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What about the book I talk with Stephen Means and Nathan Bear, the Monday book I talk, what it means pod.

We've worked shopped it a couple of weeks now. I'm falling in love with it a little bit. It actually means a lot this week. No pun intended because we're coming off of Ohio States 37 to 17 went over Maryland and there's a lot of things of what this kind of means, what this went because you won by 20 points, but it wasn't perfect.

But it wasn't perfect. It was far from perfect. In fact, the way we talked about it on Saturday, pod, you would think that the world was coming to an end the way we talked about it at times, but Nathan and I we've had a chance to rewatch it a couple of times here. Nathan, let's let's start with the offense.

And more specifically, let's talk about the past protection of the offensive line. I went back and watched the three sacks, one of which was a was really only a sack because calm accord, you know, he tried to run a screenplay.

It got blown up. So calm accord tried to dead to play, but he didn't dead it in a way where he ends up getting the intentional grounding. So that one doesn't even count. It's really the first two.

First sack comes in the first quarter, third and 10 and because we don't have all 22, we can't really see what's going on down the field. So from the way we have to watch it on television, the only route that's open is caged over.

And I'm pretty sure Maryland is in zone and he's running a crossing route. So even that's open, but he's probably not going to catch it because of the fender waiting right there ready to break it up.

So part of me wants to say coverage sack just based off of that, but like I said, we don't have the all 22. So we don't know if Marvin Harrison Jr. Meckibuka or Julian Fleming are open down field because they're out of the screen.

But what we do know is what the offensive line did in that situation.

Simmons lost Simmons lost and it forces Kyle McCord back up into the pocket. And he seems fine. He doesn't seem like he's rattled or anything, but he steps up into the pocket the way you expect to.

But the problem is then the middle of the pocket explodes on him because Carson has been get beaten kind of gives up on the play. And so it ends up with a sack.

And here's the other one and maybe we can get into this in the way in just in case you you saw other situations that didn't necessarily end up in a sack, but still show it some situations where this is clearly a problem.

Second sack also in the first quarter. It's on a third and 16 where Josh Fryer gets a bull rushed backwards and just flat out loses in that situation.

But Kyle McCord gets away, but also Josh Simmons once again, he loses because he gets caught up in a stunt where Donovan Jackson plays it the right way.

But Josh Simmons comes in a little too much and the guy beats him to the outside and ends up with a sack on calm or those are just the two that ended up in sacks.

I'm pretty sure there are other situations where Kyle McCord was under duress for a lot of times where whether it's him holding on to the ball too much or offensive lineman just getting beat by whether it's things defensive coordination or scheming up or just losing their one on once.

I was struck by how easily Maryland at times was just pushing guys back on in past protection and that all of a sudden, you know, you've got a guy push back through four yards and now you just sort of reach over and you're then you're on top of Kyle McCord.

And that happened too many times I thought on Saturday or maybe it wasn't even too many times, but the times it was happening were striking because I don't think that had been a problem in the previous four or five games.

Four games. So I'm not sure why it became a problem this week. I do know that, you know, Ohio State has been, I thought from rewatching this game, I thought something Andrew said after the game made a lot of sense and we were talking about the possible solutions that Ohio State has to this that.

The running a lot of things that take a lot of time to develop and that's been a hallmark to the Ryan Day offense for a while that long developing plays and that made a lot of sense in the days of four plus NFL offensive lineman in front of you.

I think that maybe they need to back away from that a little bit because I do think it rattled Comma court early in this game.

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