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Ohio State Football Insider: Who Is Leading The Quarterback Battle? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, April twelfth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Gerdamant bucke Huddle dot com. Tony the spring game obviously
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  Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday inside Ohio Stadium. Friday, we got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to watch the Buckeyes practice their final pre
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  Speaker 1: spring game practice inside Ohio Stadium. Again, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we're contractually obligated to start with the quarterbacks, so we
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  Speaker 1: will start with the quarterbacks. This is I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we've got so much more out of this practice that
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  Speaker 1: we did out of the student appreciation practice where you
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  Speaker 1: got to see a bunch but this was like just
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  Speaker 1: me ran a lot more stuff and you just frankly
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  Speaker 1: do were fere people standing in a way, So all
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  Speaker 1: of that sort of helped. I think my big takeaway
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  Speaker 1: on the quarterbacks is I don't think there's anyone who's
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  Speaker 1: ready to start for State and get Ohio State to
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  Speaker 1: where Ohio State wants to be right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's something that we've been saying so time.
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  Speaker 2: There's no news, bad news, no news is still early news.
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  Speaker 2: There's still a lot of work to be done. I
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  Speaker 2: think the encouraging thing is Ryan Day and Brian Hartline
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  Speaker 2: have said this week that they're not concerned about the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback situation. They've got enough here to get ready for
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  Speaker 2: the season. But it is interesting where the last student
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  Speaker 2: appreciation day, maybe it was Lincoln Keynolds today it was
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  Speaker 2: like sometimes like it's good, sometimes he throws it bad pass.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes Julian's good, sometimes he throws a bad pass. Same
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  Speaker 2: with Davian Saint Claire, who we could talk about as well.
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  Speaker 3: But an up and down day. For the most part.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty chilly, we can say that, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Olio's not where you play cold weather football, so this
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  Speaker 2: is something new for them. But yeah, the consistency is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a thing that they're searching for well
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  Speaker 2: into probably November.
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  Speaker 1: And it does it feels like to your point, and too,
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  Speaker 1: I think the idea from Ryan Day and Brian hartline,
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  Speaker 1: you can tell these guys are these guys can make
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  Speaker 1: the plays, these guys can make the throws. It's just
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  Speaker 1: as you said, the consistency where there were stretches of
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  Speaker 1: practice that I thought. Lincoln king Hools is definitely having
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  Speaker 1: the best day of anyone here of the quarterbacks, and
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  Speaker 1: he made some really nice roes. He probably had to
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  Speaker 1: throw the day, had a really nice sort of Mile
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  Speaker 1: and Graham in the back corner of the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Scott had some pretty good coverage and Mile and
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  Speaker 1: Graham made a nice play. We'll talk about him probably
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  Speaker 1: a little later on. But then he threw Lincoln kingholes
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  Speaker 1: through a pick six to Jermaine Matthews, who also had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good day. We'll talk about him a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later on. You're seeing just like, oh the mistake,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and Brian Dale talk about just you know,
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  Speaker 1: you need to have you need to be reliable, you
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  Speaker 1: need you need to be able to make the routine
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  Speaker 1: plays routinely, and you need to not make you know,
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  Speaker 1: you need to not make the big mistake. And you're
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  Speaker 1: still sort of seeing the big mistake in one form
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  Speaker 1: or another from several of these guys that Julian Sand
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  Speaker 1: at one point had back to back places where he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to hand the ball off and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the exchange was bad and they were and the ball
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  Speaker 1: ended up on the ground and then he's running the
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  Speaker 1: lap because you know Punic's m laps. It's just you
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  Speaker 1: can tell it's there in these guys, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: the development has to continue, and you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's probably worth mentioning this is what it looks like
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  Speaker 1: at this point of the spring A lot of years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, practice number fourteen and this is no different. We
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  Speaker 2: were talking while we were watching this about Justin Fields
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  Speaker 2: in his spring game of being like four for thirteen
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  Speaker 2: or four for eleven or whatever and not looking like
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  Speaker 2: the near all American he became.
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  Speaker 3: But it's early. It's the offensive line changes depending on
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  Speaker 3: who you are.
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  Speaker 2: You may be with the twos, you may be with
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  Speaker 2: the threes. So you're getting the twos and threes on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line and the receivers, so the routes are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe a little bit different for different guys
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  Speaker 2: and for different quarterbacks. So you know, the coaches are
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  Speaker 2: grading on where the ball is supposed to go, and
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  Speaker 2: if it goes, they're great. If it doesn't get caught,
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  Speaker 2: that's not really what they're looking for all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, are you making the right reads? Are your
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  Speaker 2: feet right? Are your eyes right? Those are the things.
