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Ohio State Football: Will The Buckeyes' Defensive Transfers Be Enough? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, July twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: on today's show, we're going to welcome back in Tony Gerderman,
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  Speaker 1: the football insider at Buckeye Insiders dot com. Going to
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  Speaker 1: be running through players ten through six on our countdown
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  Speaker 1: of the most impactful buck Eyes for this year's team.
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  Speaker 1: Tony number ten, I've got the guy. I'm certainly expecting
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  Speaker 1: to be the starting left tackle for Ohio State this year,
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  Speaker 1: although nothing is really official yet. That is Ian Moore.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's fair pretty much. Any year you're going
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  Speaker 2: to put that guy somewhere in this range, and is
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  Speaker 2: that impact? Is this good impact or bad impact? Time?
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  Speaker 2: I just need you to let me know first. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's so interesting that we're just talking as
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  Speaker 2: this as if this has been done. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: it yet. Everybody kind of assumes that you're moving a
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  Speaker 2: second team all big ten left tackle to right guard
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  Speaker 2: so that you can put in somebody who started one
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  Speaker 2: or two games in his career at a position like
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  Speaker 2: left tackle, which should kind of give you an idea
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  Speaker 2: of how they view Ian Moore and what the expectations are,
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  Speaker 2: because this isn't They're not going to do it as
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  Speaker 2: an experiment if it's being done, Like we saw Ian
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  Speaker 2: More in the spring at left tackle the entire time.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long time ago. I'm pretty sure we saw him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe he was at right tackle at some
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  Speaker 2: point in there, but he was at tackle, and the
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  Speaker 2: expectations are that he's going to play he's one of
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  Speaker 2: the top five if he certainly views himself as one
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  Speaker 2: of the top five when we talked to him into spring,
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  Speaker 2: and this one feels this feels okay to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a team that has four of its guys,
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  Speaker 1: four of its starters back from last year. On the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. It has a left tackle last year's left
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  Speaker 1: tackle in Austin Seerveld, who did a very nice job,
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  Speaker 1: was a very solid left tackle for them all last season.
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  Speaker 1: You don't normally see a guy like that move, but
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  Speaker 1: it feels to me like Austin Sireveald might be more
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  Speaker 1: natural inside. And don't worry, we'll get to Austin Seiriveld
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  Speaker 1: than just a little bit on this countdown. But to
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  Speaker 1: have someone like Ian Moore where you've got four guys back,
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  Speaker 1: including your left tackle, and you're thinking about slotting someone
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  Speaker 1: else in left tackle, I think that tells you what
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff potentially thinks about him. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: those things where I think we're assuming that this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the answer, but we haven't officially gotten
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  Speaker 1: the answer. We'll see if we can squeeze that out
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  Speaker 1: of Ryan Day or one of the Ohio State players
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  Speaker 1: at Big ten media days next week. So there you go,
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  Speaker 1: there's number ten, Umber nine. Let's go to the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the line of scrimmage. Alabama transfer defensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: James Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a guy who if he's as disruptive, if he's
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  Speaker 2: as disruptive as the reports coming out pre spring football,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how well to correlate the weight
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  Speaker 2: room and those sorts of things with the impact in
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the field, but the way he was
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  Speaker 2: talked about was certainly ear catching and eye catching, and
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  Speaker 2: so it builds up these expectations and then we see
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  Speaker 2: him a little bit in the spring. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: saw him all spring, but you only see so much.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that if things go well for the
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  Speaker 2: defensive line, this is where he is right like nine.
