Ohio State football coach Ryan Day press conference: Practice, energy lift Buckeyes to win over WMU

no again another great crowd um and we wanted to start fast in this game and and you know really build on the energy in in the entire Stadium I felt like we did that and we kept continue to play the whole game and we want to make sure that we put on a good show for everybody who came today and so I really appreciate the crowd they were great and U was good to get out to a fast start and feel their energy early in the game all right hope you're here to the right Tim may let in a roll heyy thanks Jerry uh yeah six 683 total yards to 99 that's about as thorough as it gets uh Ryan in a a little quick follow quinch Johan Judkins when he got in there what did he give you yeah you could see it um strong running home run hitting ability um I thought he and Trey both ran well today and uh and we even had the one that could call back on quinan so you know I feel like we had a good mix in in the game today a lot of guys touched the ball it was you know again I thought chip called the good game a mix of run and pass there was some good ball out of hand stuff there was a couple shots down the field um but I it to me it goes back to our week of practice you know we practice strong and physical and um have good intent and you know we had a good Tuesday had a really good Wednesday and so you know I felt like U we were about to kind of come into a game we're going to dominate like this I I did I just kind of had that feeling going into the game and um but it came down on the players playing really hard so watch the film and try to identify where that effort was but it seemed like a lot of guys were into it and and like I again I different than you have done yeah no I I mean it was just um the way we practiced this week um it was a good energy at practice and um you know when you're when you're going against each other good on good and and you know um the attention to detail was good even you know we do Scouts we go ones on twos we go good on good you know all of them were sharp um not not that the execution was perfect it wasn't but there was just there was an energy about it and and we just got to keep building on that because you're going to we say it all the time the Navy SE will say you're going to SN to the level of your training and um you know I knew you know going into this game that if we just played like we practiced during the week that you know it was going to be a good night for us get test your depth and build depth out of a game like extremely important you know we know that that's going to be huge and I mean great example of that I mean it was like and I felt awful for Denzel that he was out but what a great teaching example that something like that can happen Jermaine Matthew you got to go in the game right now it's like whoa so um you know Donovan Don Donovan was available for the game if it was it was an emergency situation we were going to put him in the game he wanted to go in in the worst way we just you know um our um Sports Medicine you know crowd really wanted to um you hold him if possible so we're going to give him one more week and then and then he'll be ready to go uh he could have played in this game but you know Austin Sahl had to go in the game um so so that was that was real so all those things are going to happen and uh it's good to see Cody back out there but building depth is is critical okay folks Lantern folks if I could get you guys to clear that table I'm going to put Sunny Styles over there and I'm going to put jack Jack meart M Jack Sawyer at the very at at at the at the very back sorry about that man all right we're going we're going to the right here Bill Rabinowitz Columbus Dispatch Ryan over here um last week you won 52 to6 but there was a lot to clean up um no game is perfect I'm sure they'll you'll find some stuff but be pretty hard to nitpick Too Much with this one you're going into an off week how are you going to approach this because and this was probably as dominating performance as you could hope for well next week is an improvement week so you know we have our byee you know after the Oregon game as you look on the schedule so we're we're going to go to work we'll be back back at it tomorrow um you know we'll have a Tuesday a Wednesday a Thursday you know we won't go on Friday or Saturday but uh it'll be a normal week we we only feel like we're three weeks into the season so we feel like we got a lot to improve on um you know trust me there's a lot on the film that we got to get better at you know every week we go to improve but at the end of the day it's it's about going really really hard and playing with great passion and great energy and great intensity and just you know the sideline was on fire tonight and I just you could feel all that that to me is where we got to keep building because when you can apply that kind of pressure on your opponent then you know that you know it's in all three phases you know I I felt like we had a chance in a couple of the returns they did a good job with the hang time we went after a couple punts didn't get home um so we want to continue to to apply pressure there in the Special Teams but um but but that's what we're after applying pressure in all three phases over to the left Cameron Teague Robinson the athletic Ryan the the offensive line kind of got off a slow start last league but they seem to have a really good game from start to finish this week what did you see um that worked well for them that maybe they improved on from a week ago I think they they got into a rhythm as a group and um I thought again they had a good week of practice but um they they kind of settled down in this game I felt like and you know if there was a mistake made it was full speed and we'll get on the film and try to figure out where that is um there's bigger challenges ahead and so all those little things are going to show up now on moreon film and that's um that's a big part of this job and you know going in you know to to the year six and and being here for now eight years you know I understand what that means like you have to identify