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That's right. The week ahead for Spartan Athletics. You talked about that, but Noah Kim named Big ten Offensive Player of the Week two. I know this. I'm gonna let you take this away. Why would this guy not be Offensive Player of the Week the week that he had, you know, going in there such showing such strong command for that offense against Richmond. You know, fift ended with fifteen straight completions. You know that's you know, to even have one completions tough, but go fifteen of them? Can
I get a heemn? Like when we talk about no Ki was like church in here. Now, Okay, you know it's but you know, congratulations to Noah, well earned, well deserved, and let's hope he continues to ride that momentum going into Saturday's game against the Huskies. That's right, guys. I mean, if people, if you're liking what you've heard so far, don't forget to hit the like of subscribe button, don't forget to follow us on all of our social media platforms. At this asparta MSU, We're
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coming into Spartan Stadium with a high powered offense. Otis this defense is gonna have to be ready because the Huskies ranked first in football in passing offense, averaging four hundred and seventy two yards per game and six in total offense. So they're they're a pass evy team. They're a passing team because they can't really run the football. They're ranked one thirteenth out of one thirty one in
Russian within averaging ninety three yards. And I think one of our strengths on the defense is our run to stop in the run and making them one dimensional. So it's gonna be really interesting, you know for those points there, you know from defensive side of the ball, you know how we we take care of those. You know, Michael Pennix, he's leading this team.
They're eighth in the country and scoring. They're averaging forty nine and a half points a game, thirteenth in the yards per completion with you know, time to throw the football. It's fifteen and a half yard just over a first down every time to throw the football. But you know their their offensive line sacks allowed. You know, they're also eighth in sacks allowed, only half a sack of game. You know, so really tough offense and the defense
is definitely going to have their hands full. Yeah, And speaking on that to uh, you two were at that game last year and we talked about the twelfth year an you were doing something a little bit more important. Welcome to another child and listen, listen listening to you all on the radio, like what going hold on? Oh? I was like, honestly I was. I'm glad I ain't travel there, but right you you two were, you two were there and you guys talked about You can hear it on the
radio on the broadcast. You also can see it obviously in the game that the twelfth Man, that fan base and that that arena or that stadium was rocking. It was a huge advantage. And to this point, the offense is coming to the woodshed in Spartan State for the first time. Right, these kids have not traveled to Michigan. Some of these kids have not even been, you know, step foot in the state of Michigan. This is the first time and so for fans that you're listening, you're watching this show.
You have to show up and you have to be a force to be record with to make this thing the absolute most loudest environment if possible, known to men where you are. You're basically going into making this a hard environment to communicate because that's if that happens, that is an advantage for our defense to obviously face this, this this high power offense that's ranked in the top five in all categories, top ten, fifteen, But that is an element
that we absolutely need. So to your point too that it's great, but we absolutely need another stat is, show up and show up and be loud, no question about it. You know, you look at Cameron Davis, who was supposed to be their featured running back, was injured in fall camp. He led the team in rushing a year ago about five hundred and twenty two yards. Was supposed to be the feature back when he was injured. So that's why you're seeing the rushing totals so low too. So they've become
very one dimensional. With Michael Pennicks and Otis, you brought up a point, great point about not many of these players have been to the State of Michigan Ever, Michael Pennicks junior, he definitely has been to Spartan Stadium when he played for the Indiana Hoosiers Choo. Yeah, he definitely has. He has. He's been to you know, Spartan City. He's won in Spartan stadiums. So he's a guy that's very comfortable and familiar with Spartan Stadium.
So that's why, you know, as a fan base, that's why as the defense, we have to make him uncomfortable. You know, that's the biggest thing. You know, you don't want to get to you know, comfortable and then get him back there that he has a lot of time history and he's the connection when the receivers are on and so we have to get him off his game. And that's gonna come from you know, disguises in
the defense and also in the crowd noise. You have to be that because it definitely affected us last year when we went there with the crowdnise, getting out of the huddle, you know, making your checks, making your changes, and then look there's the play clocks running down. The lineman can't hear, you know, So that's going to be a huge part of it as well. So we have to get Michael Pennix Junior off his game, no question about it. You talk about breaking the huddle on the road as an
offense, trying to communicate. Communication is key on the offensive side of the ball. So that's why teams in the NFL, you see they have a three point loss in there the line, the Vegas lines because of the crowd noise, and in certain crowds, you know, you think about Seattle, the Twelfth Man, those types of places, it's even worse because it's so loud that there's no reason that Spartan Stadium, the woodshit, whatever you want to call it, on Saturday, shouldn't be at an all time high.
