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Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday, November 2nd. I'm
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Buckeyes are back home following their loss to USC out
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on the West Coast on Saturday night. Now they get
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a turn the page to the Oregon Ducks. And this
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is a game that before the season looked like it
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might be a top five matchup, one of the biggest
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of the entire college football regular season. And instead, it
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pairs number 11 Ohio State against unranked Oregon Ducks in
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the others receiving votes category in this week's AP poll,
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but just outside the top 25. So before we officially
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turn the page to that, we're going to take a
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little bit of a look back at Saturday night Against USC,
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I'm going to guess a number of Ohio State fans
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sort of turned off the TV and discussed at the
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end of that game, did not stick around to watch
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Ryan Day's post-game press conference. So here you're going to
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get a chance to hear a little bit from the
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head coach, some of the stuff he had to talk
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about after the game. First question was about the fact
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that all week there'd been all this conversation about rallying
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around the young quarterback, making his first career start. And then,
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you know, everyone, it felt like Luke Fahey played fine.
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And then it was kind of everyone else around him,
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almost everyone else at least, who kind of failed, found
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some way to come up short in some different areas.
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So after all the talk about, you know, supporting the
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young quarterback and doing what they can to make his
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job easier, what the heck happened?
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Well, it's extremely frustrating, you know, coming to a game
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like this with a young quarterback and not play cleaner
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than we did. Just too many penalties. I think we
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find ourselves down in those red zone situations. We just,
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we weren't able to execute very well and play clean.
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And then the penalties were not good. And then, you know,
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when we got that one drive going, we fumbled on offense,
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turned that ball over. I think for Luke, he competed. And,
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you know, it wasn't perfect. But, you know, we had
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some big, huge drops. And we weren't able to help
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him down there. So I thought he competed his tail
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off in there. We'll look at the film and recognize Luke.
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the things that we've got to improve on in terms of,
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you know, for him and what we can do to
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put him in a better situation. But, you know, I thought,
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you know, there was times we ran the ball well.
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We had over 200 yards rushing, but it was just
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too many mistakes overall. And in a game, like you said,
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that you can't afford to do that. And that's, to me, the.
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Tale of the tape. The game started really badly on defense.
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Second play of the game, a 69-yard touchdown pass for USC.
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and the Buckeyes just never quite caught up after that.
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But there were a couple big plays they gave up
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on defense, and USC was able to move the ball
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at least somewhat consistently. Did Brian Day get a sense
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that there was maybe a lack of focus on the defense?
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I think when you look back on it, it's going
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to be probably, what, like three or four plays overall
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on defense. I think they had like 50-some-odd plays for
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300-some yards, and the second play, or first play, what
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was it, second play of the game went for, what, 75, yeah,
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69 yards. So I mean, right there, that's almost a
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third of the offense. And then you had the long
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one to the tight end. And, yeah, that was ridiculous.
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We're going for the punch out there. We just got
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to get them on the ground around the 40-yard line
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and live to see another snap. So those were big.
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And so it was explosive plays that we haven't really,
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you know, given up a lot of. But that's the
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story there. And, you know, I don't remember how many.
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You know, they ran for 116 yards rushing. to our 200. So,
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you know, when, when you look at the game, you know,
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you recognize that the turnover was huge. Um, there was
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a couple of special teams plays that, that flipped the
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field and then, um, and then the explosive plays that
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they had on offense and that, that's really the story. But, um, yeah, it,
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you know, we, we had some guys battling in there.
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We had some guys kind of playing some new spots and,
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but that's, that's the game, you know, and, and guys
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got to step up, but, I thought we were practicing well.
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Coming off of a bye week, I'm a moist concern,
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but the attitude was good, the effort was good. The
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guys were fighting all the way to the end. They
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were into it, but there's just way too many mistakes. Certainly,
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we all got to recognize why that is and get
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it fixed. Again, when you look at penalties, when you
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look at turnovers, when you look at drops, to me,
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that really is what it comes down to. Then there
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was missed tackles as well.
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The Ohio State defense did not look quite like it
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has for a lot of this season, and you have
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to wonder about the impact of the absence of true
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freshman Jay Timmons. He has been a real standout for
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Ohio State at that nickel position, and it didn't take
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long for his absence to be noticed on Saturday. Second
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play of the game, slot receiver, probably the guy Timmons
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would have been covering, ends up going 69 yards for
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a touchdown that completely changed the atmosphere inside the Coliseum
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and set USA off on the path to win that game.
