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Is Ohio State's Defense Ready For Washington's Demond Williams? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, September twentieth.
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Tom Moore.
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Speaker 1: The Washington game in seven days, exactly one week from today,
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Speaker 1: good right now around the Ohio State defense. Defensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: Matt Patricia in his first year with the Buckeyes, things
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Speaker 1: going so far, so good through one quarter of the
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Speaker 1: regular season. So is maybe where are the Buckeyes maybe
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Speaker 1: further along on defense than Matt Patricia might have anticipated
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Speaker 1: at this point of his first season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, that's a great question. We got
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Speaker 3: some stuff in last week. I would say that I
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Speaker 3: was glad to be able to get in and kind
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Speaker 3: of get out there and practice. But our guys are
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Speaker 3: doing an unbelievable job. I think with the installations and
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Speaker 3: the learning and the different pieces and putting that all together.
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Speaker 3: I just can't give enough credit to the way that
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Speaker 3: they've gone after this and studied and learned and practiced
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Speaker 3: and improved. What's really been great is, you know, we'll
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Speaker 3: put things in, and sometimes you put things in and
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Speaker 3: you're taking a look at and you're like, no, I'm
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Speaker 3: not really sure if I like that or not. And
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Speaker 3: then they're kind of like, hey, let's give it one
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Speaker 3: more look and they fixed it, you know, or they've
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Speaker 3: made you feel more comfortable about those calls, which I love.
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Speaker 3: Like that ownership that they've been able to do with
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Speaker 3: some of the stuff that we've done. So it's been
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Speaker 3: pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Buck guys, of course, have this weekend off, which meant
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Speaker 1: they had this week off during practice, got to obviously practice,
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Speaker 1: but didn't have to do game prep this week. So
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Speaker 1: what was the focus during the off week as they
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Speaker 1: get ready to head into their first road game next
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Speaker 1: Saturday at Washington.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so exactly right. We got to go on the road.
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Speaker 3: Now we've have a whole operation there that'll be a
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Speaker 3: little bit different than what we're used to communication wise,
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Speaker 3: and then certainly you know Washington being in their home
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Speaker 3: stadium and having that advantage for their offense, so that
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Speaker 3: gives us some different challenges and certainly just you know this,
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Speaker 3: teams get better each week, and Washington will be, you know,
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Speaker 3: the best team that we face in their offense. And
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Speaker 3: you know, co Fish does a great job. Jeed does
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Speaker 3: a great job with that unit and their quarterback and
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Speaker 3: their skilled players and the running game and all the
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Speaker 3: things that they present. From a problem standpoint, I think
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Speaker 3: there are tops, you know, in college football and a
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Speaker 3: lot of offensive stats. So he's a great coach. They
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Speaker 3: got really good players. This is a huge challenge for
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Speaker 3: us to travel and kind of the change of schedule.
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Speaker 3: You know, we're finally kind of getting on like a
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Speaker 3: normal schedule here in season. It's been nice to be home.
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Speaker 3: I really enjoy our crowd. I enjoy our fans a lot.
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Speaker 3: That's a big advantage for us, and so if they
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Speaker 3: can travel and get out there as much as possible,
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Speaker 3: that'd be awesome.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for safety.
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Speaker 1: Caleb Downs has obviously gotten a ton of attention nationally
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years as a Buckeye, and
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Speaker 1: deservedly so. But he's got another safety next show, and
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Speaker 1: that is Jail and McLean and man, he has done
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Speaker 1: a really good job so far, but I think a
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Speaker 1: little bit surprisingly good and played a surprisingly large amount
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Speaker 1: of snaps, but there might be a little bit more
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Speaker 1: of a sharing of time there. He has been the
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Speaker 1: full time starter right alongside Caleb Downs. So what is
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Speaker 1: a Jalen McClain to play alongside Caleb Downs and be
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Speaker 1: able to do all of the things that he's asked
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Speaker 1: to do considering how much Caleb Downs can do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jalen I think really has a you know, followed
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Speaker 3: along with Caleb and the communication that's the biggest piece,
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Speaker 3: you know, with the safeties, they got to talk back
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Speaker 3: and forth and depinding o if you're playing you know,
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Speaker 3: middlefield clothes covers or split safety coverage, there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of communication that goes outside from that position and then
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Speaker 3: towards the front. And I think that you know, just
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Speaker 3: learning how Caleb approaches the game, Jalen's really done a
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Speaker 3: good job of kind of following that model. And you know,
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Speaker 3: so it's good when you have a great player in
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Speaker 3: front of you and you you do what he does,
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Speaker 3: that usually helps you out a lot. But I think
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Speaker 3: those two, in their chemistry together along with the linebackers.
