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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, September twenty seventh.
- 0:03Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom Or. The Washington game is two
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- 0:18Speaker 1: dot com, joined by Tody Girderman.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Here on the shores of Lake Washington and.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Tony, I gotta tell you, I am right now planning
- 0:26Speaker 1: my next event, and it involves being on one of
- 0:27Speaker 1: those boats on Saturday.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Cause, man, we did a video.
- 0:32Speaker 1: This morning kind of walking around showing you like, oh,
- 0:33Speaker 1: here's Lake Michigan or Lake Lake Washington, and here's how
- 0:36Speaker 1: far it is.
- 0:37Speaker 3: It's right across.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Basically the street from the stadium, and know how picturesque
- 0:41Speaker 1: it is and all that kind of stuff. And then
- 0:43Speaker 1: now the sun's out and it's warm and it's nice,
- 0:45Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I see why people like going
- 0:48Speaker 1: to going to football games here.
- 0:49Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought you were gonna say you're gonna plan
- 0:51Speaker 4: your next event by asking Grateful Griddle to add Seattle
- 0:54Speaker 4: hot dogs to the menu.
- 0:56Speaker 3: That's a different story.
- 0:57Speaker 1: You'll get that sort you find that story on our
- 0:59Speaker 1: YouTube channel later on.
- 1:00Speaker 3: We'll get to that a little bit later on. But yes,
- 1:03Speaker 3: this is it's everything.
- 1:05Speaker 4: I mean, we haven't seen a game here yet, right,
- 1:07Speaker 4: you got enough going on?
- 1:09Speaker 3: This is very very nice. Yeah, it is. They call
- 1:11Speaker 3: it the I just wrote this this morning.
- 1:14Speaker 1: It's like the greatest scene in college football or the
- 1:16Speaker 1: greatest setting in college football.
- 1:17Speaker 3: That's it.
- 1:18Speaker 1: And yeah, I have not been to every setting in
- 1:21Speaker 1: college football, but this would be pretty high on the list.
- 1:23Speaker 1: So I guess you can see the sale getting boats,
- 1:25Speaker 1: some of them behind me already, and the stadium just
- 1:29Speaker 1: on the other side of us. So we're gonna be
- 1:31Speaker 1: talking less about what's gonna be going on on those boats,
- 1:34Speaker 1: more about what's gonna be going on in that stadium
- 1:36Speaker 1: on Saturday.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Buck guys coming across the country.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Is the number one team in the nation, and the
- 1:41Speaker 1: Washington has only once in its history beating the number
- 1:43Speaker 1: one team in the nation. So you go, okay, so
- 1:45Speaker 1: you figure that's in a mark in Ohio States favor.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Washington has also won twenty two straight.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Football games played in Husky Stadium, you know, and I
- 1:57Speaker 1: know they have. They've looked very good for the most part.
- 1:59Speaker 1: They've up some very impressive stats this year. And I
- 2:01Speaker 1: know they haven't played anybody yet, but still, twenty two
- 2:04Speaker 1: straight home wins is twenty two straight home wins.
- 2:06Speaker 2: That's a okay. This is not going to be a
- 2:09Speaker 2: gimme for Ohio State.
- 2:11Speaker 4: No, And one of the benefits of having that streak
- 2:15Speaker 4: for Ohio State is they're not taking this lightly at all.
- 2:18Speaker 4: They understand all of the teams that have come in
- 2:21Speaker 4: here thinking that they were gonna win that didn't, and
- 2:24Speaker 4: so they're taking all of this very very seriously. And
- 2:28Speaker 4: I fully expect like they have been pumping in noise
- 2:31Speaker 4: for two weeks now and at the Woody, preparing for
- 2:35Speaker 4: this crowd, preparing for the silent count, all of that.
- 2:39Speaker 4: So while it's still gonna take some adjustment, it's not
- 2:42Speaker 4: something they aren't expecting.
