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Ross Fulton Analysis: How Ohio State Changed Things Up On Offense To Crush Tennessee · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes Tomorrow morning for Thursday, December twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixth th Im your host tom Or. The Rose Bowl
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  Speaker 1: game against Oregon is in six days. The game against
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about the Buckeyes offense and
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  Speaker 1: what went right against Tennessee, and that's pretty much it.
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  Speaker 1: Not much went wrong against Tennessee, especially on the offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. We're going to be doing it
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start with the wide Receiver screen game.
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  Speaker 1: This is time we've talked about before. This is just
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  Speaker 1: this is just a numbers game for Ohio State and
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  Speaker 1: it is in numbers games that they have been working
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  Speaker 1: pretty effectively this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is the first play of the game,
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  Speaker 2: but it tells us a lot about what was going
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  Speaker 2: to be going on. Right, So, when we talked about
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee last week, we discussed Tennessee has been principally a
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  Speaker 2: middle of the field closed team.
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  Speaker 3: They run a lot of Cover three and Cover one.
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  Speaker 2: However, Michigan obviously had success against Ohio State with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of split safety quarter quarter half or you know,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about like even the Zoo's concept where they
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  Speaker 2: basically roll Cover two to Jeremiah Smith's side to effectively
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  Speaker 2: double him, right, and so kind of the question coming
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  Speaker 2: in is like which way is Tennessee going to go?
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  Speaker 2: The plan for them clearly was to try to emulate
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  Speaker 2: Michigan as much as they can. I think, you know
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  Speaker 2: as well discuss here the downside of that for a
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  Speaker 2: team when we talk about this, right, like how much
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  Speaker 2: can you just copy what another team does, like you
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  Speaker 2: don't necessarily have the answers built in or like the
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  Speaker 2: intricacies in it. And that came back to bite Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: here because they just didn't have the ability to like
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  Speaker 2: run that kind of like Zo's concept, like We're automatically
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  Speaker 2: going to go cover two to Smith's side to cover
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  Speaker 2: four opposite. But also you know, once you've seen it
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  Speaker 2: and you've had issues with it, like Ohio State had
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  Speaker 2: lots of answers, right, and so we see that right away.
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  Speaker 2: So first first play, they go twelve personnel. So they
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  Speaker 2: ran a lot of two tight ends against Tennessee because
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  Speaker 2: we talked about going in.
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee likes to play a four to three.
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  Speaker 2: In response, they go, they motion Will Cosmeric over and
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  Speaker 2: to go to trips into the boundary and they have
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith singled up to the opposite side of the field.
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  Speaker 2: So again like here, right away they're expecting this Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to play basically a cover two cloud to
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  Speaker 2: Smith's side, giving us cover four opposite it. And so
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  Speaker 2: then they just get Then as you said, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a numbers game. Will Howard is reading the backside Will linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they leave, It's just an inside zone play.
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  Speaker 2: Leave James Pearce the backside defensive unblocked, and you just
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  Speaker 2: the since the Will linebacker stays there, you get the
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  Speaker 2: now screen to the boundary. And so early on we
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  Speaker 2: just see lots of a is prepared against quarter quarter
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  Speaker 2: half or sometimes called cover six, and that that, as
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  Speaker 2: we'll discuss here, quickly chased Tennessee out of trying to
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  Speaker 2: do this, you know, as I said, sort of their
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  Speaker 2: best imitation of Michigan as much as they could. But
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  Speaker 2: you know the problems that we had against Michigan in
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  Speaker 2: terms of not answers for it, they have plenty of
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  Speaker 2: answers ready to go quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And the next one. One of those answers was using
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  Speaker 1: Travian Henderson out of the backfield in the passing game. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know you just said you can't just look with
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  Speaker 1: what other teams did and and just copy it and
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  Speaker 1: control see control via the game plan and dust your
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  Speaker 1: hands off and take a take a week off. But
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  Speaker 1: this is something that we saw Penn State have some
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  Speaker 1: success with, you know, not this exact concept, but using
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  Speaker 1: running backs in the passing game against Oregon. So you
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  Speaker 1: wonder how much this might you know, Travan Henderson in
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  Speaker 1: the past game apply for the Rose Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one thing, like as a general matter,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, talk I know, Manual Excel obviously a
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  Speaker 2: great follow on Blue Sky, talks about this a lot.
