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Speaker 1: long long wait, finally got a chance to talk to
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Speaker 1: Ohio State football coaches on Friday. Get a chance to
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Speaker 1: talk to Brian Day and all ten of the main assistants.
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Speaker 1: Was very much guys talking players talking about, you know,
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Speaker 1: drinking through a fire hose as they sort of start
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Speaker 1: to get start to get up to speed with things
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Speaker 1: at their new school. Hear that from freshmen at this
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Speaker 1: time of the year. We were sort of drinking through
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Speaker 1: a fire hose as well. On Friday, as we got
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Speaker 1: a chance to talk to all eleven of those coaches,
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Speaker 1: there was a ton to talk about. Tony Gardiman and
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Speaker 1: I took our first crack at it, start of breaking
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Speaker 1: down some immediate sort of instant reaction thoughts. You can
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Speaker 1: find that on the Bucket Weekly podcast speed. On this show,
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Speaker 1: we're just going to get through, like part one of
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Speaker 1: the Ryan Day press conference, had a ton to hear
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Speaker 1: from him as the Buckeye sort of turned the page
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Speaker 1: from that national championship season into now a national championship
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Speaker 1: defense with a whole lot of new faces and a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of new places. So we're going to just
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Speaker 1: just let you hear from Ohio State head coach Ryan Day.
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Speaker 1: On today's show. One of the big topics of conversation
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Speaker 1: was new defensive coordinator Matt Patricia. How did they land
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Speaker 1: on Matt Patricia as the right man for that job?
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Speaker 2: You can tell that we were very thorough and how
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Speaker 2: we went about the process.
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Speaker 3: It took some time.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that you know, people ask me
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Speaker 2: all the time, like you know, one of the biggest
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Speaker 2: learning lessons every year that you learn as a head coach,
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Speaker 2: and one of them is to make sure that you
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Speaker 2: know your thorough and the you know your hiring process
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Speaker 2: that you bring in you know the right fit. And
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Speaker 2: I felt like Matt was that guy for a lot
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Speaker 2: of reasons. I think the first one is his experience,
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Speaker 2: you know, coaching nineteen years in the NFL, He's coaching
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Speaker 2: six Super Bowls, has three Super Bowl rings. It was important.
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Speaker 2: So the experience speaks for itself. I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: he's one of the best, you know, minds in the game.
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Speaker 2: But also you know, pairing him with Tim Walton as
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Speaker 2: a co coordinator, pairing him with Larry Johnson mc rary,
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Speaker 2: you know, James Loreniis, that was important to have continuity.
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Speaker 2: When you interview certain coordinators, you know, they have an
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Speaker 2: idea of what they want to do. They want to
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Speaker 2: come in and run their style of defense. They want
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Speaker 2: to you know, bring in their own guys. So that
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Speaker 2: was the first thing. The second thing and so part
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Speaker 2: of that was having somebody that was willing to work
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Speaker 2: with the guys that were in the room.
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Speaker 3: That was very important. I just want to make sure.
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Speaker 2: That I you know, really praise the guys in that room.
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Speaker 2: And you know, having Tim Whelton as a co coordinator
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Speaker 2: there is a huge part of our defense. And he
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Speaker 2: was this year, and so it was Matt, and so
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Speaker 2: was Larry and and all those guys. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I think Matt and Tim working together as the coordinators is.
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Speaker 3: Going to be critical.
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Speaker 2: I think that we need to continually look at how
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Speaker 2: we have to evolve with our defense. And Matt brings
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Speaker 2: a different approach to the game in terms of he's
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Speaker 2: run different styles of fronts in the past. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's been multiple and what he's done, and I think
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Speaker 2: when you look at his defenses, they've always utilized their players,
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Speaker 2: and I think we've talked about that a lot, especially
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Speaker 2: on offense. You know, how do we put our players
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Speaker 2: in the best position to be successful. I also, you know,
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Speaker 2: studied how Nick Saban went on his run, and you know,
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Speaker 2: he brought in different offensive coordinators. You know, you think
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Speaker 2: about that run. It was Lane Kiffen, it was Sarkesian,
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Speaker 2: it was stay Ball, you know, it was mikel Oxley,
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Speaker 2: it was Bill O'Brien. You know, a lot of different coaches.
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Speaker 2: But you know, they kept a lot of the defense intact.
