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Ross Fulton Analysis: Why Isn't Julian Sayin Throwing To Open Receivers? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, October 15th. I'm
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  Speaker 1: welcome in Ross Fulton. He's one of the scheme insiders
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  Speaker 1: at buckeyeinsiders.com. We're going to be talking about the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State offense. against Maryland with a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: look ahead to the Indiana game because we know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's already thinking about that one. Ross, we're going to start, though,
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  Speaker 1: before we even get into the plays, I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about quarterback play. And, you know, there's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of criticism of Julian saying not seeing open receivers
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  Speaker 1: on plays. And there's, I think, a couple reasons that
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  Speaker 1: we should get into explaining why that is. One is
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  Speaker 1: that you know where he is compared to where the
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  Speaker 1: TV cameras are. There's a reason that they don't review
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  Speaker 1: field level film for, for all 22, but also progressions
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  Speaker 1: and helping people understand the concept of progressions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And so when you.
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  Speaker 3: Plays like certain plays are designed to go just to
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  Speaker 3: one receiver, you know, or like there's a, but.
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  Speaker 2: Most past concepts are progression based.
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  Speaker 3: And by that, depending on the coverage, you have a
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  Speaker 3: read of, you know, one, two, three, four, five, you know?
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  Speaker 3: So it's like, if it's cover three, then I know
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to, you know, read the safety and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to look to, you know, the shallow cross to the,
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  Speaker 3: to the end or, you know, et cetera. And so,
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  Speaker 3: as you said, you're not seeing, this is not Madden.
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  Speaker 3: You're not getting to sit up top and push a
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  Speaker 3: button and throw it to any receiver. Like you're on
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  Speaker 3: the field, things are moving quickly. And so you need
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  Speaker 3: to look to like this route where you're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how you're trained, like, This is the coverage based on
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  Speaker 3: like where the safeties are.
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  Speaker 2: And then this is what I'm reading out, you know?
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  Speaker 3: And so to, to use an example, like the first
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith touchdown, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mesh concept.
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  Speaker 3: And so like, we've talked about mesh many times, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you get the two shallow crosses, you get the sit route.
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  Speaker 2: Behind it and a wheel route.
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  Speaker 3: And the way I think Ohio state ran mesh quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit on against Maryland. We hadn't really seen it
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  Speaker 3: so much this year because Maryland, even when they're in zone,
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  Speaker 3: they're carrying that wheel route, like they're running back out
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  Speaker 3: of the backfield. And so that basically clears out that
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  Speaker 3: curl flat player. And so that one shallow cross come open.
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  Speaker 3: But so like, you know, on that touchdown, right? Maryland
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  Speaker 3: is in a cover three, so 3D, four under. And
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  Speaker 3: you can see from the end zone angle, basically how
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  Speaker 3: Julian Sane is reading out. And usually how you play
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  Speaker 3: read mash is you look to that wheel route first
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  Speaker 3: and you can see him turn his head. Maryland carries
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  Speaker 3: that wheel route. um, he then, then you go through
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  Speaker 3: your shallow crosses. So you look at the deeper shallow cross.
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  Speaker 3: So that's, you know, they're in 12 personnel and they are, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and so you're looking at Nate Roberts and then he
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  Speaker 3: comes back and then your third read is Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 3: And if, if that second shallow cross is also not open,
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  Speaker 3: then you go to that sit route in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the field. And so I know on this plan particular,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people have talked about that, uh, post
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  Speaker 3: and saying Brock Boyd was open. I, I really like,
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  Speaker 3: even when I look at it, I, people maybe have
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  Speaker 3: different definitions of open than I do.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I mean, I, I watch this a lot. Like
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  Speaker 2: to me, that's not like screaming. He's wide open.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I suppose even if he was the read, you
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  Speaker 3: could throw it to the corner of the end zone
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  Speaker 3: and maybe Boyd would beat that safety to the ball
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  Speaker 3: or corner to the ball. Um, But I do not
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  Speaker 3: think that is the read on this play. I think
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  Speaker 3: that post route is really just to clear out space.
