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Ohio State Football: 4 Buckeyes On Offense Whose Stock Is Up · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Thursday, April twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: today's show, we're gonna be looking at four Buckeyes on
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  Speaker 1: offense whose stock is up following spring ball. I guess
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  Speaker 1: today someone who's stock is always up here on the
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning podcast. It's Tony Gerdiman Bucky Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: And Tony wrote about this on our board and thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that seems like a great topic for
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  Speaker 1: a show. He's already done the work for me. That's
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  Speaker 1: one way to make sure your stock is up here. So, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: you've got four names here. I looked and I thought, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think I agree with all four of these. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with Chris Henry Junior.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a guy that well, how could his stock be up? Everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows he's the next Jeremiah Smith. I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 2: what are we talking about here? But he is a
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  Speaker 2: guy that not that he started slowly, He started normally
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  Speaker 2: for a true freshman, and then just continue to build
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  Speaker 2: and build and finished like you want to finish. And
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  Speaker 2: everybody saw him in the spring game. They wanted to
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  Speaker 2: put him on display and it worked. And so now
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  Speaker 2: the confidence is there, but it's not something where he's
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  Speaker 2: going to get overconfident. He's just going to show believe
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  Speaker 2: like this is the result of my work. So why
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  Speaker 2: stop now? And the good thing is, as Ryan Day said,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about Jeremiah Smith. Yeah, he's talented and is
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith will tell you I'm the hardest worker. So
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  Speaker 2: he's got that example to follow. He followed Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 2: and good things are going to happen. So yeah, his
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  Speaker 2: stock is definitely up. And it's just watch him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you could see it. He looks comfortable. Does he look
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  Speaker 2: like a true freshman? No, I don't think so. He
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  Speaker 2: looks fast, he looks elusive, and he looks like everything
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  Speaker 2: that was promised. You know what does that mean? I
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  Speaker 2: know when we I was just trying to find the
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  Speaker 2: stats that we projected when we talked about him two
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  Speaker 2: months ago, three months ago at this point, and I
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  Speaker 2: know those those projections are going to go up based
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  Speaker 2: on what we've seen this spring for both of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, he's someone who you never want to
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  Speaker 1: assume too much for any true freshman, but he's someone
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  Speaker 1: who you wondered, you'd certainly heard lots of positive things,
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  Speaker 1: and the effort to retain him and keep him in
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  Speaker 1: the class after Brian Hartland left sort of told you
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  Speaker 1: what they really thought about him. But then you saw
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  Speaker 1: what you saw during the course of the spring, a
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  Speaker 1: number of standout plays while we were in there for
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  Speaker 1: various practices, and then ninety six yards in a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: in the spring game kind of feels like, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you it's not just this guy's name, it is also yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this guy, this guy can play for sure and is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a contributor this year. Second guy, Nate Roberts,
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  Speaker 1: and he's someone who last year his role he was
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  Speaker 1: sort of the designated guy that Ohio State fans just
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  Speaker 1: kind of groaned when they saw him come up in
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  Speaker 1: the field because it meant he was generally the third
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  Speaker 1: or fourth tight end, and they were taking some of
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  Speaker 1: their talented wide receivers off the field this year though,
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  Speaker 1: feels like he's probably the first tight end this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And they brought in two veteran tight ends to
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  Speaker 2: help him out, and they also have fifth year guy
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  Speaker 2: Bennet Christian when he's healthy there as well. And it's
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  Speaker 2: there's depth there and there are options there. But watching
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  Speaker 2: Date Roberts this year as a pass catcher and as
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  Speaker 2: a big, physical tight end, to me, he looks like
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  Speaker 2: a guy that can do whatever they need and be
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  Speaker 2: whatever they need and it doesn't have to be fallback.
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  Speaker 2: But we did see him, uh running running into running
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  Speaker 2: drills with the running backs in the spring, you know
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  Speaker 2: here and there. That's not necessarily what obviously they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing with him. He's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: tight end in the truest sense of the word, but
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  Speaker 2: one that can help you in the passing game as well.
