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What Ryan Day Saw With The Ohio State Run Game At Illinois · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. From Monday, October thirteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Or the Wisconsin game in five days,
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  Speaker 1: dot com. On today's show, you're going to get to
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  Speaker 1: hear a little bit from Ohio State head coach Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 1: get his thoughts after the buckeyes thirty four to sixteen
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  Speaker 1: win at Illinois on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting stuff. Kind of a weird game a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes felt like they were kind of always in control,
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  Speaker 1: but also you came away and I think there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who were not completely satisfied with
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  Speaker 1: how that game went. So going to sear Ryan Day's
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that. First of all, let's just start with
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  Speaker 1: some overall thoughts. He was asked about, you know, was
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  Speaker 1: this a little bit of a slow start for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll hear him kind of push back on that.
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  Speaker 1: I will also let you know the audio set up at.
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  Speaker 2: Illinois was a little bit weird.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason. There were some loud background noise that
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  Speaker 1: came through the at one point. So you're gonna if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching this, you're gonna see a couple of quick
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  Speaker 1: edits in the video that's just sort of sort of
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  Speaker 1: mitigate some of those weird issues. There will be another
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  Speaker 1: edit and one of the clips a little later on
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of a same the same kind of deal,
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  Speaker 1: So you go. Ryan Day's thoughts were the Buckeyes off
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  Speaker 1: go a little bit of a slow start in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first drive was a field goal. Was the
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  Speaker 3: second drive the touchdown? Yeah, So I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it's a slow start. I mean a slow
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  Speaker 3: start would probably be two three and outs. I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we did start fast. We didn't quite convert
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  Speaker 3: down there. It's the first drive, but I thought on
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  Speaker 3: on the road.
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  Speaker 4: It was a good first drive.
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  Speaker 3: We always want to score fushdowns, but sort of set
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  Speaker 3: the tone some physicality, and then we came right back
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  Speaker 3: down and scored on the next drive, so I thought
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  Speaker 3: that was good. We kicked the field goal again and
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  Speaker 3: then we hit another touchdown, So you know, to be
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  Speaker 3: you know, twenty to three going into halftime against you know,
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  Speaker 3: a good opponent, and you know, we all know that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, coming to a noon kickoff, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: conference against a very good team eleven am kickoff, we
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  Speaker 3: all know, the concern is that, you know, you show
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  Speaker 3: up and you don't have a lot of energy. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that was the case at all. I thought
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  Speaker 3: we did come in with good energy. I like the
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  Speaker 3: way we played early quite honestly. Was it all perfect though,
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  Speaker 3: But they're a good team. That's kind of how it goes,
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  Speaker 3: and we all expect perfection, including me. But and I
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  Speaker 3: thought we played well there, you know, towards the end
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  Speaker 3: of the third into the fourth, and then we we
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  Speaker 3: took our foot off the pedal a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: lost our focus. But it's a good sign when you
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  Speaker 3: have to go into a locker room after a win
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  Speaker 3: like this and kind of, you know, make sure everybody
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  Speaker 3: understands what a great win it was, because I think
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  Speaker 3: we all felt like we left a little bit on
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  Speaker 3: the field. But all that being said, I thought the
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  Speaker 3: effort was excellent, and you know, I like to look
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  Speaker 3: in our eye defense created a bunch of turnovers, which
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  Speaker 3: when that happens, the chances of winning are going to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, obviously in our favor. And then it feels like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on offense, when the balls you know, in
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  Speaker 3: plus territory the majority of the day like that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: certainly good things are going to happen. I did feel
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  Speaker 3: like we were in control of the game and again
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  Speaker 3: put our you know, kind of lost our focus at
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  Speaker 3: the end. But a good win on the road against
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  Speaker 3: the team that we have a lot of respect for.
