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How Is Ohio State Going To Replace Will Howard? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning, Friday, February twenty eighth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: On today's show, we're going to be looking at one
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  Speaker 1: of the positional battles for the spring and potentially into
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  Speaker 1: fall camp, and that is he battle to replace Will
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  Speaker 1: Howard as Ohio State's starting quarterback. Howard is can he
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  Speaker 1: actually be back on campus on Saturday for the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jackets Red Wings game at Ohio Stadiums. We'll get one
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  Speaker 1: more chance to see him in person. He's at the
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  Speaker 1: Combine this week. Tony Kevin and Mark are there covering that,
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  Speaker 1: and there was actually some news that came out of
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  Speaker 1: the Combine about that Ohio State quarterback battle. On Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Denzel Burke, former Ohio State cornerback and always the arbiter
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  Speaker 1: of truth on the Ohio State team. He had this
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  Speaker 1: to say about the quarterback battle quote, I think Julian
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  Speaker 1: is that guy, to be honest with you, and Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: is pretty good too. I'm ready to see this little
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  Speaker 1: matchup they're going to have. Julian is a great player,
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  Speaker 1: great zip on the ball, great pocket presence. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to have a good career. So sounds like Denzel Burke
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  Speaker 1: may have his money on Julian saying, but that quarterback
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  Speaker 1: battle is going to play out this spring and summer.
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  Speaker 1: So here is Tony Gerderman with his thoughts and how
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State is going to replace Will Howard.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everybody, welcome to the latest edition of how in
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  Speaker 2: the heck is Ohio State going to replace that guy?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Tony Gerderman from bucke Huddle dot Com also the
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  Speaker 2: Buckeye Weekly podcast, doing a series here on YouTube on
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  Speaker 2: how High State's going to replace all of their departed starters,
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  Speaker 2: of which there are a lots and they're replacing They're
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  Speaker 2: losing eight starters on each side of the ball, So
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  Speaker 2: you can do the math on that one. And I've
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  Speaker 2: already done four of these and this is the fifth
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  Speaker 2: of course doing the math on that one. We've previously
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  Speaker 2: talked about how Ohio State is going to replace a
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  Speaker 2: Mecca Abuka in the slot, how they're going to replace
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  Speaker 2: mid a linebacker Cody Simon, how they're going to replace
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackle Tyler Williams, and how they're going to replace
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  Speaker 2: Lathon Ransom at strong safety. So now let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: how Ohio State is going to replace starting quarterback Will Howard,
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  Speaker 2: who came to Ohio State from Kansas State. Spent one
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  Speaker 2: year in Columbus, but it was about as productive a
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  Speaker 2: year as anybody could possibly have I certainly could have
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  Speaker 2: hoped to have had for Will Howard himself. Kim comes
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  Speaker 2: in and Wednesday national title, spends twelve months in Columbus
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  Speaker 2: and leaves as a legend in Ohio State history, one
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  Speaker 2: of many from this past team, and made the most
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  Speaker 2: of his time in Columbus after making some time in
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  Speaker 2: Kansas State. I don't want to say wasting his time,
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  Speaker 2: because it all ended up to this point, but a
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  Speaker 2: guy who started in portions of all four years he
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  Speaker 2: spent in Manhattan was finally the full time starter in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three as a senior was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: the full time started in twenty twenty two, but they
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  Speaker 2: went and brought in Adrian Martinez out of the transfer
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  Speaker 2: portal and kind of stuck Will Howard with a ship
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  Speaker 2: and that season in terms of what they thought they were,
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  Speaker 2: what he thought was gonna happen that year, and so
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  Speaker 2: he was a guy that throughout the first three years
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  Speaker 2: of his career would have to bail kandas stayed out
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  Speaker 2: when their preferred quarterback would go down with an injury
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  Speaker 2: or not perform or whatever. And so then finally as
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  Speaker 2: a senior, finally as a senior in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: he is able to start and play well, but not
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  Speaker 2: to the point where when he entered the portal there
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  Speaker 2: was this clamoring for, oh, that's the guy that everybody
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  Speaker 2: has to go get if you want a quarterback. That's
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  Speaker 2: the guy that was. That was cam Warden, that was
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Gabriel. Will Howard was just another guy in the
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  Speaker 2: group of everybody else. And so early on you heard
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  Speaker 2: USC talks with him, it sounded like he was done
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  Speaker 2: to USC, and so then covering Ohio State, you kind
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  Speaker 2: of just well, who else is out there? And then
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  Speaker 2: when it came back around to Ohio State. There was
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  Speaker 2: it was met with some you know, like Okay, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is all you can get, mighty Ohio State. This
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  Speaker 2: is all you can end up with. This, this is
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  Speaker 2: the lure of the power of Ohio State. It's just
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  Speaker 2: Will Howard and you look at the career numbers and
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to be like, certainly you couldn't have foreseen
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  Speaker 2: what he did this year, throwing for four thousand yards,
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  Speaker 2: thirty five touchdowns, ten interceptions, and leading Ohio State to
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  Speaker 2: a national championship. However, you know, the the amount of
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  Speaker 2: talent that he had to work with at Kansas State
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  Speaker 2: was certainly limited, and the best player he had throwing
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  Speaker 2: to that he was throwing to was his tight end.
