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Ohio State Football Insider: 4 True Freshmen Making A Big Impression For The Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck guys tomorrow morning for Sunday, April sixth time,
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Speaker 1: Joined by Tony Gerderman here inside the Woodyes Athletic Center.
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Speaker 1: oh dot com. All right, so we just got a
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Speaker 1: chance to watch the student appreciation practice, which is always
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Speaker 1: kind of an hour of a little bit of this
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Speaker 1: and a little bit of that, followed by an absolute
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Speaker 1: mob scene as people try and get autographs, maybe never
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Speaker 1: before to the level that it was with Jeremiah Smith.
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Speaker 1: We can maybe talk about that later, but first let's
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the practice, and it was
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Speaker 1: just it was kind of game situation kind of. So
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Speaker 1: this is probably the best look we've gotten at the
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Speaker 1: team on the whole. I'm sure everyone right now is going,
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Speaker 1: how the quarterbacks look so tony, how'd the quarterbacks look?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's every day somebody knew looks better, I think,
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Speaker 3: or somebody different looks better. And I think today Lincoln
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Speaker 3: Kynolts look better than Julian saying Tavian Saint Clair at
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Speaker 3: some moments he's escaping.
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Speaker 1: He was live for.
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Speaker 3: Basically all of the practice and the rest the other
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Speaker 3: two quarterbacks were live for some of the practice, which
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Speaker 3: was interesting. So when you are the third quarterback, as
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Speaker 3: Tavian Saint Clair was, and you're working with the twos
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Speaker 3: or the threes, you gotta do a lot of running
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Speaker 3: around because you're also working with the second and third
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Speaker 3: team offensive line, which means a lot of true freshmen
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Speaker 3: and rocher freshman and walk ons, So you don't have
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Speaker 3: a lot of time just to sit back. But I
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Speaker 3: thought Lincoln Keynolts looked pretty good. He had a nice
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Speaker 3: he dropped a dime on like fifty five yard from
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Speaker 3: the forty five. I think that's where they started on
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Speaker 3: first down, dropped it right into Carnell Tate. On Devin Sanchez,
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Speaker 3: I believe, perfect throw, good coverage, just exactly everything you
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Speaker 3: want to see, basically, And I think he led him
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Speaker 3: on a couple of touchdown drives. Tamy and Saint Claire
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Speaker 3: led him on a touchdown drive when they were going
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Speaker 3: from the forty five out like going fifty five yards.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know that Julian Sane loved him on
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Speaker 3: any touchdown drives from the forty five. But overall it's funny.
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Speaker 3: I'd say Lincoln Keno said the better day, but it
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Speaker 3: just depends on the day. Because when we were in
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Speaker 3: here earlier in the week and I talked to somebody
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Speaker 3: who was in here, He's like, yeah, Julian was a
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Speaker 3: lot better than Lincoln. Yeah, and welcome to Spring.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's this is welcome to Spring.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have a lot of variation, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of this is if Devin Sanchez has his hand a
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Speaker 1: little closer and knocks that pass away, then that was
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Speaker 1: the big standout highlight. And then there was one thing
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Speaker 1: that made that play stand out to me was one
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Speaker 1: play earlier saying had thrown an interception and it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a bad interception, but it was an interception, and it
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Speaker 1: was a play that Jermaine Matthews.
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Speaker 2: Made a great break on the ball.
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Speaker 1: And the difference between Jermaine Matthews being in coverage and
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Speaker 1: Devin Sanchez being in covered.
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Speaker 2: You might be the difference there.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is this is one where this is
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Speaker 1: gonna go back and forth a little bit. I'm not
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Speaker 1: ready to draw any conclusions there. And I really did
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Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about Tavan Saint Claire
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Speaker 1: because Tayvian Saint Clair from when we were in here
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Speaker 1: the first couple of practice of the spring, Tayvian Saint
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Speaker 1: Clair looked like a baby deer that couldn't stand up,
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Speaker 1: and was you know, they're working with him on like
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Speaker 1: here's how you take a snap under center because he'd
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Speaker 1: never done it before, and really like, you know, this
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Speaker 1: is this is what a true freshman looks like. The
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Speaker 1: first couple of practices, it wasn't. I don't think we
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Speaker 1: even mentioned it because it was like, yeah, man, this
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Speaker 1: is what it looks like. You're not ready to start. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: I still don't think he's ready to start, But man,
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Speaker 1: oh man. Is he made some major strides over the
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. I was very very impressed with
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Speaker 1: him because, as she said, he was live and that
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Speaker 1: was so then it's not just I can stand here
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Speaker 1: with no fear at all, like there are big, angry
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Speaker 1: people wearing white jerseys who are looking.
