00:00what do you what did you make of that game and what are you making of Ohio State so far
00:04this year
00:08oh we got it muted we got to turn it up look look at that rookie rookie mistake um you
00:14know
00:14right there right off the bat but um no I'm gonna say stunned in the press box you know I
00:21had as we
00:22were getting ready for Notre Dame Miami I had they had the tvs up and I'm watching Ohio State
00:27Oregon Alabama LSU and I was probably equally stunned by those two games because one I thought
00:32LSU was going to beat Alabama and it just kept getting worse for them and then the the way that
00:37Ohio State lost was stunning I mean I don't know that they recovered I've heard this on the morning
00:42shows in Columbus obviously that I don't know that Ohio State recovered from that punt the fake punt
00:48play and it just snowballed from there and you know there's going to be a lot written over the next
00:54couple days about Ohio State and the program at large I think you guys probably have better
00:59insight to that as former players because you you know what it's like to I mean Bobby I mean when's
01:05the last time when you were doing this in the NFL after back-to-back losses it doesn't happen often
01:09in Columbus so we're going to find out a lot about that locker room these next three games because to
01:16me
01:16being the glass half full person that I am if they went out there's still a path to the Big
01:22Ten
01:22championship it's complicated but they're going to need some help they're probably going to need
01:26some help from USC this weekend and I would prefer to look at it that way but they have to
01:32look the
01:33part and they have not looked the part the last two weeks yeah I would say yeah there's positive that
01:39there's a path and that they can get this back on track but I do kind of question the locker
01:45room
01:46right now based on how they came out against Oregon because I feel like that was the perfect
01:50bounce back spot where you struggle against USC you come back against Oregon you're able to kind of
01:55get things back on track the offense gets moving the defense makes its adjustments and it just seemed
01:59like nothing happened in the entire practice week so that's I'm really nervous about that but yes you
02:05have to look at it in a glass half full kind of way and you have to go out and
02:08win these last three
02:09games and if you don't make it to the playoffs then at least you build a little bit of momentum
02:13going
02:13into next year yeah and and I heard a stat yesterday I believe they said there's 51 new
02:18players at Ohio State I do think there's something to the in this NIL era how much do you care
02:26about
02:26Ohio State how much you know there are guys Bobby grew up in Lancaster we talk about this all the
02:32time
02:33there are a handful of guys that live in Ohio that all they want to do their whole life is
02:38play for
02:38Ohio State still there are guys like you that come into the program and I can tell how much you
02:42love
02:43the program you know just from playing there and being a part of it and being a part of that
02:47successful
02:47run and it goes down to like the Lou Holtz theory which is ironic because I was up there in
02:52South Bend
02:52when they honored him where he used to say you know he wanted the guys like Chris Zorich you know
02:58you saw
02:58that in the documentary the guys that just love Notre Dame and you know he told the story about Chris
03:03Zorich
03:03crying uh after they lost me the year before so I mean you need some of that within the program
03:10and
03:10maybe that's a missing piece um and then you need the four and five star guys to go out there
03:15and
03:15and compete but the roster is super talented they did lose a lot of players on defense I gotta emphasize
03:21that as well when you lose all 11 players that were on that national championship defense that were
03:27drafted and you're watching what Arvel Reese is doing on Sunday and some of those other players
03:32it's impossible not to say well eventually you're going to take a little dip on that side of the
03:37ball but I didn't think it would be that much yeah and that's and that's what the question is and
03:41some people are trying to figure out is it scheme is it coaching is it player execution there's bigger
03:47things like you look at some of the things you're touching on like are there cultural issues or there's
03:52some individual game issues obviously the fake punt like game issue open field tackling has been an issue
03:57the last couple weeks the bigger thing to me Bill as I've looked at when you look at Dominic
04:02college football teams they always kind of share the same traits when you look at Ohio State the
04:07Ohio State teams that have won national titles or been really really good over the last 15-20 years
04:13they've been really good up front on both sides of the ball and I don't know that this Ohio State
04:17team
04:18defensive line wise has looked as good as they have in the past and then offensive line wise I think
04:23there was this expectation they're going to be really good and they have three guys who were
04:26integral in that national championship run where they were able to run the ball on everybody and they just
04:30haven't looked as good and people are like well Julian you know even before he got hurt was
04:35struggling like well yeah he's been under pressure look at the last two games last year look at Fahey
04:39they haven't been able to really run the ball maybe as well as they have outside of the USC who
04:44you know they don't really play a whole lot of run defense Bill and so to me
04:47you go look at Georgia look at teams that have been really good
04:51you know the Bama's even Utah this year like Notre Dame like they've been good in the trenches and I
04:57don't know that this team has played to the potential or expectations that everybody had for them to start the
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