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BONUS: Legend Bey Ready To Go At Kick Returner · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another special bonus episode. We are running out
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  Speaker 1: of time before kickoff at 1230 on Saturday. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to cram in another couple podcasts into your feed
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  Speaker 1: between now and then.
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  Speaker 2: We get it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to be sitting in the office or
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  Speaker 1: walking the dog or whatever without having some Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: football stuff to listen to and think about. So we
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  Speaker 1: are going to do our very best to fill as
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  Speaker 1: many of those moments between now and kickoff as we
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  Speaker 1: possibly can. On this episode, we're going to get to
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  Speaker 1: hear a little bit from Ohio State head coach Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 1: You've already heard a bunch from his interview on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Now you get a chance to hear a little bit
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  Speaker 1: from him. But what he had to say after practice
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, it's only one day difference, but they've had
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  Speaker 1: their two biggest practices between the time we talked to
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  Speaker 1: him Tuesday at noon and then Wednesday after practice. Those
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon practices are two of the
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  Speaker 1: most physical. And a lot of times some things have
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  Speaker 1: changed between those two things. So always interesting to hear
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  Speaker 1: the sort of the abbreviated, we call it the lightning
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  Speaker 1: round press conference with Ryan Day on Wednesday. first thing
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  Speaker 1: he was asked about was sort of balancing working some
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  Speaker 1: of the freshmen in. Cause we know they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be playing some freshmen. Devin said Devin Sanchez played last
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  Speaker 1: year in that season opening game, but you can see
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  Speaker 1: legend Bay. You're going to see Jay Timmons. You're probably
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  Speaker 1: going to see some other guys as the game goes
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  Speaker 1: sort of further, further along, but how do you balance
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  Speaker 1: working in those freshmen, but sort of knowing, you know, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are probably going to make some mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why we practice. But, um, We always say
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  Speaker 3: veterans are remembering and young guys are learning. And the
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  Speaker 3: faster they learn, the better. So we said this before,
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  Speaker 3: if they make a mistake, okay. If they make the
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  Speaker 3: same mistake again, that's when.
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  Speaker 2: There's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be mistakes made early on when they
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  Speaker 3: go out there. As long as they're making them at
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  Speaker 3: full speed and they don't continue to repeat those, then
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  Speaker 3: that's a good thing. And so we've all seen that
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  Speaker 3: when you have young players out there, you have to
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  Speaker 3: work through some of those things. And the guys that
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  Speaker 3: deserve to have that opportunity through what they've done in
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  Speaker 3: terms of earning trust with their teammates, with their coaches,
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  Speaker 3: and earn the opportunity to do that are going to
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  Speaker 3: do that. And then we'll watch their performance on the
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  Speaker 3: field and see if they have earned more reps, which
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  Speaker 3: there'll be some guys that certainly I see that happening
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  Speaker 3: with them.
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  Speaker 1: One of the position groups that we had not heard
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  Speaker 1: a lot about during fall camp was the kickoff return
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  Speaker 1: and punt return units. And that's really sort of a
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  Speaker 1: function of the fact that they just don't work on
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  Speaker 1: that that much while we're in there. And there hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of talk about that because there's been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other questions that people have had to
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  Speaker 1: ask this month. So we got a chance to hear
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  Speaker 1: from Ryan day, what the expectations were for the punt
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  Speaker 1: return and the kick return on Saturday. I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I put out on Twitter, here's what they're planning on
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  Speaker 1: doing and kick return. And people got very excited.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see Brandon and Phil bell, uh, and Devin McCune, um,
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  Speaker 3: back at punt returner. Um, and so, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: have those three guys that we feel good about. Um,
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  Speaker 3: You know, we'll see how many we have and see
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  Speaker 3: how many opportunities we give each guy and how that
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  Speaker 3: plays out. But those are really our three guys in
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  Speaker 3: the punt return game. And then in terms of kickoff,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if things go the way that they've gone
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  Speaker 3: and the way we expect them to throughout the week,
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  Speaker 3: Legend Bay will take the first kickoff back.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, got an update on the tight end room,
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  Speaker 1: where things stand there, who he's expecting to play. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you, you're going to listen to
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  Speaker 1: this answer and you might think, hey, I think he
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  Speaker 1: missed someone. And we'll get to that in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I think when you.
