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Is The Next Great Ohio State Cornerback Already On The Roster? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: taking a look at the Ohio State football team and
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  Speaker 1: how they're going to replace Denzel Burke. Tony Gerdaman has
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  Speaker 1: been doing a great series on this and this one
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  Speaker 1: is a one where it feels like there might be
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  Speaker 1: a pretty logical answer. Tony's question is is the next
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  Speaker 1: great OSU corner already on the roster? I think the
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  Speaker 1: answer might be yes. So I think the answer might
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  Speaker 1: be Jermaine Matthews. Here's Tony Girderman taking a look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everybody, Welcome back to another edition of Howard and
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  Speaker 2: the Heck. Is Ohio State going to replace this guy?
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  Speaker 2: This is our series discussing the ways and the people
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  Speaker 2: that are going to be involved in I know, Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State replacing their departed starters sixteen departed starters from their
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  Speaker 2: national title win, the national title team last season, and
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  Speaker 2: so we are discussing each of those guys that have
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  Speaker 2: left and how Ohio State is going to overcome that,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to replace them? Just recently posted a video
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  Speaker 2: of how Ohio State is going to replace Will Howard,
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  Speaker 2: So you can find that in the stream in the
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  Speaker 2: playlist if you've not yet seen it. This is the
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  Speaker 2: sixth in the series discussing these departed starters. And I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to today talk about Denzel Burke cornerback and how buck
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  Speaker 2: guys are going to replace him, because throughout his career,
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  Speaker 2: I think Denzel Burk has been a pretty polarizing guy who,
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  Speaker 2: as a true freshman in twenty twenty one, started every
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  Speaker 2: game for the Buckeyes kind of came out of nowhere
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  Speaker 2: and won the job a little bit by default, because,
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  Speaker 2: let's be honest, the cornerback situation when he arrived was
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  Speaker 2: not good, but also he played well as a freshman,
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  Speaker 2: had high expectations. As a sophomore in twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 2: did not go as plan. It was not his best season.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it was his worst season. Still good enough
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  Speaker 2: for him to start and be an okay player and
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  Speaker 2: be good, be a good player. You're starting cornerback at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, so a two year starter, he can't be
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  Speaker 2: all that bad, and he wasn't. He just had some
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  Speaker 2: rough moments and then twenty twenty three again was shooting.
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  Speaker 2: He was a first team All Big Ten Guy in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three as a junior. Has always earned postseason accolades.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty one, as a true freshman, he was a
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  Speaker 2: thirteen All Big Ten Guy, and as a sophomore in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two it is honorable mention. Then first team
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, and then third team this year
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  Speaker 2: and throughout his career he's played really well, but he's
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  Speaker 2: also had some games that have maybe just that's what
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  Speaker 2: he's remembered for. And you can talk about the Orgon
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  Speaker 2: game from this past season twenty twenty four, the first
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  Speaker 2: Orgon game, certainly not the second. People forget the second
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  Speaker 2: one when it comes to him, but that first one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, gave up a bunch of yards, a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of plays. It was not a good it was in fact,
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  Speaker 2: it was a bad defensive game plan. And I will
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  Speaker 2: continue to cite that as the main reason that he
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  Speaker 2: got lit up in that game. But he certainly did,
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  Speaker 2: and that's gonna be one that sticks with him, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly as he's on the you know, just a couple
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  Speaker 2: of months away from the draft, that game is going
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  Speaker 2: to stick with him. But overall, you know, you talk
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  Speaker 2: four year starter at Ohio State. He was the first
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State defender to start an opener as a true
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  Speaker 2: freshman since Andy Katsimwore in nineteen ninety six. So this
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  Speaker 2: is the this is the company and the accomplishment that
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  Speaker 2: he was able to to do as a true freshman
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  Speaker 2: at a position at Ohio State that has normally been
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  Speaker 2: pretty pretty deep, pretty good, pretty competitive, But as I said,
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  Speaker 2: when he got here, that's not necessarily how that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: really the case, and they were thin and the recruiting
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  Speaker 2: was not good, and he was able to come in
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  Speaker 2: and make his mark. And so you know, shoot, last
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  Speaker 2: year forty eight tackles, free tackles for loss, two interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: A physical defender can mostly out there in the field
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  Speaker 2: defending a wider area. And you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: had some good moments, had some great moments, had some
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  Speaker 2: rough moments. But now he's gone, and so how did
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  Speaker 2: they replace him? Dave snick Noosen returns. He's he'll now
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  Speaker 2: be a three year starter at Ohio State. Transferred in
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three as a sophomore, started this year
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  Speaker 2: and then of course in twenty twenty three, spent last
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  Speaker 2: year kind of on the boundary on the short side
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  Speaker 2: of the field. Honestly, I don't know that there needs
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  Speaker 2: to be any change there. So then it becomes who
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  Speaker 2: steps in for David for Denzel Burke. And when you
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  Speaker 2: look at the candidates, the first candidate is Jermaine Matthews,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to be a junior this year. He got
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  Speaker 2: into the rotation in twenty twenty four As a sophomore,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was viewed as a third cornerback and
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, you know, he can play here and there.
