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Can Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate Play Against Michigan If They Don't Practice? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, so here is the second half. Another bonus
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  Speaker 1: show for you on the buckeis tomorrow morning podcast feed.
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  Speaker 1: This is the second half of Ryan Day's Tuesday press conference.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the more interesting stuff he said. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: pull every answer here, but some of the more interesting
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  Speaker 1: stuff and you know, more informative things and storylines will
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  Speaker 1: be probably talking about a bunch this week. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: start with maybe the single biggest storyline of this week
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  Speaker 1: from the Ohio State perspective, the health of Carnel Tait
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  Speaker 1: and Jeremiah Smith. He was asked right off the top
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  Speaker 1: of the press conference. I didn't even bother putting it
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  Speaker 1: in the first one because it was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: non answer. But you know, he was asked, will they
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  Speaker 1: practice this week? And what would they need to practice
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  Speaker 1: in order to play? This one's a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: of an informative answer.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably you know, something for the medical staff to
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  Speaker 2: figure you know, and when they give us the thumbs up,
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  Speaker 2: you know we'll go. But but they'll be getting you know,
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  Speaker 2: physical reps and mental reps all week in preparation. These
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  Speaker 2: guys have played a lot of football, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the end, you know, we'll look to the medical
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  Speaker 2: staff to give us the thumbs up or not, but
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do everything they can to get on
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  Speaker 2: that field.
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  Speaker 1: I will also say that later on in the press conference,
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  Speaker 1: he was just kind of asked in a joking manner
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  Speaker 1: whether we should all plan on getting our injury information
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  Speaker 1: from the Caleb Downs podcast where Caleb Downs had Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Smith on this week and Jeremiah Smith said he was
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  Speaker 1: going to play so and they just kind of laughed
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  Speaker 1: at that and said, I guess so. Yeah, so you
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  Speaker 1: can you can sort of read into that what you will,
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  Speaker 1: but that's probably some encouraging news from Ohio State on
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  Speaker 1: the injury front. Now, another question about a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: played a little sparingly the last two weeks, tight end
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  Speaker 1: wilk Has Merrick. He really has been He was a
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  Speaker 1: starter for a really starting caliber player for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of the season and has played less
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  Speaker 1: than twenty snaps doing the last couple of weeks. So
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  Speaker 1: is he healthy and good to go this week? And
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  Speaker 1: then how has he has ran day seen the roles
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  Speaker 1: in that tight end room sort of evolve and continue
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  Speaker 1: to grow throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I Will is doing great, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's excited about this week. I think we've built some
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  Speaker 2: depth there, which is what we kind of wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do here in the last couple of weeks. Give these
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  Speaker 2: guys a chance, and it's given us, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: more versatility in what we do, and that's important. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's important now more than ever when you're different
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  Speaker 2: dealing with different personnel groupings, and what these guys can do,
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  Speaker 2: and when you look at them, their versatility is critical.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, I think when you look at them,
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  Speaker 2: they all can do things well. I think maybe I
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  Speaker 2: guess there's some things that each guy does a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better than others, but there's not really anything that
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  Speaker 2: like we take them off the field for anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: So Keen has done a nice job of building camaraderie
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  Speaker 2: in that room and production.
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  Speaker 1: As we're putting together our score predictions for Saturday, one
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  Speaker 1: thing I keep coming back to is, man, oh Man,
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  Speaker 1: That Ohio State defense is pretty darn good. No one
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  Speaker 1: has scored more than sixteen points against them at any
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  Speaker 1: point this season, and here we are it is Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: time and the Buckeyes still have yet to give up
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  Speaker 1: even seventeen points in a single game. And there's the
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  Speaker 1: old football cliche that defense travels, and guess what the
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  Speaker 1: buck Eyes are going to be traveling this week. Good news,
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  Speaker 1: they're bringing their defense with them. So what's Brian Day's
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  Speaker 1: level of confidence in that defense, knowing that they still
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  Speaker 1: have the toughest and most physical games this season ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you know, when you watch the way
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  Speaker 2: we've played this season, it's again been in preparation for
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  Speaker 2: this time of year and in this game, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know, you go off of what you've seen, and
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  Speaker 2: you know it's important that we put a good plan together,
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  Speaker 2: that these guys can play fast on the field and
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  Speaker 2: understand situational football, you know, try to take away what
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  Speaker 2: they do best and you know, just play great defense.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, in a game like this, field position
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  Speaker 2: becomes critical, everything becomes critical. So you know, I know
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  Speaker 2: that these guys are already in here working really hard
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  Speaker 2: on that game plan, and you know we need to
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  Speaker 2: have a great Tuesday practice. But it gives everybody confidence.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you have a defense that's playing well.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day has been the head coach of Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen. That doesn't really seem possible that he's
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  Speaker 1: been around and in charge of the program that long.
