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Ohio State Spring Football Insider: What We're Watching For Inside Practice · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, March tenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Moore. The ball State game in one
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  Speaker 1: today is the day we've all been waiting for for
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  Speaker 1: a certain I guess select portion of the fan base
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  Speaker 1: who is extremely excited about spring football. I would say
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about spring football at this point. The
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  Speaker 1: long off season is over, at least for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: We will be back at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday morning to watch the Buckeyes kick off spring
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  Speaker 1: football twenty twenty six. Fifty one new faces between the
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  Speaker 1: transfers and the true freshman coming in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: new folks in that building. We're gonna again get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to see all of them. I'm going to welcome
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  Speaker 1: in Tony Gerdaman at Bucky Huddle dot com and Tony.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a show that I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we do just about every year. What we're actually going
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  Speaker 1: to learn inside Ohio State spring ball on Tuesday and
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  Speaker 1: in week one, and then what we'll maybe learn over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the whole spring, because you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up spring practice one. We'll probably
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  Speaker 1: do a live show or you know, a podcast something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and all the comments are going to be
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  Speaker 1: what does Chris Henry look like? What? What is you know? What?
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  Speaker 1: What is? What is Devin Stands? How good is Devin Sanchez?
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  Speaker 1: You know which of the true freshmen is? It looks
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  Speaker 1: amazing right now? And the answer is, we will have
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  Speaker 1: some idea, but we will not have any final answers
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  Speaker 1: on day one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's it's one thing if we when we
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  Speaker 2: go in there the first day, it's it's inside in
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  Speaker 2: the practice facility where everything is much more confined. It's
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  Speaker 2: another thing if it's going to be nice, like it
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  Speaker 2: will be this Tuesday, and they maybe choose to go
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  Speaker 2: outside and have it, and then it's on a number
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  Speaker 2: of different fields and good luck catching all of that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's always interesting that because you're just it's
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  Speaker 2: Tom it's like watching something through a fire hose. Basically
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to see everything, and then as you're doing this,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, like if you're just looking at
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  Speaker 2: everything and none of it's registering, like so then you
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  Speaker 2: have to just like, Okay, I'm gonna watch this. Then
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch this, and then you just try to
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  Speaker 2: get through Okay, what haven't I watched and then go
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  Speaker 2: over there. But it's like, but I still want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'd like to I haven't watched enough tav
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Clair today or I haven't done this. And
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to touch as many bases as possible, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that you can't get to all of them and knowing
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  Speaker 2: that somebody else is getting to something you know, and
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  Speaker 2: that's another thing, like you could have you could have
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  Speaker 2: covered this better than anybody. But it's like I did
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  Speaker 2: not get to see who was that second left guard,
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  Speaker 2: Like I know somebody else knows who that they saw it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like I didn't write it down or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a lot and it's a short time. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of like a quiz show type of thing,
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  Speaker 2: like you're or like an escape room, like you've got
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  Speaker 2: to find all clues, find the clues all over this room,
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  Speaker 2: and then use those to escape within an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and your hope you're looking at the right spot
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  Speaker 1: at the right time, because you have you hear an
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  Speaker 1: ooh or an awe from the other side of the field,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, man, what did I just miss?