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  Speaker 2: College defensive coordinators are just not really adept at covering
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  Speaker 2: running backs out of the backfield, like they just sort
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  Speaker 2: of the default expectation is that you get you're getting
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  Speaker 2: a six man protection scheme in the back is maybe
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  Speaker 2: a check down at best. And in fact, one thing
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  Speaker 2: Chip Kelly said last week going into this game was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of his regrets against Michigan a few times,
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  Speaker 2: particularly like on the second Will Howard interception, was that
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  Speaker 2: they were in a seven man pass protection scheme and
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  Speaker 2: he just didn't have a lot of options available. And
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  Speaker 2: in this game, you saw a lot more five man
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  Speaker 2: pass concepts where you're getting the back out immediately. Now
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  Speaker 2: they did change it up, you know, you still saw
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  Speaker 2: more play action as well and pulling guards and you know,
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  Speaker 2: so they gave them a lot of pass protection looks.
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  Speaker 2: But right away, obviously it was another point of emphasis
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  Speaker 2: to use the running backs in the passing game. And
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  Speaker 2: so again like here we go, like Tennessee's a game
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  Speaker 2: in quarter quarter half and this is a formation that
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  Speaker 2: I will show you a lot here. This is an
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  Speaker 2: open trips look. But the single receiver to the bottom
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  Speaker 2: is the.
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  Speaker 3: Tight end G Scott.
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  Speaker 2: So you have Jeremi Smith, a Mecha Bouka cardinal tape
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  Speaker 2: all to the same side. Again, this is a response
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  Speaker 2: in effect to what Michigan wanted to do right where
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  Speaker 2: they wanted to roll coverage to Jeremi Smith. And so
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  Speaker 2: now you're putting all three wide receivers to the same side.
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  Speaker 2: If this messes a lot without teams because you tend
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  Speaker 2: to the default with trips is you tend to have
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  Speaker 2: your like number one receiver opposite that, like Jeremi Smith.
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  Speaker 2: You know in Ohio States base open trips look would
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  Speaker 2: be the single wide receiver to the bottom, but instead
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  Speaker 2: you're putting all three of those guys together. And so
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  Speaker 2: you know what Tennessee wants to do to that, like
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  Speaker 2: they again run so they're running cover four to the
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  Speaker 2: field it looks like in cover two to the boundary
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  Speaker 2: right like standard quarter quarter half, and they what a
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  Speaker 2: lot of teams will do then is they'll man up
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  Speaker 2: that single receiver side, particularly if you think your corner
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  Speaker 2: can handle it, because then you can push the coverage
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  Speaker 2: to the trip side. But they take advantage of that,
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  Speaker 2: so they use this little quick motion right and Trey
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  Speaker 2: von Henderson basically runs a wheel and I think there's
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  Speaker 2: both a bust on Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There's obviously a lack of communication between that linebacker and
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  Speaker 2: the cornerback because the corner's following him. In theory though
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  Speaker 2: it's covered two, like he should have that flat and
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  Speaker 2: so the linebacker is never going to get over the
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  Speaker 2: top of that.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big hit right away.
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  Speaker 2: But we saw a lot of this use of motion
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  Speaker 2: as well, you know, and then they you know, later
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  Speaker 2: in the game they showed this kind of like Henderson
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  Speaker 2: quick out motion and then come back to run counter,
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  Speaker 2: which they ran a lot of, as we'll discuss. But
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  Speaker 2: again right away you see them like we know we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get a lot of probably quarter quarter a
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  Speaker 2: half after what happeneding is Michigan, but this time we
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  Speaker 2: have answers ready to go for it.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Another thing that is always an answer is
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  Speaker 1: what if he just threw the ball to Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is one of those plays where that
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  Speaker 1: worked out really well. Just a nice RPO play, very
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  Speaker 1: short pass, very nice yards after catch run by Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Next one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so again I think that this game plan
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  Speaker 2: at at a bigger level, was particularly in the passing
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  Speaker 2: game in the RPO game much more vintage Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 2: It felt to me like, at least particularly with the
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  Speaker 2: passing game, that Day had a bigger role in terms
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  Speaker 2: of attack, particularly attacking split safety coverages vertically. But then
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  Speaker 2: also some of these RPO concepts, like this is something
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  Speaker 2: they used to wear out with Marvin Harrison Junior and
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  Speaker 2: it's been a little bit missing uh lately. But they
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  Speaker 2: ran this slide rpo. They ran into Jeremi Smith here,
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  Speaker 2: they ran into a Metca Buca. They ran at one
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  Speaker 2: time to trade down Henderson from split back. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the slide because Tennessee really wasn't playing the backside.
