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5 Things We Learned From Ohio State's 56-0 Blowout Over Western Michigan · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, September ninth,
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Speaker 1: from your host tom Or the Marshall game in thirteen
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Speaker 1: days the game against Michigan in eighty three days. Ohio
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Speaker 1: State did not take very long, not a matter of days,
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Speaker 1: not even really a matter of hours to put away
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Speaker 1: the Western Michigan Broncos. On Saturday night at Ohio Stadium,
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Speaker 1: Buckeyes polish off the Broncos with a.
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Speaker 2: Fifty six to nothing win.
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Speaker 1: Darn near had seven hundred yards of total offense, held
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Speaker 1: Western Michigan to ninety nine yards of total offense. One
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Speaker 1: of the more impressive just all around performances that I
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Speaker 1: can remember from Ohio State in the last few years.
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Speaker 3: Kevin Noon, It's one of these games that fifty six
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Speaker 3: nothing doesn't serve the story well enough because Ohio State
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Speaker 3: just really had Western Michigan on the ropes to begin with,
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Speaker 3: came out and scored on its first couple of three drives. Really,
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Speaker 3: the only hiccup that was in the game was starting
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Speaker 3: off the third quarter. Ohio State was a little slow
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Speaker 3: getting out of the gates in the third quarter, but
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Speaker 3: you know, once again, they kind of did it just
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Speaker 3: about every possible way. I mean, maybe short of having
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Speaker 3: multiple defensive scores or whatever, but I mean it was
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Speaker 3: a it was a complete team win. I think they're
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Speaker 3: gonna be a good number of players that are gonna
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Speaker 3: be enjoying that champions meal, which we can only dream about.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a delicious carving station there. But Ohio
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Speaker 3: State goes into open Week number one, two and zero,
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Speaker 3: giving up a grand total of six points over eight quarters.
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Speaker 1: And you said it, I mean fifty six nothing, And
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Speaker 1: it really probably could have and should have been much
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Speaker 1: worse than that. The number I always look at is
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Speaker 1: everg yards per play. Ohio State gave up two point
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Speaker 1: one yards per play. Multiply that times four. It is
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Speaker 1: not a first down. Ohio State gained on offense nine
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Speaker 1: point five yards per play, so that is not technically
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Speaker 1: a first down every time they snapped the ball, but
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Speaker 1: it's pretty darn close. So and that really kind of
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Speaker 1: sums it up because I guess, let's start with the offense.
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Speaker 2: Feels like we always start with the offense. We'll start
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Speaker 2: with the offense.
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Speaker 1: Will Howard eighteen to twenty six, two hundred ninety two yards,
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Speaker 1: one touchdown, But then also Rent for a touchdown, and
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Speaker 1: then on the ground, quin Shawn Judkins nine carries one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eight yards, two touchdowns, averaged twelve yards of carry,
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Speaker 1: and had a seventy something yarder called back on a
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Speaker 1: penalty that I know some of the folks in our
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Speaker 1: live chat after the game were not super enamored with
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Speaker 1: the league call. Yeah, but this was a game where
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Speaker 1: just about everything went just about the way you would
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Speaker 1: think Ryan Day drew it up on offense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And you know you and and let me
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Speaker 3: edit you there, Chip Kelly, Well, yes, Ryandy would have
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Speaker 3: drawn yes, ye, sorry, yes did Chip Kelly. And this
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Speaker 3: game felt to be a little bit more had a
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Speaker 3: better flow than the Akron game, in my opinion, And
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Speaker 3: we could sit there and try to really parse things
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Speaker 3: with the Acron game, It's like, well, why is this
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Speaker 3: game so much better? I just think this game was
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Speaker 3: a lot more smooth. I think that Ohio State was
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Speaker 3: able to really impose its will a lot more. And
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Speaker 3: I think there was just a diversity of things that
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Speaker 3: Ohio State was able to accomplish. And you sit there
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Speaker 3: and you look, I mean they had what like they
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Speaker 3: had five six rushing touchdowns. I mean It just we've
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Speaker 3: been so far removed of Ohio State coming out and
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Speaker 3: having a real dominating rushing game.
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Speaker 2: They run for two.
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Speaker 3: Seventy three in this game, as Tom had mentioned, just
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Speaker 3: shy have seven hundred total yards across the board. It
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Speaker 3: just was this is what the offense was supposed to.
