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2026 Ohio State Spring Game Preview: 4 Young Buckeyes To Watch · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, April seventeenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the ball State game in one
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  Speaker 1: be inside Ohio Stadium on Friday morning watching the Buckeye's
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  Speaker 1: final pre spring game practice. Tony Gerderman and I will
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  Speaker 1: have a instant reaction show, maybe live, maybe tape. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. But right
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  Speaker 1: now we're gonna be looking forward ahead two Saturday's spring
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  Speaker 1: game and talking about guys on the offensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball who we are maybe most interested in seeing.
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  Speaker 1: So gonna welcome Tony in for that, and Tony, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna pick two guys. I had no problem making a
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  Speaker 1: list longer than that because there's a lot of intriguing
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  Speaker 1: names here, but I will let you take the first
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  Speaker 1: swing at this.
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  Speaker 2: Here's one I am looking forward to seeing Carter Low.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be at right tackle number seventy four,
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  Speaker 2: red shirt freshman. We saw him two weeks ago at
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  Speaker 2: the student appreciation day. Right he had some good moments,
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  Speaker 2: he had some rough moments, and we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to see how much he's grown in these
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  Speaker 2: two weeks with all of these reps that he's gotten
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  Speaker 2: because he's been running with the Ones and it's been
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  Speaker 2: a crash course. It's been like thrown into a foreign
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  Speaker 2: land and learning the language pretty quickly. And everybody's raving
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  Speaker 2: about him in terms of how well he's playing and
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  Speaker 2: the potential that they're seeing, and really the best way
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  Speaker 2: to get that potential out is to throw him in
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  Speaker 2: there and let him go after and deal with the Ones.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm gonna be interested to see how well
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  Speaker 2: he holds up and if there's still some ebbs and
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  Speaker 2: flows and things of that nature, or if he looks
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  Speaker 2: like he's going to be a future starter, and the
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  Speaker 2: way people talk about him, yes, he's eventually going to
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  Speaker 2: be a future starter. He's eventually going to be a
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  Speaker 2: starter down the road. But I'm interested to see how
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  Speaker 2: much he's grown in these last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had Carter Low on my list as well,
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  Speaker 1: and I had him sort of a tandem with him
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  Speaker 1: and Sam Greer. Greer is going to be with the twos,
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  Speaker 1: but he's another guy who is probably a little ahead
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  Speaker 1: of where you expected him to be right now. And
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  Speaker 1: that's sort of a function of both Philip Daniels and
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  Speaker 1: Austin Seerveld being out for the spring game again, both
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  Speaker 1: with minor procedures, nothing to panic about. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's also a little bit of a reminder that if
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  Speaker 1: the past rush seems to be getting home a little
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  Speaker 1: more often than you'd like to see, there's probably some
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  Speaker 1: context around that. But Carter Low getting thrown into the
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  Speaker 1: deep end of the pool a little bit right now
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  Speaker 1: with the ones, that's ultimately going to be a good
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  Speaker 1: thing for his development. I think you could say the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with Sam Greer. Where Greer is there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you, like the measurables there and what is
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  Speaker 1: it going to look like on the field. We will
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  Speaker 1: have a much better answer and a much better idea
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  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon around three o'clock. So yeah, I think both
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  Speaker 1: of those guys are really really interesting answers mine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be I'm gonna be real basic. I'm sorry, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go with the backup quarterback. Everyone's favorite
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  Speaker 1: player on the team, the backup quarter Tavan Saint Claiir.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen little bits and pieces of him this spring.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly has looked like he's taken some really significant
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  Speaker 1: steps forward in terms of his development, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: just things not going one hundred million miles an hour
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  Speaker 1: in his head as he's looking around and trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what the heck is going on. I'm expecting
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  Speaker 1: him to get a decent amount of run because you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see some Julian saying. But I don't think you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see a full half of Julian saying. So
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  Speaker 1: at that point, you know, we'll see what the format
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  Speaker 1: for the spring game actually ends up looking like. Is
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  Speaker 1: it just offense versus defense, or is it Scarlett versus
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  Speaker 1: Gray and one of them's on each team, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: I just I think we're going to see a good
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  Speaker 1: amount of Tav and Saint Clair and all the physical
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  Speaker 1: tools are there. Everything is there that you would want.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just super super intrigued to see what it looks
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  Speaker 1: like going up against what should be a good Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State defense, whether it's the ones or the twos or
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  Speaker 1: a mix of those guys, it should be a solid
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  Speaker 1: defense all around. He should have some good players out
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  Speaker 1: there with him, I'm guessing, and he's gonna be out
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  Speaker 1: there with the ones in terms of the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: at least some of the time. So this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be I think our best deepest exposure to tav
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Clair and what he is right now going
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  Speaker 1: into year two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and last year's spring game he was eleven to
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  Speaker 2: fifteen with two interceptions, one hundred and sixteen yards one touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: He was the only quarterback that was not sacked in
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  Speaker 2: the spring game last year, and you know, it's it
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  Speaker 2: is interesting that only two of his fifteen passes hit
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  Speaker 2: the ground. I think that's something. But I'm, again similar
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  Speaker 2: to what we said about the student appreciation Day, just
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  Speaker 2: want to see him get through a play and either
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  Speaker 2: you know, throw it away because there's nobody opened, rather
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  Speaker 2: than running for his life and not knowing what to
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  Speaker 2: do with the football. We saw him. He's more under control,
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  Speaker 2: more call he's calmer than he was a year ago
