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Ohio State Spring Practice: Buckeyes Begin Defense Of 2024 National Championship · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning. For Tuesday, March eighteenth, im
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Speaker 1: as the Buckeyes open spring practice for the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five football season. Our whole team from Buckeye Huddle was there.
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Speaker 1: We had lots of coverage, lots of photos, videos, inside analysis,
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Speaker 1: all of that coverage there. We had Tony and I
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Speaker 1: did a live instant reaction show on the Buckeye Weekly
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Speaker 1: podcast Speeds. You can get all of our insight and
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Speaker 1: analysis on what we saw, what we heard, what we
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Speaker 1: learned during that practice on the Buckeye Weekly Feed and
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Speaker 1: you can find that on our YouTube channel as well.
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Speaker 1: On today's show, you're going to get to hear from
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Speaker 1: Ohio State head coach Ryan Day. He had an extra
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Speaker 1: long press conference following that first practice. This is just
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Speaker 1: going to be part one. You're actually gonna get part
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Speaker 1: two tomorrow. There was a ton of interesting stuff I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about the quarterbacks, somewhat unsurprisingly, but a
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Speaker 1: lot of other really interesting stuff as well. And so
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Speaker 1: we're just gonna split this up into two shows because
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Speaker 1: it is going to be This is going to be
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Speaker 1: a longer than usual show, and tomorrow we'll probably be
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Speaker 1: as well. But that's okay. Too much Ohio State football
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Speaker 1: content is not actually a problem. So all right, so
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Speaker 1: let's start with Ryan Day's thoughts on the race for
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Speaker 1: the quarterback job. Is there any sort of pecking order?
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Speaker 1: What's the plan there for this spring?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 3: Right now, you know, we're going to roll those guys
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Speaker 3: like we did last year, and today was just to
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Speaker 3: get moving around our first day off of spring break,
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Speaker 3: and we wanted to get going. You know, we're going
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Speaker 3: to do spring practice in four weeks. Usually we do
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Speaker 3: it in five. We would typically start the week before
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Speaker 3: spring break. We decided to push that back because of
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Speaker 3: how late the season ended. So today we wanted to
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Speaker 3: make sure we're getting guys moving around, uh didn't want
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Speaker 3: to get any soft tissue or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: Just to start. We'll take tomorrow and then Wednesday, you know,
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Speaker 2: we'll do again.
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Speaker 3: We'll do more against each other, and then ramp it
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Speaker 3: up again on Friday, and then from there on out.
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Speaker 3: The cadence will be Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, going all
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Speaker 3: the way to Saturday to the spring game, and we're
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Speaker 3: going to assess it and try to do as much
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Speaker 3: as we can that day. Even though we're connor to showcase,
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Speaker 3: We're going to try to do as much as we
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Speaker 3: can during that game based on health and and those
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Speaker 3: type of things. So I think it's important for some
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Speaker 3: of our guys to get on the field and going
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Speaker 3: back to the quarterback situation and want to see what
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Speaker 3: that looks like on the field in front of the
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Speaker 3: great crowd, because you know, our first game is against
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Speaker 3: Texas this year, so we've got to come out of
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Speaker 3: the gates, you know, running.
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Speaker 1: This is the first time that Ryan Day has been
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Speaker 1: in the position of having to defend a national championship,
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Speaker 1: So now they're sort of they've sort of turned the
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Speaker 1: page now from that national championship season, they're sort of
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Speaker 1: resetting things and now starting to sort of get guys,
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Speaker 1: the new guys especially acclimated to what it takes to
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Speaker 1: get there. So it was into all of that.
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Speaker 3: We had a meeting early on with our leadership committee
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Speaker 3: and one of the first things we had as we
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Speaker 3: go through our first presentation of how we want to
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Speaker 3: talk to our team during the Winner program and Mick
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Speaker 3: and I, you know, show the presentation of leadership group
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Speaker 3: and look for feedback, you know, if they agree, if
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Speaker 3: they don't agree, if they want to add things, delete
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Speaker 3: things that we have discussion. And one of the first
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Speaker 3: things was reinforced the culture. And after the end of
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Speaker 3: the meeting, it was we have to rebuild the culture
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Speaker 3: because this team hasn't done anything. There's guys on this
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Speaker 3: team that don't know the culture yet. They were fortunate
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Speaker 3: enough to be with the team during the last two games,
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Speaker 3: which was great to see. And I give a lot
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Speaker 3: of credit to the seniors who last year really embraced
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Speaker 3: them coming to be a part of the program. I've
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Speaker 3: seen it before in years past where there's a little
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Speaker 3: bit of a feeling whether they're not really part of
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Speaker 3: our team. We've put all the work in, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's a little bit of a distraction. Our older guys
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Speaker 3: felt like it was good to allow them to see
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Speaker 3: what the brotherhood's all about, to pass down what it
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Speaker 3: means to be a buck guye and our culture introduce
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Speaker 3: him to that.
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Speaker 2: And so I thought that was great.
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Speaker 3: But the leaders of this group decided that, you know,
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Speaker 3: they want to take some of the stuff down, some
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Speaker 3: of the national championship things down in the facility because
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Speaker 3: they realized, like we didn't want a national championship, last
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Speaker 3: year's team did. And that was a good start because
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Speaker 3: that's the right mentality to have, is that we got
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Speaker 3: to start this thing from scratch and build from there.
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Speaker 1: One of the things we noticed during practice on Monday.
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Speaker 1: It was just day one, but the Blackyves were already
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Speaker 1: sort of shuffling guys back and forth between the boundary
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Speaker 1: and field positions in the safety in the safety spots.
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Speaker 1: So is that something that is just kind of a yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll try something different for the first day of spring practice,
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Speaker 1: or is that something they're really looking at doing again
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Speaker 1: this year. That was a question from our buddy Tony
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Speaker 1: Gerderm until you hear the answer to that, and then a.
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Speaker 3: Quick follow up from Tony as well, I'm going to
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Speaker 3: look at it and see what makes the most sense,
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Speaker 3: you know, the nickel position, the adjuster and the bandit
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Speaker 3: you know, and you know that was sort of you
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Speaker 3: know how we identified it last year with Jordan and
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Speaker 3: Lathan and Caleb. Well, now it's going to be a
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Speaker 3: little bit different, so you know, we want to put
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Speaker 3: those guys in position to be as successful as we
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Speaker 3: possibly can. As you noticed later in the season, Caleb
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Speaker 3: found himself playing a little bit more down where the
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Speaker 3: nickel used used to be, and Jordan was playing a
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Speaker 3: little bit you know, more safety position. So it was
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Speaker 3: good to have some ability to change, you know, the
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Speaker 3: job descriptions and have versatility. And so we'll do the same,
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Speaker 3: but this year, you know, a little bit different, different
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Speaker 3: bodies in there, so you know, we want to have
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Speaker 3: the flexibility to adjust. And then just like on offense,
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Speaker 3: it's the same thing on defense. We want to put
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Speaker 3: our players in a position to be successful. And I
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Speaker 3: thought one of the best things we did in the
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Speaker 3: second half of the season was do that. In particular
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Speaker 3: with Caleb. We put him more towards the action and
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Speaker 3: he had more of an impact on the game. So
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Speaker 3: we need to do that on defense this year based
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Speaker 3: on who we have, and so we're going to look at,
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Speaker 3: you know, feel boundary strong we left right, you know,
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Speaker 3: all the above.
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Speaker 2: Scenario where he's more boundary this year than he was
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Speaker 2: last year. Even I don't know about that.
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Speaker 3: I guess there could be a situation for sure, but
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Speaker 3: as you guys can imagine, we want him involved in
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Speaker 3: as many plays as we can.
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Speaker 2: So we're gonna get him there.
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Speaker 3: And I guess if there's some some boundary stuff, I guess,
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Speaker 3: but to me, you know, he's going to be more
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Speaker 3: involved with some of the other stuff.
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Speaker 2: I would think.
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Speaker 1: There was some interesting new faces out there with the
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Speaker 1: buck Eyes when practice opened on Monday. One of them
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Speaker 1: was Nate Ebner. You may remember him. He was a
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Speaker 1: former walk on or probably a decade or more back,
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Speaker 1: and then he was an NFL player for a while,
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Speaker 1: also a former rugby player. So what does he bring
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Speaker 1: to the staff. You'll hear Ryan Day's answer on that,
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Speaker 1: and then a follow up from Dan Hope of eleven Warriors.
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Speaker 2: Well, he brings credibility.
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Speaker 3: First off, this is a guy who was really self made,
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Speaker 3: as you know, and turned out to have a great
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Speaker 3: career in the NFL and was a big part of
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Speaker 3: special team. So you know, he can have an impact
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Speaker 3: on the safety room, he can have an impact on
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Speaker 3: special teams and somebody that's now trying to make the
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Speaker 3: transition from being a player to coach.
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Speaker 2: So great to have him around.
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Speaker 3: You have as many former Buck guys, guys who play
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Speaker 3: in the ende of knowledge you do here. Just what
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Speaker 3: kind of benefit does that give to this team? I
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Speaker 3: think it it just again builds culture. It you know,
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Speaker 3: guys understand what it means. There's experience, especially guys who
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Speaker 3: have walked in those shoes before, who have you know,
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Speaker 3: gone through the process of playing at Ohio State. This
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Speaker 3: is unlike any other place. So you know, they've won games,
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Speaker 3: they've lost games, they've grown, they you know, they get
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Speaker 3: to tell their story of when they were in those
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Speaker 3: same you know, shoes, and I think it makes a
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Speaker 3: big difference.
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Speaker 2: You know, take a guy.
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Speaker 3: Like like Nate or James or Hart and also their
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Speaker 3: experience of playing in the NFL and making that transition.
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Speaker 2: So there's just a lot of.
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Speaker 3: Credibility when those guys speak, but you always want to
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Speaker 3: have to make sure, you know, you surround yourself with
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Speaker 3: guys that love being buck Eye, that love being around
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Speaker 3: Ohio State, And to me, that's what's really important.
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Speaker 1: There were a lot of benefits to Ohio State's extended
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Speaker 1: playoff run, one of which obviously was, hey, they won
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Speaker 1: the national championship. But another one that's maybe going to
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Speaker 1: pay some dividends in the future and might be paying
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Speaker 1: some dividends now is the fact that a lot of
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Speaker 1: those early enrolling true freshmen, and even some of the
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Speaker 1: guys transferring in from other schools, they get a chance
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Speaker 1: to go through a bunch of practices with Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: get a sense for what it takes to practice at
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Speaker 1: an Ohio State level, what the culture is, all that
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So is Ryan Day seeing any kind
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Speaker 1: of a difference in the true freshman who've gotten that
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Speaker 1: experience already, just the fact that they've already been through practice.
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Speaker 3: We'll probably be able to tell that once we get
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Speaker 3: going on Wednesday and Friday, just on how quickly they're
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Speaker 3: able to get on the field and does it look like,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's the first time they've ever heard some
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Speaker 3: of the calls before, or are do you not notice
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Speaker 3: them early on? It's usually pretty good when you don't
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Speaker 3: notice a young guy.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that.
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Speaker 3: Until we actually get on the field, but I know
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Speaker 3: in terms of the expectation of four to six A
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Speaker 3: to B plus two, the preparation, how we handle ourselves
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Speaker 3: in meetings, I think all of those things were really good.
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Speaker 2: For those guys.
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Speaker 3: To see how that translates right now to practice. You know,
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Speaker 3: the first week of practice in the spring as yet
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Speaker 3: to be seen. They're still young, they're still trying to
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Speaker 3: figure it out. But I know for one for sure,
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Speaker 3: once we get going in August, they're gonna be much
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Speaker 3: further along than most because they did have those couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks and now they're.
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Speaker 2: You know, jumping into it in the spring. Here in
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Speaker 2: at midyear, we.
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Speaker 1: Got to talk about the benefits you get from being
9:33
Speaker 1: a member at bucke huddle dot com. One of them
9:35
Speaker 1: is we have lots of insider information that we don't
9:37
Speaker 1: always share on these shows. A recent example of that,
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Speaker 1: for example, is Tony Gerdaman did a bunch of reporting
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Speaker 1: last week about some changes we were expecting to see
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Speaker 1: during spring practices, and one of them was that Austin
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Speaker 1: Seerveld was going to be working at left tackle. Well,
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Speaker 1: lo and behold, guess what practice hoping on Monday and
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Speaker 1: Austin Siraveld was working at left tackle? So, okay, Ryan day,
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Speaker 1: is that something you're just sort of Ryan out or
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Speaker 1: is that something you're hoping he wins the left tackle job?
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Speaker 1: What's the deal there?
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Speaker 3: Now that we're going to a roster of one oh five,
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Speaker 3: it looks like that's whe we're headed. And then you know,
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Speaker 3: we have to have versatility and you know, guys have
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Speaker 3: to be able to play multiple positions. You saw that
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Speaker 3: happen with Donovan, you saw it happening with Carson this year.
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Speaker 3: You've seen it happen with a lot of our guys,
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Speaker 3: and so we want to be able to teach guys
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Speaker 3: in dual roles this year. I think it's important, and
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Speaker 3: not just on the offensive line. You know, if you're
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Speaker 3: a tight end, you need to be able to play receiver.
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Speaker 3: So maybe you know, a tight end can learn protection
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Speaker 3: and line up in the backfield. A receiver like Brandon
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Speaker 3: Innis can line up in the backfield and take a handoff.
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Speaker 3: You know, you think about Xavier Johnson, you think about
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Speaker 3: the run we've made late in the season, Guys have
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Speaker 3: had to move and play multiple positions.
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Speaker 2: I think you find that sometimes in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: The difference here is that we're not gonna be able
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Speaker 3: to sign people off of waivers.
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Speaker 2: You know at one oh five that that's that's tough.
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Speaker 3: Because when you know, when you look at the NFL,
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Speaker 3: people are going to say, well, you know, they they
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Speaker 3: have a fifty six man roster. But the truth is
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Speaker 3: when they bring guys in and send guys, you know,
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Speaker 3: onto waivers. You know most teams are in the north
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Speaker 3: of one point fifteen one twenty of guys in the
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Speaker 3: building and on the building. Well, if you only have
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Speaker 3: one hundred and five guys to work with, and some
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Speaker 3: of those guys are young freshmen, then you know you
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Speaker 3: have to have versatility in all those positions. So that's
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Speaker 3: an example of a position that we're making sure guys
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Speaker 3: play multiple positions. And we've seen Austin play guard. We
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Speaker 3: want him to play some tackle. We want Luke to
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Speaker 3: play guard, we want him to play some center, want
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Speaker 3: Teger to be able to move around.
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Speaker 2: It'll give us more versatility, especially late in the season.
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Speaker 1: Ohios, date obviously won that national championship just a couple
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Speaker 1: of months ago, but guess what, the expectations around Columbus
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Speaker 1: haven't changed. The general sentiment is, Okay, you won that one.
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Speaker 1: That's great, can you do it again? So now you've
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Speaker 1: got a little bit of a different challenge and you've
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Speaker 1: had in previous years. You also lost a bunch of
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Speaker 1: leaders off of that team. All those seniors who graduated,
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Speaker 1: they are all gone. Now you get to develop some
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Speaker 1: new leaders. So with the expectations being the same, new
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Speaker 1: leaders needed, how do you teach those guys? Do you
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Speaker 1: teach those guys to be leaders? Are you planning I'm
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Speaker 1: reading a book something like that. This is a question
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Speaker 1: from Rob Aller from the Columbus Dispatch and Ryan Day's answer.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day seems a little bit surprised by that suggestion,
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Speaker 1: but you'll you'll hear why.
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Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, we are going to do that with the guys.
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Speaker 3: Don't know that yet, so I'm not going to get
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Speaker 3: into it. But I do actually have a book that
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Speaker 3: I've picked out that I think is good, and I'm
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Speaker 3: not gonna until I hand to the guys. I won't
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Speaker 3: say it, but it'll be probably over the next couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks. It's funny you say that because we haven't
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Speaker 3: really done that before. But I think it's important and
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Speaker 3: I think it's a good, good project for our guys.
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Speaker 3: But you know, the guys have to step up, and
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Speaker 3: I think that's one of the things that I know
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Speaker 3: you've heard me talk about it a lot, But what
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Speaker 3: we do in our off season and what Nick does
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Speaker 3: in the weight room, it's our backbone because he's constantly
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Speaker 3: placing guys in situations to be leaders. And in order
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Speaker 3: to be a leader, it's one thing to do your job.
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Speaker 3: We have to bring people with you. And how do
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Speaker 3: you bring people with you? You build trust and then you
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Speaker 3: inspire and motivate them to to bring with you. But
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Speaker 3: your voice has to be heard. And so where do
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Speaker 3: you do that. You know, you gotta get on the field.
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Speaker 3: You got to you know, coach mix got to do
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Speaker 3: in the weight room where you know, you get up
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Speaker 3: in front of all these men and you speak and
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Speaker 3: you motivate them. And the first few times it's a
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Speaker 3: little clunky, you know, just like being a coach. You know,
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Speaker 3: you get in front of a group of people, but
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Speaker 3: the more you do it the more you have courage
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Speaker 3: to get up in front of your teammates and your
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Speaker 3: peers and drive them, then that's what leadership's about. And
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Speaker 3: so we know how important leadership is, and these guys
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Speaker 3: have embraced that. They they saw it, and I think
13:29
Speaker 3: that's you know, whether it's the quarterbacks or you know,
13:33
Speaker 3: you know, on defense, there's just there were so many
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Speaker 3: great examples last year of what really good leadership is,
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Speaker 3: so they know what it looks like. Now some of
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Speaker 3: these guys have to step out of their comfort zone
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Speaker 3: and take on that new role. And the day of
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Speaker 3: the celebration here on that Sunday, we had our last
13:48
Speaker 3: team meeting, which is something we typically don't get a
13:51
Speaker 3: chance to do. And we had our champions meeting, which
13:53
Speaker 3: is something again in the last game you typically don't
13:55
Speaker 3: have a chance to do. So we celebrated the champions
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Speaker 3: and then everybody who sits in here, as you guys
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Speaker 3: know that the young guys are down here, I mean
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Speaker 3: the older guys are down here, younger guys are in
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Speaker 3: the back. I had all the guys who were leaving
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Speaker 3: next year stand up here and everybody had to move
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Speaker 3: down into a different seat, and it was a little
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Speaker 3: bit of a kind of like a ceremony, like you're
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Speaker 3: now going from being a junior to being a senior
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Speaker 3: that we're counting on to be a leader. You're now
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Speaker 3: going from being a freshman to a guy who has
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Speaker 3: to step up as a sophomore and get on the field,
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Speaker 3: or now your role has physically changed in the room
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Speaker 3: by moving down in the team room. And I thought
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Speaker 3: that was important and I shared with them this was
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Speaker 3: the standard. This is what it's supposed to look like.
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Speaker 3: These guys right here, what they went through along their career,
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Speaker 3: how many of them stuck with the program and showed leadership.
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Speaker 3: And you know when do you show leadership and defining
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Speaker 3: moments when it's the hardest. So those are all the
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Speaker 3: conversations that had up to this point, and we got
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Speaker 3: to go do it with this new group. We're trying
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Speaker 3: not to talk about last year's group, but it is
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Speaker 3: good to have that example moving forward. What's supposed to
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Speaker 3: look like.
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Speaker 1: Well, year after year, there is an Ohio State quarterback battle,
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Speaker 1: and always that battle seems to go into the fall.
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Speaker 1: It just no matter what, it doesn't matter if it's
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Speaker 1: justin fields against a whole bunch of people who are
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Speaker 1: very much not justin field. That quarterback battle always seems
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Speaker 1: to drag on into fall camp before they officially announced
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Speaker 1: the starter.
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Speaker 2: Is that something that just.
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Speaker 1: Has to happen every year as a matter of process,
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Speaker 1: or is that something that might be able to be settled.
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Speaker 2: In the spring.
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Speaker 1: You'll hear the answer to that, and then a follow
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Speaker 1: up from Stephen Means of Cleveland dot Com.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 3: I can't tell you that I've I've felt that since
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Speaker 3: I've been here. I think there's been leaders in the clubhouse,
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Speaker 3: you know, and we've told We've told guys that, like
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Speaker 3: you know, when when it was between Dwayne and Joe,
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Speaker 3: it was close, but Dwayne did have the upper hand
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Speaker 3: and we let.
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Speaker 2: Both of those guys know that. I think we're pretty
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Speaker 2: transparent when it comes to it.
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Speaker 3: But there's also, you know, a lot of football that
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Speaker 3: we played in August, and so you know, I think
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Speaker 3: back on where guys are at in the spring and
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Speaker 3: then where they come and even think about where Will
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Speaker 3: was at this time last year and where he got
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Speaker 3: to by the end of the season, or even where
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Speaker 3: he got to by August.
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Speaker 2: That was a huge jump.
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Speaker 3: So we try not to make like, you know, hasty decisions.
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Speaker 3: We try to make sure we're thorough. But if somebody
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Speaker 3: is that much further ahead, then someone's that much further ahead.
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Speaker 4: What is the difference between I, like you said, you've
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Speaker 4: had leaders in the clubhouse before, but not to the
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Speaker 4: point that they got to finish line. What is that
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Speaker 4: difference that you see from the guy being the leader
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Speaker 4: at the end of spring quote unquote versus you stamp
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Speaker 4: them without approval and fault camp.
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Speaker 2: What is that job they usually happens?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think in spring you have fifteen practices and
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Speaker 3: a good portion of the fifteen practices are guys learning
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Speaker 3: and growing and a number one job for each individual
16:37
Speaker 3: players to get better individually.
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Speaker 2: And then we start to come together as a team.
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Speaker 3: And so we will have some some team opportunities in
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Speaker 3: the spring, but a lot of it is, you know,
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Speaker 3: individually getting better. It's seven on seven, it's teamwork. It's
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Speaker 3: you know, more segmented. Teamwork is you know, usually a
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Speaker 3: blitz period a second along a.
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Speaker 2: Third down or red zone, things like that, and we're
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Speaker 2: learning and we're teaching. Once we get into the summer,
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Speaker 2: it's a little bit more moved, it's a little bit
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Speaker 2: more situational, you start to feel a little bit more
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Speaker 2: of what it's going to look like in the game.
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Speaker 2: You still don't know what an impacts someone's going to
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Speaker 2: have with their feet as a quarterback.
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Speaker 3: It's the same thing at running back. It's hard to judge,
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Speaker 3: especially coming out of the spring. So I just think
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Speaker 3: the first off, there's more practices in the preseason, and secondly,
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Speaker 3: it's a little bit more game like and you're further along.
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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk already this spring about
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Speaker 1: what the coaching staff wants to see out of the
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and decision making, leadership and all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: What about their mentality is what's the mentality they're looking
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Speaker 1: for out of the quarterbacks to spring. Do they want
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Speaker 1: the guys who are just coming out there and saying
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Speaker 1: I'm going to win this job or is there something
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Speaker 1: else they're looking for there.
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Speaker 3: It's easy for people on the outside, you know, family members, friends, agents,
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Speaker 3: things like that.
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Speaker 2: Mentors go win the job.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's so much that comes to winning the job,
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Speaker 3: and as you guys know the quarterback position, it's just
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Speaker 3: so much that goes with it. So to me, it's
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Speaker 3: the process of understanding how to get better and then
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Speaker 3: continually working and when you make a mistake, you learn
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Speaker 3: from that mistake and you grow quickly.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of it has to do with their preparation.
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Speaker 3: You know, when a guy walks into the huddle or
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Speaker 3: walks into that practice, you can tell if he's prepared
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Speaker 3: or not. I mean, if he's up there. And I
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Speaker 3: say it all the time. The first level of understanding
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Speaker 3: is what if you don't know what to do, you
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Speaker 3: have no chance of being quarterback at AIO State. So
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Speaker 3: all that work has to be done prior to then
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Speaker 3: you got to learn how to do it, your footwork,
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Speaker 3: how the ball is supposed to come out, your technique,
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Speaker 3: and then why are we doing it? Why are we
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Speaker 3: calling this play? Why are we calling for verticals? Why
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Speaker 3: are we calling that crossing route? Like all those things,
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Speaker 3: and then you got to go put it on the field,
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Speaker 3: and you're still going to make mistakes and you've got
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Speaker 3: to keep growing from it.
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Speaker 2: So it's just it's.
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Speaker 3: Just understanding that the process is going to be a battle.
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Speaker 3: But like you have to make sure when you walk
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Speaker 3: in that building every day that year prepared, you also
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Speaker 3: have to throw it out there and make sure that
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Speaker 3: you know you understand you're going to fail, but that
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Speaker 3: you have to learn quickly. And if you're continually making
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Speaker 3: the same mistakes over and over again, it's going to
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Speaker 3: take longer to get to where you want to be
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Speaker 3: and win the job. And then as we start getting
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Speaker 3: closer to like we talk about the preseason where I
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Speaker 3: got to take care to football, I got to do
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Speaker 3: really well and third down, I got to win in
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Speaker 3: the red zone. And then everybody's different. Every quarterback is different.
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Speaker 3: You know, Will was a lot.
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Speaker 2: Different than CJ. CJ was a lot different than Dwayne.
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Speaker 3: Dwayne was different than Justin Like, everyone's different, and so
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Speaker 3: these quarterbacks are different as well, different size, different makeup,
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Speaker 3: different skill sets. So the number one job though for
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Speaker 3: the quarterback is be the hardest working guy.
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Speaker 2: In the building.
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Speaker 3: There shouldn't be any question, Like, if someone says who's
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Speaker 3: the hardest working guy, it should be the quarterback. If
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Speaker 3: it's somebody else, like, that's a problem because they should
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Speaker 3: be the first one in the building and the last
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Speaker 3: one to leave. And then they have to be tough.
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Speaker 3: If it's fourth and two against Texas, like we got
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Speaker 3: to find a way to.
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Speaker 2: Get three yards.
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Speaker 3: That's the bottom line, and those guys understand that they
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Speaker 3: know it, make reinforces it in the weight room daily.
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Speaker 3: But those are some of the things that we talk
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Speaker 3: about at quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Finally, four Part one, get a little bit of an
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Speaker 1: evaluation of those quarterbacks following the first day of spring ball.
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Speaker 1: This was you know, this is one of those questions
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Speaker 1: that you sort of you hear and it's kind of like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna give to kind of vague answer. Now, this
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Speaker 1: was a great answer from Ryan Day. What a little
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Speaker 1: personality here from him as he sort of discusses, discusses
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Speaker 1: the answer that question.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, my first I'm never happy coming out
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Speaker 2: of the first day. So and it's funny. I actually
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Speaker 2: had a chance to go and visit.
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Speaker 3: Some different schools with my son, and I didn't watch
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Speaker 3: any practices. I just kind of took myself out of
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Speaker 3: those situations and let my son do it. But after
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Speaker 3: talking to the coaches, like after day two or day three,
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Speaker 3: I'm like, you sure you feel.
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Speaker 2: Like you're not going to win a game? Right?
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Speaker 3: Is that typically how it goes the first two or
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Speaker 3: three days of practice? Like thank god he told me that,
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Speaker 3: because I just literally walked off the field.
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Speaker 2: Thinking we will not win a game all season.
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Speaker 3: So the first few games, the first few days of
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Speaker 3: spring practice are always brutal when it comes to that,
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Speaker 3: especially with the quarterbacks because that's what I'm always watching.
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Speaker 2: But it wasn't that bad. It was good.
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Speaker 3: It was mostly on air today, we just wanted to
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Speaker 3: get guys moving. We didn't do a lot of what
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Speaker 3: we call variable work where we're going against somebody else.
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Speaker 3: It was mostly just, you know, kind of get moving,
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Speaker 3: just teach you young guys how to go, and then
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Speaker 3: we'll get going on Wednesday on decision making. But they're
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Speaker 3: all talented, the ball comes out of their hand. Well,
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Speaker 3: they're all good athletes, so lot to be determined.
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Speaker 1: Well, that is just the beginning of what is going
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Speaker 1: to be a very very busy month of coverage from
21:26
Speaker 1: US as we cover Ohio State spring ball twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five as the Buck guys started the process of defending
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Speaker 1: their national championship. We're gonna have much more on tomorrow's show,
21:36
Speaker 1: also with the Hear and letting you hear from Ryan
21:38
Speaker 1: Day all sorts of questions about threw freshman like Devin Sanchez,
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Speaker 1: just sort of the transition at running back and what
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Speaker 1: that's going to be looking like the addition of portal
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Speaker 1: tackle Ethan Oneonwa and much much more Matt Patricia than
21:53
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator. Yeah, it turns out there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of interesting storylines this spring, and we're gonna be talking
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