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  Speaker 3: Look at, um, you know, just in the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years, when you look at the development of Cade Stover,
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  Speaker 3: who came over from being a linebacker to being an
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  Speaker 3: NFL player draft pick, uh, and, and then obviously hit
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  Speaker 3: two tight ends here drafted, um, you know, second and
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  Speaker 3: third round, uh, you just see, you know, how they
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  Speaker 3: played obviously, um, you know, in the rivalry game and
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  Speaker 3: throughout the season, um, there was just a lot of
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  Speaker 3: progress made and, um, you know, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Will last year was probably the best blocking tight end
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  Speaker 3: there was in the country. And most of the scouts
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  Speaker 3: that I spoke to and NFL personnel shared the same
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  Speaker 3: thing with me. And certainly, you know, Max, you know,
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  Speaker 3: became a second round draft pick. And so I think that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, year in and year out, you've seen the
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  Speaker 3: tight ends get used more and more here.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a credit to him.
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  Speaker 3: This year, I think, you know, we have really good
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  Speaker 3: depth there. We have some really good young players, but
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  Speaker 3: it's been good to watch Mason come in and and really, uh,
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  Speaker 3: earn the opportunity to play a lot this year. Um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're going to see Bennett, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see Nate Roberts, uh, and then you're going to start
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  Speaker 3: to see, you know, Max LeBlanc, um, have an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to play as the season goes on.
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  Speaker 2: And those other young guys, we'll kind of see how they, uh,
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  Speaker 2: continue to develop.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like, uh, they have bright futures ahead
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  Speaker 3: of them, Nick Louder, uh, Brody Lennon.
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  Speaker 2: Um, so there's, uh, there's a good group there.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but I think, you know, the top three right
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  Speaker 3: now would be, um, Nate, Mason, Bennett, not necessarily in
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  Speaker 3: that order, and then probably Max.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so bonus points to you if you thought, hey,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't say Hunter Welsing's name because it didn't occur
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  Speaker 1: to Ryan Day that he didn't say Hunter Welsing's name
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  Speaker 1: either until a little bit later on. We were actually
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  Speaker 1: already started to interview Luke Montgomery. Ryan Day had finished
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  Speaker 1: his interview, walked away, and then kind of went, uh-oh,
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  Speaker 1: and came back and sort of interrupted Luke Montgomery. He
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  Speaker 1: can pull rank.
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  Speaker 2: He's the head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Pulled rank on Luke Montgomery. sat back down and then
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  Speaker 1: started talking here about, you know, oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: also Hunter Wilson.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to ask about tight ends. And I
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  Speaker 3: forgot about Hunter and just what happens when I start
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  Speaker 3: naming off guys. So I don't like naming anybody. Hunter's
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  Speaker 3: had a very good camp. Hunter's going to play a
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  Speaker 3: lot of football as well. He's done a good job
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  Speaker 3: of coming in. you know, in a new program, embracing
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  Speaker 3: the culture. He can really do some really good things
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  Speaker 3: down the field. He's learned to be physical in the
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  Speaker 3: run game. So that is another weapon for us at
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  Speaker 3: tight end is Hunter Waltzing. So I just want to
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  Speaker 3: make sure I did that before I have to go
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  Speaker 3: find him and say, why am I not playing this year?
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  Speaker 2: You are playing, Hunter. Just keep up the good work.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, the defensive line. That's a spot where everyone's
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  Speaker 1: kind of interested. We're assuming they're going to play a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys, but who's going to be starting in
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  Speaker 1: the defensive line on Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: I think it just depends on what personnel grouping we're
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  Speaker 3: in early on, depending on what they're in. But you're
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  Speaker 3: going to see a lot of those guys play based
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  Speaker 3: on how many defense alignment are in the game, based
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  Speaker 3: on what's in the game. So we have base personnel.
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  Speaker 3: We have nickel personnel. But Kenyatta will be out there.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly Zion will be out there. James, Edrick, John Walker, Bo.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're going to see the other guys rotate
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  Speaker 3: in really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They took a kind of close look at a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different stuff on the offensive line after the way
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  Speaker 1: things ended there last year. But they do have four
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  Speaker 1: returning starters, including Philip Daniels. So what did they need
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  Speaker 1: to see from Philip Daniels to make sure that while
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  Speaker 1: they were shuffling all the stuff around, that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to keep his job?
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  Speaker 3: Consistency is number one. And, you know, he certainly has
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  Speaker 3: the ability to play as good as anybody in the country.
