Breaking Down the Ohio State Buckeyes | IT Live

0:00Ohio State, week, Paul, on TechSummer. That's Paul, I just said his name. And this is brought to you by Academy Sports and Adores. It's the Tuesday show where we break down the upcoming opponent. I'm very excited for this one. Oh, I think this promo is actually dead right now. Just go, just go sign up for Inside Texas. Just go do your thing right now. I don't even know what our new promo is. You don't need a promo. You don't need a promo. Pay full price, guys. It is crazy. The amount and quality of content we're turning out right now. Everyone's fired up about the season. So I know it's awesome on the board and on the channel. And Instagram's popping right now too. All I got to tell you guys, we have a ticket giveaway for Ohio State going on Instagram right now. Last time I checked it had like 7,000 entrants in like eight hours. So go over there, check out the Instagram post and see if you can get some free tickets to Ohio State. But also Paul, first, we do need to promote this. Thinking Texas football, 2020, 26 longhorn football prospectus. And then I think you probably did a little ride up on Ohio State Paul.

1:00So they should check that out, right? They should. I did a pretty thorough research of Ohio State. And it's held up after watching the McIntyne's ball state. I'll have some thoughts on that. And look, guys, for two months of every year, I'm a hot shot bad ass best selling author. And then for about 10 months of the year, I'm bummed. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't even know about it. He only moves into a South when he's riding. Most of the time he's on the streets. That's right. So help defend my being a notable useful person, another week or two. But I have a feeling my late September early October sales are not going to be great. Connor, I'm just going to say that. Yeah, you got to get it up front, man. You tallhorn. Let's just give it away, Paul, before we break into it. But feeling any better or worse about Ohio State. Paul, feeling any better or worse about OSU. We got a fire Nick Saban, Paul. You can't lose that game to Texas in Tuscaloosa.

2:02Little better. Definitely a little better. Obviously, there's some things that need to come together for us. But I feel better. I think we're going to have a good game plan on defense. The Sark versus Patricia Battle is going to be awesome on the whiteboard, and also just in terms of in-game adjustments. Ohio State had some real struggles on their O-line. Against ball state. That doesn't show. You're going to be like it's 56 to 3. They had 671 yards. What on earth are you talking about? Go watch the All-22, which we did. And you'll see some real struggles. So that said, Julian Sain looks like a second year quarter back now. The receivers are awesome, including Devon McEwan, the transfer from UTSA. Looks really good, to be honest. And then their running backs are much better than they had last year. Bo Jackson is legit. This young freshman from Texas, Legend Bay. Oh my god. I was watching his quarterback highlights, dude. He's the lateral move he put on ball state.

3:04Dude, that was so let's see. Let's see. It's one of the sickest things I've ever seen. So the first thing I did here was Legend Bay. Let's see. Elite short area lateral ability was the first note I gave on Legend Bay. He can move. Yeah, it's insane. That was the first thing I did on the Dev chart where I wrote about him is that he, and he did, I was like, went back and watch his Huddle in high school as a quarterback. And he needed a little bit of distance, but he would just start reading the edges and just teleporting and doing whatever he wanted. So he's a lot of fun, man. Yeah, they've got some dudes, but that defense is largely new. They've had a couple of guys that have leveled up. Kenyatta Jackson is going to be a problem. That guy's really good now on the edge. However, they've replaced some really good players. And I think the secondary is going to be the place that we want to get after him, because they're two best players in terms of pure raw talent underclassmen. And then they've got these sort of stalwarts who returned

4:04to have started for Ohio State. He weren't the main players, guys like McLean, Matthews. And then they brought in Earl Little from Florida State to play strong safety. And he's doing a good job. But thank God he got out, brother. Thank God he got in. Yeah, he and Juice Cry are better, better pray every night to be glad and grateful. But in totality, that secondary is not last year's secondary. And we've got to get, we've got to get after them. And as talented as their true nickel freshman is, and this dude's awesome, he's a true freshman, we got to get Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo on the slot. And we got to make this guy show that he understands how to play ball. So it's going to be a good idea. Did you see the one they motioned out the receiver and then they were supposed to not take the switch and stay manned and he busted. And then they got the play. And then I can't remember which corner. I think it was Germain Matthews. You can tell who was wrong by who immediately turns the other one and starts going like this. Yeah, Germain Matthews is like, no. Yeah. That's the opportunity in this game.

5:05And I think we're catching them at the right time for that opportunity. Because by mid late October, Patricia is going to have them more coached up. But there's a lot of talent on the Ohio State D. The D line is a little deeper than I thought they were going to be. That's the main thing that would change. In my preseason opinion, they've got a couple more dudes there than I thought. Yeah, they also have 900 linebackers. Yes, they played throughout the game. And then all in different spots, sometimes they're Sam, sometimes there wasn't, I was trying to get the logic, not of the position, but of the rotation. And they just played a bunch of dudes man at linebacker. And so that was a big theme I saw too. A lot of 4-3-2 as well from them, not just purely nickel. Paul, do you want to look over some stats here? Let's give the caveat. It's week one, baby. It's week one. I mean, is it that more than a caveat? Not necessarily. It's not as crazy of a swing as you would think. I'd like like three games, but it's not like, it's not too crazy in week one to get some inkling.

6:08So there's things where you're like, yeah, I think we're probably good at that. And then there's some things where like, let's keep an eye on that. Can we set the measure for ball state and sort of what they represent? Because I know a lot of people, you can't keep up with the G6. I only keep up with it for gambling purposes. And I'm not trying to do the transit of property. I'm trying to give you an idea of a level of competition. If ball state, let me ask you, Connor, if ball state played Texas state on a neutral, what do you think the line would be? I'm not sure what the percentages would be there, Paul. Oh, yes, yes. I'm not sure. What do you think they would be? The market, I think, would say, you know, certainly double. You can say how many, I mean, how many points? Yeah, I think it'd be double digits to minus for Texas state. I think it'd probably be minus 17, something like that. So, Paul, you think they're still at this rank though?

7:09I mean, their OFEI from last season's 130 second and 118th, they're often did some cool stuff with their quarterback. I don't think they're as bad as last year, do you think? They're going to be a lower tier Mac team. And the Mac is the lowest, one of the lowest tiers of the P6. So, or the G6. Yeah. Yeah, they did. Well, hopefully that's good for playing Ohio State then. They didn't even attempt an offense. Well, they had their quarterback went sicko mode, dude. He just starts spitting around. Yeah, they're just, they're just not very good. But anyway, just to give you an idea, Texas state's a little bit more robust than ball state. Yeah, absolutely. So, let's take a look here. This is Ohio State's offense on the left here and the Texas defense on the right here. All right. So, yards per play, they were third in the country. Total yards per game, they were second. Fee eyes being lazy and not updating this stuff Tuesday morning as they're supposed to. So, I don't know their points for drive. Pretty decent success rate at 28.

8:11Not as great as you would want to see versus ball state in that scenario. 26 in explosiveness. So, you have a lot of good stuff here like yards per play, but these numbers here are good, not elite yet for Ohio State. And they had some, a lot of issues. There are 77th in havoc rate from the front seven from ball state. So, when you're bringing offensive line for Ohio State, it's been a question, right? And they had some big moments there. So, I pay attention to that. Can the Texas defense of line create some havoc here against Ohio State? Because ball state was able to do it a few times. So, the most useful thing I saw from watching their tape that must champ Will implement and be encouraged by, we're gonna play some line games because Ohio State did not handle them well. It did not allow ball state to get pressure on saying. They did get a sack. That was a running back missing a block on a blitzer. But the run game got really screwed up by all those line games.

