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Ryan Day Answers 3 Questions Ohio State Fans Have Been Asking · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, September 16th. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host Tom Moore. The Kent State game in three days.
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  Speaker 1: conference and Marcus Hartman of Buckeye Insiders. You and I
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  Speaker 1: have been to a bunch of those. This ranked, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't contentious. Contentious isn't the right word, but it was pointed,
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  Speaker 1: I think, at times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, reasonably so. I mean, I think that was, I
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  Speaker 2: think everybody had the right tone for it. And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Day was willing to answer every question and
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  Speaker 2: didn't even give too many trestle answers, you know, where
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  Speaker 2: he said something but really didn't say anything. And for
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  Speaker 2: the most part, there was some substance to all the
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  Speaker 2: things that he said. He gave you some He gave
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  Speaker 2: us some mindset of kind of what he was thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and he pushed back against a couple, you know, against
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  Speaker 2: maybe a narrative or two that was coming out of
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  Speaker 2: a question. I thought reasonably so, but respectfully. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was interesting from that standpoint. Yeah, that's correct. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was definitely not contentious. I think it was respectful.
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  Speaker 2: But for the people that complain that he never gets
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  Speaker 2: asked the tough questions and stuff like that, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I think he typically is asked pretty much all the
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  Speaker 2: questions that he should be asked, except for ones that
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  Speaker 2: maybe there's just absolutely no way he's going to answer. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes maybe you don't see the answer because
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't interesting or it wouldn't have satisfied you anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So I think all in all, that went fairly well
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  Speaker 2: from our standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was monitoring our live chat on our
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  Speaker 1: live stream of the press conference, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: group of people that thought he was getting a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of softballs, and there were a group of people who
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  Speaker 1: thought the media was being.
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  Speaker 2: Mean to him.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was like, all right, so you have
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  Speaker 1: probably sort of found that middle ground there. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as it was done, you and Tony and I were
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  Speaker 1: talking and you said there was one thing that was
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  Speaker 1: like clearly the most interesting to you. And I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do this show on, you know, some of the
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  Speaker 1: questions that people had been asking. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: questions that people had been asking was, you know, why
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  Speaker 1: aren't they playing the young guys more? And you got
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  Speaker 1: to see Kari Wilder more. You got to see Legend
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  Speaker 1: Bay more. You got to see Raleigh Pettyjohn more. and
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that he talked about was one
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  Speaker 1: of the things, you know, on that front was one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that you thought was the most interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my interpretation was, and hopefully if I look back
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  Speaker 2: at it and I don't think I misinterpreted it, was
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  Speaker 2: that he pretty much said, well, we were looking at
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  Speaker 2: it as we've got to figure out the guys we
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  Speaker 2: can count on for this game, but they knew ahead
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  Speaker 2: of time they would reevaluate the whole roster, basically, after
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  Speaker 2: that game, and then they'd have some time to sort
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  Speaker 2: of develop, you know, basically what the personnel is going
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  Speaker 2: to be the rest of the way. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that was very interesting. I mean, actually, it's almost interesting
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  Speaker 2: that he said it, because I'm not surprised that they
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  Speaker 2: would approach it that way. In fact, that's the way
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  Speaker 2: I would expect them to approach it. Now, you could
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  Speaker 2: probably make the case that you just need to go
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  Speaker 2: in there all guns blazing. And maybe you could, but
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  Speaker 2: that's not usually how coaches look at things either. So
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  Speaker 2: that's what I thought was interesting. Again, sometimes it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: if they just say a thing that you could sort
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  Speaker 2: of guess. But, you know, we're allowed to speculate on
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  Speaker 2: the message board, but it's nicer sometimes when they confirm it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, I think with the young guys, with
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  Speaker 1: like Kari Wilder, with Legend Bay, it's kind of... They
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  Speaker 1: know the talent's in there. It's just how much do
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  Speaker 1: they trust them right now? Do they trust that the
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  Speaker 1: talent is going to outweigh the risk of, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: guy went the wrong way on a handoff. This guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got out of his gap because he was
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  Speaker 1: trying to do too much. It's stuff like that. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know... I'm sure that everyone is watching Kari Wilder
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  Speaker 1: get two pressures on five sacks and going, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter if he gets out of his gap, it's still
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  Speaker 1: worth doing. And, you know, that's a your mileage may
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  Speaker 1: vary situation. And I would probably agree with that broadly.
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  Speaker 1: And I would probably agree with Legend Bay should have
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  Speaker 1: had more than one snap on offense. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's sort of the calculation that goes into it from
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  Speaker 1: the coach's perspective. One of the other things that I
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  Speaker 1: was really interested about was the decision to not just
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  Speaker 1: let Texas score at the end of the game. And
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  Speaker 1: after the game, Day said, no, that was not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they felt they could stop them. You know, that's another
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  Speaker 1: one that I looked at at the time and thought,
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  Speaker 1: tired defense, three long drives, they've gone right down the
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  Speaker 1: field on you. What are the odds you stop them
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  Speaker 1: four times in a row from the one yard line?
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  Speaker 1: And it got asked. And to me, that's a process question.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day gave the results answer, which is, well, they scored. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, looking back, you wouldn't do it because you
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  Speaker 1: know what the result is. To me, it's more of
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  Speaker 1: a process question where if you had it to do
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  Speaker 1: all over again, thinking through the decision without knowing the result,
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  Speaker 1: I would have been more interested in that answer. And
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  Speaker 1: I think to me, that's still sort of an open question.
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  Speaker 1: If he had it to do all over again without
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  Speaker 1: knowing the results, what would he do?
