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Where Does The Ohio State Quarterback Race Stand After 5 Fall Practices? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, August seventh time,
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  Speaker 1: your host Tom Moore. The Akron game in twenty four days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in one hundred and fifteen days.
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  Speaker 1: As we count down the days to the start of
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  Speaker 1: the season, Ohio State slowly working its way through fall camp.
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  Speaker 2: Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: We're back on the practice field on Tuesday at the
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  Speaker 1: Woody Hayes Flec Center, and then after practice, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to new Ohio State offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: Chip Kelly and all five scholarship quarterbacks. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of obviously interesting storylines there. Who will be the starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback whenever? That's a question that's always the biggest questions
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  Speaker 1: it feels like around a football team this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: And then it's still an open question around this year's
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State team. So let's start with Chip Kelly. Chip,
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  Speaker 1: is there a pecking order yet at quarterback?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 4: It's just we're just trying to as I tell the players,
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  Speaker 4: don't cut your ups, make your reps count. And I
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  Speaker 4: think they're doing a good job, all of them. We're
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  Speaker 4: still kind of going through that. I would say probably
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  Speaker 4: towards the end of this week, well, we'll start to
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  Speaker 4: kind of hone in on it, but it's part of
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  Speaker 4: is one a d now the day of the lineup
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  Speaker 4: changes every day like who's in with what group and
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  Speaker 4: just kind of mixing a match um right now. But
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  Speaker 4: we're all just trying to make the most of our
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  Speaker 4: reps be valuable because of how we're doing it, and
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  Speaker 4: a lot of it's two fields, so we got two
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  Speaker 4: different groups going on at the same time, and with
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  Speaker 4: two different groups going on at the same time, there's
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of reps to be had. You know, our
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  Speaker 4: first practice, I think we had ninety sixteen reps in
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  Speaker 4: the first practice, So there's enough to go around right now.
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  Speaker 4: When we start to consolidate and stop doing the two
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  Speaker 4: field works and start to get into one field work,
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  Speaker 4: then I think you've got to start to kind of
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  Speaker 4: cut the reps down for some people.
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  Speaker 1: Will Howard is considered the favorite to win the starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback job this fall, and the coaching staff has talked
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  Speaker 1: about the fact Ryan Day in particular that he has
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  Speaker 1: seen more power on Will Howard's throws this fall than
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  Speaker 1: there was back in the spring. So is that something
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  Speaker 1: that Chip Kelly has seen as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, and I just think it's when Will
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  Speaker 4: got here. Both Will, Julian and there got here in January.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Lincoln and Devin had been here for a while.
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes Zip is do you know what you're doing?
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  Speaker 4: You know when you have confidence to get back there,
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  Speaker 4: I know the progression right away, and I can rip
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  Speaker 4: it right now. Sometimes you're a little bit tentative, so
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  Speaker 4: the ball may not come out for your hand the
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  Speaker 4: right way, but I do. I've seen improvement from Will
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  Speaker 4: from where we were in the spring to where we
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  Speaker 4: were now.
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  Speaker 1: After the spring game, Tip Kelly said the biggest compliment
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  Speaker 1: he could pay to a freshman like Julian saying was
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  Speaker 1: to say that he didn't look like a freshman out
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  Speaker 1: on the field, and that that was the case for
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  Speaker 1: Julian say in this spring sounds like that is still
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  Speaker 1: something that Chip Kelly feels about saying right now.
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  Speaker 4: He just stays in the moment. That's the one thing
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  Speaker 4: I like about him. He doesn't if he throws a
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  Speaker 4: bad ball, it doesn't bother him. If he throws a
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  Speaker 4: good ball, he doesn't get over excited and say, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I just arrived. It's he's always thinking about the next snap,
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  Speaker 4: and he's done a really good job with it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just not kind of playing into anything, just trying to
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  Speaker 4: stay present. And that's what that's what we're trying to
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  Speaker 4: get with all these guys, is that just stay president,
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  Speaker 4: just stay in the moment.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is the fifth training session.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure anybody knows what day it is right now,
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  Speaker 4: because because everything runs together, you know, have a day
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  Speaker 4: off in terms of weekend Sunday, Mondays or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's just how do I get better in this period?