9:14And so, you'll see Bo Jackson and Jacobi Jackson averaged like nine or 10 yards of carry. It's because late in the game, each one of them dropped a big run. When ball state had sort of tapped out. And that really salvaged the box scores. Early running for Ohio State was a tough, tough row to hoe. And I'll be releasing my offensive preview for Ohio State right after I get off this. And you'll see some of the clips that I pulled to show you. But Will Must-Champ's gonna be very encouraged to play games up front. And particularly put in maybe some quick guys inside and move them around a lot. Maybe put in Diffard as like a base and anchor. And then play three quick dudes around them and have them run around a lot. They did not handle it well and it really confounded their run game. That's gonna be something that Must-Champ is gonna see the tape and be very encouraged by. Yeah. Let's look on the flip side to the Texas defense here in comparison.

10:19So pretty good. I mean, these are good numbers. These are not great numbers. 34th and opponent yards per play. They were 86th and defensive success rate. So Texas State was able to move the ball forward out of clip. More than you would like to see, we have to see how much of that is a product of just Texas State being a good offense, GJ Kenny being a good play collar. How much of that was veer and shoot design versus maybe a legitimate weakness for Texas we have to see. Explosiveness, we were 48th. We gave up some explosives. We saw there. To much to Ian's dismay, hope you're watching Ian. We gave up some explosives there. And then we did all right on havoc. 26th in front seven. Now they get the ball out pretty quick there. So maybe that's what's going on there. But I think with our defensive line, you probably expect that to be higher. And then DB is not a ton of havoc here at 75th. So Texas's defense had an all right good, not great performance versus Texas State statistically.

11:20If you guys were privy to the text chains between Connor and Ian, it's a great study in psychology because Ian is all about denial and Connor is all about overreacting. And then the two meet and you actually get the truth somewhere between. So it's fun. Connor will freak out about an eye yard run and then Ian will deny that it ever happened. It's really fun. It's fun to sit there and witness it. Yeah, but that's what we're looking at here. Texas D rank overall. Now let's go look at Ohio State's rushing and Paul pointed out a good point early. So their rushing and explosivity they were fourth. They got a lot of they had like at least three really like huge runs. They came in the second half. They didn't come early on in the game. They are for rush for seventh because of that. Now I hate when people are like, if you take away the explosives, then they're not that good at running. I get the point is to try to get down to some type of rushing consistency. I totally get that.

12:21But the explosives are part of the game. And in Texas is going to absolutely keep those explosives in. I think Ohio State might have to as well. But you can see down to down their rushing success rate was 63rd. So they were not rushing consistently. But those becks are athletic and fast. And if you let them get the edge, they can go for 60. So that's the key there is can we can we keep them down to down, but really don't let that lead happen. Don't let the early play versus Texas state occur. That's the big key for me in the Ohio State stopping their rushing attack. Yeah, I want thing to note that was interesting. I don't know if you notice this Connor. Boy, I thought saying looks a lot more comfortable now in RPOs. Yeah, he had an outside zone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he had an outside zone one that was beautiful. I mean, he is quick like his mind. He sees it man and it gets out there. And I understand there's criticisms of saying. He was a first year quarterback last year guys.

13:22So relax, especially our game, and especially our game, dude, they were not letting him do anything. I can pull some arch film for you from last year that you will be impressed. So everyone realized that players can get better on their team too, right? But his quick mindedness and his accuracy on RPOs is was really impressive to me. And by accuracy, I don't just mean, yeah, you threw it to the guy. And, you know, I mean, he's hitting the correct part of the upfield shoulder. The receiver can get an extra seven yards of yak, right? And that's where you really know a quarterback is sort of like seeing it and feeling it. He put on, I would say, what, 15, 20 pounds of good weight. Yeah, I don't know if he got to 2, 14, but he's definitely more filled out like. He looks stronger. Yeah, he is bigger like there's no question. That's the first time I've heard you say it, Paul. You're normally like, I'm not buying the way, dude. That's right. That's right. That was the first time I heard you be like, I might be buying the way. So we haven't hit passing yet, but I just do want to impress the spawn people.

14:23So deep accuracy for saying in the big 10, he was first at 62% deep completion. That's crazy. He was first in the intermediate range for 70%. And he was first at 89.8 for sure. Saying is deadly, freaky, accurate. That's something you have to be hyper aware of. The problem with saying is he's not flashy. He doesn't run. And college football hates that. They need, they need moxie. They need a guy to flex. They need an 80 yarder. Saying that's not his temperament or personality, but he can absolutely kill you in accuracy. So I know he doesn't like, he just doesn't get the credit he deserves in that regard. He's playing incredibly high level football at the quarterback position. He's just not juking someone and going for 80, which we all know and love. That's his weakness. He doesn't act cool enough. But damn, he's good. All right. So that's the rushing offense. We'll see the rushing defense here. Texas rushing defense was OK to below average in a couple spots.

15:27So rushing success rate, they were 60th in the country. Texas State was able to move the ball forward. Pay attention to that is once again, is that scheme? Is that much champion conservative? Why is that? We have to see as the games continue. Rushing and explosivity, we are 59. We gave up some big runs as you guys saw. And then upon a yards per rush, we were 47th. So they were consistent there as well. So Paul, what's your kind of thought on the Texas defense run game? Why these numbers weren't top 10 as they frankly normally were in previous seasons? Well, I'm so glad you asked Connor because we're going to be doing a film study later today that we're going to release. We're releasing that on Wednesday or on Tuesday. No, we're going to release it tonight. Good. So you guys look for that. We're going to show you some of the things that we did wrong in Rundee. We messed up some stunts. And we've got a couple of guys that need to have raised their level. I think one of them has already lost his starting job. So that's kind of addressed. And the other guy needs to step it up a little bit.

16:28So we're talking in that instance about juice prior and Derek Williams. These guys have got a little bit, be a little more Johnny on the spot. But in fairness, we got a couple of calls that were not great. That went against us. And then also the execution of the calls were not great. I think that's going to improve. I think we're going to see a little more urgency. And I think we'll be a little bit over at the point of attack. We didn't play Ian Gafard a lot. But when we did, he was utterly dominant stopping the run inside. I think he's going to get some more snaps against the buck eyes. So just a little preview in that regard. And then we just need to tighten some stuff up. A lot of it was, hey, don't do that sort of instruction. Rather than, oh, that guy sucks. What are we going to do? That's not the feeling that I had. I had the feeling of like, hey, you got to tell Colin Simmons not to do that. That's a lot more encouraging than four years ago of like, well, our edges stink.

17:29And there's no replacements. So do the best you can. That's a very different feeling. We need some more data points. Before I say we have a non elite run defense for the first time in five years, for sure. More data. More data is coming, man. And I think too, there's going to be a sense of urgency with a Ohio state. Hopefully, there should be. It looks better there. Eric reported must champs kind of running conservative week one. There's factors here 100%. I'm just reporting. I'm just reporting the news, baby. This is the news. And I can tell you after looking at the debut of some even the so-called bad or average teams on our schedule, we're going to have more data than we want. Like, we're going to play a bunch of really good offenses and really good quarterbacks. So y'all are going to have more data than you wished for. Because if you didn't see any Camario Taylor highlights or you didn't see Florida's new offense, the data's coming, baby. It's coming.