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  Speaker 2: So even if it's to us like well that throw
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  Speaker 2: was behind him, or that throw was ahead of him,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe it's not because it went to the right spot,
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  Speaker 2: but it was still incomplete. But you know, there were
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  Speaker 2: there was the accuracy overall, I thought today it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of missing it points or some tos that were
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  Speaker 2: behind receivers as we saw not not much stuff going downfield.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, there was one play where Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 2: beats beat his quarter immediately and was open, but he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't open because Malie Carford was, you know, drifting back
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  Speaker 2: to cover the deep shots. So you get by one
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  Speaker 2: guy and then the Sainties are there. So the downfield
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  Speaker 2: stuff hasn't necessarily been there. Outside we saw a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe down the middle of this. This passed
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  Speaker 2: over the past week or so, but overall, yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: the the accuracy, and it wasn't the windiest day, but
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  Speaker 2: it was maybe a little breezy, but I don't I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is no different than what you're gonna see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, it was more the temperature than the wind.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, the wind probably eighteen trip into temperature
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  Speaker 1: more than it did to the flight of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It was you know, it was chilly, it was this
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  Speaker 1: was not quite as cold as the Tennessee day game.
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  Speaker 1: But this is colder than you're going to have for
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  Speaker 1: virtually any game at you know, on on the Ohios
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  Speaker 1: date schedule. So does that play a factor?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe. And they've spend inside the facility most of the spring,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, you're probably not used to this to
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  Speaker 1: a certain degree, so you know, and how much of
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  Speaker 1: that is just sort of coming up with a reason
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  Speaker 1: that it didn't look great?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they need more experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they need more live reps, and they'll get
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  Speaker 2: better as the games go on, and they'll get better
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  Speaker 2: as the practices go on. But then they'll really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: take that next step once they had the live reps
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  Speaker 2: in game, which it'll be interesting to see how many
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  Speaker 2: they can play early on, not in the first game.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe in the first game. Yeah, if things go
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  Speaker 2: perfectly for them, but there You're gonna want to get
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  Speaker 2: everybody some actual game reps as you can this.
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  Speaker 1: Year, and Tavi in Saint Clair's going to need some
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  Speaker 1: actual game reps this year as well, because if you're
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  Speaker 1: the third string quarterback that you gotta be ready. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to You've gotta be as ready as you can be.
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  Speaker 1: He's you know, he looks like a true freshman. He
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  Speaker 1: looks like a very talented true freshman. Which there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason for that. It's because he's a very talented true freshman.
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  Speaker 1: He has come light years from where he was at
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  Speaker 1: the start of the spring. He's still a long way
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  Speaker 1: from where he would need to be to be a
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  Speaker 1: serious contender for the starting job. That's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is still very much a two man race.
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  Speaker 1: But he also, like you can you can start to
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  Speaker 1: see it a little bit with him again. We can
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  Speaker 1: be said that again last week during the student appreciation practice.
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  Speaker 1: You can see it. You're seeing some throws, there's there's mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: there's a I didn't you know, my mechanics are bad
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  Speaker 1: on that one. You can see him like going through
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  Speaker 1: mechanics get to the stuff after certain reps. But you
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  Speaker 1: can also see like he had I think one of
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  Speaker 1: the nicest throws to day. It was downfield too, was
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  Speaker 1: that to Max Claire. There was there was a shot
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  Speaker 1: way down down the middle, kind of going right to
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  Speaker 1: left in front of us, and he see just put
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  Speaker 1: it right in there.
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  Speaker 3: He had.
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  Speaker 1: He gets some nice throws, had some touchdowns. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's going he's got the threes and he's going against
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  Speaker 1: the threes. And there's a lot of sort of walk
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  Speaker 1: on guys on that third team defense, so you know
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  Speaker 1: it would be a big step up to the first
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  Speaker 1: team defense. But you're seeing enough progress from him that
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, based on the trajectory, you can sort
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  Speaker 1: of plot out the line and it gets you to like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is probably going to be playable at some
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  Speaker 1: point this year, at least in you know, fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: of blowout kind of games.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the game the game is obviously moving
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  Speaker 2: quickly and moving fast for him.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's moving too fast.
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  Speaker 2: Where last year compare him to Aaron Noland true freshman
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  Speaker 2: early in role, the game was just moving too fast
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  Speaker 2: for him. So you'd see him when he's out there
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  Speaker 2: normally he's just gonna dump it off and Tavian like
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  Speaker 2: he'll keep stuff alive and then go looking like he's
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  Speaker 2: he's looking for receivers as he's running for his life.