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  Speaker 1: Earn from Ryan Day on the lack of explosive plays
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  Speaker 1: in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the thing that was tricky was it's a good thing,
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  Speaker 3: but we were in plus territory a lot. It's hard
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  Speaker 3: to be explosive as you get into you know, the
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  Speaker 3: plus twenty five area because as you know, the field
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  Speaker 3: gets gets pulled down and then you know, when we
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  Speaker 3: were a little bit towards midfield, they were playing it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more coverage. And again that goes back
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  Speaker 3: to the unselfishness of our team and understanding what needs
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  Speaker 3: to get done. And there's a lot of plays that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to want to want back. But I thought
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of good physical runs down there
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  Speaker 3: where we had to We punched the ball in and
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  Speaker 3: like you said, did we had to do to win
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 4: That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: One of the big storylines pregame was the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Lorenzo Styles Junior, who was someone who that we had
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  Speaker 1: sort of highlighted as a really crucial player in his
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  Speaker 1: one on one matchup with with Illinois talented slot receiver
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  Speaker 1: Hank Baby, he was not available for the game. He
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  Speaker 1: was out for the games. That meant the backus had
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  Speaker 1: to move Jermaine Matthews inside to Nickel and then put
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  Speaker 1: true freshman Devin Sanchez outside. So how did all that go?
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  Speaker 1: And Sanchez, you know, I'll let you know he gave
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  Speaker 1: up a few completions, but again remind you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he is a true freshman.
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  Speaker 3: I think the first thing is, you know, the only
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  Speaker 3: way to grow is to is to you know, go
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  Speaker 3: through experiences like that.
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  Speaker 4: And he's right there.
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  Speaker 3: So the coverage is good and he's only going to
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  Speaker 3: get better with his experience and you have to play
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  Speaker 3: through that. But for Jermaine to move inside the way
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  Speaker 3: he did, he says a lot about his preparation because
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  Speaker 3: it's one it's one thing to go through a walk through.
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  Speaker 4: It's another thing to go through practice.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're now a nickel and you have to
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  Speaker 3: now fit the run, you have to you know, hit
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  Speaker 3: the blitzeres, the coverage. Everything happens a little bit faster
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  Speaker 3: when you get closer to the ball. And so for
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  Speaker 3: him to be able to do that and play the
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  Speaker 3: way he did says a lot about his preparation. But
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  Speaker 3: also give credit to to Tim Walton and the work
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  Speaker 3: that they did during the week. That was well done.
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  Speaker 3: You know, hopefully we can get Lorenzo back for next week.
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  Speaker 3: But depth is going to get challenged. And we've talked
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  Speaker 3: a lot about this is when you have multiple guys
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  Speaker 3: who can play multiple positions, that's that's creating depth.
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  Speaker 4: You know, good sign for Jermaine.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that people were not particularly thrilled
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  Speaker 1: about on Saturday was how the buck eyes ran the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Bo Jackson ten carries forty seven yards.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay. CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Donaldson thirteen carries forty four yards. That's okay. So is
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  Speaker 1: that a concern right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're running physical. You know, we'll look
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  Speaker 3: and see if there are some things that you know,
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  Speaker 3: if there was more there because you know, we always
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  Speaker 3: want to you know, gain eight nine yards of carry
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  Speaker 3: when you get tight tight in the red zone. Some
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  Speaker 3: of those the expectations of those you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: be four more, but we want to be four more
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  Speaker 3: in every run, you know, outside of the ten yard line.
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  Speaker 3: And you know we need to go and look to
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  Speaker 3: see is it a blocking issue? Is there a personnel issue?
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  Speaker 3: Are we are we blocking? And then you know, just
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  Speaker 3: getting what we blocked for. We got to look at
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  Speaker 3: all those things. But I thought the offensive line was
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  Speaker 3: moving people today when I watched the iPad. I'll have
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  Speaker 3: to go back and watch the film. I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: were moving the line of scrimmage. There were some blocks
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  Speaker 3: that we lost across the board, and then got to
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  Speaker 3: figure out if making sure that the runs are hitting
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  Speaker 3: exactly right, because some did, but others. I thought maybe
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  Speaker 3: there was more there that we need to figure out
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  Speaker 3: why that is.
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  Speaker 1: For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the
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  Speaker 1: message boards and on Twitter and all that kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff on Saturday, this was of course a game on
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  Speaker 1: the road against a ranked opponent that the Buckeyes won
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  Speaker 1: by eighteen points. So even with all that, you know
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  Speaker 1: what do you learn about your young guys when you
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  Speaker 1: have them go on the road and opportunity to face
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  Speaker 1: a ranked team in a hostile environment? Like, what do
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  Speaker 1: you learn about your young guys in those kind of circumstances.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one thing is, you know, we keep pushing them
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  Speaker 3: about being consistent in their approach, and.
