October 1, 2025 • 21 mins
Buckeye Weekly Podcast: Kill-Minded Linemen and the Hungry Mindset of Ohio State
In this episode of the Buckeye Weekly Podcast, hosts Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr discuss their insights from interviews at Ohio State, featuring head coach Ryan Day and left tackle Austin Siereveld. Topics include the aggressive mentality of the offensive line, the importance of staying hungry despite winning the national championship, and the unpredictable wind conditions inside Ohio Stadium. The episode also highlights comments from Luke Montgomery and Jayden Fielding, showcasing the team's readiness and focused mindset for the season.
00:00 Introduction and Podcast Opening
00:09 Kill-Minded Human Beings
01:27 Offensive Line Aggressiveness
02:36 Ryan Day's Insights on Team Mentality
10:10 Kicker Jayden Fielding's Tackling Skills
13:56 Challenges of Kicking in Ohio Stadium
15:48 Offensive Line Communication and Silent Count
17:36 Downfield Passing Game Strategy
20:56 Conclusion and Sign Off
In this episode of the Buckeye Weekly Podcast, hosts Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr discuss their insights from interviews at Ohio State, featuring head coach Ryan Day and left tackle Austin Siereveld. Topics include the aggressive mentality of the offensive line, the importance of staying hungry despite winning the national championship, and the unpredictable wind conditions inside Ohio Stadium. The episode also highlights comments from Luke Montgomery and Jayden Fielding, showcasing the team's readiness and focused mindset for the season.
00:00 Introduction and Podcast Opening
00:09 Kill-Minded Human Beings
01:27 Offensive Line Aggressiveness
02:36 Ryan Day's Insights on Team Mentality
10:10 Kicker Jayden Fielding's Tackling Skills
13:56 Challenges of Kicking in Ohio Stadium
15:48 Offensive Line Communication and Silent Count
17:36 Downfield Passing Game Strategy
20:56 Conclusion and Sign Off
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, everybody, Welcome to the Buckeye Weekly Podcast. I'm Tony
Gerdaman here as always with Tom or Tom.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How's it going, Tony. I just heard a phrase I've
never heard in my life before, and I thought it
is a great phrase for describing a very specific type
of person. All Right, Luke Montgomery called one of his
fellow offensive linemen quote a kill minded human being. Close quote.
So number one, there's the title of the show. Number two,
(00:29):
I'd like you to guess which of his teammates he
called a kill minded human being.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm going to assume with pretty good confidence that this
is Philip Daniels that he was talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This is pretty impressive. Yes, it was Philip Daniels. I'm
pretty impressed that of the ninety some odd teammates that
he has, that you nailed it in one.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, because a couple of weeks ago when we talked
to Philip Daniels, twice in his five minutes of talking,
he talked about killing people. Now figure toiguratively, yes, and
defensive lineman specifically. So this is the mentality. And as
Ryande talked to us on Tuesday, it's like, I like
that Philip goes to the edge. We just have to
(01:12):
keep them from going over the edge at times.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Keep it figurative not literal.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, there's a lot of that, whether it's the edge,
whether it's this, that or the other. They like the
way he plays, but again, no more penalties. But also
it's a real interesting tone center for the offensive line,
and they're haul. It's not like they're all Pacifists.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, No, for sure, no Quakers in the no Quakers
in the offensive line room, at least as far as
I could tell. Yeah, it's it has been. I mean,
it is a very aggressive offensive line, and with the
way they're playing, I don't think anyone has any.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Quarrel with that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I just saw a step from the Ohio State twitter
account that Austin Cyrivald is the only offensive lineman to
not allow a quarterback pressure this season. I think on
any team, any arder in any team in college. Pretty good.
Luke Montgomery talked about the fact that you know, he
was talking about putting people in the dirt and said,
you know, was he worried about getting called for maybe
(02:12):
you know, maybe he was a little late on that.
And he said, well, I've been told to play through
the whistle. End quote. I usually don't hear a whistle
close quote. So Luke Montgomery was absolutely on fire, very
loud crowd. Also, yes, he said putting someone on the
ground is a touchdown for an offensive lineman. So Luke
Montgomery was pretty much a quote machine tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Luke Montgomery outscored Washington in that game. If pancakes are touchdowns,
that's for sure. Ryan Day talked about it initially when
he said, first he had Greg Madison was at practice today.
Former Wire State and Michigan defensive coordinator Jim Trussell was
there yesterday, and he's always getting feedback from visitors and
this is something he may be said in fall camp
(02:52):
as well. But people tell him like, this is a
good team. This is a different team than you had
last year. You could tell there's an edge to them.
And he even said at one point during camp, maybe
or maybe the spring, they had to basically separate people,
make the entire team run because it was just getting
a little too fist to cuffe if you will. But
they've they brought that edge. Talked about maturity on Tuesday,
(03:14):
talked about the edge on Wednesday, and these are things
that your coach wants you want them to be edgy,
you want them to be angry. He said, it's okay
to wake up with a bad attitude every day, that's
ryan day. He said, It's okay to piss somebody off,
Like these are things that if you're an offensive lineman
(03:34):
and your coach saying this, you're like, well.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right there, all right then yeah, and it's you know,
you want to have that kind of an attitude and
you want to have that kind of aggressive its. Football
is not a game that is It is not a
game for Pacificts. It is a game where you're going
out and you have to physically dominate whoever it is
it's across from you. Whether you're a wide receiver in
your across from a cornerback, or you're an offensive linean
(03:56):
across from a defensive lineman. Your job is to physically
dominate that person. And physically dominate is not something that
you can you know, well, you know, well as do
we can, we'll sort of, we'll see how it goes.
