Building Ohio State's best defensive lineup for a playoff game

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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On this weekend Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means look at the Ohio State linebackers as a way to get into the best starting lineup for the entire defense. The linebackers and assistant coach Al Washington spoke to reporters this week, which provided a little more info about a position where the top four players from a year ago are gone. So the guys talked about the Buckeyes most likely to play at linebacker. But at the suggestion of a text subscriber, that expanded into a discussion of the 11 defenders most likely to play if the Buckeyes had a College Football Playoff game right now. So they provided an 11-man defense on first down and an 11-man defense on third-and-long if the Buckeyes were facing Alabama, Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia or USC in a playoff game. Plus, Doug provided a little advice on colon health. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.0	Welcome back to WickedBuckITalkConclude.com, Doug Lamarie, St.
0:29.0	Barrett, Stephen Mean.
0:30.0	We're going to talk about defense and what would be the perfect, the ideal defense for the
0:36.5	book guys to put on the field in the playoff.
0:40.0	Who are those 11 guys?
0:41.0	And if Ohio State makes the playoff there, as we said here in March, you think on first down,
0:46.0	first in 10, who would be on the field, and then like the first third in law, who would
0:51.0	be on the field.
0:52.0	We're going to talk about sub packages a little bit, and that's going to lead us through our
0:56.0	linebacker conversation because Al Washington and the linebackers spoke at the end of this
1:01.0	week, but I don't think we can do an hour on linebackers.
1:03.0	There's not that there's nothing up there.
1:05.0	No offense to linebackers, but I mean, take a little bit of offense.
1:09.0	We can do an hour on running backs.
1:11.0	So we're going to put them in the context because I do think like who the linebackers are,
1:15.0	who's on the field.
1:16.0	That's a big part of who your best 11 are, Nathan.
1:18.0	That's like, you know, that's a fundamental part.
1:21.0	Yeah, we'll get into Rushman package and, you know, who's your slot corner and that kind of thing.
1:26.0	But the linebackers are a big part of this.
1:29.0	And I wasn't on the linebacker call.
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