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  Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to see when when does he
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  Speaker 3: hit the wall?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because things are Things are nice and
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  Speaker 2: easy until until they aren't and you start.
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  Speaker 3: To be pushed more onto you, more of the offense
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  Speaker 3: on't you and with them and being that third guy,
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  Speaker 3: like they can't put him on scout.
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  Speaker 2: Team, you know, because he needs to be needs to
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  Speaker 2: be part of the offense. And I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to really continue they will continue to invest in him.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're gonna continue to get more out of him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you can sort of you can see where this
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  Speaker 1: is going, and it's not there yet, but this is
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  Speaker 1: definitely someone where you can look and go, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be He's gonna be fine with more reps. And
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  Speaker 1: all three of these guys just need more reps, need
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  Speaker 1: more experience, and it's just keep stacking days. As they
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  Speaker 1: say running backs, I mean, I think my big takeaway
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  Speaker 1: among the running backs today was boy Bo Jackson's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be pretty good and he might be pretty good pretty soon.
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  Speaker 3: To me.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing with him is just a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff we haven't seen. How is his blitz pick
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  Speaker 1: up like all the stuff that coaches say advantment? Oh
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  Speaker 1: but if he can wrong like that, why does it matter?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, because it matters. But man bo Jackson
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  Speaker 1: certain sure seems like he's closer to being the second
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  Speaker 1: running back than any group along the third.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not to say he's the backup, but like
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  Speaker 2: I said, he's certainly closer there, and you see him
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  Speaker 2: able to get through the tackles, able to find you
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  Speaker 2: just be patient enough and find the whole.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm with you, I would like to see what.
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  Speaker 2: Does he do with the blitz pick up because back
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand and two, that was one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that Maurice Clere excelled at, Like right away, Yes
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  Speaker 2: he was the best running back on the team, but
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  Speaker 2: he was also able to do that, and we saw
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  Speaker 2: how effective Travon Henderson was with it last year and
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  Speaker 2: how important it was because if he couldn't do that
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  Speaker 2: last year, Ohio State's probably not winning a national championship.
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  Speaker 2: Ye with his skill set and doing that. So everybody
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  Speaker 2: has seen the importance of it. And maybe that's Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Locklan thing where we're doing this so they're going to
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  Speaker 2: get better out and you like really have no choice.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a lot to ask him a true freshman.
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  Speaker 2: But what they've asked him so far, he looks like
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  Speaker 2: he's capable of doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm always a little cautious about trying to
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  Speaker 1: evaluate running backs during situations like this where in most
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  Speaker 1: cases you're not getting taken to the ground, and it's like, well, boy,
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  Speaker 1: if he can just break six tackles like that in
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  Speaker 1: a game, boy, he's really You're really going to be
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  Speaker 1: onto something. But you're also just sort of seeing like
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  Speaker 1: all the all the stuff this is he's doing stuff
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  Speaker 1: that other guys are not doing, so that I think
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  Speaker 1: is someone to watch.
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  Speaker 2: And other and stuff that other guys that we've seen
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  Speaker 2: do very well have yes, have done Yeah, Yeah, there's that,
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  Speaker 2: We've seen it before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. At this at this point, you're just kind of
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  Speaker 1: the measuring stick is not necessary, you know. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: the other guys out there. Sometimes it's well, I remember
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like when fill in the blank was
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  Speaker 1: was here multiple years ago, in the same constraints and
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  Speaker 1: this looks better, worse, the same, whatever it is. So
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  Speaker 1: on the wide receivers, Quincy Porter was in a yellow
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  Speaker 1: limited contact thing. He's still he was practicing. He was
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  Speaker 1: out there for some stuff. He was not out there
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  Speaker 1: for other stuff. We'll see what that means for his
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  Speaker 1: participation in the spring game. He may just be out
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  Speaker 1: there for the dud stuff. We'll see what that all means.
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  Speaker 1: So we didn't see a ton from him. I was
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  Speaker 1: very impressed with Mile and Graham felt he felt like
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to see okay. You know, he had the
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  Speaker 1: pedigree coming out of high school and you're starting to see, okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's starting to show up on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think the most impressive play was Lincoln Keno's starring
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown pass do you have in the red zone?
