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Welcome back to Buck I Talk. I'm Stephen Means. That's Defon Christenka. And that is

Andrew Gillis. And this is your Thursday book I talk, I forget what day at the week.

It's a bye week, so my entire week has been thrown off here.

Yesterday, we talked about Ryan Hartland and the offense after talking with the coordinators

in Ryan Day on Tuesday, and now we're going to dedicate the entire pot to the defensive

side of things where we're going to spend 45 minutes going defense good and then we're going to say

it 45 million other ways so we can get 45 minutes out of this podcast here's the raw

stack for ohio state through three games and you take all this with a grain of salt because

nobody's played anybody in a consistent way yet i'll say it's given a 5.3 points per game that's first

in the big 10 and second in the fb s 3.86 yards per play. That's fifth in the Big Ten. That's 15th in the FBS.

Passing yards per attempt, 4.9. That's fourth in the Big Ten. 16th in the FBS.

Rushing yards per attempt, 3.15. That's 10th in the Big 10 and tied for 44th in the FBS.

Stephons, what's been the most impressive thing about Ohio State's defense through three games?

I think for me, it's been the versatility, the different ways that Matt Patricia has been

able to line up this unit, different formations, different groupings of personnel.

I think one of the funnier parts of his press conference Tuesday was, you know, being asked about the depth and, you know, maybe kind of even overthinking sometimes with all the different things you can do. And he joked about how he'll write down a million things on the whiteboard and then realize, okay, well, we can't do all this because we don't have time to practice all this. So we got to maybe temper down and roll this out a bit slowly. But, you know, I think Matt Patricia realizes just how talented this unit is. Not to say that Jim Knowles, I guess, didn't. But I don't think Jim Knowles experimented with it enough as, as he could have just because of the way he appreciated his system. And it was a good system. I mean, it worked for Ohio State, won them a national title or helped to win a national title. But I think the way that Matt Patricia has kind of been open to doing anything and everything with this unit has made it really fun. It makes it fun to analyze. Like, yeah, you're right. We could sit here for 45 minutes and just say, you know, this defense is really good.

But they've given us so many different things that, you know, I'm excited about Big Ten play because we can say,

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