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  Speaker 4: And then right now, the next process is we're going
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  Speaker 4: to go and watch a film and everything we just
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  Speaker 4: did on the field, we now got to process again.
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  Speaker 4: Was this a good decision? Was this a bad decision?
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  Speaker 4: Why did you make the decision? And then all right,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to continue down this path room No, we
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  Speaker 4: got to correct this.
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  Speaker 1: The conversations went beyond just a quarterback position. Chip Kelly's teams,
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  Speaker 1: when you think about them at Oregon, you always think
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  Speaker 1: about speed, running the ball, fast fast players. Chick Kelly
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  Speaker 1: equals speed. So how does this team stack up? What's
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  Speaker 1: some of Chip Kelly's previous ones?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this team can run you know there's
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  Speaker 4: now there's no no alliles. But I mean he went
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven to one miles per hour. I mean that
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  Speaker 4: was we talked about the coach day. Showed that in
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  Speaker 4: the meeting, you know, talked about where he was and
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  Speaker 4: how he finished. There's a great lesson there. But there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of guys that a lot of positions that
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  Speaker 4: can run. And the guys that are the most impressed
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  Speaker 4: with to me are the big guys that can really run.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got some bigger guys. Will Howard's a
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  Speaker 3: great example.
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  Speaker 4: We'll went twenty two miles an hour this summer, two
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  Speaker 4: hundred and thirty seven pounds, So we got a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of guys who can move.
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  Speaker 1: If the starting quarterback is not the biggest question on
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  Speaker 1: the side offensive side of the ball for the buck
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  Speaker 1: Eyes this year, well then it is definitely going to
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  Speaker 1: be the offensive line. So what are Chip Kelly's impressions
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  Speaker 1: of the offensive line so far in fall camp.
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  Speaker 3: I do see a making of a really good unit.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the first thing that I noticed is
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  Speaker 4: that whole group worked extremely hard with Mick in the summertime,
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  Speaker 4: so where they are physically, you know, they came to camp,
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  Speaker 4: ready to play and ready to compete. And again, the
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  Speaker 4: rep's part for every position, not only quarterback, but whether
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  Speaker 4: it be right guard, right tackle, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: Is, we're just rolling.
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  Speaker 4: We're just trying to get as much film on tape.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you.
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  Speaker 4: Hear and you forget, you see, and you remember you
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  Speaker 4: do when you understand. So is how many reps can
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  Speaker 4: we get for our players so that they really truly
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  Speaker 4: understand what we're doing. And that's what we're really trying
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  Speaker 4: to push you right now. Knock on wood. We've been really,
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  Speaker 4: really healthy so that we can continue to play at
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  Speaker 4: least three full groups right now. So everybody's getting a
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  Speaker 4: ton of reps and we're just rolling, and then we've
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  Speaker 4: got to run in there as quick as possible, watch
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  Speaker 4: the tape as the coaches, and then get ready for
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  Speaker 4: our afternoon meetings and then get ready for walk through
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  Speaker 4: at night and then you know, kind of rinse and repeat.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of this. That's where we are in this
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  Speaker 4: mode of camp now.
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  Speaker 1: So mentioned we got to talk to all five scholarship
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks on Tuesday. That is a rare treat. That is
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  Speaker 1: something we will probably not get a chance to do
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  Speaker 1: with some of these guys again until potentially a media
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  Speaker 1: day at a bowl or something like that. So let's
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  Speaker 1: get lets you hear a little bit from all five
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  Speaker 1: scholarship quarterbacks. Would rather than show any sort of any
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  Speaker 1: sort of favoritism. We're just going to do this in
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  Speaker 1: order of seniority. We're gonna start with fifty year senior
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  Speaker 1: Will Howard. He has gotten his weight down from close
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  Speaker 1: to two hundred and fifty pounds when he showed up
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus. Does something more like two hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty five.
