Postgame Quotes vs. Marshall – Ohio State

Ryan Day, Ohio State head coach
On his strategy to as we speak’s sport…
“We needed to play quick as we speak. We felt like that was the best strategy and while you try this, you are creating explosive performs that flip the ball over fast too.”
 
On kicker Austin Snyder changing Jayden Fielding for the second half…
“We put Austin in there and thought he did a pleasant job. We’ll consider them, however both means we will not have that. You get to the purpose the place you need to let any person play by it, however at one other level, we’ve got to make a change.”
 
On the group’s general efficiency…
“The issues we did nicely, we are going to proceed to reinforce and the issues we did not do nicely, we’ve got to develop from. They do some good issues, and we aren’t going to take any win as a right; there’s loads of work that will get put into them. The blokes are enjoying exhausting and we’ve got to maintain constructing on that.”
 
On his penalty…
“There was 21 seconds on the clock after we subbed in, and so they have been actually sluggish getting in. If you make a sub round 21 seconds, it is best to be capable to nonetheless run a play. We needed to name outing and I went to the numbers; I did not curse, however I used to be elevating my voice saying that in some unspecified time in the future that must be delay of sport on protection. I suppose I yelled too loud.”
 
On the Buckeyes’ working sport…
“I feel what you might be seeing is an identification that is slowly getting molded right here the place we’re explosive on the perimeter. There’s some issues that we will do higher there, and coach higher, however we try to stretch the sector vertically. If you suppose again to after we had Justin Fields and J.T. Barrett, it was only a totally different working sport, and I’ve began to see that come again a bit of bit.”
 
On the working backs…
“All three of them, I’ve to provide credit score. All of them have particular talents; they play nicely off one another. They’re unselfish, which is the most important factor you’ll be able to say, a bunch of men that do not care who will get the credit score.”
 
On coming into Large Ten play…
“We go towards good gamers every single day in follow, so it isn’t like we do not know what we seem like towards good gamers.”
 
On quarterback Will Howard’s efficiency…
“Will did some actually good issues, just like the landing play to Jeremiah. It was a sight adjustment, the place he needed to see it, and so the execution on that was very excessive. The lengthy cross to Carnell [Tate] was nicely performed; he noticed the adjustment that was made there and located the subsequent learn. I feel he is rising and getting extra snug with the offense.”
 
On working again Quinshon Judkins…
“I admire how exhausting he performs; his pad degree, he runs, he is received vulnerability which you’ll see he will get behind his pads and runs bodily. He is received an awesome angle. You’ll be able to coach Quinshon exhausting, and he appears at you within the eye and virtually appreciates the truth that you coach exhausting. It says rather a lot about him as an individual and he is working exhausting. I feel he enjoys being a part of this program and he is been nothing however an awesome teammate to date.”

Jordan Hancock, Ohio State cornerback
On the group’s means to make fast changes…
“We have not been hit with an excessive amount of adversity within the season, however them going on the market and scoring, we simply needed to take a chip on our shoulder that second drive and the drives after that. That is what we did, we simply needed to go on the market and make changes as a result of we’ve got some actually good coaches, and so they’re making an attempt to place us in one of the best place for us to win.”
 
On defending air raid offense and getting it on movie…
“It is an enormous optimistic proper now in our protection, our scheme, and perhaps our methods on the skin. We all know after we go to East Lansing, they are going to be passing the ball rather a lot, so I am completely satisfied we noticed this group earlier than we go up there.”
 
On how ready the group is for Michigan State…
“We’re actually ready. Coming off that bye week, we did not look over Marshall, however they [Michigan State] type of run the identical factor that Marshall does, air raid. Seeing this group proper right here will make us higher for subsequent week.”
 
On maintaining the depth in Large Ten play…
“It begins with the offseason, with Coach Mick [Mariotti], he all the time says ‘second half mentality, fourth quarter mentality.’ That is what we introduced into the season proper right here, and we have proven that these first three video games, that we’re prepared for that in Large Ten video games.”
 