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Speaker 3: Feel like, this was what was missing entirely in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty three, and I think why Ohio State felt a
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Speaker 3: little bit short of multiple goals. I think that this
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Speaker 3: was the big thing. And doing this without Donovan Jackson
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Speaker 3: once again.
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Speaker 2: And doing this really starts up front.
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Speaker 1: When Ohio State struggled last week, everyone sort of looked
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Speaker 1: at the offensive line and went.
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Speaker 2: Haha, there's the problem.
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Speaker 1: We did an hour of Live Buckeye Weekly post game
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Speaker 1: show and right at the end kind of thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: we haven't talked about the offensive line yet.
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Speaker 2: It just, I it's like long snappers.
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Speaker 1: If you're not noticing them a lot of times, that's
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Speaker 1: really good. Felt like this was an offensive line that
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Speaker 1: held true to the old truism that you improve the
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Speaker 1: most between week one and week two. That looked like
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Speaker 1: a very different offensive line from week one to week
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Speaker 1: two exactly.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they were getting a better push. I think
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Speaker 2: that they were just they.
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Speaker 3: Were able to do things that they didn't necessarily get
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Speaker 3: accomplished in in in in Week one and Ohio State
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Speaker 3: I think did a did some inside zone, did some
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Speaker 3: outside zone. They they really were able to kind of
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Speaker 3: flex the muscle. But I I really feel that the
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Speaker 3: offensive line did a a really good job. I think,
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm just I'm going to kind of circle
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Speaker 3: the first six minutes, seven minutes of the third quarter,
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Speaker 3: I think everything kind of yeah, we're we're in pretty
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Speaker 3: good shape. I mean, they were up thirty five nothing
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Speaker 3: going into the locker room. I think that everybody kind
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Speaker 3: of expected to see the backups a little sooner, but
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Speaker 3: Ryan Dade, his credit, wanted to keep his starters out
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Speaker 3: there so they could end on a positive note, which
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Speaker 3: they did, and then Ohio State was able to cycle
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Speaker 3: through two.
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Speaker 1: More quarterbacks and played Devin Brown five of five for
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Speaker 1: fifty seven yards. Julian Sayin makes his Ohio State debut
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Speaker 1: two of two sixty one yards, a fifty what five
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Speaker 1: yard touchdown to Bennett Christian on a fourth and one play,
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Speaker 1: and then actually did play four quarterbacks.
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Speaker 2: Lincoln Keyholes did play a little.
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Speaker 1: Bit in that final drive as well, So just all
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Speaker 1: around about as well as you could have drawn it up.
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Speaker 1: One thing that I did think was notable. They rotated
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Speaker 1: on both sides. The ball really rotated guys in. You
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Speaker 1: saw guys playing, You saw younger guys playing in the
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Speaker 1: first half, you saw guys playing in the late first quarter,
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Speaker 1: early second quarter who are not starters and you know
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Speaker 1: you are. They will rotate on the defensive line sometimes.
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Speaker 1: But it felt like that was very intentional where you
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Speaker 1: were seeing Bryson Rodgers out there with the wide receivers
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Speaker 1: very early. That that's one of these things that, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it didn't necessarily make a huge difference in the game
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Speaker 1: on Saturday night, but it feels like that might be
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Speaker 1: something that sets them up for some more success down
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Speaker 1: the road.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you want to be able to get these guys
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Speaker 3: that opportunity, especially players that already who have red shirted,
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Speaker 3: like a Bryson Rodgers or somebody like that. Bryson Rodgers,
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Speaker 3: don't forget entered the portal, exited the portal to stay
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Speaker 3: at Ohio State. I think that that was a great decision.
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Speaker 3: Gives Ohio State some more depth there. I think Bryson
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Speaker 3: Rodgers is somebody that that could play in the first quarter,
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Speaker 3: could play in the second quarter. He certainly has that.
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Speaker 3: I know we haven't necessarily jumped to the defense yet,
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Speaker 3: but we ended up seeing a lot of Jermaine Matthews
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Speaker 3: and that was because Denzel Burke got the old heave
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Speaker 3: ho on a targeting call. So it's just that depth
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Speaker 3: and being able to get them experience serves two purposes.
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Speaker 3: First of all, it's going to be a long season.
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Speaker 3: If Ohio States as good as we think it is,
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Speaker 3: sixteen games, that's going to be a lot more games
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Speaker 3: than they've ever played before.
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Speaker 2: It's better to have that out there.
