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Ohio State Football Insider: 3 Storylines To Watch On Offense For Fall Camp · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, August fifth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: kicks off on Thursday at Ohio State. We have two
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  Speaker 1: morning shows to go before then, So we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking about some of the storylines we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: watching as Ohio State kicks off fall camp today. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be starting on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Going to welcome in our buddy, Tony Gerderman, the team
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  Speaker 1: insider from Buckeye Insiders dot com. Tony on the offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. Normally you go into fall camp
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, all right, there's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback battle. I can't wait to talk about the quarterback battle,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's kind of fake, it's okay, well I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big side and end this year, no one's even pretending,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who the quarterback is the bigger question to
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  Speaker 1: me and probably the biggest question on offense this fall.
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  Speaker 1: It has to get resolved between now and that ball
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  Speaker 1: State game is So, who's going to be the best
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  Speaker 1: five on the offensive line?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Ryan Day said he'd like to have the
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  Speaker 2: answer of that question by about practice nine or ten
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  Speaker 2: in fall camp. So it will be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: what we can see in that first weekend, those first
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  Speaker 2: three practices when we're there and who is at left
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  Speaker 2: tackle the entire time or how often you hey, oh,
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  Speaker 2: there goes Austin Siravel. He's playing some right guard right now.
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  Speaker 2: Just seeing how often that happens, If it happens, if
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't happen in the first three days, does that
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  Speaker 2: mean anything, Probably not, so just you know, as we
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  Speaker 2: always talk about, the first few practices are getting a baseline,
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  Speaker 2: and that's one where they need to find that those
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  Speaker 2: five sooner than later so that they can get them
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  Speaker 2: plugged in and start playing off of them. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the main question that everybody has right now,
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  Speaker 2: which I guess if the biggest question facing your team
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  Speaker 2: or your coaches or from the outside is hey, who's
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  Speaker 2: your right yard, you've probably got a pretty good team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is one of those. A lot of they're
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  Speaker 1: probably about one hundred and twenty five teams that would
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  Speaker 1: kill for that to be their question. On offensive line, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we only have four starters back from last year's team,
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  Speaker 1: and you know which, where is the guy who is
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  Speaker 1: you know, like an old conference caliber player. Where is
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  Speaker 1: he going to play? That's the real, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: real stirring question right now. Yeah, as far as questions go,
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  Speaker 1: that is not a bad one, but it is a
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  Speaker 1: certainly a question they're going to need to answer because
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  Speaker 1: we saw if you do not really truly answer that
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  Speaker 1: offensive line question, you saw what that looked like at
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  Speaker 1: the end of last season. So they will have to
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  Speaker 1: get that sorted out. Something else they're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: get sorted out is Okay, this is another problem lots
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  Speaker 1: of teams will love to have. Yes, they have Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 1: but who will line up against across from Jeremiah Smith?
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  Speaker 1: Who is going to help Phil Carnell tates shoes this year?
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  Speaker 1: It feels like Jeremia Smith can cover for a lot
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  Speaker 1: and you've got Brandon Innis back, returning starter from last year.
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  Speaker 1: But just what is that alignment going to look like?
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  Speaker 1: What is going to be sort of the starting three
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  Speaker 1: and how are they going to figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how are they gonna line up at wide receiver?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, starting three and sometimes it's starting two because we
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of times if that second tight end
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  Speaker 2: is more impactful, better a better fit than that third
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver, than only two receivers are going to play
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  Speaker 2: a certain amount of the time. And it was interesting
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  Speaker 2: at Big ten media days to see Jeremiah Smith and
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  Speaker 2: Julian Sayin both talking up Brandon Innis and how, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Brandon understands it. Last year wasn't good enough and that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Those are all of the same things that and has
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  Speaker 2: told us in the spring, and how they both expect
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  Speaker 2: much bigger things from him this year. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that will be interesting to watch. What we know is
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  Speaker 2: that Jeremiah Smith can't do it alone. While he can
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  Speaker 2: certainly do a lot of things alone, if there's nobody else,
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  Speaker 2: then the defense can just focus on him and take
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  Speaker 2: their chances. With everybody else, and it basically just intentionally
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  Speaker 2: walk Jeremiah and then face everybodybody else. And you can't
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  Speaker 2: have just a bunch of four to six to three
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  Speaker 2: double plays out of your receiving room. And so that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be interesting to watch. And you know, Devin
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  Speaker 2: McEwan and Kyle Parker coming in from the transfer portal,
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  Speaker 2: what can those guys do? What kind of impact? What
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  Speaker 2: kind of threats can they make against the defense? While
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  Speaker 2: everybody's high on Brandon Innis, they still need those two
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  Speaker 2: guys to be worthy of being brought in and they are.