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  Speaker 3: They were attacking the front side of the run. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of times.
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  Speaker 2: They would actually like have the defensive end loop into
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  Speaker 2: the a gap to expect you know, I state it's
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  Speaker 2: based inside zone game, which they did not get much of.
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  Speaker 2: But so this is just an easy way, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to stress coverage like this a cover three. But it's
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  Speaker 2: also just like getting Jeremiah Smith the ball right Like
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice design also because Jeremi Smith's up on
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  Speaker 2: the line a scrimmage, so usually you don't you expect
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  Speaker 2: this kind of route to go to a you know,
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  Speaker 2: either someone off the line of scrimmage, right, but he
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  Speaker 2: comes from on the line, so they probably it's difficult
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  Speaker 2: obviously for Tennessee to adjust, but like looking for different
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  Speaker 2: ways to get in the ball, like as we talked
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  Speaker 2: about post Michigan, like don't just always use him as
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  Speaker 2: the vertical option. And so here we have early on
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  Speaker 2: like getting him the slide rpo in the flat. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this just basically replaces like you can see the defensive
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  Speaker 2: end attack well Howard, it's just another way to essentially
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  Speaker 2: run you know, the backsides constraint of his own replay,
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  Speaker 2: but it gets him the ball in space. So again,
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  Speaker 2: like this is just another example of I think both
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day's influence on this game plan. Instead of getting
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  Speaker 2: back to what you know, you can always say like
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  Speaker 2: where was all this stuff? Like we'll be saying that
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  Speaker 2: twenty years from now. But the good news is right
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  Speaker 2: that they obviously they saw the same thing that all
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  Speaker 2: the points that I was making post Michigan game like,
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  Speaker 2: and you know I'm not saying I like exclusively knew this.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people did.
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  Speaker 2: They picked up the same things too, and so you
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  Speaker 2: see you saw them early, you know, getting back to
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  Speaker 2: what works, both in terms of you know, Brian Day's
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  Speaker 2: new mantra of maximizing your strengths and but also just
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  Speaker 2: like schematically, what attacked some of the things that they
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  Speaker 2: had issues with.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one thing that Tennessee had issues with was every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while they got trapped in some real,
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  Speaker 1: real bad matchups. There was one where they had a
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  Speaker 1: linebacker covering Jeremiah Smith and that was the one where
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  Speaker 1: the TV ref basically had a conniption that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: call past interference and ended up being the interception on
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  Speaker 1: what could have made it twenty eight nothing. This was
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  Speaker 1: another one where it looked like, ohiostate was able to
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  Speaker 1: use their formation, do something a little unusual with their
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  Speaker 1: formation and create a mismatch that led to a really
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  Speaker 1: long completion to Womka buka down the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the other thing, right, I say
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  Speaker 2: it was creating exploit of so like opening drive obviously
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  Speaker 2: hit Jeremiah Smith against like the cover three corner, the
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  Speaker 2: little double move and now you get back like right here,
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  Speaker 2: this is schemed up again. Like to me, this is
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  Speaker 2: classic Day four verticals been sort of missing. We like
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  Speaker 2: talked about how the passing game is a little bit too,
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  Speaker 2: you know, mirrored concepts, a lot of short intermediate stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Here they're attacking split coverages vertically down the field again
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  Speaker 2: and like I sound like a broken record, like against Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: this sort of been helpful to attack those split safeties
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  Speaker 2: of the Mecca Buca down the seam. And but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so again here we go, oh the same open trips look,
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  Speaker 2: which he scott to the bottom. So again Tennessee's trying
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  Speaker 2: to play a similar coverage where they're you know, playing
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  Speaker 2: some type of it almost looks like a bus a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but maybe like some kind of cover four
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  Speaker 2: cover two to the trips. They're trying to get that
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  Speaker 2: backside safety to help. But it's just you know, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, like they tried to come out with this
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  Speaker 2: split safety concept and Ohio say just threw it all
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  Speaker 2: over them doing that because they knew where the holes
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  Speaker 2: were to exploit.