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  Speaker 2: I would, I mean, I'm just guessing, but I said
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  Speaker 2: if he had exactly the same situation, well, I think
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  Speaker 2: he would let them score. If you have a similar situation,
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine he probably would. And then if you
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit more... Maybe if there was a
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  Speaker 2: little more ambiguity. Because I do think one thing that was...
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  Speaker 2: I am not inclined to let them score, personally. But
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  Speaker 2: I do think something that was really working in the
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  Speaker 2: favor of let them score was... It would have only
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  Speaker 2: been a one-point game. And despite the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: kicker had just missed a kick, I think he's probably
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  Speaker 2: going to make most of them. That does change the math.
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  Speaker 2: To me, if you only have to get to the
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  Speaker 2: 30-yard line in a minute, then that does help with
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  Speaker 2: the math of it. And I think you have to
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  Speaker 2: assume that Texas was going to take the time down.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't just going to come up there and snap
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  Speaker 2: the ball as quickly as they could, as maybe some
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  Speaker 2: older school coaches might. So I think you're right, but
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  Speaker 2: I guess you're right that it was a process, that
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  Speaker 2: was a results-based answer. And that's a little bit, like
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  Speaker 2: you say, your mileage may vary on how you view
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  Speaker 2: that kind of a thing. But I did kind of think,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt,
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  Speaker 2: that if he was not open to letting them score
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  Speaker 2: in the first place, which they have done in the past.
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  Speaker 2: They did it in the Michigan game in 21 because
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  Speaker 2: they needed to get the ball back, even though that
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  Speaker 2: put them down 14, but they were going to need
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  Speaker 2: two possessions there. I feel like maybe there was one
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  Speaker 2: other time they've done that, but it was a more
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  Speaker 2: dire straight, certainly not when they were leading. And I
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  Speaker 2: gave him the benefit of the doubt. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it was the worst decision in the world to try
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  Speaker 2: to stop them, but I sort of took it as, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe he learned his lesson also when you're in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: And then the last thing that I thought was interesting,
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  Speaker 1: another decision that I thought during the game, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: interested to see how this turns out and how this
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  Speaker 1: is received, was punting from the plus 39 yard line
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  Speaker 1: and and that was another one where that that is
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable people may disagree and that's not that that
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  Speaker 1: is a specific situation that has not necessarily worked out
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  Speaker 1: for him in the past like I think of the
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  Speaker 1: 2019 Fiesta Bowl or I mean not in that identical
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  Speaker 1: situation by any means but you know you you in
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  Speaker 1: this case gained 24 yards of field position and you
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  Speaker 1: passed up an opportunity at a fourth and four or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was so I think there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of criticism about them being too conservative in the second
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  Speaker 1: half of that game. In terms of the offense, you
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  Speaker 1: look at the run-pass balance, I think that's probably misstated.
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  Speaker 1: That was the one situation that you thought, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I could see where you might point to that thing
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  Speaker 1: and say too conservative. What were his thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think that was a matter of being
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  Speaker 2: conservative or game situation, honestly. I I think he just
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  Speaker 2: felt like that was the time to punt it. I
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  Speaker 2: think there were two of those, and I can't remember exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But he said at least one time they did punt it,
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  Speaker 2: and even though they didn't really get the punt they wanted,
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  Speaker 2: they still stopped them and kicked a field goal. So
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't the worst thing in the world. Then I
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  Speaker 2: do think he sounded open-minded to maybe doing it differently
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  Speaker 2: the next time. Maybe. But that was also partly because
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  Speaker 2: of a process issue. in that results issue, and that
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  Speaker 2: he admitted that they didn't execute the punt. To me,
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  Speaker 2: this is, like I said, I'm inclined to not let
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  Speaker 2: them score, even if maybe it's logical to let them score.
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  Speaker 2: I am in that you probably should almost never punt
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  Speaker 2: from the 39 unless you need 15 yards, or you
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  Speaker 2: just literally, even if you only make 20 yards, that's
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  Speaker 2: enough to maybe an extra 15 seconds or whatever it
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  Speaker 2: might matter. I think if it's a makeable fourth down,
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  Speaker 2: you should just about always go for it there. But
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  Speaker 2: especially when your special teams is not reliable at all
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  Speaker 2: from a punting standpoint. So, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I think he was still a little bit like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think I made a mistake there. It
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  Speaker 2: kind of worked out in the end. And that is
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  Speaker 2: a little– like you say, I mean, that is a
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  Speaker 2: little more– yes or no, you can kind of go
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  Speaker 2: either way on that. But I also think the prevailing wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there's probably numbers that back it up,
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  Speaker 2: is that 39 and in, I mean, getting that 19
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  Speaker 2: yards is really not that valuable. And that is a
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  Speaker 2: place where if you've got some game control, you want
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  Speaker 2: to maintain the game control. And again, even if you
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  Speaker 2: give them that, okay, that extra first down or two
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  Speaker 2: that they might need to get, even at that point
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  Speaker 2: in the game, really doesn't matter. I think the risk-reward
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  Speaker 2: is a lot higher in terms of being able to
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  Speaker 2: maintain possession and run some more time off the clock
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  Speaker 2: from that standpoint. Again, even if you save them a
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  Speaker 2: minute from however many plays they're going to run, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but if you get the first down, you might run
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  Speaker 2: two or three more minutes off the clock, let alone
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  Speaker 2: still score.
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  Speaker 1: And this is one of these situations where, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: there is not a clear-cut yes or no answer on that.
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  Speaker 1: This is a reasonable people can disagree sort of situation.
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