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Ohio State Spring Football: First Impressions Of New Wide Receivers · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, March fifteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: better late than never, as they say, Ohio State Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: Since last we spoke, the Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
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  Speaker 1: team put up a great fight but end up losing
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  Speaker 1: to Michigan in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament.
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  Speaker 1: They will almost certainly make the tournament field for the
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  Speaker 1: you have that to look forward to. So we also
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  Speaker 1: have to look forward to the twenty twenty six Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State football team. Earlier this week, the Buck guys had
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  Speaker 1: two practices Tuesday and Thursday. We were there for both
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  Speaker 1: of those and we got to talk to Brian Day
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  Speaker 1: after practice on Tuesday, got to talk to Julian Saying
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  Speaker 1: and Kenyana Jackson after practice on Thursday. On today's show,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get to hear a bunch from Julian
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  Speaker 1: Saying on some of the things he got asked about,
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  Speaker 1: get to hear directly from him. I know you guys
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  Speaker 1: generally enjoy these shows, and there's a lot of new
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  Speaker 1: faces on this year's team, so it'll be good to
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  Speaker 1: sort of get some of those folks in as we
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  Speaker 1: get a little further on through the spring. But for now,
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  Speaker 1: a familiar face in Julian Saying, although the face will
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  Speaker 1: look a little different. You'll see what I mean if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube and if you're listening on a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He'll get a question about that a little later on.
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  Speaker 1: But let's start about a question that I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Ohio State fans have been asking over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Why isn't he running more? Would it help for Julian
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  Speaker 1: saying to run more? So all right, Julian, have you
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  Speaker 1: been asked to run more? What's going on with that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I've done a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: with coach make this afseasy, you know, getting getting stronger,
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  Speaker 2: getting more powerful and being able to run through tackles
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  Speaker 2: and things like that, and you know, that's definitely been
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  Speaker 2: a focus off of our off season. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to improving that this spring.
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  Speaker 1: There is more than just left foot right foot when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to running the football at the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole mental side of that as well, recognizing
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  Speaker 1: when you need to take off, being willing and able
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  Speaker 1: to do it. So how comfortable is Julian saying with
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  Speaker 1: the mental side of running the ball?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, I think I'm very comfortable
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  Speaker 2: with here, just having that clock in my head knowing
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  Speaker 2: when to you know, this ball needs to get out
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  Speaker 2: or you know, nothing's that you got to take off.
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  Speaker 2: So I think, you know, I'm still improving that, but
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm very comfortable in that aspect of having
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  Speaker 2: that internal clock in my head and no one with
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  Speaker 2: the blocket's breaking down.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard the number fifty one a whole bunch already
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  Speaker 1: this spring. Fifty one new guys on this year's Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State team. So that's basically half the roster that was
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  Speaker 1: not here about three months ago. So how has that
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  Speaker 1: process of team building been going so far?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been a it's been a fun offseason
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  Speaker 2: getting to know these guys, and you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: we we mesh well together. It's been it's been a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fun just within the weight room and challenging
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  Speaker 2: each other and competing and spending time outside of the facility.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it'll be a big, good group, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the process of having all those new guys
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  Speaker 1: in the room is, boy, it doesn't take as much
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  Speaker 1: to get seniority in there as it used to. He
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  Speaker 1: is a third year player, but he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: older guys, one of the old heads in that locker
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  Speaker 1: room at this point. So as the starting quarterback, returning
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback, and as a third year player on this team,
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  Speaker 1: this year's team, you would assume he's probably becoming more
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  Speaker 1: of a leader. He actually talked to the team before
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  Speaker 1: practice on Thursday. So is that an intentional thing that
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  Speaker 1: he's really trying to take on more of a leadership role.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm just trying to step up in the
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  Speaker 2: leadership role more. You know, we have some returning guys
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  Speaker 2: on offense that have all kind of been trying to
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  Speaker 2: do that, and you know, stepping up in the weight
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  Speaker 2: room and you know, just throughout the throughout the facilities,
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  Speaker 2: trying to be more of a leader.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned the fifty one new players on this year's team,
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  Speaker 1: that did not count the assistant coaches who are new.
