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Are Two Buckeye Defensive Standouts Going To Be Out Long-Term? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to a very special live episode of buck Eye Tomorrow Morning for Wednesday,
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November fifteenth. I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Minnesota game is in
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three days, the game against Michigan in ten days. Buck eys obviously trying
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not to look ahead. We're going to try not to look ahead too much.
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In this show. There was a little bit of Jim Harbaugh talk.
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Well, you're what rand had decaid about that, just the great Tim May
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doing the things that make him the great Tim May. But let's start a
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little bit with with a little bit of injury talk. There was some you
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know, Ryan Day's not out there providing specific diagnoses or specific timetables. The
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answer he gave on defensive tackle Mike Hall was just like, at this point,
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we kind of have a sense for when he's telling you know, not
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telling us, but telling us like it's not a big deal. It was
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not not a big deal the way he described Mike Hall situation. Yeah,
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so he had no update on Mike call, which is Day speak for you
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that's not good. If it's if it's generally if it's not bad, he'll
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say, yeah, we're hoping to get him back. Like when he doesn't
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give that we're hoping to get him back, or it's nothing that's you know,
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he'll be fine. When he doesn't give you those answers, that's kind
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of like him saying he's not going to be going to be back for the
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near future. And he didn't say that, so we're not for sure that
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that's the case. But when we're trying to interpret non answers, some of
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these non answers have become answers because it's the same answer he gave for Length
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and Ransom. It's answers he's given throughout the last couple of years with his
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availability, his injury rules policy, and so I to me, this is
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not great news for Mike Hall in terms of his availability for Minnesota and Michigan.
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Just no update is I don't know, is that like a four to
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six week type of thing. Yeah, I mean, I don't want to
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put a specific window on it, but it doesn't you know, it feels
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like, based on the way he answered that question, it doesn't feel like
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there's is real life he's going to play this weekend. Beyond that, I
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think my likelihood in my head that he plays against Michigan dropped significantly with the
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way he answered that question, and that's true for lath and Ransom as well.
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Lathan Ransom, you know that this is not real breaking news, that
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that was a longer term thing. We've talked about that in previous weeks,
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but Day made it sound like that was not necessarily something they're expecting to have
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him back from in the next couple of weeks, which, if you recall
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the start of the show, the Michigan game is in ten days. Yeah,
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he said he did not. He does not expect Lathan Ransom to be
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back for the regular season. Could be back towards the end of the season,
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should something happen everywhere the season maybe I think is extended, then he
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would perhaps if they make a ball. If they make a ball, perhaps
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and well they are both aliens, will correct Kevin, But depending on the
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ball, you know, there's going to be that aspect of it, but
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won't be available for the rest of the regular season, which a year ago
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would be devastating. It's not great, but they're much better, much more
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e quipped to handle it this year than they would have been last year,
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and a lot of the other guys in that secondary. I mean, they
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got to hard quarterback last week. He was on the field against Michigan State.
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That's not really a one to one plug in play for Leathan Ransom.
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It sounds like that's been to be more of a Sunny Style think that was
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what it was last week. Sunny Styles had that bandit or boundary safety position.
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He Jim Knowles was asked about, you know what is sunny dude?
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You know, maybe differently or better than Lathan had. Jim Noles was in
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a great game today, so however you want to interpret that. Jim Knowles,
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Jim Knowles was feeling great about life today, had a great answer on
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what Sunny Styles does you know better than, better than or differently than Leathan
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Ransom. Yeah. The first answer was he's taller. So I don't know
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if that's a better than thing or just a different quality, but he is
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definitely taller than anybody else in the Ohio State Secondary. One of the interesting
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aspects, because we've talked about this before, Sunny Styles does a bunch of
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different things. And when he was at Nickel, he would be a Nicol,
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he'd be a Sam you know, he would do he would blitz.
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When you're the strong safety, you have to be the strong safety and they're
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going to be playing other teams where they're not going to want him to just
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be the strong safety. So that's where getting joh Hot Carter back and having
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him more involved. As Jimnal said, like, they're gonna still do some
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things with Sonny and Ryan Desa the same thing. There are things coming with
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Sonny Sonny that they like to do. He's an effective blitzer as we've seen
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a strong safety. We've seen it also at Nickel. But it's good that
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he's not just they don't just have to keep him back there because I do
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assume at some point maybe when we see him as one of the three linebackers
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against a Michigan running thirteen personnel, you know that sort of thing where he's
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going to be up on the line of scrimmage. But you also maybe want
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to have joh Hot Carter in the game as one of the deep safeties.