- 2:44Speaker 1: No, this is not a big surprise that this stadium
- 2:47Speaker 1: is loud. It's not a big surprise that this is
- 2:49Speaker 1: a tough place to play. It's not a big surprise
- 2:51Speaker 1: that it's a long flight from Columbus to Seattle.
- 2:54Speaker 3: None of this stuff is a surprise. They have done this.
- 2:57Speaker 1: They did a lot of this last year, going out
- 2:59Speaker 1: to Austin Stadium in Eugene a little bit. You know,
- 3:02Speaker 1: you're you're one state south, but it's basically the same
- 3:04Speaker 1: length of flight, it's basically the same level of noise
- 3:08Speaker 1: inside the stadium, and it's basically the same level of
- 3:11Speaker 1: hostility in terms of the stadium. And the Buckeyes put
- 3:14Speaker 1: on a pretty good performance last year last year against
- 3:17Speaker 1: Oregon but fell one point short, and then the rose
- 3:21Speaker 1: will happen, And that's a whole separate conversation. But this,
- 3:23Speaker 1: you know, last year's Oregon team was the number one
- 3:25Speaker 1: team in the country coming out of the regular season,
- 3:28Speaker 1: coming out of the.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Big Ten championship game. Washington is not.
- 3:31Speaker 2: Washington is unranked, Washington is not getting votes in the poll.
- 3:34Speaker 1: They've put up three wins in a row. They've scored
- 3:37Speaker 1: on twenty one consecutive non kneel down possessions. These are
- 3:41Speaker 1: all stats that are crazy stats, regardless of who you've played.
- 3:45Speaker 1: But it also feels like people are kind of looking
- 3:47Speaker 1: at Washington and going, yeah, but I mean, what are
- 3:49Speaker 1: you gonna do against a real team.
- 3:50Speaker 4: Right, it's a lot of waiting to be shown what
- 3:54Speaker 4: it's like against, as you said, a real team, and
- 3:56Speaker 4: this will see what it is against a real team.
- 3:59Speaker 4: Because even when you and I've watched the two games,
- 4:01Speaker 4: we didn't bother watching Cayle Davis. It's it's like, we're like,
- 4:06Speaker 4: this is just three guys on offense basically that you
- 4:08Speaker 4: need to be concerned with, and a defense that gave
- 4:11Speaker 4: up what you know, twenty seven points through three quarters
- 4:13Speaker 4: to Washington State, So you can pick out some flaws
- 4:17Speaker 4: in there, but to say it's only three guys on offense,
- 4:20Speaker 4: those three guys are very very good and very very
- 4:23Speaker 4: dangerous and capable of scoring you know, points against Ohio State.
- 4:29Speaker 4: How many, I don't know. Will it be enough, I
- 4:31Speaker 4: don't know, But none of those three guys are going
- 4:34Speaker 4: to be taken lightly. And even hearing the Ohio State
- 4:37Speaker 4: coaches and players talking about them, those are the three
- 4:40Speaker 4: guys that get mentioned.
- 4:41Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
- 4:41Speaker 1: And those three guys are quarterback de Mont Williams, running
- 4:44Speaker 1: back Jonah Coleman, wide receiver Denzel Boston. And you'll notice
- 4:47Speaker 1: that covers the throwing, the running and detaching and obviously
- 4:51Speaker 1: Jodah Coleman can also touch the ball. We've seen him
- 4:53Speaker 1: be a weapon out of the backfield, and Demond William
- 4:55Speaker 1: can certainly run the ball in addition to throwing it.
- 4:57Speaker 1: So you've got you've kind of got your bases covered.
- 5:00Speaker 1: In terms of Washington, the rest of the offense is
- 5:02Speaker 1: just it's just kind of fine.
- 5:03Speaker 2: It's just kind of there the offensive line.