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Speaker 3: Those are our main communicators. And Lorenzo's in there too
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Speaker 3: a little bit, you know, because he's kind of moving
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Speaker 3: positions and tied into the middle of the defense more
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Speaker 3: with the communication. I think those guys, those three in
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Speaker 3: the back end, along with like Sonny and Rvel and
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Speaker 3: Peyton tying that to the front. It's been really good.
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Speaker 3: I think you see it in the meetings a lot.
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Speaker 3: You know, we talk in the meetings, and we have
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Speaker 3: that conversation in the meeting room, then you feel confident
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Speaker 3: when you go out on the field you'll be able
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Speaker 3: to get that communication done in the moment.
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Speaker 1: Matt Patricia, of course, coach of the NFL for close
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Speaker 1: to twenty years since the last time he was in college.
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Speaker 1: And when you're in the NFL, you do not have
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Speaker 1: games that end seventy to nothing, like the Buckeyes had
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago against Brambling. So what kind
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Speaker 1: of an adjustment has it been for Matt Patricia to
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Speaker 1: coaching games that are really just a total talent mismatch
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Speaker 1: where you can win seventy to nothing and your players
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Speaker 1: can maybe get away with some things that you know
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Speaker 1: they won't be able to later in the season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a great point of we've got
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Speaker 3: to just be consistent with what we're coaching and what
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Speaker 3: we're asking the guys to do, and the coaches have
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Speaker 3: done a great job of that, and the players want
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Speaker 3: that too. You know, it's good to be able to
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Speaker 3: have those reps in a game where you can kind
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Speaker 3: of really get that fundamental technique down and that teaching
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Speaker 3: and the communication down where it's happening at game speed.
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Speaker 3: You know, practice is great, but there's nothing like being
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Speaker 3: able to do it, you know, live in that environment
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Speaker 3: under that sort of you know, distress of a game.
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Speaker 3: So being able to evaluate guys in those moments has
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Speaker 3: been really important. I think that's it's actually critical for
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Speaker 3: us going forward as we are trying to identify players
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Speaker 3: in different roles and then guys that can come in
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Speaker 3: in certain situations and earn different spots in different units
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Speaker 3: that we have. So I've actually really those have been
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Speaker 3: really important snaps I think in the games that we've
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Speaker 3: had where those guys have gotten in.
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Speaker 1: One of the guys who has been I don't even
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Speaker 1: know if it's a pleasant surprise, because I think we
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Speaker 1: had high expectations for him to begin with. But nose
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Speaker 1: tackle Caden McDonald has been really really good this year
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Speaker 1: in the interior that defensive line. What does he bring
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Speaker 1: to the defense in that Patricia's mind.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd love to be strong in the middle of
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Speaker 3: the defense, and he is strong in the middle of
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Speaker 3: the defense. He's right there, right in front of the center,
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Speaker 3: right in front of the quarterback. And I think offensively,
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Speaker 3: you're trying to figure out, Okay, how do we get
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Speaker 3: around this, you know, that's the biggest thing. So that's
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Speaker 3: a key piece for us. He's done a great job
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Speaker 3: I think of really improving and showing just how big
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Speaker 3: he can play inside and sometimes what that does to
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Speaker 3: a defense is actually allows you to push your defense
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Speaker 3: out a little bit more. Kind of went through that
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Speaker 3: in some of the other nose guards that I've had,
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Speaker 3: or you know, interior guys that I've had, where guys
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Speaker 3: maybe can widen out some alignments, they can play a
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Speaker 3: little bit off and deeper because it's going to be
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Speaker 3: it's going to take the play a little bit longer
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Speaker 3: to get to them when you have that ability inside.
