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Ohio State Football: Buckeyes Name 2025 Starting Quarterback · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck guys tomorrow morning for Tuesday, August nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: oh dot com got a chance to talk to Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Hartline, and Matt Patricia. On Monday. It was the
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  Speaker 1: day that we had all sort of been looking at
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  Speaker 1: as I wonder if this will be the day when
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  Speaker 1: they will announce the starting quarterback. Tony Gerdimanut of Buckehadle
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  Speaker 1: dot com joins me Tony to the surprise of really
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  Speaker 1: probably not that many people. Monday was, in fact today
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio State named its starting quarterback. Who is that
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback? And why is he the starting quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: That starting quarterback is reach your freshman Julian saying, And
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  Speaker 2: why he is the starting quarterback is he's been the
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  Speaker 2: most consistent guy, even starting from the first practice of
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  Speaker 2: spring till the very last practice recently, but he's been
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  Speaker 2: the more consistent guy in terms of getting the ball
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  Speaker 2: out and throwing it accurately and just overall doing the
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  Speaker 2: things that the coach wants a quarterback to do and
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  Speaker 2: knowing where the ball is going to go, knowing what
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  Speaker 2: the defense is going to do, a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that Ryan Day talked about throughout is exactly or
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  Speaker 2: you're checking off all of the boxes like, well that
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  Speaker 2: sounds pretty good. Well that's good. That's good, and something
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  Speaker 2: that I think what he also showed a more of
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  Speaker 2: a command of the offense, the leadership aspect of it,
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  Speaker 2: which helps because now they hudd ale and that's something
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  Speaker 2: that they started to do last year. But overall, can
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  Speaker 2: move the ball and as Brian Hartlin said, can protect
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  Speaker 2: the ball, which is another big factor there. So the
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  Speaker 2: most consistent guy doing the routine things routinely.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing that I thought Ryan Day said that
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  Speaker 1: was kind of interesting was he drew a distinction between
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  Speaker 1: a player and a professional. And you know, these guys
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  Speaker 1: are I guess they're technically professionals now because you're sort
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  Speaker 1: of maintaining your amateur status, but how subtle on it.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting paid by your so I'm sort of just
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  Speaker 1: thinking it's true legally right now, I guess they're sort
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  Speaker 1: of professionals, but Rande wants them to be a professional
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  Speaker 1: and not just be a player. What in Ryan Day's
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  Speaker 1: mind is the difference between a player and a professional.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is the second time I've heard him
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  Speaker 2: talk about this in fall camp. Basically, he said a
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  Speaker 2: player is learning, a professional remembers, and the problem is
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  Speaker 2: something else he's talked about at quarterback, where you can
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  Speaker 2: only play so many games over your entire life, let
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  Speaker 2: alone while you're just in college or just in high school.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like AAU basketball where you can play ten
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  Speaker 2: games in a weekend. As a high school quarterback, you
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  Speaker 2: can play ten games in a year. And so just
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  Speaker 2: the build up of game experience takes a very long time,
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  Speaker 2: and even once you get into the NFL, it takes time. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he'd like these guys to be professionals and what they
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  Speaker 2: see and how they react to those things. But you
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  Speaker 2: can only be so professional when you have not started
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  Speaker 2: any games. And the only time that Julian Saying has
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  Speaker 2: been in a game is when it's no longer been
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  Speaker 2: in doubt. So now he's going to be in a
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  Speaker 2: situation where every play he makes is a critical play,
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  Speaker 2: and where every play he doesn't make is a critical play,
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  Speaker 2: and so everything is new for him, whereas the veterans,
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  Speaker 2: the professionals can rely back on stuff they've been through before.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, I've done this before, I know I
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  Speaker 2: can handle this, or I've seen this before, I know
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  Speaker 2: what to expect here right now. Julian Say is just
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  Speaker 2: a player, but still from what we've been told with
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  Speaker 2: with Ryan Day and even Chip Kelly a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: he's very advanced for his age, and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: also something that won him the job here here this week.
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  Speaker 1: So the quarterback position, obviously they won the positional battle
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  Speaker 1: that got the most attention this fall camp, but there's
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  Speaker 1: been plenty of other battles that we've been kind of
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  Speaker 1: keeping eye on. We did a show sort of predicting
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  Speaker 1: where all of those were going to end up on
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Weekly Podcast Feed. One for one, there check check
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  Speaker 1: mark next to Julian saying both got that one correct.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, let's talk a little bit about the safeties,
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  Speaker 1: because that's one where it's not necessarily and you know,
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, you're generally you're gonna play one quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's just they're going to say one name and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the name. It doesn't sound like it's necessarily
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  Speaker 1: quite as clear cut at the safety spot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sure sounds like both Jalen McLain and Milie
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  Speaker 2: Carford are going to play. And I thought it was funny.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Rabin went to the Dispatch asked Ryan Day, so
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  Speaker 2: do you talking about these two guys but not mentioning
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  Speaker 2: their names, like do you have a leader at safety?