- 5:05Speaker 1: I think if you're looking at the you know where
- 5:08Speaker 1: might things not go great for Washington. I don't know
- 5:11Speaker 1: how I feel about the matchup of the Ohio State
- 5:13Speaker 1: defensive line and really the defensive front, because it's it's
- 5:16Speaker 1: not just the standard four to three or four to
- 5:18Speaker 1: two that they have played in the past. Doctor Ross
- 5:20Speaker 1: Fulton on yesterday's morning show you heard all about his
- 5:23Speaker 1: expectation in Who's of Ohio State using that penny front
- 5:26Speaker 1: more and sort of so you know, RVL Rees sort
- 5:28Speaker 1: of gets lumped in there to a certain degree. That's
- 5:31Speaker 1: an area where I think Washington could have potentially some
- 5:35Speaker 1: matchup issues. And if Ohio State can kind of contain
- 5:39Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, control of the line of scrimmage,
- 5:41Speaker 1: not let Joan of Coleman really get going, not let
- 5:43Speaker 1: Demond Williams get out of the pocket. That feels like
- 5:46Speaker 1: then Washington's really kind of playing with one or one
- 5:49Speaker 1: and a half hands to tide behind him.
- 5:50Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, But we have seen Ohio State not
- 5:53Speaker 4: dominate against the run. They've been okay, You're gonna need
- 5:57Speaker 4: to be better than okay against this offense because they
- 6:00Speaker 4: have one of the top running backs in a nation
- 6:02Speaker 4: who is very, very difficult to bring down, and then
- 6:04Speaker 4: a quarterback that can go the distance at any point
- 6:07Speaker 4: on a play where you had him stopped, and so
- 6:10Speaker 4: they can get some free, big, cheap yards that are demoralizing,
- 6:15Speaker 4: and then it just gives you another gives you more hope,
- 6:17Speaker 4: gives you another drive, continues that drive. But if you
- 6:21Speaker 4: slow Jonan Coleman down and you contain demand Williams, there's
- 6:27Speaker 4: a certain level to where these are all the points
- 6:29Speaker 4: they can score. And if you slow Jonah Coleman down
- 6:32Speaker 4: and you contain demand Williams, it feels like that caps
- 6:34Speaker 4: out around seventeen or so.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's where I ended up having Washington
- 6:39Speaker 1: in our staff.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Picks I picked up the score seventeen, and if.
- 6:43Speaker 1: You you know, you throw a pick six Okay, sure,
- 6:45Speaker 1: I'm not baking that in. So you throw a pick six,
- 6:47Speaker 1: you get to twenty four, you could, you know, can
- 6:50Speaker 1: they steal a possession?
- 6:51Speaker 3: We've seen that happen a bunch over the over the years.
- 6:54Speaker 1: That certainly something that happened to Ohio State the last
- 6:56Speaker 1: time they were out on the West Coast for a
- 6:58Speaker 1: regular season game. So there's a lot of factors that
- 7:00Speaker 1: could play in here. But one thing that I think
- 7:03Speaker 1: could really go against Washington and go in Ohio States
- 7:06Speaker 1: favor is I'm not sure I'm buying the Washington defense
- 7:10Speaker 1: the Washington offense. Yeah, I'm buying the Washington offense to
- 7:15Speaker 1: a certain degree where I think, yeah, they've got talent,
- 7:17Speaker 1: They're gonna put up some points, they are going to
- 7:19Speaker 1: extend some drives. They're gonna make Ohio State fans get
- 7:21Speaker 1: a little bit annoyed at times on Saturday.
- 7:23Speaker 3: For sure. I don't know what where.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Is the Washington defense like really hanging its hat. They
- 7:29Speaker 1: have spots where I look at the secondary and go
- 7:33Speaker 1: I have some concerns where where does the secondary, where
- 7:36Speaker 1: does the defense on the whole really hang its.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Hat right now?
- 7:39Speaker 4: Exactly because you're also down Buddha Aluta there, one of
- 7:44Speaker 4: their two linebackers, starting linebackers who sometimes he has the
- 7:47Speaker 4: green dots, sometimes it's other people, but he's a very
- 7:50Speaker 4: integral part of the defense and he's should be out.