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Speaker 3: So I think he's done a great job. But I
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Speaker 3: think those other guys really, you know, will Smith showed up.
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Speaker 3: He had a really a couple of really good plays,
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Speaker 3: and Edric does a good job inside and Taiwan. Those
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Speaker 3: guys have all really kind of every single week gotten
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Speaker 3: a little bit better with that technique. I think, you
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Speaker 3: know came Actually he's just ahead of those guys. He's
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Speaker 3: done a really good job with it.
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Speaker 1: Talked earlier about one of the differences between the NFL
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Speaker 1: and college. Another one is the roster size. The NFL,
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Speaker 1: you got fifty something guys, fifty four. I think in
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Speaker 1: the college you've got way more. They used to have
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Speaker 1: eighty five. Now it's one hundred and five, so you
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Speaker 1: got all sorts of guys. You get way more players
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Speaker 1: to potentially work with. So how has that increased roster
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Speaker 1: size benefited Patricia in terms of being able to mix
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Speaker 1: and match all sorts of different guys who might have
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Speaker 1: some different skill sets.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been fun having that many piece that much depth,
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Speaker 3: you know, and we have young guys in those positions too,
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Speaker 3: But being able to put out different sub packages or
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Speaker 3: different base packages and put some of those guys in
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Speaker 3: those positions has been really good. And you know, I
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Speaker 3: think those guys earned an opportunity to go play. So
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Speaker 3: to be able to have that much opportunity to do
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Speaker 3: that with those guys has been really good. And you know,
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Speaker 3: sometimes you gotta be careful because I'm looking at the
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Speaker 3: board and maybe on a Tuesday and my call, we
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Speaker 3: can run all these packages, and you're like, all right,
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Speaker 3: we can't get that all that practice because you're trying
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Speaker 3: to get everybody a job and a role. And I
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Speaker 3: think the coaches have done a good job of putting
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Speaker 3: different guys in those positions to be able to get
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Speaker 3: them all out in the field. And I think all
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Speaker 3: of these snaps that we're getting now are going to
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Speaker 3: pay off, you know, in the long run. We don't
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Speaker 3: know what it's going to look like a month from now,
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Speaker 3: but certainly getting as much game rep as we can
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Speaker 3: now helps everybody.
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Speaker 1: I think one of the big off season storylines is
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Speaker 1: always is the defensive coordinator or the offensive coordinator. Are
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Speaker 1: they going to be up in the booth? Are they
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Speaker 1: going to be on the sideline? The offensive coordinator, Brian Hartline,
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Speaker 1: he is up in the booth defensive corder to Matt Patrae.
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Speaker 1: He's down on the sideline. So this is our first
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Speaker 1: chance to ask him something about that since the off
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Speaker 1: season and since we found out where he was going.
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Speaker 1: So what went into Matt Patrista's decision to stay on
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Speaker 1: the field as opposed to being in the booth.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I've always been on the field calling the defense
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Speaker 3: and my all the coordinating years that I had. Just
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Speaker 3: I feel that being down on the field is good
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Speaker 3: from a communication standpoint, talking to the signal callers, guys,
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Speaker 3: you both. You know, some guys are upstairs and it's
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Speaker 3: much calmer. You know, it's a different atmosphere. You can
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Speaker 3: see the game. Gotta have great eyes upstairs, you know
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Speaker 3: when you're downstairs. But what's interesting for me in the
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Speaker 3: college game is the video. That's really crazy. You know,
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Speaker 3: we have the iPad, the tablets with the you can
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Speaker 3: see the whole play. It's like the entire video. I
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Speaker 3: actually think this one got me the other day. I
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Speaker 3: was swiping through and I'm like it was probably a
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Speaker 3: bad player or whatever. I'm trying to correct and all
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Speaker 3: a sudden the TV copy and there's my daughter like
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Speaker 3: on this. I was like, what the heck is going?