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  Speaker 2: Devin McEwan's played a bunch, Kyle Parker's played some and
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  Speaker 2: that needs to translate into Ohio State production. And then
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  Speaker 2: with the freshman mainly Chris Henry Junr and Brock Boyd,
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  Speaker 2: can those guys create an impact? And we don't even
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  Speaker 2: talk about Philip Bell and Dez Jones, the red shirt
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  Speaker 2: freshmen of the group who have more practice experience than
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  Speaker 2: the other guys. So's there's a lot of options. But
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  Speaker 2: they can't just be guys. They've got to be more
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  Speaker 2: than they They've got to be Ohio State starting wide receivers.
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  Speaker 2: And they can't be starting by default.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that that feels like that could be a really
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  Speaker 1: really big determinant and just how special this offense can
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  Speaker 1: be because you've got lots of potential there, but not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of outside of Jeremiah Smith, really no sure
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  Speaker 1: fire answers there, and that is definitely to me, I
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  Speaker 1: think a big, big question mark. And last one I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to ask about was running packs because this is
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  Speaker 1: one where I think you and I are sort of
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  Speaker 1: on the same page, where lots talent in that room.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Laughlin has stockpiled some really really talented players. You've
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  Speaker 1: got some guys to some complimentary skill sets. But then
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  Speaker 1: you hear Ryant big Ti media days last week talking
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that, well, you know, that's something that
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  Speaker 1: they're he's gonna be watching pretty closely because you got
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  Speaker 1: lots of probablys and maybes and shoulds, but not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of definites in there.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, Yeah, you've got a returning starting sophomore. We're
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  Speaker 2: running back who rushed over a thousand yards last year,
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  Speaker 2: averaging six yards of carry. Well, that's a great starting point.
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  Speaker 2: You've got your number four Russia returning in Isaiah West,
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  Speaker 2: though he was higher up that list as the season
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  Speaker 2: went on, and both of those guys will be healthy,
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  Speaker 2: so that's also a plus. I'm really interested to see
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  Speaker 2: what Jacoby Jackson does the transfer from Florida. There's this
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  Speaker 2: not assumption, but you brought in CJ. Donaldson last year.
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  Speaker 2: He has now gone. You bring in Jacoby Jackson. And
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  Speaker 2: the reason Donaldson was brought in was for experience and
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  Speaker 2: for the fact that he's a bigger running back. Jacoby
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  Speaker 2: Jackson has experienced. He's as big as Isaiah West and
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  Speaker 2: Bo Jackson. So really the role that CJ. Donaldson filled
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  Speaker 2: could be filled by everybody. In terms of these top three,
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  Speaker 2: any of them are big enough to be the big
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  Speaker 2: running back or the short yardage guy. And frankly, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that that's Jacoby Jackson's game anyway. From what
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  Speaker 2: we saw in the spring, he's comfortable between the tackles
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  Speaker 2: and he's comfortable catching the ball out in the flats.
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  Speaker 2: I'm interested to see how he gets used. And he
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  Speaker 2: was running with the Ones a lot in spring, mainly
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  Speaker 2: because there was no Isaiah Isaiah Westerboro Jackson and they
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  Speaker 2: were hurt. And then of course everybody wants to see
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  Speaker 2: Legend Bay finally healthy. And see if those all of
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  Speaker 2: the buzz and all of that before spring and the
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  Speaker 2: enduring spring is warranted. And I'm still interested to see
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  Speaker 2: Turbera Rogers, who was a top fifty type recruit when
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  Speaker 2: he was signed in twenty twenty five. So there's some
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  Speaker 2: really interesting pieces here and certainly a lot to watch.
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  Speaker 2: But as we always say in camp, judging running backs
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  Speaker 2: can be kind of difficult because of the lack of
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  Speaker 2: tackling that may happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get maybe a little bit of a sense.
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  Speaker 1: You can certainly look at who's running in what order,
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  Speaker 1: and that sometimes gives you some information about where things
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  Speaker 1: really stand. But yeah, you don't really know until the
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  Speaker 1: pads go on and the lights turn on and you
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  Speaker 1: have to you get to get to see it for
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  Speaker 1: real on a Saturday afternoon inside Ohio Stadium. So that's
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  Speaker 1: three of the storylines we'll be watching on offense as
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  Speaker 1: Fall camp opens this week on tomorrow, show Guess what
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be looking at. Three storylines to watch on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. I know you're as
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  Speaker 1: surprised as I am, so we will when we do.
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