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Outkick The Show with Clay Travis

Clemson - Ohio State reaction

Outkick The Show with Clay Travis

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🗓️ 29 December 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome in boys and girls. What an incredible playoff game we just got to watch between Clemson and Ohio State. A lot to unpack here, a lot to dive into.

0:13.5

Let me start by saying Trevor Lawrence, flip your hair as much as you want my man. You were phenomenal. Final drive there. Final drive by Clemson.

0:26.5

They set up that Etienne play all game by running Trevor Lawrence on the fakes. I think Davo admitted it. I tweeted it right before hand.

0:36.5

That was an incredible play call at that scenario. I thought maybe Clemson had scored too quickly, but what an incredible play they had saved throughout the course of that game.

0:48.5

Credit to Clemson's coaching there. That was phenomenal. Don't worry. We got a lot of things to unpack. Final throw there. It looked to me and again we don't have the all 22 and I don't claim to be an X's and O's guy.

1:00.5

Look to me like Justin Fields tried to go back to the same matchup that Ohio State scored on the fourth down play on to take the lead, which was a great play call.

1:10.5

Great throw except his receiver lost his footing and seemed to cut left instead of cutting right and he let him across the middle. Now the safety was running the route better than the receiver.

1:24.5

I don't know exactly if you watch it right before he fell he started to cut left. I don't know if that was because he lost his footing or what happened exactly there.

1:34.5

It looked to me like he was going to cut left on that route as opposed to cutting right. That was how the game ended.

1:44.5

So many important and integral plays let me go through some of the controversial ones. The targeting play was the right call. The Ohio State defensive back led with his head. That's 100% the right call. Everybody out there trotting out their conspiracy theories.

2:01.5

It doesn't make sense and I'll get to that momentarily that's targeting in college football. Now if you feel like that shouldn't be targeting in college football, you're certainly entitled to have that opinion.

2:13.5

I certainly understand if you believe that penalty is too punitive or it's too significant to put a guy out for the rest of the game. All of those criticisms I feel are 100% valid.

2:27.5

The rule is there to try to protect college players and ostensibly the same people who are screaming we should be paying the players. Why in the world are they there being untreated unfairly.

2:37.5

That rule was put into place to try to make it safer for them. And so the intent of the rule is a good one. The rule was properly applied. That's 100% targeting.

2:48.5

Yes, it sometimes sucks that when you have a quarterback dipping a helmet to helmet can end up in that scenario. I understand the difficulty for a defensive player in that scenario.

2:59.5

But when you lead and make contact with the offensive player and the first bit of contact is with your helmet directly to another player's helmet, the crown of your helmet. It's going to be called every time. It's textbook.

3:12.5

Anybody who is arguing otherwise just has an agenda. Frankly, okay. And I understand why people are upset because it certainly shifted things. But Ohio State had ample opportunity to win this football game.

3:26.5

Dobbins dropped two foot touchdowns in the first half. He dropped an easy screen catch that was perfectly called into a blitz that would have scored.

3:33.5

He dropped a touchdown in the end zone that was initially called a touchdown. They went back and reviewed it and said no, the ball hit the ground and kick a field goal instead.

3:41.5

Ohio State was up 16 to nothing. They should have been up by more than 16 at that point in time.

3:46.5

Give Trevor Lawrence credit. The dude is insanely athletic. He can make every throw. And on that, I think it was a 67 yard touchdown run late in the first half.

3:58.5

To me, that's the play that really flipped the game because if Ohio State doesn't give up a touchdown there, I don't think they lose this football game.

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