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Speaker 3: I was like, you know, trying to swipe through that.
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Speaker 3: I was like, all right, wait next. But that's really
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Speaker 3: been cool, you know, to be able to have the
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Speaker 3: full play and to be able to adjust because you
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Speaker 3: can you can really get all of that. So in
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Speaker 3: the series, it's really important to have the eyes upstairs
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Speaker 3: because you're kind of trying to correct as you go,
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Speaker 3: but when you get to the sideline, to be able
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Speaker 3: to see that full video really makes it great down
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Speaker 3: on the field, and then I can talk to the
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Speaker 3: players and I can see how they're feeling, and when
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Speaker 3: we make adjustments. Maybe I'm looking at a guy, I'm like, hey,
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Speaker 3: are you okay if we go to this call or
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Speaker 3: maybe this disguise or this look, and forgetting the double blink,
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Speaker 3: you're going, I never mind moved to something else. So
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Speaker 3: you can just kind of get a better feel for
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Speaker 3: how they're feeling about maybe some of the stuff that
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Speaker 3: you're trying to do during the game.
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Speaker 2: All spring long, all summer long.
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Speaker 1: One of the big questions around this team was the
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Speaker 1: depth of the interior of the defensive line. But Patricia
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Speaker 1: has been able to mix and match guys in the
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Speaker 1: interior there to do so many different things and really
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Speaker 1: stand up pretty well against all three teams they've played
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Speaker 1: so far.
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Speaker 2: How has he been able to do that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the big things during the spring that
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Speaker 3: was really good was just I was able to observe
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Speaker 3: and watch the different skill sets that everyone had and
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Speaker 3: with the defensive line. Coach Johnson does a humble job
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Speaker 3: of coaching these guys. They all have maybe a little
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Speaker 3: bit of different things they do well and things that
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Speaker 3: maybe you don't want them positions you don't want them in.
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Speaker 3: And by being able to use multiple fronts and different looks,
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to just get them in the best possible
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Speaker 3: position to do what it is they do well so
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Speaker 3: they can go play fast and aggressive. So using that
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Speaker 3: variety I think hopefully has helped them as they're building
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Speaker 3: their fundamentals and their techniques to be in positions that
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Speaker 3: are advantageous for them. And like I said, Coachy does
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Speaker 3: a great job of you know, we've we've put a
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Speaker 3: couple of different looks out there frontwise, and he's just
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Speaker 3: been able to get them all lined up and get
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Speaker 3: them ready to go and the communication and the techniques
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Speaker 3: and all that stuff. So he's done a great job
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Speaker 3: with those guys.
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Speaker 1: The Buckeyes have faced three different quarterbacks that had different
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Speaker 1: levels of mobility, their first three games and they're getting
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Speaker 1: ready to play another one in Washington's demand Williams, how
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Speaker 1: does having a pass rusher like Rvel Reeves who can
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Speaker 1: also sort of spy or mirror that quarterback sort of
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Speaker 1: limit him in the run game? How does that benefit
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Speaker 1: them as a defense?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ravel has a skill set that kind of he
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Speaker 3: can do a lot of really a lot of things
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Speaker 3: really well. Early in the game he had a nice
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Speaker 3: pass breakup too. You know, he can run and he's
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Speaker 3: really long, so he can cover those guys and just
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Speaker 3: trying to pull a little bit of uncertain in the
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Speaker 3: offense to figure out what exactly is he doing on
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Speaker 3: this play. I think that's the biggest thing that you
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Speaker 3: can do with guys that have that multiple ability. You know,
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Speaker 3: on the field pass rush, he's certainly dynamic if you
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Speaker 3: can get him around the quarterback for sure, and he's
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Speaker 3: big and long and can run and chase these guys down.
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Speaker 3: So just continually asking him to do different things. He's
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Speaker 3: done a great job of just understanding that and being
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Speaker 3: put in positions. There's a lot of calls on the
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Speaker 3: field actually where he might be changing some of the
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Speaker 3: assignments based on different looks that we have, and his
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Speaker 3: ability to do that has really been it's been outstanding.