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  Speaker 3: And it's basically a decoy, for lack of a better word. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you could tag that in theory again. Like,
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  Speaker 3: so when I was talking about, like, you know, progression,
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  Speaker 3: like you can tag something, right? And that sort of
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  Speaker 3: changes the progressions or like has the quarterback look at
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  Speaker 3: this particular route first. But just based on the way
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  Speaker 3: that Sands is moving, I don't think that's the case.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think he's looking at that wheel. It's
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  Speaker 3: covered because the guys, as I said, the curl flat
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  Speaker 3: defender and cover three is carrying that. Goes to Roberts,
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  Speaker 3: comes back to Smith. And so this play actually, to me,
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  Speaker 3: works exactly how it's intended because that curl flat, the
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  Speaker 3: zone defender and cover three that would be sitting there
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  Speaker 3: in the flat is 30 yards downfield with the running back.
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  Speaker 3: And so that creates an open, easy throw to Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: Smith who then obviously does the rest. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more complicated. You have to know the
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  Speaker 3: progressions of the concept to know whether the quarterback turned
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  Speaker 3: down a throw that he should have made, or whether
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  Speaker 3: it's just a route that's not either not in the
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  Speaker 3: progression at all, or like maybe the fourth or fifth option.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no reason to get there because the, an
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  Speaker 3: earlier option is open.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go back to mesh for our second play.
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  Speaker 1: This one, Maryland defends a little better than they did
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  Speaker 1: the first.
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  Speaker 3: And they really just do it because of pressure, right?
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  Speaker 3: This actually works exactly the same way. And so, again,
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  Speaker 3: you can sort of see the progression because you get
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  Speaker 3: that wheel route. In theory, again, this one to me
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  Speaker 3: is a little bit more arguable. Maybe that wheel route
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  Speaker 3: is open. Maryland's carrying it, but in theory, he has
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  Speaker 3: some space to throw it. But really, just like Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: Smith on the last one, Brock Boyd comes wide open because, again,
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  Speaker 3: that curl flat defender is carrying the running back. Um,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, the bigger issue is, and this obviously
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  Speaker 3: gets to the Indiana situation, which is, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: basically Maryland does like a, uh, tackle twist up front.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And gets pressure, um, not helped by, you know, Ian
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  Speaker 3: Moore has a few struggles. Um, his, he rides his
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  Speaker 3: defender of field. I do think though that if saying
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  Speaker 3: if like, if Ohio state had picked up the twist
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  Speaker 3: saying could have stepped up in the pocket, um, And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as I said, like Boyd's wide open. But
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  Speaker 3: obviously he's not able to, the fumble happens because you
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  Speaker 3: can see from the back end zone angle that Sane
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  Speaker 3: is trying to hit Nate Roberts there once they go
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  Speaker 3: into scramble drill mode and he's open as 32 for Maryland,
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  Speaker 3: like comes up to play the Sane as a runner.
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  Speaker 3: But again, I think obviously like we talked about, let
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  Speaker 3: me go back to my video last year. You can go,
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  Speaker 3: you know, For those interested, like on X, Balmanac, good follow,
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  Speaker 3: has done a ton of like breaking down Indiana's, you know, scheme,
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  Speaker 3: defensive scheme. But again, you're going to get lots of
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  Speaker 3: movement up front, lots of slants, twists, you know, lots
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  Speaker 3: of creepers or you bring four, but one's a back
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  Speaker 3: seven defender and you drop into a zone coverage look,
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  Speaker 3: you know, cover two or cover three. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, as we've talked about, has had some struggles
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  Speaker 3: in pass protection, picking up stunts and twists. And like,
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  Speaker 3: here's a good example where You know, Luke Montgomery, they're
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  Speaker 3: sliding forward to the right and then Ian Moore's to
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  Speaker 3: the left, right? So Justin Whitlatch just talks a lot
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  Speaker 3: about this kind of protection. And so Luke Montgomery just
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  Speaker 3: gets too locked onto that at first. The design, right,
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  Speaker 3: is to shoot that right defensive tackle between the guard
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  Speaker 3: and the center so that the other one can loop around. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're hoping for this as a defense, right,
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  Speaker 3: that the left guard gets locked onto that first line
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  Speaker 3: the tackle that goes first instead of the looper can
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  Speaker 3: come free.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, this is just another example.
