Full Transcript for Arthur Smith Has Some Explaining To Do

it's like noun verb name of NFL player 76 00:04:11.340 --> 00:04:15.080 that he coached. And that's, and, and it's like, there's 77 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.540 an art to it. And you kind of, this is, 78 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:18.819 this is one of those things where you kind of 79 00:04:18.860 --> 00:04:20.519 like have to tip your head as a media person 80 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:23.240 where it's like, wow, that was really impressive. Cause his 81 00:04:23.259 --> 00:04:25.759 goal was not to say like, yeah, this guy's bad. 82 00:04:25.980 --> 00:04:28.680 Or here's the things that we're doing wrong. Or here's 83 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.180 exactly what we're going to do to fix it. So 84 00:04:30.259 --> 00:04:32.240 he kind of gets up there and talk. And that's like, 85 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:33.980 this is the job. This is not me complaining. This 86 00:04:34.019 --> 00:04:36.379 is not me saying like, this makes him a bad person. 87 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.680 It's just like, this is, this is kind of the 88 00:04:38.740 --> 00:04:39.439 game that you play. 89 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:41.920 It kind of felt like, so everybody leaves the room 90 00:04:41.980 --> 00:04:44.800 and they congregate. And it's almost like we just left 91 00:04:45.939 --> 00:04:48.879 a meeting and we're all like, why did, we just 92 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:52.259 got tricked into buying timeshares. Like, how did we all, 93 00:04:53.220 --> 00:04:55.240 I didn't come here for a timeshare. You want one too? 94 00:04:55.699 --> 00:04:59.189 Where it's like, everybody's just kind of like confused. Like 95 00:04:59.259 --> 00:05:01.230 you just woke up from something. Like, how did we 96 00:05:01.269 --> 00:05:05.189 get here? And Doug LaMaurice of the Bill and Doug 97 00:05:05.209 --> 00:05:06.269 show was asking something. 98 00:05:06.889 --> 00:05:09.350 And I forget, I forget what the question was. 99 00:05:09.389 --> 00:05:09.470 Yeah. 100 00:05:10.459 --> 00:05:13.839 But Arthur Smith goes on and talks about it, and 101 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:15.259 he's like, does that explain it? 102 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:16.939 And Doug's like, not really. 103 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.740 I don't understand it, so they go on and on 104 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:22.180 and on and on, and I'm thinking, because I'm up next, 105 00:05:22.220 --> 00:05:24.120 and I want to ask about the tight ends and 106 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:28.810 going from so much 12 to almost exclusively 11, and thinking, 107 00:05:28.819 --> 00:05:31.029 I have no idea that I'm going to get any 108 00:05:31.050 --> 00:05:33.170 kind of answer here after this, so I'm just going 109 00:05:33.189 --> 00:05:35.930 to ask about the quarterback. Just give me something more 110 00:05:35.970 --> 00:05:38.829 about Luke Fahey and something that maybe I can use, 111 00:05:38.889 --> 00:05:45.379 because Um, there's just, I've even tried to like, look 112 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:46.860 at my notes, like, what can we talk about? 113 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:47.779 And there's, I. 114 00:05:49.740 --> 00:05:52.699 Don't, the show shouldn't be about what we didn't get 115 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:55.620 out of Arthur Smith or whatever, but I, but that's 116 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.509 essentially the feeling that I came out. 117 00:05:58.459 --> 00:06:01.829 Of this with because, um, what are the, what are 118 00:06:01.870 --> 00:06:05.269 the questions? What are the answers in terms of what 119 00:06:05.290 --> 00:06:07.389 got accomplished? Um, Yeah. On the day. 120 00:06:07.430 --> 00:06:09.430 What got accomplished with this media session? And I'm not 121 00:06:09.470 --> 00:06:11.889 saying nothing, so don't ever have him out there again. 122 00:06:11.910 --> 00:06:15.129 Yeah. But you're right. Like, he's a pro. 123 00:06:15.149 --> 00:06:17.449 And it reminds me back in maybe the last time 124 00:06:17.470 --> 00:06:18.410 we got to talk to him or when we got 125 00:06:18.430 --> 00:06:20.389 to talk to him in fall camp when I was 126 00:06:20.449 --> 00:06:21.569 leading him into a question. 127 00:06:22.310 --> 00:06:24.680 And he said, like, I've been doing this for a while. 128 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:24.980 Yeah. 129 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:25.959 I know what you're trying to do. 130 00:06:25.980 --> 00:06:30.019 I was like, hey, bro, you know, I'm just asking questions. 