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  Speaker 2: But by the end of the season, he was rotating
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  Speaker 2: in and when somebody would need a break or they'd
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  Speaker 2: be there'd be a break planned, Jermaine Matthews would go
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  Speaker 2: in and he'd play well. And he's going to play
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  Speaker 2: well this season. So this is almost more about who
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  Speaker 2: replaces Jermaine Matthews and can anybody actually replace Jermaine Matthews,
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  Speaker 2: not just as the third corner, because let's be honest,
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  Speaker 2: Jermaine Matthews is going to be the second corner barring
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  Speaker 2: something unforeseen. So who then becomes the third corner? And
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  Speaker 2: when you look at the candidates there you're talking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Scott, who's going to be a sophomore this year,
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  Speaker 2: he was the next guy in after Jermaine Matthews. Bryce
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  Speaker 2: west Retcher freshman, who was the next guy in after
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Scott, And frankly, those two guys fluctuated a little
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  Speaker 2: bit in terms of who the next guy was in
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  Speaker 2: last year. Miles Lockhart is a guy that is probably
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  Speaker 2: going to stay at Nickel playing the slot, Lorenzo Styles
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  Speaker 2: Junior probably going to stay in the slot. They need
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  Speaker 2: that nickel guy. True freshman Devin Sanchez is the number
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  Speaker 2: one corner in the twenty twenty five recruiting class. He's
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  Speaker 2: already on campus. I wrote about him this past week.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody loves him for many, many reasons. He is the
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  Speaker 2: ideal cornerback prospect. And so he's on campus. They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be working. Spring ball is not too far away. And
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  Speaker 2: could he make him make a move, could he get
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  Speaker 2: himself involved in this? I'd say doubt that guy at
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  Speaker 2: your own peril. But he does have some talented guys
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  Speaker 2: ahead of him, and certainly some confident guys ahead of him.
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  Speaker 2: And when you talk about Jermaine Matthews, Erin Scott, and
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  Speaker 2: Bryce West playing that position, yeah, you're probably talking about
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  Speaker 2: three of the five most confident players on the team.
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  Speaker 2: And the other two would be probably Davis Igbinosen and
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith. So they're not just gonna roll over and
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  Speaker 2: let a true freshman come in. But also Bryce West
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  Speaker 2: isn't gonna just roll over let Aaron Scott win a job.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be really, really competitive. I'm just fascinated
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  Speaker 2: to see if anybody can actually move into that rotation,
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  Speaker 2: because to me, that's that is a that is the
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  Speaker 2: mark of a future star. Where you have two established
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  Speaker 2: guys like Denzel Burke and Davison Ncbnosen were established starters
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  Speaker 2: and Jermay Matthews said, I don't care I'm playing, So
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  Speaker 2: can somebody else say that? This year? Aaron Scott is expecting.
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  Speaker 2: He expects himself to come in and be a starter.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say starter, doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be starting. Jermaine Matthews, I think maybe had one start
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  Speaker 2: because somebody was injured this year, but they considered him
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  Speaker 2: a start. So can Aaron Scott do that? Bryce West
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  Speaker 2: a red shirt. He played seven games last year but
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  Speaker 2: was able to red shirt because four of those games
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  Speaker 2: were in the regular season, three were in the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: He's got some really good experience for being a red
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  Speaker 2: shirt freshman. And those two guys are gonna push each other,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron West or Bryce West being a Glenville guy, Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Scott being a Springfield guy. Two Ohioans that want to
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  Speaker 2: be a starting cornerback at Ohio State. So there's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a really interesting petition and then of course Devin Sanchez.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's fascinated to see what he can do. But maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'm not spending enough time on Jermaine Matthews as the
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  Speaker 2: actual replacement on Denzel Burg, just because he's he's understood
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  Speaker 2: at this point, like there are no doubts about Jermaine Matthews. Now,
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  Speaker 2: can he hold up for an entire game? Can he
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  Speaker 2: be the guy that is always consistent, because it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot tougher to do that than just coming in for
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  Speaker 2: thirty snaps and being fresh throughout the entire thing. What's
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  Speaker 2: he looking like on his fiftieth snap in the fourth quarter?
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  Speaker 2: So you can he avoid the lulls or just it
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  Speaker 2: only takes one bad moment to give up a big play.
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  Speaker 2: So can he stay locked in? I think I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a fair question, But I also think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to answer it. I expect him to be very very
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  Speaker 2: good this year. I expect him to be the guy
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  Speaker 2: that replaces Denzel Burg. And like I said, the bigger
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  Speaker 2: question is who can replace Jermaine Matthews, And really the
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  Speaker 2: real question is can somebody and then who would that
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  Speaker 2: person be? And there are some candidates, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot to ask one of these young guys to just
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  Speaker 2: come in and establish themselves as somebody that needs to
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  Speaker 2: be in the rotation. But the thing is it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to happen by September. It didn't happen by September
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  Speaker 2: for Jermaine Matthews, even though they felt good about him.
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  Speaker 2: They played him last year, He started a couple games
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  Speaker 2: last year because of injuries. They love this dude, but
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  Speaker 2: they were still also not just throwing him into the
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  Speaker 2: games willy nilly and for no reason. He gave them
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  Speaker 2: a reason eventually, So can somebody else do that again?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be by September. Shoot, it could
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  Speaker 2: be by December. Is there somebody playing that well that
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  Speaker 2: Tim Walton and Matt Greery are like, Okay, well he's
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  Speaker 2: one of our he's playing well enough that he needs
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  Speaker 2: to be on the field, and he gives us an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to rest a starter, a co starter and get
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  Speaker 2: out there. It's going to be fun to see see
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  Speaker 2: how it goes. And uh so, there you go. That's
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  Speaker 2: how I high was stable replace denzil Burke. They'll do
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  Speaker 2: with Jermaine Matthews and then we'll see what they do
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  Speaker 2: to replace Jermaine Matthews and if you want to go
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