That's not that's not the mindset that gets you there.
So you know, you want you want the guys who
are the ones who are step across the line and
(04:17):
you become a different person. And there are a lot
of these guys who are incredibly nice human being, smart, articulate,
pretty erudite human beings, and then they step across the
field and they just want to step on your face.
And that's kind of what you need if you want
to be a you know, be able to get to
warre Olhousate wants to get this year.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The vast majority of these players are live minded humans.
Is that what live minded human? Live minded people?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Person individual kill minded human beings, so they live minded.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Uh yeah, it's also my band's name from check us
out Stasus this weekend. There's there's a there's a there's
a drop for it, but.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's a livetile At tribute band, which is weird. But okay,
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Cut all of that out. So you're talking about like
all these different demeanors. You're looking at the red line
on the practice field here. Ryan Day says, when you
walk on the well, you walk over that red line.
Football doesn't care what's going on in your life, and
it needs to be about football, and they all have
their own ways of doing that. And the offensive line
(05:25):
is a collective unit limiting the numbers of pressures and
Austin Sierraveldlo was asked about that. He's like, I didn't
know about that stat until his high school coach texted
him yesterday, so he thought that was pretty cool. But
he also said, I went back recently. He went back
recently and watched his performance against Texas. You know, no sex,
no pressures. He's like, it was bad. It was like
(05:47):
I didn't like my sets. But the message for that
game was just get it done by however you can
any means possible, and that's how he did it against Texas.
And now he's like, he's a far different player now
than he was back then. So then I asked, you know,
so what are you going to be from then to
now to November. He's like, maybe like be able to
do with my eyes closed.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I would advise you to keep your eye Yeah, but
that is so in alignment with what Ryan Day talks about.
You know, if you ask Ryan Day how they're doing,
the first thing out of his mouth every time someone
asks any variety of that question is we got to
keep getting better. We can't be hate complacent, we can't
be happy with where we are. They could have beaten
Texas by fifty points. And he listen, we got to
(06:29):
get way better. We got so much toff, we got
to get cleaned up.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, this will be good enough against Maryland.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right exactly. That's the they're not even on the schedule, exactly,
could meet him in the college football playoffs sometimes over
and they're still undefeated.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Undefeated right now.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yes, So that's kind of the mindset you have to have.
Because Austin serveld no pressure is allowed in week one,
has gotten a lot better. Guess what, Texas defensive ends
have probably also gotten better. So if you just look
at well, the didn't give up any pressures the last
time I faced them, and I'm sure nothing's changed since then.
If you again in January, guess what, some things will
(07:02):
have changed. Intient. Ohio State is not the only team
that gets better from week one to week two and
so on throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah. One last thing that Ryan Day said is that
the most desperate and hungry team is going to win
every Saturday. And that's that's a quote. So go ahead
and spray paint out on the school walls. That's not
there's there's accuracy.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's not legal advice.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well I'm talking, it's just I'm I'm only talking to
school officials legal vandalism. It's a mural.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, I like that quote the most. I had
that written down as well, the most desperate and Harvard
team is going to win every Saturday. And he was asked, Okay,
you just won the national championship last year. How are
you desperate and hungry if you're the defending national champions
And you know, I think that kind of goes back
to what we've been hearing from them four months now,
where the players after the national champions they had all
(07:52):
sorts of signage in here and you know, banners with
the you know, pictures of the games and all the stuff.
All that stuff is gone. That's all been taking Now
they've got the little you know, they got the twenty
twenty four banner there, and there's some college Football Playoff
appearance banners over there. That's it. They took down a
bunch of that sideage because the mindset has been they're
not the defending national champions. They won that, but that's
(08:12):
in the past. There's nothing you can do about that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Now you're chasing twenty twenty five, and you know, we
have seen defending national champion Ohio State teams in the
past that didn't look like this, didn't stand up well
under pressure. And the following year, I mean thirwenty two
thousand and three, they look good, but they went up
to Wisconsin and lost. They lost to a Michigan team
(08:36):
by a couple of touchdowns. Twenty fifteen, they were sleepwalking.
They were sleepwalking for the vast majority of the season.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
They were defending national champs.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, they were still on. They were on
the soapbox derby like, well, as long as we don't
run out of a hill, we have no engine, but
we're just going to coast on this for a while.
