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Ohio State Football Insider: What We Learned Inside Today's Practice · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, April thirteenth. I'm your host,
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tom Or the Akron game in one hundred and forty days, the game
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against Michigan in two hundred and thirty one days, the Ohio State spring game
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coming up later on today. Jenny Gerdamin and I live outside Ohio Stadium.
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Got a little preview of the spring game. Got to watch the full Ohio
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State practice. Get to watch a full Ohio State scrimmage on Saturday. But
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you know this is another It was a nice, well, nice day.
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It's always a nice day to be inside Ohio Stadium. It was rainy,
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a little windy, not bad though. Got a chance to watch kind of
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through the whole you know, through the whole practice. And they ran some
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seven on seven and a little bit of eleven on eleven, Ransom situational stuff,
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so you got to see kind of a good mixture of things. This
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is the Ohio Coach Ohio High School Athletic Association Coaches Clinic weekend. So the
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real point of this practice being open was they were about three hundred high school
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football coaches surrounding the field as they were running individual drill. Certain coaches like
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would just bring the high school coaches out on the field to let them get
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a up close look, explain some details and what they were working on.
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I mean, this is this is kind of a cool event. It's a
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really good it's a great resource for the high school coaches. It's also a
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great chance for Ohio State to just sort of say like throw the doors open
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and say you want to come see us, Like, come in, We're
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an open book. We want to we want to help you guys be better
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at your jobs too. Yeah, and there's a lot there's a lot of
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open door policies with high school coaches in Ohio here. But yeah, it
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was interesting to watch during positional drills Brian Hartline bringing coaches down there and explaining
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to them what he's doing and run it through with the players and then feedback
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to the coaches. And it's you know, this whole weekend at the end
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of this week is about giving back to the state, the state coaches and
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things like that. So it's interesting to watch that aspect of it as the
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coaches coach the coaches a little bit. Yeah, So that was that was
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a lot of the individual periods because they'll do you know, teaching periods,
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and they'll do individual drill periods where they do certain work. They ran a
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at one point, they ran a circuit of like six or seven different drills
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where guys were just doing like one rep at one thing and they moved to
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the next one. And you're just working on like slightly different skills, all
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applicable to special teams. And so you saw kind of the approach to Special
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teams this year that they have where there is not one Special Teams coordinator.
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It's just well, there James Lernidis, and then there's Brian Hartline, and
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there's Keenan Biley, and they're just kind of all around, you know,
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running through this whole thing where Special Teams is a little bit more of a
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team thing this year. Yeah, have you memorized yet which coaches are responsible
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for which units? I can say with great certainty that I have not got
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Well that's the difference between you and me. Anyway, next topic. So
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we did get to see, let's touch throw briefly on the special teams,
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because I'm sure that's what everyone's here for. Jeremiah Smith. There, I
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said it. Now, it will show up and it will help with our
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SEO we'll get to him in a minute. He did some stuff hit the
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thumbs up. As as we get to one hundred people hitting the thumbs up,
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we'll talk about Jeremiah Smith and the crazy stuff we saw him do today.
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We did get to see a little bit of special teams. They're kind
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of running through the punter. You know, it's a weird time of year
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because this year's starting punter presumably is not actually signed technically is not yet on
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the roster. They can't talk about him yet. It's kind of a weird,
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a weird thing because he's has not officially signed yet. But you know,
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the kicking, the place kicking look good. I don't think I saw
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a missed field goal during that whole sequence. It was Kyle Snyder, the
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walk on Jaden Fielding obviously the returning starter at kicker. They just kind of
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you know, you've seen them do it during the spring game where it's like,
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hey, you're going to get ball on the right hash at the ten
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yard line, I'm gonna put the ball in the middle right at the fifteen
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yard line and kind of walk it back. And you know, I'm sure
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place kicking is not the single biggest area of concern. But while we're talking
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about special teams, this is really one of the first times we've gotten to
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see them really kick a lot, and it all looked pretty good. Well,
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And the thing is, this is a very November like day. You're
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in Columbus, It's it's a little chili is, it's a little windy,
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it's pretty windy, and there's a little bit of rain at the end.