You have a top ten team coming in here, Michigan State's two to zero and on a roll right now, outscoring opponents seventy six to twenty one. On the seats, you gotta be well oiled, and then we all know they're gonna be having a couple of extra you know, octanes for you in Spartan Stadium so that you can amp up that volume a little more. Like different we gotta have. We talked about alcohol, like the liveation, right, A well oiled crowd, that's what we need all of those things because
it affects the game. It just does. I've been in games, uh in Ford Field where it was so loud Monday Nights football. I remember some years ago that was so loud. The forty nine ers, I think it was a Bears had like three or four false starts in a row, you know, And that's what the crowd can do to affect the outcome of the game. And there's no reason Spartan should be able to do that. Guys, absolutely, I mean, let's talk about roles reversed, Like we're eleventh
ranked. Last year, they're not ranked, and they put it on us. Right now, it's reversed, ty, Like now it's our chance to sit there and let's return the favorite. Because I think the guys also have said that they knew that they didn't play their best and that wasn't the product that we obviously put out last year. But like it's mission focus right now. What is the slogan? We're prepared right? I think being prepared for we already know when he comes into town, Michael Pennix comes into town,
he's going to make plays. He's a great player. He got the best one of the best wide receiver courts in the nation going to make plays. It's all about battling and controlling those big, big plays and those sudden changes, and how do we make sure we respond to that versus you know, running away and say, hey, that score starts to get away from us. Controlling the controllable was playing our ball and I think this is going to be a true testament to how our defense has stacked up as we're ranked as
well in those categories. It's gonna be a great, great game at five o'clock on Saturday on Peacock or w j R or wherever you can listen to George Block uh Hiah and then sidekicks Jason strick me. We're streaming as well. We're streaming. That's right, guys. You know Caitlin Debora. You know he's the offensive coordinator from Indiana that took over the head coaching job over at Washington a few years ago. His record obviously two and oh coming into
this ballgame. When you see a coaching change happen like it did at Michigan State, I would assume there's gonna be some pressure on the Washington sideline as well. Wondering what new wrinkles are gonna come out now that they don't really know. You know, Mark D'Antonio is in town, and Mark D'Antonio with Harlan Barnett as the head interim head coach, called them the head coach.
There may be some defenses they haven't seen, right, There's gonna be some stuff that Michael Pennis has to prepare for that he just is unsure of. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, you have to. You have to do that. And what it does is gonna prepare. But what it does for the coaching staff, for them it they have to go back now and watch old film of coach D'Antonio defense because they know that coach Barnett, you know, has you know, it's from the school of coach coach D'Antonio,
coach Saban and stuff. So there's gonna be some of that that those fingerprints on on some of those things. I don't think a lot of things is gonna change defensively, but you know, just it's the same way if you if you don't know who the starting quarterback is, you have to prepare for both. So these guys are gonna have to spend extra time watching old film from coach D'Antonio days from the no fly zone to see, hey, are they gonna play you know, press coverage on us? What are they gonna
do with the secondary? You know, are they gonna send pressure? What percentage of time you know, did we send pressure when coach D'Antonio is the head coach to what percentage of times do we send pressure? Now, you know, all those things will be you have to take play in account because you have to get your team in the best position to be successful because it's a it's a chess game out here. If they do this, we do
this kind of thing. Yeah, I honestly I think that it is going to be the same business, the same like defense, the same schemes as usual, because I think from a coach d standpoint, he's coming in as like a seasoned head coach to help right, to help get this transition,
get it back on the tide. Now has he had enough time to even now he's been you know, coach Burnan says, he has given his expertise and his knowledge on things, but has he quickly has he had a chance to really implement some of those d'antonioism's, these you know, things that are happening where he's like, Hey, I'm gonna trust Coach Hazelton as what you're doing, Coach Johnson as what you're doing, but I'm going to be that
voice of reason on certain things of what I'm seeing out on the field versus like the adjustments. I think that's going to be the piece of adjustments, not like game plan implementation, but adjustments on what to see because we know coach he has an eye of like he knows what that plays development before it is development, that's personnel coming from the sideline running out their offensive break. He kind of knows from just tendency standpoint. I've been in this game for
too long. I know exactly what's about to happen. And I think that's gonna be a huge advantage for us, is that he's going to be able to give Hazelton and all the defensive guys and even some of the offensive guys some more you know, advice and you know, switch a ruse of like adjusting to your point chess game. I'm gonna be way ahead of these moves and being able to stop this this attack. Yeah, I agree with that.