131 00:06:30.100 --> 00:06:32.339 And it kind of, like, I don't think he was 132 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.939 dodging anything. It's just he was answering them in. 133 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:35.399 His own way. 134 00:06:35.660 --> 00:06:40.360 Well, yeah. In his mind, like, falling for the floor pie. 135 00:06:40.420 --> 00:06:41.959 First of all, this is not the first floor pie 136 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:43.860 he's seen. And second of all, it doesn't benefit him 137 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.600 to fall for the floor pie, so he's not going 138 00:06:46.620 --> 00:06:53.819 to do that. It's... It's a weird situation where you 139 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.139 can't go out and, like, people... And this is one 140 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:59.220 of these things that people get mad at, you know, 141 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:01.639 the beat. And I'm doing air quotes for those of 142 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:07.180 you just listening. Where... why isn't the beat asking tougher questions? 143 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.060 And it's like, we can ask the questions. We don't 144 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:11.290 get to answer them for him. And he's not going 145 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.649 to say, well, these six guys are all terrible. Or 146 00:07:15.209 --> 00:07:18.629 here's the, all the ways that I'm a huge failure personally. And, 147 00:07:18.670 --> 00:07:21.360 you know, in both my personal and professional lives, which is, 148 00:07:21.629 --> 00:07:24.230 I think that's what people want. And it's like, that's 149 00:07:24.290 --> 00:07:27.850 not how any of this works. Like that doesn't,

that 150 00:07:27.889 --> 00:07:29.889 never happens. Like that's not, you don't get those answers. 151 00:07:29.949 --> 00:07:31.990 You don't get those questions because we're trying to ask 152 00:07:32.050 --> 00:07:35.889 questions that give you insightful answers they don't always yield 153 00:07:36.009 --> 00:07:38.810 insightful answers but like he was asked a bunch about 154 00:07:38.910 --> 00:07:42.110 jeremiah smith yeah and like why isn't jeremiah smith getting 155 00:07:42.449 --> 00:07:44.370 targeted more in the passing game because they went like 156 00:07:44.430 --> 00:07:47.750 two full quarters against oregon without throwing the ball to 157 00:07:47.790 --> 00:07:51.370 jeremiah smith and he said well they got off off 158 00:07:51.410 --> 00:07:53.709 track on a few second downs but you know he 159 00:07:53.750 --> 00:07:56.269 had 10 catches against usc and they lost that game 160 00:07:56.310 --> 00:07:58.350 so like the results aren't what they wanted overall and 161 00:07:58.389 --> 00:08:00.949 it's like well that you know that sort of answers 162 00:08:00.990 --> 00:08:08.069 the question but also like You feel like you have 163 00:08:08.089 --> 00:08:11.209 to preface everything by, like, I realize this is going 164 00:08:11.230 --> 00:08:13.100 to sound like a stupid question, but can't you just 165 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.899 throw him the ball more? Because it feels like that's 166 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.420 a simple question with a relatively simple answer, but the 167 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:19.860 answer is always, well, it's kind. 168 00:08:19.779 --> 00:08:22.720 Of more complicated than that. It also depends on what 169 00:08:22.740 --> 00:08:26.100 the defense is doing. It also depends on the pre-snap 170 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.319 reads of what Luke Fahey is seeing. And that was 171 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:33.679 a question as well in terms of there's a There 172 00:08:33.700 --> 00:08:36.360 was this one play where Jeremiah Smith was open, all right? 173 00:08:36.700 --> 00:08:37.000 Yeah. 174 00:08:37.340 --> 00:08:40.629 But, like, Luke Fahey went to Devin McEwen on the 175 00:08:40.669 --> 00:08:44.509 other side, and Arthur Smith explained it in terms of, well, 176 00:08:44.529 --> 00:08:45.850 you know, Devin gets up there, and he looks at 177 00:08:45.870 --> 00:08:46.289 the coverage. 178 00:08:46.330 --> 00:08:48.750 He looks at where he sees an advantage. Devin McEwen 179 00:08:48.769 --> 00:08:49.549 had a one-on-one. 180 00:08:49.590 --> 00:08:52.250 And then one of the main things I agree with 181 00:08:52.309 --> 00:08:55.029 Arthur Smith on is, like, Everybody has to make plays. 182 00:08:55.529 --> 00:08:57.970 Everybody has to do their job. And if you have 183 00:08:57.990 --> 00:09:00.970 a one-on-one, you need to get open. Now, also, when 184 00:09:00.990 --> 00:09:02.669 you get open, that ball needs to be there and 185 00:09:02.690 --> 00:09:04.690 it needs to be accurate. So, like,

