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Ohio State Football Insider: Get To Know The Next Guys Up At Linebacker · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Today on Today Show, are you going to get to
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  Speaker 1: hear a little bit from a couple of Ohio State linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: There was some news on Saturday involving one of the linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: One of the other linebackers on the team. That was
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  Speaker 1: that linebacker Peyton Pierce was one of seven players named
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  Speaker 1: team captains. Brandon Innis the wide receiver named block oh
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  Speaker 1: Jersey recipient. Want all the details on that? You can
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  Speaker 1: and I did a show recapping that, as well as
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  Speaker 1: a couple other little notes from inside the scrimmage. On Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to talk to us about any
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  Speaker 1: that on the insiders board at Buckeye Insiders dot com.
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  Speaker 1: So on today's show, you're gonna hear from two of
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  Speaker 1: the other guys not named captains on that linebacker room.
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  Speaker 1: One of them Christian Allegro, the transfer from Wisconsin. The
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  Speaker 1: other one Riley Petty John, second year player, looks like
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be taking on a much bigger role in
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  Speaker 1: that linebacker room this year. So let's start with Christian Allegro.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked just to describe what that linebacker room
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  Speaker 1: is like this year, the level of talent in there.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna hear that, and then a quick follow up
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  Speaker 1: from her buddy Tony.
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  Speaker 2: Gurdam, strong, fast and aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have multiple different players that can play
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  Speaker 3: multiple different positions. You know, you got a guy like
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  Speaker 3: Petti John who can go on the edge and play
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  Speaker 3: off ball.
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  Speaker 2: You got me who can go on the edge and
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  Speaker 2: play off ball. You know, he got TJ.
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  Speaker 3: Halford as well with those you know, his long arms,
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  Speaker 3: so he can do whatever he wants.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously Pon Pearce is just the man in
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  Speaker 2: the middle doing his thing too. So yeah, you football
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  Speaker 2: fall before I'll care.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you doing it now?
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm super comfortable, you know, coming off of spinball,
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  Speaker 3: just running a lot of it, working on a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of different techniques that I literally.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think I worked on a lot in the past.
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  Speaker 3: So I've been working on that a lot with Patricia
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  Speaker 3: and Laurneidis, and then they've been getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a particular spot among those different linebacker roles
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  Speaker 1: where he feels most comfortable really?
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  Speaker 3: Either, I mean, I think so far I've been playing
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  Speaker 3: a lot of kind of that outside linebacker role, but
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  Speaker 3: lately I've been playing They've been moving me into that
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  Speaker 3: inside linebacker role, which I ran more up at Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: So honestly, like both, it's pretty equal.
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  Speaker 1: To me mentioned earlier that Peyton Pierce was named one
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  Speaker 1: of the team's captains on Saturday, He's also going to
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  Speaker 1: be the starting middle linebacker. Where that green dot he's
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of. He wears a lot of hats,
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  Speaker 1: some of them have green dots on them. But what
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  Speaker 1: really stands out about Peyton Piers.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's just I think he's just really sneaky,
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  Speaker 3: athletic like and he's a really vocal leader, super smart too,
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  Speaker 3: one of the smartest guys I've been around in terms of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, man in the middle. So he just commands
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  Speaker 3: the defense. You know, he has a lot of respect
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  Speaker 3: for experience, so obviously he's doing something right.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like we've spent a lot of the fall
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  Speaker 1: talking about Peyton Peters, Christian alegro Riley Petty, John T
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  Speaker 1: j Alford. It feels like those are kind of the
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  Speaker 1: top four guys in that linebacker room all for probably
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  Speaker 1: going to play a decent amount of this fall. Who else,
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  Speaker 1: who else in that room is someone that people maybe
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  Speaker 1: aren't talking about enough.
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  Speaker 3: I really like Eli Eli Lee, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: he's just a fantastic football player. He is super smart
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  Speaker 3: as well, and he has a nationally the football for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think he has the most forced fumbles that so
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  Speaker 3: far in the summer, So he's a helpless player.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Legro was asked about playing for James Laurennidas. What
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  Speaker 1: is that like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's just super relatable just because he's played
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  Speaker 3: at every single level. He's played at the such a
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  Speaker 3: high level in college, such a high level in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: and he just knows so much about the game.