Lathan Ransom, Ohio State security
On the offense’s explosive begin…
“The offense performed nice and so they received established early. TreVeyon [Henderson] ran the ball very exhausting. You all the time like to see it. It will get everybody going and brings loads of power and it additionally opens up loads of performs within the passing sport.”
 
On being prepared for the upcoming Large Ten video games…
“I am tremendous excited. I can not wait to play among the Large Ten groups. These video games are all the time thrilling, particularly our first away sport.”
 
On the youthful gamers stepping up…
“I feel the younger guys stepped up rather well; that is what is particular about our group. We all the time have dudes which can be able to play and a backup that is simply as prepared.”
 
On adjusting to Marshall’s run sport…
“Once they get a lightweight field and so they test to the run, everybody’s suits should be appropriate. We fastened what we would have liked and stopped it within the second half.”
 
Emeka Egbuka, Ohio State huge receiver
On the explosive offense…
“It is actually exhausting to cease our working sport and exhausting to cease our passing assault. We now have Quinshon Judkins and TreyVeon Henderson, in all probability one of the best duo that I’ve ever seen in faculty soccer. And we’ve got the athletes that we do, on the skin. So, there’s threats in every single place. It is exhausting to sport plan for us.”
 
On emphasizing receiver/perimeter blocking…
“It was a extremely massive emphasis that we had going into this yr as a result of blocking downfield is the place you actually discover the explosive performs. In case you watch in years previous, performs that would’ve been touchdowns, are tackles which can be made by safeties and cornerbacks. You already know, it is by no means going to be a defensive lineman chasing them 30 yards downfield for probably the most half. So that basically falls on the accountability of the huge receivers to get these jobs performed.”
 
On the mentality of blocking as a receiver…
“I feel it is extra of a mentality factor. Blocking is rarely actually scheme. It may be partially method on the skin, however for probably the most half, you need to need to block. It’s a must to come off the ball each run play prefer it’s a cross play, to maintain that risk of cross and run there always. It is positively a mentality factor. It is one thing that we have been making an attempt to carry and simply have that going about us each single sport.”
 
On having over 100 yards receiving…
“Clearly, it is enjoyable to have the ability to carry out at a really excessive degree, however I by no means actually tried to hold my hat on statistics. If I had zero catches, however I nonetheless ran all the best routes and did all the best issues, it would not make me any much less of a participant. I might have gone for 300 yards as we speak, however that is simply because the ball got here my means. I attempt to do what I can with the alternatives that I introduced.”
 
On catching his first landing of the yr…
“I am simply going to do my job to one of the best of my means. If the ball comes my means, it does, however on the finish of the day, there is a accountability deeper than simply statistics. We’re making an attempt to make a legendary run this yr.”

Quinshon Judkins, Ohio State working again
On his 86-yard landing run…
“It positively felt fairly good. I rotated to see if I had a flag on the play, however after that I used to be tremendous enthusiastic about it.”
 
On the tradition at Ohio State…
“I feel it is the brotherhood; all people has put blood, sweat and tears into this program.  All people has woken up at 5 within the morning to get within the constructing and educated. It is since you need it for the particular person beside you; simply figuring out that I can belief that man, he is received me, and he’ll go on the market and make a play.” 
 
On what he feels when he will get the ball in his fingers…
“I feel the mindset of me and my teammates as an entire is to play with dangerous intentions. I feel that is my mindset after I get the ball, I will do my job and attempt to rating.”
 
On getting a win…
“I get pleasure from each single win. Like what Coach Day says, it is exhausting to get a win in any soccer sport, so we benefit from the win, come again tomorrow and see how we will enhance within the subsequent sport.”
 
Will Howard, Ohio State quarterback
On how attitudes can shift when the run sport is doing efficient…
“You noticed the offensive line rocking off the ball; they have been getting as much as that second degree very quick with the way in which that their entrance was arrange. I feel our guards received good motion and people guys have been getting as much as the second degree nicely. Our working backs have been doing an unbelievable job of studying issues. When the run sport is clicking, it makes my job straightforward.”
 