18:30I haven't seen Florida. I actually didn't see Florida. Camario is, he's fun to watch. Yes. Not going to be fun to play for fun to watch, for sure. But yeah, that's kind of what's going on here. There's opportunities, right? If you can stop the explosives, a versatile Ohio state, you can be in a lot better position. You can frustrate them. And then that gives you an opportunity to get into passing downs. Saying is deadly accurate. He's on time. He's super aware of his scheme. He knows what he's doing. Paul mentioned ball placement. He's just a smart quarterback, man. But one flaw in his game is when he has to start stepping around and there's guys moving around him. That's where it can get a little shaky for saying. He likes kind of a perfect set of conditions. And if you allow those, that perfect set of conditions, he's going to, he's going to dice you up. But stopping the run is what allows you to get in that situation and maybe try to attempt to fluster a saying. So the run game, as always, will still be a key here for me. Let's look at the offensive line.

19:30Because that's something we kind of talked about with Ohio State. They were 53rd in line yards. They were 74th in rushing power success rates. So like the gotta have it, I'm stronger than you. I got to blow you off the ball. Didn't do well there. And then their stuff rate was really bad. They were getting hit behind the line for no gain. So 85th in the country, Pac pointed out to us in a group chat that Ohio States, they're not able to climb. So they had to kind of do the Texas special where everything becomes the screen. I think Pac calls it turn blocking. They had to kind of do all, and that's where their explosives came, kind of off of shielding. But if you notice, none of it was IDing linebackers and attacking them. Yeah, I thought I'd call that like a screen o-line. And what I mean by that is not we're throwing screens. I mean, they're just trying to screen guys off. Like, I'm physically in the way between you and the ball carrier. I'm not moving you. I'm not getting any vertical displacement. I'm just kind of in the way. I'm hoping the ball carrier cuts off me. I don't like that.

20:32I'm still seeing some stuff on our o-line. Colk Kubelik mentioned it on Twitter. I don't see strain and I don't see guys firing off really hard. And it's just been a feature of our o-line for a little while now. And it's just kind of maybe like, I guess it's just how it's going to be, I guess. These teams are oddly similar on offense. Yeah. Seeing their runs through explosives, their offensive lines are not molars. They're just kind of getting to a spot. The boat teams have great receivers. And their offense is very similar, right? It's very pro style. You're going to see a lot of 12 and 11 in the concepts are all NFL concept. These offenses are very, very similar, even in personnel ways, but also in just their numbers and how things come through fruition. It's a little odd. There's times in that game where you could switch jerseys and you wouldn't be able to tell if that was Texas or Ohio State. Pretty unique in that regard. Let's look at the matchup, the defensive line versus the offensive line of Ohio State here.

21:32Our defensive line yards were 57th, which is above average, but not even really in the good tier yet. Defensive rushing power success rate at 60% 37th. Good stuff rate was 63rd. So right about average stopping backs in the backfield. So nothing crazy here, but nothing also blinking bright red. And here's something I'll tell you guys too. If something's bright red, it freaks me out because that just over time doesn't go from like horrible to great. But all of these numbers, like 57th, 37th, 63, you can absolutely year in punching range of a game changing it. So that's a factor too. So I don't get as freaked out about this. Get reds? Paul knows. I get a little nervous when I see those, but these are punching distance. Maybe it's week one. It's new scheme. Let's see kind of stuff here. Paul before we keep going.

22:33I want everyone to hear a word from Kat. Turn everyday spending into more fun. Earn unlimited two percent of rewards when you spend outside Academy. My Academy rewards Mastercard, the official card of fun. All right, Ohio State passing offense, everyone knows that's something you got to pay attention to. Their passing success rate was eighth. What's odd? Exposivity was 87th. Now, keep in mind, you know, saying played a driver to in the second. They weren't trying to go crazy. This is about a half. They were getting frustrated in the run game and they decided, you know, wouldn't it be cool if we just threw a fade to Jeremiah Smith and he caught it for like 60 yards? They can turn that on when they need to. They weren't really trying to put a ton on tape here, passing your exposivity wise to the text along horse. Most of their stuff frustratingly to me is they had been hard headed in the past about still trying to make everything deep. And I think this year more than I've seen, they kind of relented to like, okay, people

23:34are going to have nine safeties back there. Like, what are our intermediate routes? Where can we sit down? Does everything have some type of change, meaning that if it's man, you keep going, if it's zone, you sit down. And they were just hitting a lot of these very simple, run 10 yards, turn slightly in and sit and get the ball. And Texas versus Texas State, we're having trouble in the intermediate part of the field. It's very in shoot so they open up the intermediate part of the field. So we'll have to see if that's a scheme thing. But if we have that level of vacant middle of the field, Ohio State is going to move the ball really, really well. And that's going to be different than previous games in my opinion, Paul. Yeah, I thought that's where McHughan came in. He was sort of there. If they're in zone, what's wrong? This is when we saw colleges at the age of 19. And then he's thinking, we can't- me, we know where the lobbyists are. And that's where the lobbyists are in the group. Something in the world. I heard that, before, Wерхmerhan was meeting with calling them for an interview that a black bury pin was generally called. They want to talk to an older president and ask the black bury

24:37me to go see some may talk to the number of folks I've played, around 18 years in the national equal circle. a fashionable thing right now is to be like, oh, they don't have carnal tape. It's just your, am I a Smith now? I mean, I watched the tape, Devin McEwan's good. Sorry. He is. Yeah, he is. And what is, he's fast as hell, man. I can't remember what he was. Let me see what McEwan was. I don't know his speed. I know his speed. 10 to 800 meter. Yeah, it's crazy to guy like that slip through the cracks in Texas. Yeah, he's fast. And, you know, you'd see a say has another guy like that. They're running back Will Henderson. He's a Gilmer guy. So you know how we ended up at UTSA. Yeah. That guy's a 10 to 100 meters guy. Like when we play UTSA, he'll be the fastest guy in the field. It won't be a Texas guy. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it's just crazy how the state churns out these sorts of athletes. And they don't even end up on your top 100, right? And Ohio State is well aware because Ohio State's roster is full of Texans who are starting for them.

25:38So. Yeah, it is very frustrating like seeing Riley Petagion in Sanchez and you're like, damn it. Yeah, I mean, Peyton Pierce. You know, just they've obviously got Sanchez and then Legend Bay. I mean, legend is going to be a big deal to Ohio State before he leaves. Guys know that know the name because that dude from Forney can play. He's crazy. Ohio State makes me more mad when they take a player than like even Oklahoma. I get Ohio State's the one that for whatever reason bothers me the most when a Texan goes there because I know they're going to be activated and used very well. I think that's probably the reality of it. I do get a kick out of like I remember going to the festival that we've won against Ohio State a few years back, but Quant Cosby catch win. And Ohio State people were like, you guys can't play with these Ohio boys and all this. And I was like, none of your players are from Ohio. Yeah. We're all from Florida South Florida, Texas and California. So I don't know what you're talking about.

26:39For sure. Team completion percentage. 83% Paul for fifth in the country. Yards for pass. They were a passing yards per game. I don't really love passing yards, but still feel like it too. Now, so they're efficient saying we'll get the ball. And I don't the I don't know Paul. Let's talk through this. I feel like zone is somehow more dangerous than man at times right now for them. How they're sitting down. How their offense is designed assuming that. And they're just finding spots. And if you don't contest those receivers early, say it's just going to give it to them within two, four yards. So I don't know what you do here because it seems like they have the answer for both right now offensively. What do you think? Yeah, I prefer to be played man with safety side. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. I think you need man. I think you need man underneath.