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  Speaker 2: That was his goal.
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  Speaker 1: He has reached it at the start of fall camp.
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  Speaker 2: So how did he do it?
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  Speaker 5: You know, was sat down with Kayla, sat down with
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  Speaker 5: coach Mick. You know if whether it was in the winter,
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  Speaker 5: coming in on Saturday, is doing a little extra cardio
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  Speaker 5: or you know, just just being cooking for myself a
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  Speaker 5: little more, which made me feel a little more like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm like living alone. I feel like a
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  Speaker 5: little more grown up. You know, it's kind of it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of fool, yeah, adulting a little bit. I was like,
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  Speaker 5: all right, you know, I can make some chicken or
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  Speaker 5: you know, make some of that. It was I kind
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  Speaker 5: of had fun with it, So yeah, it was cool.
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  Speaker 5: It was fun, and you know, I just want to
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  Speaker 5: it feels good, you know, to to eat well and
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  Speaker 5: to treat your body right. And I really learned how
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  Speaker 5: to do that here and it's been really really good
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  Speaker 5: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Howard has seniority in terms of being the oldest
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  Speaker 1: guy in the quarterback room. Of course, he is not
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  Speaker 1: the longest tenured guy in the quarterback room. He had
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  Speaker 1: to make an adjustment to Ohio State this spring when
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  Speaker 1: he transferred in from Kansas State. So what was that
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  Speaker 1: adjustment to Ohio State? Like learning the new school, learn
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  Speaker 1: new system, the new playbook, And when did Will Howard
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  Speaker 1: feel like it was really starting to click for him?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I feel like in the spring, I was
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  Speaker 5: I was, you know, kind of at the at the
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  Speaker 5: beginning at least drinking from a fire hose a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: especially just with the way that the offense was installed.
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  Speaker 5: But I think that was good for me, you know,
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  Speaker 5: kind of learning how to how to you know, go
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  Speaker 5: through a through a spring or through a you know
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  Speaker 5: a couple of practices without really having any prior experience
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  Speaker 5: with an offense, and and going through that you know
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  Speaker 5: kind of the struggles that I had and the things
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  Speaker 5: that I learned from you know, I feel like I
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  Speaker 5: really started to settle in kind of like practice seven,
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  Speaker 5: Practice eight of the spring, I was like, Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm this is really making sense. You know, I'm starting
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  Speaker 5: to kind of get my stride. And really now coming
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  Speaker 5: into fall camp, it's been like completely different. Just you
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  Speaker 5: know the way you know, the amount of banked reps,
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  Speaker 5: and that's the thing is like, you can't you can't
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  Speaker 5: replicate actually doing it. You know, the only way to
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  Speaker 5: do it is to do it and to go out
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  Speaker 5: there and you know in OTAs or in fall camp
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  Speaker 5: practices and getting reps and you know, being having these
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  Speaker 5: reps from the spring banked and all these things that
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  Speaker 5: I've learned, It's helped me a lot this fall camp
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  Speaker 5: to just go out there and play more rather than
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  Speaker 5: think about things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is not the first time that Will
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  Speaker 1: Howard has hard to learn a new system. He of
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  Speaker 1: course had to do that when he was a new
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  Speaker 1: through freshman at Kansas State. So what's the difference between
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  Speaker 1: learning a new system now as a potential starter versus
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  Speaker 1: as a freshman where there may not have been quite
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  Speaker 1: the same type of urgency to have everything really locked
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  Speaker 1: down before day one of the season.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's different. It's it's, uh, you know, obviously you're
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  Speaker 5: coming into a new system. You're having to learn things,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, it's it's a lot faster, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: the way I looked at it, it was, you know, if
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  Speaker 5: if my goal is ultimate to ultimately to make the NFL,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this is what I'm gonna have to do