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I'm not sure how exactly they're going to want to do that, but they
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still have plans for him to do other things. They don't want to give
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him too much, but he's so versatile that you still want to be able
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to use him in different ways. Yeah, and another guy who's going to
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be you know, maybe a little bit up, and they are definitely not
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as discouraging an update by any means in terms of injury. Was Tommy Iikenberg,
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Mike linebacker, who obviously has been pretty darn effective for Ohio State over
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the last couple of years and would be a pretty significant player in you know,
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if the Michigan game, you know, when when the Michigan game rolls
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around, that's going to be dentially a pretty significant one for Tommy, i
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can Burg. Knowles said, I mean, Tommy has been much more communicative
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this week, you know, as he was asked, you know, basically
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told by yeah, you can't play, just you know, you have to
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set out. We're very sorry. Yeah. And Jim Knowles likes to talk
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about how Tommy grunts, but they actually, you know, this was maybe
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the most he's talked Tommy, I can greg in terms of saying I want
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to play, let me play, get me out there. Maybe maybe stamp
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down his moves or something. I don't know, just get me out there.
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But it was just determined that for the betterment of Tommy, for the
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better betterment of the team and moving forward, to hold him out. But
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I expect him to be back this week, because I don't think you want
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to take two weeks off and get into it against Michigan. Well, and
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then the question is if he does come back, what's better or is it
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better to be fresh physically but a little bit rusty maybe mentally, or is
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it better to be, you know, knock a little bit of the rust
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off, even if you just play a quarter against Minnesota, or you just
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play a couple of drives or whatever, and you know risk you know,
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hey, can you potentially make an injury worse, you know, get hit
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wrong? Whatever that's that would be. You know, that's going to be
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an interesting calculus for this team in terms of figure out how they want to
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handle that kind of situation. Yes, I don't know that there's necessarily a
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clear right answer to the especially against a physical offense like Minnesota, where you
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are going to take a beating and you're gonna have to be in there.
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So I don't know it would be Maybe the ideal thing is to play a
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half, but you have to score enough to make sure that there's no no
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longer a contest going on to get him out of there in the third quarter.
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But yeah, they'll figure it out and they'll do it's best. That's
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trainers, that's coaches, that's Tom. He's played a ton. So if
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anybody could sit two games and then get right back into a fistfight, I
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think it'd be him. And you know, getting to the point where the
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score is out of hand enough that you can yank your starters off the field.
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They did that last week, and they did that against Michigan State,
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and you know, Colm McCord played a little bit of extra beyond what you
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know, they pulled, you know, the wide receivers and the starting you
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know, Tradvan Henderson was out, but you still had Tom McCord and they're
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behind the Ohives State offensive line. That being able to do that depends on
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how effective the offense is. And you know, Ken the offense put up
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thirty five first half points. Again, if they can well, that would
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go a long way to make you know, getting you know, getting Michigan
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week started maybe a couple of quarters earlier than it officially starts, and that
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comes down to the Ohive State offense playing well. And you know, Ryan
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a has seen like real tangible progress I think we all have. But you
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know, he talked about the fact that this is there's like significant growth,
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significant progress from this offense on the whole. Yeah, you're getting guys back.
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I think it was to Megan asking about like this being a menu in
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it, like it's like a cheesecake factory menu where it's like forty six pages.
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But you don't want to just get lost in the menu, like you
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need to maybe go with an idea of what you want and that's what that's
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what you do from Sunday through Friday and Sunday through Wednesdays. You're building the
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game plan and you don't want to get lost in all of these different things
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because you still have to do what is best routine, do what you do
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best practice it. Make sure you're doing the stuff that works in practice is
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what you're going to do in a game. Can't just throw stuff together.
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And they do have some things we've seen the more the implementing of the two
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back sets more and doing stuff off of that. I still think we're going
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to see more of that, and I think we'll see some things come of
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that against Michigan as well. But you've got different guys and you can you
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can now sit Marvin Forrest Bell and bring in Carnel Tator sit a Mecca Abuca
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and bring in Xavier Johnson because they've got guys that they'repletely confident. And this
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is the time where you when you have that depth this type of year,
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and somebody goes out with an ankle or whatever, you move right in.