27:40Because otherwise you're just giving free access to saying and he's going to hit it. He had one throw that was awesome. There were like two guys and the ball placement was perfect. Like down on the receiver's hip and he got out in a second. I think you have to contest them short. And then I don't know if it's your playing cover two, man. I don't know. But just hanging out in zone, I think they're going to dice us up. I'm excited to see how much champ kind of introduces a little bit of design chaos there because I think you need it. Quarterback sack percentage ball. What do you think of that? He was 46, but it's saying got hit through the A gap, man, by a ball state linebacker one time. And then on the other sack, I think the left tackle and the running back got B in protection. They had a couple of dramatic looking pressures, but not many. But that's kind of what you have to do. I mean, if you want to get hits on saying so must champ is charged with that and we've got to get some pressure on them. Obviously, look, Ohio State didn't know they had o-line problems really until late in

28:42the year. And then Indiana and Miami revealed that to them in succession, right? We want to reveal their o-line problems in week two this year. And that's the goal. So must camp needs to throw the kitchen sink at them. We need to be moving. Our guys need to be there can't be like on any past play or any play. Our defensive line can't be like measuring their energy or like, well, let me hold back a little for the next snap. It's like, dude, we've got a bunch of guys. You got to throw it out, put it out on the line. And when you exhaust yourself, we'll put another guy in. So we've got to get to say in. We've got to get to him quickly. It's probably what do you think he has six feet, six one? Yeah. And you got to get in his face. You got to obscure his passing windows. And we got to get hits on him. That's what Miami and Indiana did. And it really threw him off his game. So just move him off the platform too. He doesn't like people around. He's like, the psychology of hitting him 100%.

29:45But he also just doesn't like this going on in his periphery. He wants to be on his spot on time and turn it into seven on seven. And when he does that, man, it's hard to beat that guy. There's not any. You won't stop him if you do that. Yeah, I agree. But you've got to create some noise in his head and around him and some have some turmoil. And he's getting bumped. And why am I need to get him pushed back into him as he's releasing the ball, all that. So our delineates to bring it. I'm not saying we didn't play hard against Texas State. And I know it was like 150 plus on the field. But I did watch the all 22. And we had guys jogging on the backside. We had guys passing down to when the game was in hand, kind of firing out and just like kind of mummy dancing with the offensive linemen across from him. Let's take a break. Let's both agree mutually. You know, like we do in Thursday practice in high school. You're like, dude, don't show me up. And I won't like pancake you. We have this one defensive lineman who was such a try hard.

30:48There was just going, oh, there's getting a good rep. And there's just being silly. And I have to tell him, you just fire out and try to put his helmet into your mouth. And I remember with him, I'd just be like, do equipping an idiot, man. You're 5' 11, dude. You're not going to college here. I don't know who. There's no scouts here, man. Chill out. But yeah, I exactly know what you're talking about. But it is, there can't be too cool for school stuff. Texas needs to bring it. It needs to be, we are desperate playing for our football lives. Like, I want to see that level of intensity on both sides of the ball, because we're going to have to do that a few times this year. But Ohio State is the first time we've got to do it. And I understand that you guys are like, you need to think like the CFP committee. They're looking for head-to-heads with other major conferences. And you could be like, well, contextually, LSU destroying the mid-tier ACC Clemson.

31:50That's not how those hoople heads think. The SEC went undefeated in week one and week zero. That is meaningful. And you could be like, whoa, who are the wins? Just don't overthink this. Think like a CFP committee idiot. Think like a midwit. And just understand that these games matter a lot. I mean, in fact, Mississippi State traveling to Minnesota is a big deal. I know you're going to be like, what? Just trust me. The kinds of data that these hoople heads get and make decisions on these inner conference games. And obviously playing Ohio State's a big deal. It's not Minnesota. These games mean a lot to them. And they're sort of metrics. And I say metrics loosely. So it'll be a blowout if you play a man. I don't think we'll play a man the whole time. Of course, we're not going to play a man the whole time. And also when I say a man, I know that Harkin's cover one. I think people think it means cover zero. Yeah. I mean, I'm talking about like match principles where you can actually still get doubles on guys

32:51and stuff like that. So I mean, there's like types of man coverage where you're man underneath. And then you've got two safeties behind you who have everything passed over your head. I'm not saying go go see if you're better one on one with Jeremiah Smith. Jeremiah Smith is better. We're not just saying that. I'm just saying that like the true, if you think of like true country zone two, they're also destroying that. So it's like you've, there's got to be a blend here. And you do have to mix aggression in here. Even if it's off speed to throw them off, but they're doing that was my biggest takeaway from their passing game. I'm like, they're just taking what you're giving them and what you're giving them is still 15 yards at a clip. So you have to be aware. There's a perception, I think that zone is quote unquote safe. Louisville spent the entire game in cover three against Trident Outch Ambles and Ole Miss. And they kept finding guys wide open up the scenes for long long scores. So every defensive call, it also depends on how you play it. It depends on your personnel,

33:52it depends on what you're conceding, et cetera. There are ways to play man that are very safe where you've got cover over the top. So that's what we're encouraging. They're online pass blocking efficiency. They were 108th in the country ball. That's incredible. So we should get about 13, 14 sacks. Easy. Okay, he's good. But they're having communication issues. So the biggest weakness on their team right now is Philip Broke, that right tackle. And I see why they're in that position because damn, he moves great. Like that's an NFL athletic profile. He has no clue what he's doing. He's running the wrong way on run blocking, running into the line. He's getting absolutely cooked by ball state ends. Collins Simmons will get four sacks if Brooks is in the game. That guy, he looks awesome. He's not ready to play at a high level. Then they switch it around. I think Sarahville goes, ends up going to right tackle. And then they bring in, what is his name, Ian something?

34:52Game and sickle. No, it was game and sickle that came in at left guard. Brooks comes in later on in the game. But none of their tackles right now are elite pass blockers. And so I am interested there. There's steps are a little bit slower than they need to be. And their packs, they're quick setting. And the Texas edges can take advantage of that in their drops. They're not putting in those packs. Quick set is. Yeah. So you're basically jumping on the defensive lineman. Instead of sitting back and waiting for the pass rush, would you say that's the simplest way to explain it? Well, no, that's jumps it quick set is just the quicks. They're not getting depth. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. So they're just they're they're they're going back, but they're not going back far. So they're just kind of getting a step back. And if you do that versus the Texas edges, they're going to beat you around the edge. They need to get more depth. Maybe that's because they know it's ball state. And they're like, we don't need that level of depth, but they did because the ball state edges were actually

35:53getting some reps against that. Philip Daniels, physically imposing. He's the other tackle kind of a space cadet. Yeah, there's a couple of days. And he's stepped the wrong direction. Yep. Like, so guys, like if you're running left, your first step needs to be left. He stepped right and ran into the guard. And he did some other weird space cadet stuff in there. They pulled him at one point. They put him back in. That's something to look for as well. I mean, they got some issues on their O line. We're not the only team in college football with some online insecurities. Ball state were able to run games on them too. And they weren't able to pick it up. And it's not like a lack of athleticism, but they were having comms issues on the interior as well. So that's a huge key to the game here. Is can you confuse Ohio State? Because they were getting confused by Ball State. On relatively simple stuff, this stuff you saw from Texas all last year, where it was just this guy

36:55chips and this guy wraps around. And the guard doesn't even get a hand on them. That was happening versus Ohio State. Yep. So pay attention to that, because I think that's an important matchup. So let's look at the defensive side real quicks. Our opponent passing success rate, our defensive success rate against the pass was 103rd. So some of this is Texas State is designed to just get the ball out. They're going to make quick progress. Most of the fight is at the line. But still 103rd, I don't feel great about that. Like if it was 40th, I would feel a little better. But it was 103rd. So why is that? Were we not contesting enough? Is it really just Texas State's offensive design? We need to pay attention to it. But I'm telling you, if you play off of Ohio State in the short game, saying it's just going to dump it off in a half second. So you need, and I'm not saying you got to go man up, me queueing in short area. I mean, he's a 10 to 8 guy. Like he'll win that matchup. But you need to be there. You need to be in the area at time.

