Bill Landis

once you catch the ball the play's not over like like catch it and and run i think there's a there's a schematic question there and a route tree question there that you alluded to like there just wasn't a lot of like shallow over the middle of the field stuff for jeremiah smith

last year um or really kind of any receivers so i think that's part of the reason why they wanted to add more speed to the room too like they added a couple of pretty pretty fast guys and kyle parker and i think this is sort of getting getting to the heart of that as well so um they were a team last year that it felt like when they got yards after the catch it was on deep balls like they caught it at 40 yards and then ran the extra 10 yards to score a touchdown but there wasn't a lot of

I caught this ball at six yards and turned it into a 40-yard reception.

And this is something that... I think I asked Ryan Day about this.

I'm trying to remember when.

This was years ago.

I think in 2018...

When Ryan was the OC and not yet the head coach, Ohio State was among the best teams in the country, I think, in yards after catch.

Perhaps – I'm going to try to look that up now.

When they had like – Mesh route mania.

Yeah, mesh route mania.

Paris Campbell, K.J.

Hill.

Terry McLaurin.

Yeah, like that was –

and maybe that was just something that suited that group more, but, but like it immediately dropped like once Ryan day became the head coach.

And I think, I don't know that it's ever been, yeah, they were that year.

They were second in the country and yards after the catch behind Washington state, which is an air raid team or it wasn't every team at the time.

So it's just not been a big component of the offense for much of Ryan day's tenure, like fine, fine, but probably lower than anyone would assume based on the receiver talent that Ohio state accumulates.

And yeah,