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Ohio State Spring Game Reaction: 4 Buckeyes Who Impressed · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Sunday, April nineteenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Juck Maletti right now from the bucke Huddle Primetime podcast,
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  Speaker 1: among many other things. Juck, we got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: watch the Ohio State spring game on Saturday. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I could literally tell you the final score,
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  Speaker 1: which tells you a lot about the importance of the
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  Speaker 1: final score of the spring game. But there were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys that I think stood out in good
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  Speaker 1: and bad ways during the course of the day. We're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna keep this nice and easy and free flowing.
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  Speaker 1: Give me someone on the offensive side of the ball
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  Speaker 1: who made you say wow in a good way during
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  Speaker 1: Saturday's game, in a good way, in a good way.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotta be Chris Henry Junior. Tom. I mean, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know we talked about it on the pregame show
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  Speaker 2: yesterday or today before the game.
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  Speaker 1: It gives me, Yeah, time is a flat circle on
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  Speaker 1: this show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we talked about it in the pregame that
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  Speaker 2: in the spring game of twenty twenty four, when Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: Smith came in, it was pretty clear in that spring
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  Speaker 2: game that Ryan Day wanted to hit him with a
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  Speaker 2: big one, and I thought that maybe we would see
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  Speaker 2: them try to get that done with Chris Henry, and
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  Speaker 2: boy did they ever. Three catches for ninety ninety ish
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  Speaker 2: yards and one of them a forty yard touchdown. He
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  Speaker 2: did have a drop in there and he could have
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  Speaker 2: gone over one hundred yards, which would have been really cool.
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  Speaker 2: But the excitement level sky high in the stadium, and
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll hear a whole lot for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the offseason about Chris Henry and the development we
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  Speaker 2: kind of saw throughout the spring. The boy, by the
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  Speaker 2: time ten camp's over, you get a couple of games
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  Speaker 2: in who knows what's going to happen here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the end of spring, but obviously there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of summer where they're going to be before
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  Speaker 1: they're back coming back for summer camp. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of just hey, go throw on the indoor. Hey go
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  Speaker 1: work against Devin Sanchez, Go work against Jermaine Matthews, go
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  Speaker 1: work against whoever at that corner position, and continue to
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  Speaker 1: refine things and continue to retool things, and guys will
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times take another jump. We saw I
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  Speaker 1: think a move, a real jump from Chris Henry this spring.
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  Speaker 1: I'm expecting another one potentially before the fall. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to overreact to one fifteenth of spring football, which is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is the one fifteenth way everyone gets
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  Speaker 1: to see, so it's the one fifteenth that everyone bases
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  Speaker 1: everything off of. But that was I think an encouraging
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  Speaker 1: way for spring to end for him.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely. Brock Boyd also with a couple of catches.
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  Speaker 2: One of them you got a great photo of. I
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  Speaker 2: saw that sweet. I mean, the pass carried him out
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  Speaker 2: of bounds. He made a fantastic catch. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's anything else he could have done, but it was great.
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  Speaker 2: And he had another couple of catches in addition to that,
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  Speaker 2: so they look pretty good. Man. The veteran wide receivers
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  Speaker 2: we didn't see a ton of, but all in all,
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  Speaker 2: those two stood out and who did you have on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: To me, I think I'm looking at tav in Saint Clair,
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  Speaker 1: who had it felt like a pretty good day, not
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  Speaker 1: a perfect day by any means, and he was working
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  Speaker 1: behind a little bit of a patchwork offensive line, which
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  Speaker 1: is sort of the thing that has to go said
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  Speaker 1: or unsaid over all of the stuff we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: in this game where where the defensive line looked dominant
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  Speaker 1: at how much of that had to do with the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, probably at least some How much of the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line struggle had to do with the fact they
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  Speaker 1: were missing both starting tackles, probably at least some. So
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  Speaker 1: with all that said, tav and Saint Clair didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a great practice Friday. When we were in here Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: I thought looked much more comfortable, made some nice throws,
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  Speaker 1: made some good decisions, made some plays with his legs.
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  Speaker 1: All the quarterbacks made some plays with their legs, which
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  Speaker 1: is that's good. That's something that you know they have
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  Speaker 1: talked about wanting to see more. So I think all
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  Speaker 1: of that is at least, you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that this is a I don't think we've got a
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  Speaker 1: quarter back, you know, controversy or anything like that right now.
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  Speaker 1: But I think what you saw out of ta Vian
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  Speaker 1: Saint Clair is encouraging that there's been some real tangible
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  Speaker 1: progress since last year and he's probably on track to
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  Speaker 1: being a pretty good quarterback. Maybe maybe it's this fall,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's next year, but he's sort of on track
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  Speaker 1: with the progress you want to see.
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  Speaker 2: And not shy tom very aggressive. He was aggressive today,
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  Speaker 2: which you know, it's maybe a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: different flavor from Julian and sometimes he's you know, he
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  Speaker 2: can be, but I just feel like Tavian, maybe he's
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  Speaker 2: aggressive by nature. He'll take those shots and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a very exciting run. He'll probably
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  Speaker 2: be a guy that turns it over a little more
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  Speaker 2: but makes more of those big plays. But I think
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  Speaker 2: we saw it all today and it was exciting. He
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  Speaker 2: looks really good on the run when he's throwing the
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  Speaker 2: ball on the run. But yeah, definitely, I was excited
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  Speaker 2: to see him. We got to see a lot of him.