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Speaker 2: And we want to make sure that our identity of
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Speaker 2: what we do on defense stays intact as we have
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Speaker 2: movement on our staff. So you know, all those things
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Speaker 2: let me down this road of mad who, even in
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Speaker 2: a short period of time, you know, has already worked
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Speaker 2: hard on building relationships with the staff, with the players,
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Speaker 2: and his experience is going to have credibility the minute
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Speaker 2: he walks in that room of the guys that he's
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Speaker 2: coached the teams and this experience on the field, you know,
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Speaker 2: and now that we were playing in a longer season,
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Speaker 2: understanding you know how that goes, and playing in the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: I think all those or reasons that we ended up
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Speaker 3: with Matt A.
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Speaker 1: Little bit of looking ahead now to spring ball, how
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Speaker 1: are things going to be maybe a little bit different
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Speaker 1: this year with the longer season, the sort of a
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Speaker 1: breakdown of the different groups of guys on the team
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Speaker 1: and how the spring might be a little different for
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Speaker 1: each of them.
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Speaker 2: I think I feel like we just got done with
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Speaker 2: the season, which is because we did, and you know,
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Speaker 2: we finished on January twentieth. We had that week there
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Speaker 2: to celebrate, and then we're kind of right back into it,
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Speaker 2: and we had our first madrill, you know, you know,
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Speaker 2: about ten days ago. I had a second one today.
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Speaker 2: We're going to go on spring break. We're starting a
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Speaker 2: week later than we normally would. We're also going to
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Speaker 2: do spring practice in four weeks as opposed to five weeks.
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Speaker 2: So I think as you look at our team, there's
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Speaker 2: a group of guys that have played a lot of football,
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Speaker 2: and those guys who have played a lot of football
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Speaker 2: coming off of last year are especially in the first
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Speaker 2: half of spring and maybe three quarters of the spring
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Speaker 2: are going to be you know, treated a little bit differently.
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Speaker 3: And then some of the other guys that's kind of
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Speaker 3: one group.
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Speaker 2: The next group of the guys that have played a
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Speaker 2: lot of football but are now in a different role
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Speaker 2: that nearly need to step up and become starters. And
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Speaker 2: then you have guys that just got here that need
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Speaker 2: a ton of football. So you know, this is going
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Speaker 2: to be a different style of spring. We're still looking
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Speaker 2: at the format of the spring games last showcase, but
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Speaker 2: we're going to try to play as much football as
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Speaker 2: we can that day. But we're also going to be
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Speaker 2: smart because we know with sixteen games, what can happen
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Speaker 2: is you know, you can play a sixteen game season.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you really just jump right in and
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Speaker 2: have a normal spring practice, then you come back can
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Speaker 2: play another you know, sixteen game season. That that's a
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Speaker 2: lot of football in one year, and we have to
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Speaker 2: be smart on that. So so that that's kind of
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Speaker 2: our approach to it. I think when you look at
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Speaker 2: our biggest concerns, you know, it's it's replacing the guys
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Speaker 2: that walked out the door.
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Speaker 3: You know, we can go.
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Speaker 2: Through each position group if we want, and I'm willing
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Speaker 2: to do that, but obviously that's that's the biggest key,
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Speaker 2: is replacing those guys. And obviously the guys who are returning,
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Speaker 2: you know, they're in a different situation. But we certainly
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Speaker 2: have you know, holes that we need to fill.
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Speaker 1: In a typical year, prior to this year, you'd have
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Speaker 1: fifteen spring practices ending with a spring game. So how
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Speaker 1: are things going to maybe be structured a little differently
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Speaker 1: this spring? And what is that spring showcase actually going
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Speaker 1: to look like?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fifteen opportunities and in the past those were all
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Speaker 2: padded practices, very physical. That will not be the case
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Speaker 2: for sure this spring. We will use some helmeted practices
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Speaker 2: almost like ota styles to take some of those those
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Speaker 2: there will be more teaching opportunities to be smart there.
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Speaker 2: Another thing is, you know, as we look ahead, you know,
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Speaker 2: at the one hundred and one oh five on the roster,
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Speaker 2: that's a lot different than when you're at one twenty plus.