and cut off the issues that are there even though they may not show up in a game here but um but we're well aware well aware of it and we're going to identify them and um get them addressed tomorrow over to the right here Steven means cleveland.com Ryan that decision to go forward fourth down given where the score was at that point how much of that is just about tone and mindset for how you guys want to attack things this year versus also just trying to get a look in a game like this yeah we were just trying to get more guys more plays you know there's a lot of guys on our team that deserve plays and and deserve reps and you know it was close enough that we felt like you know it was one of those ones we were just going to go for and um you know we wanted to continue to get These Guys these reps and um you know it's not always an easy situation when when you're up by that kind of score but you know we we totally respect our our our opponents and you know respect coach and and you know the whole team at Western Michigan but we also need to get these guys plays because it's so important down the road so we we try to be respectful there's no question about that but we also have to let our guys learn and make mistakes because as we know down the road uh we're going to need these guys in a game and the only way to figure it out is to get them in the game so we wanted to get the guys the Reps we said that we were going to do that this year um it's not always easy to do because you know you want to again respect your opponent but uh um but I got a lot of respect for them I thought that they played excellent the week before so they had our guys attention I think that was a big part of this thing and you know now they go they go back toback Big 10 games um I know that's you know that's that's not easy to do you sh that's not easy for us to do or anybody else so um you know I I think they're very sound I think they're going to have a good season um you know I just I felt like um you know our guys played well tonight okay over to the left Joey Kaufman Columbus Dispatch Ryan what did you think of Will's performance tonight he started really sharp had the rushing touchdown as well in in the Red Zone first time you're starting quarterbacks run for a scoring a while just overall what' you think of his yeah I I think he started 10 for 10 and had the rushing touchdown and and there's going to be things though that um you know we see that you know we have it the shot to galani there you know maybe throw it better catch it better um you know there a couple things in there you know I'm always going to be super critical of the quarterbacks you know but um Wills has got good demeanor you can see the effect he can have in the pass game you can see the effect that he can have you know with his feet um I thought he threw some nice play action passes tonight couple from under Center and when you know to see like Jeremiah catch that pass and run you see the one that Carell had last week catch and run those balls are all on time and they're on the money and those guys you know are you know tremendously talented and and you know do a good job with run after the catch but a big part of run after catch is timing and location of throws and accuracy and so um you know he deserves credit on that I think he did a good job out of the pocket on a couple of the play action passes that were welld designed so um again you know a good day for Will and my favorite part of the whole day was we missed the blitz on a play action pass a guy came free he voided the sack and then threw the ball away to me that was that was a big play and and those are the things are going to matter in some of these closer games okay we're going to have two more questions for Coach over here to the right uh Spencer Holbrook Letterman row Ryan it's five years to the day since your last shut out um is that too long between those and then what does it do for a defense a roster a team to to shut an opponent out I don't know if it's mental thing or just to see it and and see that you can do it like what does that do for you guys moving forward well yeah I mean I guess what six points last week and didn't let him allow him in the end zone and all I could hear the defensive guys talk about at halftime was shot out and so yeah there's a mindset there and um you know and our guys are competitive I think you can see that even to the end they're competing and that's a good sign I've said that all summer and you can feel it on the field so so yeah I mean it it's um it's something these guys have pride in and you know to to know you shut somebody out is a good day now we're going to put this behind us grow from it learn from it but um but but overall you know our guys you know were proud of that you know they're proud of the fact that they only held him to 99 yards and zero points that's a big deal and last question for Coach day Dylan Davis Delaware Gazette Ryan I asked you on Tuesday if you were close to putting a third quarterback in last week and if you felt good about a third quarterback I guess what did Julian show you did you know on Tuesday that that would be your guy if you got that opportunity I guess what did he show you this week to put him out there yeah I thought Devin did a nice job on that first drive that he went in there hit a nice um you know play action pass uh did a couple nice things through threw an over route to Bryson Rogers which was well done um made a couple nice checks in a run game so I thought that was that was good and then he got a couple drives and felt like we wanted to get juules in there and um and Lincoln as well so um you know those guys are working and and they deserve an opportunity to play in those type of situations so um you know the more we can do that the better would love to get them more and more reps but when you have those that many quarterbacks it's hard to do so um but but again I think this team overall um is unselfish you know and I think that everyone's cheering for each other they're pulling for each other and you know the ball got spread around today overall and that was that was good great coach thank you very much