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What To Expect From Ohio State's Quarterbacks Vs Grambling · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eys tomorrow morning for Saturday, September sixth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom Or. The Grambling game is today,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in eighty four days. If you
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking a little bit about that
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  Speaker 1: Grambling game and some of the stuff to expect from
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State today. I'll let you hear a lot from
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day, some of the stuff we get to hear
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  Speaker 1: from him during our last media availability with him in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the week. And we're going to start
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  Speaker 1: with a little bit about Grambling actually, and this is
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  Speaker 1: no this is not going to be a deep dive
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  Speaker 1: on the third string tight end or anything like that,
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  Speaker 1: but more just about the program itself and its history
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  Speaker 1: in college football. Of course, legendary head coach Eddie Robinson
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  Speaker 1: is one of the big names there. You may remember
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  Speaker 1: former Washington Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams. He went
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  Speaker 1: to Grambling and actually was a head coach at Grambling
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  Speaker 1: later on, but to play the program and Eddie Robinson
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  Speaker 1: really has a unique place in the sports history. Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day talked a little bit about how defensive line coach
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  Speaker 1: Larry Johnson talked to the team about that.
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  Speaker 2: Larry Johnson just spoke to the team and talked a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about, you know, the history at Grambling, spoke
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  Speaker 2: about Eddie Robinson and you know, talked about his experience
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  Speaker 2: of listening to Coach Robinson at a clinic and after
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  Speaker 2: that he realized he wanted to coach and the impact
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  Speaker 2: that he made on so many people, but also the
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  Speaker 2: game of football. And you know, he and I spoke
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  Speaker 2: before practice and we thought it was good for our
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  Speaker 2: guys to understand that that, you know, Coach Robinson and Grambling,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our big brick, and you know, what is
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  Speaker 2: college football now and the fact that there's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know a lot of a lot of guys on
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  Speaker 2: our field that you know, the game was Certainly the
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  Speaker 2: game wouldn't be where it is right now without him
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  Speaker 2: and without Grambling. So I think it's important for our
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  Speaker 2: guys to know what it's come before. We talk a
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  Speaker 2: lot about tradition at Ohio State and Grambling has a
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  Speaker 2: great tradition as well.
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  Speaker 1: The Buck guys got off to a one to h
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  Speaker 1: start by knocking off then top ranked Texas last week
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  Speaker 1: fourteen to seven, and it was not exactly a thing
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  Speaker 1: of beauty for the Ohio State offense, but they did
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  Speaker 1: get the win. Now, the question is, okay, how do
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  Speaker 1: you sort of keep growing that offense and really keep
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  Speaker 1: growing first time starting quarterback Julian saying he looked pretty
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  Speaker 1: good in the limited stuff he was asked to do.
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  Speaker 1: Now are they looking to challenge him to sort of
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  Speaker 1: see more that he can do in the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you don't go from zero to sixty,
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  Speaker 2: you know, overnight, But you know we want to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: build that up and listen, we wanted to be explosive
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  Speaker 2: to the first game. You know, it didn't quite happen early.
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  Speaker 2: We found ourselves backed up and you know the game
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  Speaker 2: went in a different direction. But we're always looking to
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  Speaker 2: do that. So you know, we're going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: put things on his plate and push the envelope and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, go from there. So no, I think we just
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  Speaker 3: had a really good day out here. In practice. I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to see how it goes Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, Rvell Reese was
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  Speaker 1: one of the big stars last week. He was moving
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  Speaker 1: around all over the field and making plays wherever he was.
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  Speaker 1: What does he bring to the Ohio State defense.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's production in a big game in that spot.
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  Speaker 2: You know he started before, but not like a full
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  Speaker 2: time starter. I guess the best way to put it
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  Speaker 2: where you know, our defensive staff I think was creative
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  Speaker 2: and what they did, but that's our vel put it
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  Speaker 2: on the field, and his versatility allows.