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  Speaker 3: And they attacked them right away.
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  Speaker 2: And after this drive, Tennessee much more went back to
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  Speaker 2: running a lot more of their cover three concepts, which
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  Speaker 2: then Ohio State in turn attack that successfully, which we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to. But these are the kind of routes you
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  Speaker 2: have split safeties attacked on the seam. I agree with you,
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  Speaker 2: Like even on that interception that was you know, cover
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  Speaker 2: two with the linebacker trying to carry jeer My Smith
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  Speaker 2: down the field. I mean that was the equivalent of
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  Speaker 2: the you know, tough Borlan on you know DeVante Smith situation,
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  Speaker 2: So that that was the right throw like kind of
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  Speaker 2: as you said, he drew between the past interference and
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  Speaker 2: you know, pretty miraculous interceptions. Sometimes the right decision doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a good outcome, but it was the right choice.
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  Speaker 2: So these right away they were attacking these split safety
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  Speaker 2: coverages vertically down the scene.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about the use of counter being effective for
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  Speaker 1: a high state, especially in the ground. This is a
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  Speaker 1: great example of counter being very effective for a higher
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  Speaker 1: stated And this was the long Travion Henderson touchdown run
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  Speaker 1: that made it. I think this was what made it
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  Speaker 1: thirty five to ten. I don't know, Ross there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of touchdowns. Things went pretty well for Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State on the offense on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I could This is the only running
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  Speaker 2: play I included because there's so many other things I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to talk about, But I could have clipped you know,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five plays because there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great stuff going on, obviously in interesting things, but this
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  Speaker 2: is by far the most that Ohio States ever run
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  Speaker 2: counter under at least under Day or even Urban Meyer.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you'd probatically have to go back to Jim
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  Speaker 2: Tressel maybe in terms of use of gap schemes. Right,
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  Speaker 2: and so they probably ran encounter at least twelve to
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  Speaker 2: fifteen times in this game. I think I on Blue
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  Speaker 2: Sky during the game used an earthier term for my
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  Speaker 2: excitement over watching the amount of counter that they were using.
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  Speaker 2: But they dressed it up and ran it all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of ways.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So another thing they did like a lot of motion,
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  Speaker 2: so they run this orbit motion in all game Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: was just kind of pushing towards the motion. So you
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  Speaker 2: you now again have a backside RPO to a mecha
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  Speaker 2: BUCA to protect the play, but the linebacker widens with it.
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  Speaker 2: And here they're going to run same gh same side counter.