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So it's not ideal kicking position situation. But you're not going to have that
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foremost of much of the season, especially when it's really important. Now,
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the punting I thought was a little questionable early on. They weren't even getting
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the ball to the returners at points. But they're also, i think at
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that point, also kicking against the winds. So you know, if there
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is one flaw with this team right now, tom as you said, it
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might be the punting. And if that is the biggest problem, and I
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don't I don't know that that's too bad. And like you said, they're
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gonna get another guy coming in this summer to presumably help them out. In
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the words of a late Great Ohio State campus legend, help Tony is on
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the way there, you go, all right, So Kevin Will let us
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know when we hit one hundred thumbs up on this episode that we would talk
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about Jeremiah Smith until we get to that point, until the listeners come through
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for us, we are going to be talking about some of the other positions
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that we got to get a chance to look at. Obviously, everyone's gonna
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want us to start it with quarterback, so we'll start with quarterback. Hey,
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thumbs up for that. Uh. They were kind of repping in the
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same basic order we've seen Devin Brown, Will, Howard Lincoln, Keen Holts,
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Julian saying, Aaron Nolans, he saw all of them get reps with
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the ones at various points, some to you know, some more than others.
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I think my big takeaway was whoever had Jeremiah Smith out there, felt
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like it was like, oh wow, he's looked. He looked pretty good,
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and you know it was It's it's almost like, when I'm judging the
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quarterbacks, it's like, Okay, what did they do to receivers other than
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Jermises? What do you know? How did they complete passes move the ball
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down the field with receivers other than Jeremias without there? Yeah, like what
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questions did you answer on who wants to be a millionaire without asking you phoning
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a friend or you know, I'd like to eliminate two of these possibilities because
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it certainly does help. It's the the man on second and extra innings,
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basically, and that's that's what he is. And so like you know,
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when we watched two weeks ago, Devin Brown looked good, but it's like,
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well he had a couple of throws to Jeremiah Smith, so that's gonna
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that's gonna help. But overall, I thought it was interesting Devin Brown went
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first every single time, like he was always the one. Now, as
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you said, Will Howard was in there with ones as well, but it
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was always there was always the same order and how they wrapped, and it's
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been that order from what we've seen all throughout Springs. So it would seem
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that that's the way things are right now in terms of the pecking order,
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not that Devin Brown has wrapped us up. He hasn't, because you're not
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only gonna You're not gonna give Will Howard just twelve practices, thirteen practices,
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fourteen practices to win a job. That's not why he came here. That's
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not why he brought him here, but right now it seems like Devin Brown
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is doing well. I What I was I thought was interesting throughout a lot
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of this practice was all of the quarterback running that took place. That's read's,
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that's some scrambles that was and drills earlier, having the quarterbacks go through
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some running drills where they're getting the ball swatted and they're they're doing some footwork
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drills over some of the things there, and just much more focused on that
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than we've seen in previous years. And yeah, you saw a lot more
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quarterback run during even the eleven on eleven and the seven on seven stuff,
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which is it's difficult to run the ball because it's you know, anytime anyone
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gets close to the quarterback, the play is blown dead. So you know,
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even when normally you'd be able to make a guy miss or you know
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someone's just kind of reaching for you, it's blown down. So you know,
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the run is not very effective this time of year, but you see
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them working on it. Two the degree that they that they are and you
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look at the fact that all five of the quarterbacks are similar, I mean,
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they're not identical in terms of athleticism, and mobility and all that kind
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of stuff, But they're all pretty similar. You don't have you know,
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last year Kyle McCord was kind of like, well, he's a you know,
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two and a half or three on the mobility scale, and Devin Brown
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is maybe more of us six or seven. You got a lot of sixes
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or sevens. Then maybe you got a seven and a half, maybe get
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a five and a half, whatever, But they're all kind of in the
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same basic area. And you saw guys, even you know, with those
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kind of restrictions, you did see guys making some plays with their legs.