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Speaker 2: So I mean the health of the team is going
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Speaker 2: to be even more important, so we got to be
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Speaker 2: smart with that. But yeah, we we you know, the
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Speaker 2: first time we play a game this year with this
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Speaker 2: team is going to be against Texas at home, so
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Speaker 2: to get some of these young players in the stadium
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Speaker 2: with a good crowd will still be important. So it
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Speaker 2: isn't just going to be you know, a bunch of
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Speaker 2: seven on seven and guys running around doing one on
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Speaker 2: ones and individual drills. I mean, we're going to try
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Speaker 2: to do the best we can to simulate game opportunities
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Speaker 2: for our players, but there'll also be some players that
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Speaker 2: will hold out in that game.
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Speaker 1: Ohio State's new offensive line coach Tyler Bowen, he hasn't
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Speaker 1: exactly coached offensive line in a few years, so made
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Speaker 1: him a little bit of an interesting and interesting choice.
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Speaker 1: Let's say, so, how did Brian day Land on Tyler
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Speaker 1: Bowen is the right man for that job?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think the first thing was that, you know,
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Speaker 2: talk to Brian, and you know, Brian will be a
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Speaker 2: for time play caller for us, and wanted to make
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Speaker 2: sure that we had somebody in the room in the
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Speaker 2: run game that had coordinator experience, you know, And I
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Speaker 2: think Tyler, when you look at you know his past
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Speaker 2: and his background. It's pretty diverse in terms of you know,
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Speaker 2: he's he's coached the old line, he's coached the tight ends.
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Speaker 2: He's obviously been a part of the run game coordinator.
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Speaker 2: And that's anytime you're you're in that, I mean, you're
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Speaker 2: you're coaching the old line because there's you know, there's
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Speaker 2: more offensive lineman on the field than any other position,
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Speaker 2: and so, uh, he played the position. He's a very
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Speaker 2: very good coach. He understands it. Even in a short
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Speaker 2: period of time. You can ask our offensive lineman, he's
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Speaker 2: on it. And then we have a really good support
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Speaker 2: staff behind him that we hired that I think are
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Speaker 2: excellent and they've got a lot of energy. I mean
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Speaker 2: you can feel him when they come into building. The
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Speaker 2: coaches and and so you know, we'll work through the
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Speaker 2: spring and then kind of see and evaluate how that goes.
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Speaker 2: But I think that he's gonna work tremendous with Brian
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Speaker 2: even a short period of time. They see things the
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Speaker 2: same way. And I think that you know, for a
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Speaker 2: fort and play caller, having that presence in there of
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Speaker 2: somebody that sees it was important in the higher but
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Speaker 2: to your point, like the development of the old line
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Speaker 2: will be that's his job. Got to get that done,
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Speaker 2: got to get the run game organized. But you know
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Speaker 2: he's got some help there as well of some guys
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Speaker 2: that I feel strong about. And you know, we'll again
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Speaker 2: evaluate it coming out of the spring, but in a
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Speaker 2: short period of time. You know, I've been impressed so
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Speaker 2: far with the approach and even some of the work
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Speaker 2: that we've done.
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Speaker 1: This is sort of an interesting balancing act the Buck
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Speaker 1: guys this spring is they're sort of trying to not
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Speaker 1: overwork their veterans, but also let the new coaches got
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Speaker 1: of understand what they're working with and then make maybe
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Speaker 1: giving the players a chance to work in the new system.
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Speaker 1: So how do you balance all of that if you're right?
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Speaker 2: You know, usually you have, like we've talked about this
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Speaker 2: a lot, and here you have a benchmark. You know,
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Speaker 2: you go back and you check your notes from you know,
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Speaker 2: two years ago, three years ago. How do you check
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Speaker 2: your notes on this. We just got done with the season,
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Speaker 2: sixteen games. Now we're going into the spring, so we
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Speaker 2: have to be smart on that. We have a plan
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Speaker 2: of making sure that those guys you know, are able
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Speaker 2: to rest as well. But when you look at some
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Speaker 2: of the some of the younger guys who were on
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Speaker 2: the scout team. You know, they are in a much
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Speaker 2: much different situation than Sunny Styles, than IGB, you know,
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Speaker 2: than Carson Hinsman.
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Speaker 3: You know, you can start going through the list. So
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Speaker 3: we we have.
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Speaker 2: To, i think, initially treat them differently, but quickly we
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Speaker 2: have to get them, you know, all on the same page.
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Speaker 2: That we're all on the same page. And so as
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Speaker 2: spring goes on, well we'll do that, but early on
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Speaker 2: we'll be really smart, especially coming off of spring break a.
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Speaker 1: Little more on the Spring Showcase aka Spring Game that's
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Speaker 1: set for April twelfth. Day was asked whether he could
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Speaker 1: share any specifics, and while the short answer was no,
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Speaker 1: he did go into some of the why behind that.