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  Speaker 1: But over the years he's coached in all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: these Ohio State Michigan games and he's been a big favorite,
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  Speaker 1: and he's played much better Michigan's teams and they've had
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  Speaker 1: a variety of outcomes in those games. What is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest challenge of this week as the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably, you know, just making sure that you know
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  Speaker 2: you're keeping everybody locked in and focused on doing their job.
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  Speaker 2: I know, boy, that sounds really basic and bizarre, but
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  Speaker 2: but you know, there's there's obviously a lot that comes
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  Speaker 2: with us. This game means a lot to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people, nobody more than a people in this building.
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  Speaker 2: But but I think that that's where, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: have to make sure that you're compartmentalizing all that and doing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what you need to do to make sure
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  Speaker 2: you're ready to go play in the game and putting
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  Speaker 2: your guys in a situation to be successful, and then
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  Speaker 2: just getting rid of all the distractions and getting with
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  Speaker 2: your guys and getting ready to go play a game.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's really it. I think, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: rest of it is what you do all season long.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't think you'd all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: just get get yourself up and ready to play in
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  Speaker 2: this game. It's it's a preparation week after week after
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  Speaker 2: week after week to be at our best for this
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  Speaker 2: one right here, and so here we go. All the
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  Speaker 2: foundation has been set, It's time to go put it
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  Speaker 2: to work.
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  Speaker 1: Day was not a native to the Ohio State Michigan
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  Speaker 1: rivalry until he got to Columbus in twenty seventeen. Then
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  Speaker 1: he coached under Urban Meyer as an assistant for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years for taking over as the head coach
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty nineteen season. So what has he learned
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  Speaker 1: about this game since the first time he coached in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think when you you know, each year is
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  Speaker 2: probably a different story when you start it from beginning
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  Speaker 2: to end, and you know what transpired during that game,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, I think for me, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a continually stepping back and looking right, So how do
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  Speaker 2: we get ourselves to that point during the season, and
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  Speaker 2: then how do we perform during the game. And clearly
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  Speaker 2: the last four weeks four years hasn't been good enough.
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  Speaker 2: We've lost the game. So you have to be critical
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  Speaker 2: and figure out, okay, what needs to be better. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's certain things schematically, there's certain things during
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  Speaker 2: the season that you feel like you have to prepare
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  Speaker 2: for to be ready and have things ready to go
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  Speaker 2: for this game. And then there's also just a mindset
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  Speaker 2: going into the game that you have to make sure
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  Speaker 2: you're ready for.
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  Speaker 1: This was one from our buddy to Gerdaman. I have
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  Speaker 1: State and pretty much every college football program. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, hey, we can't look ahead. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to look ahead. We're not you never look ahead.
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  Speaker 1: You get a deal with the task at hand. And yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sure that's true, absolutely, But how much do you look
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  Speaker 1: forward to this week every year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I think that goes back to what we
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  Speaker 2: talked about, the whole idea of chopping wood and carrying
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  Speaker 2: water and you know, knowing that you just can't like
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  Speaker 2: hustle to you know, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to play through the year, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot that goes with it, and it's a building process
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  Speaker 2: and a foundation and you know, we're finally here. So
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  Speaker 2: this is the best part of it. You know, we've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting a long time to get back to this week.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, thirteen to ten lost in Michigan seemed like
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  Speaker 1: it was one at the time that really might define
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day's career. And it maybe did, but not at
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  Speaker 1: all in the way that you probably thought it might.
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  Speaker 1: At the time that he's walking off the field in
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  Speaker 1: Columbus last November, that felt like it really was something
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  Speaker 1: of a turning point at that team meeting and really
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  Speaker 1: turn the season around. They go on to win four
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  Speaker 1: games in a row in the Nation Championship and now
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  Speaker 1: they've won fifteen games in a row, They've gone a
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  Speaker 1: full calendar year have not lost since that game. So,
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  Speaker 1: all right, how did that loss change Ryan Day as
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  Speaker 1: a coach?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, you just you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: all some of our experiences and you learn from things
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  Speaker 2: and you grow from things, and you just try to
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  Speaker 2: do everything you can again to put your guys in
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  Speaker 2: a situation to be successful. And that's it. And we're
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  Speaker 2: going to rely on our experiences going into this week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can't really say we all grow. We
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  Speaker 2: we we do things well. We you know, we have
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  Speaker 2: our failures, but you got to grow from and and
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  Speaker 2: that's it. And so you know this team right here
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  Speaker 2: is a different team. They have a great look in
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  Speaker 2: their eye. I think that's the most important thing here.
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  Speaker 2: And and so that's that's the focus, you know. And again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what has happened in the past really has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with what's going on right now. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, what goes on today is the most important thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I know, I know it sounds like a cliche
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  Speaker 2: again and to say it over and over again, but
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  Speaker 2: that has to be it. And then and then we
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  Speaker 2: have to go do it in the game. And that's it. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have to feel kicks. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: have to you know, make our kicks. We have to
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  Speaker 2: take care of the football, you know, all the things
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  Speaker 2: that we work on, because if we don't, we put
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  Speaker 2: ourselves at risk. And so that's it. Everyone's got to
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  Speaker 2: do their job and making sure we're prepared to go.