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  Speaker 1: One of them is offensive coordinator Arthur Smith. So what
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  Speaker 1: are Julian Sayin's initial impressions of Arthur Smith been.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was really excited about it. You know, Coach
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  Speaker 2: Smith obviously a great coach in the NFL and you know,
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  Speaker 2: someone I can learn a lot from. So I've been
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  Speaker 2: it's been great spend time with him and learning from
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  Speaker 2: him and taking points from him, and you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: calling the offense out there, so it's it's been great
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  Speaker 2: and you know, love working with him. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: keep doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the quarterback run thing for a minute, and
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  Speaker 1: last year during springball that we saw a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times when they made the quarterbacks live. Normally they're wearing
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  Speaker 1: those black no contact jerseys, but at some point you
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  Speaker 1: got to kind of take the bubble wrap off. And
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  Speaker 1: that's something that the coaching staff was willing to do
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  Speaker 1: a few times last year. But when you aren't live,
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  Speaker 1: when you you know you were in the security of
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  Speaker 1: that black no contact jersey, how do you practice running
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  Speaker 1: when you know you're not going to get hit?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, you just have to feel
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  Speaker 2: the rush and feel when the pockets break down. It
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  Speaker 2: definitely comes with experience from being in the fire, being
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  Speaker 2: in games, but you know, you just have to feel
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  Speaker 2: that feel that pocket and you know, see uh because
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  Speaker 2: you have to be looking at you know, the defense
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  Speaker 2: and senior guys at the downfield. So I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, having having a good feel for the
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  Speaker 2: pocket and your pocket presence.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the new faces on this year's team are
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  Speaker 1: some transfer receivers. Devin McEwan. He wears number three. He's
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  Speaker 1: a transfer from UT San Antonio. Kyle Parker number five,
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  Speaker 1: he's a transfer from LSU. What are what are Julian
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  Speaker 1: Sayan's early impressions of those guys and what they can do,
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  Speaker 1: and the question added in freshman wide receiver Chris Henry.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be wearing number fifteen this year, so you
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  Speaker 1: hear a little bit about Chris Henry junior as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they'll be you know, all three of
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  Speaker 2: those guys can be really good receivers for us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Devin and Kyle. It's been great to have those guys
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  Speaker 2: as transfers and you know they've meshed really well. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, Devin y and Kyle both got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of speed and you know they'll go in uh and
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  Speaker 2: they make great blocks for us. So I'm excited about them.
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  Speaker 2: I think Chris has been he's been great so far.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as a freshman, he's he's been making great
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  Speaker 2: place excited about him.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to a little bit more of a leadership role,
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  Speaker 1: being a second year starter at quarterback can maybe mean
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  Speaker 1: some new responsibilities as well, maybe the ability to change
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  Speaker 1: some things at the line of scrimmage if he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like what he's seeing. So what kind of new responsibilities
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  Speaker 1: is he taking on there as a second year a start.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've done a lot, you know, given
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback a lot of responsibility live scrimmage within our
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  Speaker 2: new kind of uh we've been running these past few days,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I think there's there's that, and then
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  Speaker 2: it also comes with, you know, just having more leadership
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  Speaker 2: out there and really just taking taking command of the
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  Speaker 2: offense and you know, hey, this is the route that
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  Speaker 2: I want you at, and you know this is the
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  Speaker 2: depth and this is the timing because I'm the one
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  Speaker 2: out there throwing it to you and this is how
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  Speaker 2: it's going to go. So I think just having that
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  Speaker 2: and coaching up some of these younger guys heat on
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  Speaker 2: the same page of this. So we're clicking because you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get we get some we get the ball in
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  Speaker 2: some of those guys hands. They're they're very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Saying was really really good when he had time to
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  Speaker 1: sit back in the pocket and just sort of pick
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  Speaker 1: apart the defense. But when things broke down then it
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  Speaker 1: got a little more hectic. Now that's obviously not anything
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  Speaker 1: unique to him. That's very few quarterbacks do better when
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  Speaker 1: things are breaking down around them. But how do you
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  Speaker 1: work on working outside of structure and how do you
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  Speaker 1: get better at making things happen when things are maybe
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  Speaker 1: not going so great? Around you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's definitely going to be an important
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  Speaker 2: part of the game. And you know, coach Fessler tells
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  Speaker 2: us that elite quarterbacks are great when the situations are bad,
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  Speaker 2: So just being able to get us out of bad
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  Speaker 2: situations and make place for our offense things can be important.
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  Speaker 1: This is Julian Sayin's third year at Ohio State, and
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  Speaker 1: this is his third offensive coordinator in those three years,
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  Speaker 1: jib Kelly in twenty twenty four, Brian Hartline in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, and now Arthur Smith in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: So has that been a challenge or any kind of
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  Speaker 1: an adjustment for saying.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's been, you know, very much of
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  Speaker 2: an adjustment. You know, as a quarterback you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to learn new offenses and learn different verbiage and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, and so I think it's been it's
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  Speaker 2: been great to kind of see all those perspectives us
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  Speaker 2: as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: The start of last season, the middle of last season,
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  Speaker 1: even the early part of the end of last season.