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I know Aaron Nolan at the end had won that you know, picked up
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probably ten fifteen yards in the red zone. I just I look at that
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and I think, boy, it just feels like that's going to be a
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much bigger part of the offenses. Yeah, for sure, and and nothing
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it needs to be you know, eight, ten, twelve carries for the
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quarterbacks. It's the four carries that leads to defenses respecting that which allows the
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running backs to go ahead and make their lives easier. But also in the
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red zone, that's the equalizer. Yeah, the numbers are equated as urban
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Meyer would always say, and that's where they've last year bringing in Devin Brown
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in the red zone, you try to help. They don't need to do
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that anymore because you've already got that kind of quarterback in there. It's just
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part of the offense now. And then it also becomes a little less predictable
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because they oh, they've brought they've taken the early quarterback out and they brought
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the running quarterback in. I wonder, yeah, I wonder what's gonna happen.
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And you know, just you talking about the fact that we've seen Brown
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at you know, kind of repping first all the way through the spring,
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it made me think back to the beginning of the spring when we always talk
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about what we learn is when something changes, that's like, oh boy,
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that's a big change to you know, if Will Howard was repping first,
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now, that would feel like, okay, he has clearly surpassed Devin Brown,
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which obviously has not happened yet, at least in the coach's eyes.
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And so now it's a matter of how close, you know, how much
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has he closed the gap, because when you come in and Devin Brown's been
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here for two years already, obviously Devin Brown has a substantial head start.
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You wonder how much Will Howard has really closed that gap. There were times
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that I looked and thought Devin Brown was better than Will Howard. There were
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times when I thought Will Howard's better than Devin Brown. Will Howard or Devin
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Brown. On the first they ran the guys through like a drive from like
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the forty yard line. Devin Brown's drive went went three and out or four
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four and out technically now he took a sack on the first down play.
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I think it was Taiwan Malone gotten around. They must have run a stunt
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or something, because it was like Taiwan Malone and Josh Simmons, which is
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like those those guys shouldn't be matching up. So you know, you got
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a sack on first down, so then it's you know, second and seventeen,
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and they ended up failing on a fourth down conversion. Will Howard's drive,
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I think they either got a touchdown or he went almost all the way
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down the field and that might have been one. That was the one with
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Well, we got to talk about that later. Who he completed a pass
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to a very long pass down the sideline. Kevin, You'll have to let
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us know again when we hit one hundred thumbs up, can't we can't talk
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about it. We can't talk about it yet, all right, So that
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was that was I think a noted you know, that was okay that you
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know, Devin Brown looked better here, Will Howard looked better. Here.
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Let's you know, Lincoln Keenhols Julian saying, those guys, I mean they
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feel like they are kind of battling for that third spot right now. What
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were your impressions of those two guys today, Yeah, it feels like Lincoln
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was ahead in terms of the repetitions. I didn't really have any moment where
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Julian the last time we saw and had a couple of players, you're like,
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wow, I don't know if these conditions are not ideal. But also
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it's like, well, this is what you're gonna be playing in, so
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like you can't you can't if we're if the weather was fine, if you're
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playing like, this is what you're playing in. So but they also were
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doing a lot of short yarded stuff, so you're not going to necessarily see
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a bunch of big plays. But when I think what you didn't see was
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something that you saw with Aaron Nolan, which was a not a good interception.
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You're like a bad interception to Jordan Han didn't see you say it,
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and you didn't see that from Lincoln Keenholes. So the level of just a
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little bit more calm, they're a little bit more patience and understanding of just
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the situation and they I just like the way say it operates in the pocket.