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Timmons has been dealing with a little bit of a
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nagging injury for a lot of the season. It felt
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like he was maybe going to be able to play
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in this game and then sort of never quite, he
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went from questionable to doubtful to out for Saturday. So
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what's the latest on Jay Timmons and how much did
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they miss him in that game?
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You know, it's been one of those injuries that, um,
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We held him off for quite a while and wanted
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to really make sure that he was back a couple
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weeks ago for that game. We probably could have played
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the week before. We held him off. We know what
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an impact he makes. In a game like this, a
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space game like this, we knew it was going to
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be important, but he kind of retweaked it in the
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Indiana game. He was trying like heck to get back,
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but it's one of those injuries where... you know, you
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put him back out there, he just resets it again.
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And then we start right back from zero again. So, um,
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he made some progress late in the week, but it
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wasn't enough where our, our doctors and trainers felt like
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it was the right thing to do, um, for him. So, um,
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the decision was made to hold, to hold them. Uh,
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I wouldn't go there with it. Um, yeah, it would
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be hard for me to do that. You know, I
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just kind of refer to the doctors on it all, but, um,
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but there's no question that he's dying to get back
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on the field. He's just one of those guys that
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wants to play every game. I just listen to the
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doctors and whatever they say.
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The offense was a little out of whack at times
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as well. A bunch of false starts, formation penalties. Was
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that a lack of focus on the offensive side of
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the ball, or is that just sort of a byproduct
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of having a new quarterback starting on the road?
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I think having a new quarterback in there did affect
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some of it yep we did use some silent we
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used some some clap no excuse but you asked why
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I think that led to some of it but but
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there was other things that the penalties had nothing to
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do with the fact that you know Luke was in
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the game as opposed to Julian so we're not going
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to use that as an excuse.
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One thing that I think was a common criticism of
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the coaching staff during the latter portions of that game
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was they just felt like they were not playing with
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a ton of tempo late in that game. They're down
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a couple scores, they go down the field, they do
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score a touchdown, but it took quite a while and
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it burned a bunch of the fourth quarter to do it.
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So is that a function of having a young quarterback
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where they're not quite as comfortable with going up tempo
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just yet?
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Once we were down by the two scores, we knew
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we were in that game that we had to go.
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We didn't want to panic and just start going into
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that with a young quarterback and the game just turn
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upside down really fast. The one series there, we went
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three and out. It was extremely frustrating. We just weren't
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able to get a couple first downs. We felt like
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if we got a couple first downs, we were going
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to try to pick up the pace as it went,
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but we needed to get the first down there. We
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didn't get it. We went three and out. And then
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once we found ourselves in the two-score game late with,
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I think, seven minutes to go, we knew we had
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to move quickly, which we did. We moved a little
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bit more. We weren't going like breakneck two-minute like we
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were in the last drive there, but it was fast
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enough that we were efficiently moving it, and it was
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able to score a touchdown on it. So we were
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able to make that happen with the young quarterback. So
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that part was a positive, but in the end, it
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wasn't good enough.
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And finally, looking at that defense, what went wrong for
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the defense? Because they gave up a 70-yard play. They
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gave up a 69-yard play. Those are big plays that
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they have not been giving up most of this season.
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So what went wrong on the defensive side of the ball?
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Yeah, no, I thought the guys played hard. I thought
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the look in their eye was good. I'll get on
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the film and confirm it. But they were playing with energy.
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And when the offense, you have a young quarterback over there,
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and they're– they're, you know, sputtering and not scoring touchdowns. Um,
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sometimes you can, you can feel one side of the
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ball start to get frustrated. I didn't feel that at all. Um, from,
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from my, my, uh, vantage point, I thought they continued
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to work and they were trying to get on off
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the field and got some stops. Um, but, but yeah, no,
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I mean, they, they, they got some, some real skill
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guys in space and we couldn't get it on the ground. Um,
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you know, the two major plays that really hurt us
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in the game. Um, but you know, uh, I, I
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thought the plan was sound and what we did and,
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Not having Jay had an impact, there's no question. But
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at the end of the day, as a team, we
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weren't able to, to me, play well enough to support
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a young freshman quarterback who's had his first start on
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the road like this.