And then when the momentum stopped, it was like, oh, well,
now what you know. You go back to that season
they were in a what like since seven point game
or something, He's Hawaii in the third quarter and barely
(09:09):
beat Northern Illinois and looked terrible against Was that the
year they looked terrible against Western Michigan, And I mean
there was there were a bunch of a bunch of
games that season that were just like and this team
has not done this. This team has They took care
of business Week one against Texas, they took care of
business across the country against Washington. They've handled their business
so far, and there's a long way to go. You're
(09:31):
they're only a third of the way through the regular season,
but so far they look like a team that is
not kind of coasting. And you know, one big difference
between those is two thousand and two, they brought back
virtually everyone in two thousand and three. Twenty fourteen, they
brought by virtually everyone in two thousand twenty fifteen. This year,
twenty twenty four, there's a whole lot of new folks
and a whole lot of people who are saying, yeah,
(09:52):
I got to sit on the sidelines and watch. Now
I get to play, and now I get to try
and win my own national shape.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And the one guy they didn't bring back into thous
and three, he was probably the guy that kept them
from repeating that year. And Maurice Cloret not his fault.
Oh well, we'll change the sun complicated, let's ask your parents.
One other killn minded individual that I wanted to talk
about is Jaden Fielding, Ohio state place kicker, who equates
tackling to his his time playing soccer, which but he
(10:24):
said he did get ungodly amounts of yellow cards and
red cards, and also that he has I don't fear
anybody that's running at me. So that's what you want
from your kicker. I kind of believe him when he
says that, but also, you know who's running at you,
it's generally just a returner. Now he's not. No, there's
no that was a big returner.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, Mohammed for for Washington was not a little
sprightly little news.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It's not like there's a pulling guard, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, he was certainly giving up. I would guess he
was giving up about forty pounds in that and you know,
the mass times acceleration was also not working in his
favor on that one. But got the guy to the
ground and said he kind of got some congratulations on
the sideline after that. But you know, Ryan Day talked
about the fact that he might be leading the team
in tackles on kickoffs, which is not a good thing.
(11:13):
You don't want your kicker to be leading the team
in tackles on kickoffs because if he gets to the kicker,
that's generally not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He said, I just his job is to mirror the returner.
He did say his mom told him to get your
head out of there, and I want you to have
a brain after football. But he's that's his job. You
are the last line of defense. You are the Caleb
Downs of the kicking team. And he had half as
many tackles as Caleb Downs in that game.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, he did that, That is true. Yes, Yeah, he's
he did a nice job on that play. He's also
done a nice job just kicking in general this year.
And I think people are looking, I'm sure are going, yes,
but what about the Michigan game last year? He was
hurt last year and that was that was something that
came out kind of towards the end of the season.
He did a nice job in the playoff and you know,
obviously sort of the National Championship clar Field goal at
(12:01):
the end of that notre end game. But he said
this year is great because he could just worry about
kicking and doesn't have to worry about sort of adjusting
to you know, make it not hurt when he kicks. Basically,
he tried a sixty three yarder at practice today or
this week at some point, said it was wide left,
but had the leg. They're also doing what they can too,
you know, when you're putting kickers out there, it's hard
(12:22):
to simulate the pressure of going out there for a
game winning kick something like that. So what do you
use peer pressure? Tony uses peer pressure between the first
and second periods of practice. They send Jaden feelings out
there and say, all right, if you make this, we're
just moving on to period two of practice. Otherwise everyone
gets to do updowns. So if you are the smallest
guy on the team or one of the smallest guys
(12:43):
on the team, you don't want the big dudes angry
at you. So yeah, that is quite quite a bit
of pressure.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
At least they do it early in practice. It'd be
much worse to do it later in practice. But that
has also been the case over the years, where nobody
wants to be doing any more anything. It's like, all right,
let's see how that competitive excellence is and let's now
forty two yarder. He also Jane Fielik one last thing,
and then credited Aaron Scott, who you know Ryan Day
talked about on Tuesday, who was like nine straight kickoffs.
(13:10):
He's the first guy down there. Jane Fielding says, he's
he gives Aaron Scott gives him confidence that if he
doesn't have his best kick, Scott's gonna be down there
to make sure that there is no return to maximize
the bad ish kick.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, and he had Aaron Scott had two separate plays
where he made tackles on kickoffs and I think brought
guys down inside maybe the twenty on both of those
whereain he's the first guy down there. So if the
first guy down there makes a tackle, you're probably not
getting out to the twenty five. So yeah, that was
That was certainly a key thing for forst Saturday's game,
just in terms of Washington's offense wasn't doing much and
(13:47):
if they start from bad field the position they're really
not doing much. That's gonna there are probably gonna be
games when that matters more moving forward. But that was
certainly a big piece of Saturday's game. One other thing
that Jayden Fielding talked about was the unpredictability of the win.
Didn't side Ohio Stadium's always fun to talk to kickers
because you hear them talking. You know, they think about
different stuff than everyone else is thinking about. He's he's
watching the flags, he said, you know, you watch the
(14:08):
flights at the top of the stadium and the flags
at the top of the goal post, and they're going
in different directions, and then five minutes later it's changed
should he go and they're going opposite from what they
were before. He said, there's also certain dead spots in
the shoe where there's like a five yard spot where
there's just there's no wind, and you know, I assume
that's some combination of the press box or the scoreboard
or whatever just sort of kills the wind. And he said, finally, Tony,
(14:28):
it is easier to kick into the north end, which
makes sense because it's you know, an enclosed thing there.