there's a lot 186 00:09:04.730 --> 00:09:07.149 of moving parts to this, as you guys know. And 187 00:09:07.389 --> 00:09:09.980 so it's like there are answers to why didn't you 188 00:09:10.019 --> 00:09:12.000 throw to Jeremiah. It's like, well, we had an advantage. 189 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:14.820 We'd like to match up here. And it would have 190 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:18.399 been fine if he didn't get the ball and the 191 00:09:18.419 --> 00:09:19.980 ball was caught and you pick up the first down. 192 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.179 So it's like nobody would be like, why do you 193 00:09:22.220 --> 00:09:24.559 keep using Devin McEwen to move to pick up first 194 00:09:24.580 --> 00:09:26.220 downs as you're picking up first downs? 195 00:09:26.379 --> 00:09:26.620 Yeah. 196 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.120 The, why aren't you throwing it to Jeremiah is when 197 00:09:29.139 --> 00:09:31.440 you see on the replay, like, well, he was, he 198 00:09:31.460 --> 00:09:33.360 looked open and on replay, a lot of guys look 199 00:09:33.419 --> 00:09:34.399 open as everybody knows. 200 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:35.820 And on screenshots, everybody's open. 201 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:36.730 Yes. Right. 202 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:40.730 But also on some screenshots, there's nobody, there's no defense there. 203 00:09:41.409 --> 00:09:42.149 Now that's the last show. 204 00:09:42.169 --> 00:09:42.830 That was the last show. 205 00:09:43.230 --> 00:09:47.169 But, so like, I appreciate the fact that Arthur Smith 206 00:09:47.210 --> 00:09:50.529 also said, guys have to win their one-on-ones, which is very, 207 00:09:50.570 --> 00:09:53.600 very true. And, And yet, also, if you're the quarterback, 208 00:09:55.090 --> 00:09:58.009 time boy this season was so long ago remember when 209 00:09:58.129 --> 00:09:59.940 uh it was like is julian saint just going too 210 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:02.820 much to jeremiah yeah yeah and we said the same 211 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:06.440 thing about kyle mccord and marvin harrison and now a 212 00:10:07.139 --> 00:10:10.139 lifetime ago and now we're like well you still need 213 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.159 you need to go to more to jeremiah i don't 214 00:10:12.179 --> 00:10:14.860 care you think you have an advantage over here I 215 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.120 bet you've got one over there as well. 216 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.440 Well, and I think that kind of goes to the, 217 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:20.279 why don't they just do the thing that's working more, 218 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.620 which when you're running the ball and then in your 219 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:26.500 running ball, well, you know, you gain six yards and 220 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:29.440 you get eight yards. If you throw the ball and 221 00:10:29.460 --> 00:10:32.559 you throw an incomplete pass, why are you dummies getting 222 00:10:32.580 --> 00:10:35.159 away from the run, which is working. And if you 223 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:36.720 run the ball for six yards and you run the 224 00:10:36.740 --> 00:10:38.509 ball for eight yards and And then you run the 225 00:10:38.549 --> 00:10:40.679 ball again and then they stuff it. Why aren't you 226 00:10:40.700 --> 00:10:43.080 dummies recognizing they're going to recognize they're going to be 227 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:44.980 running the ball. And that's when boy, that'd be, that's 228 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.039 when you hit them over the top of the play 229 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.679 action pass. And so there's a lot of results based 230 00:10:49.779 --> 00:10:52.960 analysis on this stuff, which the results have not been great. 231 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:55.320 A hundred percent. The results have not been great. No 232 00:10:55.379 --> 00:10:58.659 one is questioning that there is process here. And so 233 00:10:59.179 --> 00:11:03.529 we tend to try to have process conversations because it's, 234 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.240 That's where the actual... That's where you find the actual 235 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.940 truth of the matter is the process kind of conversation. 