The future of Ohio State's run game, plus transfer news

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this Wednesday Buckeye Talk, transfer news opens (0:30) the pod -- one transfer that could affect teams that matter to Ohio State, plus one Buckeye leaving in the portal, and another that could be interested in coming in as a transfer. Then (15:29) it's onto the main topic of the episode -- the Ohio State run game, how the Buckeyes use their running backs and how often, and what that might look like this year. How will the OSU running backs factor into the offense compared to last season? Compared to J.K. Dobbins' 2,000-yard season in 2019? Compared to the run game history of Ohio State? Compared to how the pass game is used? There are some numbers about the frequency of the running back usage a year ago that might surprise you. And Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means dig in deep on this topic, as spurred on by text subscribers. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got to talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:28.5	I'm back on your Wednesday, Buck, I talk to Doug Lamaries, it's Nathan Meredith Stephen,
0:32.0	means we're getting away from the NFL draft. We don't want to inundate you guys.
0:34.8	We're going to be doing more. The Friday pod will be what happens in the first round for Ohio State
0:39.9	on Thursday, the NFL draft with CJ Stroud and Paris Johnson and Jackson Spith and Jacob
0:43.8	and everybody else. And then we'll do a pod. The plan is for the Monday pod to be wrapping up what
0:47.5	happened on Friday and Saturday in the draft. But we know you guys care most about this team.
0:52.3	So we're going to talk about the run game, the run game. What should it be? We have some historical
0:57.1	stuff like what it's more philosophically. I'm not we're not here to say, I think my
1:02.0	in Williams should have 176 carries and Trayvon Henderson should have 191. We're not doing that
1:07.2	exactly. But like and and by run game, I mean running a back run game because actually that's
1:13.4	what we mean these days. So I went through and I grabbed all the running back run game back to 2016.
1:20.0	What portion of the offense it's been, how successful it's been yards per carry. It's 38% of the
1:25.9	offense. What it's been. And then what it should be, what it should be in 2023. And we'll talk
1:31.3	about, I really want to be run game philosophy because we're going to have plenty of time. We did
1:35.6	it the spring. We're going to have plenty of time in August to dig in on dividing up carries between
1:40.0	Charlie and Henderson and Dalin Hayden and mine Williams and everybody else. But this is more like a
1:44.2	Ryan Day Bryant heartline question. Like what should they be trying to do? But first some transfer
1:49.7	stuff. I'll start with this quickly. And I will direct people to the first episode of the College
1:56.6	Football Survivor Show this week. Whenever it is up, it should be up by early Wednesday at the latest.
2:02.8	Tyler Buckner, the quarterback who started against Ohio State last year and then got hurt and was in
2:08.8	a competition with Sam Hartman at Notre Dame this spring. Sam Hartman the Wake Forest Transfer.
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