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12 Things To Know About Jeremiah Smith · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday, August twelfth, them
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  Speaker 1: your host Tom Moore, the Akron game in nineteen days. Yes, well,
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  Speaker 1: are down into the teams now the game against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: in one hundred and ten days. This is an Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State season that has Ohio State fans about as excited
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  Speaker 1: as I can remember them being for any individual season
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  Speaker 1: over the last few years. A lot of times the
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  Speaker 1: season where everyone's coming back and everyone is thinking, definitely
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  Speaker 1: national championship caliber team. Those in a couple times in
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  Speaker 1: the past been the season after the Buckeyes won a
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  Speaker 1: national championship, sofering still a little happy and satisfied. This year,
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  Speaker 1: that is not the case. They're coming off You're really
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  Speaker 1: lost to Michigan, did not win the Big Ten, lost
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  Speaker 1: the Powle Game. So it is a very hungry fan base.
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  Speaker 1: It is a very hungry team as well. So that
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  Speaker 1: is poor that has contributed to some of that hype
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  Speaker 1: and that anticipation to meaning it also has contribute to
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  Speaker 1: it is there is a true freshman on this year's
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  Speaker 1: team who has really captured the imagination of the fan
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  Speaker 1: base before even stepping on the field for a game,
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  Speaker 1: as in a regular season game for the buck Eyes
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  Speaker 1: that this year is Jeremiah Smith and the hype around him.
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  Speaker 1: There have not been very many true freshmen who have
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  Speaker 1: been hyped up at this level, just going back to
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  Speaker 1: the years I was thinking through before record Andy Katzimwaire
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six was kind of like this, and
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  Speaker 1: he ended up being a true freshman starter at middle
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  Speaker 1: linebacker for the Buckeyes head gin in two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: everyone had heard the fastest player anyone had ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of hyper around him, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: excitement around him. He obviously was a difference maker in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty four team. They're a prior two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 1: another guy who was sort of in that mix, number
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  Speaker 1: one player in the country and just incredibly hyped and
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  Speaker 1: was on the field very early, won the starting quarterback
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  Speaker 1: job just a couple of games into that season. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is not a completely unprecedented thing, but
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  Speaker 1: it has been a minute since there's been a true
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  Speaker 1: freshman that has really captured the imagination of the OHISDA
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  Speaker 1: fan base quite like Jeremiah Smith has. So today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do a show just about Jeremiah Smith. And
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  Speaker 1: just with Jeremiah Smith. We got a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to him on Friday last week, really the first time
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  Speaker 1: we've gotten a chance to sit down and have an
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  Speaker 1: extended conversation with him. Here directly from him on a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different things going today's show, We're gonna let
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  Speaker 1: you hear directly from him. I call this something like
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  Speaker 1: twelve things to know about Jeremiah Smith or twelve things
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  Speaker 1: we just learned about Jeremiah Smith, something like that, and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna let you hear directly from Jeremiah Smith on
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  Speaker 1: every single one of them. Let's start with this one.
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  Speaker 1: What has his approach been coming into fall camp this year?
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  Speaker 2: I mean camp been going very well for me right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm still learning just a freshman, so I
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  Speaker 2: mean just coming as a young guy. I mean just
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  Speaker 2: listening to the older guys that've been here that I've
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  Speaker 2: been through camp, and just listening to Coach Hartline. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you got me a Mecca Tate, Brendan, Ennis Kojo, Jayden Batdertt,
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  Speaker 2: No guys who've been here, so I mean just listening
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  Speaker 2: to them, guys, they just put me in the right
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  Speaker 2: direction to these.
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  Speaker 1: There has been a conservati effort around the program to
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  Speaker 1: sort of tamp down expectations, tamp down the hype around
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, even as people are sort of seeing him
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  Speaker 1: do things on the field that are just not quite normal.
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  Speaker 1: And so what is it like for him to be
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  Speaker 1: getting this much attention before he's even stepped on the
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  Speaker 1: field in a real game. You're going to hear his
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  Speaker 1: answer on that, and you're going to hear a quick
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  Speaker 1: follow up from Dan Hope of Eleven Warriors.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I mean, it's a blessing, But I mean you
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  Speaker 2: don't want that hype, the you know, affect you and
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  Speaker 2: all this other stuff that's going around around me. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I just keep my head down, just find ways to
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  Speaker 2: get better each and every day. Is it easy to
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  Speaker 2: block out that noise? Oh? Yes, it's very easy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I just don't be on social media that much.
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  Speaker 2: Just don't look at Twitter and all the other stuff. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's easy for me.
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  Speaker 1: The last couple of years have been pretty crazy for
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith. His recruitment turned into a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a circus, not necessarily through any fault of his own,
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  Speaker 1: just through the excitement and hype and a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of fan base is hoping he would end up coming
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  Speaker 1: to play for their team. But when was it that
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  Speaker 1: his football career really did start to get a little
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  Speaker 1: crazier in his life and on the field.