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But also in these couple of games, you can give guys a rest and
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you don't have to worry about worry about it hurting the offense. And oh,
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now you've gone from a twenty eight point lead to a twenty one point
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lead because you're not moving the ball. Yeah. I think back to the
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week before the twenty seventeen Michigan game when Ohioseate played Illinois in an absolute monsoon
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in Ohio. State was up by a bunch and they pulled all the starters
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off the field and it started raining, and the second team offense, which
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I was being laid by Dwayne Haskins at that point, just couldn't do anything.
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I think through a pick and Urban Meyer got really angry and put a
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bunch of guys back at starters back on the field like Billy Price, I
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think it like cut his tape off and it's all of a suddenly back out
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on the field, and you got to you got to make sure, you
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know, the hey has really got to be in the barn before you really
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are ready to pull those guys off the field. But you know, it
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does it does sound like Ryan a sort of maybe changed his views a little
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bit on that. It was he talked about that after the game. You
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know, you're managing things a little differently this time of year compared to how
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you might in you know, the Youngstown State game in week two or three,
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whatever that was. Yeah, I also think we would have seen Lincoln
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Kenols sooner if the field position would have been better, because when they were
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taking guys out, they kept god the cordon because they're still backed up like
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inside their ten, inside their twenty, and then once they got the ball
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out to midfield, then first down at midfield, then you bring Lincoln Kenolds.
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And he did say he probably would have put Devin Brown in sooner.
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Devin Brown another guy maybe we should mention who is should be back this week,
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should practice this week. But then Ryan Days said it also depends on
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what happens during warmups on Saturday, because yeah, he did Devin Brown did
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kind of reaggravate an injury during warm ups. That's why you didn't see Devin
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Brown on Saturday. Someone else that you saw on Saturday in a little bit
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of a different spot was Matt Jones. He was, obviously has been the
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starting right guard all season and when they were you know, once the game
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was kind of in hand, they kicked him over to center and on an
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Enich for Mahi at that right guard spot. That was one of those things
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that was kind of like huh, because you have you know, Matt Jones
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was as a high school prospect right at the number one center in the country
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and then I don't think has actually played center at least in any meaningful amount
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of time, but looked good the you know, Carson Hinzman his first year
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starting young, probably not as physically developed as he probably ultimately will be.
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And ran Day was asked about that, and you know, I don't you
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know, it didn't make it sound like a change there was imminent, but
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also didn't say like, no, no chance. Well, he did say
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they're going to continue with the five that they had, but also they wanted
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to know what it would look like if they went that way and to get
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some of the idea of that film so that if you do eventually have to
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go against Michigan Kenneth Grant and their defensive interior and Carson Hinsman isn't getting it
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done, then this won't be the first time of the match. I was
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just taking some snaps and they take snaps everybody. They have like four different
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guys taking snaps in practice, so they have He has done that, but
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in terms of getting into a game, obviously it's much different. So you
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get a little bit of action that way. I wouldn't be surprised if we
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see it again against Minnesota at this point. And again, not that anything
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is imminent, but you need to be at your absolute best in ten days
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and if things aren't going well up front, then at least you know you
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can make a move if you need to. Yeah, and Enich for Mahi
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played, He's Enich for Maya actually started against Michigan last year at the right
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tackle and then Josh Fryer right guard, and then Josh Fryer came in for
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him after that. But you know, Enich for Mahi is someone who's been
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around for so long. He was a what twenty eighteen I think, recruit
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for Ohio State and has been around forever and has been, you know,
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a very useful backup, you know, hey, break glass in case emergency
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kind of guy. Obviously, you can have talked about Heinzman not being necessarily
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as developed as he's going to be, and I's been here long enough that
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he is statistically developed as he's going to be. And you know, if
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that is a you know, rough and tumble kind of game in the trenches,
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maybe I would worry about you know, you ways, like about the
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cohesion of the offensive line and guys working together and being in different spots.