37:55So I'm paying attention to that ball. And then passing explosivity, we were 48th. We gave up a high amount of completions, 69th in the country and giving up completions there as well. Pretty good 35th in opponent yards for pass. What did you see from the secondary ball from your all 22 watch? Largely good. I do not understand why Kobe Black was moved to safety and is going to be our starter there. Let's see. Beaumasco needs to get some of the Rutgers out of them. Yeah. He's taken some reps. He's got a little too much cool guy. Like too cool for school. I'm not going to finish this route because I have contempt for you. He needs to get that out of his system because that's not going to fly against better teams. And he could have paid for it maybe last Saturday if maybe there's a little better ball on a couple of those. Kate Phillips, I thought did pretty well. Yeah, he played with a lot of inspiration too.

38:55He was aggressive pack immediately. One of the first clips he sent me in and was Kate Phillips is blocking a dude out of bounds. So Kate's getting active out there. I appreciate it is. Tlani had six solo tackles by the early second quarter. So we asked him to do a lot and he's going to have to do a lot. He's going to have to save our bacon a few times this year. And then I liked what I saw from Jonah Williams, at least in terms of run support. He's getting down, he's getting his hat downhill and tackling well. I don't know about our past coverage yet because I don't think we're running all of our stuff yet. But we did run some stuff against Texas Day. I mean, I think everyone's like, oh, we held everything back. We ran a lot of different times. And must-champs trying to run it in real games to get the guys to know what it feels like in a real game. I think it's interesting not to switch sides of the ball, but how much does Ohio State want to run? Because I know Patricia can get deep in the playbook

39:57with some cool stuff. But there are two most talented guys in the secondary, like Raw Talent or Underclassmen. They're on the road. They've got new linebackers. I think the new linebackers are good. They're just not recent styles who are freaks. All right. How complex does Ohio State want to get on the road with like a true freshman starting at Nickel? I would be a little leery about getting too deep. So that's going to be an interesting battle too, right? Which defenses can get deeper in their playbooks and confuse the other signal caller? Yeah. And that true freshman did bust some plays versus a ball state. I, so Jonah was late on a couple of past concepts, but he's so athletic that he was behind the guy, got beat, and then just caught up to him immediately and made the tackle. There were a couple where the safeties were late to help out the number one receivers running some type of faiths that's very enchute. So they're way out in like Mississippi.

40:57So I get it. But watching them recognize it, at least with their head, not really with their feet a little bit late. The Cade Phillips DPI was, Jolani was a little late on that. And also that DPI was kind of ticky-tack. But the safeties weren't super sharp in play recognition, but they just would immediately counter it with, that I'm faster than you. The problem is Ohio State has receivers that you might not be able to do that with. So be aware of that safety play. Vertix out for me on the secondary. Just be upfront. I need to see more from the secondary. I'm not sure they're yet right now. But yeah, their numbers are okay, minus success rate. You have opportunity to see Get Nickel and Die. I'm gonna Ohio State will actually take that now if presented. This is OFI and DPI. This is not even been updated after the game. This is a projection. Don't internalize this. You can look at it. Ohio State OFI is third in Texas D is 10th. This is based on projections.

41:59We're just moving on. I don't want to talk about something that hasn't occurred. Okay. So this is where we can pay attention here. So Ohio State standard down rate, meaning that they're in second and five, even first and 10. They have the whole playbook available to them and they're not facing a weathering pass rush as standard down. You want that. If you could have 100% standard down rate on offense, you would take it. Ohio State was at 73% for 50th. So not as great of a situation as they need to be in, but their success rate was good there at 13th. So look at the flip side, Paul. Texas defense was 131st of 136 teams in the nation and standard down rate. So they weren't able to get into any of their pass rush. Do I think they're 130 first in the country? No. But do I think this can mean they're gonna end up 70th? Yes. And so that's why I'm paying attention to this. Because the whole point is we really want to see that Texas pass rush get activated. If you let teams stand standard down,

42:59so you don't get to see call on offense. So that's why I'm really keyed in on that. I don't think it'll be this bad, but I'm paying attention to it. Any thoughts there, Paul? I thought that was our coverage choices early in the game. If you remember, Texas State started what like six of eight for 32 yards passing. So it's a lot of four and six yard completions on first down and you went up in second and four, second and five. I don't think that's determinative. I almost think that's meaningless. It's just noise. That's not signal. Yeah, I mean, some of that was skimmed up too. Like we were in man and the guy got ran off and then they threw both sparks right behind it on a screen and Johnny had to come down. Some of the... So it is Texas State is competent. That's the point, right? Ball State's not competent. Yeah. That's they're not good. So Texas State on offense is legitimately competent. And so, doesn't matter how good you are or how many draft picks you have, they have things they can run if they recognize your defense

44:00that they will gain yards. And they do. And so that is kind of the divider in football, right? Texas State can go run offense on any team in the country. It doesn't mean they're gonna score a bunch of points or like, you know, crush anybody. It just means if you line up in a certain way and G.J. Kenny recognizes it, they've got the beater and they can gain six yards. I don't view that as like, oh, what an indictment. I just think it's all a noise. It's... And there's much more talented teams that can't do that. They can't execute at that level. There's a Jim Rat aspect in Texas State that other teams can't duplicate. So you kind of have to factor that in. Because people are always like, well, you know, how many draft picks does that offense have? That's how good they are. You're forgetting a lot of like Texas football and their success with like Colt McCoy and Shipley and Cosby, like those are Jim rats, basically just like beguiling whatever the defense wants to do schematically.

45:01And so Texas State was attacking us schematically and they have ways to do that within their offense. And then they've got a quarterback and receivers that can execute it, right? Most teams we play actually can't do that. Even if they have more talent on paper. So that's kind of how I come down on that. Maybe I'm wrong, we'll see. But I don't view like a team hitting a six yard pass on first down is like the end of the world. So... Yeah, yes. Yes. They did it more than once. You're saying you're minimizing a little bit of six yard pass on for... Yeah, but it's like, well, was it every first down they were doing that? So that's where with the Texas State it makes people nervous. I want you to pay attention to this ball. Standard down success rate for the Ohio State offense is 13th. What is their passing down success rate? 78th, okay? Make them uncomfortable. Get them out of that. They, if you keep them on system and saying those what's gonna happen,

46:01you're gonna get beat. But as soon as you make them a little uncomfortable, maybe we need to force something, their offense doesn't perform at the level that it does on standard downs. Now, here's the, here's an issue. Texas's passing down success rate was 134th in the country. So only two teams had a worst day in that regard in college football. So we need to pay attention to that. Why was that? And we need to pay attention there. So normally you would have the matchup advantage but right now from week one, Ohio State, even though they're not good, there still has a significant matchup advantage. So some of our biggest passing plays happened on like third and two. That's good to be. Even though it's not a pass, we found it. Definitially. I talk about our defense. Oh, I talk about our offense. I'm talking about our defense. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, I'll just. So our defense was struggling there and passing down success rate.