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Speaker 3: Not yet.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there will certainly be opportunities to scrimmage
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Speaker 2: and it'll look like a game, but you know, because
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Speaker 2: of some of the guys that we mentioned, we still
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Speaker 2: want them out there doing some things. So that will
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Speaker 2: probably be in some some drill work and some seven
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Speaker 2: on seven work and be good to get everybody out.
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Speaker 3: There so that the fans can see them.
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Speaker 2: But the most important thing is getting young guys game
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Speaker 2: reps with hopefully a good crowd out there. So that
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Speaker 2: because we know the next time again we'll be against Texas,
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Speaker 2: so we're also going to have to take a hard
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Speaker 2: look at the health of our team as we get
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Speaker 2: into the end of April.
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Speaker 3: So we have to be able to adjust and be
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Speaker 3: flexible with it.
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Speaker 2: But again that's the goal was to get these guys
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Speaker 2: as many reps as we can in the stadium.
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Speaker 1: Day was asked about potential areas where they might look
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Speaker 1: to add some guys in the transfer portal after spring
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Speaker 1: ball ended, and I thought this was really interesting to
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Speaker 1: hear him discuss some of the behind the scenes issues
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Speaker 1: that they sort of ran into during the early portal window,
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Speaker 1: and then he gets into the question about areas where
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Speaker 1: they are actually going to look to potentially add some guys.
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Speaker 2: You know, one of the things for us that was
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Speaker 2: tricky was, you know, the portal was open before our
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Speaker 2: season and opened and closed before our season was over,
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Speaker 2: and that's something that we got to take a hard
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Speaker 2: look at with rules, you know, and people will say, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, you guys just won the national championship, what
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Speaker 2: are you complaining about.
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Speaker 3: Well, it matters for.
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Speaker 2: This year's team, and so that that was that was
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Speaker 2: a major challenge for us because as you can imagine,
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Speaker 2: you know, if you are trying to add somebody in
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Speaker 2: the portal but you're still trying to finish your season out,
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Speaker 2: how that can affect your current roster. So and then
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Speaker 2: the second part of that is we get done with
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Speaker 2: the season and you know, Notre Dame in Ohio State
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Speaker 2: are the only two teams with guys in the portal
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Speaker 2: for that five day window, and everybody else is closed
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Speaker 2: and it's open season on our players for five days. Like,
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Speaker 2: we got to take a hard look at this to
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Speaker 2: figure out what's right, you know, and whether there's just
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Speaker 2: one one window in the spring portal. Once all that
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Speaker 2: is flushed out to me, it's either that or you
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Speaker 2: move back the games. But again we can talk about
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Speaker 2: that ano another date. So you know, we will obviously
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Speaker 2: looking in the portal based on how things come out
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Speaker 2: of the spring. We'll look at that because you know,
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Speaker 2: we have we have to fill out our roster too.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's some positions that we don't we're not
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Speaker 2: of capacity right now. So depth let's see. In on defense,
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Speaker 2: I would say right now d line is probably of
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Speaker 2: of the biggest concern just in terms of replacing those
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Speaker 2: four guys, and then also you know, losing Hero. So
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Speaker 2: that's five five guys right there that you know, we
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Speaker 2: have to replace. I think that we have some good
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Speaker 2: guys and good options there, but but that'll be a focus.
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Speaker 3: You know. On offense, you know, old line.
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Speaker 2: Is always something that we need to take a look
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Speaker 2: at and see how some of those those new guys
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Speaker 2: fit in and how it all comes together, you know,
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Speaker 2: and then losing Quinn Shawn and Trey at running back,
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Speaker 2: you know, James and now we have CJ and some
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Speaker 2: of the younger guys that you know, now they have
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Speaker 2: to carry the water. So that's going to be you know,
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Speaker 2: big and obviously the quarterback would be the big you know,
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Speaker 2: the big focus. So I think when you look at
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Speaker 2: it on offense, it's really just you know, replacing Will,
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Speaker 2: replacing Trevion and quin Shawn, and then and then how
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Speaker 2: the offensive line comes together. And then again on defense,
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Speaker 2: it's you know, losing those those five guys, you know,
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Speaker 2: and seeing who's going to step up in those areas.