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And you know, if you're at the center, then you're making the line
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calls, and that's something that Jones hasn't had to do. So I don't
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think that's going to be something there like rushing out to do. But I
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mean, if it's it's good to have options at this point of year,
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Yeah, it is. Although if this wouldn't be so late this season and
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they are still very concerned, maybe you would give Matt Jones an entire game
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if you're but like, I don't think you can go an entire game now
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against Minnesota just because of all of the moving parts. This is more of
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a like a on field promotion type of thing against field promotion. Yeah,
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yeah, so that's that's uh, I think the big stuff. Was there
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anything else that jumped out to you during the during the no I believe Josh
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Proctor has mentioned as he'll be back, like that's the sort of thing,
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like no concern there, but yeah, Josh Proctor, you kind of got
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the sense probably could have gone last week if they needed him to. But
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Mecca, Yeah, they held him out of their own accord, uh for
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the second half, and he's getting stronger each day. So yeah, so
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and Cat Silver obviously played the whole game or played, you know, as
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much as any of the starters played and had had a really solid game.
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Do we have questions we want to get to? Is this a Meltain type
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of game against Michigan their offensive tackle speed rush, uh, Mitchell Melton who
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got a little banged up at the end of that game. But is this
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a Mitchell Melton type of game? I think this is a this is it
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could be anybody on that defensive end group because of what they saw from Carson
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Barnhardt, the right tackle Michigan who had a rough game, but there weren't
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a ton of dropbacks in that game. I think they're gonna try what is
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the best matchup? Is it JT Tey Moloa against him? Just speed power,
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that sort of thing. I expect them to really try to help him
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out, row Barnhart out, but he's It's not like either tackle is fantastic,
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but the speed rush, he had no shot with that, and Mitchell
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melt is a very fast rusher. I don't think they're going to bypass their
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other guys for that. And then the question is, Okay, if it's
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not toy Moloa or Sawyer, is that Jackson? Is that Kayden Curry?
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It feels like we've mostly seen Kenyana Jackson over the left tackle, like we've
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mostly seen j T. Twey molo O over the left tackle, mostly seeing
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Jack Sawyer over the right tackle, mostly seen Kayden Curry over the right tackle.
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I wonder if, you know, I get the sense that they feel
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like Kenyana Jackson can be trusted to, you know, not be reckless in
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his rush and not you know, last week you saw Chop Robinson would sometimes
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get too far upfield and then that opens the lane for j JJ McCarthy to
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run. So you get the sense that maybe someone like a Kenyata Jackson might
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have you know, maybe maybe that's an opportunity for him. But then it's
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just boy that this is a real big moment for someone who has not you
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know, he's plugged a bunch, but he hasn't been in that kind of
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spot yet. Are you suggesting the Carson Barnett thing was like a rope dope
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where you let him go by the first couple of times and then you start
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running right befo. Well, they changed. It looked like they changed kind
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of how they were dropping back and that was you know, and and you
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know, how often do we tear guy? You know, Larry Johnson talk
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about not getting behind the quarterback, and sometimes you get behind the quarterback.
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And that's partly Michigan I think changed things up a little bit part way through
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the game, and also partly just JJ McCarthy is pretty nimble back in that
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pocket, and you know he's not you know, he can run, but
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he also can just kind of like do the like Stetson Bennett, like,
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you know, oh, let me just slider it past you there, just
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just a little dip or a little you know, a little stop or a
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little whatever and just goes zip and pass. I also wonder if you're gonna
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see Sunny Styles be asked to try and go get the quarterback. We've seen
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Jordan Hancock be asked try and get the quarterback. I think, I mean
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they're gonna throw Jimnas has you know, not not thrown a ton of blitzes
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out there this year, not nearly as many as last year. You wonder
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what does that look like this this you know, not this week, but
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against Michage well, and if you're gonna keep max protect in to help your
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guys, those guys aren't going out in the route, so you can send
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more people to get after the quarterback. One Mark vetters, you guys think
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that Michigan and Ohio State will really have trap games this week? I always,
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you know, I think you always look at the game before the Michigan
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game in terms of both both teams, what that week before looks like.
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Last year they both had trappy games. They you know, Michigan played on
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the road at a good Illinois team and one I think nineteen to seventeen,
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and I think did they have to kick a field goal at the end of
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the game to win? Or did did Illinois have to miss a field goal
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at the end of the game. I think Michigan. Michigan kicked it.