You don't have the sort of sides of south stands
where the wind can kind of get in there.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, the dead spots in the stadium because Tim Mayson,
he asked him, like I talked to kickers forever and
they talk about the you know, there's dead spots and
he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and so all these
I wonder it all gets passed down, because he said
that it was passed down to him. All like a
lot of this information from Tim Williams, No most read
(15:00):
one until morrow. The kicker who did not make the
kick against Georgia.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh Noah ruggles.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, So like he passed a lot of that information
down to him, and it's a lot of it's learned,
a lot of it's uh, you just you experience it,
and it's like what in the world is because I'm
playing the wind, but then there's no win there, so
then the wind that is behind it has to catch
up with it. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I do like the fact that that was what you
thought of when you thought of him, and not the
guy who kicked the game winning field goal in the
Rose Bowl against Utah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No. Sorry, there's all I'm guessing he's probably like me
when he thinks about his time at Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
He's probably like a lot of the audience. I'm guessing.
No one remembers the kick she made. Everyone remembers the
ones you didn't. Luke Montgommery did. I'm just scrolling through
my notes right now, said he was asked about the
Washington game, you know, and playing your first road game
and having to help with the silent count and all
the sca Ryan Day shouted out Carson Heinzman and Luke
Montgomery for the job that they did in terms of
(15:59):
the silent count, because Montgomery had to look behind him
to you know, when to see when Julian Sane is
ready and then hit Carson Hinsman, and Carson Hinsman had
to snap it. And you know, they talked about how
important that was, that that the mechanics and that were
just good and consistent and no problem at all. So
Luke Montgomery was asked about, you know, well, boyd, this
is your first road you know, first true road game,
(16:21):
and he said, I played in the Cotton Bowl playing Texas,
playing Texas in Texas. I was there. It was loud,
it was a road game, and it was like, yeah,
a fair point.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, and that's not just his on experience. That's all
of these new starters saved for maybe both not even
Bo Jackson because he didn't technically start, but he played
a lot, like all of these new starters got your
see experience. That and the Cotton Bowl. Austin Sierraveld when
it was brought up to him, like, when you committed
to Ohistate, you said you'd like to have an offensive
line that is entirely from Ohio. And there are four
(16:52):
fifths of the way there, and you know the loan
holdout is Carson Hinsman from Wisconsin. So I asked him, like,
what would it take for him to be like an
honorary Ohio and and Austin said, well, I mean he's
pretty much already in Ohio and he's from Wisconsin and uh.
And then Sody said does he like Skyline? And Austin's like, well,
he does like Skyline. And then it's like, I didn't
want to get into it because then it's like, let's.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Bring Luke Montgomery here Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And exactly I didn't want to, you know, talking to
us Cincinnati person, I don't want to get into it there.
But you know, he's pretty much he's from Wisconsin, grew
up on a dry farm. That's about as Ohio as
you can get. He's basically an honorary stover right, he
did like he's he's a Midwesterner. So we all we're
all one here, just like the Ohio State pass rush.
It's all one Midwesterners, Paul One, especially on the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You got a chance to ask Ryan Day about the
aggressiveness in the passing game and the downfield passing game.
I mean that that was I'm gonna do the lazy
reporter thing and say, talk about your question to Ryan
Day about talking about the downfield passing game.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, he did say, because I asked more of their
opportunities that just didn't go for it. He didn't say
there were were, but he did say, you got to
take what the defense gives you, and that's what they did,
and he's happy with the way Julian is operating. I'm
I wanted it to follow up, but I also in
the lightning round, it's like you're trying to respect round
upon right. So it's like I want to ask, like,
(18:11):
how how are you with his aggression right now? Is
he being as aggressive as you would like? But as
long as things are going smoothly, and he said, as
long as they're being efficient, they'll take it. And right now,
efficiency is the name of the game. With the fewer
snaps and all that. So as long as the plays
that the drives end the same way right now, it's okay.
(18:31):
But you got to take what the defense has given you.
They will start to scheme up. They will have to
start scheming up some more of these deep shots. And
it doesn't sound like there's any concern with him his
ability to throw them. It's just right now, you take
what the defense has given you and I don't know
exactly what Ross full.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah. I talked to Ross Fulton on the episode of
The Morning Show that dropped on Wednesday afternoon on YouTube.
That is worth a watch. Russ always does a great
job but that and has some clips of different plays,
and I asked him about a couple of different things.
One is, are they using too much thirteen personnel? Fourteen
personnel pulling you know, a bunch of wide receivers off
the field to play tight end. So he had an
(19:06):
interesting answer on that. Also asked him about, you know
what Washington had done, how they sort of took some
of that stuff away. Ryan Walters, the Washington defensive coordinator.
Traditionally he is known as he plays man. That is
what he does. He plays man. He'll have like one
deep safety and everyone knows playing man in front of him.
And we kind of looked at that last week and went,
I don't think that's gonna go great if you do that.
And so then that was very much not what he did.
