Jayden Fielding

And Michigan's kicker might be the worst kicker I've ever seen.

He's worse than Jaden Fielding.

In fact, I was telling you, it's disrespectful to compare him to Jaden Fielding.

Jaden Fielding hit an ice-meat kick and a natty.

For all the issue with Jaden Fielding, he wasn't missing chip shots in the quarters one and two.

But then I saw Indiana's kicker hit a crazy electric kick to put them over the top, and then our kicker went four for four.

Do you realize that's all we did?

Okay.

You know, we could talk about Jaden Fielding and his struggles.

We could talk about Noah Ruggles and his hooked kick against Georgia in the playoff.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I'm already probably intentionally forgetting the previous field goal kicker for Ohio State, Jaden Fielding.

He would miss everything.

So I'm glad that he doesn't exist anymore.

And so we saw it last year.

I mean, if you had to pinpoint one area where Ohio State lost that game last year, other than a Jayden Fielding missed field goal, it was Ohio State's offensive line getting their butt whooped in the trenches, allowing five sacks, not being able to run the ball consistently against that Indiana defensive front.

And based on what we've seen so far this year, I, I think this Indiana defensive front is just as good as the one that Ohio State played last year.

I mean, they have three of their starters back, and Osinsomie's come in and has been extremely productive.

One time they go for it on fourth down and don't get it.

Next time they kick a 22-yard field goal or attempt to kick one because Jayden Fielding missed it.

Um, that game can tell us a lot.

You know, Julian Sand got sacked five times.

And also, I'm actually not sure Ryan Day trusts Connor Hawkins at this point.

And maybe it's foolish because he kept trusting Jaden Fielding, but I actually don't think Ryan Day is overly confident anymore in what they're going to do in that aspect of the kicking game.

And I think he's ready to just like move on from it.

Hey, Ryan, do you trust your special teams?

Okay.

Well, if you have two, then I'll hold off on what I was going to say.

I just, it's just a question of what do you want to go down swinging with? He chose against Indiana to go down swinging with Jaden Fielding making a kick and going into overtime, and it backfired on him.

He chose to go down swinging with his defense, getting a stop at the one-yard line four straight times against Texas, and it backfired.

Yeah, and I think actually the game trailer might be a telling sign for us too this week, right? When they drop that on Thursday because we know that that's something that they try to portray what day's message and what the team's message is for that week, right? So if the game day trailer starts with You know, Fernando Mendoza throwing it to Elijah Surratt, you know, for a touchdown to kind of win that game.

Or it features Jaden Fielding missing a field goal, which would be hilarious to feature in the game trailer.

Or Indiana celebrating.

Then we'll be like, oh, the message this week has been revenge.

Julian Sayin was stopped short on a quarterback sneak.

His knee went down a couple of yards before they got that first down, and then they come away with a play action bootleg where Julian Sayin throws it just past Bennett Christian, what could've been a touchdown there, and then you have Jaden Fielding missed field goal.

I don't mean to reopen very new wounds for Ohio State fans with those outcomes and with those certain plays, but that is, I think, what's at the back of Ohio State's mind now going to the front of Ohio State's mind as they travel to Bloomington this week.

Because I think if Ohio State wins that game in that Big Ten championship, not only do they have the hardware of winning a conference title, their first since twenty-twenty as you pointed out, but they also have momentum going into the college football playoff.