- 7:53Speaker 4: Jedfish said he was out on Monday, so.
- 7:55Speaker 1: It sounded like that was not a one week thing.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Yeah that was that was a yeah, this is gonna
- 8:00Speaker 1: be a multi month thing probably.
- 8:02Speaker 4: And then to Carrio Davis, one of the starting corners.
- 8:06Speaker 4: Still no good update on that. So is that because
- 8:09Speaker 4: Jenfish is just trying to stay mysterious and he's good
- 8:12Speaker 4: to go, or yeah, we nothing new there because we
- 8:16Speaker 4: still don't know. But this is also a guy he
- 8:17Speaker 4: said on Monday, if he's good to go on Saturday,
- 8:20Speaker 4: they'll play him. And that's without practice throughout the week,
- 8:22Speaker 4: because that's what he means to the defense. As you
- 8:26Speaker 4: remember when we used to talk about James Hardy six
- 8:28Speaker 4: to seven wide receiver James Hardy, anytime you mentioned their
- 8:31Speaker 4: corners Feasians Price sock or it's Carrio Davis six' four
- 8:35Speaker 4: To Carrio davis sixty four A Feasans price, sock but
- 8:39Speaker 4: a banged up corner regardless of size against The Ohio
- 8:43Speaker 4: state passing game is not good and with him, out
- 8:47Speaker 4: not out. There last week Against Washington, State davis was
- 8:50Speaker 4: out also not good for the.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Secondary, yeah you saw They they ended up taking i
- 8:56Speaker 1: think their slot guy and putting him outside and it
- 8:58Speaker 1: did not go. Great he gave up a couple long
- 9:02Speaker 1: passes and then gave up a touchdown as, well ended
- 9:04Speaker 1: up getting.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Yanked got.
- 9:05Speaker 1: Asked jedfish got asked about it On monday at the press,
- 9:08Speaker 1: conference and it was just kind of, like, so when
- 9:12Speaker 1: a guy has a game like, that what do you
- 9:14Speaker 1: say to?
- 9:15Speaker 2: Him and that's not you don't want the what do
- 9:17Speaker 2: you say to a.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Guy who's in this spot, like that's not the conversation
- 9:21Speaker 1: you want to be having With Jeremiah smith And Carnell
- 9:23Speaker 1: tate and that whole crew come in to.
- 9:25Speaker 4: Town, well and Also jedfish, said, well it wasn't entirely his.
- 9:29Speaker 4: Fall there are times where there should have been a
- 9:30Speaker 4: safety over top and there should have been this it
- 9:32Speaker 4: should have been also not good answers, no because oh
- 9:35Speaker 4: so it's not just one. Problem, yes it's two. Problems
- 9:38Speaker 4: it's three. Problems it only takes one problem to be
- 9:41Speaker 4: a huge. Issue And, no it was more than just.
- 9:44Speaker 4: One don't. Worry, yeah it's not Just Lee. Roy so
- 9:46Speaker 4: that's a very very big.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Concern, yeah don't worry about the. Roof the basement's also.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Flooded it's, yeah you have a couple potential issues. There
- 9:55Speaker 1: we'll see where the you, know where things go if
- 9:57Speaker 1: THE Caryo davis plays that certainly is is a big
- 10:00Speaker 1: thing In washington's. FAVOR i talked to us about this
- 10:03Speaker 1: a little bit on yesterday. Show the six four corner
- 10:06Speaker 1: thing is really interesting to me because you just you
- 10:08Speaker 1: never see. That you, Know Davis enigmunosen is a big
- 10:11Speaker 1: corner and he's listed at like six,' one he maybe
- 10:13Speaker 1: six' two. Somewhere around there these guys are both of
- 10:17Speaker 1: them are bigger than that by. A couple inches and
- 10:19Speaker 1: they both are guys Who. Were at arizona, so you
- 10:23Speaker 1: know these are not guys who, are completely unknown but
- 10:25Speaker 1: they're also you, get the sensors probably a reason they
- 10:28Speaker 1: Weren't recruited By texas Or.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Alabama.