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All right, there will undoubtedly be a lot more to
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talk about this week for the Buckeyes. as we sort
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of recap the USC loss, try to figure out what
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went wrong there, and then look ahead to this weekend's
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game against Oregon. Should be a nice Saturday in the shoe,
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a little early to look at the weather forecast, but
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it should be a really, finally get a non-noon kickoff
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for a game of some consequence. That'll be fun. 3.30
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Buckeyes are back home following their loss to USC out
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on the West Coast on Saturday night. Now they get
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a turn the page to the Oregon Ducks. And this
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is a game that before the season looked like it
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might be a top five matchup, one of the biggest
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of the entire college football regular season. And instead, it
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pairs number 11 Ohio State against unranked Oregon Ducks in
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the others receiving votes category in this week's AP poll,
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but just outside the top 25. So before we officially
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turn the page to that, we're going to take a
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little bit of a look back at Saturday night Against USC,
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I'm going to guess a number of Ohio State fans
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sort of turned off the TV and discussed at the
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end of that game, did not stick around to watch
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Ryan Day's post-game press conference. So here you're going to
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get a chance to hear a little bit from the
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head coach, some of the stuff he had to talk
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about after the game. First question was about the fact
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that all week there'd been all this conversation about rallying
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around the young quarterback, making his first career start. And then,
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you know, everyone, it felt like Luke Fahey played fine.
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And then it was kind of everyone else around him,
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almost everyone else at least, who kind of failed, found
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some way to come up short in some different areas.
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So after all the talk about, you know, supporting the
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young quarterback and doing what they can to make his
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job easier, what the heck happened?
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Well, it's extremely frustrating, you know, coming to a game
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like this with a young quarterback and not play cleaner
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than we did. Just too many penalties. I think we
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find ourselves down in those red zone situations. We just,
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we weren't able to execute very well and play clean.
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And then the penalties were not good. And then, you know,
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when we got that one drive going, we fumbled on offense,
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turned that ball over. I think for Luke, he competed. And,
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you know, it wasn't perfect. But, you know, we had
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some big, huge drops. And we weren't able to help
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him down there. So I thought he competed his tail
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off in there. We'll look at the film and recognize Luke.
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the things that we've got to improve on in terms of,
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you know, for him and what we can do to
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put him in a better situation. But, you know, I thought,
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you know, there was times we ran the ball well.
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We had over 200 yards rushing, but it was just
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too many mistakes overall. And in a game, like you said,
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that you can't afford to do that. And that's, to me, the.
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Tale of the tape. The game started really badly on defense.
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Second play of the game, a 69-yard touchdown pass for USC.
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and the Buckeyes just never quite caught up after that.
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But there were a couple big plays they gave up
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on defense, and USC was able to move the ball
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at least somewhat consistently. Did Brian Day get a sense
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that there was maybe a lack of focus on the defense?
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I think when you look back on it, it's going
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to be probably, what, like three or four plays overall
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on defense. I think they had like 50-some-odd plays for
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300-some yards, and the second play, or first play, what
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was it, second play of the game went for, what, 75, yeah,
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69 yards. So I mean, right there, that's almost a
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third of the offense. And then you had the long
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one to the tight end. And, yeah, that was ridiculous.
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We're going for the punch out there. We just got
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to get them on the ground around the 40-yard line
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and live to see another snap. So those were big.
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And so it was explosive plays that we haven't really,
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you know, given up a lot of. But that's the
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story there. And, you know, I don't remember how many.
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You know, they ran for 116 yards rushing. to our 200. So,
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you know, when, when you look at the game, you know,
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you recognize that the turnover was huge. Um, there was
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a couple of special teams plays that, that flipped the
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field and then, um, and then the explosive plays that
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they had on offense and that, that's really the story. But, um, yeah, it,
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you know, we, we had some guys battling in there.
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but that's, that's the game, you know, and, and guys
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got to step up, but, I thought we were practicing well.
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Coming off of a bye week, I'm a moist concern,
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but the attitude was good, the effort was good. The
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guys were fighting all the way to the end. They
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were into it, but there's just way too many mistakes. Certainly,
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we all got to recognize why that is and get
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it fixed. Again, when you look at penalties, when you
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look at turnovers, when you look at drops, to me,
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that really is what it comes down to. Then there
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was missed tackles as well.
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The Ohio State defense did not look quite like it
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has for a lot of this season, and you have
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to wonder about the impact of the absence of true
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freshman Jay Timmons. He has been a real standout for
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Ohio State at that nickel position, and it didn't take
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long for his absence to be noticed on Saturday. Second
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play of the game, slot receiver, probably the guy Timmons
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would have been covering, ends up going 69 yards for
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a touchdown that completely changed the atmosphere inside the Coliseum
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and set USA off on the path to win that game.