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  Speaker 2: I felt we saw quite a bit of him and
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  Speaker 2: certainly a big step from where he was last no doubt, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And as you said, Julian, sayin played but didn't play much.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't play it all. After halftime, they were really
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  Speaker 1: kind of shuffling through to make sure they got all
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  Speaker 1: four scholarship quarterbacks some time. All four of them ran
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  Speaker 1: at least a little bit, and Luke Fayi had a
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  Speaker 1: long run. I thought that was It was a reasonably
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  Speaker 1: solid day for the quarterbacks all around. On the defensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball, I feel like you could go
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  Speaker 1: with any number of standouts players, especially on the defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: but who who's your guy to got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: on defense?
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  Speaker 2: So this is the guy that I saw I think
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  Speaker 2: make the most plays on the day, because there were
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys that had two three flashes here
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  Speaker 2: and there. But the guy I saw mick the most,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it was up to five solo tackles
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  Speaker 2: was sophomore linebacker Eli Lee. I mean number thirty three.
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  Speaker 2: He is the heaviest linebacker of the quell that Cintelegro
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  Speaker 2: came in. He was Sinceelegro came in, but he's a
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  Speaker 2: bigger linebacker about six three and a half up to
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  Speaker 2: about two thirty five now. He's a throwback style and
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  Speaker 2: you'll need him his kind of body for MS in
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  Speaker 2: certain situations. I don't know if he'll ever be a
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  Speaker 2: guy that's starting with the quality of linebackers James Lawren
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  Speaker 2: Nightis is bringing in, but an Ohio kid the type
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  Speaker 2: that if he sticks around, man, it's definitely looking like
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  Speaker 2: it's on the positive track. And I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people were not thinking about him at all because
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  Speaker 2: he's a guy that came in a class with tj
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  Speaker 2: Alford and Riley Pettijohn and now he comes out here
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  Speaker 2: in the spring game.
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  Speaker 1: Five solos look really really good.
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  Speaker 2: So happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: Really good stuff. Yeah, that's a name we haven't talked
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  Speaker 1: about a lot this spring, and that's really I think
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  Speaker 1: a testament to how deep that linebacker room is. But
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  Speaker 1: someone who showed you he's probably you know, that's at
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  Speaker 1: least someone who if you can do that, you can
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  Speaker 1: at least be a contributor on special teams. And once
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  Speaker 1: you're contributor on special teams, that is generally a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good predictor to your being a contributor on defense at
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  Speaker 1: some point in the coming years. I'm not sure I
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  Speaker 1: can pick, so I'm going to go I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say my guy to really stand out is the two
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  Speaker 1: second year corners that played really well for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: in this spring game. Devin Sanchez, who didn't play a ton,
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  Speaker 1: which actually tells you a lot about what they think
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  Speaker 1: of Devin Sanchez, but also Dominic Kelly, who was a
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  Speaker 1: transfer from Georgia. I thought both of those guys had
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  Speaker 1: pretty good days on the whole. Sanchez, that was what
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  Speaker 1: it would look like. You know, you're sometimes you're going
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  Speaker 1: to cover Jeremiah Smith and he's going to get you.
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  Speaker 1: That is what Jeremiah Smith does. But he had he
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  Speaker 1: felt like he was hanging with Jeremiah Smith. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like Dominic Kelly had a really solid day on the whole.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be fascinated to go back and rewatch
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  Speaker 1: this game because I always I'm watching on the sidelines
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  Speaker 1: and I'm watching through a camera lens, which is not
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  Speaker 1: the ideal way to experience a football game. But just
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  Speaker 1: when I saw those guys, it felt like there was
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  Speaker 1: generally a in a good context of both of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing, we got to talk special teams. No one
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  Speaker 1: ever wants to talk special teams unless something bad happens.
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  Speaker 1: It was generally pretty good on special teams, especially the
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  Speaker 1: kicker Connor Hawkins the transfer from Baylor. He was two
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  Speaker 1: of three on field goals. It felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't a perfect day, but hit a
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  Speaker 1: couple of field goals in not ideal conditions and looked
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  Speaker 1: reasonably good in doing it.
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  Speaker 2: He did. Indeed, I think we saw some good punts too.
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  Speaker 2: I think Brandon Nisfield did some punts well as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so all in all, a good day for
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  Speaker 2: Specials and for me, it's like counter Hawkins. I know
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  Speaker 2: what he can do physically, and until we see him
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  Speaker 2: in a pressure situation, I'm not going to feel any
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  Speaker 2: kind of relief because I thought Jaden Fielding was a
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  Speaker 2: good kicker outside of those kind of situations.
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  Speaker 1: So that's I'm scarred when it comes to that. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. They will. They won't find out for sure
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  Speaker 1: until the ball gets teed up again in this stadium
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  Speaker 1: for real, coming up in early September. But we got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about between now and then, so
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  Speaker 1: We'll be talking about all that stuff for the next
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  Speaker 1: few months. We're going to be plenty to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: as we could sort of wrap up spring Ball now
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  Speaker 1: doing sort of a recap of all the stuff we saw,
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff we learned, and what it all means
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  Speaker 1: coming up the next few months, all those places we
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  Speaker 1: hope to see you there. 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.