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Game Thread tOSU at Wisconsin, Sat. Oct. 18th, 3:30 pm ET, CBS

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Quick Hits: Ryan Day Says There’s Still “Meat On the Bone” in the Run Game, Calls Special Teams Mishaps “Ridiculous”; Carnell Tate Labels Julian Sayin “A Heisman Winner”

Ryan Day said Ohio State left "meat on the bone" in the run game and called its special teams mishaps "ridiculous," while Carnell Tate called Julian Sayin "a Heisman winner."
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  • On Ohio State’s run game against Wisconsin: “Yeah, I would have to look back and watch the film and figure out what was good and what broke down. As you guys could tell, we wanted to come out and throw the ball more in this game and try to get a feel for where we really are in the passing game because we’re gonna need both here down the stretch.”
  • Day complimented Luke Fickell’s Wisconsin defense and said it posed a challenge for Ohio State’s offense. “This is a defense that tackles well. They’re well-coached. Luke does a good job.”
  • Day said Ohio State’s offense broke down at some points for a couple of reasons: “It was because we just lost focus or didn’t execute well all the way down the field. … But it’s good for them to feel that as well. Now as we throw and catch we have to be efficient in working the ball down the field. But all it takes is one play to be off and then you find yourself off-schedule. It was good on the first drive, we came out, found ourselves on third and long and made a great throw and catch to score. It was good to get a turnover and get the rhythm going.”
  • Day with more on the run game: “We left some meat on the bone in the run game, for sure, but to see us throw the ball the way we did is a big step in the right direction. I thought Julian made some really good decisions in the RPO game. I thought he checked the ball down, for the most part, when we needed to. And then his off-schedule plays were excellent to me. He found his checkdowns at times, but his scramble plays like the one to Brandon (Inniss) was really well done, and he had some other ones as well.”
  • Day said Isaiah West’s performance against Wisconsin impressed him. “Those two guys in the hole that he made miss, that’s a good sign for a young back. We’ll kind of see what it looks like and see where we go from here.”
  • Day said Ohio State does the best it can to get the ball in the hands of its playmakers; however, Day said the Buckeyes can’t become preoccupied with individual statistics and must instead remain focused “on staying within the system and not putting our offense at risk of sputtering in a drive and not scoring a touchdown.”
  • On Sayin’s performance: “I’m impressed with his preparation. I sit in those meetings with Billy, (Julian) and Lincoln (Kienholz). The amount of information that he’s processing and those guys go through in those meetings is well done. When you see that translate to on the field, that’s winning football. When you can take a meeting to the field as quickly as he can, see it and process it — is he perfect? No, there’s things he’s gonna work to get better at, but man, he’s got a bright future ahead of him.”
  • On Carnell Tate’s performance: “His play speaks for itself. I mean, the catch he made early on is tremendous. You see some of those catches he makes on the sidelines. He’s a great blocker. He’s playing himself to be, again, a first-rounder, an All-American. He’s just a different style of player than Jeremiah, but he’s just as dangerous and just as good.”
  • Day said Tate’s hard work over the past three years sets a standard young players in the program should look to follow.
  • Day said Ohio State still has plenty of room to improve “We had the special teams breakdown, which we can’t have happen. That can cost you a game. That was ridiculous. … We know what our issues are, and we have to continually work on them to get them better.”
  • Day joked with reporters that he wanted to receive more questions from reporters about the defense, “who just shut the team out over here.” Day said Ohio State’s early turnover was crucial. He said the Buckeyes did a great job against Wisconsin’s run game. “We just kept playing, and that was great.”
  • Day on Ohio State shutting out Wisconsin: “I hope nobody is getting used to that because, like, that doesn’t just happen. This is a lot of hard work that gets put in. Give the defense a ton of credit, give the staff a ton of credit. Obviously, our guys on defense played their tails off.”
Just sayin': Click on thr link to see what Julian Sayin and Carnell Tate had to say.
 
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“I'm incredibly disappointed. In a lot of things, obviously, the scoreboard is probably the most notable. And to not find a way to put points on the board, that will never give us a chance. So we know we have to find a way to be able to do that. And we got to get a hell of a lot better at it. But there are some bright spots. I'm not going to sit here and sugarcoat things.”– Wisconsin Head Coach Luke Fickell

“Young guys, freshmen, have been thrown out there against the No. 1 team in the country. But I'll be honest with you, I think that's collectively as good a team as I've prepared for or played against in all phases. Just across the board, the way they play offensively and defensively in special teams as well. On top of the talent that they have. And to see some of those guys compete and not bat an eye, I think that's what we're going to have to continue to build around.”– Wisconsin Head Coach Luke Fickell

“I mean, that's, I think, the top-rated defense in the country. And I'm not taking away that we didn't score points. And I'm not taking away that I don't know how many yards we had before the last series, 60-some yards. You know, as we went into it, there were things that we knew we had to be able to spread the thing out. We had to be able to throw the ball, and some of those short passes, like we did in the second series, they got picked off.”– Wisconsin Head Coach Luke Fickell

“I mean, I think we're out there with two freshman corners against probably the best wide receiver crew that I've seen. I mean, maybe when we played LSU a few years ago. And you've got freshman corners that happen to go battle and compete against those guys.”– Wisconsin Head Coach Luke Fickell
 
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