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  Speaker 3: You know, allows us to do different things with him.
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  Speaker 2: So great start for him, But he's a guy who
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  Speaker 2: who practices that way and I don't think anybody who
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  Speaker 2: saw in practice throughout the month of August. We're surprised
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  Speaker 2: with the production that he had and.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to continue to need him. He's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a big part of our defense this season.
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  Speaker 1: The next question is one where I can tell you
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  Speaker 1: what the question was and then the answer is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a much more general thing. But the question
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  Speaker 1: was about the right guard rotation in Tager Shabola and
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  Speaker 1: Ethan Oneonua and whether that rotation was going to continue
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  Speaker 1: Brian Day didn't really answer that question in particular, but
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  Speaker 1: did talk about rotating guys and getting guys, getting more
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  Speaker 1: players opportunities on the field in general.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what we want to do in the first game
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  Speaker 2: at a lot of positions was play guys who had experience,
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  Speaker 2: because there was a lot of guys who weren't experience
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  Speaker 2: playing in the game. We wanted to limit the amount
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  Speaker 2: of you know, first time miss that's a word. So
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  Speaker 2: what we want to do moving forward is figure out
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  Speaker 2: what's going to be best for our team. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to play a bunch of different guys here
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  Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks and then figure out kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of where we go going into the bye week.
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  Speaker 2: But it'll be an opportunity for a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: to get reps and give us some more of an evaluation.
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  Speaker 1: There is obviously a long way to go this season,
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  Speaker 1: but it's hard to really imagine a better progression for
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State defense than the one that has played
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  Speaker 1: out in the field since the twenty twenty or twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one season till now, I mean the Kerry Combs years.
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  Speaker 1: We're not great. When he was the defensive coordinator Jim Knowles.
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  Speaker 1: Three years at Ohio State, things just kind of kept
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  Speaker 1: getting better under him, and then Game one under Matt
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  Speaker 1: Patricia to hold the number one team in the nation
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  Speaker 1: to just seven points, shut them out for the first
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  Speaker 1: fifty six minutes the game. That's pretty good. Now, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State has been generally talking about not you know, not
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  Speaker 1: letting the outside noise in. Now they've got some of
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  Speaker 1: the rat poison, the old Nick Saban rat poison, people
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  Speaker 1: saying things that are maybe a little too nice about them. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, balancing that not getting too sucked into getting
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  Speaker 1: you know, all getting flattered and getting told, oh, everything
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  Speaker 1: is great, everything is perfect. You know is Brian Day
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  Speaker 1: just sort of proud though when you look back at
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  Speaker 1: the progression of the defense over the last five years
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  Speaker 1: or so, well, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like you said, I mean, if you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to listen when it's negative, you can't listen when
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  Speaker 2: it's positive.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what we have to make sure
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  Speaker 3: we understand. This is one game, whether we won or lost.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I did mention that going into the
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  Speaker 2: last game, it's going to give us some feedback on
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  Speaker 2: where we are. I think the feedback you know, gives
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  Speaker 2: us a direction to move forward. With that being said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in order for us to go reach our
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  Speaker 2: goals and win a championship, we're gonna have to.
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  Speaker 3: Play great defense. We know that, and every year you
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  Speaker 3: learn more and more as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a tribute to our coaches attribute to the
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  Speaker 2: players that they were able to, you know, play like
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  Speaker 2: that in the first game after losing you know, so
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  Speaker 2: many players last year.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's just a start. We got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 2: But it's certainly, like I said before, good to work
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  Speaker 2: on these things after a win. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: confidence right now. I think guys are bouncing around pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we have to continue to look at
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  Speaker 2: the issues, address the issues, and get better. We are
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  Speaker 2: an absolute race to get better, and we're going against
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  Speaker 2: the best teams in the country every day at practice.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way we look at it. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: again it's a great start, but we got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work to do.