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  Speaker 2: If if they don't go well for him, then he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be lower and that's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: great for the Ohio State defense. So I think this
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  Speaker 2: is a good I think I think Larry Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day would take this right now, Matt Patricia would
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  Speaker 2: take this right now if they could guarantee that James
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  Speaker 2: Smith is going to be number nine on Tom Orr's
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  Speaker 2: list of most impactful Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: You can almost hear the coaching staff scrambling around and
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  Speaker 1: changing the depth chart, moving things around as we release
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  Speaker 1: each name on this list. I'm sure that's happening in
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  Speaker 1: the witty right now. We're not there to know for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but almost certainly number eight, this is not anything that's
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  Speaker 1: going to change. Carson Hinsman, the center for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: He was a first team All American according to the
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  Speaker 1: AFCA last year. They had the year before that, they
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  Speaker 1: had the Remington Award winner in Seth McLaughlin. And then
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  Speaker 1: when he got hurt, Carson Hinsman stepped in and they
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  Speaker 1: really didn't miss a beat, which is a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: indication of how good Carson Hinsman was in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and then you were assuming probably another
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  Speaker 1: step forward in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and based on the issues that they had with
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  Speaker 2: the mobile and stunting defensive lines. When you've got Carson Hinsman,
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  Speaker 2: when you've got a center and experience center, and you
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to communicate and get everything set and
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  Speaker 2: he's seen everything, you've got that kind of experience, you
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  Speaker 2: would hope that it would help you handle those sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things. And having an experienced center along with an
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  Speaker 2: experienced offensive line. Second year with your offensive line coach
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  Speaker 2: and then offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, all of these guys
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  Speaker 2: can have high level conversations and they can speak in
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  Speaker 2: graduate level courses, which is something that people have talked
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  Speaker 2: about with Caleb Downs when he was a freshman. You
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  Speaker 2: could talk in these high level things and understand the concepts.
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  Speaker 2: You can also do that with a fifth year senior
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  Speaker 2: center who has seen everything, understands everything. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that allows the offensive line. That allows Carson Hindsman to
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  Speaker 2: be better, to be better, able to handle anything that
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  Speaker 2: pops up, to be able to adjust and handle adversity.
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  Speaker 2: Having a center who has been through adversity it can
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  Speaker 2: also handle. It helps the entire offensive line and then
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  Speaker 2: helps the entire operation of your offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean he was a starter in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three as well, which feels like ages ago, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he has been a He's going to graduate from Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: assuming he plays, you know, plays the full year and
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  Speaker 1: is healthy and all that. He's going to graduate with
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  Speaker 1: something in the neighborhood of forty eight to fifty starts
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  Speaker 1: in his career, which is quite a run of starts
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  Speaker 1: for a guy at the center position number seven, someone
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  Speaker 1: who was a little earlier in his career. That would
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  Speaker 1: be true sophomore running back Bo Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Number seven, Bo Jackson, returning starting thousand yard rusher. These
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  Speaker 2: are all this is part of the formula of being
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  Speaker 2: a top ten impact Buck Guy and doing something that
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  Speaker 2: he did and as a freshman after not playing in
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  Speaker 2: the first game and being the first Buck guy who
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  Speaker 2: ever rushed for one hundred yards in his first two appearances.
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  Speaker 2: That's in terms of being a freshman and doing that.