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  Speaker 2: At the my sophomore year of high school, that's when,
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  Speaker 2: like then you started getting real crazy. Uh just just
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  Speaker 2: know how I was playing in high school and the
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  Speaker 2: tension that I was getting, and it just got crazy
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  Speaker 2: my senior year, Like I just had Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 2: coming to my game and I was I was like, whoa,
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  Speaker 2: I never had that happen, Like no other school, Like
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  Speaker 2: just Ohio State fans came to my game, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, wow, that's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: There are a number of things that set Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: apart from a lot of other football players. The athleticism
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  Speaker 1: certainly won, the drive certainly another. Just his competitive nature
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  Speaker 1: is another one. So when did he get so competitive?
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna hear his answer from that, and then a
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  Speaker 1: quick follow up from Tim May of Letterman Roe.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I've been had that at me since I was
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  Speaker 2: like eight nine years old. It happens. I mean, just
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  Speaker 2: how I am. How's raide just to be a competitor
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  Speaker 2: That's the reason why I chose to come to Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: just to compete each and every day. It gets to
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  Speaker 2: go against the best dB group in the country.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, is it been enhanced the last
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  Speaker 1: several month? I mean going Againstuosen and nzil Burg, etc.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure. Just going to get the to God,
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  Speaker 2: the best two DB's in the country. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: the reason I came here. Just going against God. Just
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  Speaker 2: go made me better each and every day.
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  Speaker 1: We got a chance to watch another Jeremiah Smith moment
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  Speaker 1: during practice last week. He was there was a pass
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  Speaker 1: a fade to him in the end zone. Davis and
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  Speaker 1: Agnosen Brooke that broke the pass up right in front
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  Speaker 1: of Tony Gerderman and me. Had some words to say
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  Speaker 1: to Jeremiah Smith about that. Make sure he knew, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: good news. The past was not completed. So I did
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  Speaker 1: my job. That's great. Jeremiah Smith didn't really respond, but
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  Speaker 1: later in practice down the other side of the field,
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  Speaker 1: he caught a long one on Davis and Igbuinos and
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  Speaker 1: so we didn't get a chance to hear obviously his
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  Speaker 1: response on that one. So how did those conversations go?
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  Speaker 2: I did? I said? I said, I said, well, he
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  Speaker 2: said when he defected the ball, he said, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: I said, okay, I'll be back, and that's something be bad.
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  Speaker 2: Then when I'm made to play, I just know just
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  Speaker 2: walked off. That's it. Yeah, I said, I told you
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming back, right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There is a long tradition of players in the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: state Wide receiver room sort of passing down the lessons
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  Speaker 1: they've learned, passing down the expectations what it means to
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  Speaker 1: be someone in that zone six unit, and you go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got the Michael Thomases and the Evan Spencers,
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  Speaker 1: and then that goes to the Paris Campbell's and Terry
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  Speaker 1: mclaurence and Johnny Dixon's, and then that goes to the
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  Speaker 1: Chris Olaves and the Garrett Wilsons, and then the Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Smith Jigba and then to Marvin Harrison and then now
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  Speaker 1: on to some of the current players on the team.
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  Speaker 1: It just sort of all the knowledge gets sort of
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  Speaker 1: passed down from the veterans to the younger guys. So
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  Speaker 1: he was asked, Jeremiah Smith was asked, what has he
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  Speaker 1: learned from someone like Carnell Tape.
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  Speaker 2: I learned a lot, especially from Carnell Cooe. We both
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  Speaker 2: play outside, So me just learning from him and you
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  Speaker 2: know the DC learned. He just teaching me, and you
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  Speaker 2: know he was behind Marv and stuff like that, so
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  Speaker 2: he just teaching me the game for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith came to Ohio State hyped as not only
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  Speaker 1: an elite physical receiver but also someone whose game was
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  Speaker 1: pretty much ready for that next level, ready for that
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  Speaker 1: college level from the moment he stepped on the campus.
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  Speaker 1: But still he obviously has been working hard to improve
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  Speaker 1: his game since he got to Ohio State. So what's
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  Speaker 1: an area where he's improved his game over the last
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  Speaker 1: month or two.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say my footwork. That's the biggest thing Minko shot
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  Speaker 2: Line was looking at. That's one thing I needed to
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  Speaker 2: get better on. So I mean I just worked on
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  Speaker 2: that in the off season and just got better over time.
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  Speaker 1: Coming from South Florida, Jeremiah Smith has had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of role models in that community, that South Florida football
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  Speaker 1: community to sort of follow. So who are some of
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  Speaker 1: the guys who's he's looked to sort of follow their
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  Speaker 1: example as he's kind of come along as a football player.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he said the biggest lemple me. I mean just
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  Speaker 2: I ain't gonna say it was only just my dad.
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  Speaker 2: It was me. I have a cousin's name, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's maybe played for the Seattle Seahawks. So I was.
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  Speaker 2: I looked up to him as well. I mean seeing
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  Speaker 2: what he was doing in a West Virginia with Table
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  Speaker 2: and Austin and Stpman Bailey, So I mean he was
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  Speaker 2: motivation for me and just older guys that grew up
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  Speaker 2: before me in a Miami Gardens area Brower area for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean just looking up to those guys, like I say,
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  Speaker 2: Brendan Nis for sure, he was class ahead of me.