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  Speaker 1: But here's a nice thing. What you see on day
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  Speaker 1: one is not what you're going to see on day eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, what you see on day one is most
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  Speaker 1: useful in terms of just having a baseline, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of an expectation. Yeah, we're looking to see what
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  Speaker 1: are the new guys look like. We're going to get
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  Speaker 1: the new roster, and we'll have new heights and weights,
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  Speaker 1: and who's who's put on weight and who's lost weight,
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  Speaker 1: and who's gotten bigger or who's you know, at a
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  Speaker 1: different height and weight than they were listed at at
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  Speaker 1: their previous school. That is information that we will end
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  Speaker 1: up using. Who's changed uniform numbers. Sometimes we know that
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  Speaker 1: going in, sometimes we don't. So you've got all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but you also just have who's in what order in line,
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  Speaker 1: who is going in what order, and you know the
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  Speaker 1: new guys. Generally the transfers are going to be or
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  Speaker 1: they're back in line, and then you'll see them kind
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  Speaker 1: of move up relatively quickly during the spring. What's interesting
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  Speaker 1: is where you know where the true freshmen. They're also
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  Speaker 1: usually back in the line. But then when we're back
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  Speaker 1: in there later in the month, Okay, who's no longer
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  Speaker 1: in the back of the line. Who have they jumped
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  Speaker 1: in front of? You know, in terms of oh, this
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  Speaker 1: guy's working with the ones, this guy's working with the twos.
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  Speaker 1: Even that sometimes is you know, we'll get to that later.
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  Speaker 1: That your eyes can deceive you sometimes in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what you're seeing. But really day one is really just
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  Speaker 1: here is a baseline measurement, and then that will be
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  Speaker 1: we will measure everything else in the future against this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's one of the best days. This
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  Speaker 2: like the first day of fall camp, first day of
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  Speaker 2: spring camp, just because you're done speculating without as much information.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can begin speculating with more information. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have all of the information, but you've got more to
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  Speaker 2: go on, and then you know, day two it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: like I can write up a practice report from day one.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little. Sometimes it's a little harder to do
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  Speaker 2: from day two if we're not there very long, because
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, nothing has really changed, and like all
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  Speaker 2: of the same guys that I mentioned are all in
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  Speaker 2: the same spots that the too deep on the O
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  Speaker 2: line was the same thing that I saw on day two.
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  Speaker 2: But like all of that information that you can glean
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  Speaker 2: and gather and then applied down the road, it's like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't you know Jakobe Jackson went from fifth to
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  Speaker 2: or fourth to second over the course of you know,
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  Speaker 2: however many days and you're just you're writing down as
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  Speaker 2: much as you can because you only get a couple
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  Speaker 2: of looks and yeah, we'll go back and look at
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  Speaker 2: video to see, Okay, well who is where and who
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  Speaker 2: is you know, running with who? And because you just
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  Speaker 2: you just want to know where everybody is right now
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  Speaker 2: so that you you when you see something later. It's
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  Speaker 2: like you can, for one, it's informational. We've seen Jake
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  Speaker 2: Cook climb up. Now I can go ask Tyler Bow
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  Speaker 2: and tell me about jakeok Jake Cook climbing up, and
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  Speaker 2: so you have of context for what you want to
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  Speaker 2: talk to coaches on the record off the record about
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  Speaker 2: with with what you're seeing and then what you're learning.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, day one is always great, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a Christmas Morning type of thing because everybody wants
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  Speaker 2: to hear about everything, and you know, everybody's excited to
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  Speaker 2: cover it, and everybody's excited to share it and get
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  Speaker 2: it out there to the masses. And and then and
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  Speaker 2: then you need a nap.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta gotta edit, to edit photos and write
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  Speaker 1: up the practice report and do the post practice, the
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  Speaker 1: post practice live live show, and then do the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the in whatever your interviews are, and then maybe take
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  Speaker 1: a nap. But it's a it's a The first day
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  Speaker 1: is generally a pretty long day. Second generally generally a
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  Speaker 1: pretty long day as well. But definitely a lot to watch.
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  Speaker 1: But you're trying to see, as you said, as much
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  Speaker 1: as you can. But a lot of times what you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing you can't draw too many real firm conclusions on
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  Speaker 1: because you'll have, you know, well, voy the guy they
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  Speaker 1: just got in the transfer portal, he's way at the
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  Speaker 1: back of the line. He must be no good, like no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not really what that means. And then we've also
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  Speaker 1: seen her for the last couple of years as they
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  Speaker 1: look to get as many reps in as possible, they
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  Speaker 1: will split the ones and the twos between two separate
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  Speaker 1: practice fields and run the same plays on the two
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  Speaker 1: separate practice fields. And so then you look and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line. Sometimes it's the one offensive line and
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  Speaker 1: one field, and the two offensive line another. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: the one left tackle on left guard, but the two
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  Speaker 1: center and the two right guard and maybe you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the one right tackle. I don't know. It just
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a mishmash. And then the next day it'll
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  Speaker 1: be mixed up a little differently, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: well it'll be what did you see? What do you know?