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Yeah, Michigan kicked it. We were watching that in the press box at
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Maryland that I'm standing up there, going I should really be down on the
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field taking pictures, but I'm up in the press box of Tony watching watching
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the Michigan Illinois game. And then Ohio State got out to a lead,
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and then Maryland came back and made it interesting into the final minute. I
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don't think I'm expecting that this weekend. I mean, I'm not expecting it
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from either team. Odds are one of the games is kind of interesting into
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the second half, just for whatever reason. Just you know, you're you're
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trying to get guys healthy, You're trying to not show too much. You're
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trying to you know not and and I know everyone wants to say that your
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laser focused on. Everyone is aware of the schedule, everyone is aware of
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what's on the what's on deck. Michigan's dealing with the whole hardball thing,
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and either he's back and that's a big thing, or he's not back and
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that's a big thing. And you could see one of them having, you
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know, having the game be interesting you into the second half. I'm not
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you know, I'm not expecting anyone to lose. I think they're both like
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three to four touchdown favorites. Yeah, I could see Ohio State leading twenty
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to three at the half and winning twenty to ten, just like shutting things
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down Michigan. I think they're so focused right now on each day because of
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what's going on, and focused on themselves and of course focused on America.
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I don't think they're going to be looking past Maryland, and frankly, with
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the quarterbacks that they face, they better not be looking fast. Maryland.
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No, and Maryland. You know, Maryland now is not the Maryland team
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that Ohio State faced. That's you know, they have done the typical Maryland
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thing where they're you know, the trajectory is directly into the side of the
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mountain. That's just how every Maryland football season tends to go. But you
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know that this is a you know, neither neither Maryland nor Minnesota are you
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know, Chris Ash level runners. Like that's it's not it's you know,
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these are not complete walkovers. These are teams that are you know, fine
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and bowl ish like you know, I think Maryland has already won six games
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and Miss Minnesota is not there yet, but I think could potentially still get
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ball eligible. You know they're fine. These are these are like pin Stripe
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Bowl level teams. And you know a team like that, if you,
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if you really know, show a game a Pinstripe Bowl level team can make
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your life real uncomfortable for three hours. But I'm not expecting that from either
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of them. Next one here, Mica Hannah really need a Mecca Boopa back
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fully healthy for the Michigan game. Yeah, getting a Mecca fully healthy for
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that Michigan game would be significant. And he's healthy now and they're they're seeing
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more explosion happening. I think you'll really know it when they start dialing some
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stuff up for him. And then they did throw the ball gym one pass
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downfield. There is an interference on him. So I with as effective as
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everybody is, with Kate Stover being a difficult matchup Eve and Xavier Johnson with
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what they're doing now, and we'll talk more about this than a Buckeye with
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be at some point, but using him that two backs in a wheel route
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as well against a linebacker. But obviously with a Mecca they'll start dialing some
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stuff up. For him, and he's going to be a difficult matchup for
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whomever. And the way they keep moving Marvin into the slot like they've got
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some pieces right now, and once they I don't know if if a Mecca
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makes them bacon grease like that, that's really when things start getting cooking with
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him, because he's got all the potential that everybody anybody else has in the
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nation, right dacaid, He's one of the best receivers in the nation.
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We saw that last year and I still feel like we're going to see that
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at some point this season. And you know, can Stover was back last
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week, but not one hundred percent. So as he continued to get healthier
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and get Meca back and you know all that, all that kind of stuff,
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Kyle McCord still has his left ankle wrapped real, real, real tightly.
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So there's a lot of a lot of guys who if they can get
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a little healthier, that's going to only help things as they continue to improve.
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Tomby killed seventy nine four great against Michigan State, but they sent no
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pressure. Do you think you see Minnesota send more pressure to answer some of
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those questions are not so the challenge with sending pressure against Ohio State is you
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also want to be bracketing Marvin Harrison as often as possible, and at some
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point you run out of players, and that's a do you want to die
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the death of a thousand cuts or do you want to you know, risk
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getting popped over the top. And I would expect Minnesota just based on the
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fact that Minnesota has played in the Big Ten West all season. The sort
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of default answer there is, well, no one can throw worth a crap,
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so it's fine, just sit back, make them try and go methodically
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down the field, and at some point the quarterback is going to accidentally throw
22:45
it into the fourth row of stands. So I think that's sort of the
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default answer for their defense. I think teams are probably going into games with
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Ohio State going don't let Marvin Harrison be you, and that that feels like
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that's kind of been the end answer, and that just makes it more amazing
23:03
what Marvin Harrison is doing. Jim Knowles talking about that during during the interview.