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Speaker 3: But secondly, and more importantly, I think it gives you
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Speaker 3: an advantage in twenty five because how many times do
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Speaker 3: we sit here at the beginning of the season and say, well,
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Speaker 3: Ohio State's very inexperienced at ABC and D them. Get
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Speaker 3: these guys ABC and D experience now and then when
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Speaker 3: Ohio State has a mass exodus because it's a very
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Speaker 3: senior laden team, you're not sitting there looking at each
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Speaker 3: other and side, well, does anybody know the direction to
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Speaker 3: the field.
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Speaker 1: And one of the spots where they have got a
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Speaker 1: chance that gotten a chance to play a younger guy
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Speaker 1: is at left guard. You mentioned earlier Donovan Jackson sat
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Speaker 1: the game out. He was available for the game. I
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Speaker 1: think that was a very precautionary thing, and it makes
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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Know, you got a week off
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Speaker 1: and then you get week to get ready for Marshall,
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Speaker 1: So it makes a lot of sense if he's not
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Speaker 1: one hundred one hundred to one hundred percent. If this
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Speaker 1: was Michigan, he's probably played.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: It was sort of Michigan, a little a little west
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Speaker 1: of that, but it was a Michigan. It was a Michigan.
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Speaker 1: It was not the Michigan, so there was no real
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Speaker 1: reason to push it. You did, however, see the return
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Speaker 1: of Cody Simon. He was another guy who was available
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Speaker 1: and then immediately made his impact. Felt you know, he's
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Speaker 1: great to see him out there. He's obviously well respected
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Speaker 1: with the team, being the block over sipping to the captain.
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Speaker 1: And it took I don't know what two three plays
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Speaker 1: and boom used you found Cody Simon out.
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Speaker 2: There real quick.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that it was just great
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Speaker 3: for Cody to get out there and be able to
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Speaker 3: rock that blocko jersey for the first time. I think
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Speaker 3: it was great for Ohio State to get him back.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously we're we're looking at how all these
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Speaker 3: rotations at linebacker are working out. I mean, what does
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Speaker 3: that mean for What does that mean for CJ.
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Speaker 2: Hicks?
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Speaker 3: What does that mean for Sunny Styles? What does that
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Speaker 3: mean for Gay Powers? And so on and so on.
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Speaker 3: But you know, Cody is somebody that has always been there,
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Speaker 3: you know, kind of you know, playing the playing a
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Speaker 3: backup to the mic, but also kind of the third
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Speaker 3: backer when it was Tommy and when it was Steel
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Speaker 3: and now it's kind of I don't want to say
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Speaker 3: it's his defense because this defense is so good.
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Speaker 2: It's not any one player.
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Speaker 3: It's like, well, this is the guy I'm focusing in on.
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Speaker 3: And during the livebuck I Weekly recap that we had
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Speaker 3: after the game, there were a lot of people talking
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Speaker 3: about I normally would focus on on Jack or JT.
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Speaker 3: But now there's just so much to watch out there
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Speaker 3: defensively that you know, I just don't focus on one player,
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Speaker 3: right where would.
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Speaker 2: You want to focus?
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Speaker 1: Because Jack Sawyer has been immensely talented and immensely impactful.
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Speaker 2: Earlier in the season, you saw that from j T. Twemlowell.
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Speaker 1: You see that from Tyler Williams in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the line, the linebackers, you're seeing it from, you seeing
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Speaker 1: it from the corners. You've seen last week was the
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Speaker 1: Leathan Ransom show. Tonight it was Caleb Downs made multiple,
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Speaker 1: multiple impactful plays. Yeah, there is not one spot there is.
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Speaker 1: There is not a spot where you can just kind
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Speaker 1: of go, yeah, you go after that guy.
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Speaker 2: Michigan.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I will not be breaking news to anyone here,
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Speaker 1: but Michigan did not have a very good time on
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Speaker 1: Saturday against Texas.
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Speaker 2: Texas just looked.
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Speaker 1: At when where Will Johnson was and went, Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: we're just not gonna throw it there, We're gonna throw
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Speaker 1: it to the other side of the field.
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Speaker 2: And there was no answer there.
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Speaker 1: Quinn Ewers had a big day and it and it
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Speaker 1: was not you know, Will Johnson can be as great
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Speaker 1: as he wants to be, and you can have Mason
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Speaker 1: Graham and Kenneth Grant and the interior defensive line, but
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of other guys out there and.