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  Speaker 3: But the challenge was for him to play consistently. He's
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  Speaker 3: shown that in practice, but he needs to continue to
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  Speaker 3: do that throughout the games. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 3: best things is having that competition because it brings out
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  Speaker 3: the best in everybody up there. And those guys know
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  Speaker 3: they need to bring it every day. But he's earned
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to do that. But there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys that are working really hard that have certainly put
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  Speaker 3: themselves in a situation that we all feel comfortable with
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  Speaker 3: them going in the game as well.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier, you heard Ryan Day talk about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Legend Bay is going to be the starting kickoff returner.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned, yes, there's a lot of excitement around
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  Speaker 1: that because on the field, yeah, absolutely. He can do
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  Speaker 1: some stuff that there are not very many people on
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  Speaker 1: that roster that can do. So sure, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of excitement there. But you got to remember,
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  Speaker 1: he also missed the first two days of fall practice
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  Speaker 1: for a disciplinary thing. So what did he do to
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  Speaker 1: sort of earn his way back into the good graces
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  Speaker 1: of the program and the trust to be the guy
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  Speaker 1: that they're putting out there to return kicks?
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  Speaker 3: Well, when we say there are events and there was
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  Speaker 3: an event that happened and he certainly controlled at that
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  Speaker 3: point the response and the response since then has been
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  Speaker 3: much better.
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  Speaker 2: He's worked really hard in practice.
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  Speaker 3: There are some habits that he needs to improve on
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  Speaker 3: just because he was a quarterback before and there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things that come with playing running back that
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  Speaker 3: are a lot different than certainly being a quarterback. So
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  Speaker 3: he's had to learn those things, but he's worked and
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  Speaker 3: he's had a good attitude. when he's been out there.
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  Speaker 3: It's not all been perfect, but I also think that
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  Speaker 3: we see the explosiveness when the ball's in his hands.
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  Speaker 3: And he knows the first thing that he has to
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  Speaker 3: do when he's in the game is take care of
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  Speaker 3: the football.
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  Speaker 2: So how do you do that?
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  Speaker 3: You have to build trust through time. And he's built
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  Speaker 3: enough trust that we feel comfortable with him being back there,
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  Speaker 3: but he's going to have to go... I always say
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  Speaker 3: when the ball's in your hands, you literally have... the
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  Speaker 3: hopes and dreams of the entire Buckeye Nation in your hands.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: I heard a coach tell me that one time, and
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  Speaker 3: they're exactly right. So it's a big responsibility. And between
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  Speaker 3: Coach Locke, Coach Smith, myself, I feel like we really
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  Speaker 3: hammered that home with legend. He's embraced that, and he
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  Speaker 3: knows how serious it is. At least that's what he's shown.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're going to go off of. So right
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  Speaker 3: now we trust that he's going to go in the
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  Speaker 3: game and take care of the football for us and
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  Speaker 3: give an opportunity to be explosive. But the number one
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  Speaker 3: job is to make sure at the end of the play,
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  Speaker 3: we have the football and then we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's probably the message. When the ball's
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  Speaker 3: in your hands at the end of the play, we
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  Speaker 3: have to have the ball and then let your training
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  Speaker 3: just kick in.
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  Speaker 2: Let your national instincts take over. The rest of it
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  Speaker 2: will just happen.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Ryan Day was asked about having two former
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  Speaker 1: head coaches as coordinator, NFL head coaches, Matt Patricia, Arthur Smith.
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  Speaker 1: What's his sense of confidence having guys who have done
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  Speaker 1: this before at an even higher level than college? and
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  Speaker 1: who've even had bigger jobs at a higher level than college.
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  Speaker 2: It gives me energy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it gives me energy. I, you know, just, you know, everybody,
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  Speaker 3: the coaching staff, everybody's working. You know, it looks the
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  Speaker 3: way it should on the field. The scheme has been solid.
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  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, we have the right stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's time to get going with the games and figure
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  Speaker 3: out what we have and have some success and make
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  Speaker 3: some mistakes and figure all those things out and start
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  Speaker 3: to solve the problems because, you know, we've said this before,
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  Speaker 3: there's certain assumptions that we're making going into the early
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  Speaker 3: early few games into the season, some of those are
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  Speaker 3: going to be right, some of those are going to
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  Speaker 3: be wrong. How quickly can we identify them and get
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  Speaker 3: them right? But it's given me energy.
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  Speaker 2: It's allowed me a lot of opportunity to be around
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  Speaker 2: the players more.
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  Speaker 3: It allowed me to kind of chase everybody around on
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  Speaker 3: the field. So it's been great to have them around.
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  Speaker 3: And again, every time I have an opportunity to thank
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  Speaker 3: our administration, our board, our president, our cabinet for the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to hire those guys because I don't take that
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  Speaker 3: for granted.
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  Speaker 2: And these guys are great. All right, there you go.
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