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  Speaker 2: So you can see more from the end zone angle.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, gap scheme unlike zone where you're you're
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  Speaker 2: everyone's stepping front side doubling and you're you're creating increases
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  Speaker 2: for the back gap. You're trying to block down and
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  Speaker 2: kick out to Tom for a certain gap, right. And
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  Speaker 2: so you know you get with GH counter the backside
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  Speaker 2: guard and tight end bull and kick and lead. And
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  Speaker 2: here you're running by the same side. I mean, so
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  Speaker 2: they're running it to the side of the running back.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, one cut Travon Henderson. Here you
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  Speaker 2: get a great down block from Luke Montgomery and his
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  Speaker 2: first significant appearance for our state, who drives and pancakes
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  Speaker 2: the nose guard. And you know Tennessee doesn't close down
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  Speaker 2: the initial hole, but Henderson. You know, for for Travion
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  Speaker 2: Henderson too, this kind of gap heavy run scheme fits
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  Speaker 2: him much better than he ever was as like a
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  Speaker 2: stretch zone runner. I think he's always been at his
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  Speaker 2: best when he can get his shoulders going north south
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  Speaker 2: and make one cut and go. And obviously he's explosive
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  Speaker 2: once he gets in the open field. But so this
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  Speaker 2: is a great jump cut. You know, you again Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: overplaying to the front side.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He makes a safety miss and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, on the run game in general, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, so they ran counter a lot of different ways, right,
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  Speaker 2: So they ran this GH counter different ways. They also
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  Speaker 2: ran GT counter, which is you're pulling the guard in
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  Speaker 2: the backside tackle. You saw him running off of like
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  Speaker 2: the Spinner series where they'd bring in Quinn Shawn Jupkins
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  Speaker 2: and they'd like fake the the orbit motion and around
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  Speaker 2: and then come back. And you know by Spinner, I
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  Speaker 2: mean Will Howard's literally turning his shoulders to the to
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  Speaker 2: the offense or the defense and handing it back the
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  Speaker 2: other way. And so you got a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: ways to dress up counter use that. As I said
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  Speaker 2: that like a little quick motion out with Henderson faking
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  Speaker 2: the pass and coming back. But then really in the
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  Speaker 2: run game, I mean the second half was Chip Kelly
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  Speaker 2: really kind of got in his bag and got things going.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as I said, I didn't clip them. But
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  Speaker 2: if you go back and like look at those last
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  Speaker 2: two touchdown drives, they ran a lot of quarterback runs
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  Speaker 2: game we talked about, right, So, like you saw Q
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  Speaker 2: Power a couple of times where like they would run
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  Speaker 2: power for Will Howard power Reid.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they ran the pause option one time.
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  Speaker 2: They had that nice little play where they you know,
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  Speaker 2: to protect power again, they ran the offensive line block
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  Speaker 2: GT counter, But then Will Howard flipped it out to
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  Speaker 2: quin Shawn Junkins on like a little backside sweep for
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  Speaker 2: a big play.
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  Speaker 3: Then they boot bootlegged and you just play action off
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 2: So just again like when we're talking about like, you know,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I think the ideal coming in the season, right was
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: like your machine Ryan Days passing concepts with Chif Kelly's
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: run game diversity and way to dress things up. And
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I think this game was probably the best we've seen
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: of that like marriage, you know, I again, as I
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: said it, like to me, it looked like Day had
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: a heavier hand in the passing game, particularly in terms
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: of using like concepts vertically to attack different coverages, but
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: then really got like got the run game going by
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: really mixing it up, mixing in diversity, dressing things up,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: using motion, you know, using RPOs and reads to constrain
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: the defense they were in, like a.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Double arc zone read to Will Howard.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: So you just really saw a lot of diversity, particularly
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: once they had a lead, and you know, so they
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: weren't trying to again play super fast in the third quarter,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: but also wanted to you know, continue to move the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: football and saw a lot of different types of running
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: plays to do.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: So, all right, so there's your one running play. Have
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to run the ball. Run the damn ball. They did,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: all right, So we talked about one of them. Now
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: we can get back to the passing game, which is
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: where a bunch of the exciting stuff happens. That's where
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith lives. And this is one where you know,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you talk about taking you know, finding easy ways to
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: convert stuff. This is one where every Jeremiah Smith on
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: crossing routes feels like about the easiest money there is
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: in college football right now.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's you know again, it was one of
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: those things like what we need, you need to get
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: back to using Jeremi Smith on not just vertical stem routes,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: like get them on shallow crosses. And they did that
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: a lot this game. And so as I said, like
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Tennessee got pretty much chased out of their split safety stuff.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I mean they kept they ran it, but it wasn't
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: like what they were doing every down. And so then
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you know, Day and Kelly got to their man coverage
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: cover three beaters. One of those a lot was like