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Speaker 2: To do me harm.
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Speaker 1: And he was dipping and diving and dodging and extending
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Speaker 1: plays with his legs. Threw made some nice throws, pick
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Speaker 1: up some third downs. I was very very impressed with
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Speaker 1: Tavian Declaire. I am absolutely not saying he's gonna start.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even saying he's a serious candidate to start,
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Speaker 1: but I am saying, man, oh man, this is one
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Speaker 1: of the things that these things where we look at
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Speaker 1: we just watch the first couple it's like, okay, just
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Speaker 1: sort of figure out where guys are. He feels like
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Speaker 1: he has come white years in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And he had one where he like got flushed out.
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Speaker 3: I think he's rolling left and really zipped it right
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Speaker 3: to David and Adolph like a lightning bolt and went
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Speaker 3: through Adolph's sands.
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Speaker 1: But it was a perfect throw.
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Speaker 3: It was you know, he escaped the pressure made the throw,
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Speaker 3: so he'll get an I assume a plus on that
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Speaker 3: unless he didn't see the first read. He didn't need
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Speaker 3: a scramble. He was good, you know, but just you
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Speaker 3: saw some glimpses and I think we're talking with another
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Speaker 3: media member, and it was like, this is like watching
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Speaker 3: him in high school again because the offensive line struggles
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Speaker 3: and the receivers aren't getting open because and at times
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Speaker 3: he has thrown to Brennan Shram or David Adolf for
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Speaker 3: former walk on those kind of guys, and so you're
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Speaker 3: not he's not throwing to Jeremiah Smith, but if he was,
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Speaker 3: he'd be thrown against Davids nigguinosin right and guys like that.
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Speaker 3: And so but yeah, I was impressed with him as well.
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Speaker 3: He certainly you look at him and he's like that
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Speaker 3: looks like a big ten quarterback that looks like a
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Speaker 3: future NFL quarterback because he's six three six four two
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Speaker 3: twenty five and as the arm to go along with
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Speaker 3: at least the arm strength to go along with it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And speaking of freshmen who looked good today, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about one of the freshman wide receivers, Quincy Porter.
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Speaker 1: He we have not officially been told he lost his
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Speaker 1: black stripe, but I have a picture of him with
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Speaker 1: a student and there's a red stripe on his helmet
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Speaker 1: after the practice, and having watched the practice, I can
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Speaker 1: tell you we've heard lots of positive things about him.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, again, the first couple of practice
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Speaker 1: of the spring, they're barely doing anything. He's just trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out where they're going for the next drill.
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Speaker 1: He's another one where you look and you're like, he
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Speaker 1: could probably do something this year.
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Speaker 3: He's Jeremiah Smith's backup right now at the X and
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Speaker 3: so he's definitely going to play. He was making catches
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Speaker 3: here and there throughout. There was one where a deep
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Speaker 3: shot and it was I think it was Lincoln Keynolts
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Speaker 3: and Quinn supporter was in covered, was being covered by
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Speaker 3: Devin Sanchez, beat Sanchez throws just a little behind, a
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Speaker 3: little late, little underthrown. Sanchez recovered, was able to break
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Speaker 3: it up. Fun watching those two freshmen go at it,
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Speaker 3: and some high level play there. But impressed with Porter.
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Speaker 3: Throughout he was catching stuff in coverage where a corner
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Speaker 3: is like right on his hands. He's catching, you know,
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Speaker 3: a nice little outroute for a first down. Really strong
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Speaker 3: kid for a freshman.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's got the size and you can
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Speaker 1: already see he's got some of the just a movement,
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Speaker 1: the mobility, the fluidity, fluidity, I mean, all the stuff
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Speaker 1: you're kind of looking for. It's kind of like, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: check that box, check that box, check check that box.