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Things are moving fast and quickly, but it doesn't seem like things are
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moving too quickly for him. He's able to just you know, look and
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and there was a lot of just nobody's open today, so you're gonna to
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talk and run. So that was that was another reason I think why it
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wasn't necessarily easy for the quarterbacks to stand out because the defense was doing pretty
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well. Yeah, and there was there were points when during the seven on
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seven period it looked, you know that it was like, boy, the
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offense is going boom boom boom right down the field. As soon as you
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got into eleven on eleven you got that pass rush in there a little more
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that it definitely slut which you know that's going to happen. That's that's one
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of the knocks on seven on seven as well. This isn't real football because
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you don't have a pass rush, but even with some of the seven on
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seven, they would have blown to whistle dead, blown the ball dead if
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this was like the the high school seven on seven stuff, because it was
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taking so long and the quarterbacks were just escaping looking for something, and we
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saw they were shuffling people around a little bit in the secondary. Normal,
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you know, your normal starting corners. Unsurprisingly, Davis Ninkunosen, Denzel Burke
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and Jordan Hancock in the slot. That's obviously what we're expecting with the ones.
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That's what we got today with the ones. Did something new with Jermaine
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Matthews today? Yeah, Jermaine Matthews was with the twos at nickel and then
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he had Calvin Simpson, Hunt and Aaron Scott at the at the corners.
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So you know, Jermaine Matthews moving his way. They've been wrapping him at
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nickel. Obviously he can play corner as well, but it's just interesting that
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he's to the point now where we don't need any more reps out of you
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at nickel or at corner. Let's continue to work on the nickel thing,
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because you're good enough you're good enough for what we need right now at corner.
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So I thought that was interesting getting some work there. No Lorenzo Stop
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sooked up. No Lorenzo Styles that we saw today. Yeah, no Lorenzo
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Styles Junior out there that we saw. And I sorry, I want to
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be I said that was new. That's not new that we saw Jermaine Matthews
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inside. We've seen him inside. This was just pretty much exclusively inside,
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which is a little different. Someone else we saw exclusively inside, Mecca Abuka.
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I think he was pretty mu exclusively working in the slot with the wide
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receivers. That's you know, that's certainly interesting, but it feels like that's
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you know, if if you look and you're three they he was. It
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was Carnel Tait, and it was Jaden Ballard outside and and Mecca Abuka inside.
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That was I mean, obviously we have seen plenty of Abuka working inside,
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and he's probably gonna play some outside this year as well, but that
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was another one where I kind of looked him like, huh, that's that's
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interesting. Yeah, because I think part of the reason he came back was
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to get more outside work, you know, to help with the draft.
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And so when he's exclusively inside from what we saw today, And to me,
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that is a that's a Jeremiah Smith situation where you know, we're not
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gonna get too far into it right just yet, but this is a situation
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where it's like, you want the best players on the field together. I'm
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Mecca. You know you're comfortable doing the slot, We're gonna get you back
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in there. And that's to me, was that's a reaction to that,
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in my opinion. But also I thought Jaye Mallet had a really good day
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today as well, kind of a deep pass early on. But I certainly
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didn't look out of place running with the ones the entire practice, No,
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did not. Bryson Rodgers had a couple of nice a couple of nice grabs.
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I saw a good one from Keon gray Is at one point, So
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yeah, there was This is, you know, unsurprisingly going to be a
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pretty decent wide receiver unit, I think, And did we I don't think
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we've actually talked about this on the show. We we were talking about it
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right before we started. Brandon Innis on a scooter today. He is,
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you know, obviously not going to be playing in the spring game tomorrow,
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you know not. I don't have any sense that that's you know, we
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haven't heard that that's going to be a season impacting thing yet. But and
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he was out a couple of weeks ago. He's been out for a few
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weeks, and Day has said like, nobody's yeah, nobody's lost at this
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point. So yeah, I just I couldn't remember if we had mentioned that
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on this on this show. But yet, So that's someone that you were
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not going to get to see. So if you were, if you have
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your spring game single player prop bets, oh, somewhere outside of the state
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of Ohio where those are now illegal, go ahead and bet the under on
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Brendan Innis receptions and yards. So I'm just trying to think your offensive line,
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we have not touched on yet. It's you know, we would look
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in and it's like, okay, here's the first team offensive line, and
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then you'd look and then the next time the first team offensive line was well,
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some of the same guys, but not all of the same guys.