(19:28):
He got way away from what he traditionally does, played
a lot of like three deep, just kind of keeping
everything in front of him. Jedfish talked about it during
his postgame press conference actually about the fact that that
was kind of the strategy, just keep everything in front
of him, make the Ohio State kind of be methodical
going down the field. And they were able to because
they're consistent enough that they can do that. A lot
of teams can't do that Ohio State could, but it
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made them take some time and slowed the pace of
the game down and kept the score down, and that
kept Washington in the game a little bit longer. But
you know, Ross said, there were a couple plays where,
you know, you had there might have been pressure, but
there were guys open, there were shots available to take,
you know, a handful of times, not you know, not like, oh,
they had twenty times they could have thrown the ball
(20:11):
downfield and they intentionally didn't, But there were there were
a couple opportunities there that they didn't capitalize on. You
wonder if coming home this weekend playing Minnesota, and you know,
you and I just did a preview show on Minnesota
and the Minnesota defense is fine but not remarkable in
any way. You wonder if maybe you come home, you're
(20:32):
not slogging through a three nothing game twenty seven minutes
into the first you know into the first half, if
you were ahead a little bit, maybe you can get
a little more aggressive and show a little bit more
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, I would assume so at least attempt to. They're
gonna and they answer, like you said, had some shots
called the just didn't did didn't materialize, whether defense or
pressure or what have you, and they'll keep keep calling
them until they hit tom anything else.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think we covered everything from interviews, all right.
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Hello, everybody, Welcome to the Buckeye Weekly Podcast. I'm Tony
Gerdaman here as always with Tom or Tom.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How's it going, Tony. I just heard a phrase I've
never heard in my life before, and I thought it
is a great phrase for describing a very specific type
of person. All Right, Luke Montgomery called one of his
fellow offensive linemen quote a kill minded human being. Close quote.
So number one, there's the title of the show. Number two,
(00:29):
I'd like you to guess which of his teammates he
called a kill minded human being.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm going to assume with pretty good confidence that this
is Philip Daniels that he was talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This is pretty impressive. Yes, it was Philip Daniels. I'm
pretty impressed that of the ninety some odd teammates that
he has, that you nailed it in one.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, because a couple of weeks ago when we talked
to Philip Daniels, twice in his five minutes of talking,
he talked about killing people. Now figure toiguratively, yes, and
defensive lineman specifically. So this is the mentality. And as
Ryande talked to us on Tuesday, it's like, I like
that Philip goes to the edge. We just have to
(01:12):
keep them from going over the edge at times.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Keep it figurative not literal.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, there's a lot of that, whether it's the edge,
whether it's this, that or the other. They like the
way he plays, but again, no more penalties. But also
it's a real interesting tone center for the offensive line,
and they're haul. It's not like they're all Pacifists.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, No, for sure, no Quakers in the no Quakers
in the offensive line room, at least as far as
I could tell. Yeah, it's it has been. I mean,
it is a very aggressive offensive line, and with the
way they're playing, I don't think anyone has any.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Quarrel with that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I just saw a step from the Ohio State twitter
account that Austin Cyrivald is the only offensive lineman to
not allow a quarterback pressure this season. I think on
any team, any arder in any team in college. Pretty good.
Luke Montgomery talked about the fact that you know, he
was talking about putting people in the dirt and said,
you know, was he worried about getting called for maybe
(02:12):
you know, maybe he was a little late on that.
And he said, well, I've been told to play through
the whistle. End quote. I usually don't hear a whistle
close quote. So Luke Montgomery was absolutely on fire, very
loud crowd. Also, yes, he said putting someone on the
ground is a touchdown for an offensive lineman. So Luke
Montgomery was pretty much a quote machine tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Luke Montgomery outscored Washington in that game. If pancakes are touchdowns,
that's for sure. Ryan Day talked about it initially when
he said, first he had Greg Madison was at practice today.
Former Wire State and Michigan defensive coordinator Jim Trussell was
there yesterday, and he's always getting feedback from visitors and
this is something he may be said in fall camp
(02:52):
as well. But people tell him like, this is a
good team. This is a different team than you had
last year. You could tell there's an edge to them.
And he even said at one point during camp, maybe
or maybe the spring, they had to basically separate people,
make the entire team run because it was just getting
a little too fist to cuffe if you will. But
they've they brought that edge. Talked about maturity on Tuesday,
(03:14):
talked about the edge on Wednesday, and these are things
that your coach wants you want them to be edgy,
you want them to be angry. He said, it's okay
to wake up with a bad attitude every day, that's
ryan day. He said, It's okay to piss somebody off,
Like these are things that if you're an offensive lineman
(03:34):
and your coach saying this, you're like, well.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right there, all right then yeah, and it's you know,
you want to have that kind of an attitude and
you want to have that kind of aggressive its. Football
is not a game that is It is not a
game for Pacificts. It is a game where you're going
out and you have to physically dominate whoever it is
it's across from you. Whether you're a wide receiver in
your across from a cornerback, or you're an offensive linean
(03:56):
across from a defensive lineman. Your job is to physically
dominate that person. And physically dominate is not something that
you can you know, well, you know, well as do
we can, we'll sort of, we'll see how it goes.
That's not that's not the mindset that gets you there.
So you know, you want you want the guys who
are the ones who are step across the line and
(04:17):
you become a different person. And there are a lot
of these guys who are incredibly nice human being, smart, articulate,
pretty erudite human beings, and then they step across the
field and they just want to step on your face.
And that's kind of what you need if you want
to be a you know, be able to get to
warre Olhousate wants to get this year.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The vast majority of these players are live minded humans.