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Yeah, All's talked about how early on in practice they had Marvin bracketted
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and he still went up and caught it and yelled into the microphone like how
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can you let this happen? And the answer back to him was basically that's
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Marv, Like, so that's what are you gonna do trying to stop it?
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I mean, you can try to stop it, but you've seen how
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that works. He ran through a double team, a bracket coverage in need,
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like the first play of the third quarter when they went deep to him
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there, And that's a tough ask for anybody. I do think Minnesota will
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look at Michigan State and see like, well, we see what happens when
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you don't pressure comic coord you can you can do whatever you want to do
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to Marvin. And they didn't bracket him all the time. But like,
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if you just like comic Cord, be comfortable, I think they're going to
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throw the ball all over you. And they're showing that they have the patience
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to dump it off. He did that two weeks ago against Rutgers. So
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if you want to try to make something happen, then't go after Now that
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may like, that may be like the Western Kentucky coach where you just I'm
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just gonna keep swinging and everything. Yeah, I don't care where the pitch
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is, I'm swinging. If you maybe you do that, then maybe you
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can create something or do you just want to lose by a soft number like
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well, yeah, we we did our best, but we did you try
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to win it or did you just try not to lose it by a bunch?
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Well, it feels like teams are a lot. I mean, Greg
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Ciano tried to win it, Michigan State tried to not lose it by a
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bunch. And you know, PJ Flack, I don't. I don't know
24:29
what PJ Flex's gonna do. PJ Flack famously not the most predictable human being
24:33
on earth. So we'll see, we'll see what he chooses to do there.
24:37
Yeah, yeah, next, but here from David Greenshield. Thoughts on
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seeing Hayden in the second half. Need to get Trey rest. Okay,
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so, thoughts on seeing Delan Hayden in the second half against Minnesota. Dellan
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Hayden has played two games. I don't think at this point. I don't
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think you're gonna see Delan Hayden until they need to see Dalan Hayden. And
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or the number of remaining possible games is equal to or less than the number
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of games he can play without burning his red shirt that has just that has
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been, for whatever reason, that has been the driving factor behind the playing
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time decisions for Dalan Hayden. Even though Dellan Hayden looked like Dellan Hayden looked
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against Purdue, I think I think you have a better chance of seeing Dalan
25:23
Hayden in a theoretical college football playoff semi final game than you do in in
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this weekend's game against Minnesota. Yeah, I would also say not he will.
25:33
I don't. I don't expect him to play this week. But I
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view him as like you used everybody, you have to get to game seven.
25:41
So I could see them using him against Michigan and the semi final and
25:45
it's like, we just need to get to the national championship. Can you
25:47
just have to get to Game seven? Doesn't matter how how many starters you've
25:49
used, burn all the arms you can. If I get you there,
25:52
then you'll figure out game seven. So I think right now you're seeing obviously
25:56
Trevion and then he'll play a half or ideally, yeah you would play,
26:00
but then you have Chip, You've got Xavier Johnson, you've got Evan Pryor.
26:06
I don't think they necessarily I don't think they need to play Dylan.
