Joined now by Dave Holmes and Adam
King from 10 TV and by Timmy Hall and
former Buckeye receiver Devier Posey,
you hear him on 97.1. The fan,
along with Timmy Hall and Adam Ryan Day,
has talked all season about toughness,
competitive stamina,
how much of that has to do with his
defense and with what happened a year ago.
And is this game now the test? Every
part of it. I mean, it's wild.
Penn State has won eleven games this year,
and for any other school in America,
that's amazing.
You're celebrating, you're cheering.
And for Ohio State, it means nothing.
It means absolutely nothing.
Every part of the toughness that we've
seen from the defense stepping up,
even against Notre Dame,
holding them to let you know a low score,
none of that matters unless they can
go out and prove it against Michigan,
because last year was the first
time there were some problems
with defense all year long.
But last year at the end of the Michigan
game, if you were a Buckeye fan.
You didn't think your defense
could get off the field.
That was the problem.
You just kept thinking they're just
gonna keep running the ball and scoring.
And then you saw it a little
bit again in the Utah game,
and with it, it changed everything
about this Ohio State team.
Toughness is working on
every wall inside the woody.
It's every word.
The first word that comes out of every
player's mouth is physicality and toughness.
We saw it questioned at the Heisman ceremony.
I mean,
when you hear that and and and CJ Stroud
just had to stand there and just take it.
It's it's every part of what
this Ohio State team is and.
It's the only way that they
get to truly say their physical
is if they win on Saturday.
This is a Tommy Eichenberg game.
Yeah, it is.
Well,
that's,
I mean
eikenberg 17 tackle kind of game.
Well, Tommy Ikenberg,
I think it's a perfect example
of the difference in Ohio State.
I mean, Tommy Eichenberg, you talk,
Jim Knowles made the grunt joke
where like he just goes out
there and he doesn't even talk.
He just, I mean,
you guys got 2 broken hands, I,
you know, and he's and he just
wants to tackle and win football
games. Well, after last year's game, Timmy,
they got rid of three defensive coaches.
They bring in Jim Knowles.
He puts in a new defense and he even
talked about earlier in the week,
it's all about the competitive stamina.
That's what they're doing,
the toughness. With that said,
we have seen Ohio State's defense.
Is it fixed?
Do you have any concerns?
Because, you know,
all you got to do is look at
that tape of the last year,
they drove it down Ohio
State stroke for what,
300 yards and
300 rushing touchdowns?
Yeah, I mean, you should be.
They should be forcing them to
watch that tape over and over.
They should, like, set it up on their iPads
or whatever kind of tablets they have.
And you're forced to watch that
for 60 minutes before you go to
bed because whatever's been done,
whatever Jim Knowles has brought in,
like you said, with the 11 and O,
and it means a little bit,
mostly means nothing unless you beat
the rival when you lost to them last year.
That's going to wear in with this defense.
So are there concerns?
Yeah, there's concerns.
Have you watched the secondary for the
better part of the last six weeks?
I mean, good Lord.
And I'm not that concerned that JJ
McCarthy is that guy to light them up,
but there have been some pretty
regular quarterbacks, I mean.
Is he not on Talia?
Tongue of ILO, his level?
Atalia threw it around.
I mean, I don't think he's going around.
I Sean Clifford's been around
for a long time,
but he continues to throw for over,
you know, 350 yards and and whatnot.
But there are some young guys that are
still cutting their teeth in that back end.
I mentioned Tommy.
I feel like if they're going to win,
Tommy Eichenberg is going to
have a legendary type of game.
And then either someone on the defensive
line, Zach Harrison or JT Tumolo,
maybe we're overshadowing, overshadowing.
For the dudes in the interior
of that defensive line,
like a Tehran Vincent,
a lot of Mike Hall talk early in the year,
but then some injuries have
have gotten to him,
but there's been guys that have
have been stepping up there too.
Alright Dave, you look at this
Michigan offense and you know
they they like that first and
foremost they run the football.
We don't know what corum's going to do,
if he's going to play or not.
Well, Ohio states assuming they will,
but they complement the
run with the short passes.
They really don't go long down the field.
They try to kill the clock.
I mean it. It's who they are.
Next thing you know they've had an
8 minute drive and you know they
they get a touchdown or whatever.
With that said.
As Ohio State have anything up their sleeves,
do you think Jim Knowles has alluded
all season long they've got so much,
you know, in in reserve.
Do we see some surprises in this
game from the silver bullet?
Yeah, I think so. I mean,
I I do think that Jim Knowles is
going to be ready for this one.
He better be.
I mean, the moment you sign that,
sign that contract,
he knew what he was getting into.
He was the guy who was brought in to fix
this game because of what happened last year.
So I think Ohio State's defense
should be up to the challenge.
It's total gut check time.
But here's the thing,
they've looked better this year
and you can stay up all night.
Long studying for your exam,
doing the flash cards.
But you know what, Dom?
It doesn't matter if you know the
content at 2:00 in the morning.
Yeah,
it matters when you show up on the test day.
And if you don't put it on the page,
it doesn't matter.
They've looked better.
But you have to go out and get
it done here. You know, deverre,
everyone on that football team
from Ohio State was embarrassed,
but especially the defense,
those guys have had to live.
You know, the toughness
remarks were directed at them.
They could not get a stop,
so they've had to live with that,
all that chatter. You know,
and and the embarrassment that they saw.
With that said, how angry will the
silver bullets be in this game?
And it's one thing to be angry.
This game's about emotion.
You got to play smart though, right?
Don't do something stupid
exactly. You got to watch your emotions in
his games because obviously the pregame,
the 50 yard line, please have all the coaches
from both teams separate these guys because
they know what kind of rivalry this is.
But I want to go back to the doctor,
the doctor Jim knows, the guy that was
hired for this job to fix this problem.
That we have with the running game.
This man is an absolute genius.
I'm a big fan of Jim Knowles.
I love what he did last week,
putting two or two of Aloha
and a in a terrible situation,
showing blitz, backing out to zone.
I love what he does conceptually.
I mean, this guy threw a cornerback
blitz on the 1st play of the game,
first play of the season in Notre Dame.
He's a gambler.
I would love to see how he gambles and
what he does when he has two tents.
He's splitting the 10s down
and I believe he's
going to have a plan for these guys.
He's going to have something
up his sleeve for JJ.
He's going to have him thinking,
throwing different blitzes at him.
And I believe we create
some turnovers with Jim
knows what happened on
that cornerback blitz.
Well, what happened on the blitz,
you know, well, that's the.
That's the trailer.
Flipped the eggs. Exactly.
Well, that's the thing.
Sometimes you gamble
and sometimes you lose.
But I think Jim knows, man,
just what he brings
conceptually to toughness.
I mean, his journey as a coach,
he understands that this is the
pinnacle of college football.
This is the pinnacle of rivalries.
He'll have some of the sleeves.
And Dom, I want to be clear
for the kids watching,
you never split 10s.
You take take the guarantees.
Yes, please play
responsibly. Play responsibly.
Alright guys, great stuff.
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