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It felt like it was pretty consistently Joshimmans at left tackle, Donovan Jackson at
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left guard, and Josh Fryer at right tackle. There was a point where
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you saw George Fitzpatricks the Ones very briefly towards the end, but it feels
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to me like those three positions are pretty solid at this point. Yeah,
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and I think we only saw Seth McLaughlan as center. I don't believe that
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we saw him at guard, but we saw with both the ones and the
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twos. We saw Carson Hinsman at center with the Ones and twos. Also
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saw Carson Hinsman at right guard with the ones. Saw Tiger Sabola with the
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Ones at right guard, and also Luke my Montomery with the one. So
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was that three four different guards. Yeah, and there are three guards in
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there with with the ones. So as Ryan Day said on Wednesday, they're
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rolling through and he wasn't lying. And I thought it was also good to
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see George Fitzpatrick out there at right tackle, as you said, Son Mahawski
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with the twos, Austin left tackle, Austin Seerveld at left guard, and
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so that's that basically rounds out the offensive line there. But yeah, they
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it was interesting watching just every single new drill is like a new right side
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of the offense, you know, new interior on the right side with the
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right guard there, and it feels like they, I mean, they really
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are not sure what they're gonna do yet there. You know, sometimes it's
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like, well, you're gonna you kind of have you're gonna move guys around.
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But it looks very different one versus the other. It feels like they
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they're probably feeling reasonably good about both of those. I know snaps were a
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concern, you know that. That's anytime you talk about Ohio State Centers this
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year, everyone's gonna say, well, what about the snaps? Snaps were
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fine. I didn't really see many many, if any issues. I will
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say Luke Montgomery began with the ones. So if if you want to talk
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about who started where starting out, yeah, that's what it was. So
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yeah, well that's gonna be uh, that's gonna be obviously something we need
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to uh, we'll continue to keep an eye on and gonna be probably one
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of those things that people are going to probably come away from the spring game.
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The defensive line is pretty darn good. I don't know how much we're
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gonna see the ones on the defensive line. We did not see a lot
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of tweet and Jack Sawyer and Tyley Williams uh and even Tye Hamilton with the
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with the ones on the during during the practice today. I don't know how
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much we're gonna see those guys on on the field on Saturday, either that
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they may be in there for very little two drives and then out. The
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defensive line has been pretty good. I don't know what what are Ohio State
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fans, you know, in the practices that we've gotten to see, what
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are Ohio State fans helping to see? Do they want to see the offensive
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line really control the line of scrimmage and protect the quarterback? Or do you
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want to see the great disruptive defense, because you know, we saw there
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was at one point I saw keleb Downs blitzing like linking keyholes or something like
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Jim Knowles is getting into his bag a little bit here. So I think
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you're going to see pressure on the quarterbacks. Regardless. What would be better
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news for Ohio State, Boy the offensive line looks great, or boy,
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the defensive line is being disruptive. I don't know about better news. It'd
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be more entertaining if the defensive line just chilled a little bit and let the
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ball get out. Lets. Some things happen if you go to blitz that
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go ahead, and that's fun too, But I'm not expecting the second team
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offensive line to hold up all that well against the twos and the ones,
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twos and threes. I think the first team offensive line, you want to
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see them give their quarterback time. You want to see them give some room
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to quinch On Judkins, who it looks really really quick, and so maybe
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we'll get to see some of him tomorrow on Saturday. And yeah, you
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want to see some success obviously, And because you're gonna see so little out
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of the first team defensive line, you'd rather have the second the first team
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offensive line winning against the second team defensive line. Yeah, and that so
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that's gonna be a fun, fun positional battle to watch. Just thinking through
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anything else, we you know, we saw c J. Hicks with the
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Ones a linebacker a good bit. You know, I don't know how much
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we're really going to see Cody Simon. During the spring game, Ryan Day
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talked about, you know, the guys with a thousand rats probably not playing
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a lot. I'm guessing Cody Simon's going to be in that match. We
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got to see gate Powers a little bit with the Ones. Yeah, and
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then of course Sunny Styles as well. Yep, yeah, linebacker, so
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that covers linebackers. Nothing really notable from tight ends. I know g Scott
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had one nice touchdown catch. I think that was from Oh yeah, Jerelanie
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Thurman had a nice touchdown catch at one point. Yeah. They were there
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were you know there there's reason to be I think optimistic and intrigued by a
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lot of different position groups. I did think it was interesting there. We
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saw some ten personnel, which is not something that a lot one running back,
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zero tight ends, four wide receivers. We saw them running some of
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that, which we have not seen a ton of that because Brian I always
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talked about, you know, really wanting that tight end in the run game.