- 10:30Speaker 1: Or ohios, date you know you End up at arizona.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Because YOU'RE not SO i think i look AT that
- 10:37Speaker 1: and i go. Six foot four that could present some
- 10:39Speaker 1: interesting matchups in terms of jump balls and that. Kind
- 10:41Speaker 1: of thing but also six foot four feels like that
- 10:45Speaker 1: kind of raises questions about, change, of direction explosiveness short,
- 10:49Speaker 1: area of quickness all that.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Kind of, Stuff, to me.
- 10:51Speaker 4: YEAH and that's, i keep saying there's a reason those
- 10:54Speaker 4: guys AREN'T. In, the, nfl now again they will both,
- 10:57Speaker 4: get their shot but they it Just doesn't have and
- 11:00Speaker 4: so if you're if that body type was not good
- 11:04Speaker 4: enough to BE in the nfl or struggles to BE
- 11:06Speaker 4: in the nfl because of, as you said, change in
- 11:08Speaker 4: direction all, of these things then how are they Gonna
- 11:11Speaker 4: Do against Jeremiah SMITH.
- 11:13Speaker 2: And.
- 11:13Speaker 4: Karen l tay AND that's why i keep, Going, back
- 11:16Speaker 4: to yeah they made this might be an opportunity for
- 11:18Speaker 4: them to look eye To Eye, with jeremiah smith but that's.
- 11:23Speaker 4: Before the snap like, after the snap things are, GONNA change.
- 11:26Speaker 4: There i believe and then we have talked about this on.
- 11:29Speaker 4: A previous Show but the washington defensive, coordinator Was ASKED.
- 11:33Speaker 4: If carrie o, davis can't go can you still do
- 11:36Speaker 4: all the normal stuff you normally what you would. Like
- 11:38Speaker 4: to do the. Answer is, no so again whether he's
- 11:42Speaker 4: out there and banged. Up not great whether he's, not
- 11:45Speaker 4: out there not great even out, THERE and healthy I
- 11:50Speaker 4: Still like ohio state's passing Game over. The, washington secondaries.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Yeah and the Defensive Coordinator. Is ryan walters we've talked
- 11:57Speaker 1: about him a. Bunch this week he is known for you.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Want play man that's what they. Want to do when
- 12:01Speaker 1: he says can they do what they?
- 12:03Speaker 3: Want to do they want.
- 12:04Speaker 1: To play man and so if you get out of your,
- 12:06Speaker 1: comfort you know your, comfort zone there that's not a
- 12:09Speaker 1: defense that's probably going to have an enormous suite of
- 12:12Speaker 1: zone coverages to disguise, and you know, so then okay
- 12:16Speaker 1: you're getting a little more predictable if you're a. LITTLE
- 12:18Speaker 1: more limited i don't know that there's a great answer.
- 12:21Speaker 1: There FOR them So I picked ohio state to win.
- 12:24Speaker 1: THIRTY eight seventeen i think it's a game that could
- 12:27Speaker 1: very well be close for a.
- 12:29Speaker 3: Couple of corps if.
- 12:31Speaker 1: This game is seventeen to ten and a half or,
- 12:33Speaker 1: SOMETHING like that i wouldn't. Be remotely surprised and, If
- 12:35Speaker 1: it Is I'm sure ohio state fans will be pulling.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Their HAIR out but i think this is also a
- 12:40Speaker 1: game where just The Overall talent ohio. State the roster
- 12:43Speaker 1: the talent, On The roster ohio state is going to
- 12:45Speaker 1: you go. Position by position You're Probably taking ohio state
- 12:49Speaker 1: at every position group.