47:03So be aware of that. I mean, they, remember they had like those slant conversions on third and shorts? Like third and fourths. Oh, Texas State ran those little slants. To Chris Dawn and got first downs and then Brad Jackson had his cramble, et cetera. So yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, we also like a third and three. I'll have to see. I don't think they qualify that as a passing down. It's like third and eight is a passing down. So it's like it's the, when the passes are deeper, they're having success against us. So it wasn't just Nicklin diving that they were getting this on there. So, so then I'm paying attention to just. Yeah, anytime you see these reds, pay attention. All right. So they had, let's see here if there's any mismatches. So on third down, Ohio State was 30th in the country. That's good, but that's not like, you know, Ohio State is top five. That's something that's absolutely pay attention to. Problem is third down defense, we were 86. And so once again, are they scheming it up?

48:04Maybe so, but pay attention to third down defense here. There's some of the situational stuff I'm not loving from the Texas defense week one. So red zone. Let's do touchdown only, because I don't care about field goals. Texas defense was 30th. Ohio State was first in the country, they were 100%. So these are the numbers you shouldn't pay too much in attention to, because there's only like four or five maybe instances of it so the numbers can skew. But I'm just showing that to show you. So Ohio State sacks allowed, they allowed two against ball state. That made a 79th in the country. So pay attention to that. That's a factor our weakness for them. They also allowed a lot of tackles for loss. They were 84th in the country and tackles for loss. So the Texas D line has an opportunity there. And we had eight tackles for loss. We were 20th. So this is a good kind of mismatch here. Expect maybe Texas to have the advantage there. Tackling grade for Texas wasn't very good. 53.3, 103rd in the country.

49:05Ohio State s was bad too. We'll get to that later. But we're going long. We have 50 minutes on the defense and offense. We need to pick it up. I need to pick it up. But that's kind of the breakdown right now of Ohio State's offense and the Texas defense. There's some things I'm wary of on the Texas defense. How much of that is week one with much champ on all that? Do you have any final thoughts before we let the people know about Gabe about the Texas defense or Ohio State offense? No, we need more data points. We'll figure it out. But don't discount Texas State's executional acumen and the fact that I'd say it's fair to say it's pretty clear our game plan was nothing over the top. Yeah, sure. I mean, pretty clearly, right? Yeah, I mean, we gave up intermediate because of that. Well, yes, but that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. In yard completion. That's what I'm saying. That's why you would see intermediate success because you're keeping it over the top. Yeah, so Texas State only had six attempts over 10 yards

50:08down the field. Yeah. And they hit two of them. And they were both between 10 and 20 yards. So it seems to me like here's my guess. I think we spent a lot of time on Ohio State. And I think the Texas State game plan was nothing over the top falls. Yeah, they're oversimplifying. We'll see. Yeah. Don't oversimplify this, Paul. Actually, you can because that's the easiest decision you're ever going to make in your life. This is complex. And you can make it real easy with one phone call, a 325571095. You'll be in touch with the best mortgage guy in all of this great land, including the state of Ohio. If you're a Texas longhorn, exile to the Midwest. You could still use this guy because he's licensed in a bunch of other states or he knows good people in that state that can help you. Or he'll just help you. Gratis, literally, you can go get another mortgage guy. And he'll coach you on how to get the best rate out of that guy. And how to get this guy to the best possible deal that serves you and not the mortgage guy. That's because Gabe is a man. She needs a great dude.

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52:10Their success rate was solid. They were 10th. So they weren't getting consistent yards there. But this is the big mismatch that you'll see. They were 90th in the country in exclusivity versus ball state. So that matters. If you look across the tape here, you'll see the text offense was 9th in the country in exclusivity. This is a mismatch. Do we get those? Hey, we can't run down to down. But here goes Cam Coleman. That's a huge thing that I'm watching is, can we get those explosives versus ball? Let me get my head around this. Ohio State was 90th in exclusivity defense. Right. Against a team that had 165 yards of total offense. And their quarterback was 18 of 33 for 88 yards passing. Yeah. What does that mean? That in those small attempts, they got explosives. No, it's mathematically not possible. Just listen to what I just said to you. They had 33 pass attempts and through for 88 yards, Connor.

53:11Do you think they threw an 80 yarder and then had to be 80? Explosives are anything over like 10 and like 12. OK, but just do the math on that. They're averaging less than 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 yards per attempt. I don't know what to tell you. They exposed to their 90th in the country. Then we would have to have Texas is off. Then Texas's offense, exclusivity would be in doubt. I mean, I know. I mean, I'm talking about ball state. They had 165 total yards. They ran like 60 something plays. Yeah. This is just math. I don't know. I'm calling into question the spreadsheet. Nothing a little anger, Connor more. You can have three explosives and it changed that number significantly at low variance. But now that's a ratio compared to the rest of the country who played all other games. And even two explosives in the game is not much.

54:12Like most of each of them. Where in week one? Yeah, where in week one? I don't know, man. That ain't not them, dude. There's a you could have two or three here. And it could bounce you way high. In a former corporate life, I would spend hours agonizing over one cell that wouldn't calculate correctly on my stupid TPS reports. Yeah. And I fear that this has occurred with the spreadsheet. Mr. Muffet. And hasn't I have the raw. It's from ESPN. I can attack anything in Connor's life or belief system. But when you attack the spreadsheet, there's nothing to attack. I write down what it said for me, ESPN. That's what I'm saying. It's not like I didn't say your wrong. I'm saying I think they may have a glitch. I don't because with low variation, it's like you can have three. So like Texas defensive explosivity, Texas state really only had two or three explosives. And it can put it, I mean, it can change it significantly. If you have 10 attempts and two were explosive,

55:14you're going to have a low explosivity rate. All right. I win. In this case. So it's high variance right now with a little sample size. But it still matters because ball state in comparison to every other team in college football, they were 90. On the flip side, Texas is ninth in offensive explosivity. So can they turn ball states to explosives in two, six? That can change the outcome of the game. And so that's something that I'm keyed in on. Does it turn track media? Does it turn sloppy in that regard? Is it a bar fight with we bust and then they blow something? That was not the best phrasing on either one of those. But what happened actually in the art rate? Yeah, bar fight. It was not a great analogy. If you know what I'm saying, can I get a little bit weird? Definitely for the text offense, discord points. Habit rate on offense. This is one, two, even that I was kind of like, a hundred and eighth for Texas and Habit rate.

56:18And so I'm like, trying to think, I'm like, OK, they threw the pick. They're not going to count the would be picks. They got one sack on arch. So where there are tip balls here that I wasn't paying attention to, there was the one to January. There was a tip ball. So I think that's what's up in this habit because it wasn't super concrete crystallized stuff for the text offense. But still, apparently, we experienced a lot of havoc there. I mean, we had a few TFLs, right? Yeah, yeah, that counts too. And it makes sense why the front seven would be the highest here then. How are turnovers quantified as havoc in ESPN's metrics? Tipped passes, interceptions, sacks. So there you go. Fumbles. Oh, fumbles. But that was against, we didn't fumble. Fumbles, forced fumbles, those are all havoc. So we had three turnovers. We had what, seven or eight TFLs, that all makes sense. Yeah. So we were experiencing a lot, even for liking

57:19what our offensive line did. Apparently, comparatively, it wasn't a beautiful situation there. All right. Let's look at defensive rushing for Ohio State. They were 114th in rushing exclusivity, meaning that those two explosives did a lot of work. I'm not super keyed into that. I'm most keyed into here to success rate, because that's encapsulating all runs. So they were 14th there. They did all right. The quarterback just kind of had to run around a lot too. So they're rushing defense. I expect to be really sound for Ohio State. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's fair. I do think Ohio State has much improved at running back compared to last year, because they were still trying to work through, like they didn't really have the guy, and then Bo Jackson was too young to get the main carries against us. I think that's an area where there is going to be a lot more explosive, kind of like us. Yeah. So let's look at the rushing offense. I think that's something that fans kind of keyed into,