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  Speaker 1: Randy was asked earlier about the importance of getting Julian's
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  Speaker 1: in more reps. How about Lincoln keenholes. He is, of course,
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  Speaker 1: one snap away from being the starter at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: How important is it to get him reps in the
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  Speaker 1: game on Saturday and potentially get him more reps throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season, just so that he's ready to go if needed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it'd be great to get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these guys reps. How it plays out, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: you don't know, but yeah, the more reps we can
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  Speaker 2: get for our guys, the more of an evaluation we
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  Speaker 2: can get in the stadium, live evaluations.
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  Speaker 3: For these guys, and Lincoln would be one of them
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: He just had a good day of practice again coming
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  Speaker 2: off the field, so that was positive. So yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think ideally we'd love to do that, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take it one play at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Every year there are sort of unsung players on the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State team who probably play a bigger role in
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  Speaker 1: the team's success than the average fan might think. One
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  Speaker 1: of those guys on this year's team is Will Kasmeric,
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  Speaker 1: the tight end. He has not put up massive receiving
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  Speaker 1: stats by any means, but he has been so good
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  Speaker 1: at blocking. That was one of those things that when
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  Speaker 1: they first brought him in from Ohio University, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talk about boy he's really an incredible
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  Speaker 1: blocker and he that has really played out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: He had an injury last year, missed a bunch of time,
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  Speaker 1: but when he has been out on the field, Man
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  Speaker 1: oh Man, has he been good? So Ryan Day, how
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  Speaker 1: important has wil kas Merik been to have out there
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  Speaker 1: and how valuable?
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  Speaker 2: Has he really been very valuable? And now that he's healthy,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's great to have him there. He's a tough guy.
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  Speaker 2: He does a lot of dirty work, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's somebody that has now played some and so when
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  Speaker 2: you look at the look at him, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is a guy that we're counting on and you feel
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  Speaker 2: like he can count on and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: dirty work to be done out there and he can
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  Speaker 2: do it. But he's also really got better as a
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  Speaker 2: pass as a route runner and a pass catcher. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, I feel like that room has become more
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  Speaker 2: and more. You know, that position has become more of
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  Speaker 2: a weapon, and that room has become deeper.
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  Speaker 1: And finally we talked about the quarterback one, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about quarterback two. Time to talk about QB three Tavian
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  Speaker 1: Saint Clair, five star recruit, true freshman This year is
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day hoping to get him some reps on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to hear kind of a quick follow
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  Speaker 1: up from Doug lagh Maurice.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's hard to it's I guess that's hard
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  Speaker 2: to kind of talk about because you know, you just
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  Speaker 2: got to get the first first down and you got
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  Speaker 2: to score touchdowns and we're still dealing with eighteen to
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  Speaker 2: twenty two year olds, and but yeah, ideally we'd love
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  Speaker 2: to get a lot of guys reps, yes, because that's
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  Speaker 2: that's a real way to get feedback. It's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a way to you know, it's healthy for
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  Speaker 2: the team. So we'll look to do that and some
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  Speaker 2: positions will rotate at other positions will have to see
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  Speaker 2: how the game goes. But in an ideal world, we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get as many of those guys and he
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  Speaker 2: would be one of them.
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  Speaker 3: How's he doing, just like continuing as a young dud
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  Speaker 3: good good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's been mostly getting Scout team reps, but
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  Speaker 2: we do get some three work in there, and so
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  Speaker 2: we would try to get him in there as much
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  Speaker 2: as we can, because you know, you're two snaps away
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  Speaker 2: from playing, which you know sometimes is.
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  Speaker 3: Sobering, so we've got.
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  Speaker 2: To make sure that you know he's continuing to develop,
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  Speaker 2: which I think he is, by the way, but.
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  Speaker 3: It it'd be nice to get them some game reps.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, a little bit of a preview
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  Speaker 1: of all three quarterbacks. You might get to see later
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  Speaker 1: on today as the buck guys take on Grambling State
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