A review of Ohio State's offense and defense four games into the 2023 season
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🗓️ 27 September 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, where you been? But God talk is about to begin. Hey, hey, hey, come on in. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to Pakistan. Stephen means Nathan Baird, Andrew Gillis. And this is the big pot for the week. Typically, we do that on Thursday, but you know, we'll switch a rule on the off week. We're not getting anybody until Wednesday. Just a handful of players for about 90 minutes as you're listening to this. We'll be talking with them from about 12 30 to 2 o'clock on Wednesday. No coaches though, I believe. A lot of coaches on the road during recruiting stuff, but a handful of players. So I put the textures to work. I put Nathan in |
| 1:00.0 | Andrew to work a lot of homework, just a review. I think four games and you asked us to work. I don't want to insinuate that you're like cracking the whip. And you're not saying, when I say jump, you say, how high? That's not what's going on here. Stephen invited us to answer these questions. That's just questions. And we were gracious enough to say, all right. It's a by week. That's fair. I'll do your little survey. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. It's not like I'm going to take your test. I'll take your test. |
| 1:29.8 | There you go. There you go. There you go. So it's broke. But the point of the reason I wanted to do this survey is I think four weeks in earlier by week, then I think we're going to cut some tour. Typically, it's been like after six weeks. And then in 2019, they had the two by weeks during the season. But I think we've gotten a decent sample size of what Ohio State is and what maybe they can be one big opponent for the other games where some things got the flash, but we weren't necessarily worried about the score. And so I came up with about five questions. |
| 1:59.8 | And we're going to answer them on both sides of the ball. We'll start with offense. So this first segment will be all offensive questions. The second segment will be all defense. And then the third segment is just kind of vibes and feels. And I think that's how I presented to the Texas to it's a little bit of offense, a little bit of defense, a little bit of vibes. So let's get into the first question. |
| 2:19.8 | Who is your offensive champion through the first four weeks? And as you guys know, Ohio State used to put these champions list out after games. They stopped doing it after the Michigan game. |
| 2:29.8 | But the offensive champions list is typically just like guys who grade it out well in these games. And so I'm going to use this as who's been the best player on offense through the first four weeks of the season. They then will start with you. Who did you choose in this situation? |
| 2:44.8 | I mean, I don't know if it's completely reflected in usage, but I'm going to say Marvin Harrison Jr. Obviously he had a couple of pretty huge games in there. His, he affects the game regardless of whether you're throwing him the ball usually. |
| 2:55.8 | And then throwing the whole, you know, coming back in with the ankle all taped up. I'm still going Marvin Harrison Jr. first on this list. |
| 3:03.8 | So Marvin Harrison Jr. was one, two, three, four, five. He was six amongst textures and this individual votes. But yes, I know that the names above him. Some of them, I understand why they went with those names because they're basing it on how they've performed through the first four weeks. |
| 3:21.8 | Marvin Harrison Jr. just looking at the roster. Yes, he's the best player on the roster, but you're talking offense or defense. But because he had the Indiana game where he wasn't necessarily being used. And then the Notre Dame game where they did everything in their power to take him away. |
| 3:35.8 | textures, maybe with some other options, some of them, I agree with some of them, I don't. |
| 3:40.8 | I don't know. It's interesting to me. Like when I was champion, I guess I was trying to just apply the Ohio State champion standard, which is. |
| 3:47.8 | Yeah, 80% 20% of the plays, whatever there, whatever the math is. Just who plays the most excellent. I guess that's how I was going to I didn't look at this maybe is I'm sure there's some guys who got votes because in the way that you would get a like most improved vote or a |
| 4:02.8 | surprising vote. Maybe that's what some of this is. |
| 4:07.8 | Yeah, so Marvin Harrison Jr. 17 catches on the year, 336 yards and three touchdown. I mean, he's even with the weird Indiana game and the way they tried to take him away against Notre Dame. |
| 4:17.8 | He's had a pretty good year so far. And it's only going to ramp up, especially we'll see what the ankle situation, whether that's a long term team or not, but he did come back into the game against Notre Dame. |
| 4:28.8 | You're not expecting to be too long term. Andrew, who did you go with for your offensive champion? |
| 4:33.8 | Yeah, I went with Marv too. I think a lot of this. I think there I'm six really blew my mind that people would put him six. |
| 4:44.8 | I think the reason that I have him number one is, yeah, I think he's the best player in the offense. Yes, there are things that he does. Like Nathan said, like, you know, you. |
| 4:55.8 | Impact game when you're Marvin Harrison Jr. You impact games by standing there, right? |
| 5:03.8 | Like you impact games and this was kind of when we did our pod the other day, this is what I talked about with him. |
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