58:21which I think was important to talk about. So rushing success rate for us was not good at 98, but you can see a lot of our stuff came from those explosives. Here's what I'm going to tell you. This is the Sarkeesian offense with Kyle Flood. The reason why I wanted explosive backs is because we need this. We're never going to be the down to down offense that's crushing and just moving up and down the field. It's just not going to happen get it out of your head. But you do need Hollywood smothers. They can run. That's why we were dying last year because we didn't have explosivity with the backs. So that's the damn keyed in on. I don't expect rushing success rate to become some new thing or a good thing for us. We have to hit home runs. Agreed. So nothing rushing yards per rush. We were 34th, but a lot of this is factored in by our explosivity. When we still weren't crazy explosive, we were still like 53rd. So it's not like we were top 10 there either. But so that's going to have to improve. I think when Brown gets more footing as well,

59:22that'll be a major factor. Let's look at these are some numbers on our fun. Text offensive line yards. They were 110th in the country. So they weren't blocking the run very well. Their stuff rate, they were 127th in the country. Backs were getting a hit behind the line. Once again, I think the run game is going to be a limiter on the Texas offense. And I don't know what that means against Ohio State or in the playoffs or in those really crucial moments. We did have better rushing power success rate. We were 59th on like third and short, which is better than we've had. So if we can keep that up, I have some hope. But it right here today, this moment, the run game will limit the Texas offense at some crucial step in my opinion, Paul. Yeah, I think the encouraging thing was two things that I think are important that are not always properly contextualized in some of these stats. Even one third and fourth down got a habit runs, which we did well, Texas State.

1:00:22We had a couple of runs like fourth and short or third and short. We just lined up and handed it straight off down the field and got three yards, right? Yeah. That's good. That's important. Don't undersell that. New sets of downs are very important. Second part, red zone running. We converted three touchdown runs to inside the red zone, one just outside the red zone, like high pink area. That would be speaking of phrasing. But that's a critical as well. So I think there's a lot of, I mean, like there's no one that's complained more about our O-line and our philosophy and a lot of the stuff that's related than me. But those are improvements. And whether we attribute that to the quality of running back, where we're getting a little better play calls or because we have much better blocking on the edge now with our tight ends, I don't care. It was demonstrably better in that regard. Contrast that with, and Texas State, I think probably has better personnel overall

1:01:23on defense than with like UTEP last year. And it's night and day. So that's good. And there is a contextual sort of aspect to that running that some runs are more important than others. And some stats tend to over-reward. You drop a 60 yard run from your 20. And then you end up kicking a fulgo, right? It's cool, glad that happened. That running back now averages eight yards of carry for the game. Oh my god. But actually his other 11 runs went for 12 yards. So I'm not saying we exactly killed it because Raleigh Brown was that guy in that game as it was Hollywood. But if we can get the explosives, and then we actually for whatever reason can run the ball on third and two or fourth and one, convert that and then run in the red zone, I don't care about some of the chain mover of seven yard runs. I would love to have them. I would love to hand the ball off and have second and two.

1:02:25But we're just not gonna ever be that team. I just resigned myself to it. Backspeed matters too. Because some of that third down stuff is just Hollywood's faster than the linebacker that has to meet him in the gap. And so he can just get there. It's not even necessarily that the offensive line has to drive people nine yards off the ball. That's why you want fast backs and it's counterintuitive. And those short yardages, those fast guys actually win more, at least in the NFL, because they're getting to a spot and condensed space faster than the other guy. So having faster backs matters a lot there too. Is it 10 or 15 yards for explosive runs? I think it's 10 for runs and 15 for passes and explosivity pass. All right. Well, the thing that was good to get on tape was a willingness to throw it and throw it deep on third and short. That was useful. Because it's a check. Because in the past, you would see teams, particularly when yours was young and last year with arch. Teams would just be like, it's third and two, you're not throwing it deep with this young quarterback.

1:03:26You don't trust. We're loading the box. And we're going to try to fire some guys and tackle you in the back field. It is very, it's very good to have Cam Coleman out there by himself on the wide side of the field. And you're like, you sure you want to do that? Because we will take a step back and just throw up a fade. And 70 yards later, you might regret you made that decision. So that's, that is a good thing for us as well that's congruent with the running game, at least or at least compliment tree to it. So we'll see, my best hope coming into the season is more explosives and then better key money down situational runs. If we can improve in those three metrics, then I can accept that our O-line's not going to ever fire out real hard and we're always going to have a run game where we don't ever major in anything and we minor in everything. I just, I kind of accepted that's kind of how we are. Same as same here. I'm at the acceptance stage of that. If those other things make sense. Let's look at what I think will be the biggest feature

1:04:28of Texas in it's going to be the passing attack on offense. I like what I'm seeing here. This is all good stuff. Passing an explosivity, they were 25, passing success rate. This is great. They were 12th, Paul. And that was the problem with the text offense last year is that we could only do explosives. So whenever we face the team that could shut down the explosives and the offense stall, well, if your passing success rate is 12th and you're able to keep that up, now your offense doesn't have to stall if they put 900 safeties all over Wingo and Cam. This is great news, man. So I'm excited to see this from the Texas offense because it's not been a feature of it down to down. So that's good stuff. The yards per pass, we were 14th. I like that. Cubistack percentage, 24th at 2.86. And really that wasn't, that sack was on arch. He was just kind of hanging around too long there too. So I'm good with that because really it could have been, you know, zero sacks. But arch was, arch earned that one himself, earned his stripes. Check this out, Paul.

1:05:2922nd in offensive line pass blocking efficiency. That's great. Last year was horrific. Yeah, I mean, that marries with what I saw with my eyes. I mean, we passcode really well. And like, for example, as poor as Lord Seymour was on almost every run play, I mean, it was bad. He's a different guy when he's in passcode. It's wild. Like, yeah, he has awareness in pass protection. He's like a violent at the point of attack. He uses his hands. When he's run blocking, like none of that is evident. So, yeah, Sark was really nice in the press conference because they're like, you know, how did left guard look? And he was like, so course key played really well. And he's like, in Lawrence Seymour, he's coming along. Yeah, and I was like, wow, that was nice. But yeah, I mean, our passcode was great. And they passed guys off. And yeah, I mean, Texas State was trying to do some stuff. They're moving some guys around and doing some things and simming some blitzes.

1:06:30It'll look a lot different against Ohio State. They're going to play at a lot different speed. But I saw something on tape that Ohio State's going to run against us that we've got to get prepped for, that fake mid blitz Sim. And they're going to put in their small package where they put a couple of edges in a defensive tackle. And then they have their real edges outside. And we did not handle quickness well last year. I think Ohio State thinks, look, maybe our secondary is taking a step back in terms of experience and sophistication. Let's try to compensate that, playing fast and quick and moving around a lot up front. And let's see if that can just destroy Texas' run game and maybe we can get some hits on Arch. I think that may be their approach. And they're really good at simming those mid blitzes and then dropping out. But then he won't drop out to Tampa 2 depth. He'll drop out three yards and spy Arch. And so it's going to be a challenge for us

1:07:34because we've not traditionally handled quickness very well at the line of scrimmage when it's paired with power. And Ohio State got some top flight guys. So y'all should look for that in the game on Saturday. Yeah, I was funny watching Texas State and then go watching the all-22 from my estate. It's like, yeah, they're a lot faster off the line. They're really a little bit different. A little bit different. I think at a lot of spots, they're faster than we are on defaults. Because Ohio State doesn't have that big defensive tackle this year to eat the middle. They kind of don't have a true nose. But I don't, and Ian kind of gets fixated on that. But I don't think you need a true nose against us. They move great. Yeah, like they can, the mass times acceleration, they make up for the mass part with those guys move quick. So I agree. I didn't see that specific blitz, but that's, I'm glad you told me about that. But it's still, I mean, you tapped what a cook dust last year with any line games. And so that didn't happen. So that's what I like to see.

