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Ohio State Football Insider: Is Arthur Smith Going To Turn Up The Tempo? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Wednesday, March twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: for more. The Ohio State Buckeyes just wrapped up their
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  Speaker 1: third practice of spring ball twenty twenty six here inside
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  Speaker 1: the woo He Hayes Athletic Center. I'm joined by Tony
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  Speaker 1: Gerdamantfuckyhuddle dot Com. Tony, we got a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Arthur Smith for the first time in one of
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  Speaker 1: these nice formal interview settings, and so it was a
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  Speaker 1: very busy interview setting with people shouting questions. I know
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  Speaker 1: everyone's going to have the same question, so I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to just get it out of the way right away. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: we got to talk about tempo. We've got to talk
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  Speaker 1: about tempo and his Ohio State going to be operating faster.
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  Speaker 2: And it is practice.
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  Speaker 1: Number three of the spring so he was unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: commit to firmly anything just yet, but he did say
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  Speaker 1: they have a lot of tempo packages. The tempo packages
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  Speaker 1: run at different tempos. It's not just all you know,
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  Speaker 1: slow and fast. It's all sorts of different tempo packages.
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  Speaker 1: Depends on personnel, they have all sorts of different variations. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think the good news is for people
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  Speaker 1: who are very concerned about this that yeah, there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be at least those options on the table if
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  Speaker 1: they feel that those are the best options for them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's always good to have options, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's so early in spring, because that was
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  Speaker 3: one of the things I wanted to know was about
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  Speaker 3: tempo and last year, as we've said, did it work,
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  Speaker 3: it worked the year before. Does that mean it didn't
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  Speaker 3: work last year? Does that mean it worked the year before.
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  Speaker 3: So it's good to know that there is a thought
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  Speaker 3: of an idea, a plan of a thought that this
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  Speaker 3: is going to be something that they want to do,
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  Speaker 3: that they need to do. And frankly, if you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to do it, one of the things coaches talk about,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to spend time on it, we're not
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  Speaker 3: going to do it. If we're going to invest time
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  Speaker 3: in it, then let's use it. So it's one of
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  Speaker 3: those things that you're seeing early in spring, because you'd
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  Speaker 3: expect to see it later than in the season.
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  Speaker 1: And he was asked about sort of the end of
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  Speaker 1: last season and how last season ended, because obviously tempo
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  Speaker 1: or lack of tempo was not the only issue they had.
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  Speaker 1: He said he rewatched everything from last year just to
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  Speaker 1: get a sense for the team, but also just he
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  Speaker 1: said he watched a lot just to get sense of
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  Speaker 1: college and differences between college and pros because he's been
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL for quite a while. I said, they
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  Speaker 1: go back and look at everything from last year. This
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  Speaker 1: is a question about the offensive line. They look at
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  Speaker 1: everything from last year and figure out not just what
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  Speaker 1: didn't work, but also what they got away with last
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  Speaker 1: year and therefore what needs to change. Where it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you it worked, but it shouldn't have or it wasn't ideal,
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  Speaker 1: so and you might not get away with it the
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  Speaker 1: next time. So that was kind of interesting. He was
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  Speaker 1: also asked about, you know, can you get Jeremiah spit
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  Speaker 1: the ball enough? And his answer indicated to me that
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  Speaker 1: he had, in fact watched a lot of Ohio State foot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the answer was no, no, you cannot.
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  Speaker 3: And you look at the way Miami got the ball
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  Speaker 3: to Malacha Toni two very different players, sure, but they
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  Speaker 3: forced the issue there. It is interesting to see that
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  Speaker 3: he's talking about you could get away with some stuff
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  Speaker 3: for so long, live State.
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  Speaker 2: That's what happened last year.
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  Speaker 3: They got away with some stuff for so long until
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  Speaker 3: they no longer did, and so then you're gonna have to.
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  Speaker 2: Prepare for those instances.
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  Speaker 3: But good to hear an offensive coordinator say the things
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  Speaker 3: that we're hearing. But also, you think you're coming to
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, you have all of these different options, like
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  Speaker 3: you want to explore them and you want to make
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  Speaker 3: the most of them. And if you're like, well, we
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  Speaker 3: don't want to work Jeremiah too hard. I'm thinking five
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  Speaker 3: touches a game just so he's ready through the postseason,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, no, that's not how it should operate. And
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  Speaker 3: that's clearly not something. You only get one Jeremiah Smith. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm not saying use them up, but make the
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  Speaker 3: most of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you only get one Jeremi Smith, and you're
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  Speaker 1: only getting I don't want to spoil any surprises. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to break any news here, but you're very
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  Speaker 1: likely only getting one more year of Jeremiah Smith or
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  Speaker 1: so uh he is ar there. Smith did talk about
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  Speaker 1: sort of the why behind coming to Ohio State and
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  Speaker 1: what made this an appealing an appealing spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was interesting, he said, you know, coaching in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL, he's seen so many Ohio State players come through,
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  Speaker 3: and he wanted to coach with Ryan Day and get
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  Speaker 3: basically first access to the players almost where you see
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  Speaker 3: where they come from. And that's an idea where you
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  Speaker 3: know what looks like a good spot to be and
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  Speaker 3: you see the kind of players that get sent to you,
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  Speaker 3: the kind of people that get sent to you, and
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  Speaker 3: you you get the feedback from those players about their
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  Speaker 3: coaching and what they've gone through.
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  Speaker 2: He said.
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  Speaker 3: He also talked with Mike Vrabel about the job, and
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  Speaker 3: Vrabel coach for one year year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe eleven four.
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  Speaker 3: You did some stuff for Luke Fricklin eleven but you know,
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  Speaker 3: clearly obviously in a law but gives a good accounting
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  Speaker 3: of what Ohio State football is.