Is that what live minded human? Live minded people?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Person individual kill minded human beings, so they live minded.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Uh yeah, it's also my band's name from check us
out Stasus this weekend. There's there's a there's a there's
a drop for it, but.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's a livetile At tribute band, which is weird. But okay,
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Cut all of that out. So you're talking about like
all these different demeanors. You're looking at the red line
on the practice field here. Ryan Day says, when you
walk on the well, you walk over that red line.
Football doesn't care what's going on in your life, and
it needs to be about football, and they all have
their own ways of doing that. And the offensive line
(05:25):
is a collective unit limiting the numbers of pressures and
Austin Sierraveldlo was asked about that. He's like, I didn't
know about that stat until his high school coach texted
him yesterday, so he thought that was pretty cool. But
he also said, I went back recently. He went back
recently and watched his performance against Texas. You know, no sex,
no pressures. He's like, it was bad. It was like
(05:47):
I didn't like my sets. But the message for that
game was just get it done by however you can
any means possible, and that's how he did it against Texas.
And now he's like, he's a far different player now
than he was back then. So then I asked, you know,
so what are you going to be from then to
now to November. He's like, maybe like be able to
do with my eyes closed.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I would advise you to keep your eye Yeah, but
that is so in alignment with what Ryan Day talks about.
You know, if you ask Ryan Day how they're doing,
the first thing out of his mouth every time someone
asks any variety of that question is we got to
keep getting better. We can't be hate complacent, we can't
be happy with where we are. They could have beaten
Texas by fifty points. And he listen, we got to
(06:29):
get way better. We got so much toff, we got
to get cleaned up.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, this will be good enough against Maryland.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right exactly. That's the they're not even on the schedule, exactly,
could meet him in the college football playoffs sometimes over
and they're still undefeated.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Undefeated right now.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yes, So that's kind of the mindset you have to have.
Because Austin serveld no pressure is allowed in week one,
has gotten a lot better. Guess what, Texas defensive ends
have probably also gotten better. So if you just look
at well, the didn't give up any pressures the last
time I faced them, and I'm sure nothing's changed since then.
If you again in January, guess what, some things will
(07:02):
have changed. Intient. Ohio State is not the only team
that gets better from week one to week two and
so on throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah. One last thing that Ryan Day said is that
the most desperate and hungry team is going to win
every Saturday. And that's that's a quote. So go ahead
and spray paint out on the school walls. That's not
there's there's accuracy.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's not legal advice.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well I'm talking, it's just I'm I'm only talking to
school officials legal vandalism. It's a mural.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, I like that quote the most. I had
that written down as well, the most desperate and Harvard
team is going to win every Saturday. And he was asked, Okay,
you just won the national championship last year. How are
you desperate and hungry if you're the defending national champions
And you know, I think that kind of goes back
to what we've been hearing from them four months now,
where the players after the national champions they had all
(07:52):
sorts of signage in here and you know, banners with
the you know, pictures of the games and all the stuff.
All that stuff is gone. That's all been taking Now
they've got the little you know, they got the twenty
twenty four banner there, and there's some college Football Playoff
appearance banners over there. That's it. They took down a
bunch of that sideage because the mindset has been they're
not the defending national champions. They won that, but that's
(08:12):
in the past. There's nothing you can do about that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Now you're chasing twenty twenty five, and you know, we
have seen defending national champion Ohio State teams in the
past that didn't look like this, didn't stand up well
under pressure. And the following year, I mean thirwenty two
thousand and three, they look good, but they went up
to Wisconsin and lost. They lost to a Michigan team
(08:36):
by a couple of touchdowns. Twenty fifteen, they were sleepwalking.
They were sleepwalking for the vast majority of the season.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
They were defending national champs.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, they were still on. They were on
the soapbox derby like, well, as long as we don't
run out of a hill, we have no engine, but
we're just going to coast on this for a while.
And then when the momentum stopped, it was like, oh, well,
now what you know. You go back to that season
they were in a what like since seven point game
or something, He's Hawaii in the third quarter and barely
(09:09):
beat Northern Illinois and looked terrible against Was that the
year they looked terrible against Western Michigan, And I mean
there was there were a bunch of a bunch of
games that season that were just like and this team
has not done this. This team has They took care
of business Week one against Texas, they took care of
business across the country against Washington. They've handled their business
so far, and there's a long way to go. You're
(09:31):
they're only a third of the way through the regular season,
but so far they look like a team that is
not kind of coasting. And you know, one big difference
between those is two thousand and two, they brought back
virtually everyone in two thousand and three. Twenty fourteen, they
brought by virtually everyone in two thousand twenty fifteen. This year,
twenty twenty four, there's a whole lot of new folks
and a whole lot of people who are saying, yeah,
(09:52):
I got to sit on the sidelines and watch. Now
I get to play, and now I get to try
and win my own national shape.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And the one guy they didn't bring back into thous
and three, he was probably the guy that kept them
from repeating that year. And Maurice Cloret not his fault.
Oh well, we'll change the sun complicated, let's ask your parents.
