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Ohio State Spring Football: Will Julian Sayin Run More In 2026? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Friday, March thirteenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Spring practice number two in the books, joined
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  Speaker 1: by Tony Gerdamant Bucky Huddle dot com in the slightly windy,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly forty degrees chillier outdoors in Columbus, Ohio, Tony, We've
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  Speaker 1: got the chance to watch the whole watch the practice.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on an episode of the Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: Weekly podcast. Today we're gonna talk about what we got
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  Speaker 1: to hear after the practice, because I know one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that has been a big topic of conversation,
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  Speaker 1: point of concern maybe for the Ohio State fan base
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  Speaker 1: has been Julian saying, and you know, can he run
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  Speaker 1: enough to be effective as a quarterback and to let
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  Speaker 1: them do what they need to do.
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  Speaker 2: We got a chance to talk to Julian saying after
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  Speaker 2: this today.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and he's been spending a lot of time with
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  Speaker 3: Mick on getting stronger, bigger, faster, stronger, So he's added
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  Speaker 3: five or ten pounds. But also a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: focus in the off season in spring will just be
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  Speaker 3: recognizing when to get out, getting that feel and going.
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  Speaker 3: I think I asked him last year because he said
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  Speaker 3: some similar things and like, well, how do you improve
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  Speaker 3: as a runner when nobody can touch you?
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  Speaker 2: And what he did.
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  Speaker 3: He kind of answered the question again today when he said,
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  Speaker 3: you can still feel the pressure coming and get out,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's something that he believes he needs to
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  Speaker 3: get better at. And of course throughout the entire interview, Wy,
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  Speaker 3: I need to get better at all of these things.
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  Speaker 3: I need to get better. This was certainly a topic
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  Speaker 3: of concern and one that he feels like he saw
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  Speaker 3: what happened last year and what could have happened if
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  Speaker 3: he had picked up some first downs. So yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: seems like a real thing. Now does that mean? I mean?
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  Speaker 3: What it does mean time is we've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 3: The last quarterback, last national title winner without a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: to Rusher at least two hundred yards was twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: with mac Joe, So there's a there there when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to just getting out of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And another thing that we've talked to him about multiple
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  Speaker 1: springs in a row is, hey, there's a new offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Because he has had a different offensive coordinator for each
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  Speaker 1: of his three years at Ohio State. That's certainly going
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  Speaker 1: to be a little bit of an adjustment, but also
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  Speaker 1: it feels like that's probably not you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: not changing offensive coordinator at a school where the head
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  Speaker 1: coach is a defensive minded guy.
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  Speaker 2: It's changing, but it's only changing so much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was interesting the way Julian described it. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of beneficial and that he's learned something from
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  Speaker 3: all three guys. And I think once, if your true
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  Speaker 3: freshman year is your offensive coordinator is Chip Kelly, at
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  Speaker 3: that point, I think everything else is like, this is easier.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this isn't so bad. As a true freshman,
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  Speaker 3: I was able to keep up with Chip Kelly, and
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  Speaker 3: so being able to keeping up with Brian Hartline, you know,
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  Speaker 3: knowing him and being the coc at that time, really
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  Speaker 3: not much change. He said, there's a couple of changes,
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  Speaker 3: just you know, some terminology and things like that. But
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  Speaker 3: as a third year guy, third year quarterback, he should
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  Speaker 3: be able to pick up on that. And that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of how he feels like, whatever you throw at me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm the starting quarterback, I should be able to handle.
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  Speaker 1: And Arthur Smith is not the only coordinator that he's
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  Speaker 1: talking to at the beginning of practice today.
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  Speaker 2: And you notice the same thing I did.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to get you a picture for the article
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  Speaker 1: you're undoubtedly writing, because you asked Julian saying about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he had a long conversation with Matt Patricia,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, this is this is normally cats and dogs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, offensive guys and defensive guys aren't supposed to
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  Speaker 1: get along. So that's that struck me as a little
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  Speaker 1: bit unusual as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so yeah, I just I asked Julian, what
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  Speaker 3: do you how much? How often do you talk to
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  Speaker 3: about Patricia? What do you talk about And he didn't really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he just likes to learn things, so you
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  Speaker 3: touch base with coaches, but it's not something that he
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  Speaker 3: went out and saw. That's just Patricia and we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about it since he got here. How he wants Matt
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  Speaker 3: Patricia wants to know everybody and talk to everybody. Talked
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  Speaker 3: with Tavan Saint Clair back at the Cotton Bowl about him,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, talk to Matti Patricia about Tavan Saint
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  Speaker 3: Clair and how he just he wants to learn from
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks but also help the quarterbacks see what he's seeing
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  Speaker 3: and what he's trying to do. And it makes complete
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  Speaker 3: sense to to do that, to try to educate your
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  Speaker 3: quarterback on here's what I'm trying to keep you from doing,
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  Speaker 3: Here's how you can maybe do it. And that's just
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  Speaker 3: as Julian said, that's just Matt Patricia. He talks with everybody,
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  Speaker 3: not the Julian in this special. But it is interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see because it was they're doing their stretching, it's
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  Speaker 3: Matt Patricia, it's Julian saying, and it's Garrett stover All
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  Speaker 3: just you know, I don't know, I don't know, like
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  Speaker 3: just to you know, having a chat and joking and
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  Speaker 3: laughing and stretching, and it's always interesting to see who
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  Speaker 3: is mixing with whom.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And before we get onto Kenyatta Jackson, there is one
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  Speaker 1: more thing we got to talk about with Julian say,
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  Speaker 1: and the big change this spring.