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Speaker 3: Texas is down to running backs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah that the Texas and missing their
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Speaker 1: two defensive tackles from the from last season, who were
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Speaker 1: you know, really the stars and the defense and just
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Speaker 1: thumped Michigan that that was no doubt or out of Texas.
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Speaker 2: And so for for Ohio State.
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Speaker 1: To have to not necessarily have that, yeah, you're good there,
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Speaker 1: but dot dot dot, that's that's a big reason why
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Speaker 1: they were so effective under one hundred yards of total offense.
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Speaker 1: But we did this on the Buckeye Weekly Show, but
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it again here just because just here's.
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Speaker 2: The drives for Western Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Okay, there are gonna be two that stand out and
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Speaker 1: a whole lot that sounds similar. Three plays minus one yard,
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Speaker 1: eleven plays fifty five yards that ended up with a
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Speaker 1: field goal attempt that dooinked. Three plays nine yards, three
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Speaker 1: plays twelve yards, three plays seven yards, three plays six yards,
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Speaker 1: seven plays twenty yards, one play one yard that was
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Speaker 1: the half. Three plays negative seventeen yards, three plays nine yards,
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Speaker 1: three plays six yards, three plays five yards, three plays
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Speaker 1: two yards. They just they never got I mean, we've
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Speaker 1: talked about teams not being able to get out of
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Speaker 1: second gear or out of first gear. They didn't get
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Speaker 1: at they didn't get the parking break. Disengaged for most
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Speaker 1: of the game.
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Speaker 3: They only had five drives in the second half. I
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Speaker 3: mean when you sit there and you look at that, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: they just really had no answer. And I know they
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Speaker 3: lost an offensive lineman along the way. I think it
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Speaker 3: was their center, But again, that doesn't necess necessarily changed
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Speaker 3: the entire makeup of the team. And this is the
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Speaker 3: same team that gave Wisconsin fits, that gave Wisconsin fits
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Speaker 3: four quarter game all the way through. You know, Western
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Speaker 3: still had a chance to win it at the end,
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Speaker 3: and Ohio State just kind of sat there and it's
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Speaker 3: like just shoved them out of the way, and it's
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Speaker 3: just like we're doing what we want to do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there was just there was no answer at
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Speaker 1: all from Western Michigan. They had in the second half
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Speaker 1: fifteen plays for five.
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Speaker 2: Total yards five five yards.
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Speaker 1: After the game, Lance Taylor, the Western Michigan coach, talked
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Speaker 1: about the fact that they did not play as well
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Speaker 1: as they played the week before.
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Speaker 2: Losing an offensive lineman is obviously hashtag abby yeah.
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Speaker 1: No kidding, but they they losing an offensive lineman obviously
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Speaker 1: is a part of that. But that was that was
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Speaker 1: not an offense that well, if you just hadn't lost
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Speaker 1: the offensive lineman you would have had seventeen points.
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Speaker 2: That was as well. Maybe you would have gotten a
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Speaker 2: first down in the.
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Speaker 3: Second half, But do you think maybe some of those
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Speaker 3: threes would have been fives and sixes and sevens. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we don't know. We don't have a crystal ball for that.
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Speaker 2: So yeah.
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Speaker 1: So that was That was about as thorough a whooping
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Speaker 1: as you're gonna see, laid on a pretty good, pretty
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Speaker 1: good team because it was a This was Sometimes there's
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Speaker 1: a fifty six nothing where the score doesn't tell the
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Speaker 1: true story because it's like, well, the game kind of
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Speaker 1: got out of hand, Like the Alabama game was like
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Speaker 1: that was very close with South Florida into the fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter and then Alabama did winning something from forty to sixteen.
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Speaker 2: And you look at it, you're like, oh, they had
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Speaker 2: had it and all the way it's.
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Speaker 3: Like and the laser voters will sit there and just
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Speaker 3: be like, oh, it was just business as usual.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was.
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Speaker 1: This was a fifty six nothing that was probably worse
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Speaker 1: than the scoreboard would have indicated. So now the buck
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Speaker 1: guy's head into their week off, we will have plenty
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Speaker 1: of coverage looking back at this game, looking ahead at
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Speaker 1: what's what is still to come. Looking at boy, we
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Speaker 1: might get a chance to do a show or two
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Speaker 1: on the national college football picture, and it is a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a dishevel picture right now. There are
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Speaker 1: some teams that look great in week one, look terrible
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Speaker 1: in week two, and vice versa, and trying to make
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Speaker 1: some sense of all of that for you.
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