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  Speaker 1: What do you what did you learn? And it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we learned something. I remember a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: there was I don't even remember who it was. There
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  Speaker 1: was a walk on linebacker who was with the twos,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, that's really surprising. It was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: so and so had class or something, and it's just, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes there are external factors or this guy's
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  Speaker 1: banged up and they're just taking a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: cautious today. So yeah, it is you you learn a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but also you end up learning stuff that doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: always work end up being exactly correct.
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  Speaker 2: Was it Ryan Batch?
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  Speaker 1: That sounds right? It was. This was several years ago now,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah it was. It was someone like.
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  Speaker 2: That, somebody in the forties, Jersey wise. But yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when you only get to see so much, you try
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  Speaker 2: to make something of everything. It's like what you know,
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  Speaker 2: with fans and media watching the spring game, this is
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  Speaker 2: the most you've gotten to see. You're going to make
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  Speaker 2: as much of it as possible. But it's not always
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  Speaker 2: the wisest thing, and it's never the wisest thing to
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  Speaker 2: make all of your expectations or judgments based on this
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  Speaker 2: one thing. You know, Tory and Washington should have won,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Bleetnikoff, you know that sort of thing. Bam Childress.
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  Speaker 2: We can go on and on, but yeah, it's like
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  Speaker 2: I remember, I'm talking to a player at some point,
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  Speaker 2: and how like what we have to do on a
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  Speaker 2: day one is we're kind of like, okay, who's lining
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  Speaker 2: up first, who's jogging first, who's warming up together? And
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  Speaker 2: you know that's how we kind of start to determine
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  Speaker 2: what's that first first team look. Like and like that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that's the way it's been every single year,
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  Speaker 2: Like rarely does this lie? Like you where did you
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  Speaker 2: line up as a freshman? All right? Then where did
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  Speaker 2: you line up as an It's no different than season
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  Speaker 2: tickets for students, Like where were you as a freshman?
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  Speaker 2: Did you get better seats as a senior? Yeah? You did,
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  Speaker 2: as you moved up, you got better seats and you
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  Speaker 2: know you moved up, so yes, it's like a strange sign,
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  Speaker 2: Tom Frankly, Like imagine seeing Austin Seerveld in the like
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  Speaker 2: the back middle of the offensive line as they're getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to jog you know, you know, one hundred yards,
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  Speaker 2: Like you don't necessarily see that.
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  Speaker 1: No, you know, I don't know if that's intentionally how
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  Speaker 1: they do it or not, or if the players know
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  Speaker 1: that's intentionally how they do it, but it sure does
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  Speaker 1: seem like that's how it works out a lot and
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  Speaker 1: you can draw some conclusions, not necessarily the most firm,
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  Speaker 1: but you can learn a lot with an hour or
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  Speaker 1: two inside Ohio State football practice. And we will do
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  Speaker 1: our very best to do just that. On Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have coverage for you at bucke huddle dot com
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  Speaker 1: and at YouTube dot com, slash Bucket Huddle and of
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  Speaker 1: course on your podcast platforms a choice. All sorts of
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  Speaker 1: exciting new information about Ohio State football coming at you.
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  Speaker 1: As we kick off spring football Tuesday at The Woody.
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  Speaker 1: We will have plenty of coverage for you. See you
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  Speaker 1: at buckey Hudle dot com and at YouTube dot com
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  Speaker 1: slash bucket Huddle to talk about it all. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for joining us, have a great day. We will talk
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  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.