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  Speaker 2: Julian say, it has a mustache now, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And well, you know, and facial hair all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: And we should have known better. We were trying to
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  Speaker 3: speculate where did he get it from. I think at
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  Speaker 3: one point we suggested it was an he took Arthur
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  Speaker 3: Smith's mustache from him. Then earlier today when he was
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  Speaker 3: with like Peyton Pierce next to Peyton Peers and like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if he's been hanging out with Peyton Piers.
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  Speaker 3: That text him too much. And no, it was the idea.
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  Speaker 3: He just he said he hadn't shaved for a few days.
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  Speaker 3: And then Austin Seerveld Luke Montgomery said, let it ride,
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  Speaker 3: just let it go, baby, see what happens. And so
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  Speaker 3: he's going to He doesn't expect it to last, however,
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  Speaker 3: but Carson Hensman, when he bleached his blonde, bleached his
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  Speaker 3: hair blonde, he said, yeah, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna last.
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  Speaker 2: He's still blonde.
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  Speaker 1: It is still there. Yeah, So that's the offensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. Now we're gonna move over to the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Came out of Jackson. What
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  Speaker 1: the thing that jumped out to me the most was
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  Speaker 1: there was a question about Kenyata Jackson twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: recruiting class. Twenty one members of the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State recruiting class. You just mentioned the other one
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  Speaker 1: who is still here, Carson Hinsman, Kenyata Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: It's that whole class. It's the fifth year.
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  Speaker 1: You normally would think, oh, here's a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: still left. He is the Will Smith gift from the
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  Speaker 1: end of Fresh Prince.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just him and Carson Hinsman left from that class.
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  Speaker 3: And he was asked KTT does to make him feel
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  Speaker 3: when he was there the first day, recognizing that on
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  Speaker 3: spring spring days like, well, makes me feel old and
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  Speaker 3: you know, start calling him unk and things like that
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  Speaker 3: at this point, but it is it is interesting. Generally
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  Speaker 3: you will have more, but now with the portal and
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  Speaker 3: as Ryan Day said, they keep losing a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: juniors to the NFL, and those guys never reached that stage.
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  Speaker 3: So it is interesting. And those are two of your
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  Speaker 3: big leaders on this team for good reason and not
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  Speaker 3: just because they're old.
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  Speaker 1: And he's taken on a bigger role on this team
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  Speaker 1: because you know, not just because he's old, but also
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the you know, most established returning players
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  Speaker 1: on that defense.
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  Speaker 2: That does come with some perks. You do get to
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  Speaker 2: wear number two. He was asked about that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I asked him why the switch from ninety seven
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  Speaker 3: to two, and he said that was my high school number.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, you know, when did you request that?
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  Speaker 3: He said that was he requested it when he decided
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  Speaker 3: to come back. But obviously he could not have two
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  Speaker 3: of the past two seasons because that was Caleb Downs.
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  Speaker 3: And he said it in a way that was just understood,
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  Speaker 3: like I was never getting that number that was Caleb Downs.
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  Speaker 3: And people kind of laughed at that, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's I still it's interesting time to go from
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  Speaker 3: a Bosa number to a Chase Young number for a
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  Speaker 3: defensive end, Like okay, I mean, okay.
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  Speaker 1: There's some pressure that comes with either one of those numbers.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of expectations. There's also you want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about expectations if you want to know who people are
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  Speaker 1: hearing about, listen to who players are getting or coaches
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  Speaker 1: are getting asked about in terms of young people, like
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  Speaker 1: not just how are the young guys looking, how is
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  Speaker 1: Carrie Wilder.
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  Speaker 3: Looking yeah, looking good. He's quiet like you want your
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  Speaker 3: freshman to be, but all signs are pointing to good
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  Speaker 3: things from him. I think what Kenyada said is he's quiet,
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  Speaker 3: and he keeps his head down and he works. And
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  Speaker 3: that's exactly what you want to hear about your freshmen,
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  Speaker 3: the fact that they can keep up. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: certainly looks the part. He does not look like a
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  Speaker 3: true freshman in any form. And I think we talked
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  Speaker 3: about it on Tuesday where our first reactions from practice
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  Speaker 3: where that before we had seen him. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: just go off the listed weight of two seventy or
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  Speaker 3: two sixty from the recruiting sites and you're wondering, like,
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  Speaker 3: is this guy going to grow into a defensive tackle
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  Speaker 3: because he played inside in high school quite a bit,
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  Speaker 3: and you look at him now it's like these two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and listened at two hundred and forty six pounds,
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  Speaker 3: and he's like, no, this guy is a pass rushing monster.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He feels like he's going to have a role coming
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  Speaker 1: off the edge for the buck Eyes in some former
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  Speaker 1: fashion this year. As well as Kenyada, Jackson, Julian sand
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  Speaker 1: will have to avoid the guys coming off the edge.
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  Speaker 1: He'll have plenty of time to practice that this spring
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  Speaker 1: as well. Two practices in the books now for the
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  Speaker 1: buck Eyes. Now they go on spring break for a week.
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  Speaker 1: They will be back here in twelve days, so that
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  Speaker 1: the following Tuesday they will be back on campus and
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  Speaker 1: then we practice three and then they'll sort of get
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  Speaker 1: rolling for real. The first two practices they're always kind
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  Speaker 1: of just sort of a lay of the end, no
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  Speaker 1: one's and pads. Not too much that you can glean
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  Speaker 1: from that, but always some interesting stuff to take talk
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  Speaker 1: to take away from those as well. We'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: about that on the Buckeye Buckeye Weekly podcast, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: also be talking about it at Buckeye Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we've got our whole team covering.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes, recruiting x's and o's, all that fun stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and of course spring football and basketball as well.
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  Speaker 2: In March.
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  Speaker 1: We have a busy, busy March ahead. I hope you
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  Speaker 1: for today, Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.