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I think that you look at the personnel on this team and I think
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it's gonna be hard, especially if if you get everyone healthy and Brandon this
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is healthy this fall and all that kind of stuff. I think it's gonna
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be hard to justify keeping all of those tight ends, all of those wide
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receivers off the field. I think you're probably gonna have to see more ten
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personnel this fall. Boy. I Well, we'll see. I you've got
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some. I don't know that they're overly deep a receiver, but they've got
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I think a good four or five six that they really really like, so
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how do you get them out there? But we also know they're gonna be
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playing a lot of depth early in the season that they've talked about, so
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that we'll see what happens there. I thought it was also interesting we saw
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some kind of wing tea action as well with UH with some tailbacks in their
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two tailbacks and like U H type of situation. I don't know how much
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of that we'll see, but I do I do think it's time to go
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ahead and do more with the two backs. We saw some of that last
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year, just very little. If you've got Travion Anderson and quinch On Judkins,
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you might try to get the boat on the field together. Yeah,
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And it's hard to keep the wide receivers off the field, it's hard to
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keep the running backs off the field. You pretty much have to have a
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quarterback out there. So at some point it is something is going to have
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to give them. That thing feels like it's going to be the tight end
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room at some point, Kevin, do we have questions we need to get
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Tony. The second play of the game, the second play of it
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was the red zone rills. First play was whatever it was, and then
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the second play was a fade to Jeremiah Smith while he was covered by Denzel
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Burke, and he went up, put up his hand at the last possible
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second, went up with one hand with his left hand, brought it in
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two feet in and I just turned to you and said, well, now,
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the Ohio Coaches Association knows we're not making all of this album. It's
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always funny to watch the reactions to something that he does, because you know,
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there are hundreds of people on the field and we've got guys behind us
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as well on the stands, and it's just there there's equal parts like wonder
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and then laughter like wonder at first and that there was like an audible gas.
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Yeah, and these are these are high school football coaches who are used
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to seeing like football stuff happening all the time. Yeah, and it was
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it's become normal, but it's still not because you're like, you know,
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it's fun to watch. And like you said, Denzel Burke was on and
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I think Devin Brown through the past, but it was really good coverage and
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just like at the last second, throw the left hand up there and grab
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it touchdown then and I don't know what else Denzel Burke was supposed to do.
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Yeah, I mean that he was in good position and that was That
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was one of his really nice catches today. Yeah, there was he had
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one from uh from Will Howard on one of those one of those drives.
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It was the one we talked talked about earlier where Devin Brown got sacked and
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went four and out and Howard kind of took them down the field a little
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bit and then connected on the long one. It might have been a third
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and it was something third and long and hit Jeremiah Smith down to the two
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yard line something like that. Yeah. The the interesting thing about that who
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because it was Calvin Simpson Hunt running with him. Yeah, and they were
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even and then two steps later Jeremiah Smith had four yards on him. And
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Calvin Simpson Hunt is a track guy. Yeah, He's like the fastest corner
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on the team. And it just didn't matter. And it's just impressive to
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watch different aspects of his game stand out above and beyond, whether it's bodying
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Denzel Burke and going up with one hand, or it's just distancing himself and
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getting separation from a quarter before catching it up past that was a little bit
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undergrone and then you know you're gonna have to go up and and battle for
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it. And he does all of it. He just he does not at
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any point look like a freshman. He did, I will say he had
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to drop today, but probably not a great throw. It was it was
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high, he went up and it was it was above his head. I
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just want to reiterate that he is human. That's basically what I'm trying to
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do. Yes, yeah, it was. It was another impressive day.