236 00:11:10.019 --> 00:11:12.659 And that's where I'm still hung up on the 14 237 00:11:12.659 --> 00:11:15.169 personnel on the goal line, where that's just... That's bad process. Like, 238 00:11:15.210 --> 00:11:19.490 it's bad process, period, full stop. It's bad process is 239 00:11:19.509 --> 00:11:22.490 also yielding bad results. But if they were scoring on those, 240 00:11:22.529 --> 00:11:24.470 at least it would be like, well, okay, you're getting... 241 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.399 You're not getting the results or the process. But there 242 00:11:28.539 --> 00:11:32.820 is stuff here where, like you said... people post screenshots 243 00:11:32.860 --> 00:11:35.059 and everyone gets all up in arms. Cause it's like, well, 244 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.019 this guy, you know, look at how open this guy was. 245 00:11:37.059 --> 00:11:40.059 It's like, well, look at the helmet stripe on his head. 246 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.860 That tells you where his eyes are pointed. His eyes 247 00:11:41.899 --> 00:11:44.000 are looking right. Why doesn't he see the guy who's 248 00:11:44.570 --> 00:11:46.429 open on the left side of the field? Cause his 249 00:11:46.509 --> 00:11:48.620 read is to the right. That's where his first read is. 250 00:11:48.750 --> 00:11:51.149 Or he's looked over left and the guy was not open. 251 00:11:51.490 --> 00:11:53.429 And then he's broken open after he's moved his head 252 00:11:53.450 --> 00:11:56.149 to the right. Like there is a why behind this. 253 00:11:56.190 --> 00:11:59.379 That's not just throw the football to the guy who's 254 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:04.370 open right at this Split second where I took a screenshot, dummy. Like, 255 00:12:04.610 --> 00:12:06.769 there's much more to it than that. 256 00:12:06.929 --> 00:12:08.509 Defenders also see that helmet moving. 257 00:12:08.850 --> 00:12:09.429 Uh-huh. Yeah.

258 00:12:09.450 --> 00:12:10.220 And they head over that way. 259 00:12:11.100 --> 00:12:13.679 Arthur Smith, completely confident in the offensive line. They'll be 260 00:12:13.700 --> 00:12:15.860 able to get the job done. So that's good news. 261 00:12:15.940 --> 00:12:17.779 I don't know which five he's talking about in terms of, like, 262 00:12:18.299 --> 00:12:20.980 you know, what five would you put out there? It's like, well, 263 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.690 we've got six, we've got seven, we've got eight. So 264 00:12:24.730 --> 00:12:26.789 I guess, you know, there's some positive there that he 265 00:12:26.870 --> 00:12:29.909 feels– good about that. Seeing some of the plays coming 266 00:12:29.950 --> 00:12:34.830 out of the Oregon game again, it's like, oof. I 267 00:12:35.350 --> 00:12:38.909 think we all expected more from the offensive line due 268 00:12:38.950 --> 00:12:43.269 to Arthur Smith and what he's bringing, but also his eyes. 269 00:12:43.289 --> 00:12:46.460 I guess, not that he would say, boy, we ain't 270 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.980 got it, fellas. He's never going to say that. 271 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:52.019 No, he's not. And this is one of the things where, again, 272 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:53.639 this is one of the things that people get upset about. 273 00:12:53.700 --> 00:12:57.779 Why aren't they taking accountability and saying, this guy's a bum? 274 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.309 If you do that, that's not going to help recruiting 275 00:13:00.389 --> 00:13:02.929 in the future. That's not going to help the vibes 276 00:13:02.990 --> 00:13:06.389 and the chemistry in the locker room. College coaches just 277 00:13:06.470 --> 00:13:09.590 really don't do that. When they do, it makes huge 278 00:13:09.629 --> 00:13:12.960 headlines because you never do it. And generally, the feedback 279 00:13:13.009 --> 00:13:15.299 on that is generally not like, well... What a brave 280 00:13:15.340 --> 00:13:17.539 coach to say that. It's like, look at this jerk. 281 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:18.460 That's bad culture. 282 00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:22.750 Yeah, that is very bad culture. So, you know, I 283 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.230 think the answer on the offensive line is like, yeah, man, 284 00:13:26.250 --> 00:13:27.929 what else is he going to say? I don't, you know, 285 00:13:28.009 --> 00:13:31.169 he's not going to say, well, maybe we'll try again 286 00:13:31.190 --> 00:13:31.649 next year. 287 00:13:31.669 --> 00:13:32.169 I tried. 