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  Speaker 2: Went up and caught it over Aaron Scott, And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the thing that that was a question can
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  Speaker 2: he do that? Because you get him in space, you
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  Speaker 2: know he's fantastic, you know you assume he is, and
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  Speaker 2: he can move and he's fast and he's got all
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  Speaker 2: this quickness. How physical can can he be? And he
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  Speaker 2: was physical and went up and caught that touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a very good sign for all of the
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  Speaker 2: things he could do, because if he can do we
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  Speaker 2: know he could do the other stuff. So continue to
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  Speaker 2: be impressed. He's had a very good spring. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not because he's doing what Jeremiah Smith did last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like you see him making catches. He's making
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  Speaker 2: he's moving to chains, he's catching stuff over the middle,
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  Speaker 2: he's catching stuff on the sidelines. He's catching basically whatever
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  Speaker 2: he gets thrown his way and picking up yards, and
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  Speaker 2: he just the routine things routinely doesn't just go for quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: You're seeing it from him as well. And a red
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  Speaker 2: shirt freshman going through his first spring. I know he's
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to the spring game, he said, so, so
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  Speaker 2: see what he can do on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just sort of thinking through the other wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Colonel Tate continues to look very solid. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Smith is Jeremiah Smith, and maybe Brandon Innes was the
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  Speaker 1: other guy who jumped out to me a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Just just feels like this is someone whose time has come.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know he's excited about his opportunity and
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  Speaker 2: the quarterbacks are looking for him, so you know, that
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  Speaker 2: happens a lot in the slot in the spring and
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  Speaker 2: fall up and then during the season as we know,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I want to see. I'm just looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to eventually seeing where do they use him most,
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  Speaker 2: because if it's just you know, like ten yards per
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  Speaker 2: catch kind of guy, you know, whereas we're gonna throw
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  Speaker 2: some quick screens and things like that, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you're using him to his full potential. And I think
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  Speaker 2: generally around here they do get the most out of
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  Speaker 2: their receivers.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Show and today and last week is well, he saw
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  Speaker 2: more outside as well. He's not just in the slot,
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  Speaker 2: he's outside as well, which they want to continue to
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  Speaker 2: round out is going to play. He doesn't have to
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  Speaker 2: come off the field when they want to put Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: or Carnalo slot.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something where you see that on offense and
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  Speaker 1: on defense, because like Jerma Matthews, for example, we've seen
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  Speaker 1: him in the slot in the nickel, which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of covering the slot on defense when he typically is outside.
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  Speaker 1: And this is something that you've seen a bunch over
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  Speaker 1: the years. They would put Marvin Harrison in the slot,
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  Speaker 1: and they put it by a move outside and they
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  Speaker 1: put you know, moved Jeremiah Smith around a bunch because
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  Speaker 1: you know Jeremiah Smith, if you put him in the
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  Speaker 1: slot and he's covered by a safety or a linebacker
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  Speaker 1: like well, that's you know that he can create mismatches.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a good way to create some mismatches
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  Speaker 1: and really force the defense and maybe to get away
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  Speaker 1: from what they want to do. So so that's that's uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's wide receivers, tight ends. I think the big notable
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  Speaker 1: thing was will Castmrick was there. We had not seen
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  Speaker 1: him at the student appreciation practice and you didn't see
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  Speaker 1: him at this practice, and then sort of towards the
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  Speaker 1: end he came out on a knee scooter with a
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  Speaker 1: boot on. So I would at least call him questionable
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  Speaker 1: for the spring game, probably probably out. We'll see, you
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  Speaker 1: know how much that impacts potentially the season. There's a
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  Speaker 1: long way to go till the seasons, so you would
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  Speaker 1: you would have, you know, hopefully that's something that's a
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  Speaker 1: you know, relatively minor thing that can can get healed
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  Speaker 1: with healed with the four months or so before there's
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  Speaker 1: a real game here. But that's a you know, we
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  Speaker 1: had not seen a lot of him. Max Clayer does
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: feel like he's sort of moved up the pecking order,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: like he was sort of wrapping at the back of
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the line in the spring, and then as we sort
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: of expected, he's moved up and up and up, and
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, tada. He was with the
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: ones with a decent amount on the on Friday.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: And with this tight end group, you're gonna have other
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: guys with the ones as well. You saw Benny Christian there,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: we saw Jelani Furman there, So they got some guys,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: had a good day. All of the tight deads had
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: good day, even Date Roberts had a good day. Max
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: LeBlanc getting in some actions. So I say the tight
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: deads had a good day. Maybe the linebackers not such
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: a great day at coverage of those guys, but yeah,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: they're so deep there, that might be the deepest position.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Group of the country. Yeah, and they were missing a start.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, offensive line, the line, we've kind of I feel
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: like you're sort of getting a sense for what that
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: starting offensive line might look like at this point. We
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: came into the spring really wondering about that right tackle spot,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: and I think, you know, if I had to guess
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: right now who the starter is at right tackle. I
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: feel like I know who the answer would be at
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: least right now, and it's still just a guess, and
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: there's still time for that to change. But I think
