A hard look at Ohio State football special teams -- Are the results worth the effort?

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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On this Monday Buckeye Talk, it's time for an in-depth look at Ohio State special teams. This is worth the time since three major special teams played affected the end of Ohio State's season -- the miscommunication on what should have been a fake punt vs. Michigan; the fake punt that was stopped by a timeout vs. Georgia; and the missed field goal to end the Georgia loss. To get at those issues, Doug Lesmerises spent 20 minutes interviewing OSU specials teams coordinator Parker Fleming when he was available a few weeks ago. In what was almost a one-on-one interview, Doug dug in more on special teams than Buckeye Talk has done in a long time. On this podcast, Doug shares his thoughts on whether Ohio State should have an entire assistant coach devoted to special teams, and gets at what didn't work for the Buckeyes. He does that while sharing audio clips from Fleming in that interview. We think this was a worthy dive into this part of the game, and thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.7	Welcome back to your Monday book.
0:57.7	Okay, I talked to Cleveland.com, we're doing special teams football today, and this is
1:02.9	one that I've had holstered, and I've wanted to get to you guys, and I think it's worth
1:06.2	our, it's the off season, my gosh, of course it's worth our time.
1:10.2	So what we're going to do, this is going to be a little disjointed.
1:12.5	I usually like our flow, I'm a big flow guy, a buck-eye talk.
1:16.8	But this is an interview with Parker Fleming, Ohio State's special teams coach, but is
1:20.3	that really an interview with him?
1:22.1	It's my thoughts about Ohio State's decision to have a full-time special teams coach.
1:26.5	What Parker Fleming does is at the best use of a position for a 10-man assistant coaching
1:31.6	staff, and like, are they getting bang out of the buck for this?
1:36.0	So I did some research on special teams coaching in college football, and when Parker Fleming,
1:40.5	this is like multiple weeks ago now, we talked to all the Ohio State assistants in a great
1:44.9	interview session on February 1st, on Signing Day.
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