One other killn minded individual that I wanted to talk
about is Jaden Fielding, Ohio state place kicker, who equates
tackling to his his time playing soccer, which but he
(10:24):
said he did get ungodly amounts of yellow cards and
red cards, and also that he has I don't fear
anybody that's running at me. So that's what you want
from your kicker. I kind of believe him when he
says that, but also, you know who's running at you,
it's generally just a returner. Now he's not. No, there's
no that was a big returner.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, Mohammed for for Washington was not a little
sprightly little news.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It's not like there's a pulling guard, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, he was certainly giving up. I would guess he
was giving up about forty pounds in that and you know,
the mass times acceleration was also not working in his
favor on that one. But got the guy to the
ground and said he kind of got some congratulations on
the sideline after that. But you know, Ryan Day talked
about the fact that he might be leading the team
in tackles on kickoffs, which is not a good thing.
(11:13):
You don't want your kicker to be leading the team
in tackles on kickoffs because if he gets to the kicker,
that's generally not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He said, I just his job is to mirror the returner.
He did say his mom told him to get your
head out of there, and I want you to have
a brain after football. But he's that's his job. You
are the last line of defense. You are the Caleb
Downs of the kicking team. And he had half as
many tackles as Caleb Downs in that game.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, he did that, That is true. Yes, Yeah, he's
he did a nice job on that play. He's also
done a nice job just kicking in general this year.
And I think people are looking, I'm sure are going, yes,
but what about the Michigan game last year? He was
hurt last year and that was that was something that
came out kind of towards the end of the season.
He did a nice job in the playoff and you know,
obviously sort of the National Championship clar Field goal at
(12:01):
the end of that notre end game. But he said
this year is great because he could just worry about
kicking and doesn't have to worry about sort of adjusting
to you know, make it not hurt when he kicks. Basically,
he tried a sixty three yarder at practice today or
this week at some point, said it was wide left,
but had the leg. They're also doing what they can too,
you know, when you're putting kickers out there, it's hard
(12:22):
to simulate the pressure of going out there for a
game winning kick something like that. So what do you
use peer pressure? Tony uses peer pressure between the first
and second periods of practice. They send Jaden feelings out
there and say, all right, if you make this, we're
just moving on to period two of practice. Otherwise everyone
gets to do updowns. So if you are the smallest
guy on the team or one of the smallest guys
(12:43):
on the team, you don't want the big dudes angry
at you. So yeah, that is quite quite a bit
of pressure.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
At least they do it early in practice. It'd be
much worse to do it later in practice. But that
has also been the case over the years, where nobody
wants to be doing any more anything. It's like, all right,
let's see how that competitive excellence is and let's now
forty two yarder. He also Jane Fielik one last thing,
and then credited Aaron Scott, who you know Ryan Day
talked about on Tuesday, who was like nine straight kickoffs.
(13:10):
He's the first guy down there. Jane Fielding says, he's
he gives Aaron Scott gives him confidence that if he
doesn't have his best kick, Scott's gonna be down there
to make sure that there is no return to maximize
the bad ish kick.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, and he had Aaron Scott had two separate plays
where he made tackles on kickoffs and I think brought
guys down inside maybe the twenty on both of those
whereain he's the first guy down there. So if the
first guy down there makes a tackle, you're probably not
getting out to the twenty five. So yeah, that was
That was certainly a key thing for forst Saturday's game,
just in terms of Washington's offense wasn't doing much and
(13:47):
if they start from bad field the position they're really
not doing much. That's gonna there are probably gonna be
games when that matters more moving forward. But that was
certainly a big piece of Saturday's game. One other thing
that Jayden Fielding talked about was the unpredictability of the win.
Didn't side Ohio Stadium's always fun to talk to kickers
because you hear them talking. You know, they think about
different stuff than everyone else is thinking about. He's he's
watching the flags, he said, you know, you watch the
(14:08):
flights at the top of the stadium and the flags
at the top of the goal post, and they're going
in different directions, and then five minutes later it's changed
should he go and they're going opposite from what they
were before. He said, there's also certain dead spots in
the shoe where there's like a five yard spot where
there's just there's no wind, and you know, I assume
that's some combination of the press box or the scoreboard
or whatever just sort of kills the wind. And he said, finally, Tony,
(14:28):
it is easier to kick into the north end, which
makes sense because it's you know, an enclosed thing there.
You don't have the sort of sides of south stands
where the wind can kind of get in there.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, the dead spots in the stadium because Tim Mayson,
he asked him, like I talked to kickers forever and
they talk about the you know, there's dead spots and
he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and so all these
I wonder it all gets passed down, because he said
that it was passed down to him. All like a
lot of this information from Tim Williams, No most read
(15:00):
one until morrow. The kicker who did not make the
kick against Georgia.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh Noah ruggles.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, So like he passed a lot of that information
down to him, and it's a lot of it's learned,
a lot of it's uh, you just you experience it,
and it's like what in the world is because I'm
playing the wind, but then there's no win there, so
then the wind that is behind it has to catch
up with it. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I do like the fact that that was what you
thought of when you thought of him, and not the
guy who kicked the game winning field goal in the
Rose Bowl against Utah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No. Sorry, there's all I'm guessing he's probably like me
when he thinks about his time at Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
He's probably like a lot of the audience. I'm guessing.