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Speaker 3: So you like those pieces on the field.
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Speaker 1: One of the pleasant surprises of this year's Ohio State
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Speaker 1: defense is the play of true freshman cornerback Devin Sanchez,
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Speaker 1: who from day one against Texas, he was out there
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Speaker 1: in that dime package, getting meaningful snaps against what was
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Speaker 1: then the number one team in the country. His first
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Speaker 1: game is a true freshman. That is not normal for
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Speaker 1: a corner, a true freshman corner. So how has he
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Speaker 1: done so far and is there room for him to
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Speaker 1: maybe take on a bigger role later in the season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's done a really good job of
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Speaker 3: going out there and kind of handling that's a pressure
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Speaker 3: situation third down. Some of those packages he's gone in,
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Speaker 3: you know, two minute whatever it is you have to perform,
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Speaker 3: you know, those are kind of got to have it moments,
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Speaker 3: and I think he's done a good job. There's certainly
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Speaker 3: room for improvement, and he's a young player right now.
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Speaker 3: He's still trying to get all the different techniques in
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Speaker 3: the alignments. But the communication has been great. Signments have
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Speaker 3: been really good. He's certainly very gifted athletically, and can
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Speaker 3: handle that. So hopefully these snaps that we're building on
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Speaker 3: now can help you know, him improve as we go forward.
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Speaker 3: And certainly also we're trying to build our depth, you know,
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Speaker 3: to make sure that we have that handled as we
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Speaker 3: go forward, and putting him in that position in that
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Speaker 3: role allows us to kind of build on that every
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Speaker 3: single week. So there's things that we're doing in practice
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Speaker 3: that maybe don't show up in the game, where he's
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Speaker 3: getting the game reps to be able to get a
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Speaker 3: good evaluation and maybe just kind of get him that exposure.
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Speaker 3: But during practice we're have him in some different positions
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Speaker 3: too where we feel like we're building confidence to be
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Speaker 3: able to do that with him going forward.
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Speaker 1: We mentioned Washington's demand Williams earlier in the show, So
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Speaker 1: how much does having played other mobile quarterbacks like for example,
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Speaker 1: Ohio's Parker Navarro last weekend help with getting the defense
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Speaker 1: prepared for the challenge of Williams out in Seattle.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly helped to be able to see that
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Speaker 3: style of play, But you know, getting to Washington, he's
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Speaker 3: very much a little bit almost like Kyler Murray, like
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Speaker 3: that first step quickness that he has and his ability
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Speaker 3: to get the top speed is it's explosive. You know,
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Speaker 3: it's fast, he's quick, he gets out of the pocket,
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Speaker 3: and he's got a really strong live arm. This thing
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Speaker 3: can go downfield. They've got good players to get the
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Speaker 3: ball to. So that's going to be a huge challenge
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Speaker 3: for us. Even when you think, you know, you watch
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Speaker 3: the tape, you think you've kind of got them bottled up,
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Speaker 3: he can get out. And that reminds me a lot,
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Speaker 3: like I said of Kyler Murray, who just it's so
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Speaker 3: fast to that first step speed, like you can go
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Speaker 3: from you know, you get to your top speed in
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Speaker 3: one step. That makes it very difficult for defensive player,
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Speaker 3: especially guys in the front. You know a lot of
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Speaker 3: times they're bigger, longer, slower. You're trying to rush or
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Speaker 3: you're trying to play the run game. Because he can
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Speaker 3: obviously run with the ball to a certain way. You
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Speaker 3: think you have them leveraged, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: he side steps it and then he's out the gate.
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Speaker 3: So getting a look at that last week was good
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Speaker 3: for us live in game, those reps will be valuable,
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Speaker 3: and then it's got to really be next level as
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Speaker 3: we go forward.
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Speaker 1: To Washington, anytime guys come from the NFL to college,
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Speaker 1: you're always questions about how they're going to adjust because
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Speaker 1: you don't have the OTAs, you don't have the preseason games.