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Speaker 1: Now back to new defense coordinator Matt Patricia. He has
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Speaker 1: lots of NFL experience, but hasn't coached in college for
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Speaker 1: more than twenty years. So when you're evaluating an NFL
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Speaker 1: coach coming down to the college level, how difficult is
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Speaker 1: that to translate from one level to another? And how
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Speaker 1: difficult is that transition going to be.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of things that are going on
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Speaker 2: there's a trickle up and a trickle down effect right now,
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Speaker 2: and you're seeing a lot of that happening. You're seeing
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Speaker 2: a lot of guys transition, I think now more than
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Speaker 2: in the past. You guys you know, probably focus on
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Speaker 2: a little bit more than me, but you know of
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Speaker 2: what's going on in the NFL and what's going on
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Speaker 2: in college. You're seeing a lot of carry over there.
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Speaker 2: And I think with the playoff system in place, you're
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Speaker 2: seeing that. You're seeing the coach to communicate your coast
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Speaker 2: to player communication, You're see huddling more. You know, the
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Speaker 2: hash marks are different, and there's certain rules that are different,
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Speaker 2: but there's a lot of similarities now, so I think
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Speaker 2: it's going to carry over. Well. You see quarterbacks who
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Speaker 2: run and who are mobile in the NFL nowadays, so
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Speaker 2: there's a lot more simulators now than in the past.
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Speaker 2: And you know, being in the league for just a
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Speaker 2: couple of years. You know, the transition isn't as crazy
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Speaker 2: as maybe it hadn't been in the past.
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Speaker 1: Next up, this is a really good question from Jeremy Birmingham.
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Speaker 1: The offensive staff very young this year, and he kind
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Speaker 1: of get a little bit of a smirk out of
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day as he was asking the question when he
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Speaker 1: sort of pointed out that pretty much everyone on the
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Speaker 1: staff other than Carlos Lochlan on the offensive side of
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Speaker 1: the ball is ten years or more younger than Ryan Day.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Date not exactly an old man himself, but with
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Speaker 1: such a young staff on the offensive side of the ball,
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Speaker 1: they may have to spend a little more time over
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Speaker 1: there this year in some of those meeting rooms since
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have that veteran Chip Kelly kind of presence
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Speaker 1: on that side of the ball to run the offense
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Speaker 1: this year. So with all that, did that factor into
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Speaker 1: the decision to bring in a veteran defensive coordinator to
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Speaker 1: sort of be the head coach of the defense.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I think that you need to have balance when
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Speaker 2: you're looking at your entire staff, and you try to
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Speaker 2: do that the best you can, and I believe very
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Speaker 2: strongly that Brian's going to do a great job as
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Speaker 2: an offense coordinator. I think he's really grown in a
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Speaker 2: lot of areas. Give him a lot of credit for
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Speaker 2: you know, he was named the coordinator a couple of
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Speaker 2: years ago. I still called the plays, you know, and
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Speaker 2: then we brought in Chip and his attitude of like,
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to learn from Chip in a big way.
16:10
Speaker 2: And then some of the work that he did, Keenan did,
16:12
Speaker 2: and Billy did down the stretch in some of the
16:15
Speaker 2: past game and I think he's got, you know, a
16:17
Speaker 2: really good handle now on protections and even in the
16:19
Speaker 2: run game, like he's ready to call it now. But
16:22
Speaker 2: still going to be involved, still going to just like
16:25
Speaker 2: I was last year, Still going to kind of make
16:27
Speaker 2: sure that, you know, we're on the same page.
16:29
Speaker 3: Having Tyler there was important.
16:31
Speaker 2: But I think to your point, you know, I'm still
16:33
Speaker 2: going to be involved with the offense, but I'm able
16:35
Speaker 2: to kind of bounce into the defense. But the more
16:36
Speaker 2: times that we have guys who are experienced and veteran,
16:40
Speaker 2: you know, on that side of the ball, I'm going
16:42
Speaker 2: to stay on offense.
16:44
Speaker 3: It certainly helps.
16:45
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, taking the play calling away
16:48
Speaker 2: last year was really important. I want to continue to
16:51
Speaker 2: do that and surround myself with guys who, you know,
16:53
Speaker 2: we can hire to do jobs and I'm able to
16:55
Speaker 2: take a step back and take a little bit of
16:57
Speaker 2: a different role. I think it helped this season and
16:59
Speaker 2: I to, you know, do that even more as we
17:02
Speaker 2: move forward.