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  Speaker 2: These are all. Those are big things, and I know
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  Speaker 2: there's concern about his big playability. I wrote I posted
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  Speaker 2: this on the Buckey Center's message board, I think on
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday or Wednesday. He had more fifty yard carries last
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  Speaker 2: year than Quinchawn Judkins and Travian Henderson. In twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four he had more. He had as many thirty yard
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  Speaker 2: carries as Travion Henderson. So, like the thing that people
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  Speaker 2: keep talking about with the Bo Jackson is the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that they see they saw him not do. It's like
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  Speaker 2: there's like three plays or so play against Indiana that
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  Speaker 2: he could have scored and he fell down, got tackled.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's another play. I don't even remember which game
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  Speaker 2: it was at this point, but he would have been
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  Speaker 2: you know it would have been seventy yards or something,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, one guy brought him down. And so
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  Speaker 2: like those are glaring things that people want to just
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  Speaker 2: continue to latch onto with, kind of ignoring the six
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  Speaker 2: yards of a thousand yards as a true freshman without
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  Speaker 2: a running threat at quarterback, which is something that has
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  Speaker 2: helped the Ohio State running backs over the years, and
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  Speaker 2: he did not have any benefit of that. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it's okay to look at the stuff he's done,
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  Speaker 2: Tom and that's what you're doing here by putting him
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  Speaker 2: on this list, and I'm expecting even more stuff from
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  Speaker 2: him this year. And really it just comes down to
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  Speaker 2: opportunities and carries, because it's a despite all of the
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  Speaker 2: consternation about the running back room and the future of it,
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  Speaker 2: the president is pretty deep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we talked about Isaiah West not that long
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  Speaker 1: ago on this Countdown show. I think they've got a
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  Speaker 1: couple guys who could be pretty impactful running backs for
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  Speaker 1: them this year. And that doesn't even touch on Legend Bay,
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  Speaker 1: who we also talked about a little earlier in the countdown.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, so now we're for number six, last one
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  Speaker 1: on this show, we're going to talk about transfer safety
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  Speaker 1: Earl Little. This is a guy where you know, I
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  Speaker 1: honestly thought about putting him higher than this just because
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  Speaker 1: we keep hearing things like we've seen it. You kind
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  Speaker 1: of looked at what he did at Florida State and went, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I could see that translating into a pretty good player
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State, and then you just kind of keep
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  Speaker 1: hearing things about him and what he could be for
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  Speaker 1: this defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to do an ear Little Expectations show
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  Speaker 2: on the Buckeye Weekly podcast and lock in what we
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  Speaker 2: think his numbers are gonna be, because there could be
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  Speaker 2: some fun numbers in terms of impact plays that we
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  Speaker 2: like to talk about in the Bold Prediction Show, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's tackles for loss or pass breakups or interceptions or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're gonna use him in some fun ways,
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  Speaker 2: Matt Patricia being able to dial some stuff up, and
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately we didn't get to see enough of him in
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  Speaker 2: the spring because he was a little bit banged up.
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  Speaker 2: And also they're not gonna show everything they're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: with them. And you know we've talked before. When we
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  Speaker 2: asked Jeremiah Smith about it, he's like, well, he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: make some plays. I don't want to say anything more
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  Speaker 2: than that, don't want to reveal too much. So the
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  Speaker 2: expectations within the program are very high, and he's been
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  Speaker 2: i think a Dude of the Week a couple of times,
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  Speaker 2: and he's had a good, strong summer, and I'm just
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing what they do with them, because
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  Speaker 2: when you lose as many players as they lost and
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  Speaker 2: you've got to manufacture some defense. I think this time
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  Speaker 2: around and everything I've been told inside the Woody, they
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  Speaker 2: are just as high on this defense coming out this
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  Speaker 2: year as they were last year in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: possibilities of it. And I think he's one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons why.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there are so many places on this defense where
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  Speaker 1: you look at how do you replace the Caleb Downs
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  Speaker 1: and not have a drop off and it's almost impossible
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  Speaker 1: to do that, And how do you replace two linebackers
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  Speaker 1: who are both top ten picks in the NFL without
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  Speaker 1: a drop off, And it's almost impossible to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But the nickel position, I mean, Lorenzo Styles Junior had
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  Speaker 1: a really good year last year, no question that was
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  Speaker 1: not a week link on the defense at all. This
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  Speaker 1: could still potentially be one of those spots where it
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  Speaker 1: maybe gets a little bit better. I think the three
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  Speaker 1: Tech spot with James Smith and Edwick Houston, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a spot that could be better than it was
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  Speaker 1: last year. I think that Nickel spot is another spot
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  Speaker 1: where it could potentially be better. Where you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a drop off some places, if you have a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a step up in some others. Maybe that
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  Speaker 1: helped sort of balance things out on the whole. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go, ten through six on our countdown of
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  Speaker 1: the most impactful players on this twenty twenty six Ohio
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