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  Speaker 2: We sat on Friday with a one handed catch, We
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  Speaker 2: sat on Saturday with a catch in traffic going up
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  Speaker 2: to get the ball. He's a guy that can be
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  Speaker 2: used all over and he's a guy that can be
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  Speaker 2: whichever second d you want to bring in. He can
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  Speaker 2: do the other thing, if you want him as the flex,
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  Speaker 2: he can do that. If you want him on the
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  Speaker 2: end and you're going to have somebody else do the movement,
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  Speaker 2: he can do that as well. So he gives you
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  Speaker 2: some versatility there. And I just think he's going to
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  Speaker 2: get better and better and better. And I really liked
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  Speaker 2: him as a recruit, and you saw how early he
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  Speaker 2: was playing, you know, even trusting him as a fullback.
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  Speaker 2: I think Keenan Bailey said it the spring. The first
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  Speaker 2: play of his career was on what fourth and goal
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  Speaker 2: on the one yard line against Texas and they ran
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  Speaker 2: behind him. That's not typical.
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  Speaker 1: No, definitely not for a true freshman in game one
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  Speaker 1: against the team that was at that point the number
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  Speaker 1: one team in the nation. That's that is the coach
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  Speaker 1: is telling you, not just telling you, but showing you
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  Speaker 1: what they think of a player. And I think they
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  Speaker 1: are going to show you what they think of him
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  Speaker 1: even more this fall. So next guy up on the list,
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  Speaker 1: Jacobe Jackson, the transfer running back out of Florida. He
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  Speaker 1: was someone who came in and you didn't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what the role was going to be for him. This year,
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  Speaker 1: I think the sort of easy shorthand is he's going
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  Speaker 1: to replace CJ. Donaldson's role. But it felt like with
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  Speaker 1: Bo Jackson, with Isaiah West out all spring, with Turbo
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  Speaker 1: Rogers out for a good chunk of the spring, with
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  Speaker 1: Legend Bay out for good chunk of the spring. Jacoby
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  Speaker 1: Jackson made the absolute most of his opportunities in terms
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  Speaker 1: of showing that he can do a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: just be the short yardage guy.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what you want, and that's what they got
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  Speaker 2: from both from him, and there are other running backs
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  Speaker 2: that were healthy and favor Racky and Stanley Jackson Junior.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like, help us out here, and they did
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  Speaker 2: and they did more than that. And so Jacoby Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: every time we saw him, he was impressive. And again,
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  Speaker 2: most of the time we saw them, they weren't tackling.
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  Speaker 2: But even when you're still thudding and you make guys
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  Speaker 2: miss like you weren't going to get tackled on that
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  Speaker 2: juke anyway. And you know, we've seen him make plays.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen him, you know, catch passes and just the
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  Speaker 2: overall versatility of his game. I liked what I saw.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it means in terms of carries,
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  Speaker 2: but I know, he put everything out there and showed
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  Speaker 2: everything he could do, and they gave him an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't disappoint. And so it's his stock is
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  Speaker 2: certainly higher than it was when he entered Spring when
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  Speaker 2: he was just going to be one of six, and
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  Speaker 2: now you know, he was one of two and he
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  Speaker 2: was at the top.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and feels like he is probably one of He's
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  Speaker 1: either one B to Bo Jackson's one A or a
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  Speaker 1: strong two B or two A two Isaiah West's number two,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, legend Bey's in there somewhere. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be it's going to be kind of a complicated
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  Speaker 1: depth chart at running back, but Jacoby Jackson certainly has
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  Speaker 1: earned some kind of a role there. Last guy we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about here. We're talking about a total
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  Speaker 1: of eight guys. We're doing four on offense today, We're
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  Speaker 1: doing four on defense tomorrow. Seven of the eight are
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  Speaker 1: new in some way either potential first time starters, transfers,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. Seven of the eight guys are new.