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  Speaker 2: And Randa is, yeah, we got a leader of safety.
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  Speaker 2: The name is Bounds. I was like, well, well, what
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  Speaker 2: about the other two guys? And so it just there's
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  Speaker 2: there's still competing and they feel like both guys can play.
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  Speaker 2: And then when Matt Patricia talked about it, he's like,
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  Speaker 2: there's some different things that they can do. They're not
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  Speaker 2: the same player basically, so what do you want to do?
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  Speaker 2: How do you want to do it? That will also
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  Speaker 2: a factor in. But it sounds like all three guys
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  Speaker 2: are going to play against Texas and they feel pretty
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  Speaker 2: good about it. But you know, what we see in
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  Speaker 2: week one may not be what we see in week two,
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  Speaker 2: or may not be what we see in week four.
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  Speaker 2: It just depends with these three guys and of course
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  Speaker 2: specifically McLain and Hartford.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so from one guy at quarterback to three
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  Speaker 1: guys at safety to five guys plus the backups at
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. Brian Day did not announce the whole offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: He has announced his starter at left tackle, and then
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like there may not just be five guys
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Ye.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and in fairness, Ryan Da he was pestered
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  Speaker 2: to get that one name because he said, we've got
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  Speaker 2: five guys that we feel good about starting, and then
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  Speaker 2: you know six and seven that could I will probably
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  Speaker 2: rotate in. And of course he's not giving any names.
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  Speaker 2: And then about fifteen minutes later, somebody came back and
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  Speaker 2: asked about you know, so as Austin Seerveld still your
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  Speaker 2: left tackle, He's like, I'll give you one name. Basically, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be starting a left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not giving you anything else. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll know when everybody else knows when they trot out
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  Speaker 2: there for that first drive. But what you know, whoever
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  Speaker 2: trots out there for the fifth drive may be different.
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't seem opposed to getting extra guys in,
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  Speaker 2: but basically they feel good about five and would like
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  Speaker 2: to see a little bit more from six and seven.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you see that You throw them into
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  Speaker 2: the action.
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  Speaker 1: I do like the pawn Stars press conference, like you,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to know you're starting offensive line left tackles
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  Speaker 1: best I can do so well, you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: if we can continue to negotiate with Ryan Day at
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  Speaker 1: future press conferences.
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  Speaker 2: He wouldn't even name the starting center, and it's like, we,
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  Speaker 2: I think we have a pretty good idea of that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we were pretty pretty sure that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be Carson Hinzman. I think we have a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: idea left to right where that's all going to be.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how that all shakes out. He also puts
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  Speaker 1: some not names, but numbers out there in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the running back position and the linebacker position. And the
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  Speaker 1: good news is they have a Parentos Barret running back.
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  Speaker 1: But the bad news is, we don't know who those
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  Speaker 1: guys are yet. Well, we probably do, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: officially know who those guys are.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And he said, they have three guys that can play,
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  Speaker 2: and so I did ask because we're going to assume
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  Speaker 2: it's Bo Jackson as a number three true freshman. But
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  Speaker 2: I wanted clarification so we don't have to just assume.
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  Speaker 2: So I did ask, you know, who's going to be
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  Speaker 2: that number three, and he didn't want to get into that.
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  Speaker 2: And when you don't want to name a freshman jumping
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  Speaker 2: an older player like then you'd probably not name the person.
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  Speaker 2: Is kind of how I'm viewing it. If it was
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  Speaker 2: Samuel Dixon, he'd probably just say yet Sam right now.
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  Speaker 2: So that's just me reading between the lines, and also
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  Speaker 2: having heard how well Bo Jackson is doing, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to assume he's number three right now. What I think
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  Speaker 2: is pretty impressive is that they say, whoever that number
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  Speaker 2: three is problem, Joe Backson or whatever sounds like, if
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  Speaker 2: he plays against and that game is close throughout, that
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  Speaker 2: is a huge glowing neon sign about how they feel
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  Speaker 2: of him.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, jay, No, that's too obvious. B Jackson. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: well we'll see who that is. We'll see who that
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  Speaker 1: third running back off the bench is. Linebacker. That's another
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  Speaker 1: spot where it feels like the top three, much like
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  Speaker 1: the top two at running back is pretty clear cut.
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  Speaker 1: The top three at linebackers pretty clear cut. But again
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day said they feel pretty good about four guys,
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  Speaker 1: but didn't want to go into specifics on any of
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  Speaker 1: them right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was another one that I asked, same
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  Speaker 2: question you said, pre running backs, four linebackers, who are those?
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  Speaker 2: Who's that three? And who's that four? And he shook
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  Speaker 2: his head. He's like, I knew you're going to ask this,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not going to tell you. But the question is, so,
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  Speaker 2: is that fourth guys at Riley Petty John true freshman?
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  Speaker 2: Is it Garrett Stover redshirt freshman, the more experienced guy.