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  Speaker 1: There's a long history of true freshman making an impact
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  Speaker 1: in this game, whether it's Beanie Wells in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and six or Garrett Wilson Chris lave in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: What allows a freshman to make that kind of an
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  Speaker 1: impact as a true freshman and what makes Brian day
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  Speaker 1: We're ready to trust a true freshman like Bo Jackson
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  Speaker 1: to potentially play such a big role in this year's game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we need both to play well. We
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  Speaker 2: need to be him to be at our best, at
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  Speaker 2: his best like everybody else. And you just go for
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  Speaker 2: what you've seen in all year. And we all know
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  Speaker 2: that you know what this game means, but we also
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  Speaker 2: have to make sure they understands football. And so you
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  Speaker 2: have to trust what you've done leading up to this point.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we work so hard in preparation and and
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  Speaker 2: you know what he's done up to this point and
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  Speaker 2: his growth. So and these are the types of game
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  Speaker 2: where you know, legends are are born and and so
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  Speaker 2: you know these guys understand that. And I think about
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  Speaker 2: Chris o'lave as a freshman, you know that year where
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  Speaker 2: you blocked the punt and had two touchdowns in that game,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's his career just took off from there. Garrett
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  Speaker 2: Wilson had a big game that year. Like you said,
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  Speaker 2: guys in this game have used as an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: springboard their career. So great opportunity for those guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's lots of conversation about whether Michigan is in Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's head and whether this is this is an issue
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  Speaker 1: that's just sort of between the ears for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: at this point. But of course this year they got
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  Speaker 1: lots of guys who are going to be playing in
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  Speaker 1: this game or starting in this game for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't necessarily have that history personally. Is that
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  Speaker 1: something that's maybe helpful to Ohio State coming in.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good mix of guys that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're here last year and some guys who were fresh
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  Speaker 2: to the party, so it's a different group, it's a
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  Speaker 2: different dynamic. They all know how important it is. We
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  Speaker 2: have a great mix, and our whole foundation is built
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  Speaker 2: off of guys from Ohio. We can't just recruit Ohio
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  Speaker 2: guys are just too many great talented players throughout the country.
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  Speaker 2: But our foundation is from Ohio and those guys grew
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  Speaker 2: up seeing the rivalry, knowing the rivalry. And then obviously
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  Speaker 2: when we recruit, you know, everybody into the program, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a player or a coach, you know, they they
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  Speaker 2: understand what this rivalry means. So they all know they
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  Speaker 2: get it. But for some of these guys, yeah, it'll
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  Speaker 2: be their first time out there and and then the
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  Speaker 2: older guys can you know, kind of show them the
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  Speaker 2: way in terms of, you know, what it means for
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  Speaker 2: preparation and all that. But I think, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you look at some of these guys and what their
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  Speaker 2: perspective was of kind of how last season went, the good,
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  Speaker 2: the bad, the ugly, and what came with it, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot to learn from there, and I think these
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  Speaker 2: guys will be prepared.
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  Speaker 1: And the last one, what is Ryan Day's level of
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  Speaker 1: confidence in Julian saying if he has to make a
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  Speaker 1: play off script or off platform in a game like this.
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  Speaker 1: He's been able to sort of play within the structure
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  Speaker 1: and play within the system and not be in those
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  Speaker 1: really tough, sort of uphill climb kind of positions a
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  Speaker 1: bunch this year. So what is Ryan Day's level of
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  Speaker 1: confidence if Julian saying does have to do that. You're
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  Speaker 1: also going to hear a quick follow up from the
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  Speaker 1: legendary Tim may Well.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's that's the art of being a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: If you just start winging it, then you're gonna put
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  Speaker 2: yourself at risk just because you're winging it. It comes naturally.
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  Speaker 2: You have to make great decisions and when it's time
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  Speaker 2: to compete. You got to compete. But that's understanding time, situation, score,
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  Speaker 2: and everything that comes with it. So Julian is going
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  Speaker 2: to do a great job apparent this week. He has
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  Speaker 2: all the way up to this point, and you know
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna work as hard as anybody into building to
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  Speaker 2: make sure he's ready.
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  Speaker 1: But you've seen him emerge in that area right over
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  Speaker 1: the last several games of being able to take up
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  Speaker 1: broken play.
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  Speaker 2: And make something that's right. Yeah, and that's that's a
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  Speaker 2: sign of a good quarterback. You know, when it's the
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  Speaker 2: way we drew it up, make the routine plays routinely,
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  Speaker 2: and when it's not the way we drew it up,
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  Speaker 2: you got to make the coaches right and Julian has
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  Speaker 2: done a good job with that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. That is the end
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  Speaker 1: of the Tuesday Ryan Day press conference. We will be
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  Speaker 1: back at the Woody Hayes Athletics Center Wednesday around five
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  Speaker 1: forty five pm. All that's all That time is always
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