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And I'm already like I already find myself like finding him on the field and
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just watching him and it's like, well, why don't you throw it to
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him? Like I understand the concept of progressions, and I understand he's not
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the first read every time, and frankly shout out to the house date quarterbacks
26:26
with the disciplines you throw to other people, because it just constantly feels like,
26:30
oh boy, he was open there. You probably could have, you
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know, but but you're obviously got to go through your progressions and you have
26:34
to be able to throw to everyone, and otherwise you're gonna have a lot
26:37
of other unhappy receivers. But you're like Homer Simpson when Grand Fluk Barward was
26:42
in town and they just went up to the work in overtime. Get to
26:45
the Jeremiah Smith part. That's you, basically, that is me. Yeah,
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it was. It's it's a little like poochy since we only make one
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kind of reference here, it's a little anytime Jeremiah Smith's not getting the ball,
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it's like, where's Jeremiah Smith? Yeah, it's it's uh, it
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continues to be impressive, and you know you will no longer have the Ohio
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High School Athletic Association coaches no longer need to take our word for it.
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They have seen it on Saturday the rest of Ohio state, and since it's
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on Fox, everyone in the nation we'll get to see it. We do
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have a super chat Austin question. If I had to feed all three of
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you guys, who do I have to worry about eating? Kevin Kevin.
27:26
Yeah, So the question is the question is for Omar Austin, who is
27:29
our buckeyeaddle member who we were having lunch with. Who does he have to
27:32
worry about eating him? Out of house and home. Well, Tom,
27:34
you can go to town on some wings. Yeah, it depends we still
27:37
have the house made of wings. If the house is made of pickles.
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Kevin Kevin, Yes, the house is made of chicken fingers any three year
27:45
old or Tony Yeah it is. Uh. Yeah, well we'll uh we're
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looking forward to having lunch with Omar, but yeah, we're that should be
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it should be a good time. I know we've got a place picked out.
27:56
I don't know what the specialty of the CASA is but looking forward to
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looking forward to that. One last thing. Yeah, sorry you mentioned the
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Ohio high school coaches know about Jeremy Smith. I was talking with Julian Sayan's
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high school coach yesterday. It was a California high school coach also knows about
28:12
Jeremiah Smith. Watched him in the seven on seven tournament going against Jillian Saying
28:17
last year and he was also impressed. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it
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is just and what's remarkable about this is like a Mecca Booka is not playing
28:26
that much. So it's like, I understand why we're not talking about a
28:30
Mecca book He had a couple nice guys touchdown on Caleb touchdown on Caleb downs
28:33
but uh yeah there was there was some like number on number violence where yeah,
28:37
yeah, thirteen on thirteen, thirteen on thirteen. Yeah, Jack Bryson
28:41
Rodgers had a nice one on Miles Lockhart. Maybe that's why we didn't see
28:44
Lorenzo Styles today. Yeah, I don't want that smoke. Yeah, you
28:48
know it is. Uh, it's impressive that with a Mecca Booka out there
28:55
with Colonel Tate, who, by the way, you know last year.
28:57
I will remind everyone Marvin Harrison said, is ahead of where Marvin Harrison was
29:02
at this point in his career. So you know, Cardeal Tate, no,
29:04
you know, no slouch either, And it's still you know, and
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you saw some impressive stuff out of carneval Tate today too, and you still
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like you still walk away like see what Jeremy as Smith did. Yeah,
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I mean we held the show hostage because we were you know, we knew
29:17
what to talk about, but we wouldn't do it. It's like we did.
29:18
We've never done that before about a player. Yeah. Yeah, And
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I think people are gonna be I hope he plays. I hope it's not
29:26
like, well, you know, he had this a little dang this little
29:29
don't be like the Dontree Wilson stuff in twenty thirteen where there's so much hype
29:32
and it just never came to pass. Yeah, No, it's I think
29:34
I'm sure people are gonna be excited to excited to see that in the stadium
29:38
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