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  Speaker 5: at the next level. So I think it was a
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  Speaker 5: really good opportunity for me to learn how to learn
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  Speaker 5: fast and how to you know, pick things up. And
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  Speaker 5: I think coach Kelly and coach Day have done a
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  Speaker 5: really good job of just making things easy to understand
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  Speaker 5: and easy to pick up. And you know, the more
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  Speaker 5: reps I've gotten, the more comfortable I've become. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's been great. And and the more that I
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  Speaker 5: just throw to these receivers and and just get you know,
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  Speaker 5: get around these guys, you know, the more more we're
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  Speaker 5: coming together and becoming a team, and it's it's cool
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  Speaker 5: to see. And we just got to keep keep doing
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  Speaker 5: it and keep practicing as hard as we haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Been lots of different people have shared their thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: Will Howard and how he's looked this fall and how
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  Speaker 1: he's played this fall. Let's here directly from Will Howard,
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  Speaker 1: how would he evaluate his play so far this.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I think I've I think I've done a
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  Speaker 5: pretty good job protecting the football and being smart with
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  Speaker 5: my decisions. You know, I think that I want to
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  Speaker 5: continue to push the ball down the field when I
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  Speaker 5: when I have opportunities to and be accurate down the
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  Speaker 5: field and get get some more air on my on
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  Speaker 5: my deep balls. Those are just a couple of things
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  Speaker 5: that I've I've thought about personally. But you know, I
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  Speaker 5: think I think one of the bigger things is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: what are we doing as a team. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: obviously you know I'm thinking about myself and how I
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  Speaker 5: can be better, But you know, the bigger thing is
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  Speaker 5: how can we be better as a team and how
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  Speaker 5: can I facilitate that?
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  Speaker 3: Being the quarterback?
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  Speaker 5: You know, how can I encourage somebody, you know before
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  Speaker 5: we go out there, to remind them, Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 5: if it's a running back, you know, make sure I
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  Speaker 5: six on whatever protection. You know, you got these guys,
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  Speaker 5: you know, doing doing things like that is is something
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  Speaker 5: I want to continue to grow in for my team,
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  Speaker 5: you know, because that's at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 5: You know, all eleven guys have to do their job
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  Speaker 5: every single play, and and you know, being the quarterback,
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  Speaker 5: you kind of have to facilitate that a little bit
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  Speaker 5: and help those guys and make sure that you know
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  Speaker 5: we're being the best team we can be.
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  Speaker 1: Next up is Devin Brown, his third year at Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: still battling for the starting quarterback job. Where has Devin
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  Speaker 1: Brown seen the most improvement in his own game this year,
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  Speaker 1: even just during fall camp.
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  Speaker 2: I would say just consistency.
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, working with Jordan Palmer and Mike White out in
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  Speaker 6: California to this offseason, I think that's been a huge
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  Speaker 6: help for me, being more consistent with my with my
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  Speaker 6: mechanics and everything, and so throwing the ball, I feel
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  Speaker 6: a lot more consistent.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Brown has a little bit of a different perspective
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  Speaker 1: on things than a lot of those guys in the
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  Speaker 1: ohis State quarterback room who were not on campus last year.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, the offensive line was a major concern, a big,
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  Speaker 1: big problem that they were talking about openly, and there
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  Speaker 1: were still a lot of uncertainty on that line. How
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  Speaker 1: different is that offensive line now compared to last year.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like there's just a different energy from the
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  Speaker 2: ol line.
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  Speaker 6: I mean we could see it in the weight room,
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  Speaker 6: just from even in the winter, especially in the summer,
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  Speaker 6: the way that they act with each other and the
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  Speaker 6: violence and just.
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  Speaker 2: The presence that they bring.