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Timmons has been dealing with a little bit of a
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nagging injury for a lot of the season. It felt
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like he was maybe going to be able to play
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in this game and then sort of never quite, he
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went from questionable to doubtful to out for Saturday. So
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what's the latest on Jay Timmons and how much did
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they miss him in that game?
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You know, it's been one of those injuries that, um,
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We held him off for quite a while and wanted
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to really make sure that he was back a couple
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weeks ago for that game. We probably could have played
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the week before. We held him off. We know what
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an impact he makes. In a game like this, a
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space game like this, we knew it was going to
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be important, but he kind of retweaked it in the
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Indiana game. He was trying like heck to get back,
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but it's one of those injuries where... you know, you
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put him back out there, he just resets it again.
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And then we start right back from zero again. So, um,
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he made some progress late in the week, but it
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wasn't enough where our, our doctors and trainers felt like
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it was the right thing to do, um, for him. So, um,
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the decision was made to hold, to hold them. Uh,
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I wouldn't go there with it. Um, yeah, it would
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be hard for me to do that. You know, I
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just kind of refer to the doctors on it all, but, um,
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but there's no question that he's dying to get back
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on the field. He's just one of those guys that
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wants to play every game. I just listen to the
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doctors and whatever they say.
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The offense was a little out of whack at times
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as well. A bunch of false starts, formation penalties. Was
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that a lack of focus on the offensive side of
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the ball, or is that just sort of a byproduct
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of having a new quarterback starting on the road?
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I think having a new quarterback in there did affect
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some of it yep we did use some silent we
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used some some clap no excuse but you asked why
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I think that led to some of it but but
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there was other things that the penalties had nothing to
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do with the fact that you know Luke was in
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the game as opposed to Julian so we're not going
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to use that as an excuse.
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One thing that I think was a common criticism of
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the coaching staff during the latter portions of that game
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was they just felt like they were not playing with
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a ton of tempo late in that game. They're down
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a couple scores, they go down the field, they do
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score a touchdown, but it took quite a while and
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it burned a bunch of the fourth quarter to do it.
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So is that a function of having a young quarterback
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where they're not quite as comfortable with going up tempo
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just yet?
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Once we were down by the two scores, we knew
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we were in that game that we had to go.
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We didn't want to panic and just start going into
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that with a young quarterback and the game just turn
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upside down really fast. The one series there, we went
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three and out. It was extremely frustrating. We just weren't
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able to get a couple first downs. We felt like
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if we got a couple first downs, we were going
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to try to pick up the pace as it went,
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but we needed to get the first down there. We
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didn't get it. We went three and out. And then
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once we found ourselves in the two-score game late with,
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I think, seven minutes to go, we knew we had
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to move quickly, which we did. We moved a little
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bit more. We weren't going like breakneck two-minute like we
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were in the last drive there, but it was fast
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enough that we were efficiently moving it, and it was
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able to score a touchdown on it. So we were
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able to make that happen with the young quarterback. So
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that part was a positive, but in the end, it
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wasn't good enough.
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And finally, looking at that defense, what went wrong for
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the defense? Because they gave up a 70-yard play. They
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gave up a 69-yard play. Those are big plays that
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they have not been giving up most of this season.
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So what went wrong on the defensive side of the ball?
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Yeah, no, I thought the guys played hard. I thought
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the look in their eye was good. I'll get on
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the film and confirm it. But they were playing with energy.
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and they're– they're, you know, sputtering and not scoring touchdowns. Um,
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sometimes you can, you can feel one side of the
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ball start to get frustrated. I didn't feel that at all. Um, from,
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from my, my, uh, vantage point, I thought they continued
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to work and they were trying to get on off
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the field and got some stops. Um, but, but yeah, no,
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I mean, they, they, they got some, some real skill
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guys in space and we couldn't get it on the ground. Um,
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you know, the two major plays that really hurt us
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in the game. Um, but you know, uh, I, I
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thought the plan was sound and what we did and,
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Not having Jay had an impact, there's no question. But
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at the end of the day, as a team, we
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weren't able to, to me, play well enough to support
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a young freshman quarterback who's had his first start on
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the road like this.
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All right, there will undoubtedly be a lot more to
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talk about this week for the Buckeyes. as we sort
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of recap the USC loss, try to figure out what
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went wrong there, and then look ahead to this weekend's
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game against Oregon. Should be a nice Saturday in the shoe,
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