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  Speaker 2: So he just he just has those.
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  Speaker 3: Little details and those techniques, says, I know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think I ever really learned in the past as much.
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  Speaker 1: So we've spent a bunch of the fall talking about
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  Speaker 1: them being in a four to three and maybe being
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  Speaker 1: in a four two five and how everyone's different roles
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  Speaker 1: might shift around. He was asked about that, how his
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  Speaker 1: role changes when they go to a four to three
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to being in the nickel in that four
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  Speaker 1: two five, and it sounds like, well, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of options there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you could put me on the house side,
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  Speaker 3: you could put paid in Riley on the inside, and
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  Speaker 3: you can interchange me and Riley as well. He can
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  Speaker 3: go on now, so I can go on inside, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really whatever, So, uh, not much changes other than just
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  Speaker 3: whether we're outside or insiders. You can all play.
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  Speaker 1: There is a long history of guys playing other sports
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  Speaker 1: and then converting to football players. You remember, Sam Hubbard
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  Speaker 1: was a lacrosse player before He ended up a pretty
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  Speaker 1: darn good safety and then linebacker and then defensive li
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  Speaker 1: end between high school and then college and then the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Olibra was also a lacrosse player. He grew up
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  Speaker 1: in darry N, Connecticut, sort of southwestern Connecticut, down in
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  Speaker 1: the part near New York City. So when did that
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  Speaker 1: become something that changed from him being a Division one
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  Speaker 1: lacrosse recruit to potentially being a Division one football recruit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it all started when I was at
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  Speaker 3: Darien High School back in Over in Connecticut. We won
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  Speaker 3: the state championship my senior year and I was kind
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  Speaker 3: of sitting there one day and I was talking to
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  Speaker 3: my mom. I was like, no, I liked lacrosse, but
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, I think I'm more of a
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  Speaker 3: you know, love and passion for football. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: my parents were like, all right, let's go do go
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  Speaker 3: do your thing, and you know, they led me to
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  Speaker 3: a postgraduate year after.
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  Speaker 2: A high school.
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  Speaker 3: Ended up getting a bunch of offers like all that second,
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  Speaker 3: and it was kind of a honestly, it was a
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  Speaker 3: blessing to miracles for me because in a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of luck as well. But you know, yeah, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: just so happy I'm here and blessed.
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  Speaker 1: This is Christian Allegro's first year in Ohio State's defense,
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  Speaker 1: and this is Ohio State's defense first year going up
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  Speaker 1: against an Arthur Smith offense in practice. So what is
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  Speaker 1: that like going against Arthur Smith?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a good question, you know, I think every
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  Speaker 3: day he skied. I don't want to say he's scheming
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  Speaker 3: us up in practice, but it feels like he is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, He's got a lot of good plays under
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  Speaker 2: his belt.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously super smart, and when you have a quarterback like
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  Speaker 3: Julian saying you can really do whatever with that offense,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and obviously all the talent we have outside
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  Speaker 3: and inside with our running backs and receivers and you know,
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  Speaker 3: our line, it's really good.
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  Speaker 1: So you know they you know, last year, Christian Allegro
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  Speaker 1: was a linebacker for Wisconsin and played against Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: and had to try and tackle Isaiah West and Bo Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you compare tackling Bo Jackson last year,
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  Speaker 1: going up against Bo Jackson last year up in Camp
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  Speaker 1: Randall Stadium, compared to what it's like trying to get
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  Speaker 1: Bo Jackson on the ground in Columbus in practice this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean bo Jackson, dude's so fast. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I knew he was fast last year, but it seems
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  Speaker 3: like he's gotten faster. And you know, once when he
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  Speaker 3: hits that hole, he just goes and he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: So uh. And in terms of Isaiah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think he just got so much bigger and stronger, which
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  Speaker 3: also made him faster. So he just you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think he's kind of like the downhill running back layer.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna he's gonna run you over and if you
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  Speaker 3: if you don't bring you, you know, bring you.