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  Speaker 6: You can tell that there's something different because you know,
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  Speaker 6: they're kind of tired of hearing all this noise of
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  Speaker 6: that they didn't do this or that, and they're ready
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  Speaker 6: to be after this year.
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  Speaker 1: But Devin Brown and a lot of the other quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about consistency and the importance of consistency as
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, But what does that mean? What does consistency
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  Speaker 1: look like on the field. You know, sure you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be have to be an accurate passer, but where
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  Speaker 1: else does something like that show up?
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  Speaker 6: I mean just decisions in the run game obviously, like
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  Speaker 6: you said, accuracy knowing being my third year on the
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  Speaker 6: offense and knowing the system better and knowing this defense better.
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  Speaker 6: For having a second year with this defense or third
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  Speaker 6: year with this defense, now I can anticipate things better
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  Speaker 6: and nowhere to go.
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  Speaker 1: And last one for Devin Brown. Chip Kelly known for
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  Speaker 1: running the ball, running the quarterback. So how different are
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  Speaker 1: things this year with Chip Kelly now running the offense
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the run game has been completely different. It's been incredible.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, when we've got two running backs like
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  Speaker 6: quin Shawn and Treyvon and then you got lost quarterbacks
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  Speaker 6: that can run the ball, makes it really hard on
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  Speaker 6: the defense. And so which Kelly really utilizes us and
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  Speaker 6: utilizes our running backs, so there's always an option for
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  Speaker 6: either of us to go.
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  Speaker 1: Next up is Lincoln keen Holes. He is entering his
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  Speaker 1: second year in Columbus and his second year as a
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  Speaker 1: college football player. He sort of got thrown into the
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  Speaker 1: fire a little bit during the Cotton Bowl when Kyle
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  Speaker 1: McCorry transferred out and then Devin Brown got hurt, and
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  Speaker 1: then Lincoln king Holts was kind of the next man up,
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  Speaker 1: and probably, you know, even at the time, talked about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he wasn't really truly ready to get
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  Speaker 1: thrown into that kind of moment as someone who enrolled
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  Speaker 1: late last summer and did not have the benefit of
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  Speaker 1: going through spring ball with the Buckeyes as a freshman.
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  Speaker 2: So how different does.
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln keen Hols feel now as compared to when he
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  Speaker 1: got thrown on the field at the Cotton.
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  Speaker 7: Bowl, I feel way different. I feel way more comfortable
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  Speaker 7: than I did. I'd say, just like with protections and
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  Speaker 7: just the concepts that we ran. I feel more calling,
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  Speaker 7: i'd say in the pocket, and honestly just overall more confident.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that has probably helped Lincoln keen
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  Speaker 1: Hols's game develop quite a bit since the Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 1: is the arrival of Chip Kelly, one of the nation's
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  Speaker 1: foremost quarterback gurus and offensive minds. How much has Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: Keinghole's gotten out of working with Chip Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's important.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's special because we have two of the
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  Speaker 7: best coaches just in the country with Coach Day and
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  Speaker 7: Coach Kelly. I said, with Coach Kelly, he's he's been everywhere,
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  Speaker 7: he's been NFL, he's been a multiple colleges. So I
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  Speaker 7: think his level of understanding of just the game and
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  Speaker 7: football in general is something that each quarterback here can
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  Speaker 7: take away and can learn from. And I'd say in
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  Speaker 7: a couple of years to come, I think that we
• 13:39
  Speaker 7: can all be in a chance to go start anywhere
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  Speaker 7: like here or anywhere in the country or yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So next up is air Noland. He was originally going
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: to be the only quarterback in Ohio States twenty twenty
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: four recruiting class before the Buckeyes made a late addition
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  Speaker 1: to the transfer portal. We'll get to him in a minute,
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  Speaker 1: but coming in as a freshman, air Noland, you know,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: you know you're probably not going to be the starter
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  Speaker 1: day one, So how do you approach things coming in
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  Speaker 1: knowing you know this is maybe gonna be a little
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: bit of a process before you get on the field
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  Speaker 1: for meaningful first series of the game kind of snaps.