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Speaker 1: As you're talking, in my head going, we're going to
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Speaker 1: title this show something like fourth tru freshmen who were
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Speaker 1: really impressed in Ohio's dates Graatfe. So let's talk about uh, well,
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Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about Devin Sanchez, because Devin Sanchez,
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Speaker 1: where he is in the running order right now, in
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Speaker 1: and of itself, is impressive and interesting to me because
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Speaker 1: he's someone who has, you know, certainly has the pedigree
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Speaker 1: to be an impact player in some form this year.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's jumping Jermaine Matthews in the running
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Speaker 1: order anything like that, but someone who has the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to potentially play a significant role. And you know, this
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Speaker 1: is practice nine or ten or whatever it is of spring,
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Speaker 1: so you've got a long way to go to hold
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Speaker 1: the season. But man, if he was going to play
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Speaker 1: at least some kind of role this year and play
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Speaker 1: some meaningful snaps to them this fall.
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Speaker 2: This is kind of about where he'd be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're right. He was running with the ones
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Speaker 3: at times today, so was Aaron Scott. And those two
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Speaker 3: those are your backups, yeah, and backup meeting. Somebody has
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Speaker 3: to be three. Somebody asked before. Jermaine Matthews was the
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Speaker 3: backup last year, but he's also a starter. Yeah, you know, so,
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Speaker 3: like I say backups, either of those guys could be
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Speaker 3: the Jermaine Matthews of this year and move themselves into
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Speaker 3: a rotation. So when I say backups, just realize that
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Speaker 3: we're just talking mathematics and things like that. Where those
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Speaker 3: two guys are going to battle. I think all fall,
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Speaker 3: all spring camp long, and all fall camp long to
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Speaker 3: be that number three because number three is the next
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Speaker 3: guy in and it'll be fun watching those two guys.
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Speaker 3: But to be a true freshman, and they roll guys
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Speaker 3: a lot, so everybody a lot of guys.
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Speaker 1: If you're on the first.
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Speaker 3: Two teams, you're gonna be working with the ones at times.
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Speaker 3: So that's everybody's gonna be working with the Ones at
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Speaker 3: some point basically. But you know, he looks he does
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Speaker 3: not look lost out there. I'll say that they look
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Speaker 3: those top four corners. Maybe I said it on a
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Speaker 3: recent commitment show, or maybe I said it here, maybe
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Speaker 3: I said down Buckie Weekly Time, could have said it
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Speaker 3: in many other places.
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Speaker 2: Turns that we do a lot of podcasts.
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Speaker 3: Yes, go on, there are a lot of teams out
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Speaker 3: there that would be happy to start Aaron Scott and
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Speaker 3: Devin Sanchez as their starting corners this year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there are probably what there's one hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty four or FBS teams right now. I think
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Speaker 1: that's probably those are guys who are probably starting at minimally,
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Speaker 1: minimally one hundred and ten something like that, minimally, and
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Speaker 1: you might have one of them starting at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty. I mean, then those are the backup Steralhio State.
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Speaker 1: And that's I think a little bit of a testament
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Speaker 1: to Tim Walton and the job Tim Walton does in recruiting,
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Speaker 1: but also the job Tim Walton has done in development.
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Speaker 1: Tim Walton has been I mean that's a position group
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Speaker 1: where they were not in great shape several years ago.
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Speaker 1: They were real thin a couple of years ago, and
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Speaker 1: now not only is their depth, there's quality depth where you.
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Speaker 2: Know those are.
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Speaker 1: Denzel Burke started in twenty twenty one because he was
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Speaker 1: a really good true freshman. But you really don't want
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Speaker 1: to have a I don't know that Denzel Burke was
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Speaker 1: materially better than Devin Sanchez is right now. It might
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Speaker 1: be more of a statement on the rest of the
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Speaker 1: corners in the room back then as opposed to you know,
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Speaker 1: as opposed to talent level there. So that's three four
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Speaker 1: freshman who jumped out to me, and you can feel
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Speaker 1: free to add to this list later. But Tony, let
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Speaker 1: me spin you a yarn about a running back named
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Speaker 1: Bo Jackson.
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Speaker 2: It is not the first guy who.
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Speaker 1: Has had that position and that name before, first time
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Speaker 1: in Ohio State and true freshman. It just sometimes you
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Speaker 1: look at a guy he's not gonna be starting like
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Speaker 1: he's not James Peeple's looks like he's really where they
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Speaker 1: would need him to be, And you brought in CJ.
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Speaker 1: Donaldson to be some you know, quality, veteran depth and
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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 2: So you're not gonna need Bo Jackson to.
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Speaker 1: Be a one hundred and fifty two hundred carry guy
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Speaker 1: this year, for sure. But the little bits we saw
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Speaker 1: and again this is you have a caveat all of
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Speaker 1: this with Yeah, he's going as the third team defense.