1:08:35I was proud of the Texas offensive line in the past game. It's going to be a different thing this week, no doubt. But at least we're not sitting here seeing that we're 120th in the country going into a Ohio state. That would make it funny. If Ohio's, because people were like, oh, if we played Ohio State later in the year, we wouldn't that game. No, no, Matt Patricia would have seen our O line get more reps. Blitz the crap out of us with some these styles. And we would have, we would, I mean, arch would have been sacked eight times. Yeah. Like he would have seen the Florida game. So Ohio State was very conservative defensively against us. Both of us were playing very like, I don't know if you're the greatest team of all time. I don't know if offense is more scared, right? Yep. Yep. So yeah. Yeah, I mean, if Patricia had seen more reps from our O line, oh my god, like we would have arch would have gotten like hit 25 times. So yeah. So here's kind of a feature of the Sarkeesian offense as well.

1:09:36Overall, 100th and third and standard downs, right? Passing game has really helped that. It was the run game that brings this down. This is, this is kind of what's up, man? Like we're still in the third and longs too much. And luckily this game, we were able to scheme it up. But it's just at some point, I have to relent here as well. So 100th and standard downs right here, 121st and average third down distance. But second in the country on converting third downs. So hey, if you're going to be in third and forever, you better really at RL's offense is going to get shut down. So look, man, it is what it is with the Sarkeesian offense at this point. There's something going on. First and second down, the something is we can't run block. And it leads us in this situation. So but hey, converting, converting well. And first in the country tied for first in the country at 100% on fourth down to probably what we also we also

1:10:39forced the run in the second half repeatedly. Right? We're trying to run clock. We're just trying to get the game over. And I think, you know, we in against a opponent, we're not up by 42 points on at that point. We would be scheming some misdirection. We'd be stripping play action. Arch would keep it around the edge. Blah blah. Well, here's the thing too. Keep in mind for Ohio State and Texas, both of them didn't play their starters past the third, like far past the third, right? So you're also mixing in second and third string reps here too, which can also kind of bring numbers down. Well, it's funny. Late in the game, some of our best core run plays, where three runs in a row from James Simon behind our second third team, oh, one. That was the funny part. At one point, I was sweet. I was like, second team offensive line blocks, run blocks better, but they're also actually fire at harder. It hasn't been coached out of them yet. Yeah, exactly. They're still in high school mode that you should just fire out as hard as you can.

1:11:41And blood is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm so aggressive. Yeah. But yeah, James Simon also was just like, I'm running downhill the minute I see a gap. And you know what, that works out pretty well when the defense is tired. So. Ryan Nelson, those are the same as 2024 offensive stats. A lot of third and longs, but great explosive, exactly, exactly man. This is how Sark's offense, these are the numbers for Sark's offense when it looks good. It's a weird offense at how it statistically behaves. Red zone, once again, there's so few instances. There's four or five instances. I'm not taking a ton of stock into this. Texas would be 30 second at 85% but arched through the pick. I don't know if he was in the red zone, we threw it, but red zone, let's wait until we're like week three there. Sacks allowed were really good. Fumbles per game tied for first, because we didn't fumble. But we also had a lot of tackles for loss allowed here. So pay attention to that.

1:12:43So that the Texas offense, man, I feel really good about the passing game. Run game we're going to have to eat based off of Ken Reliek and Hollywood's mothers convert third downs because they're really fast to the spot and can they get big gains. But pretty much this is still, I'm just showed you, you know, year six of what Sark easy and offense looks like statistically. All right, just the whales and the chat says the Kyle Flutters of Pacifist. Sure. And ways he is. We'll get through this real quick so we can get to the next show. Penalties per game, we need to talk about this and give them their flowers. Twelfth in the country, they only have four penalties. None of them are like stupid. What are we doing? That felt like normal penalties in a game. It felt like a normal football team. It felt like a normal football team. Thank God, man. I have to give them. Yeah. You hit a key point. It's four for 25, not four for 60. Exactly. Like, first in 25 is a very different animal from first in 15. First in 15 is irritating. But you can still just run your offense, right?

1:13:43Yeah. First in 25, you're like thinking like, oh, what are we, what are we gonna do? Like, how do we, how do we want to approach this? You know, are we, should we even just start thinking field position right now? The second down doesn't go well, right? Should we start thinking about pun and like, not taking another sack or getting another penalty? Like, that's a whole different decision tree. Then first in 15, you're irritated and you're like, dude, don't jump off sides. But that's a different thing for your offense than freaking second and third. So, yeah, props on the penalties. If we see that against Ohio State, I might declare us healed, Connor. I know. I feel great. Ohio State actually hit where it was high. Nine penalties for 73rd. Yeah. So pay attention to that. I don't care about luck rating, really even turnover margin. It's really early low instance. Field position was good for Texas. Everything in the country, Ohio State was 51st. So Texas does have the field position advantage here. So excited to see that.

1:14:44Anything that's FII is a projection and not updated. So before we get out of here, Paul, I know we got to shoot some other shows. What do you think about this matchup? How do you, how are you feeling about it? I love the matchup. I love that the eyes of every single person in college football are gonna be on this game on Saturday evening. I think both imperfect, very good teams. A lot of top line talent. And then some underlying stuff that if it doesn't get fixed, neither team is gonna achieve their ultimate goals. Both, both of these teams could win the national championship. Both of these teams could miss the playoff. Yeah. That's the range of outcomes we're dealing with here. And I love the fact that it's early in the year. I love the fact that it's gonna be an R stadium. I think that's gonna help. People are still trying to do the like, Texas doesn't have a home field advantage thing. Texas has a big home field advantage. By if you sort out all the noise in the Sark era, we play well at home.

1:15:46Like we win games. So. And we influence refs, baby. We get calls, turn those. Yeah, we make apps. Water bottles, you can get the right call made. Yeah, Ohio State's not ready for it. Ohio State, I think it's a team that will peak in mid to late October. And honestly, dude, when you're playing some of these games early in the year, it's gonna be such a like, not fun analysis to hear. You just gotta find ways to steal the win and not throw the game away. Like don't make the critical error that throws the game away. You saw last night SMU destroy Florida State on the field and repeatedly try to throw the game away. Yeah. You, I don't know if you saw any Auburn Baylor, two terrible teams both trying to throw the game away. And Auburn got the win. And people like, oh, look terrible. If that had been a Texas win, we would have been like, oh, this is horrible. Dude, just if we can get a win by hook or by crook against Ohio State, it sets us up beautifully.

1:16:47And it gives us some space and some breathing room. If we lose, things are gonna get a little tight. It's gonna a little tits. Man, I just wanna see us win the coaching battle. Like, yeah, I wanna feel good about the coaching, leaving that game. I don't wanna feel like we got out coached. Like that's winning by one, I don't care. Like, I don't need any blow out of you. It's Ohio State, man, who cares? Win by one. But I don't wanna feel like Ryan Day, one on the headsets or Kirby one on the headsets. That's the big thing for me. All right, everybody, we're gonna go shoot deep dive. It's gonna be later, coming out later this evening. So be on the lookout for that. We got a bunch of other shows coming at you too. And this was brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors. Later y'all.