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  Speaker 3: They got to keep their eyes up and play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: trade guys off and pick up defenders because it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be incumbent on them. I mean, you can't expect perfection.
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  Speaker 3: I'm certainly, you know, there'll be, I'm sure, times against
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  Speaker 3: IU that they don't pick things up and, like, that's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. Again, just like I was saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'll keep saying, like, perfection just doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: Like this is a, you know, a complex game. There's
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  Speaker 2: lots of plays.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, no one's perfect, but like, you know, they're going
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  Speaker 3: to have to do a good job of picking this
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  Speaker 3: stuff up. And I, I do think they're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to help out the protection. And we can talk
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  Speaker 3: about this with, you know, spreading Indiana out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: quick game and RPOs.
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  Speaker 1: Next one. There's a lot of similarities thematically to the last, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the last play. You've got one that Ian Moore probably
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  Speaker 1: did not enjoy watching on film on Sunday. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Julian saying, dealing with some pressure. You've got a Nate
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  Speaker 1: Roberts is a key part of the read and you've
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  Speaker 1: got an air raid concept instead of mesh. We're going
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  Speaker 1: four verts here. This is the long touchdown to Nate Roberts.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, as you said, not, not a great
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  Speaker 3: tackle rep. I do think that, um, Julian's saying maybe
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  Speaker 3: with the exception of the screen on third and 20
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  Speaker 3: to Legend Bay. Again, if you watch that one, if
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  Speaker 3: you get a view of Ryan Day after that play,
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  Speaker 3: he is not very happy because saying, you know, sort
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  Speaker 3: of rushed the throw and sort of threw it falling
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  Speaker 3: backwards to avoid the pressure instead of like stepping up.
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  Speaker 2: And if he'd hit Bay there, may have been a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, like since the Texas game, like,
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  Speaker 3: julian saying like he's really stood in there and he's
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  Speaker 3: taken a lot of shots and he's taking shots in
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  Speaker 3: this service of like of hitting throws and this is
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  Speaker 3: a really good design again like you know sort of
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  Speaker 3: been a uh beating a dead horse about this but
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  Speaker 3: like the 12 personnel does accomplish some things for you
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  Speaker 3: which is why even though their usage of 11 personnel
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  Speaker 3: this year is actually much higher than last year like
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  Speaker 3: there's reasons that they're going to um a lot of
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  Speaker 3: 12 and You know, so here you're more likely just
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  Speaker 3: as Maryland does here, especially with like the double Y offs.
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  Speaker 3: Usually when tight ends are in the backfield like this,
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  Speaker 3: especially they're like a defense is thinking of them more
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  Speaker 3: as run blockers and less as immediate vertical threats. And
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  Speaker 3: so they get what they want here, which is a
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  Speaker 3: cover three look and they run forwards. As you said,
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  Speaker 3: so like forwards, it's as simplest against cover three, you
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  Speaker 3: have four deep routes and only three deep defenders.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so this middle of the field safety has to
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  Speaker 3: basically choose between the two tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why Nate Roberts is so wide open. So
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  Speaker 2: nice design.
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  Speaker 3: I do think on Saturday, there was, it seemed like
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  Speaker 3: more of an emphasis on 12 personnel and less on
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  Speaker 3: moving Jeremiah Smith around, less on RPOs. I do think
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  Speaker 3: that there was a little bit of a rope-a-dope, for
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  Speaker 3: lack of a better term, just to sort of like
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  Speaker 3: try to set Indiana up because I do think they
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  Speaker 3: want to probably use more of the ladder against the Hoosiers. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, by putting this up on film, obviously India
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  Speaker 3: has to prepare and it is valuable when you can,
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  Speaker 3: you know, dictate coverages to the defense.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So if they are going to be leaning
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  Speaker 1: on RPOs this weekend, we're going to talk about those
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. And then on the next couple of plays,
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  Speaker 1: first one, you have this marked out i was looking
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  Speaker 1: at the diagram you've got this marked out in terms
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  Speaker 1: of who they're reading i think that's kind of interesting
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  Speaker 1: because i don't know how much we've talked about that
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  Speaker 1: who they're actually reading on these rpos because you know
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  Speaker 1: we talk about okay you're gonna you're gonna make your
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  Speaker 1: decision you're gonna hand it off you're gonna pull it
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna run it you're gonna throw it whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is but you're not reading the same guy every time
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  Speaker 1: so that can present some challenges for the.