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  Speaker 1: Really the whole regular season is probably an easier way
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  Speaker 1: to say that the whole regular season went really, really
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  Speaker 1: smoothly for Ohio State. For the most part, and then
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  Speaker 1: once you got to the postseason, things sort of started
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  Speaker 1: to break down a little bit. So as Julian saying
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  Speaker 1: looks back at last season, the whole season, but especially
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  Speaker 1: the end, are there specific plays that he's sort of
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  Speaker 1: thinking about that he really wants back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think as a competitor, you definitely have plays
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  Speaker 2: that you know, you just you want you want those back,
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  Speaker 2: and you know it's for me. I'm not really focused
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  Speaker 2: on what good plays I made. I'm focused on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the few plays that you know, I wish I would
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  Speaker 2: have made that what it gave us a chance to
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  Speaker 2: win win those games. So you know, you definitely think
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  Speaker 2: about that. But you know, I'm looking to I'm chasing
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  Speaker 2: to be the best version of myself. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: how can I improve in those areas?
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's enough looking backward. Now let's look forward.
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  Speaker 1: So what is Julian saying looking at improving for the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming season. Are there any specific areas that he's really
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  Speaker 1: focused on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just you know, there's so many things
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  Speaker 2: that can improve on and you know, just keep keep
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  Speaker 2: elevating my game. You know, I went home this off
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  Speaker 2: season was able to you know, spend a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of time and work out. But it's it's been it's
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  Speaker 2: been a it's been a very fun off season because
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  Speaker 2: there's been, you know, so many things that you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we did good last year, but we could do
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  Speaker 2: so much better. And you know, whether it's uh, just
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  Speaker 2: cleaner feet in the pocket, whether it's you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, taking off when we need on third down
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  Speaker 2: and just uh, there's been a lot of things that's
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  Speaker 2: been it's been really it's been encouraging to uh to
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  Speaker 2: chase those.
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  Speaker 1: Before practice on Thursday, Tony Gerderman, good good friend, frequent
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  Speaker 1: co host of this show, noticed the same thing I noticed,
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  Speaker 1: which is Julian say and talking to Matt Patricia for
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  Speaker 1: an extended period of time, not just to hey, how's
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  Speaker 1: it going, but an extended conversation at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: practice as they were sort of going through stretching. So
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  Speaker 1: what is that relationship like between Julians and the defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator on the team. You're gonna hear that answer, and
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  Speaker 1: then you're gonna hear a quick follow up from Tony
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a good relationship with with him, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we we spend time together and he's been
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  Speaker 2: someone who's been uh, you know, impactful on me just
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  Speaker 2: because of you know, the experience that he has and
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  Speaker 2: the knowledge of the game. And you know, I'm someone who's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I want to want to keep learning and keep growing
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  Speaker 2: my knowledge of the game. So I think he's someone
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  Speaker 2: that I've I've been kind of leaning on reach out
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  Speaker 2: to the DC and like that. It was, you know
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  Speaker 2: when he first got here. You know, he he's he's
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  Speaker 2: a very personal, uh guy. So I think he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of built that relationship with a lot of players. So
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  Speaker 2: it's been it's been great to just have him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: someone who's really just interacting with a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: guys on the team, not just the defense.
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  Speaker 1: And finally mentioned the new look for Julian, saying that
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  Speaker 1: new look if you are listening on the podcast app,
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  Speaker 1: you are not you not necessarily where sporting a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a mustag this spring. So is that going
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  Speaker 1: to be a permanent thing for Julian saying.
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  Speaker 2: Not sure if it's permanent, probably not, but we were
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  Speaker 2: I didn't shave for a few days. And then the
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  Speaker 2: left tackle Austin he said, you should probably keep growing
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  Speaker 2: it and Luke Montgomery agreed, and I said, all right,
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  Speaker 2: we'll keep growing and see where we get. So we've
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  Speaker 2: been working it, but probably not permanent.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. You were recap of the quarterback position
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State in the eyes of Julian Say and
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  Speaker 1: you hear from Kenyatta Jackson. We still have a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more from Ryan Day. Got a lot that we
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  Speaker 1: learned as well inside spring ball in week one and
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  Speaker 1: our practices. We'll be talking about that all week long
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