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: you and I are probably on the same page there
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: in terms of who might be that starting right tackle
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: and against Texas.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Right and we'll tell you, guys who that is against Texas.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Look at that Austin ziraveld Is. Austin siriveld Is. He
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: was rapping with the ones a bunch at right tackle,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: not exclusively, but you know, they're still shuffling guys around.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: But it just sort of feels like he's maybe gonna
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: be one of the best five. And if you're one
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: of the best five, you're gonna be out there somewhere.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: And he is, you know, he's flexible enough they can
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: put him, they can spot him into a couple of
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: different positions. And Brian Day, you know, we talked about
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: this last year before with the Penn State game win.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: It was like, why why are they gonna put you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: why do you think they're gonna play Carson Hanson out
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: theres as well? Because Brian Day is going to default
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to who are the veteran, you know, the trusted veterans
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: who I can who I know can do it. You've
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: seen Arston Ziraveld play at the highest level of his
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: sport in terms of the National Championship Game, the college
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: football Playoff. It just feels like if he feels like
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Austin Seerveld is close to, you know, one of the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: top five guys, he's gonna be one of the guys
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and that that just it feels like you're sort of
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: seeing that maybe start to come together.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: And when you're looking for your top five and you've
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: got a guy that can play four spots, he's kind
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: of worked his way in. It's like when your dad
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: is the VP or the executive, Like I'm gonna be okay,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna find a spot here. I'm very very versatile.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I can do a lot of things. I can do
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: mail room, I can do you know, executive stuff. And
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: that's what he can do. Like whatever you need from
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Austin Seerveld he can do. And he's not a NEPO baby, like.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: He's a real baby.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: He's a real He's the.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: First off and then he's effective and it's not just
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: that's great that you can play four spots.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Can you do well enough to start?
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: We know he's done the guard well enough to start,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: and I think with enough time to tackle he'll probably
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: right now it's him. It's more it's Philippines, and we've
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: seen him way more and we've seen him get more
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: with the ones about left and right while they're doing
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: all of this rotating.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: But I'm with you. I think it's Austin Seervelt at.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: This point, and the rest of the offensive line best
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: guess right now. Left tackle Ethan on Thelwall, left guard
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Luke Montgomery, center Carson Heinzman, break guard Tager Shabowl or
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: right tackle Austin Seerveld. Again, there's plenty of time for
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: us to be wrong on this. This is nothing is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: nothing is finalized, nothing is in stone. But you know
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the classic well of the Sea if the season started today,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that's more probably what I would see happening here. Anything
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: else on the offensive side of the ball before we
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: move over to defense.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: No, you should do no. I'll just stay I'll say no,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: and then I'll talk to you off air.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a great, sounds like great. We're not gonna
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: do our editorial meetings on air like we always do. No, okay,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: oh we didn't break from tradition. That's fine. On the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, defensive line seemed like they
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: were perfectly fine. Everyone always wants to know what c J.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Hicks is doing. Ce J Hicks is still rushing off
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the edge. To me, I think there were two big
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: takeaways on the interior the defensive line. Number one, the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: starting interior if the defensive line has been really good.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: We were talking to someone who pointed out at one
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: point there was a play where Edward Houston was gonna
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: like getting blocked on like one far side of the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of the field and then went all the way across
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the field to kind of run a play down on
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the far side of the field. He just he can
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: really move, just so athletic. So that's that's, you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the first team defensive tackles. I feel like, yeah, they're
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: gonna be very very good after that. Like I thought, boy,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: they're gonna I bet they'll find an answer this spring.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: And I still don't know if they found an answer
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in there in terms of.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Death, yeah, I mean, and they're moving guys around there
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: trying to find a third and the fourth tackle. We've
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: saw Jason Mood, will Smith, We've seen I've seen will
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Smith now a couple of times with the ones, you know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Jason Moore, Eric Mitza and there I saw Jack Quiz
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Carter in there a little bit, you know, just not
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: with the ones, but in terms of trying to find something,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and I say trying to find something, because I'm convinced
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: they are. You know, they are trying to find their
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: third and their fourth and I don't know that it's there.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And so if you don't have a third and a fourth,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you're you're one and year two are going to be tired,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: and a third and the fourth.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: So they've got to figure that out.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And if if we keep saying that that's the portal
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: is maybe the answer, but the portal is going to
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: be where everybody's going and here in the week, So
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: good luck battling all of the other shoppers out there,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: so you would hope that you can find something here.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Ryan Day was like people need to step up this
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Monday when we talk to him, like those guys need
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to step up. Matt Patricia told him, prove it, prove
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: to us why you're here, Like you're here for a
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: reason prove it, so like they're being challenged and really
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: challenge them, Challenging them like this in the last week.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's enough to convince them. Then Okay,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: we've got the guys that we need.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Right. It feels like you you know, they always talk
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: about grating over the course of the spring and you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: have all these reps, you get fifteen practices. The spring
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: game is the only time the fans are going to
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: get a chance to watch and see and if you
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: have a good day in the spring game, but great,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that's fantastic everyone, And there's going to be a tendency
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: for people to go, well, I bet that's what I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: looked like all spring, and you know even that is well,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you need someone to actually have a good day against
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: you know, in the spring game. The coaches are evaluating
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: over a long enough period of time, you can tell
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: like this is a point where it's like, okay, this
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is like you know, capital O, capital A, capital C
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: officially a concern, and I would be very surprised that
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: they were not actively pursuing somewhere in the transfer portal.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: But at this point, as you said, there's gonna be
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that need another entire
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: defensive linement, and there are probably a lot of other
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: good teams that needed in good interior defensive linemen. So yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff that I was taken off
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of it Prdue or Illinois can't match, but they're Texas
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: probably would not find another interior or Georgia or whoever
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: else other teams kind of towards the top of the sport.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's gonna be. That's gonna be. You know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you're shopping for a reliever at the trade deadline, it's like, well,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: you're probably gonna pay a little more than the reliever
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: is really worth in terms of trade, And so that's
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: gonna be. You know, that is not the easiest spot
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: to fill, but I get the sense they're going to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: have to do something to end and give them someselves
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a few more options.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: What kind of prospects do you have that you're willing
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: to give a what does Baseball America say about your
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: true freshman? But then you know you're lucky for somebody
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: and you're saying, look, we need a we need somebody
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: for the rotation, and that guy's like rotation.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a starter. Yeah, it's like, well, you know,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: we have co starters, we could do the crow starter thing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: So then you've got to start selling that and.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: You're at the spot where you're coming in. And this
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: will be Kaden McDonald's second year, right, third third year
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: for Kad McDonald's second year for ED for Houston, So
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: theoretically you might be missing Kate McDonald the year from now,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and then boy, you really need to And I think
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: there's probably they brought in a big defensive line class
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: this year, so there's probably someone on that in that
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: group that you could Jarquest Carter is probably a name
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you're hearing more a year from now, but that doesn't
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: necessarily help you. This year, linebackers were fine. I mean,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I have one of the conversations we had inside was
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to evaluate the linebackers when you're
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: not tackling to the ground. It's like, well, boy, there's
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: running backs. He's running past them. It's like, well, but
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: they're right there, so they probably would have not front
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: past them if they were But this is this is
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a difficult time to evaluate linebackers. Based on what we've
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: seen this spring, I have no real concerns there it
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: feels like you've got a pretty good sense for who
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: your starters are, who the third guy is. Feels like
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: they're feeling pretty good about all three of those guys.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Of course, that would be r vlis Sidey style starting
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and Peyton Peers kind of the third guy in there.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Gabe Stover is another someone who's missed some time this screen.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: He's probably a little further behind corners. Talked about Jermain
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Matthews earlier. He had a broadly a very good day.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: You know you're going to give up some completions, but
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he continues to be someone he had a pick six,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: He had another one where he jumped an out route
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and got his hand on the ball and you know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: one step quicker and then it is a pick six.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: He continues to be someone who looks very good. They
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: move him inside outside, I'm looking at him and going, boy,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be a pretty pretty solid player who
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you hear a lot about on broadcast this fall.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Well, and we were talking earlier off air, like the
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks keep.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Throwing at him, and is that because they're not throwing
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: a David Niguanosen And the thing is, if you want to.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Keep throwing at Jermaine Matthews. He should.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: He's going to go get the ball. Yeah, whether he's
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: knocking it down or catching it, he's caught. I wonder
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: how many interceptions he's had this spring, because we've seen
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the last two practices and he's had two and those
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: and he's just a round the ball. He's quick, he
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: jumps rout to the traged as well, and he's fun
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: to watch and and they'll tell you about it as well,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: which is also good. I don't think they're throwing flags
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: today because there there was one play where he was
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: pretty physical and.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Then he was talking to the raft was like, was
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I okay?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: And the raft was like he was saying a lot
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: of words, so I don't think he was okay. And
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: then like a couple of plays after his pick six,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: which gets blown down immediately, so it's like there was