I agree. It's not that defense isn't gonna change much. But to that point, Washington's head coach, he has to prepare the game was gonna change, truly, you know, that's what I'm saying. They're gonna spend that extra time in looking at those just in case you are not just or not though, right, that's the thing, either or not. It was like, hey, we're rolling. I don't care what they bring to We're gonna play our game. But that's a different story. But to your point,
both sides will be prepared. But I think it's an element of we got some more slag Google, We got that Denzel Washington back, baby, we got Mark Dantony with that smirt. That's what will coming out now. You know what I would love on the offensive side if we ran out Jack Sweet to the short side, just oh my goodness, as we haven't had and then coach gives that smirk. Hey, let's do a fake jet most of the action don't get no, absolutely not, especially in the red zone,
especially to the short side of the field. We don't want beer cans on Spartan Stadium's field. You know after that that that would not be good. Jet sweep to the short side of the field. We haven't seen that in some years. The players to watch for Washington obviously Michael Pennocks junior fifty seven to seventy eight. It's a seventy three percent completion percented eight hundred and fifty nine yards, eight touchdowns to one interception. They've got receivers coming out
of their ears. Jalen McMillan two hundred and fifteen yards on sixteen catches, Rome A Doonsday fourteen catches for two thirty nine, two TVs for him and Jalen Polk a catch for one hundred and eighty two. I mean, they've got major firepower on the offensive side of the ball. Jayu, let's break down some of your offensive film takes that we can review from the Tulsa game
against Washington. Yeah. Yeah, So we're breaking this down. You know, when our offense is on the field, what are we going to see out of the Washington's defense. There a couple of things that I think they're gonna we're gonna see. Is it's going to be a confident defense that's going to go out and swarm to the football. So we have this play right here, if we can freeze this for a second here, you know this play here they have everyone down in the box. It's it's short yardage.
It's fourth and two, so they're gonna run Tulsa is gonna run a quarterback lead here. It's an essential quarterback lead, you know, the pre snap for a running back. If you're in the backfield there or a ball carrier, you're supposed to read the tackle, you know, or if there's a tight end on your side, read the tight end. But then also and then it's the end man on the line of scrimmage. Some teams called the emo, you know, n man on the line. So what is he
gonna do? You know right now as a running back, Okay, this tackle is gonna jump them, you know. And then your second thought is you're running to assets. You know, whichever way his the tackles butts point, that's where you're gonna go. So you want to stretch it a little bit. It's a lead play coming out here. This running back is supposed to to read this and go up and block that middle backer that's there. And the quarterback, you know, sticks his foot. So this is the
big thing with Michigan State this week. You do not have time to run, you know, east and west. You have to go north and south. One cut this game because this is a penetrating, swarming Washington defense. And we could play that tape there you'll see where where things go wrong that the tailbat goes outside when he should go inside and block that. And then that quarterback stick your foot and go upfield on that play. So this defense is gonna come ready to swarm you, you know, every single time.