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  Speaker 1: And he talks specifically about Will Howard, Justin Fields and
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  Speaker 1: Jack Sawyer as people he had talked to in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL sort of about their Ohio State experiences. One other
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  Speaker 1: thing that made it a little bit enticing is you
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  Speaker 1: do have a Heisman finalist returning at quarterback, not just
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  Speaker 1: any experienced quarterback, but and a Heisman finalistic quarterback. Said
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  Speaker 1: that was also kind of an appealing thing to him.
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  Speaker 1: The question you always get for guys who are NFL
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  Speaker 1: guys coming to college or vice versa, is about the
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  Speaker 1: hash marks, because of course, in the NFL the hash
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  Speaker 1: marks are much narrower. They're kind of they're basically right
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  Speaker 1: down the goalposts in the NFL. They're wider in college.
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  Speaker 1: And what you typically hear is that that opens up
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff in terms of, boy, the wide
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  Speaker 1: side of the field, if you're on the left hash mark, boy,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a lot more room to the field side
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  Speaker 1: on the right hand side of the field, or vice versa.
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  Speaker 1: He said, yeah, that's all true, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a reason that everyone talks about it, but you just
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  Speaker 1: kind of have to make sure. Conversely, you don't run
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  Speaker 1: out of room because you've got stuff you want to
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  Speaker 1: run into the boundary, which then you don't have as
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  Speaker 1: much room into the boundary as you would in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: which is you always hear about it in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the positives and then you know, but I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was kind of interesting that it's like, yes, but also
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  Speaker 1: you have to sort of adapt your NFL ideas to
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  Speaker 1: the college field because you've got more room on one side,
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  Speaker 1: but that means that it's the same with the field,
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  Speaker 1: so you got you got less room on the other shode.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure there's a lot of room on the wide side,
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  Speaker 3: but Ohio State is a toss into the boundary football
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  Speaker 3: program and it's always going to be the way it is.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you never hear the downside coming from the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: It is like, well, we like the boundary in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL and here and there's still not as much room,
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  Speaker 3: but team still you know, obviously run it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And he was asked he was asked specifically about legend Bay.
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  Speaker 1: I want to specify that this was not something that
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  Speaker 1: brought up unsolicited. That's that's one of the things this
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  Speaker 1: year where if you hear something a guy, a young
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  Speaker 1: guy brought up unsolicited, that's one thing. And we've certainly
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  Speaker 1: well tell you, yeah, and we've certainly heard legend Bay
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  Speaker 1: brought up unsolicited. This was a question specifically about him,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he's going to talk about him if he
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  Speaker 1: gets specifically brought up. But I thought it was interesting
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  Speaker 1: the players that get brought up when a young guy
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  Speaker 1: gets asked about. You know, we've I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day brought up Curtis Samuel for example. In the
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  Speaker 1: context of talking about Legend Bay, Arthur Smith talked about
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  Speaker 1: a couple of guys he in the NFL who you know.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about Derek Henry is sort of the traditional
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  Speaker 1: running back, but guys who were sort of non traditional
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  Speaker 1: running backs, Cordell Patterson and Kenneth Gainway. Remember Gainwell was
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  Speaker 1: the Memphis running back a few years ago. Just in
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  Speaker 1: terms of guys who aren't traditional backs but who have
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's been able to do some cool things with
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  Speaker 1: that he may be able to do with legend back
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Locke.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very familiar with Kenneth Gainwell as well from his
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  Speaker 3: time in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you've you've got a lot of football knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: And experienced doing like Crdero.
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  Speaker 3: Patterson was a wide receiver then moved to running back
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  Speaker 3: after being also as a kick returner. So a very
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  Speaker 3: versatile kind of guy. And you've got now legend Bay
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  Speaker 3: who you can do whatever you want with. And I
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  Speaker 3: was listening to Jacob Past, former LSU running back and
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  Speaker 3: also played it with the Colts, and he talked about
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  Speaker 3: how Peyton Manning, no matter who was on the field,
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  Speaker 3: wanted everybody to be able to run something like if
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  Speaker 3: they're five whits and but now you've got twenty two personnel,
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  Speaker 3: like he wanted that fallback to be able to run
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  Speaker 3: all of the slot routes and know all of the
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  Speaker 3: So it's like you have all of these different weapons
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  Speaker 3: and you want to be able to have you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to put too much on a freshman,
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  Speaker 3: but if there are things that you want them to do,
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  Speaker 3: this is a good time to get them acclimated.
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  Speaker 1: And the last thing, you know that he talked to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State players about coming to Ohio State and sort
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  Speaker 1: of what you know why this made sense of what
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  Speaker 1: the culture's like, all that kind of stuff. He also
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  Speaker 1: talked to former Michigan tackle Taylor Lawatt, who called him
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  Speaker 1: quote a trader for coming to Ohio State without having
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  Speaker 1: any real ties to Ohio State. The rivalry that was
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  Speaker 1: an answer about you know.
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  Speaker 2: The you know what, he's sort of gotten.
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  Speaker 1: Up to speed with the rivalry, and you know what
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  Speaker 1: he said, I know it means a lot to a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, and that was that was his example.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, a quick update on what we
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  Speaker 1: heard from Arthur Smith after the Buckeyees third practice of
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  Speaker 1: the spring. We will be back in here on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio States Pro Day. Get a chance to watch
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of former buck Eyes try and state their
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  Speaker 1: case for a night to get to shake hands with
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  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell a little earlier than they might otherwise, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be back with that, and I'm back here for
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  Speaker 1: practice number four on Thursday. Plenty of coverage all week
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