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  Speaker 8: I would say, just just know to come in and
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  Speaker 8: be ready to be developed, and uh, you know, it's
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  Speaker 8: gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard days, and there's
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: gonna be days where it's good days. So just you know,
• 14:23
  Speaker 8: going through ups and downs and just keeping myself composed
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  Speaker 8: and just leaning on guys and leaning on the older
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: guys and helping me out.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Eron Nolan had a very interesting answer on the stuff
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: that he's learned from Chip Kelly, and this is, you know,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: probably a good sense for what quarterbacks as a true
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: freshman are really coming in and trying to focus on
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: and try to figure out. This was a good answer
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: from Aaron no London. What he's learned from Chip Kelly
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: so far.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Chip talks about having a plan walking up to
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: the line, So I have to have a plan every
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: every time I walk up to the line, and knowing
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: the how and knowing the why and then just knowing
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: my read, knowing if it's a corneryd and then just
• 14:59
  Speaker 8: the the game slows down. With coach tib Kelly, you know,
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: he teaches me a lot of things, not only on
• 15:04
  Speaker 8: the field, but also off the field.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: And finally, the latest quarterback to arrive at Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: Julian Saying Now, he showed up at Alabama. He enrolled
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: at Alabama, showed up at Alabama mid December, actually went
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: through bowl prep with the Crimson Tide as they were
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: preparing for their Rose Bowl game against Michigan. But then
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: when Nick Sabin retired, Julian Sayan decided to leave. He said,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: thank Saban was a really big part of his decision
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: to go to Alabama. So when Nick Saban left, well
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: that kind of eliminated that. So what made Ohio State
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: the pick for him? After he decided to leave Alabama.
• 15:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, when I entered the portal, I knew coach Day.
• 15:40
  Speaker 9: We had a good relationship throughout the recruiting process. And
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: then Bill O'Brien was actually the off its coordinator here
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: and I had a good relationship with him, and then
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: I ended up getting here, and then coach Kelly comes
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: here and me and him at your relationship through the
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: pretty process, You've got California and UCLA. So it was
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: just a good fit all around, and I just couldn't
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: be happy to be here.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And finally, coaches when they talk about Julian saying a
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: lot of times we'll talk about his ability to process
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: information quickly. Is that a natural gift that he has?
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Where does that come from?
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: I think it's kind of a lot of things. And
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: I was always around football. My brother's a quarterback at Penn,
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: so he was a quarterback when I was in high
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: school and I was kind of following his footsteps. So
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: I've always been around football and then just been a
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: high level offices high school and just really just having
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: a lot of my.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Play Well, there you go a little bit of all
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: five scholarship quarterbacks at Ohio State plus Chip Kelway, a
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: lot to hear, a lot to learn, really interesting to
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: talk to some of those guys. We haven't gotten a
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: chance to talk to a lot of those guys since
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the spring game, and in some cases even before that,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: so great chance to kind of take a little bit
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: of a deep dive on the quarterbacks. On Tuesday, Wednesday,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: We're going to be right back at the Woody Hayes
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Athletics Center. This is going to be I think the
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: busiest interview week of the entire year. Got a chance
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: to talk quarterbacks on Tuesday, Wednesday, We're going to be
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: back talking to running backs. Talking to linebackers. Should be
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of interesting information to talk about. There have
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: that all to look forward to. That's going to be
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: coming to you probably eleven thirty ish on Wednesday. We
• 17:05
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• 17:07
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• 17:10
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• 17:13
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• 17:16
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• 17:21
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• 17:24
  Speaker 1: interesting information coming up this week. We have interviews on
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Tuesday as we talked about, and just now Wednesday, Thursday,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: we're supposed to be in watching practice again, plus more interviews,
• 17:34
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• 17:37
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• 17:45
  Speaker 1: preview the twenty twenty four Ohio State football season. That
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.