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: shallow cross variations to Jeremi Smith, particularly like on this
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I think this was like third and three or four
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: they ran out on fourth down that one time. So
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: this is like a drive concept and by that I
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: just mean like the inner receiver of Mecha Buka is
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: pushing more to like a vertical dig route and Jeremi
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Smith comes underneath it and here it's it's man coverage,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: so he's just running away from the coverage. This again
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: there's back to that open trip formation again, as you'll note,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: which he scott to the bottom by himself. So again
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: you got Abouka and Smith next to each other, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: you know, Tennessee was just never really able to handle
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: that that formational look. And so you know, again as
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I said, like when I say Day's influence like this
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: is you know, particularly like the second half of last year,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: like they used Marvin Harrison a ton on like we're
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: not going to just push it the ball out field him.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Were gonna use them o shallow crosses, We're gonna use
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: him on those slide RPOs. And so you sort of
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: saw the twenty twenty three Marvin Harrison game plan for
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Smith on Saturday, different ways to get him the ball,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: and like, yeah, as you said, like I mean, obviously
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: he's great tracking the ball downfield, and but he's really
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: good runner with the ball in his hands. I mean
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: like on that fourth down play, he sort of gave
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: that little stutter juke that he was pretty excited about.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So there's no need to just use him as a
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: deep threat. Like he's pretty versatile, and you.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Know, the Ohio State was pretty versatile on offense on
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Saturday because you know, they had all the success with
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a run, but some of the ways that they typically
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: use the run and ended up setting them up for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: success in the passing game. We've talked about the cracked
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: toss a bunch this year, and this is one where
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you know, you fake the cracked toss and that open
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: stuff up potentially downfield. This was the long completion to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: g Scott where the ball kind of came out when
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: he hit the sideline.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is again I thought it was a much
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: better job as well of using play action on Saturday
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: compared to the last outing. But again, once we got
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to these more like single high concepts like here, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: think this is a three cloud, which just means that
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: you know, three deep safeties in one of the corners
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is one of the underneath defenders like this another Ryan
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: da Staple sale routes. And they ran this three or
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: four different ways as well against single high coverage. So
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: like here he hits you, Scott, he had a Mecca
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: book on one, he had Cardinal Tate on one, like
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Will Howard Thursa's pass really well. And all you're doing
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: basically right is like to the bottom of the screen.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: You're running off that cover three corner who's got the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: deep third and then just bringing the second you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: inside receiver on a deep out route underneath him. And
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: then you also have a running back to the flats.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: You're like creating three levels to the sideline. But again,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: so these are just like it was sort of Ryan
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Day Staples. You know, we're gonna hit him with like
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: three and four verts and attack the seam if they're
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: split safeties. And then once they got into single high,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: like we're gonna use sale a lot. We're gonna use
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: shallow cross concepts a lot. It just much more of
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: successfully pushing the football vertically, not just trying to like
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: again you know, not to beat a dead horse, but
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: throw you know, mirrored curl routes or out routes. Really
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: more attacking the coverage downfield.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Well, you talked earlier about the fact that they don't
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: just need to send Jeremiah Smith deep and they can
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: run short stuff. And that's true. It all worked great,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the short stuff, the medium stuff. They can still send
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: him deep and it still does work. So let's talk
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: about that second Jeremiah Smith touchdown.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was when I saw this live, I was like,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: you know, I've been calling for this for half a
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: year at least, so I was pretty excited to see it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: This is just an RPO, right, and so this is
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: just but it's an RPO with a go route and
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: so like as opposed to like running a soft hitch,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: you know, to that side with a hitch against soft coverage.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Here you have pressed up coverage and you know in
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: theory you have a safety to help there.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: But he's never going to get there.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And so this is again another counterplay gh counter But
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Howard just going to pull it when he sees that
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: pressed up coverage and throw the go route. So he's
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: just reading, he's just reading that corner, he sees press coverage,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: he pulls and throws. Obviously a great ball, great catch,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: But this is again the kind of thing like if
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: you want to press Jeremi Smith without help like this
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: is how you need to punish teams who are going
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to not roll coverage to him. So this was sort
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: of the cherry on top, so to speak, of the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: offensive game plan for Saturday Night. That bringing it all
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: together here with being able to create explosives when teams
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: are you know, not sufficiently worried about Jeremi Smith.
• 21:59
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