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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

How Ohio State's defense stacks up nationally, what Nebraska can learn from the Buckeyes, and tasty squash

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

On this Monday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird are breaking the pod into three segements. First, from the start to 23:35, Ohio State football: A rewatch of how the defense played vs. Toledo A big-play breakdown for the OSU offense and defense Snap counts for the linebackers, defensive ends and receivers And more Then, from 23:25 to 1:04:27, national college football and how the Buckeyes fit in there: How Garrett Wilson played in his second NFL game Sunday Where Ohio State's defense ranks compared to other top teams The Michigan-Maryland matchup coming Saturday Penn State's win over Auburn What Nebraska should learn from Ohio State and whether Urban Meyer, Tom Herman or Brian Hartline could make sense for the Cornhuskers Then from 1:04:27 until the end, it's Whatcha Watchin', Whatcha Eatin', Whatcha Thinkin': TV shows that are good and/or annoying us Squash Job interviews and what happened to Craig Kilborn? Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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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, come back to a Monday

0:27.2

book. I talk it's Doug Lane racist Nathan Baird. We do this on Mondays. We look at Ohio State. We talk about the national

0:33.2

college football picture. And then in the third segment, we do what you're watching, what you're eating, what you're thinking, Ohio State,

0:42.2

still number three in the country in the polls. We'll get to Nathan's ballot on that a little bit later, but Nathan out this 77 to 21 win. You and Steven and I had a, you know, discussion about the 21 77 really good.

0:56.2

We did a little discussion about the 21 of the post game pod. You said you went back and rewatched a lot of the defense from this game. We know Dequan fin the title quarterback did a little something here and there.

1:09.2

What did you glean from your rewatch of Ohio State's defensive performance?

1:14.2

So really one of the primary questions we had coming out of that was how much of what we saw was very specific to the Dequan fin experience.

1:25.2

And if the similar things had happened with a less dynamic quarterback from a run game perspective, what would have happened when I went back and watch the game.

1:37.2

I think it's possible that this could have been like 91 to nothing pretty easily, but here because there were I accounted 11 plays on the first eight possessions that

1:54.2

that Toledo had. So that was up to when they scored the 21st point. It was 49 to 21 at that point. 11 plays. And I think that might be conservative where an Ohio State player basically had his hands on him or was within

2:10.2

like less than an arm's length of grabbing him. It looked like and did not tackle it.

2:16.2

And a lot of that was just his elusiveness. Some of it was just instinctive stuff. Some of it was some I think just fundamentally good play on his part and being able to read some things and know how to get out of some situations.

2:33.2

I'm being a little facetious with the 91 to nothing thing, but I there were several plays where several possessions where they were like one of those plays away from getting out of a problem.

2:45.2

And the third. Okay, so the fourth possession of the game, I think exemplifies this in a lot of ways.

2:54.2

They had on third and 11, they were in the jack and they didn't do a lot of jack in this game. It was a lot of base defense in this game or and or or base defense with Jack Sawyer and or Javonte jump up teased standing up as the end, but that's still the base defense.

3:11.2

It's not the Jack, the Jack is when they're as we talked about moving the guy around the front, but they're in the Jack and Javonte Jean Baptist on third and 11 and they have him sort of spying fin and the play breaks down there.

3:26.2

He drops like the past, the coverage is there. So now he starts to scramble and Javonte, Javonte, he comes up to engage him and fin just juke him and takes off and converts the first down.

3:42.2

And so now instead of being out of that possession, it goes on for a lot of more plays on the very next play.

3:52.2

The draw on cage penetrates gets into the backfield, but then I felt like watching it as a basketball coach the way they tell you never to leave your feet under the basket.

4:01.2

He penetrates. It's just him and Finn now. He leaves his feet and as soon as he goes up, Finn's like, well, I'm just running around this big guy. It just takes off running.

4:10.2

And I think if you just kept his feet and kept running after that play would have happened differently. Instead, he completes a pass.

4:17.2

The, the, the, the, there were on that possession alone. There were five different instances where I thought they basically had him.

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