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  Speaker 1: Now on to another guy who's expected to play a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big role for the Buckeye linebackers this year, Riley
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  Speaker 1: Petty John. So, how different does year two feel for
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  Speaker 1: him compared to last year as a true freshman.
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  Speaker 2: It feels really, it feels really different. Coach Lornidis.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's obviously been developing me throughout last season
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  Speaker 4: and just you know, to get him in the spring.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm just out there playing faster and
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  Speaker 4: smarter and playing like actual football.
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  Speaker 1: Petty John is going to be playing a much bigger
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  Speaker 1: role this fall than he did last year. But he
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  Speaker 1: did get on the field at least a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and got some real shine in that Grambling game early
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  Speaker 1: in the season. How much did getting on the field
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  Speaker 1: last year help him with his confidence coming into this season.
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  Speaker 2: It gave me a good.
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  Speaker 4: Party just getting been able to say what college football
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  Speaker 4: really feels like and just showing like I just showed
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  Speaker 4: myself back and actually do this, and I just gave me,
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  Speaker 4: gave me a good I placed the lean back on feels.
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  Speaker 1: Every time we've talked about the linebackers this offseason, the
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  Speaker 1: conversation has started with, well, you got to remember they
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  Speaker 1: lost to Reese, they lost Sunny Styles. Both of those
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  Speaker 1: guys were top seven NFL draft picks, So you gotta
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  Speaker 1: figure they're going to take a step back at linebacker
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  Speaker 1: this year, right, Well, the linebackers have heard that. The
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  Speaker 1: linebackers have heard you heard fans talking about it, they've
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  Speaker 1: heard media talking about it. They've heard all the conversations
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  Speaker 1: about how the linebackers. Well, they certainly have to be
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  Speaker 1: taking a step back this year, and so is there
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of chip on everyone's shoulder proved
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  Speaker 1: that they can still be great after losing Sunny Styles
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  Speaker 1: and Rvel Reese.
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  Speaker 4: It's a big chip because you know, they both went
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  Speaker 4: top or Top ten Top ten guys, So it's definitely
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  Speaker 4: a big chip. But I know, I know the guys
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  Speaker 4: in the room can feel it, and you're gonna do
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  Speaker 4: our best to live up to that standard.
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  Speaker 1: You heard a lot from Christian Allegro earlier in the show,
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  Speaker 1: and now you're gonna get to hear a little bit
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  Speaker 1: from Riley Petty John about Christian Allegro. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: benefit has he seen learning from a veteran like Christian
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  Speaker 1: Allegro who has been a starter in the Big ten already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he has a lot of experience, So just seeing
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  Speaker 4: just being able to talk and talk with him and
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  Speaker 4: just learn different things off him, things that he's seen
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  Speaker 4: in the past and what he's seen in practice, and
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  Speaker 4: you can train you where we see it and just
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  Speaker 4: build off each other.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, the other two guys who are sort of
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  Speaker 1: in that mix for the for playing time this year, TJ.
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  Speaker 1: Alfred Peyton Pierce. Between Riley Petty John, Christian Allegro, and
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  Speaker 1: these two guys, it feels like that those are probably
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  Speaker 1: the four guys who are going to get the most
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  Speaker 1: snaps at linebacker this year. So here's Riley Petty John's
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  Speaker 1: assessment of t J. Alfred and Peyton Pearson what he's
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  Speaker 1: seen from those guys.
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  Speaker 2: He's grown so much.
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  Speaker 4: I mean just I can tell by the just the
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  Speaker 4: way he attacks practice and he's the way he's been
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  Speaker 4: making plays out there in the screen. I'm in this.
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  Speaker 4: Uh this fall is really big improvement from last year.
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  Speaker 4: And pay and pay. He's just he's being he's a
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  Speaker 4: he's being a more leader because you know them two
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  Speaker 4: guys they left, so uh he's a way better leader
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  Speaker 4: and and uh yeah they both they they both been
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  Speaker 4: leading leading this Uh, this this.
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