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  Speaker 2: for obvious reasons. But yeah, I'm with you. He was
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  Speaker 2: on my list as well, and just somebody you want
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  Speaker 2: to see somebody that looks like, Okay, if he needs
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  Speaker 2: to play, he could, and he looks like it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be too much for him. There are times where the
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  Speaker 2: backup is it is too much for them. And I
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  Speaker 2: think by this point, with David Saint Clair's ability and
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  Speaker 2: development and all of that, I think he's gonna do
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. But this is our relative to based on
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  Speaker 2: how much time he has to throw and what that
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  Speaker 2: what that pass rush looks like. But he's on my
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  Speaker 2: list as well. I think that's a good one in
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  Speaker 2: terms of who he's throwing to. Tom. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: watching Devin McEwan because we've only gotten to see a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of him, and so much of what we
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  Speaker 2: got to see in the student depreciation day, I was
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  Speaker 2: my vision was blocked by people on the sidelines. So
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  Speaker 2: here I'll actually be able to watch him and see
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  Speaker 2: some of that quickness and some of that speed, and
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  Speaker 2: just I want to see the acceleration. Because they're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the short passing game, I want to see it
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  Speaker 2: from him and I know that they're talking it up,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, I want to see that acceleration. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see the transition to being a running back that
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  Speaker 2: they talk about, get the ball, catch the ball, put
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  Speaker 2: it in and go, and you know, for people rave
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  Speaker 2: about his acceleration. So I'm interested to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you could take almost any of the
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers and put them in here. I think you
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  Speaker 1: could say a lot of the same stuff about Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Parker if you want to hear. I'm sure everyone's going well,
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  Speaker 1: brock Boyd is certainly could be the first name they
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  Speaker 1: say right now, because if Legend Bay is not playing,
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  Speaker 1: then everyone's most excited to see brock Boyd. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about brock Boyd and Chris Henry Junior on the Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: Weekly episode on Bold Prediction, So we'll leave that. We'll
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  Speaker 1: leave those guys over there, but yes, suffice to say,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be interested to see them as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with someone who's a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different, a little more proven, maybe not
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  Speaker 1: a ton more proven, but a little bit more proven
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  Speaker 1: in Ian Moore, where we've seen a lot from him,
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  Speaker 1: a little you know, a lot from him as far
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  Speaker 1: as someone going into their third year as an offensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman sort of goes where we saw him against Miami
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  Speaker 1: and the Cotton Bowl, where he looked pretty solid. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: he just feels like he's kind of the key to
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  Speaker 1: unlocking what this year's Ohio State offensive line looks like.
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  Speaker 1: I am fully expecting the offensive line to have kind
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  Speaker 1: of a rocky day because it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a patchwork line. But what is what
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  Speaker 1: does Ian Moore look like going one on one with
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  Speaker 1: YadA Jackson or Kway Russau or Zion Grady or bo
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  Speaker 1: Atkinson or whoever is lined up over him on that edge.
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  Speaker 1: If he can hold up, I think watching him individually
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  Speaker 1: is almost going to be more instructive than watching the
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  Speaker 1: line on the whole, because the right guard, the right tackle,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be guys who are not probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be the ones who are starting during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: So you can look for from center to left guard
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  Speaker 1: to left tackle. You have my permission to do that,
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  Speaker 1: but I just really, if I'm watching the offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: I'm most interested in watching Ian Moore because if he
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  Speaker 1: can hold up against what should be a pretty you know,
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  Speaker 1: pretty dynamic and i'm assuming pretty aggressive pass rush, then
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  Speaker 1: that's probably gonna tell me a lot about what that
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  Speaker 1: offense line might look like this fall.
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  Speaker 2: I am most looking forward to watching you and Ross
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  Speaker 2: break down the spring game in like six different shows, which,
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  Speaker 2: as you may know, is Ross's favorite thing, to just
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  Speaker 2: keep watching and breaking down the spring game. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: with you because it was interesting to me. We talked
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  Speaker 2: with the offensive line this week, and Ian Moore is
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  Speaker 2: the calmest, most confident guy, not cocky, just like sure
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  Speaker 2: of himself and completely comfortable and whatever setting. And we've
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  Speaker 2: talked before about how some players act in media. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's like it carry overs to the game because they're
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  Speaker 2: they're very comfortable, and sometimes guys that aren't aren't. They're
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  Speaker 2: like they're nervous and they've not done this before. And
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  Speaker 2: like Ian Moore has played some, but he he projects
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  Speaker 2: as if he's, yeah, this is my third year starting,
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, Outland Trophy, like all of these different things.
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  Speaker 2: He's a very confident, sure of himself person and nothing
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  Speaker 2: really phases him. And I think you'll continue to see
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  Speaker 2: that and his mentality and his you know, all all
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  Speaker 2: of the physical stuff everybody knows, is there the mental
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  Speaker 2: side of things. I think is interesting for him too,
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  Speaker 2: and plenty of reasons to watch him. And yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: probably not going to go great for any one person,
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  Speaker 2: but if it were to go great for one person,
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  Speaker 2: I could put my money on him and say I
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  Speaker 2: got a pretty good feeling about him.
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  Speaker 1: So we will be watching Ian Moore pretty closely on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be watching the Buckeyes pretty closely on Friday morning
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  Speaker 1: as well. We'll be there for that final pre spring
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  Speaker 1: game practice on Friday morning at the Horseshoe. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: coverage after that. You can find that on the Bucket
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  Speaker 1: Weekly podcast feed as well as at YouTube dot com
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  Speaker 1: slash Buckey Huddle. That'll do it for today. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow at