Ohio State shuts down Washington 24-6. Next up...Minnesota!

BBC Analyst Jeff Logan breaks down Ohio State's impressive performance vs. The Huskies

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The good news is Ohio State goes on the road,
their first road test, big ten game. Talk about it,
break it down. He is Ohio State Athletics Hall of
Famer former LSU running back number thirty four, part of
our best Buckeye coverage. Jeff Logan, Jeff, it was a
good day if you were named Caden unbelievable. We don't

(00:22):
talk about d Lineman that often, but Cayden Curry and
Caden McDonald put on the clinic Saturday, Mike.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
They were special. And you know, I think the big
story on this Ohio State foot team, you know, at
least through the first you know a third of the season,
is not the starting quarterback. It's not Jeremiah. It is
this defense and the way that they are playing. And
Caden McDonald and Cayden Curry, along with Kenyatta Jackson, we're

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special in this game Saturday. If you look at the
numbers on this I mean they don't lie. I mean
University of Washington won out of eleven on third down
conversions and coming into the they were converting seventy five
percent of their third downs And we talked about it
in our pregame that that was going to be a
key stat in this game, and these guys absolutely got

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it done. And then you also look at the fact
that they sacked that high powered quarterback that was so
quick and he was he's everything that we thought he
would be. But we sacked him six times and we
also had nine tackles for a loss for a negative
of ninety seven yards in that game. So hats off
to the defense and Matt Patrician, God that they're.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Doing bringing the heat. And I'll tell you, Jeff, you
and I talked this time last Monday, and we both
agreed that we saw that line starting to come down
from thirteen and a half to down into the single digits,
and we both said, we expect this to be a
double digit win. From the buck eye, you said twenty
one points, you were close to three touchdowns, and sure enough, man,

(01:52):
it was eighteen points. So what I didn't see coming
was we would hold the Huskies to six.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, you know, keeping them out of the end zone.
They got two field goals during the game. They tried
a fake field goal, which I thought, Ohio State, excuse me,
defense really really well and proud of the way that
the special teams played in that but my goodness, when
you go on the road into a hostile environment like
that and you hold a team to two field goals.

(02:19):
It's been averaging fifty five points a game. That says
something for your defensive preparation and execution.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
So what is it, Jeff, Because and I'll tell you.
I'll admit I was wrong about Matt Patricia. I had
some doubts this summer when he was hired, and I
vocalized though, you know, he forget about college football. He's
been away from football altogether for at least a season,
and you hadn't had a ton of recent experience with
college ball. I kind of threw a flag on the

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higher thinking I don't know, but boy, was I wrong.
Matt Patricia. What's different about him in the way he's
designing this defense?

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well, I think what's really interesting is that this is
a guy that, from an experience standpoint in the NFL,
there's not anything out there that he hasn't seen before.
So from an experience standpoint, he's not a brand new
defensive coordinator. He's got the experience. And I also think
that much like Jim Knowles when he got here from
his previous job and came to Ohio State, he found

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out that the cupboard wasn't bare. He had some really
good athletes, and every coach will tell you that they're
a better coach when they got really good players. So
the combination of excuse me, his experience as well as,
you know, his creativity, along with the talent pool that
he has here, I think is a perfect combination.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
It was flipping to the offensive side of the ball, Jeff.
It was a bit of a slow start offensively, but
Julian San sort of settled in his first, you know,
real test on the road from for the buck Eyes.
I think he went twenty two to twenty eight, two
hundred yards. A couple of tds talk about that young
man's performance.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, he didn't turn the ball over on the road.
That's one of the most important things that you do.
He completed, as you mentioned, twenty two out of twenty eight.
Is solid there. Jeremiah Smith, they were trying to take
him away and they made the decision they were not
going to let Ohio State beat them deep. And Ohio
State had really no long pass attempts during the entire

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football game. Yet if you look at Jeremiah Smith's numbers,
he was targeted nine times meaning that that was the
intent to throw the football to him, and he had
eight receptions, so Washington was willing to give up Jeremiah
Smith underneath, but ultimately it cost them the game. What
a perfect touchdown pass on the drag pattern to Jeremiah Smith.

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You know, the creativity of Ryan Day and Brian Hartline
coming up with that play design sending everybody deep and
then dragging Jeremiah Smith underneath was just magical.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
I think that's what's great about the offense, Jeff, is
that with this offense, they take what the defense gives you.
Now does it take a second to adjust a little?
They saw what Washington was doing and they adjusted to it.
I mean a lot of short passes where they got
more people involved. Casmerica a great blocking back, but everybody
seemed to get involved. And once you got those short passes,

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it changed the whole dynamic because Washington literally was like.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
So now what.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
And I think that's what's great about heartline in this offense.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, the last three quarters of the game were certainly
different than the first quarter in terms of the play calling.
I think Ohio State was wanting to settle in and
figure out what Washington was doing. In reality, camp Be.
If you think back in that game, you know, Ohio
State had that ball, you know, first in goal down
there and didn't come up with any points. That was disappointing.

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You've got to make sure that on that fourth down
you get the first down or at least score the touchdown.
We could have been up fourteen to nothing early in
this game because Brandon Innes fumble on a pretty decent
kickoff or punt return, excuse me, would have put Ohio
State in position again. And I really thought we passed
up an opportunity to be up early in this game

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in the first quarter fourteen to nothing.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Former Ohouse State running back OSU Hall of Famer Jeff
Logan part of our Best Buck Guy coverage. We shift
focused down to Minnesota Saturday night at the Horseshoe, seven thirty.
Kickoff Minnesota, Jeff, they're three and one. They beat Rutgers
this weekend by a field goal. They lost to Cal
They you know, their non conference you know games were

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really nothing of note. But what do we know about
the Gophers.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well that they're they're good. They're not great by any
stretch of the imagination. You know, an emotional win for
them They were down fourteen points in this game to
Rutgers at home, and they came back from that deficit
in one. As you mentioned, thirty one to twenty eight.
You know, they're three excuse me, three and one on
the season. And if you look at what's what's interesting

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is Rutgers, which is not a very good football team.
We understand that they were interesting enough seven out of
fourteen on their third down conversions against Minnesota and the
average distance of the third down conversions was almost ten yards.
So they give up chunk plays, they give up big plays,
and I think this will be one of those games

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where Ohio State will be able to break their back
with some chunk plays. So if you like a high
scoring affair, settle in. It's a night game, and I
think Ohio State will light up the scoreboard.