- 12:50Speaker 2: That there is so this is one where the talent probably.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Wins out ultimately but you could certainly, see crowd noise
- 12:57Speaker 1: you get a false.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Starter or two you get, the high chains, it's.
- 13:01Speaker 1: Real loud a young, quarterback that stake what do?
- 13:04Speaker 3: You running back and you can put the ball on
- 13:05Speaker 3: the ground.
- 13:06Speaker 1: Whatever it is you could You Could see ohio state
- 13:08Speaker 1: making a mistake or to.
- 13:10Speaker 3: Keeping this real You know in.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Washington is a talented enough team to.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Keep this close for. Two THREE quarters but i think
- 13:16Speaker 1: ultimately the talent Win's Out.
- 13:17Speaker 2: For.
- 13:17Speaker 4: OHIO state yeah i went thirty four to twenty four
- 13:20Speaker 4: with the reminder to myself that sheould probably always take
- 13:24Speaker 4: one touchdown off the board of what you think it'll
- 13:27Speaker 4: be because of the fewer possessions that we've now. Become
- 13:30Speaker 4: ACCUSTOMED to so i did go thirty four, to twenty
- 13:33Speaker 4: four then wanted to take a Touchdown off of washington's
- 13:36Speaker 4: board and make it thirty. Four TO seventeen but, i
- 13:38Speaker 4: was like, You know what i'll just, go with This and,
- 13:40Speaker 4: if i'm right. Congratulations To me if, i'm way overshot
- 13:44Speaker 4: Congratulations to the buckeyes because they're gonna Walk out of.
- 13:47Speaker 4: Seattle WITH win But i am i'm interested To See
- 13:50Speaker 4: how julian sane. Does in, this you know in terms,
- 13:53Speaker 4: of the noise there's just so many Side quests that
- 13:56Speaker 4: i'm looking forward. TO this one. I can't wait we'll
- 13:58Speaker 4: be talking about it for, a while.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Now for sure this is Definitely a game i've been
- 14:01Speaker 1: looking forward to since the, schedule came out and now
- 14:04Speaker 1: it is almost here again an incredible Setting. Here in
- 14:07Speaker 1: seattle we will have coverage, of, the game obviously but
- 14:11Speaker 1: a coverage of a bunch of other stuff out here
- 14:12Speaker 1: because this is A spot where I Think most ohio
- 14:14Speaker 1: state fans have. Not been before so we are here
- 14:16Speaker 1: to let you know about all the stuff you, maybe haven't,
- 14:18Speaker 1: seen including Yes those famous seattle. Style hot dogs there's cream. Cheese,
- 14:23Speaker 1: on them yeah we took a we went and Did
- 14:27Speaker 1: it to.
- 14:29Speaker 2: I'm sure everyone was, A little like, i don't know.
- 14:31Speaker 3: We did it we're. The brave ones. We'll let you
- 14:33Speaker 3: we'll have that.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Segment for You YouTube Dot com slash buckehetd'll also have
- 14:36Speaker 1: a segment walking around the lake and then walking over,
- 14:40Speaker 1: to the stadium just kind of giving you a sense for.
- 14:42Speaker 1: The campus area and then we will have plenty more
- 14:44Speaker 1: coming up For you. On saturday Morning saturday, morning pacific
- 14:48Speaker 1: time we'll probably have A little Bit Saturday morning east coast.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Time as well we'll get, hit pretty early but have
- 14:54Speaker 1: some behind the scenes stuff, inside the stadium, have some
- 14:57Speaker 1: stuff kind of have a, usual pregame show all, that
- 15:00Speaker 1: fun stuff and then of course our usual live postgame.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Show as well that is all going to be at
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- 15:10Speaker 2: Com as well that'll do. It for today thank you
- 15:12Speaker 2: guys all.
- 15:12Speaker 3: For joining us have. A great day we'll talk. To
- 15:14Speaker 3: you tomorrow