No one remembers the kick she made. Everyone remembers the
ones you didn't. Luke Montgommery did. I'm just scrolling through
my notes right now, said he was asked about the
Washington game, you know, and playing your first road game
and having to help with the silent count and all
the sca Ryan Day shouted out Carson Heinzman and Luke
Montgomery for the job that they did in terms of
(15:59):
the silent count, because Montgomery had to look behind him
to you know, when to see when Julian Sane is
ready and then hit Carson Hinsman, and Carson Hinsman had
to snap it. And you know, they talked about how
important that was, that that the mechanics and that were
just good and consistent and no problem at all. So
Luke Montgomery was asked about, you know, well, boyd, this
is your first road you know, first true road game,
(16:21):
and he said, I played in the Cotton Bowl playing Texas,
playing Texas in Texas. I was there. It was loud,
it was a road game, and it was like, yeah,
a fair point.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, and that's not just his on experience. That's all
of these new starters saved for maybe both not even
Bo Jackson because he didn't technically start, but he played
a lot, like all of these new starters got your
see experience. That and the Cotton Bowl. Austin Sierraveld when
it was brought up to him, like, when you committed
to Ohistate, you said you'd like to have an offensive
line that is entirely from Ohio. And there are four
(16:52):
fifths of the way there, and you know the loan
holdout is Carson Hinsman from Wisconsin. So I asked him, like,
what would it take for him to be like an
honorary Ohio and and Austin said, well, I mean he's
pretty much already in Ohio and he's from Wisconsin and uh.
And then Sody said does he like Skyline? And Austin's like, well,
he does like Skyline. And then it's like, I didn't
want to get into it because then it's like, let's.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Bring Luke Montgomery here Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And exactly I didn't want to, you know, talking to
us Cincinnati person, I don't want to get into it there.
But you know, he's pretty much he's from Wisconsin, grew
up on a dry farm. That's about as Ohio as
you can get. He's basically an honorary stover right, he
did like he's he's a Midwesterner. So we all we're
all one here, just like the Ohio State pass rush.
It's all one Midwesterners, Paul One, especially on the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You got a chance to ask Ryan Day about the
aggressiveness in the passing game and the downfield passing game.
I mean that that was I'm gonna do the lazy
reporter thing and say, talk about your question to Ryan
Day about talking about the downfield passing game.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, he did say, because I asked more of their
opportunities that just didn't go for it. He didn't say
there were were, but he did say, you got to
take what the defense gives you, and that's what they did,
and he's happy with the way Julian is operating. I'm
I wanted it to follow up, but I also in
the lightning round, it's like you're trying to respect round
upon right. So it's like I want to ask, like,
(18:11):
how how are you with his aggression right now? Is
he being as aggressive as you would like? But as
long as things are going smoothly, and he said, as
long as they're being efficient, they'll take it. And right now,
efficiency is the name of the game. With the fewer
snaps and all that. So as long as the plays
that the drives end the same way right now, it's okay.
(18:31):
But you got to take what the defense has given you.
They will start to scheme up. They will have to
start scheming up some more of these deep shots. And
it doesn't sound like there's any concern with him his
ability to throw them. It's just right now, you take
what the defense has given you and I don't know
exactly what Ross full.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah. I talked to Ross Fulton on the episode of
The Morning Show that dropped on Wednesday afternoon on YouTube.
That is worth a watch. Russ always does a great
job but that and has some clips of different plays,
and I asked him about a couple of different things.
One is, are they using too much thirteen personnel? Fourteen
personnel pulling you know, a bunch of wide receivers off
the field to play tight end. So he had an
(19:06):
interesting answer on that. Also asked him about, you know
what Washington had done, how they sort of took some
of that stuff away. Ryan Walters, the Washington defensive coordinator.
Traditionally he is known as he plays man. That is
what he does. He plays man. He'll have like one
deep safety and everyone knows playing man in front of him.
And we kind of looked at that last week and went,
I don't think that's gonna go great if you do that.
And so then that was very much not what he did.
(19:28):
He got way away from what he traditionally does, played
a lot of like three deep, just kind of keeping
everything in front of him. Jedfish talked about it during
his postgame press conference actually about the fact that that
was kind of the strategy, just keep everything in front
of him, make the Ohio State kind of be methodical
going down the field. And they were able to because
they're consistent enough that they can do that. A lot
of teams can't do that Ohio State could, but it
(19:49):
made them take some time and slowed the pace of
the game down and kept the score down, and that
kept Washington in the game a little bit longer. But
you know, Ross said, there were a couple plays where,
you know, you had there might have been pressure, but
there were guys open, there were shots available to take,
you know, a handful of times, not you know, not like, oh,
they had twenty times they could have thrown the ball
(20:11):
downfield and they intentionally didn't, But there were there were
a couple opportunities there that they didn't capitalize on. You
wonder if coming home this weekend playing Minnesota, and you know,
you and I just did a preview show on Minnesota
and the Minnesota defense is fine but not remarkable in
any way. You wonder if maybe you come home, you're
(20:32):
not slogging through a three nothing game twenty seven minutes
into the first you know into the first half, if
you were ahead a little bit, maybe you can get
a little more aggressive and show a little bit more
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, I would assume so at least attempt to. They're
gonna and they answer, like you said, had some shots
called the just didn't did didn't materialize, whether defense or
pressure or what have you, and they'll keep keep calling
them until they hit tom anything else.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think we covered everything from interviews, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
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