26:10
And he's also shown that, Yeah, I can sit a month and you
26:11
can put me out there and I can go be the most effective running back
26:15
on the team for you know eleven carries. Yeah, and you know the
26:18
other thing that goes into that is the idea of putting Himigan in against Michigan
26:22
if the situation calls for it. If they lose to Michigan, then you're
26:26
not playing the Big Ten Championship game. You're probably not playing in the playoff,
26:29
and then you've only got one bowl game left. So then you play
26:32
him in the bowl game as well. In that case, and if you
26:33
beat Michigan, well then I would agree with you at least have him in
26:37
the game plan for the you know, not not to look past Iowa and
26:41
the Big Ten West in a possible Big Ten championship game. But yeah,
26:47
I don't. I don't think you're you're necessarily using him there, you know,
26:51
if if it is a break lass in case of emergency situation, sure,
26:56
but yeah, I'm I'm with you. I think you it's Michigan,
27:00
if you know, Michigan if needed, and then a college football plaoff semi
27:03
final game if needed, and if not, then potentially the one that comes
27:07
after that. Kavi, we hope we got a couple more. We got
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three in the queue. Wing man's head, Do we expect those who to
27:14
go hard to be risky here in the first half, the bench starters for
27:18
next week even sooner. Yeah, I expect them to be aggressive in the
27:21
first half. I wouldn't be surprised if they take the ball. I think
27:22
they were. They didn't mind losing the toss this past week. I think
27:27
you get as many snaps for the offense as you can, then you get
27:30
out, You get out of get them out of there, get take the
27:33
ball, go up and down the field, get them out like there's no
27:36
reason to defer unless you just want Devin Brown to maybe have an extra snap
27:40
in the second half. Well, I would not necessarily expect that. I
27:44
understand thinking there, But how often do you see the starters are in for
27:48
the first half and the first drive of the second half, and so you
27:52
get into halftime, I'll just use your score twenty to three, and then
27:56
you get them in there and either they go down and kick a field goal
27:57
or they go down and score a touchdown, and it's twenty three to three,
28:02
twenty seven to three, whatever it is, and then okay, now
28:03
you're your twice score, you're up three scores. Okay, great, yeah,
28:08
all right, here we go. Get ready for this one. Stoltz.
28:12
Do you guys prefer an upright ginley used up them let me clean it
28:17
up here? You guys prefer an upright used, upright door canister vacuum cleaner
28:21
with low outs? No, I canister. I mean it's it's easy enough
28:30
to dump out. I mean I I don't know if people use the bags
28:32
anymore. Have you ever tried to install a bag? I have, and
28:34
I did, but that was like twenty something years ago. Yeah, so
28:38
I figure you just put the whole house vacuum in. Have you seen those
28:42
with you know that you pull, pull it up, pull the hose out
28:45
of the wall or whatever, and you're just like, I have seen those.
28:48
I have never had one thing? So uh yeah, I I we
28:52
are a canisser household. It's worked just fine. Yeah, exactly, boom,
28:56
pull it up, pull it out, dump it in, boom,
28:59
all easy. I've ever bought one used before, which well, I we
29:03
don't. My sense is my senses. Boy, you you get quite an
29:06
experience, uh, with dealing with the seller if if that does happen,
29:10
not used refurbished, are owned, pre owned not recommend I believe also uh
29:18
pre loved for like clothing, not vacuums. Kevin, Oh boy, Uh
29:26
last one Odysseus. Which one of you two, Tom or Tony would fare
29:30
better in a wrestling match with the Gopher mascot Goldie. The Gopher is a
29:36
Gopher known for wrestling all the better if he's not right. Ever, it
29:41
feels like you just grab that tail and just start swinging that. I don't
29:45
I don't know that. I'm not just a regular one. The big blush
29:48
thing, well, I know, yeah, the big the big blush thing.
29:52
Yeah, you just grab the tail, be able to lift that the
29:55
whole maskot up by the tail. The tail's gonna to him. Well,
30:00
then if you if you get the thing twirling the centripetal force, even when
30:04
it does rip, you're flying that you you are you are airborne for a
30:10
while and you don't know where I mean, are we on the sidelines and
30:12
you're right you know the walls right there. There's there's a lot of bad
30:15
stuff that could happen, even with a plush head on. But as long
30:19
as the plush head stays on, maybe they could survive the fall and then
30:23
they would just give up, like Okay, had enough. You know,
30:26
the tail could rip off. But also those are not real teeth. Like
30:30
the teeth look look mean, but I do not believe they are real.
30:33
Plus teeth, you start whipping somebody with a tail that can still sting,
30:37
that could put an eye out, even even a fake plush eye. So
30:41
now I would not want to take on a mascot with googly eyes. That
30:44
is creepy. Yeah, no, Perdue Pete comes my way. I am
30:47
running like I'm in a horror movie, and I'm running upstairs like a moron.
30:51
But I am running upstairs as Perdue Pete is chasing me with his sledgehammer.
30:53
Not even a question. The good news is Predue Pete can't get up
30:56
the stairway because of the head, so so that will do it for us.
31:02
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31:26
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31:41
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31:45
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31:49
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31:53
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31:57
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