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  Speaker 3: Defense yeah exactly and so on this one um So
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  Speaker 3: this is a pin and pull outside zone. And I
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  Speaker 3: haven't really seen this from Ohio State this year. This
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  Speaker 3: again was like a nice design because you're doing this,
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  Speaker 3: what's called trip snub, right? So you have the three
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  Speaker 3: wide receivers to the field and then a tight end
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  Speaker 3: to the boundary. And it forces the defense to adjust like,
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  Speaker 3: you can cause otherwise that corner that I have sort
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  Speaker 3: of circled down there is in for support.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so you can, a defense, you either can like
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  Speaker 3: flip your corners around or, or bring a safety down
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  Speaker 3: and make a corner play deep. Actually we saw Ohio
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  Speaker 3: state did that.
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  Speaker 2: It's Maryland.
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  Speaker 3: They put it against a similar look, put Devin Sanchez
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  Speaker 3: as the deep safety and had, or a little down.
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  Speaker 3: So they basically flipped roles to avoid this because, and
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  Speaker 3: then pin and pull is a form of outside zone,
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  Speaker 3: but instead of everyone zone blocking, um, people who are uncovered.
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  Speaker 3: So if you don't have a defensive lineman over you,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to pull and lead. And then the rest,
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  Speaker 3: if you're covered, you're blocking back. And again, you see,
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  Speaker 3: you have an RPO here. You have a bubble. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I actually think like I, there may have even been
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  Speaker 3: situations on Saturday where these were fake RPOs in the
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  Speaker 3: sense that like Julian saying was not having the option
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  Speaker 3: to pull because you do have three over two here
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  Speaker 3: in theory, I guess you could say three over three
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  Speaker 3: with that deep safety, but you know, the bubble would,
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  Speaker 3: to Jeremiah Smith, I think, is there. But be that
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  Speaker 3: as it may, like, this is well-designed. Obviously, you get
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  Speaker 3: Jacoby Jackson to the second level. Yeah, I know, again,
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  Speaker 3: people have talked about this play. It would be nice
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  Speaker 3: to see him beat the safety one-on-one. We're talking about, like,
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  Speaker 3: explosiveness out of the run game. Like, both Jacoby and Bo,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll show Bo here in a little bit, like,
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  Speaker 3: are running really hard. Like, there's definitely going to uptake
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  Speaker 3: in yards after a contact and, you know, turning three
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  Speaker 3: or four into five or six.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, there's still.
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  Speaker 3: don't quite have that explosive element with the exception of
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  Speaker 3: the one short yardage run by Bo Jackson. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think at this point it's probably, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: can create explosiveness out of the pass game. So I
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  Speaker 3: think it's probably a little bit much to expect it
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  Speaker 3: at this point from the run game, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: you'd still like to see it, but either way, like
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  Speaker 3: I do think this design we'll see again because it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's really effective like pin and pull with this trips
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  Speaker 3: and I'll block to run, you know, reliefs and or RPOs.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's really good with like a backside planter out
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next up, we're going to keep this very
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  Speaker 1: thematically similar. Another RPO, another handoff, another not explosive, but
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  Speaker 1: plenty of yards. You know, not plenty, but enough yards
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  Speaker 1: after contact to probably keep the coaching staff happy here.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State is running inside zone very well. They have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and again, as I said, I think the
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  Speaker 3: second half was the hardest I've seen Bo Jackson run
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  Speaker 3: and probably like the best he's been as a runner.
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  Speaker 3: particularly in terms of yards after contact. But I was surprised.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at this, he has that backside glance
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  Speaker 3: route to Jeremiah Smith. This is basically the same concept
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  Speaker 3: that he pulled and threw against Iowa when there was
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  Speaker 3: lots of complaints about him throwing into triple coverage, quote-unquote.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked about that one. I'm pretty surprised that
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  Speaker 2: he did not pull this.
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  Speaker 3: Part of me is like, maybe there's been too much
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  Speaker 3: complaining about Julian saying, you know, pulling and throwing to
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith. And like he was trying not to do
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  Speaker 3: that on Saturday. Or as I said, maybe they were
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  Speaker 3: just sort of like turning off the RPOs because they
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  Speaker 3: want to, you know, not have Indiana so focused on that.
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  Speaker 3: Because I do think like the key for them on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday is to hit these throws. Because again, so like,
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  Speaker 3: as you said, he's reading, you know, have that little
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  Speaker 3: square around that overhang, right? And in theory, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the overhang does sit So that might be
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  Speaker 3: his read.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he kind of trickles down.
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  Speaker 3: And more importantly, looking at those safeties, there's just a
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  Speaker 3: lot of grass for Jeremiah Smith. And so, again, I
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  Speaker 3: just think that on Saturday, it's going to be really important.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is where they're going to create their
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  Speaker 3: chunk plays out of getting the spread out and hitting
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  Speaker 3: these throws, especially to keep ahead of the chain so
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  Speaker 3: you avoid some of those Sim pressures where Indiana likes
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  Speaker 3: to put three defensive linemen on one side, bring pressure
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  Speaker 3: opposite those guys, drop one of them out, and run
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  Speaker 3: cover two or cover three. The run game has definitely
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  Speaker 3: made significant strides.
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  Speaker 2: You can see it here.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of the running backs, yards after contact, the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line on these zone combinations is doing a much
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  Speaker 3: better job getting to the second level. I showed a
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  Speaker 3: poor play by Luke Montgomery. That's a really nice job
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  Speaker 3: by him getting to the backside linebacker. You know, Carson
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  Speaker 3: Hinsman doubles up to the frontside linebacker. So it's well blocked.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a successful play, as you said. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I do think they certainly against Maryland left some yards
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  Speaker 3: out there not utilizing, you know, pulling the P.O.
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  Speaker 2: Portion of the of the run pass option. And so
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  Speaker 2: I think that'll be pretty important on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And something else that'll be important on Saturday is taking
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  Speaker 1: the easy stuff. It will not necessarily be as easy
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  Speaker 1: against Indiana as it was against Maryland. But Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: feels like that one of the themes to his season
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  Speaker 1: is he can make anything look easy. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the ways he can do that is by if the
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  Speaker 1: opponent has to play off or you're not, you don't
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  Speaker 1: trust your guys to play press coverage against him and
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  Speaker 1: they're playing off, that can open up some really easy
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  Speaker 1: throws underneath.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like this is not, you know, a, a big
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  Speaker 3: play or anything like that. But in watching them, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think they need more of this, particularly
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  Speaker 3: Indiana again, like likes to run a lot of cover three,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they'll run 3d 400 creepers, right. Where again,
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  Speaker 3: they'll bring like a linebacker, drop a defensive lineman. So
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  Speaker 3: you do get this off coverage. And so just as
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  Speaker 3: with the RPOs, like I think this quick game or
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  Speaker 3: timing routes, um, well, you know, keep ahead of the chains,
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  Speaker 3: take some pressure off the offensive line with some of these,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stunts and movements. Like if the ball is
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  Speaker 3: getting out of your hand, uh, the, obviously there's less
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  Speaker 3: time for those to get home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I certainly do think Ohio state will take a shots
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday, but I just think they're going to also
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  Speaker 3: need more of this sort of these rhythm throws, particularly
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  Speaker 3: on early downs.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So there you go. A quick look at
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the offense against Maryland and some of the things, the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: concepts that you may be looking at as pretty important
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