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  Speaker 4: So far we've got that. But it's a long road.
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  Speaker 4: We're only halfway through the season.
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  Speaker 3: I think the guys who we didn't know about going
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  Speaker 3: into the season, they've now proven that they belong. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: now what do we want this team to look like
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  Speaker 3: as we continue to grow and build.
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  Speaker 4: So that's all been good.
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  Speaker 3: And they they're competitive, they're edgy, they like these type
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  Speaker 3: of environments, and they want to be great and they
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  Speaker 3: expect to be great.
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  Speaker 4: They expect to win all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And as much as I was on them about growing
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  Speaker 3: up and maturing, you are seeing a pretty mature group.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're starting to learn really what it takes
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  Speaker 3: and they're pulling for each other.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the last thing is, and this is.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be a challenge for every team in a country,
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  Speaker 3: including ours, is just as time goes on, everyone has
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  Speaker 3: expectations when they come into a game. When they're not
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  Speaker 3: met it's easy to start pulling in different directions and
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  Speaker 3: that selfishness.
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  Speaker 4: And I think our guys are very unselfish.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're coming together as a team and that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be one of the things that we have
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  Speaker 3: to make sure as an advantage for us.
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  Speaker 1: And then we want to take a quick look at
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  Speaker 1: the wide receivers and really in particular Jeremiah Smith. Neither
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  Speaker 1: he nor Carnell Tate had a very big game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Five catches forty two yards and a touchdown for Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: four catches forty one yards for Carnel Tait. There was
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  Speaker 1: one play where Jeremiah Smith took a handoff look like
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  Speaker 1: it might be going somewhere, and then the play got
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  Speaker 1: stopped for really no gain. Jeremiah went off holding his
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  Speaker 1: lower back. I think I'll have a lot of Ohio
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  Speaker 1: statesments for maybe kind of holding their breath at that point.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up coming back in and scoring a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: so sort of an owl's well that ends well situation.
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  Speaker 1: But what does that show Ryan Day to have Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Smith leave the game, be a little bit banged up maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but be able to just come right back in and
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  Speaker 1: make a real positive impact on the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Jeremiah is is, I can't say enough about him,
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  Speaker 3: about Carnel in a game like this, we found ourselves
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  Speaker 3: down in there a lot and ran the ball a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and and they're into it just like everybody else. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they want to they want to look like last week
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  Speaker 3: every week. But when when when you have a team
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  Speaker 3: that understands what needs to get done.
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  Speaker 4: That's when you have a chance to be special. And
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  Speaker 4: he's a tough player.
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  Speaker 3: On that play, you know, we had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: really have an explay and they sally had two guys
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  Speaker 3: there to block. One didn't happen, and so he ended
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  Speaker 3: up taking a shot that we don't want to see happen,
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  Speaker 3: but he was able to recover.
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  Speaker 4: He's a tough player.
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  Speaker 1: So that will do it for the Ohio State Illinois recap.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to our buddy Ross Fulton, the ex's and
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  Speaker 1: osguru at buckeyehuddle dot com a little later on in
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  Speaker 1: the week get you some more in depth schematic breakdown
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  Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff. But oh boy, it was
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  Speaker 1: an eventful weekend elsewhere in the Big Ten Michigan lost
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  Speaker 1: to USC Tony and I'll have our Michigan Monday show
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  Speaker 1: for you out looking at that and what that means
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  Speaker 1: for the Wolverines and Sharon Moore. Penn State lost to Northwestern,
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  Speaker 1: third straight loss, second straight loss to a massive underdog,
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  Speaker 1: and James Franklin on Sunday said goodbye. He got fired
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  Speaker 1: by Penn State. Tony and I did an hour live
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  Speaker 1: show breaking down all that, what it could mean for
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming Penn State Ohio State game, as well as
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  Speaker 1: who might be next at Penn State, where James Franklin
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  Speaker 1: might be headed next, and much more. You can find
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  Speaker 1: that on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed and of course
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  Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel as well YouTube dot com slash
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  Speaker 1: Buckey Huddle.
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  Speaker 2: That'll loo it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 2: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to tomorrow