And then you know, we have another run play that will will show here. But you know the thing is and here it is right here. They're they're they're going they're playing games on the line. You see up top there, you know the linebacker he's hugging up the line there and then the dude like almost a te a tackle end twist and he comes in clean. So stray, you know, the best communication on that offensive line, pass things
off, you have to do that. And running backs, this is the type of game where you you tighten that chin strap, you bring your lunch pail because it's gonna be that type of downhill hitting here. So we can play this here. You'll see up top there that little game that they play is coming in and he comes in clean right off that. So you gotta
come, man, you got to pass it off there. And uh so that's that's a lot of the stuff that they'll do in the run game there to stop run the run, they're gonna want to try to do different stunts on the offensive line to throw the linemen off their blocks and off their assignments. So we have to play discipline on that. Yeah, absolutely, you have to play die seeing that. You know a week ago, Nick Saymac the center the Remington Award watch list. You know, he did not play
much in game one. He had a was nursing the upper body injury from over the summer and was get working himself back in the shape against Richmond, and I watched him. He played the majority of the game. You know, guys like him, it's gonna be very important for the offensive line to communicate at the center position what you're talking about right there, what you was saying, proper footwork, shoulder square and being able to pick up what the
defense is giving you as you progress. You know, when they start doing the twist, it's very important that the offensive line doesn't start turning sideways. If you see shoulder sideways and as you said, asses in the whole, then you can get squeezed into the hole. You gotta stay square. Square is strength, you know. So that's that's something that will provide those running
lanes for Nate Carter. Yeah, I'm one hundred and twelve yards per carry, which is important in this And we have to find somebody who's gonna spell him as you talk about, right you, yeah, you we have to find someone who's gonna have to spell him. But you know also too, Now let's look at when we're throwing the football. You know what we what we're gonna see is Washington's gonna come in with with arrogance. They're two and oh they beat us last year. This is their game. They want to
fly around. They're gonna man you across. They're gonna say, our guy is better than your guy. All right, that's what they're gonna want to do. They're gonna they're gonna play that that man across and then they're gonna
continue to run stunts on the defensive line. Here. I want to I want to show this play twice because the first time I want to just take a look at the defensive line where they where they have stunts that they're running, their running te tackle end games and are trying to garner pressure with four
or five guys and across the board. Now they're saying, Hey, our corners are better than your receivers, and we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna play that way with some safety help, you know if if need be, So can we play this here, Tony. So down there they're running twists and games and they're just playing man across the board, locking the receivers up, safety going over for that easy pick. That's otis Wiley loving that, you know, that's that's just ridiculous. No are you kidding me?
Go back to that play line that up one more time. Hey listen, no, hey, no him. You see this look right here, go back to the beginning and we can see that look right there. Man, that's a that's an underfront last year. But I mean, there's five in the box. I don't care. What is the third n eight this third night on this play. That's five in the box. Guys right here. This route tree is pretty bad, but it's the standpoint of like, hey you got man, monoy model. All guys are locked in this look.
This looks like is cover one uh with these two safeties over top right, Clearly it's easy for the safety to get over his half standpoint cover two man. But why isn't the slot receiver doing more of a dig route slash a curl route to get to the sticks? Right? I think you had two guys, one guy going to the drag this deep ball which was really bad
in the standpoint of release, but these guys had them locked up. So there's an element of to your point she is, you got to have a fourth and fifth option with this tight You got the tight end as well, you've got to have an option, which we got. Elite Carr is one of our threats. We haven't really said a lot about Lak Carr, but he's been balling the past two weeks, right, So he has to have a solid game. He has to have a day like absolutely consistency. He
needs to be a threat in the passing game. Yeah, they're gonna continue to do that. They're gonna man you up, and then they're gonna try to disguise some things, you know, defensively there. You know we talked about you know, we like to to you know, they like to play man coverage. So if the next play we're gonna show it, I'm gonna show a disguise a blitz that they that they're disguising. You know, people