17:03
Speaker 1: When you look at a guy like Matt Patricia, who
17:05
Speaker 1: has spent the last twenty plus years in the NFL,
17:08
Speaker 1: what makes Brian they feel like Patricia really does want
17:11
Speaker 1: to be in college and that he's going to be
17:13
Speaker 1: successful and some of the different stuff that you have
17:16
Speaker 1: to do as a coach at the college level.
17:18
Speaker 2: I think you guys will get around that. You'll see
17:20
Speaker 2: his personality, You'll see the way he is. You know,
17:23
Speaker 2: you'll just see, you know, what type of family man
17:25
Speaker 2: he is, type of daddy is, type a husband he is.
17:28
Speaker 3: You know, he did coach at Syracuse. He and Tim
17:30
Speaker 3: work together there.
17:32
Speaker 2: But you know, I grew up in New England and
17:35
Speaker 2: I obviously saw the run that they went on there.
17:37
Speaker 2: And when you go on a run the way that
17:40
Speaker 2: they went on, you know, you stay at a place
17:42
Speaker 2: for a long time and you know, I don't know
17:44
Speaker 2: if if that was you know something that maybe even
17:47
Speaker 2: early on he thought he was going to be in
17:48
Speaker 2: the NFL for as long as he did. But when
17:50
Speaker 2: you're around a great organization that goes on the run
17:52
Speaker 2: that they went on, you end up at a place
17:55
Speaker 2: for a long period of time, and then you know
17:57
Speaker 2: he's there for a while and then has an opportunity
17:59
Speaker 2: to become a head coach. Well, now you know, it's
18:03
Speaker 2: it's almost like a different mindset, you know, it's maybe
18:05
Speaker 2: a little bit of a different.
18:06
Speaker 3: Chapter for him.
18:07
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean I'm sure he'll have an opportunity to go
18:09
Speaker 2: back to the NFL, but you know, I think it's
18:12
Speaker 2: Ohio State. I think he understands the culture. You know,
18:16
Speaker 2: we spent a lot of time talking and I think
18:18
Speaker 2: he sees the opportunity here and he's excited about it.
18:21
Speaker 2: And I think it's a new chapter that he can
18:23
Speaker 2: absolutely come in here and make a difference. And I
18:25
Speaker 2: think that's what he wants to do. And I don't
18:27
Speaker 2: think the recruiting part is going to be very difficult
18:29
Speaker 2: at all. And you'll you'll you'll see it when you
18:30
Speaker 2: get around him.
18:32
Speaker 1: And finally, questions on the starting quarterback battle always a
18:35
Speaker 1: popular topic this time of year if there is an
18:37
Speaker 1: open quarterback position, and there definitely is in Columbus, Ohio.
18:41
Speaker 1: Right now, what does Rian Day feel like he knows
18:43
Speaker 1: so far about the three guys on the roster and
18:45
Speaker 1: what is he looking for out of those three guys
18:47
Speaker 1: this spring there y'all, and.
18:51
Speaker 2: You know they're going to have to compete, and you know,
18:53
Speaker 2: we need a quarterback to be tough. We need him
18:55
Speaker 2: to be a leader. I've said this before. They've had
18:57
Speaker 2: a great opportunity to watch Will even Tavian, you know,
19:00
Speaker 2: because he was a big part of, you know, being
19:04
Speaker 2: around these guys last spring. I don't think he missed
19:06
Speaker 2: the spring practice. He would come during the season for
19:08
Speaker 2: all the games. He was with us for the last
19:10
Speaker 2: two weeks or the last two games. He was able
19:12
Speaker 2: to see what that looked like. Lincoln was with him
19:14
Speaker 2: every day, Julians with them every day. So like that's
19:17
Speaker 2: that's the standard of what the leadership should look like.
19:20
Speaker 2: Now they got to go do it. And you know,
19:22
Speaker 2: being the quarterback around here, I mean you start listing
19:24
Speaker 2: the guys who have been here most recently and down
19:27
Speaker 2: in the history of Ohio State football. I mean, you're
19:29
Speaker 2: in you know, you're some of the best names who've
19:32
Speaker 2: never played the game. But the biggest thing they have
19:34
Speaker 2: to do is they got to lead and they got
19:35
Speaker 2: to be tough. So a long way to go on.
19:37
Speaker 2: It don't have any evaluation to go with right now,
19:40
Speaker 2: but it's it's going to be a big spring for
19:41
Speaker 2: those guys.