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Speaker 1: He's also running behind the third team offensive line, so
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Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of like, yeah, I would love
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Speaker 1: to see what he looks like with the ones. But
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Speaker 1: you saw some stuff out of him that was kind
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Speaker 1: of like you see why Carlos Laughlin gets a little.
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Speaker 2: Bit of a twinkle in his eye when he talks
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Speaker 2: about Bo Jackson.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was one run where he had Lachlan
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Speaker 3: running down the sideline.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bo. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And the thing is like you you expect some explosive guy,
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Speaker 3: and he is. But he runs hard, he runs through people.
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Speaker 3: And when they were playing, you know, when it was
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Speaker 3: tackle or when it was thud, like he was he
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Speaker 3: was putting the thud in the thud and trying to
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Speaker 3: break every tackle. And yeah, I think James Peeples carried
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Speaker 3: the ball forty nine times last year as a true freshman.
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Speaker 3: I would I would think Bo Jackson will carry the
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Speaker 3: ball more than that this year. With people's in CJ.
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Speaker 1: Donaldson, Donaldson, thank you.
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Speaker 3: As the top two guys. But yeah, he was impressive
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Speaker 3: and he can get the corner, he can pick up
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Speaker 3: a tough yard, like he can do a bunch of
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Speaker 3: different things for you.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: So those are the four true freshmen that I kind
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Speaker 1: of had in my mind that I wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about any others from that, you know, from that true
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Speaker 1: freshman class that really jumped out to you before we
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Speaker 1: kind of move on to some other stuff.
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Speaker 3: Dez Jones slot receiver had had a couple of good catches.
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Speaker 3: Philip Bell had a nice catch on a slant for
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Speaker 3: the receivers. Trying to think of anybody else was out there.
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Speaker 3: You know, Carter Lowe is running with the threes, that
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Speaker 3: left tackle and we've talked about him recently and his
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Speaker 3: weight loss, like he looks pretty athletic out there.
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Speaker 1: Uh, defensively, hang on, since you mentioned offensive line Jake Cook,
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Speaker 1: I believe it was with the twos. That's you know,
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Speaker 1: he was I think the left guard with the twos,
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Speaker 1: and that's like, again, you know, there's lots of moving parts.
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Speaker 2: There's lots of moving pieces, but.
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Speaker 1: He's someone who you didn't you know, he didn't come
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Speaker 1: in with the five star pedigree. So when you see
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Speaker 1: someone like that at that point, if you're running with
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Speaker 1: the twos, either you're missing a bunch of guys and
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Speaker 1: they were shuffling people around, or you came in and
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Speaker 1: you're maybe physically a little more developed and ready to
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Speaker 1: contribute right away. That's that's another name I would just
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Speaker 1: sort of file away. And again, every time we're talking
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Speaker 1: about true freshmen, I feel like we need to carvey
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Speaker 1: out this with no one is saying this person is
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Speaker 1: going to start this year. No one is the person
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Speaker 1: is going to say this person is going to win
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Speaker 1: the Birmington Award or the Bolittankoff Award this year. But
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Speaker 1: if you're at point in this of the spring and
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Speaker 1: you're rapping with the twos on the offensive line, that's
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Speaker 1: like a little bit of a you like, I kind
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Speaker 1: of cock an eyebrow and go interesting.
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Speaker 3: It will be interesting to see how quickly the a
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Speaker 3: lineman can develop when they have so much coaching now,
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Speaker 3: you know, so that'll be interesting to watch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if for offensive line coaches right now. And you know,
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Speaker 1: we got a chance to talk to the offensive lineman
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Speaker 1: earlier in the week, and they had yesterday's morning show.
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Speaker 2: You got to hear a little bit from uh Carter.
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Speaker 1: Low and Ethan anianwa about that and about the four
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Speaker 1: coaches and how much they've been you know, that's a
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Speaker 1: lot of feedback you can get from from guys. So
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Speaker 1: that's that's all positive.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk a little bits you're doing poorly.
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Speaker 1: Well, you need that's also needed feedback. Let's talk about
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Speaker 1: some of the other elements of the offensive line, the
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Speaker 1: tackle positions and where guys are sort of you know,
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Speaker 1: we're lining up today, and this is not like a
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Speaker 1: final depth chart any of that. I feel like I
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Speaker 1: have to caveat all of this stuff because it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: people said that, you know, not just we're just let
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Speaker 1: you know what we saw. The rotation at tackles. Ian
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Speaker 1: Moore is another young guy who you saw. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're hearing good things.