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  Speaker 2: But everything we've seen and heard about Riley Petty John
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  Speaker 2: has been glowing, and he's advanced for his age, and
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  Speaker 2: he's this and he's that, and he's big and he's
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  Speaker 2: fast and he's athletic. So again, this feels like a
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  Speaker 2: situation where if it was the older guy, you just
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  Speaker 2: say it's the older guy. But again that's just me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, thinking you like a coach, not wanting to
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  Speaker 2: necessarily mentioned a true freshman and ignore the older player
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  Speaker 2: because he's also like, I don't want to get phone
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  Speaker 2: calls from parents and things like that, as he always
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  Speaker 2: says when He doesn't want to name names, but that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of the way I'm viewing it right now. Am
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  Speaker 2: I crazy?
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're going to have bo Jackson be the
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  Speaker 1: third running back and you're going to point, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're going to point too. Hey, well he just lost
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  Speaker 1: his black stripe. Well, Riley Petty John also just lost
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  Speaker 1: his black stripe. And that is basically, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: say you lose your black stripe, that's congratulations. You're officially
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  Speaker 1: a member of the team. You're ready to be in
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  Speaker 1: this kind you know, in that conversation to play and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And so I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's outrageous to read that into that. One other player
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  Speaker 1: who just recently lost his black stripe is Nick McLarty,
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  Speaker 1: the punter, but that one maybe too close to call.
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  Speaker 2: Still, yeah, and he said both are playing well right now.
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  Speaker 2: Either one of them could be the guy at Texas
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  Speaker 2: and he's a both could punt at Texas and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if we'll see that, but you got a
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  Speaker 2: long range punter and a short range punter, your accurate punter,
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  Speaker 2: and your bomb guy. But he said, Nick McCarty's been
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  Speaker 2: doing really well, is more consistent and that Joe McGuire
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  Speaker 2: has been improving as well, so it looks like he
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  Speaker 2: feels pretty good about where they are there. And I
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  Speaker 2: think if you've improved from last year, then there's reason
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  Speaker 2: to be happy about that, because I think they got
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  Speaker 2: enough last year. They won a national championship, but the
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  Speaker 2: punting was not a weapon. If it could become a
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  Speaker 2: weapon this year for this defense and set up the
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  Speaker 2: offense and a young quarterback, I think that could be
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  Speaker 2: something that we're not talking about enough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if your defense is not quite what it was
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  Speaker 1: last year, and I don't think anyone has the right
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  Speaker 1: to expect it to be because that was one of the
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  Speaker 1: best defenses in the last ten years of college football,
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  Speaker 1: then you have to find some extra yard somewhere, and
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  Speaker 1: that maybe you know, you get first time started quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and you've got you know, so you may have to
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  Speaker 1: find some of it on special teams. One other thing
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  Speaker 1: that I thought was kind of interesting, We're sort of
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  Speaker 1: having the Interpreting Non Answers show, which is not going
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  Speaker 1: to make a real exciting headline. I'll have to come
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  Speaker 1: up with something else for a show title other than
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  Speaker 1: things we didn't learn when they tried to answer, not
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  Speaker 1: not answer questions, but the question about where Brian Heartline
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  Speaker 1: is going to be on game day, because to me,
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  Speaker 1: this feels like a very obvious answer. You've got Brian
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  Speaker 1: Day on the sideline, You're gonna have Tyler Bowen probably
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines, so yeah, of course you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: your offensive coordinator up in the box. They've had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of scrimmages to sort of get this figured out,
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  Speaker 1: and Brian Hartline didn't just come out and say, yep,
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  Speaker 1: here's the plan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they have not decided on that. They've had conversations,
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  Speaker 2: but they haven't decided or he's not. He said that
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  Speaker 2: the final decision has not been made, So I guess
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  Speaker 2: we can just take him out his word and it'll
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  Speaker 2: come down to where they can be more organized and
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  Speaker 2: communicate the best, which is exactly what Chip Kelly said
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  Speaker 2: last year. And he'd always been calling plays from the sidelines,
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  Speaker 2: and then when that first game was there, he was
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  Speaker 2: up in the press box. So I would expect that
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  Speaker 2: same thing to happen, because if you want to be
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  Speaker 2: organized and you want to be able to communicate with
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  Speaker 2: out all of the chaos going around, you granted press
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  Speaker 2: box where I am can be a little chaotic because
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  Speaker 2: I've got Tim May sitting next to me, Marcus Hartman,
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  Speaker 2: and Kevin Noon, but it's a little bit more organized
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  Speaker 2: in the coaches side of things. And then he was asked,
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  Speaker 2: would you be comfortable upstairs because he's never done it before.
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  Speaker 2: He so, I'll, yeah, I'll make anything work. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: focused on that, so it doesn't sound like you would
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  Speaker 2: be a huge issue. But you know, we thought it
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  Speaker 2: would be interesting to see where Chip Kelly was last year,
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  Speaker 2: and then he handled being upstairs just fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So we will find all that out for sure
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