19:42
Speaker 1: And finally good from our buddy Tony Gerdam and getting
19:45
Speaker 1: a little more detail on what that quarterback battle might actually.
19:49
Speaker 3: Look like this spring.
19:50
Speaker 1: How is Brian day penning to break down the reps
19:52
Speaker 1: at quarterback during those fifteen spring practice.
19:55
Speaker 3: Early on, We're going to try to roll.
19:57
Speaker 2: We're going to try to go three groups so those
19:58
Speaker 2: guys get equal amount of reps. You know, we'll split
20:01
Speaker 2: up who goes where. And even last year with Will,
20:03
Speaker 2: I mean we did that. You know, guys are getting
20:05
Speaker 2: reps with the ones, guys are getting reps of the twos,
20:07
Speaker 2: the threes. You know the times where Will was out
20:09
Speaker 2: there with the threes early on and just rolling because
20:12
Speaker 2: if you put one guy with the ones and two
20:13
Speaker 2: sometimes it can look a little different because of you know,
20:16
Speaker 2: the younger guys, older guys. So now we're going to
20:18
Speaker 2: roll them and we're going to try to get the
20:20
Speaker 2: best evaluation we can. We'll evaluate everything, but specifically early
20:24
Speaker 2: on in the spring, we want to roll those guys
20:26
Speaker 2: the best we can because the number one goal of
20:28
Speaker 2: spring is to get individual players better. So you know,
20:32
Speaker 2: we can get scheme in and all that, but fundamentally, technically,
20:35
Speaker 2: we've got to get better as football players. And then
20:38
Speaker 2: once we get into the summer, we start putting the
20:39
Speaker 2: scheme together and we start coming with the chemistry of
20:41
Speaker 2: the team.
20:42
Speaker 1: Well, as I said, that was really just kind of
20:44
Speaker 1: the first half of the Ryana interview. Plus, we have
20:47
Speaker 1: interviews with ten assistant coaches. You can find all of
20:51
Speaker 1: those right now if you want to watch them all.
20:52
Speaker 1: They are all on our YouTube channel YouTube dot com
20:55
Speaker 1: slash Buckeye Huddle. We have lots of conversation about that
20:58
Speaker 1: going on on our huddle board, presented by Jeff Ruby's
21:00
Speaker 1: Columbus over at Buckey Huddle dot com. But we are
21:03
Speaker 1: also going to have those. We're gonna have plenty of
21:05
Speaker 1: shows this week, structured like this just said it. I'll
21:08
Speaker 1: pull out some highlights from each of the coaches. You'll
21:10
Speaker 1: get a chance to hear from all of them, probably
21:13
Speaker 1: start with some of the new guys start with Matt
21:14
Speaker 1: Patricia and Tyler Bowen for you in the next few days,
21:18
Speaker 1: but we'll try and get You'll let you hear from
21:20
Speaker 1: at least everyone on staff at least a little bit
21:24
Speaker 1: over the course of the next week as we count
21:25
Speaker 1: down to the start of spring football that happens on Monday,
21:28
Speaker 1: March seventeenth.
21:29
Speaker 3: We will be.
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Speaker 1: There for the start of spring ball as Ohio State
21:33
Speaker 1: begins its defense of its national championship season. It'd be
21:37
Speaker 1: plenty to talk about about all of that at bucke
21:39
Speaker 1: huddle dot com. And oh yes, it is also March.
21:42
Speaker 1: That means it is also high time, high tide for
21:46
Speaker 1: basketball season. The Buckeyes playing at Indiana three forty five
21:50
Speaker 1: on Saturday, that'll be on CBS. A monster game for
21:54
Speaker 1: both teams, both sort of on the bubble. Whoever wins
21:58
Speaker 1: you feeling pretty good about their chances to make the
21:59
Speaker 1: Turn Tournament. Whoever loses may have a little bit of
22:02
Speaker 1: work to do in the Big Ten Tournament. Have plenty
22:04
Speaker 1: of coverage of that for you as well at bucke
22:06
Speaker 1: huddle dot com. We'll have plenty of basketball coverage as
22:09
Speaker 1: well as we head into the Big Ten tournament. It
22:12
Speaker 1: is going to be a busy week and a busy month,
22:14
Speaker 1: and it is a year for us at bucke huddle
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Speaker 1: dot com. We hope to see you there. That'll do
22:19
Speaker 1: it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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Speaker 3: Have a great day.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow