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Ryan Day Breaks Down What Went Wrong For The Buckeyes At USC · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday, November 2nd. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes are back home following their loss to USC out
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  Speaker 1: on the West Coast on Saturday night. Now they get
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  Speaker 1: a turn the page to the Oregon Ducks. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a game that before the season looked like it
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  Speaker 1: might be a top five matchup, one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: of the entire college football regular season. And instead, it
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  Speaker 1: pairs number 11 Ohio State against unranked Oregon Ducks in
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  Speaker 1: the others receiving votes category in this week's AP poll,
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  Speaker 1: but just outside the top 25. So before we officially
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  Speaker 1: turn the page to that, we're going to take a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a look back at Saturday night Against USC,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess a number of Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 1: sort of turned off the TV and discussed at the
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  Speaker 1: end of that game, did not stick around to watch
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day's post-game press conference. So here you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to hear a little bit from the
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  Speaker 1: head coach, some of the stuff he had to talk
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  Speaker 1: about after the game. First question was about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that all week there'd been all this conversation about rallying
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  Speaker 1: around the young quarterback, making his first career start. And then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everyone, it felt like Luke Fahey played fine.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was kind of everyone else around him,
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  Speaker 1: almost everyone else at least, who kind of failed, found
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  Speaker 1: some way to come up short in some different areas.
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  Speaker 1: So after all the talk about, you know, supporting the
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  Speaker 1: young quarterback and doing what they can to make his
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  Speaker 1: job easier, what the heck happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's extremely frustrating, you know, coming to a game
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  Speaker 2: like this with a young quarterback and not play cleaner
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  Speaker 2: than we did. Just too many penalties. I think we
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  Speaker 2: find ourselves down in those red zone situations. We just,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't able to execute very well and play clean.
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  Speaker 2: And then the penalties were not good. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when we got that one drive going, we fumbled on offense,
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  Speaker 2: turned that ball over. I think for Luke, he competed. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't perfect. But, you know, we had
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  Speaker 2: some big, huge drops. And we weren't able to help
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  Speaker 2: him down there. So I thought he competed his tail
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  Speaker 2: off in there. We'll look at the film and recognize Luke.
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  Speaker 2: the things that we've got to improve on in terms of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for him and what we can do to
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  Speaker 2: put him in a better situation. But, you know, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was times we ran the ball well.
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  Speaker 2: We had over 200 yards rushing, but it was just
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  Speaker 2: too many mistakes overall. And in a game, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: that you can't afford to do that. And that's, to me, the.
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  Speaker 1: Tale of the tape. The game started really badly on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Second play of the game, a 69-yard touchdown pass for USC.
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  Speaker 1: and the Buckeyes just never quite caught up after that.
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  Speaker 1: But there were a couple big plays they gave up
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  Speaker 1: on defense, and USC was able to move the ball
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  Speaker 1: at least somewhat consistently. Did Brian Day get a sense
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  Speaker 1: that there was maybe a lack of focus on the defense?
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  Speaker 2: I think when you look back on it, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be probably, what, like three or four plays overall
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  Speaker 2: on defense. I think they had like 50-some-odd plays for
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  Speaker 2: 300-some yards, and the second play, or first play, what
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  Speaker 2: was it, second play of the game went for, what, 75, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: 69 yards. So I mean, right there, that's almost a
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  Speaker 2: third of the offense. And then you had the long
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  Speaker 2: one to the tight end. And, yeah, that was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: We're going for the punch out there. We just got
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  Speaker 2: to get them on the ground around the 40-yard line
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  Speaker 2: and live to see another snap. So those were big.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was explosive plays that we haven't really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, given up a lot of. But that's the
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  Speaker 2: story there. And, you know, I don't remember how many.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they ran for 116 yards rushing. to our 200. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when, when you look at the game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you recognize that the turnover was huge. Um, there was
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  Speaker 2: a couple of special teams plays that, that flipped the
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  Speaker 2: field and then, um, and then the explosive plays that
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  Speaker 2: they had on offense and that, that's really the story. But, um, yeah, it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we, we had some guys battling in there.
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  Speaker 2: We had some guys kind of playing some new spots and,
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  Speaker 2: but that's, that's the game, you know, and, and guys
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  Speaker 2: got to step up, but, I thought we were practicing well.
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  Speaker 2: Coming off of a bye week, I'm a moist concern,
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  Speaker 2: but the attitude was good, the effort was good. The
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  Speaker 2: guys were fighting all the way to the end. They
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  Speaker 2: were into it, but there's just way too many mistakes. Certainly,
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  Speaker 2: we all got to recognize why that is and get
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  Speaker 2: it fixed. Again, when you look at penalties, when you
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  Speaker 2: look at turnovers, when you look at drops, to me,
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  Speaker 2: that really is what it comes down to. Then there
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  Speaker 2: was missed tackles as well.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio State defense did not look quite like it
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  Speaker 1: has for a lot of this season, and you have
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  Speaker 1: to wonder about the impact of the absence of true
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  Speaker 1: freshman Jay Timmons. He has been a real standout for
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State at that nickel position, and it didn't take
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  Speaker 1: long for his absence to be noticed on Saturday. Second
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  Speaker 1: play of the game, slot receiver, probably the guy Timmons
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  Speaker 1: would have been covering, ends up going 69 yards for
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown that completely changed the atmosphere inside the Coliseum
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  Speaker 1: and set USA off on the path to win that game.