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  Speaker 2: So that gives you an idea of how effective can
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  Speaker 2: you be as a quarterback when you don't have as
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  Speaker 2: many weapons as you could have at other places. And
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  Speaker 2: when he got to Ohio State, he got those weapons
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  Speaker 2: and it turned him into a school record seventy three
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  Speaker 2: percent completion guy. And that was a season in the career,
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  Speaker 2: a season record for Ohio State. He had eight games
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  Speaker 2: where he completed over eighty percent of his passes, which
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  Speaker 2: is a career record at Ohio State. So not just
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  Speaker 2: the season record, but a career record, and anytime you
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  Speaker 2: set a career record in one season, that gives you
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  Speaker 2: an idea of how effective and how good you were.
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  Speaker 2: And he was certainly that and he only got better
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, and so he was a great leader.
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  Speaker 2: Was picked up the offense very quickly and did what
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  Speaker 2: the job required. And what the job required is what
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Diaelways says is do the routine things routinely. And
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  Speaker 2: that's something that Will Howard excelled at and got better at.
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  Speaker 2: And the more he did that and the more he
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  Speaker 2: eliminated his mistakes, the better of the offense got. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the charge for Ohio State's next quarterback, which leads
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  Speaker 2: to the question of how is Ohio State going to
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  Speaker 2: replace Will Howard and whoever does it? Just has to
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  Speaker 2: do the routine things routinely. And I know Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make things look routine. He makes them look extra special.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is, just get him the ball and
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  Speaker 2: let him do all let him do the special stuff
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback, just do the easy stuff and get him
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  Speaker 2: the ball. Same with Carnel Tate, same with Brandon Ennis,
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  Speaker 2: and so when you look at the candidates for this job,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a short list because Ohio State only has
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  Speaker 2: three scholarship quarterbacks. You're talking the elder statesman in chardin
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  Speaker 2: rechro sophomore Lincoln Keyenholts, who did not throw a pass
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four through a couple of passes in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three before he was thrust into action in
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  Speaker 2: the Cotton Bowl and went I think six or seventeen
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  Speaker 2: in that game when Devin Brown went hurt, was hurt
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  Speaker 2: because Kyle Accord had already transferred out. Devin Brown starts
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  Speaker 2: the game the bowl game against Missouri, gets hurt in
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  Speaker 2: the first quarter. Lincoln keen Old's true freshman not ready
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  Speaker 2: for this and played like it. And you also had
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  Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison sitting out. You had an offensive line shift,
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  Speaker 2: a new center who didn't have any business being there.
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  Speaker 2: So it was not a good situation for any quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: let alone a true freshman quarterback in his first significant
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  Speaker 2: playing time against the top ten opponent in Missouri. So
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  Speaker 2: he did not do well. Judging Lincoln Keynolds and his
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to win this job based on that game as
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  Speaker 2: a true freshman neither here nor there, don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: The next guy in the picture is Rechard freshman Julian's
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  Speaker 2: saying played a handful of games last year, three or four, four,
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  Speaker 2: I think, and was five of twelve passing for minimal yards.
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  Speaker 2: And the big play that everybody will remember was a
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  Speaker 2: little passed down the sideline to Benet Christian in the
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  Speaker 2: second game of the season that went fifty five yards
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  Speaker 2: for a touchdown. And so that that was the main
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  Speaker 2: contribution for Julians saying. It was his first game playing
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  Speaker 2: as a Buckeye and three or fifty five yard touchdown
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  Speaker 2: and that really what you saw last season wasn't what
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  Speaker 2: was seeing behind the scenes on the practice field. And
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  Speaker 2: I know the expectations are very high for Julian Sane.
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  Speaker 2: The third candidate is true freshman quarterback Tavian Saint Clair
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  Speaker 2: who is coming to Ohio State. Is one of the
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  Speaker 2: top three or four quarterbacks in the class. He's from
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  Speaker 2: Belle Fountain, Ohio, and I really is kind of a
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  Speaker 2: created player when you when you look at him and
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  Speaker 2: the the the arm strength and his ability to move
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  Speaker 2: and all the things that you would want in a
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  Speaker 2: quarterback he has, except he's he's young, he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: true freshman, and he's not played the highest level of
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  Speaker 2: high school football, so you know, there's there's a reason
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  Speaker 2: to think that it will take a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: time for him. The good news is, though, he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: have plenty of opportunities because, as I said, he's just
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  Speaker 2: one of three quarterbacks that will be taking part in
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  Speaker 2: spring and so all three of these guys are going
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  Speaker 2: to get a ton of reps and a ton of opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to be cycling through and rotating and
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  Speaker 2: getting as many throws as they can get as they
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  Speaker 2: can handle in the spring. And while a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other guys may be taking it easy because they don't
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  Speaker 2: need the reps, all three of these guys need everything
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  Speaker 2: they can get because the job that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be tasked with is very, very important. As I said earlier,
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  Speaker 2: it's the most important position in sports, and when you
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  Speaker 2: are the Ohio State quarterback, doesn't get much more important
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  Speaker 2: than that. So this spring is gonna be huge for them.