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Speaker 2: About him this spring.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of tackles that they've got and they've
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Speaker 1: got you know, you you could slot in any number
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Speaker 1: of different combinations there. But I think he's someone else
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Speaker 1: I kind of have my eye on. But what did
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Speaker 1: you see on the on the line.
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Speaker 3: Well, and it was interesting because Ian Moore was with
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Speaker 3: the twos at right tackle and then later on he
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Speaker 3: was with the ones at left tackle Ethan and what
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Speaker 3: was with the ones at left tackle Austin Serevelt started
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Speaker 3: with the ones at right tackle, but we know Siraveld
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Speaker 3: has basically played all four everything but center so far,
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Speaker 3: so it's gonna be interesting to watch what eventually happens
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Speaker 3: with Ciarveld. Where he is is he is he the
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Speaker 3: fifth guy? Is he the sixth guy? Because I think
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Speaker 3: he's one of those. And if he is the fifth guy,
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Speaker 3: then you figure out where Philip Daniel's got an unsportsman
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Speaker 3: like penalty down in the red zone on the after
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Speaker 3: on a fourth and one they picked up the first down.
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Speaker 3: I guess he must have stayed a little too physical
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Speaker 3: and aggressive and there's a little scrum there and they
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Speaker 3: got to penalize for that. But I don't know that
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Speaker 3: you mind seeing that right now, better now, Tom than
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Speaker 3: in November.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if the choice is now were November, that would
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Speaker 1: be better better now.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's I.
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Speaker 1: Think people would be surprised at how physical these practices get,
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Speaker 1: and that it's you know, this is not even fall camp,
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Speaker 1: where you've been banging into the same person for six
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Speaker 1: months now, and it's you know, ninety degrees outside and
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Speaker 1: you're angry, and these practices. We've seen this for years
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Speaker 1: this is not abnormal at all, but you get you know,
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Speaker 1: it gets a little chippy against and that's something that
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Speaker 1: guys have talked about being a good thing this spring.
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Speaker 1: That that means no one's getting complacent. That means that
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Speaker 1: you're taking it seriously. That means you really are fighting.
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Speaker 1: And so yet I don't know, you know, it's not
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Speaker 1: a good thing to have that happen, and you know,
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Speaker 1: if that's happening a lot, then that's a concern. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: once fine.
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Speaker 3: They even talked about maybe this past week, how you know,
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Speaker 3: we talked they planned planned this whole spring to just
16:09
Speaker 3: kind of take it a little bit easier. But then
16:11
Speaker 3: you come out here after like a week or so,
16:13
Speaker 3: and you see how young you are and how much
16:15
Speaker 3: work people need. It's like, well, we need to ramp
16:17
Speaker 3: up the physicality a little bit. And I was surprised
16:19
Speaker 3: that any of the quarterbacks were live today, let alone
16:21
Speaker 3: all three or three at the end of practice. So
16:24
Speaker 3: that was a surprise to me. And I think it's
16:26
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit of a message that you know,
16:27
Speaker 3: you gotta pick stuff up.
16:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, you also you have to have
16:32
Speaker 1: these guys get hit a little bit because otherwise. You know,
16:36
Speaker 1: Trayvon Henderson, remember when he first showed up at Ohio State.
16:39
Speaker 1: They had not played his senior season because of COVID
16:42
Speaker 1: in Virginia, and so he showed up and he hadn't
16:44
Speaker 1: been hit in like a year, and he was saying, like,
16:47
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to get mashed in the face
16:50
Speaker 1: because you need that every once in a while if
16:53
Speaker 1: you're going to play football. You can't you can't bubble
16:55
Speaker 1: wrap people forever.
16:56
Speaker 3: And then what did Devin Pryor say when he was
16:58
Speaker 3: asked if he was ready to get hit?
17:00
Speaker 1: I think he was lessons you know, I don't want
17:02
Speaker 1: to get hit, So yeah, it's it's certainly in You
17:07
Speaker 1: know that it's been more physical than I expected this
17:10
Speaker 1: spring based on what Ryan Day had said, But I
17:12
Speaker 1: think that's probably you know, you make your plans and
17:15
Speaker 1: then you sort of adjust on the fly and that's
17:17
Speaker 1: sort of how it goes. I think we've mostly covered
17:20
Speaker 1: the offense on the defensive side of the ball.