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  Speaker 2: So I've seen things he was doing in the eighth
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  Speaker 2: grade and I was just like, WHOA, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: something I want to do.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier, and the black guys have talked about this
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  Speaker 1: pretty openly. Ryan Day talked about it when I talked
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  Speaker 1: to him at Big ten media days. They are really
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep the expectations as realistic as possible for
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith right now. So how is he dealing with
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  Speaker 1: those How is he dealing with knowing that the expectations
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  Speaker 1: are what they are among the fan base and even
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  Speaker 1: probably among some teammates if we're gonna be honest and
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  Speaker 1: is that something he's trying to live up to.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't. I mean, I know it's a big
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  Speaker 2: expectation for me because no, I never more to play
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  Speaker 2: in the country coming in and all the hype around me,
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, I just try to block out all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff and just focus on the main things, just
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  Speaker 2: the team, in our receiver room, in the locker room,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, just first game come. If I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: see the haspecitation that y'all have for me, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I don't really care. I just want to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and win a game.
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  Speaker 1: That's it mentioned earlier the long lineage of Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers, and some of those guys have weighed in
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  Speaker 1: having seen Jeremiah Smith already and weighed in on where
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  Speaker 1: he could be in the Ohio State packing order, Guys
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  Speaker 1: like Chris Carter Marvin Harrison Junior saying who could be
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  Speaker 1: maybe the next great wide receiver at Ohio State. What
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  Speaker 1: does that mean to Jeremiah Smith?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I mean it's something great. I mean I just
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  Speaker 2: got I just got to go out there on the
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  Speaker 2: field and just show you guys that I could beat
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  Speaker 2: the nuts. No, probably the great Ohio State receiver. It'll
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  Speaker 2: come through here, So I mean it's a blessing and
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  Speaker 2: they'll have that. But as gotta go out there and
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  Speaker 2: play and show you guys.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that has set Jeremiah Smith apart
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  Speaker 1: since basically day one at Ohio State is he seems
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  Speaker 1: to win more than his fair share of fifty to
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  Speaker 1: fifty balls. I mean they're called fifty to fifty balls
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  Speaker 1: because you would think the wide receiver is gonna win
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  Speaker 1: about fifty percent of them, the defensive back is going
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  Speaker 1: to win about fifty percent of them. Well, I know,
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  Speaker 1: when Jerem Smith's going up there against the dB one
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  Speaker 1: on one, a lot of those fifty fifty balls turn
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  Speaker 1: into more like seventy thirty balls, seventy five to twenty
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  Speaker 1: five balls. How is that possible? How does he win
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  Speaker 1: more than his fair share of those? You're gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: his answer on that and then another follow up for me,
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  Speaker 1: good buddy, to may of let him in row.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, just no, When I see a fifty fifty ball,
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  Speaker 2: I mean just I just think it's I got to
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  Speaker 2: make the play and it's on me. It don't matter
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  Speaker 2: how the ball is. If it's a bad ball, I
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  Speaker 2: just feel like I got to make that play it
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  Speaker 2: no matter what the circumstances is it, no matter if
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  Speaker 2: it's a bad ball, I feel like the ball is minds,
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  Speaker 2: no matter who in front of me or no no
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  Speaker 2: matter what are getting between the ball and the defender.
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  Speaker 1: Come from though, I mean that kind of sets you
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  Speaker 1: apart in my speeding in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: But if you always had that nad, oh yeah, I did,
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  Speaker 2: always had that next souse, I was like, since I
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  Speaker 2: started the playing sire at like eight year nine years old,
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  Speaker 2: I just find a way to make sure that ball
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  Speaker 2: is minds when it's in the air. And I just
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  Speaker 2: got to always find a way to find a way
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  Speaker 2: to make my quarterback look good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he talked there at the end about trying to
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  Speaker 1: make itquarterback look good. So Will Howard might be the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback he is going to make good look look good
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  Speaker 1: this fall. So what has Jeremiah Smith seen from Will
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  Speaker 1: Howard so far in fall camp?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, for sure. He definitely made a big jump
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  Speaker 2: from in the spring. I like his confidence. He's starting
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  Speaker 2: to talk more, talk a lot of mess on a field,
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  Speaker 2: and I like that about my quarterback. Love quarterbacks who
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  Speaker 2: like to talk and you know, just to get around
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  Speaker 2: his players and making them feel good about it. So
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  Speaker 2: oh he talking on the phield. No, just you just
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  Speaker 2: said a lot of stuff I can't say, but he
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  Speaker 2: go talk for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes will be back on the practice field this
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  Speaker 1: week for Week three of fall camp, second full week
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  Speaker 1: with the third week overall as they count down the
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  Speaker 1: days to the first game of the season against Akron
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  Speaker 1: under twenty days. As we told her off the top
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  Speaker 1: of the show, it is getting close. Less than three
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  Speaker 1: weeks away from the first Ohio state football game of
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  Speaker 1: the season, less than two weeks away from the week
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  Speaker 1: zero games college football almost here. It is a very
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