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  Speaker 2: May not have Jeremiah Smith to throw to as much,
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  Speaker 2: just depending on how much work he'll get. Colonel Tait
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  Speaker 2: as well, like they've got some young guys that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to mix in there and you'll get to see
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  Speaker 2: some Milon Graham, some to Marian Whitten and the freshmen
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  Speaker 2: that are coming in. But it's more about are the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback story ball where they need to be. Do they
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  Speaker 2: understand the offense, is the ball moving? Are they doing
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  Speaker 2: the routine things team ly? And that's just gonna be
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  Speaker 2: the rallying cry for Ryan Day and new quarterbacks coach
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  Speaker 2: Billy Fessler to these quarterbacks, just do the routine things routinely.
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  Speaker 2: Distribute the ball. That's something Will Howard did very well.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's going downfield, whether it's checking down, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: dumping off, you know whatever. You've got weapons all over
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  Speaker 2: the place, so go ahead and use them. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: always have to be downfield, as we saw last year
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  Speaker 2: from from Howard in the offense, because eventually it will
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  Speaker 2: become more downfield stuff once the confidence is there, once
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  Speaker 2: you know, the just the feel is there. And so
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  Speaker 2: that feel starts now and in the off season of
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  Speaker 2: workouts and working together and you know, after practice, before practice,
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  Speaker 2: things like that, at every quarterback and group of receivers,
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  Speaker 2: they've done it and you know you you have you
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  Speaker 2: have after hours. It could be in midnight, it could
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  Speaker 2: be eight o'clock whatever. When you want to get some
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  Speaker 2: throws in, these guys will text the receivers and hey,
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  Speaker 2: who wants to throw? And the guys that say no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm good generally are the guys who don't end up playing.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the quarterbacks who are trying to get guys
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  Speaker 2: going that become the leaders and the guys that you know,
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  Speaker 2: other people will follow. So that's the other interesting thing
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  Speaker 2: here is you've got at least the two guys Julian's
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  Speaker 2: Saying and Lincoln Kenholts, who are trying to establish themselves
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  Speaker 2: as leaders because this position needs to lead, and so
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  Speaker 2: that starts in workouts. That starts, you know, they then
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  Speaker 2: continues in spring practice, in summer workouts. All of this.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Day is looking for leaders in this quarterback battle,
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  Speaker 2: and both of these guys know that, so they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: perform as well as well as they can. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: really been leaders since their high school days, so this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be new for them, but then also familiar,
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  Speaker 2: and so as their true natural natural leadership abilities come out,
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  Speaker 2: their teammates will see that and we'll see how it
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  Speaker 2: goes and see who performs Spring is huge, I think
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  Speaker 2: right now clearly if you ask the majority of people,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna tell you it's Julian Saying, former five star
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  Speaker 2: guy Olive of State brought him in from Alabama. There's
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  Speaker 2: a reason they brought him in. Ryan Daves, big fan,
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  Speaker 2: Chip Kelly, could not say enough good things about him
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  Speaker 2: last year. Got his ability to pick up the offense,
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  Speaker 2: to understand where to go with the ball and quick
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  Speaker 2: release and things like that. So we will watch more
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  Speaker 2: of this spring. If you're asking for a betting favorite,
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  Speaker 2: that would be Julian Saying. But he's not done enough
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  Speaker 2: to this point to think that he cannot be beaten out.
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  Speaker 2: And so this spring is going to be a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good way for Lincoln Kenols to know where he stands
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  Speaker 2: and for Julian Saying to know what else he needs
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  Speaker 2: to do. But then also Tavian Saint Clair will find
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  Speaker 2: out just how far behind he is, and if he's
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  Speaker 2: not that far behind, that might drive him even more
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  Speaker 2: over the summer. So there you go. That's our Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State is going to replace Will Howard. One of these
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  Speaker 2: three guys will be the guy. Wouldn't shocking if they
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  Speaker 2: bring in a veteran quarterback after the spring, not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: to start, but just to give them some depth and
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  Speaker 2: some experience. However, if they do bring in a name,
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  Speaker 2: then that kind of tells you maybe things didn't go
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  Speaker 2: as well in the spring as they thought they would.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go, There you go. How Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: is going to replace Will Howard? Go ahead it thumbs
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  Speaker 2: coming for sure? Like I said, I think I did sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: fourteen or fifteen of these because didn't I didn't double
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