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Speaker 2: You also don't have guys who.
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Speaker 1: Are thirty five years old or thirty years old who
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Speaker 1: have been professionals for ten years. So it's going to
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Speaker 1: be a little bit of an adjustment working with eighteen
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Speaker 1: year olds as opposed.
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Speaker 2: To the thirty year old.
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Speaker 1: So what kind of professionalism has he seen from the
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Speaker 1: Ohio State defenders this year?
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Speaker 3: You know, I think that's a really good, just kind
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Speaker 3: of observation, and I'll second all of that. These guys
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Speaker 3: have been unbelievable to go into the meeting room, and
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Speaker 3: you know, I think I've said this before, but it's
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Speaker 3: just it's such a joy to like kind of be
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Speaker 3: around these guys. There there is that professionalism that you
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Speaker 3: walk into the meeting room. They're very serious, they take notes,
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Speaker 3: they want to learn what the game plan is, they
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Speaker 3: really want to learn about the you know, the opponent.
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Speaker 3: But then there's just that also joy of like they
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Speaker 3: are young kids, you know, they are just they have
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Speaker 3: that youthful energy about them. They love the game for
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Speaker 3: the game. It's just all that stuff being around younger
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Speaker 3: players that just you know, come out of them. They
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Speaker 3: have fun. You know, they're out there celebrating the you know,
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Speaker 3: six seven. I don't even know what that is, but
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Speaker 3: my kids know what it is and they get excited
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Speaker 3: about it. So, you know, I just I love to
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Speaker 3: see that energy and that excitement that they have around
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Speaker 3: each other. And they are they're young, you know, they're
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Speaker 3: great young men, but in that meeting room and on
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Speaker 3: that practice field, they're as serious as they can be
15:41
Speaker 3: trying to just be the best players they can be.
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Speaker 3: So it's a great combination, honestly to be around. It's
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Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: Talked to Ross Fulton earlier in the week in one
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Speaker 1: of those Ross Fulton analysis shows about all the different
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Speaker 1: stuff that Ohio State's defense is doing and the different
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Speaker 1: looks they're showing, and how you know, solid they've been
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Speaker 1: overall in terms of of just being very assignment sound
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Speaker 1: and doing a whole bunch of different stuff. So how
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Speaker 1: has everyone been able to pick things up so quickly?
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Speaker 1: Is that something that's not as big of an adjustment
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Speaker 1: for Matt Patricia now for some reason, or is that
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Speaker 1: the players were able to pick stuff up. How did
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Speaker 1: that come together so quickly for the Ohio State defense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean give credit to the players. I think
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Speaker 3: they've they've done a good job of just trying to learn.
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Speaker 3: And again, I would say we've carried some things over.
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Speaker 3: You know, it wasn't totally different, maybe just taught a
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Speaker 3: little bit differently, maybe just more conceptual. From that standpoint,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of carryover in the coverages and some
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Speaker 3: of the techniques and some fronts, but not fronts that
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Speaker 3: that maybe weren't in the packages. We're just kind of
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Speaker 3: utilizing guys in different ways. So I think the guys
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Speaker 3: are just done an unbelievable job of just you know,
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Speaker 3: being open minded to trying to learn maybe a little
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Speaker 3: bit different and put the packages together. It's been a
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Speaker 3: lot of fun. Like I said, you know, my whole
16:51
Speaker 3: goal is to you know, teach and mentor and coach
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Speaker 3: young men and help develop young men and you know,
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Speaker 3: hopefully have a positive impact in their lives going forward.
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Speaker 3: And that's really what I'm trying to do and that's
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Speaker 3: what's been the most fun.
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Speaker 1: Well, Patricia and the Buckeyes will get their next big
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Speaker 1: challenge out in Washington, Tiken on Demand, Williams, Joanah Coleman,
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Speaker 1: and Denzel Boston and the Washington offense.
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Speaker 2: Next Saturday in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: Looking forward to that one at Husky Stadium, one of
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17:25
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