17:23
Speaker 2: Any big takeaways I knew there was there was.
17:27
Speaker 1: I think at one point everyone thought, oh boy, there's
17:29
Speaker 1: gonna be big injury news and it turned out to
17:31
Speaker 1: be absolutely nothing.
17:32
Speaker 2: With Dom Kirks went down.
17:35
Speaker 1: It looked like rushing off the edge and then popped
17:39
Speaker 1: up and was fine. But he just he went down
17:40
Speaker 1: and I think everyone was kind of holding their breath
17:42
Speaker 1: for a minute. But then he was practicing and was
17:43
Speaker 1: fine after that.
17:44
Speaker 3: But he also had a sack did in this practice.
17:47
Speaker 3: I think one of one of the interesting things that
17:49
Speaker 3: I saw was something that the defense did last year
17:52
Speaker 3: where Caleb Downs would come in and kind of be
17:54
Speaker 3: like a linebacker and Jordan Hancock would go back and
17:57
Speaker 3: be the free safety. They did that today with like
18:01
Speaker 3: m Jayleen McLain being Caleb Downs and being like in,
18:04
Speaker 3: you know, towards the line of scrimmage, and Bryce West
18:08
Speaker 3: moved moved he was at Nickels, so he moved to
18:10
Speaker 3: free safety. So they're doing that because we were wondering
18:14
Speaker 3: will they be able to do that, and then you
18:15
Speaker 3: got to find that.
18:16
Speaker 1: Out in the spring, right, yeah, and see how.
18:18
Speaker 3: They can do it. Lorenzo Styles had a fantastic play
18:20
Speaker 3: right around here where he broke up an out route
18:24
Speaker 3: and like popped it up and almost almost grabbed it
18:27
Speaker 3: and would have walked into the end zone and dropped it.
18:29
Speaker 3: But I thought he had a good day too.
18:31
Speaker 1: And one other guy who really jumped out to me
18:33
Speaker 1: was linebacker Peyton Pierce, who is.
18:35
Speaker 2: A second year player. He is he just was.
18:39
Speaker 1: Kind of around the ball a lot and not just
18:42
Speaker 1: you know, he's a Mike linebacker. So you thinking, Okay,
18:45
Speaker 1: Cody Simon coming up and filling the filling the a gap.
18:48
Speaker 2: He was.
18:49
Speaker 1: He had made a couple of nice plays in coverage, yeah,
18:51
Speaker 1: on receivers.
18:52
Speaker 3: And the thing is, it's like, why it's it's a receiver,
18:57
Speaker 3: it's a pass, you know, like maybe fifteen yards downfield
19:00
Speaker 3: or you know, to an out, and it's like he
19:02
Speaker 3: just jumps up like bats and downs like don't throw
19:05
Speaker 3: it at me, bro.
19:06
Speaker 1: Yeah.
19:07
Speaker 3: And so he had a couple of plays like that
19:08
Speaker 3: where he's he knows where the ball's going and he
19:12
Speaker 3: showed it to you again. He is looking more and
19:14
Speaker 3: more like that third linebacker that is going to play
19:16
Speaker 3: this year when they want to give somebody a rest
19:19
Speaker 3: and sunny styles. I don't even think he touched the
19:21
Speaker 3: practice field today. He was on the side of he
19:23
Speaker 3: was fine. Yeah, yeah, him, him and Caleb Down spent
19:26
Speaker 3: most of their time attached to Matt Patricia today over
19:29
Speaker 3: on the sidelines so, and then Sunny Styles was busy
19:32
Speaker 3: because about the last half hour, for about thirty minutes
19:35
Speaker 3: after practice, he was just signing autographs and taking pictures.
19:38
Speaker 2: Yeah it was.
19:39
Speaker 1: I think I don't as far as we're where, there's
19:42
Speaker 1: no significant injury anything with either of those guys.
19:45
Speaker 2: It's not you know, Downs talked about like maybe a
19:47
Speaker 2: little bit of a.
19:49
Speaker 1: Minor nothing, but it's really I think this is mostly
19:52
Speaker 1: load management for both those guys because they both played.
19:54
Speaker 1: Downs played the most snaps on the team last year,
19:57
Speaker 1: and Styles was pretty high.
19:59
Speaker 2: Up on that list.
20:00
Speaker 3: He's still only eighteen.