call it a bunch of different things. I grew up with it as a corner crash or corner cat I think straight you call it cowboy yeah, yeah, man. So so what it is is, so your indicators, your indicators for for a corner crash or cowboy blitzes, you know, a couple of things. When you're in there and you it's always gonna come from the short side of the field. So if we look into the bottom of our screen here, okay, can they bring a corner crash. Yes, it's
the short side of the field. And what will that do with What will that tell you? The next thing you do is you look at how the defender, how the corner is playing the receiver. Is he playing him pressed? Is he's pressed on him like he is right now. Your next indicator is look up to the safety. That safety is going to start to, you know, cheat a little bit down because he has he's replacing the corner that's blitzing. He has your guy in man. We said, Washington likes
to play man coverage here. So one indicator boom, short side of the field on a boundary check. There were corners playing press check. Look at that. Look at the safety, now is he creeping a little bit? Is he already over there to pick this receiver up in man check? What this quarterback needs to do now he needs to slide his running back to the other side. And also this wide receiver needs to be yelling crash crash, crash, crash crash or alert alerted a load alert. So everyone's tentacles are
going up and understanding something could be coming over here. We talked about it, so and you're gonna see when we play this, it's exactly. It's gonna break down. That corner is gonna go win there. This safety is gonna pick up that receiver in man covers going across the field there. So you know, let's let's play it and take a look at it. Here. Boom right there, corner crash going, he picks him up and he gets home. He gets home on that. That's the player right there he
came from. Yeah. Well also to that running back just ran past them. You never as a as a offensive player, as a lead. Yeah, he ran past him. You never go past one to get one. You got to block. You know, the quarterbacks rolling that way. Why are you a chip slow him down? You're right die. But to the point there, that quarterback needed to they needed to go through their keys. That receiver should have been yelling crash, crash, crash or alerted a load
alert. That quarterback needed to move that running back to the other side of him, say hey, this some gun's coming, so let's let's take a look at him. So hid the line protect you fan, get that tackle out there on that, because that's it's The center should see that too, Like, if you're any good, you'd be able to see that, you know, like you're hearing the receiver yell alert you know, cowboy crash, whatever it is, change the protection, check out of it, and throw
hot. If you're on a rollout, you don't want to run away from that and get tracked down from because he's a better athlete than you, clearly quarterback, no Kim. So yeah, So they're gonna want to do some disguising now and then the next one we have up here, they're gonna try to bring everybody up on the line. And this is where stray as the
center. You're now you're talking, you're looking at numbers, you're identifying who's the mic, Who do we have and let's communicate here, because you know they're gonna bring up They're not bringing everybody like that who has potential to come and who doesn't look at their stances. You know who's in that motor cycle stance, who's on their heels a little bit. You know that they're gonna have to drop back. So they're gonna try to mug up everyone on the
line of scrimmage to confuse Noah Kim. This is a young quarterback in his first star in this third start of the game. This is his first real big game. We're gonna go out there. We're gonna confuse him a little bit. We're gonna confuse this offensive line. We're gonna mug up in there. We're gonna send some, but we're gonna drop some. And this is the time that this drops them into. We talked about them playing a lot of man coverage this time here to sprinkle a little bit of zone in there
as well, so we can go ahead and play that tony. So everyone's lined up on the line there, who's gonna come and who's gonna go boom? Take steps in and drop Come on, left tackle, Come on, left tackle. Now, I gotta believe Brandon Baldwin's gonna be a lot better than that right there. Yeah. Absolutely, he don't let anybody go past you on the inside. Man, don't let the dangerous man free run at
quarterback. And uh so there's a question that I have. I was watching this game last week and I was like, damn, you know, they put this corner in a bad position playing this man defense here. You know for Tulsa otis, can you like look at this because my thought process is you have to either go to a zone and and pass things off, you know on on the next play that we're gonna show here. Because it's a speedzer. You gotta know your players, know your know who's doing what.
