, not the first time I've been disappointed by those
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: around me. Yes, there you go.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just here to talk about houses, frankly, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: what else we can see.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: But with the.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: what we're expecting to be an aggressive defense from Ohio State.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: So I think this could be a big game for
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Christian Allegro. Big game for Ronnie Pettyjohn. Christian Allegro famously
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: watched the USC-Wisconsin game live last week and was very
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: excited to see.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: His boys, former Badger boys, getting after him.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: And he believes that Matt Patricia will be able to
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: borrow some of what he saw in that game. So
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I think this is an opportunity for Christian Allegro to
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: maybe have some, like, I don't want to say side
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: bets with former teammates, but here's some side bets and
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: former teammates.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I'm getting after the quarterback. That's a, yeah. I don't
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: know that you want to put that out there.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: I think, uh, Texas tech has a quarterback for a
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: different quarterback than they might have otherwise. Yes.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Friendly. Yes. No one's, no one's saying that
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: they need to have extreme stakes. Just yes. Um, that's
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: where we should go for dinner. Extreme stakes. Yes. Yes.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It's LA. They have everything. They sure do.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Uh, we, I saw, uh, someone in the comments mentioning
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: the Christmas story house that is up in Cleveland.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: So that's a, uh, that's, that's something we could certainly
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: go check out. The championship game is there in a
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: couple of years. Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Could be who do that.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I've never been to Cleveland for the Christmas story.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I've actually been to Cleveland once or twice. Not to,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: not to.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Brag that that is the Goonies house there for Astoria,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Washington from our, from our.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Visit up there. Um, and yes, it is, it is a, uh,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: It is a museum that the.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I guess the Brady Bunch house, you can take tours there.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: We had not planned it out well enough to actually
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: get in there and take tours, but they've redone it
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: to make it look like the actual Brady Bunch house.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Yes. Kudos to them. Like you want to maintain history.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: They should do this with like the White House or
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: like other, like make it back like the way it was.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: When it was created and intended for history. I saw
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: somebody ask about the weather.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Still looking like, Like it doesn't get to a 50%
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: chance of rain until seven o'clock or so.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't still want to be surprised if there's some sprinkles.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: There's been sprinkles the first two days we've been here.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but nothing major, nothing.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: You have to hit the, you have to hit the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: wipers every once in a while for a little bit. Yeah.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: I'll, I'll put the updated weather forecast up there for everyone.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Just cause again, I know.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: No wind, no winds. No, it's, It's perfectly fine. This is.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Not anything that's going to completely change anything. We're going
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: to put the forecast up for one second, and then
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: we are going to bring in an extremely special guest.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: The most special guest that we could possibly have.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm intrigued. Hang on.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I put a second picture of the Goody's house in
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the show. That's not what I meant to do.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: The special guest is waiting, Tom. Is it Sloth? I
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: hope it's Sloth. It's Halloween.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Everything should be sponsored by Baby Ruth today. There is
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: your local forecast for the evening in Los Angeles. Game
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: starts at 4.30 local time.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: So these are all L.A. time.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: But a few showers, a few showers, one one-hundredth of
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: an inch, it's like going to sprinkle. So this is
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: not wind. This is not going to be that, boy,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: they have to really wipe off the ball after every
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: snap or anything like that.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: This is just... It's going to sprinkle a little bit.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: It might be enough to keep USC fans away because
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: I think USC fans are maybe looking for a reason
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: to stay.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Away at this point. But yeah, boy, you know, I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: could go to the beach. That's the important thing. I could.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: There's so much to do here in L.A.