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  Speaker 1: Timmons has been dealing with a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: nagging injury for a lot of the season. It felt
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  Speaker 1: like he was maybe going to be able to play
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  Speaker 1: in this game and then sort of never quite, he
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  Speaker 1: went from questionable to doubtful to out for Saturday. So
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  Speaker 1: what's the latest on Jay Timmons and how much did
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  Speaker 1: they miss him in that game?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's been one of those injuries that, um,
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  Speaker 2: We held him off for quite a while and wanted
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  Speaker 2: to really make sure that he was back a couple
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago for that game. We probably could have played
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  Speaker 2: the week before. We held him off. We know what
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  Speaker 2: an impact he makes. In a game like this, a
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  Speaker 2: space game like this, we knew it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be important, but he kind of retweaked it in the
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  Speaker 2: Indiana game. He was trying like heck to get back,
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  Speaker 2: but it's one of those injuries where... you know, you
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  Speaker 2: put him back out there, he just resets it again.
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  Speaker 2: And then we start right back from zero again. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: he made some progress late in the week, but it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't enough where our, our doctors and trainers felt like
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  Speaker 2: it was the right thing to do, um, for him. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: the decision was made to hold, to hold them. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't go there with it. Um, yeah, it would
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  Speaker 2: be hard for me to do that. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: just kind of refer to the doctors on it all, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: but there's no question that he's dying to get back
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  Speaker 2: on the field. He's just one of those guys that
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  Speaker 2: wants to play every game. I just listen to the
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  Speaker 2: doctors and whatever they say.
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  Speaker 1: The offense was a little out of whack at times
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  Speaker 1: as well. A bunch of false starts, formation penalties. Was
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  Speaker 1: that a lack of focus on the offensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, or is that just sort of a byproduct
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  Speaker 1: of having a new quarterback starting on the road?
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  Speaker 2: I think having a new quarterback in there did affect
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  Speaker 2: some of it yep we did use some silent we
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  Speaker 2: used some some clap no excuse but you asked why
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  Speaker 2: I think that led to some of it but but
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  Speaker 2: there was other things that the penalties had nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with the fact that you know Luke was in
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  Speaker 2: the game as opposed to Julian so we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to use that as an excuse.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that I think was a common criticism of
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff during the latter portions of that game
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  Speaker 1: was they just felt like they were not playing with
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  Speaker 1: a ton of tempo late in that game. They're down
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  Speaker 1: a couple scores, they go down the field, they do
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  Speaker 1: score a touchdown, but it took quite a while and
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  Speaker 1: it burned a bunch of the fourth quarter to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So is that a function of having a young quarterback
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  Speaker 1: where they're not quite as comfortable with going up tempo
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  Speaker 1: just yet?
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  Speaker 2: Once we were down by the two scores, we knew
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  Speaker 2: we were in that game that we had to go.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't want to panic and just start going into
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  Speaker 2: that with a young quarterback and the game just turn
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  Speaker 2: upside down really fast. The one series there, we went
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  Speaker 2: three and out. It was extremely frustrating. We just weren't
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  Speaker 2: able to get a couple first downs. We felt like
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  Speaker 2: if we got a couple first downs, we were going
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  Speaker 2: to try to pick up the pace as it went,
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  Speaker 2: but we needed to get the first down there. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't get it. We went three and out. And then
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  Speaker 2: once we found ourselves in the two-score game late with,
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  Speaker 2: I think, seven minutes to go, we knew we had
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  Speaker 2: to move quickly, which we did. We moved a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more. We weren't going like breakneck two-minute like we
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  Speaker 2: were in the last drive there, but it was fast
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  Speaker 2: enough that we were efficiently moving it, and it was
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  Speaker 2: able to score a touchdown on it. So we were
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  Speaker 2: able to make that happen with the young quarterback. So
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  Speaker 2: that part was a positive, but in the end, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, looking at that defense, what went wrong for
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  Speaker 1: the defense? Because they gave up a 70-yard play. They
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  Speaker 1: gave up a 69-yard play. Those are big plays that
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  Speaker 1: they have not been giving up most of this season.
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  Speaker 1: So what went wrong on the defensive side of the ball?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I thought the guys played hard. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the look in their eye was good. I'll get on
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  Speaker 2: the film and confirm it. But they were playing with energy.
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  Speaker 2: And when the offense, you have a young quarterback over there,
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  Speaker 2: and they're– they're, you know, sputtering and not scoring touchdowns. Um,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you can, you can feel one side of the
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  Speaker 2: ball start to get frustrated. I didn't feel that at all. Um, from,
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  Speaker 2: from my, my, uh, vantage point, I thought they continued
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  Speaker 2: to work and they were trying to get on off
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  Speaker 2: the field and got some stops. Um, but, but yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they, they, they got some, some real skill
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  Speaker 2: guys in space and we couldn't get it on the ground. Um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the two major plays that really hurt us
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  Speaker 2: in the game. Um, but you know, uh, I, I
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  Speaker 2: thought the plan was sound and what we did and,
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  Speaker 2: Not having Jay had an impact, there's no question. But
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, as a team, we
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  Speaker 2: weren't able to, to me, play well enough to support
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  Speaker 2: a young freshman quarterback who's had his first start on
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  Speaker 2: the road like this.
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