They have a receiver down here, they're gonna send in motion and uh, Tulsa's playing man coverage. This receiver's too fast to keep up with him. Here. Everything's gonna go by and it's gonna be easy walking touchdown here. So that's why I think sometimes you have to mix things up and have a little concept of zone there he's not gonna catch him. Yeah, look a good point, Like when you're in the red zone, there's in your man
there is no way that you're able to get over there. Now, you if you're in most and you're locked in and there's obviously pressure, you gotta be on the hip pocket of him running in that motion, line line line sight. You're running with him in in same pacing, right or hey, if we know we're both in man and we've been studying this, Hey, he goes in the motion. All right, that's you. Like you bump out corner like you just take that. That's the immediate tackle for loss or
a tackle not tackle loss. But that's easily an easily no no gain completion. If my man is just sitting there absorbing that, I don't think it needs to have to necessarily change to his own because if you communicate the correct way and man, you're bumping it out like you say, hey, you carry that motion motion motion? He said, hear that, he carries that. I take this other tight end, you know, the tight end we kind of bumped down covers. You had three tight ends in there. Thirteen
yeah, yeah, so yeah, three yeah, three tight ends. When we know even double tights universally it's almost that boot action like play action almost where they you know, he boot, but to this point I'm all about, like Monoi mono goat man in the red zone because it's easier more, it's less space to cover from that twenty yard line. In let's see that again, so you guys can break it down. This is good stuff here. Yeah, hey, this is this is Master's class of football. Now,
this is I mean, you see this corner here. Now you got another corner, uh, you know, safety on the other side where everyone should bump. Obviously, linebackers are locked in like you got running back, you got you know, you know, maybe assignment on Poenix Pennix Junior. Obviously I know I was gonna mess that up. The other safety. Uh, this could be free where he's like roaming to make sure his eyes on a QB. But as soon as that motion hits, this is an easy
like, hey, I replace the person that obviously is leaving. So now this corner that's near us, obviously this to the boundary. He's gonna cover up this tight end now and then you have the other guys that that far corner. He takes that motion and he's waiting like, honestly, if I'm that corner, I'm jumping to that hash and I'm just letting it come to
me. Now the issues run, he could run out and do that out end route, you know, but I think it's an element of I'm going to embrace it like a sponge and I'm gonna wait for him to come to me. And that's that's an easy kind of interception pass breakup because you know what to look for in this motion, in this set here. But I know, look, it's tough for me to follow what too breakdown because you did a real, real, real deal master on the offense the defensive side,
where I'm like, I don't got nothing to say right now. Look, I'm going I'm gonna take it back to last year of what we could have done better to obviously prepare for this year against Washington's offense. Obviously none of that has changed from year over year. You still got the same personnel, same guys from a receiver corps and obviously quarterback. But you know, to look at I just selected two players because honest, that's what I thought
we were supposed to do. Uh, you know what I'm saying. So of course it's offensive guys that's always planning. More like Coach d said, you give him an take him out. So we look at the last last year's UH matchup, so obviously the momentum, quick, offensive tempo, right like they came out, guns blazing and so basically attacking us, getting us
on our heels. This is a play where you're gonna see when you see motions sometimes it's just like just take you off your your guards and your keys, right, Motions distraction sometimes, right, so you get a distraction. He's not Look, he's not even peeking at this this motion here. Now we got it covered up, but kind of rewind there. You got a slot receivers. Now that one is on the line, you got you got McMillan on the line, and you gotta you got is that you got the
other receiver obviously off the ball. Now, as you can tell, this is man coverage, right, like you can tell what we just talked about this last that last clip, we bumped things up. You see obviously kim bro running obviously to the middle of the field because now he's covering this backside tied end and then obviously you see a corner coming up getting that motion.
Basically, this is what we should should do with that last clip. Now, if I'm sitting here and we talked about man press coverage, and we are man on man with these slide receivers. There's a there is a signal to each guy mirror speed and gross look at each other. It's area. This is a man coverage. They cross routes. I'm taking the inside guy, you take the outside guy. There should be no reason why I need
to cross over. Knowing that, hey, I'm off the ball, I can absorb that this could be an easy uh, you know, coverage sack or you know it shouldn't be a deep ball deep ball pass. But play the play the clip and you can see where out the gates he's already trailing and almost like, hey, he's playing the ball looking back versus Hey, we talked about go to cool school. This is a This is a slogan
of coach Burtnett. You got to go to cool school. If you're out of phase with the receiver, there's no need for you to be looking back because when you look back, it's you think you're flashing, but you're slowing down. Get to the hip. Make sure you get to the hip. And when you get to the hip, best DBS man, you're able to see that reflection on the ball. And the peopil of the receiver and then that's where you say, hey, I start to wide on that ball,