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  Speaker 1: The eighth guy is the next guy we got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about and the last one for today's show, and
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  Speaker 1: that is starting quarterback Delia and.
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  Speaker 2: Saying yeah, the next step for him is the movement
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  Speaker 2: aspect and keeping plays alive or getting upfield and getting yards.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw him do that this spring. Saw in
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  Speaker 2: the spring game, saw a willingness to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: he's talked about making sure that his his clock is
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  Speaker 2: going and knows when to get out of dodge, and
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  Speaker 2: we saw him do that. And so when you know,
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  Speaker 2: he talked about how when we talked with him, like
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  Speaker 2: early in the spring, because we talked to with him
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  Speaker 2: right away, he said that that was something that he
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  Speaker 2: was going looking forward to attacking in terms of making
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  Speaker 2: that part of his game or making it not part
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  Speaker 2: of his game, just more more a part of his game.
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  Speaker 2: It's never going to be what he does, but it's
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  Speaker 2: something that he's capable of doing. And that's all they need.
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, we've talked about it on this show
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  Speaker 2: and Blucky Weekly podcast about the two hundred yard mark.
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  Speaker 2: The Mendoza line just need two hundred yards rushing from
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback over the course of the season if you
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  Speaker 2: want to win a national championship. It's not a lot
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  Speaker 2: that's ten to fifteen yards a game, and that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to be every game. There can be it could
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  Speaker 2: be a thirty yarder in there or something like that,
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  Speaker 2: but just the ability to keep plays alive, to keep
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  Speaker 2: defenses honest, to pick up that third down, shoot to
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  Speaker 2: pick up second and eight and restart, to change like
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  Speaker 2: it all counts, it's all important, and if he can
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  Speaker 2: add that to his game, then this offense becomes something
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  Speaker 2: that Ohio State has had in other championship seasons because
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  Speaker 2: you don't need to be a great quarterback to win
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  Speaker 2: a national championship. Look at Ohio State's last three national championships.
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  Speaker 2: Craig Crenzel, card L Jones, and Will Howard. None of
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  Speaker 2: those guys were great, but what they all could do
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  Speaker 2: is pick up a first down when you absolutely needed it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the next step I think for Julian saying
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Hurt to have a great quarterback mentioned the Mendoz aligne well.
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza last year two hundred and seventy six yards
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  Speaker 1: for Indiana former Padre shortstop Mario Mendoza, for whom the
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  Speaker 1: original one named. Not known for his walking or his running,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely definitely I like. I like the adaptation of
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  Speaker 1: the Mendoz aligne to reflect Fernando's new status. Bernando going
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  Speaker 1: to get his name called very early on Thursday. Get
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  Speaker 1: to go shake hands, maybe give Oh no, he's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be there in person. He'll get to wave
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  Speaker 1: virtually at Roger Goodell, but a whole lot of buck
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  Speaker 1: Eyes will get a chance to shake hands and hug
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  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell very early on Thursday evening. We'll be covering
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  Speaker 1: that for you at buckeyehddle dot com and of course
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  Speaker 1: all the rest of the stuff. There's plenty more to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. We'll be back tomorrow to talk about four
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  Speaker 1: buck Eyes who made similar jumps, similar similar positive impressions
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  Speaker 1: on defense. You can find that on the buck Eyes
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow Morning podcast feed on the buck Eye Weekly podcast Feed.
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  Speaker 1: Just finished a couple very fun shows on Wednesday, you'll
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  Speaker 1: get a look at the true freshman in transfers that
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  Speaker 1: surprised us most of this spring. And then on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: talking about we did a little bit of a draft
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  Speaker 1: to tie in with the NFL Draft, talking about players
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  Speaker 1: that we would choose draft off of other Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: teams that might help supplement the twenty six Ohio State Buckeye.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a couple fun conversations. You can find those
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  Speaker 1: in the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. Make sure you are
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  Speaker 1: subscribed to that one as well. That'll do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow