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Ohio State Spring Game Recap: What's The Biggest Concern For The Buckeyes? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Ohio State Spring Game, joined by Kevin noonofuckehaddle dot com
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Speaker 1: and Kevin There was more offense than I was expecting
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Speaker 1: in this game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Generally a lot of these games are defensive slogs
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Speaker 2: because the offense doesn't quite have it together. We saw
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Speaker 2: a little bit more out of the offense, and I
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Speaker 2: don't think that was completely unexpected. But we weren't really
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Speaker 2: sure what to expect out of the quarterbacks because in
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Speaker 2: the limited practice practices that we've seen it, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's been there, but it hasn't quite been there. So
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Speaker 2: it was really good to see them to get out
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Speaker 2: there be able to throw full eleven on eleven and
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Speaker 2: you know, I think all three quarterbacks had their high points.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And I do feel like we need
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Speaker 1: to sort of set the table for this conversation by saying,
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State defense ran like two coverages all day,
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Speaker 1: so this was not you know, this is not oh boy,
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Speaker 1: these quarterbacks are dissecting this incredible. Let's just sort of
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Speaker 1: set the table with that. So now we have that,
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Speaker 1: you know that, we push that off the side and
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Speaker 1: we can talk a little bit about the quarterback play
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Speaker 1: because we've been inside. This is the fifth practice we've
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Speaker 1: seen this spring. We've seen five out of the fifteen practices.
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Speaker 1: This is by far the best we've seen the quarterbacks. Look,
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Speaker 1: I think, at least in my mind, the first three
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Speaker 1: drives that Julian Sayin was on the field, they scored
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Speaker 1: touchdowns and you're thinking, oh boy, you know, here we
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Speaker 1: go they you know, have they found their guy? And
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Speaker 1: then he played someone in the second half, but not
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Speaker 1: a ton. Lincoln Keenhols had a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: slow start, came back led a couple of touchdown drives. Later.
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Speaker 1: The unofficial stats keen Holts twelve for eighteen for one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight yards a couple of touchdowns, say
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Speaker 1: Julian Saying seventeen for twenty four fo one hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy five yards in a touchdown. Both of those guys
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Speaker 1: looked like you could. You looked at them and you went, yeah,
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Speaker 1: these are both guys who could lead to Ohio State
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Speaker 1: to potentially a college football playoff run this fall.
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Speaker 2: And in the last little drips and drabs of practice
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Speaker 2: that we've been able to see prior to this, Lincoln
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Speaker 2: Keenholts probably looked like he was a little bit ahead.
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Speaker 2: And just those instances and now for saying to get
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Speaker 2: the quick start for Keenolts to kind of bounce back.
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Speaker 2: I mean, even even Tavian Saint Clair in the second half,
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Speaker 2: especially in the fourth quarter, had a lot more opportunity
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Speaker 2: to even out his numbers. I think that that's important.
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Speaker 2: I think that quarterback is one of two concerns that
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Speaker 2: a lot of fans have. I'm not saying that you
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Speaker 2: should just go out and start buying your trip plans
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Speaker 2: yet for the championship game yet, but I think that
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Speaker 2: at quarterback some questions were answered. Now, what does that
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Speaker 2: look like against Tech, say in one hundred and however
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Speaker 2: many days we'll see. But you know, I think that
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Speaker 2: Ohio State certainly has a couple of quarterbacks that could
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Speaker 2: help them get to a championship.
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Speaker 1: Run one and thirty nine days to be precise, it is.
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Speaker 1: It's not a guarantee that they're winning a national championship
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Speaker 1: this year by any means, and it's not a guarantee
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Speaker 1: that they get to the College Football Playoff this year,
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Speaker 1: but this is those were certainly I think Ryan Day's
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Speaker 1: probably breathing a little bit of a sigh of relief
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Speaker 1: that that's what it looked like, because yeah, you're going
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Speaker 1: up against very very very very vanilla based defense and
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Speaker 1: you kind of know, okay, you're there's you know, you're
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Speaker 1: not going to get blindsided by you know, hey, oh
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Speaker 1: look now there's unblitzing and now now I've got to
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Speaker 1: worry about these guys underneath or whatever. But that was
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Speaker 1: you know, you're not going up against air either, because
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Speaker 1: there are talented corners out there, they're talented defensive ends rushing,
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Speaker 1: there's talented defensive tackles in the middle of the A
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Speaker 1: one line with the ones, we'll get there in a minute.
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Speaker 1: But this, this is, this is what it should have
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Speaker 1: looked like with a promising Ohio State offense against a
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Speaker 1: based defense. It doesn't It doesn't mean the problems are
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Speaker 1: solved and everything is great and hooray forever. But it
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Speaker 1: also doesn't mean nothing like this is. This is something
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Speaker 1: where I have takeaways from this. It's not probably as
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Speaker 1: much as people were probably thinking, you know, wu who
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Speaker 1: uh this is? This is C. J. Stroud and Will
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Speaker 1: Howard and uh, you know Cardi al Jones all put
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Speaker 1: together in the form of of of Julian saying, which
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Speaker 1: you know after the first couple of drives. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: people were thinking that. But this to me means something.
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Speaker 1: And you know that's not bad for this point of
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Speaker 1: the year.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you want to come out of this and
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Speaker 2: you want to know everything, and that's not possible. But
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Speaker 2: it's better that you've come out of this and you
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Speaker 2: don't know anything. I mean, you know, I think you
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Speaker 2: know some things. I think you know some of the
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Speaker 2: pieces you have. I mean, obviously the wide receivers make
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Speaker 2: a hell of a lot of a difference. I think
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Speaker 2: Ohio State's gonna have a really good offensive line again
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Speaker 2: to Tom's point, they were going against some very vanilla
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Speaker 2: type of defenses. Ryan Day did mention in his post
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Speaker 2: spring game presser that they have done some install but
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Speaker 2: they didn't run any of that install today. It was
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Speaker 2: I was sitting next to Mike Pettitt, one of our
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Speaker 2: analysts here at Buckeye huddle for the spring game. He's like, Oh,
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Speaker 2: it was just you know, it's all like cover three,
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Speaker 2: cover one type of stuff. I mean, we did eventually
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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter see like a defensive line stunt
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Speaker 2: where Taiwan Malone got a ended up with a sack
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Speaker 2: because of it. But I mean it was it was
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Speaker 2: very basic. But when you're still going against guys like
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Speaker 2: even some of the young guys, even like a Devin Sanchez,
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Speaker 2: but you know, going you know, moving up with the
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Speaker 2: depth char a little bit more, Aaron Scott, guys like that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this you're not you know, this is not throwing,
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Speaker 2: this is not routes on air. So you're having to
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Speaker 2: you know, you're having to make plays.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, moving to the running game.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: The probably the big star of the game to me
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Speaker 1: was Bo Jackson, who's a guy we've been talking about
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Speaker 1: a bunch of this spring, true freshman working his way
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Speaker 1: up the depth chart. James Peoples, who is going to
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Speaker 1: be the starter? You know how I know he's going
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Speaker 1: to be the starter because he had two carries for
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Speaker 1: six yards in the spring game. That's how I know
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Speaker 1: he's going to be the starter. CJ. Donaldson, the number
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Speaker 1: two guy. Four carries for thirty five yards in a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: He was very impressive early. We'll see what you know.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to the defensive line in a minute, because
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Speaker 1: there's some question in my mind. You know, yes, CJ.
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Speaker 1: Donaldson has been has looked good this spring, but does
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Speaker 1: this say more about the offense and the defense. We'll
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Speaker 1: get there. But Bo Jackson man thirteen carries, eighty eight
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Speaker 1: yards a touchdown. He just feels like someone who's going
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Speaker 1: to force his way on the field at some point
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Speaker 1: this fall.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's right there for the number three back.
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Speaker 2: Of course, they're going to be people that'll be rallying
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Speaker 2: for TC caffe based on what TC Caffey was able
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Speaker 2: to do in some you know, some late late game
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Speaker 2: situations prior to some significant injuries. You know, I think
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Speaker 2: that Bo Jackson will probably reel him in and be
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Speaker 2: right there behind and People's and Donaldson. Now, the question
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Speaker 2: is how much do you run a third running back
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Speaker 2: when you've got guys like People's and Donaldson. I mean,
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Speaker 2: obviously Ohio State didn't have to do that a ton
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Speaker 2: last year when you had Henderson and Judkins. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I think we'll probably see a little bit more because
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Speaker 2: here's the thing. You got to make sure that you're
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Speaker 2: using you're utilizing the players that you have. I mean,
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Speaker 2: because if you don't play them, they'll find somewhere to
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Speaker 2: go play. And you know, I would hate to see
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Speaker 2: bo Jackson get away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the way Carlos Lachlan talked about bo Jackson even
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Speaker 1: before spring ball, I don't think Carlos Laughlin is going
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Speaker 1: to let bo Jackson get away. He's he is very
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Speaker 1: very high on him, and I think you're gonna I
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Speaker 1: think you're going to see plenty of him on the
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Speaker 1: field this fall. Now onto the wide receivers, and boy
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Speaker 1: if bo Jackson is the young guy who sure looks
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Speaker 1: promising at running back, there were a couple of guys
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Speaker 1: at wide receiver. We talked about Quincy Porter. Quincy Porter,
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Speaker 1: true freshman four catches fifty yards in this game. We've
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Speaker 1: been talking about him a bunch of spring. The other
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Speaker 1: guy that's really moved the needle for me this spring
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Speaker 1: is mil And Graham because he came into the you know,
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Speaker 1: really had a quiet season last year and there's you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a there's a why behind that, and there's a
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Speaker 1: reason behind that. But he had a quiet fall last
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Speaker 1: year after coming in as the sort of five star,
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Speaker 1: oh boy, next big thing boy. Over the last fifteen practices,
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Speaker 1: he's really sort of started to make his mark. Four catches,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and four yards and a touchdown in the
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Speaker 1: spring game.
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Speaker 2: He's going to be real hard to keep off the
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Speaker 2: field this fall. I mean, you talked about the why,
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Speaker 2: and here's the why. He was a summer enrollly, so
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Speaker 2: he did not have spring ball. I mean, a lot
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Speaker 2: of people with him being in the same class with
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith, you know, they're both five stars. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith is just kind of Jeremiah Smith, and you're
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Speaker 2: going to have a little bit of a different process.
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Speaker 2: So that's something that Ryan Day Brian Hartline had been
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Speaker 2: talking about that it's been very importantly for Milin to
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Speaker 2: get this concentrated time and it really showed in this game,
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Speaker 2: and I think there's a question of how do you
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Speaker 2: get him on the field. I mean, is he inside outside?
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Speaker 2: He doesn't really strike you as somebody who may be
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Speaker 2: a slot guy, but he's plenty fast, and they cross
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Speaker 2: train guys so much so I think that we could
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Speaker 2: see him play both inside and outside. But the only
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Speaker 2: thing I'm pretty sure about is that we will see
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Speaker 2: him in higher leverage situations because he's just that good, yeah,
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Speaker 2: very very talented player, and you're not going to keep
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Speaker 2: him off the field. I mean, one of the things
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Speaker 2: that could keep some wide receiver off the field is
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Speaker 2: the tight end room, which is incredibly deep and talented.
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Speaker 2: Max Clayer, the transfer from Purdue, had two catches twenty
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Speaker 2: eight yards, but one of them was a really nice touchdown,
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Speaker 2: and I think there's a lot to be excited about there.
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Speaker 2: Will Kasmerk the tight end, the guy who was the
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Speaker 2: returning starter or close to starter at tight end. He
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Speaker 2: has an ankle or a foot thing. He was in
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Speaker 2: a boot on a scooter.
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Speaker 1: We saw that on Friday and mentioned that and then
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Speaker 1: obviously again and today Ryan Day said that is not
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Speaker 1: something that's going to drag on. He'll be back in
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Speaker 1: the summer, So that's that's positive news. But Nate Roberts,
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Speaker 1: true freshman four catches forty one yards. I'm not expecting
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Speaker 1: Nate Roberts to do a whole lot this year just
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Speaker 1: because that is such a deep room. But again, this
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Speaker 1: is just you're sort of seeing the future of Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: just you know, the fact that you're looking at someone
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Speaker 1: who had the day that he had and you're probably
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Speaker 1: you have so many guys ahead of him. Potentially, boy
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Speaker 1: Keenan Baileys loaded that room pretty well. A name you
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Speaker 1: didn't mention, Maxwell Block, I mean, he had a big
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Speaker 1: day as well, and now he's somebody that signed with
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Speaker 1: Ohio State and I don't anybody ever mentioned his name again,
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Speaker 1: because it's just one of these things that you have
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Speaker 1: to kind of work your way up. And they've had
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Speaker 1: some turnover in the tight end row in terms of graduation.
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Speaker 1: You know, they lost some guys, Sam Hard. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know you had.
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Speaker 2: To kind of I think they're really trying to get
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Speaker 2: the room to where they wanted. And now I mean
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Speaker 2: it's just player api player after player. I mean I
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Speaker 2: think that this probably and then I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: call it the year of the tight end, but this
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Speaker 2: is probably the deepest tight end room that they'd had,
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Speaker 2: I mean beyond one too. I mean, obviously I can
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Speaker 2: talk about Nick Vanett and Jeff Hireman together.
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Speaker 1: I mean that both of those guys ended up playing
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Speaker 1: in the league.
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Speaker 2: But I think when you look thing one to five
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Speaker 2: or whatever, I don't remember a tight end room like this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean twenty twenty they had a pretty good
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Speaker 1: tight end room that was Jeremy Roker and Luke Ferrell,
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Speaker 1: But then those guys had what three touchdowns against Clemson
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Speaker 1: and the Sugar Bowl. But yeah, you're right, the depth
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Speaker 1: there was not the same that that is a real
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Speaker 1: testament to Keenan Bailey and the job he's done. Offensive line.
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Speaker 1: We've talked a little bit about that, and it feels
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Speaker 1: like it's hard to say much too specific just because
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Speaker 1: of the nature of the game and they're shuffling guys out.
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Speaker 1: But I come out of the spring with offensive line,
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Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what the lineup's going to be,
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Speaker 1: but I think that's kind of probably not a concern. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't think that that's something.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think the biggest concern is trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out how to stack it the right way. I mean,
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Speaker 2: some of the guys that are swing guys that are
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Speaker 2: playing a couple positions where their focus should be. Uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, Ryan Day was talking about having four tackles.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, again we were, you know, rewind
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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty some odd days ago. An offensive
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Speaker 2: line was a major concern, and I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: all the way up to like the Organ game last year,
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Speaker 2: before Josh Simmons got pert, which was the first major
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Speaker 2: change they had to deal with. Now, I think Ohio
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Speaker 2: State's offensive line was just fine. And you know, now
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Speaker 2: we're sitting there and we're months ahead of the season
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Speaker 2: and it's like, oh yeah, I don't think the O
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Speaker 2: line is really going to be an issue. So you know, continue,
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Speaker 2: you know, continue building the depth and just kind of
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Speaker 2: try and figure out what the right you know, what
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Speaker 2: the right set up to two tackles, two guards and
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Speaker 2: the senate are One thing that I think is safe
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Speaker 2: to say is a concern, and Ryan Day is pretty
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Speaker 2: open about the fact that it's a concern. Is the
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Speaker 2: depth on the defensive line, especially the interior of the
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Speaker 2: defensive line. The starters, I think they're feeling pretty good about.
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Speaker 2: He talked very positively.
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Speaker 1: About Logan George in terms of sort of the second
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Speaker 1: string guys on the outside. So you know, on the
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Speaker 1: edge you're probably feeling okay about. But boy, as soon
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Speaker 1: as you got Edward Houston and Caden McDonald off the
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Speaker 1: field in the middle of that defensive line, all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, c J. Donaldson was just boom boom ball.
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Speaker 1: I mean, right down the field running the ball between
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Speaker 1: the tackles and there was not a lot of resistance.
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Speaker 1: That's something we've talked about all spring is an issue.
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Speaker 1: It sure sounds like the portal may be open for
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Speaker 1: business for Ohio State at the defensive tackle spot in
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Speaker 1: terms of they may need to bring in a guy
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Speaker 1: who are two there to sort of shore things up
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Speaker 1: before Texas comes to town. I mean, I think you.
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Speaker 2: Certainly looking, no doubt in my mind, and if the
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Speaker 2: right players are there, then then you you know, seats
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Speaker 2: a salt hopefully you land them. And you know, I
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Speaker 2: think Ohio State in a lot of ways has you
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Speaker 2: lose a lot of the detackle depth that they've had
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Speaker 2: over the last couple of years. You lose, you know,
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Speaker 2: coming off of this past year. Ty Hamilton and Tyler Williams.
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Speaker 2: I mean it you lose hero Canoe is a depth piece,
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Speaker 2: you know, as he transfers to Texas and suddenly they're
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Speaker 2: thin and you've got some guys that were probably ends
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Speaker 2: in high speed who are now sliding inside. I mean
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Speaker 2: Jason Moore is one and and oh, well, you know
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Speaker 2: you should be able to pick up the position. I
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Speaker 2: mean it's it's adjacent to the position you play.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot more to it.
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Speaker 2: I meaning, you know, you're you're play in a lot
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Speaker 2: less space and your role is different and I you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to sit there and try to be
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Speaker 2: you know, the x's.
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Speaker 1: And o's guy. That's not you know, that's not my
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Speaker 1: role here.
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Speaker 2: But it's it's not as easy to just plug and
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Speaker 2: play and say and go.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so the pantle's going to be important.
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Speaker 2: But the problem is they're going to be one hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty three other programs out there looking for d
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Speaker 2: tackles because that's just not a position that that you
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Speaker 2: you look at each recruiting in the side, well there's
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Speaker 2: seventy five eighty four and five star guys are just
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Speaker 2: not yeah, yeah, there are not That is not something
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Speaker 2: that is a naturally occurring thing in nature.
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Speaker 1: The guy who's three hundred and twenty pounds who can
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Speaker 1: also run a four nine or five oh forty. That
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Speaker 1: is that is not a not something you stumble across
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Speaker 1: very often, which is why they are very much in
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Speaker 1: demand and why they make such a big difference when
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Speaker 1: you can when you have a few of them. One
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Speaker 1: of the reasons we talked about boy Ty Hamilton is
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Speaker 1: probably really underappreciated piece of this team for multiple years
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Speaker 1: because he just sort of quietly went about and did
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Speaker 1: his job, and so was big brother Devon. Yeah, yep, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is a the Hamilton family. I think they may
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Speaker 1: I think they may be out of Hamilton defensive tackles
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Speaker 1: in Pickerington. But I'll ask yeah, you mikel ask a
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Speaker 1: pizza cottage. Yeah check check the next time you're at
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Speaker 1: the HOA meeting. Yeah it is. It is definitely a
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Speaker 1: concern for Ohio State. There linebackers seem fine. That feels
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Speaker 1: like you've got Garrett Stover was in a boot earlier
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Speaker 1: in the spring. He did not have a boot on,
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Speaker 1: so you know, that's that's good in terms of probably
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Speaker 1: the fourth linebacker there. But c J. Hicks and r
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Speaker 1: vel Reice and Peyton Pierce feel like you're they're probably
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Speaker 1: in pretty good shape their corners. I want to jump
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Speaker 1: in you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the kids Riley petted John and oh mtj offered
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Speaker 2: both looked really good. I mean they're they're big, they
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Speaker 2: they look the role. They don't know what they don't
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Speaker 2: know yet. I mean they made some place. But the
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Speaker 2: future at linebacker is really going to be strong for
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Speaker 2: iiO State. And I just didn't want us to get
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Speaker 2: through the position group without mentioning him because they both,
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Speaker 2: you know, they both looked good today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And those are those are two guys
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Speaker 1: that I think we did a black stripe draft on
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Speaker 1: our board and those were two names that were, you know,
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Speaker 1: who are going to be the first five guys that
16:49
Speaker 1: lose their black stripe. Those are two guys that were
16:51
Speaker 1: on a lot of people's lists, and I think those
16:54
Speaker 1: people are probably feeling reasonably good that, you know, if
16:56
Speaker 1: it had if it hasn't happened, now, that's fine. It
16:59
Speaker 1: They have been very early in fall camp. So now
17:02
Speaker 1: on to the secondary secondary. It's strange to say for
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Speaker 1: a game where the quarterbacks went forty for fifty seven
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Speaker 1: for four hundred and forty nine yards and four touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: I think the top level corners look continue to look good.
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Speaker 1: Davis Nake, Banosen and Matthews. The next level, you know,
17:23
Speaker 1: the next level of guys, Devin Sanchez, Aaron Scott. You
17:27
Speaker 1: saw some positive things from both of those guys as well.
17:29
Speaker 2: I saw Frick forget Bryce West did not address today,
17:33
Speaker 2: So you know, people looking for Bryce West's name.
17:36
Speaker 1: There's a reason we're not talking about them. We did
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Speaker 1: not see them today.
17:39
Speaker 2: But no, I do think you're talking corner but even
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Speaker 2: safety for him, Delaye had a big interception, So we
17:46
Speaker 2: saw youth being served out there to a certain extent.
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Speaker 1: But you know, with O. G. Walt and with Maddy g.
17:54
Speaker 2: That's just the easiest way to save evening quickly. O.
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Speaker 2: G Walt Matty g have done a tremendous job of
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Speaker 2: loading up Ohio State's secondary on the recruiting trail. But
18:03
Speaker 2: you know they still, you know, certainly have igb and
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Speaker 2: and Caleb Downs and these guys that are there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Lawrence chelas Jina looked really out of out
18:13
Speaker 1: there today too. Yeah, he had a really really good day.
18:16
Speaker 1: Tony and I talked about him a bunch on the
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Speaker 1: postgame show he has. He feels like nickel spot is
18:23
Speaker 1: not really a concern to me at this point. It
18:25
Speaker 1: feels like he's he's done a pretty good job there.
18:28
Speaker 1: What we've seen from Bryce West to spring. Obviously not
18:31
Speaker 1: during the spring game, but we've seen from Brice West
18:33
Speaker 1: the spring feels like should be should be fine. There
18:37
Speaker 1: one more spot we got to talk about, and that's
18:39
Speaker 1: special teams. And I'm just going to read Jaden Fielding's numbers.
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Speaker 1: Thirty four yardfield goal good, forty three yard field goal good,
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Speaker 1: forty three yard field goal good, five for five an
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Speaker 1: extra points. We have seen him. We saw him at
18:53
Speaker 1: practice on Friday, Tony and I were there. Didn't miss
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Speaker 1: a kick on Friday, didn't miss a kick on Saturday.
18:59
Speaker 1: He talked to us earlier in the week, said he
19:01
Speaker 1: was banged up. Seems like last in the middle of
19:04
Speaker 1: last season when you sort of saw in the cave,
19:06
Speaker 1: why are these kickoffs going out of bounds? Hey? Why
19:08
Speaker 1: is he missing these field goals? Feels like that, you know,
19:12
Speaker 1: this is what it would look like if that was
19:13
Speaker 1: just a minor injury thing. Any other notes concerns, I mean,
19:19
Speaker 1: other than defensive interior, defensive line depth. What's the biggest
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Speaker 1: concern for this team right now going into the summer.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think that the biggest concern would be
19:32
Speaker 2: and I don't and I'm not concerned about it, but
19:34
Speaker 2: it would be complacency, you know, getting you know, getting
19:37
Speaker 2: fat on the on the on all of the compliments
19:40
Speaker 2: and all the all the success, and when you sit
19:43
Speaker 2: there and you hear about the team wanting to take
19:45
Speaker 2: down some of the national championship, you know, garb from
19:48
Speaker 2: around the Woody, it doesn't sound.
19:50
Speaker 1: Like they're buying into all of that stuff.
19:52
Speaker 2: I mean, it used to always be that the biggest
19:55
Speaker 2: concern coming out of a spring ball is, oh boy,
19:59
Speaker 2: we're going to get into East Blotterer season. What are
20:01
Speaker 2: they going to do when they go home and they
20:02
Speaker 2: get to run around? But everybody stays around the program
20:05
Speaker 2: of these days. So you know, it's really gone from
20:08
Speaker 2: being a fam month a year sport to like an
20:11
Speaker 2: eight month of year sports and now being a twelve
20:12
Speaker 2: month of year sport. And you know, you positionally, I
20:16
Speaker 2: don't know if I really have you know, if I
20:19
Speaker 2: really have a concern. You know, I think that you're
20:23
Speaker 2: talking about kicker. I mean, I think he's answered to things.
20:25
Speaker 2: I'm still not trotting him out butt for a fifty
20:27
Speaker 2: two yarder. I'm just I'm just not We didn't really
20:32
Speaker 2: have to deal with, you know, special teams like the
20:34
Speaker 2: return game. Yeah, that's never really seemed to be right,
20:38
Speaker 2: even when they put Caleb downs there. Let's not forget
20:41
Speaker 2: that he dipped one against Tennessee. I think that he
20:43
Speaker 2: almost you know, he put one on the ground and
20:45
Speaker 2: I think it was Tennessee and then fell on it.
20:48
Speaker 2: So that isn't you know, that is an hundred percent.
20:50
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm not one to give betting advice, but
20:55
Speaker 2: you know, I think Ohoas state it's a pretty.
20:57
Speaker 1: Good bet this shooter.
20:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, as for what the bad is, that's
21:00
Speaker 2: open for interpretation. Thyf be over under our winds is ten.
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Speaker 1: And a half and they've got they have some challenges
21:05
Speaker 1: on the schedule this year, starting with Texas, but they've
21:09
Speaker 1: got some time to get their other stuff straightened out.
21:11
Speaker 1: Ryan Day mentioned also they're maybe looking to addle up
21:14
Speaker 1: bit of depth on the offensive line just because they've
21:16
Speaker 1: lost some guys in the portal window after the season
21:19
Speaker 1: and they just may need to get the botton. You know,
21:21
Speaker 1: the body count up a little higher in that room.
21:24
Speaker 1: So we'll see it's going to be interesting, interesting few
21:27
Speaker 1: weeks with the portal that opens on the sixteenth, goes
21:29
Speaker 1: to the twenty fifth and then so we'll know who's
21:32
Speaker 1: in the portal by April twenty fifth, and then see
21:34
Speaker 1: who Ohio State goes after between now and the end
21:39
Speaker 1: of April or early May or so. And if you know,
21:42
Speaker 1: if you're worried about complacency, well they got some big
21:45
Speaker 1: shiny rings at the end of the first quarter during
21:48
Speaker 1: the spring game. And then Monday they will be in Washington,
21:50
Speaker 1: d C. To have the traditional White House visit. We
21:54
Speaker 1: will be there as well, get a chance to the
21:57
Speaker 1: broad strokes of their itinerary. Are they going to toward
22:00
Speaker 1: the Lincoln Memorial? And then they're going to be doing
22:03
Speaker 1: a White House tour and then there's a little bit
22:06
Speaker 1: of a ceremony inside and then the ceremony outside in
22:09
Speaker 1: the Rose Garden at the White House. So we'll be
22:11
Speaker 1: there for all of that fun stuff on Monday. And
22:14
Speaker 1: then then I think the page officially turns to Okay,
22:17
Speaker 1: and now it's summer camp and we we probably have
22:20
Speaker 1: seen the majority of that twenty twenty four team in
22:24
Speaker 1: the Horseshoe for the last time for at least a while.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll come back in twenty thirty four and
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Speaker 1: twenty forty four and maybe twenty twenty nine. But starting
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Speaker 1: to turn the page to twenty twenty five. Lots of
22:36
Speaker 1: exciting stuff, some very encouraging things, I think, some very
22:39
Speaker 1: encouraging storylines for Ohio State coming out of this spring game.
22:43
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about all of them with you at
22:44
Speaker 1: Buckeye Huddle dot com. That's where Tony, Kevin and Ike
22:47
Speaker 1: over the team, Mark Courvis recruiting. We got our whole
22:49
Speaker 1: team of exsess downs crews. They're all as well. Mickey
22:52
Speaker 1: with Murder Football Fan. That is all at Buckeye Huddle
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Speaker 1: dot Com. That'll do it for today. Thank you guys
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Speaker 1: all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk
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