and that's when you make a look and you're in position. But right here is like out the gate. We could have alleviated this of you a mere speed if that's on him on the other side, he takes McMillan and you got you got him taking the other receiver. So there's an element of they're trying to get you on your heels quick, right, So you got to think ahead. We talked about chess moves, think ahead to make sure you're
covering the best ground. And communication. Communication is key because it looked like last year there was not that much communication and we kind of saw where we didn't have our leader and ex Exavier Henderson, and so it was just all all around, you know, a bad deal for us. But now this year, you know, we got speed at the secondary. Both safeties are young, both corners are very locked down and very aggressive and hitting in the
run game, which now they're really one dimensional. So we know we're gonna take care of run game, but how are we going to be able to control that air? And this is going to be the way to control the air is communication. Now you look at last year too. Now they also that second drive. They also they went four downs to try to get into the inZone. And we had a solid gold line stance, and so we had Chris Bogle obviously healthy too, and I think now we have a stronger,
a stronger defensive front. From a standpoint, everybody's looking to eat, and every when everyone's looking to eat, we all eat, right. So you know, if you play this clip, I mean we talk about there was other clips which I wish if I knew half five out of got the whole four clips here first down. But look at the gap pressure that we got from our front line. Look at that like we talk about everybody hats
to the football, third and goal. Now look every time here, Look he could have pitched that option we are at every Look how many white jerseys are at the ball. No one's getting pushed to the end zone. Everybody's hunkered down, foundation, get into their gaps. Responsibility, do your job. This is going to be how it is on Saturday. Do your job and we will we will prevail. And so this is an element of consistent, consistent point of attack of the ball. Every chance you get, we
gotta put a lick on the quarterback. You gotta wear and tear, you start to put some knowledge on them. I think there's an element of where it could be some breakdowns where he's getting tired. So that's our goal. How many hits can we get to them, and how many sacks can we get so we can get free stacks. Yeah, go back to that play real quick, just so you can understand the trench game right here and that
in those third, the fourth and goal plays. You know, when you're in on the line of scrimmage on either side of the ball for want, you're taught to re establish a line of scrimmage. So the defense is trying to get their feet to where that black line is. If you see that, that's where they want to get their feet. The offense is trying to do the same thing. Low man wins and you're trying to re establish a line of scrimmans. So when you look at this, when you roll the
tape, you'll see those white See how they come across the line. Their feet are across into that black line and beyond it is impossible as a running back to you. You know this from being in that position when you get that rock and you see the penetration. Where where can you go? You can't, Yeah, you it's either take what's given to you right there or trying to bounce in and lose yards. So it's bargers we used to do, man, you straight, like, hey, when win the side or
the offense versus defense. This is like typical inside little league stuff like this is where we fundamental, right, this is where we thrive on inside run and this is where practicing inside run and do it every day and then it gets to this point. This is where you thrive because when you win these battles, that's a huge momentum shift of getting a goal line stand. So clearly they obviously took that advantage. They did not respect us, and they
was like we're gonna we're gonna beat beat them bad. Let's go on Saturday, man, Like it's a different ball game, Like this is a new team, this is a new mindset. We got some for those Huskies. Well, man, that's that is outstanding stuff. Guys, all the way through the fourteen plays by you and the couple from all this we're making at that masters class in in football science right there. This good stuff, you know, Hope, you like that. You know, don't forget we have
the special ticket giveaway brought to you by seat Gee coming up. Don't forget to go to the link in our bios on Instagram or Twitter slash x to win two Lower Bowl tickets of the game this weekend against Washington to watch this stuff unfold for you. I think, you know, I have a sneaking suspicion that Michigan State has a great chance this week. I mean, everybody shows up, they show up, and I know that team's gonna show up. I know they're gonna play their hearts out, and if you're there to
support them, it's just going to be that much better. You know. Guys, Look, I think this was a great breakdown by you both. You know, I'm trying to just I'm just moderating here. I'm just trying to figure this out. You guys. Look awesome, awesome job, awesome job. Don't forget to get to this is part of the m s u U to get any of your you know, merch choose book run. Don't forget that either. This is that point and look, we gotta we gotta,
we gotta do it. Don't forget the book Amazon before you send us home. Before you send us home, you want to slow it down. Let's go one thing I want to just say before you know. We talk about winning games on the three phases of the game offense, defense, special teams. This week there's four phases that we have to win. We have to win the offense, the defense, the special team, and we got
to control the crowd. That's that has to be there. The twelfth Man, Spartan Nation, you are the fourth phase of the game, and we have to create a hostile environment for the Huskies because trust me, that's a long ass flight back home with the loss. So it's on us, the players are because we did that last year. So taking care of business. We need spartanation to show up and take care of business as the twelfth man.
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