On Coach Chip Kelly’s play calling now three video games into the season…
“I feel we’re clicking. We’re on the identical web page on loads of issues and the way in which that we see coverages and the way in which that we see simply the images, we’re on the identical web page on loads of stuff. I actually suppose we’re beginning to click on.”
 
On the range of Kelly’s play calling…
“You by no means know what you’re going to get with Coach Kelly, he’ll do absolutely anything, and I feel that is the cool half about it. It retains defenses on their toes.”
 
On having quite a lot of totally different standouts on offense …
“I feel it is big. I imply, individuals respecting every little thing, and never simply the receivers, tight ends too, these guys make the performs too, it is the run sport, me getting my legs going, all these various things current challenges for defenses. The extra methods we will assault them, and the extra individuals we will become involved, the more durable it should be.”
 
On what it’s wish to have versatile receivers…
“That is the mentality of that room. These dudes are dudes, and it isn’t nearly getting catches, it isn’t nearly scoring touchdowns; it is about executing each single play. I feel Coach Hartline does a extremely good job of teaching these guys up and getting them proper. I’ve by no means seen a extra selfless group of receivers, and a extra selfless, proficient group of receivers. All of them are unbelievably proficient. All of them need to genuinely see one another succeed.”
 
On how he would describe how Quinshon Judkins runs…
“He is totally different. Man, he is totally different. He is constructed in a different way. He is a distinct beast – he is bodily, he is quick. I imply, you noticed it on that breakaway run. There’s not a lot that that man cannot do. And on prime of that, he is one in all my favourite individuals on the group and I really like that dude. I’d do something for him. The place that he is making it, it is a compound of all of the work he is put in since he is been right here and I am excited for him as a result of he is solely scratching the floor of what he is able to, and he is already doing a little fairly rattling good issues.”
 
On his relationship with heart Seth McLaughlin and the way he makes his job simpler…
“Me and Seth are tremendous tight, he is one in all my finest pals on the group, and we spend loads of time collectively. He’s a man I totally belief in something. If he makes a name, I am like ‘Oh yeah, he in all probability sees one thing I do not see.’ We will bounce concepts off one another. We now have that relationship the place we each belief one another and we all know that we’re each making an attempt to get on the identical web page, and we’re on the identical web page more often than not. He is been actually good for me to have coming into all of this being a first-year man within the system. Having a man like him, I feel each of us can type of lean again on our experiences – we’ve got each have performed a ton of soccer up up to now. I feel that is helped us. We bonded over that, and it is also helped us out within the area.”
 
Charles Huff, Marshall head coach
On missed tackles by Marshall…
“We talked about all of it week. You miss tackles with these guys, it is a landing, so we’ve got to proceed to scrub that up.”
 
On Ohio State’s means to interrupt tackles…
“You’ll be able to’t miss tackles, you already know. A few of these have been damaged tackles, and that is one of many good issues that good gamers do.”You’ll be able to include excellent fundamentals and excellent type, and in the event that they break a sort out as a result of they’re stronger, nicely, that occurred as we speak.”
 
On Ohio State residing as much as its potential…
“Offensively, completely. Defensively, they smother you, and so they type of simply lean on you and weigh you down a bit, and that is what occurred to us as we speak. They type of simply laid on us lengthy sufficient to put on us down. Offensively, I imply 2019 LSU, 2021 Alabama – they’re in all probability in that realm. I imply they’re actually good, like actually good.”
 
On his biscuit feedback within the week…
“Hopefully it did not take anybody again by my feedback. I do not suppose anybody’s leaving for biscuits… one of many gamers stated on the way in which off, ‘You bought any biscuits?'”
 
On enjoying at Ohio State …
“Hats off to the Ohio State administration. They did an outstanding job. [We] felt welcome and so they did a extremely good job, [were] very skilled, very well mannered, and every little thing.”