20:02
Speaker 1: You said that, and I thought, I don't think that's right,
20:04
Speaker 1: but it might be right. I think he's at least nineteen.
20:07
Speaker 1: He might be twenty.
20:08
Speaker 2: He's got to be twenty now, but anyway, yeah he is.
20:11
Speaker 1: He's you know, a lot of those veteran returning starters,
20:16
Speaker 1: especially on the defense, the guys who there are not
20:19
Speaker 1: very many of them, but they have not been playing
20:22
Speaker 1: as much. You saw more Davis Nigunosa than the other
20:24
Speaker 1: two guys of the three kind of returning starters.
20:28
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was.
20:29
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought ken Yata Jackson looked good in
20:32
Speaker 1: the little bits that we saw him.
20:33
Speaker 3: So Phil Daniels put Kenyada Jackson on the ground on
20:36
Speaker 3: one play and Jackson wanted to flag badly, and the
20:39
Speaker 3: rest we're going to give it to him.
20:40
Speaker 2: Yeah. Other than that, I'm just trying to think.
20:43
Speaker 1: We didn't see any special teams at all while we
20:46
Speaker 1: were in here.
20:46
Speaker 3: So much so that we didn't even see what we
20:48
Speaker 3: always see. Yeah, student appreciation.
20:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, normally student Appreciation Day, they put the curtains down
20:53
Speaker 1: and they have the student body like go right around
20:55
Speaker 1: the kicker and watch the kicker try and kick field goals.
20:59
Speaker 2: In what is as high a pressure. You know, you're
21:01
Speaker 2: just trying to simulate.
21:02
Speaker 1: The pressure of a game situation. And we have seen
21:05
Speaker 1: that in the past where it's like they make like
21:07
Speaker 1: almost a horseshoe shape around. It's like a you know,
21:10
Speaker 1: a gallery at a golf tournament where a guy's like
21:12
Speaker 1: teeing off and you got people all around him, and
21:17
Speaker 1: so that that's a good way to sort of simulate
21:19
Speaker 1: the pressure, and we did not see that today for
21:21
Speaker 1: whatever reason.
21:22
Speaker 3: But it's all right, Okay, you know I didn't go
21:23
Speaker 3: here just for that, Yes, So I came here for knockerball,
21:26
Speaker 3: and I did not see it.
21:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, well didn't see that either.
21:28
Speaker 1: Did see a student race a forty yard dash where
21:30
Speaker 1: someone just tripped and absolutely ate it about five yards
21:33
Speaker 1: in and then then they made her rerun it and
21:36
Speaker 1: she didn't win. The second time you're there, that was rough,
21:39
Speaker 1: but yeah.
21:40
Speaker 2: It was. It was like a nice, you know, nice day.
21:43
Speaker 1: I feel like we've got a chance to sort of
21:46
Speaker 1: touch base with everyone and see how things are going.
21:48
Speaker 2: And then, of course a week from now, the spring game.
21:53
Speaker 1: It's that'll be Saturday, April twelfth, almost in September.
21:56
Speaker 3: Twelfth, Saturdays from now to today, Sunday.
21:58
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true. That's the bit. Yes, commitment to the bit.
22:02
Speaker 1: That's why we love him. So we love Tony Gurnaman,
22:04
Speaker 1: don't we, Folks? Six days from now, say, Saturday April twelfth,
22:08
Speaker 1: Now you confuse to be on today's goodness, Saturday April twelfth,
22:11
Speaker 1: inside the horseshoe.
22:12
Speaker 2: That'll kick off at what noon? I believe. I think
22:15
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a big.
22:16
Speaker 1: Ten network, big ten network extravaganza.
22:19
Speaker 2: We will be there.
22:20
Speaker 1: Should be a lovely day, get a chance to learn
22:23
Speaker 1: a lot more, see a lot more about these guys.
22:25
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interested to see some of the some
22:29
Speaker 1: of these other true freshmen. Quincy Porter, as I mentioned earlier,
22:31
Speaker 1: losing his black stripe. I don't want to say who
22:34
Speaker 1: had him in the black stripe draft, but it wasn't Tony.
22:36
Speaker 2: So it's fine.
22:38
Speaker 3: Keep it a mystery.
22:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, listen, we don't want to spoil any of
22:41
Speaker 1: the surprises. Got to go back and listen to the show.
22:43
Speaker 1: Find out who's winning once again this year because he's
22:46
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23:05
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23:07
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23:07
Speaker 2: Of a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Mhm