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: there would have been nobody there to stop up, so
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: it's still a quick six. But he was defending carnelte
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: on like a fade into the end zone and he
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: was all over him. So like even you know, Jermain Matthews,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: we're talking about how good he's been. He's still a
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: little handsy at times, but when you're going against some
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: physical receivers, it calls for it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you pointed out the dava ciiticgnocent thing, and I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: was like, man, I hadn't noticed him all day. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it's when you don't notice a corner all day sometimes
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that's like I didn't notice the long snapper it all day.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: It's like, no, that's a good thing. We really haven't
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: seen him get thrown.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: At a lot last year.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: He sure did, and you know, I I wonder what
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that now. As soon as you pointed that out, I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: was like, now, I wish I could go back and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: like watch the film of practice and you know, what
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: was he doing in all these plays? If IF, IF,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And there's there's a lot of you know, I'm gonna
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: put if in all caps and bold and italicized. If
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: he has if he has done, you know, taken that
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: kind of a step. Boy, that kind of changes what
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: this defense is because I feel it like at this point,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: like Daray Matthews is going to be a good to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: very good and potentially great player on the outside of
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the inside. If you have Davison Ignosen at least as good,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: if not better than that, and you have Caleb Downs
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: behind him, and we'll talk about who might be next
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to Caleb Downs behind him. Boy, old boy, that's a real, real,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: real intriguing defense where you got your coquart Thomas and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: also playmaking and you can do some different things with them.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: He's not been invisible, but it's like you could go
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: an entire practice and I'm talking about last year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll just see when I J J I
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: were going ahead.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: And they were they were talking like this, it's like
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: now it's like and it's not just because he's on
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the other side of the like they're just not throwing it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's really really, that's now something I'm gonna
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: really do. Watching and that Spring game on Saturday, he's gone,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: yeah maybe. I mean, it's just it's it's all of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: all through practice. I thought, Okay, here's gonna be the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: narrative coming out of his practice, and then I was like, oh, nope,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the guy who did something really good earlier. I was like, man,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I was ready to gas this dude up. Just oh man,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that was a bad decision or you know, oh boy,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: this guy's having a rough day. He's like, nope, big
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: big play. The other it's it's there's so many reps.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: It's so many more reps than a normal game that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: it's like you can construct multiple for the narrative during
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: just one practice. So and this wasn't even like they
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: were just running seven on seven or eleven on eleven
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: le practice. There was a bunch of individuals, So this
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is like half of a practice and you're still getting
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: so many more reps. The depth that corner Bryce West
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: in the slot, Aaron Scott, Devin Sanchez outside. For the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: most part, he stung guys moving around a little bit,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: but Aaron Scott was a guy who he had. He
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: had a couple of times. There's once when he was
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in coverage on Jeremiah Smith going down the sideline and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: it was just he was step for step Jeremiah Smith
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and it was like that, you know, that shows me
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: something that you're you know, it's one reper, how much
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: does it mean? But it's like, okay, he was pretty
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: solid all throughout the day. He was the one who
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: was in coverage on the mile and Graham touchdown, but
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: he was you know, it was it was a great
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: play because he was good coverage. Aaron Scott feels like
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: he's really you know, he's kind of taken that next step.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And then Devin Sanchez, true freshman, he's still you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: he is still probably the fourth corner right now outside
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to me. But you're seeing it's it's sort of a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: lesser version of a Tavan Saint Clair thing, where Tavan
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Saint Claire at the beginning beginning of spring looked like
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: completely like, you know, he had a longer way to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: go to get to where he is. Devin Sanchez came
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in a little, probably a little a little more ready
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to play. And that's more of a thing with the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: position he plays rather than anything else, I would guess.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: But he's looked not out of place as a true freshman,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and as a true freshman in your first spring, if
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you look not out of place, that tells me, Okay,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: there's a possibility that you look ready to play by
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the time the follow us around.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you see an after plays going and getting
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: feedback from whether it's teammates or coaches, so like he
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: wants to get better after each play. Aaron Scott, he
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: absolutely wants to play. He was upset he didn't play
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: last year. He understands why he didn't, but he doesn't
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: want to do that two years in a row, so
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: you know he's going to be ampt And see, I
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: think it's it's not a deep group, but the guys
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: they had, like the talent quality is very very high.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Quality over quantity, I would say, is what they have
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: here right now. And you know they'll they'll get another guy,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Jordan Woods in the summer. But again, the story one
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: you're as we all know when you're a June and.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Roly like, yeah, we'll see you next.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Year this time this time next year, we'll be talking
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to you about Jordan Woods. But yeah, that's if you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: come in in the summer, even if you are I mean,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the whole reason we didn't talk about Marylin Graham much
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: last year was came in the summer, and so that's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: just you really kind of put yourself behind the eight
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: ball and you sort of have to almost write off
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: that first year if you are a junior Roley almost
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: regardless of who you are. Safety kind of the last
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: spot when we can talk about before we get to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: special teams, Caleb Downs. You know what you got with
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Caleb Downs, Joan McClain, Malie Hartford. It felt like when
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Caleb Downs was out there. You saw more of one
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: guy than another, which kind of maybe gives you a
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: sense for where those two guys might be in terms
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: of a pecking one way.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he saw Milie Cartford more paired up with Caleb Downs,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and that's been the case from all spring, basically since
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: we've seen them. So if you want to talk about
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the ones right now, then it's Caleb Downs. And the
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: thing is that Caleb Downs in Mollilye Carford and they
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: continue to slide back and forth in terms of free
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: safety and strong safety. So yeah, that's the way things
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: are leaning. I think Jayalen McLain is still going to
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: play this year. Whoever the third guy is, they're going
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to play this year, So I think they're also going
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: to look for ways to play them all together.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: How does that?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: What does that look like? Lorenzo Styles and Nicol had
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: a good day today. Again.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: He had some good coverage on Jeremiah Smith. He's had
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: a strong spring. I know there's still he's still got
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: to prove some things. He's got doubters and you know
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: this is his last year, so living up to following
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Jordan Hancock is a tall order. That's a tough ask,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: but we won't see what they can do.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: And at the Nickel right now, it feels like the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: pecking order is Lorenzo Styles and then Bryce West and
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: then Myles Lockhart probably in that order. So that's that's
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: sort of where things stand in the secondary and then
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: ending up with special teams. The punting is still inconsistent.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: It's just you get some you know, Nick McLarty for example,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: he would get an absolute kinning shot where they you know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the returners backing up and it's over his head. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: then the next one is not you know, he doesn't
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: get the hangtime. It's a line drive or whatever. Yeah,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: you got some weird you get some weird trajectories in
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the air. So the punting, you know, I don't I
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: don't know that the punting has been solved yet. It's
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you can look at one kick and go, oh man,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: they really have something here, and then the next one
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: it's like maybe kicking though. This was the most we've
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: gotten to see Jid and fielding all spring, and he
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: was up to the up to the task.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah he was.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: He was good early on and then to close practice
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: maybe the most. It's the most pressure we've seen, which
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: is you know, he started off with twenty seven to
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: twenty eight yard field goal and then you move five
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: yards back, and then once they got to the forty
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: three yard field goal, it was if he misses, everybody
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: on the team is doing ten updowns.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Drilled it, and then five more yards, it's forty eight yards.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: If he misses this, it's twenty updowns for the entire team,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: and he drilled that. So both times the team is celebrating,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: surrounding him and celebrating. But how do you how do
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: you do you put pressure on the kicker? How do
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: you put in the game type of atmosphere. Well, you
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: can't bring in one hundred thousand people, but you can
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: have one hundred sets of eyes.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Like, you better make this kick. I'm tired, I want
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: to go eat and I want to do this. And
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: he drilled both of them.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and both of them were like basically straight down
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the middle, and the one from forty eight looked like
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: it would have been good from fifty four fifty five,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I mean there was there was plenty of extra leg there.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So you know, that certainly is encouraging because he said,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: you know, he's sort of talk about in the fact
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: he might have been a little banged up towards the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you know, in the back half of last season, so
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: maybe reason for some optimism there as well. But you know,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: that was that was a solid performance from here. So
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: that will I think we've kind of covered all the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: all the big stuff from this final Friday practice before
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: tomorrow's or before Saturday Spring game. We will of course
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: be back here on Saturday for the spring game. We'll
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: have some pre game coverage, We'll have some post game coverage.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I think we're aiming for potentially a live show nine ish.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: We'll put something out on social media as well as
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: on on the Buckeye All message board, and you have
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a pregame show, previewing, previewing the day,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: answering your questions, and we'll have some post game coverage
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: for you as well. We'll try and get the Ryana
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: press conference and all that kind of stuff, and then
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: have our usual live postgame Buckeye Weekly podcast doing some
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: instant reaction to the spring game, what we learned, questions
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: that are still remaining, guys who were maybe positive surprises,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: areas of concern, all that kind of stuff. So we
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: will have all of that for you on Saturday. Hit
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: bucke Huddle dot com at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: We hope to see you in both of those places.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: That will do it for today. Thank you guys all
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you tomorrow