288 00:13:32.309 --> 00:13:34.350 Yeah, look, I don't know what you expect from me. 289 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:36.110 Do you see? Do you see the. 290 00:13:37.529 --> 00:13:41.850 It's... This is kind of where you get during one 291 00:13:41.889 --> 00:13:44.470 of these seasons. And it has been so long since 292 00:13:44.509 --> 00:13:47.190 Ohio State's had one of these seasons that Ohio State 293 00:13:47.210 --> 00:13:51.690 fans don't recognize it. Talk to a Penn State fan. 294 00:13:51.730 --> 00:13:53.460 They're going to be like, oh, yeah, yeah, are you 295 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.299 having that press conference? Yeah, okay. 296 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:56.440 First day, bro. 297 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:58.940 Yeah, I mean, Michigan fans, to a certain degree, have 298 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:02.200 had this type of press conference before and seen it 299 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.659 in the past. You can go through lots of teams 300 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:07.610 that are at the high– Clemson fans have had a 301 00:14:07.649 --> 00:14:09.909 whole lot of these types of press conference over the years. 302 00:14:10.409 --> 00:14:12.149 Teams that have been at the high level of the sport, 303 00:14:12.169 --> 00:14:14.389 you heard a lot of this in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this 304 00:14:14.409 --> 00:14:17.500 time last year. You're not doomed forever, but it's just 305 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.820 kind of like this is where they are right now. 306 00:14:20.100 --> 00:14:24.940 And I think one of the reasons you didn't get 307 00:14:25.620 --> 00:14:27.590 direct answers is because I don't know that there's an 308 00:14:27.649 --> 00:14:30.149 easy answer to this. I don't think it's just like 309 00:14:30.590 --> 00:14:33.090 it's easy to say, yes, push the Jeremiah Smith button more. 310 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.259 And he's telling you it's not quite that easy, which 311 00:14:37.340 --> 00:14:40.399 is all true. I continue to think they need to 312 00:14:40.419 --> 00:14:43.370 push the Jeremiah Smith button more, but it's not that easy. 313 00:14:44.929 --> 00:14:46.649 And this is all a true freshman quarterback. 314 00:14:47.169 --> 00:14:47.330 Yes. 315 00:14:47.470 --> 00:14:50.360 The underlying, overlying, sideline thing. 316 00:14:50.899 --> 00:14:53.720 The offensive line, the true freshman quarterback, the lack of 317 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:56.940 explosives in the run game, the lack of other players 318 00:14:56.980 --> 00:14:59.759 who are developing in the passing game other than Jeremiah Smith. 319 00:14:59.899 --> 00:15:01.809 They haven't gotten quite what they wanted out of some 320 00:15:01.830 --> 00:15:03.730 of the other wide receivers and the tight end room. 321 00:15:03.769 --> 00:15:06.389 I mean, there's a lot of why behind this. 322 00:15:06.549 --> 00:15:11.669 Yeah, for sure. So what do you guys think? Can 323 00:15:11.690 --> 00:15:14.509 Arthur Smith get this right? Are you as confident in 324 00:15:14.529 --> 00:15:17.169 the offensive line? Is it just as much of a, 325 00:15:17.210 --> 00:15:19.490 is it like just chalking up to a true freshman 326 00:15:19.509 --> 00:15:20.129 quarterback and this. 327 00:15:20.070 --> 00:15:21.649 Is just one of those years? It just happens. 328 00:15:22.289 --> 00:15:24.710 And I promise you it does just happen. It hasn't 329 00:15:24.730 --> 00:15:27.809 happened here in a while, but it is happening. And 330 00:15:28.049 --> 00:15:32.309 yet there are still some lifelines going on to see 331 00:15:32.350 --> 00:15:34.340 if Ohio State can get to the Big Ten Championship game. 332 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:36.820 But that'll do it from here. We're talking about all 333 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:40.419 of this stuff, all of it over at BuckeyeInsiders.com. Constantly 334 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:45.720 got a great community there. discussing it, and sharing opinions, 335 00:15:46.460 --> 00:15:50.100 not a bunch of yelling and arguing. It's adults just 336 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:50.919 talking it out. 337 00:15:50.990 --> 00:15:53.350 So if that interests you, come find us over there. 338 00:15:53.370 --> 00:15:54.570 We would love to see you. So that will do 339 00:15:54.590 --> 00:15:56.549 it from here. Thank you all for tuning in, and 340 00:15:56.570 --> 00:15:58.110 we will talk to you all later. 341 00:16:12.820 --> 00:16:18.649 Well she threw away the motel key I wish it 342 00:16:18.730 --> 00:16:22.450 never meant nothing to me Say you will, I'll say 343 00:16:22.490 --> 00:16:24.049 you will Oh yeah Say you. 344 00:16:24.029 --> 00:16:28.379 Will, I'll say. 345 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:42.629 You will If you tell me that Des Moines's alright, 346 00:16:42.850 --> 00:16:45.289 we could steal a car and leave tonight.