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Ohio State Football: Do The Buckeyes Have The Nation's Best Pair Of Cornerbacks? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: today's show, we are continuing our countdown of the forty
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  Speaker 1: players that are likely to make the biggest impact for
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  Speaker 1: the Ohistate Buckeyes. Today we're talking about fifteen through eleven,
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  Speaker 1: so it is starting to get real. And when it
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  Speaker 1: starts to get real, we call in Tonygarnament at Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: Insiders dot com to talk about it. Tony number fifteen
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  Speaker 1: on my list here I have linebacker Hayton Pierce.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, it's interesting because initially it seems low like the
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State starting middle linebackers should be higher on the list.
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  Speaker 2: But again this is both sides of the ball and
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  Speaker 2: perhaps the special teams and so. But as we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about before, they've had a first team All Big Ten
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  Speaker 2: middle linebacker every year since what twenty twenty one or
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, And so if Peyton Pierce is that,
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  Speaker 2: does that make him higher? But there are still some
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  Speaker 2: names that we have not mentioned, and there are some
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  Speaker 2: good players on offense, and there's a quarterback, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a wide receiver that we have we'll eventually get to.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, off the cuff, this seems a
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  Speaker 2: little low, but if I were to look at the names,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh, okay, yeah, I without some level
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  Speaker 2: of out playing or some expectations that we know of,
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  Speaker 2: there's some proof of concept. I guess I can accept this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And this is not me saying well, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure he's gonna be a starter earlier. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a starter. I just I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys who are above that. In terms of
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  Speaker 1: pass rush. You saw how disruptive pass rush can be
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  Speaker 1: in game towards the end of last season for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: and so you've got some pass rushers that we still
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  Speaker 1: have to get to and you've got some secondary guys
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  Speaker 1: where you've seen how impactful some of those corners can be.
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  Speaker 1: So we got some of those guys still to come.
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  Speaker 1: And you know there are guys on the offensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball who are not too bad as well.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know that there's anyone above this
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  Speaker 1: that I think you're gonna look at and go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he should definitely be way behind Peyton Piers. No shade
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  Speaker 1: to Bayton Pierce. Fifteenth on this list. That puts him
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  Speaker 1: in the top half of Ohio state starters. So that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's not a bad thing. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: number fourteen. This is a guy who I put on
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  Speaker 1: the list and then I just kind of kept moving
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  Speaker 1: it up and I'm going to say his name out
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  Speaker 1: loud right now, kwait Russas. Okay, there I said. I've
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  Speaker 1: said Quae Russol's name out loud, So I'm gonna stop
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  Speaker 1: moving up the list. Now he's number fourteen. But man,
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  Speaker 1: I had him. I had him somewhere in the kind
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  Speaker 1: of like mid twenties at some point, and then in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of one of the shows, I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: got it. We can't talk about him mat we got
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  Speaker 1: to move him up. I think he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a bigger deal. And then I moved him up again
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the last show. You were like
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  Speaker 1: laughing because you saw me doing something at one point
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  Speaker 1: like I'm going to change this list right now. I
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  Speaker 1: moved him up again. I've got him fourteenth. Now is
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  Speaker 1: that low?
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  Speaker 2: I think you are calling your shot on Quay Rusa.
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  Speaker 2: You've been doing that for a while and you're you're
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  Speaker 2: out there, and I'm not saying you're out there. It's
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  Speaker 2: like you you are saying, you know, someone putting him
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  Speaker 2: fourteen tells us your expectations of him, And there were
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  Speaker 2: times in the spring and in the winter we're really
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  Speaker 2: good things about him. So it's like, well that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a little a little aggressive, But again,
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  Speaker 2: if you're right, then you can point it everybody and laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Don't point it me in laughs. So it's still too painful.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm certainly going to be interested to watch this
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  Speaker 2: because if he is, if he is this high, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a really really good thing for Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: because it means that they're like the possibilities, the potential
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  Speaker 2: has hit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like there is stuff that he can
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  Speaker 1: do that maybe they don't have anyone else on this
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  Speaker 1: team that can really do to be that, just like
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  Speaker 1: true total edge rusher guy I'm very high on. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we did a Buckeye Weekly when we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: the defensive end position in questions about the defensive end position,
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  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of those questions could be
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  Speaker 1: answered if kwaiy Rusa is what I think he could
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  Speaker 1: be this year. Will he be Well, we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that all fall, don't you worry. But it's certainly certainly
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  Speaker 1: a guy that is going to be someone we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about quite a bit. Number thirteen, Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the offensive side of the ball. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: Luke Montgomery. He was solid last year. He you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone on the offensive line had their moments,
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  Speaker 1: not any great way towards the end of the season,
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  Speaker 1: but he was really solid overall. I think, and you
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  Speaker 1: figure another year as a starter. He kind of took
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  Speaker 1: over late in the twenty twenty four season, took a
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  Speaker 1: role late in that twenty twenty four season, took over
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  Speaker 1: as a starter last year. I'm expecting some pretty big
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  Speaker 1: things potentially from him this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, senior returning starter, experienced, has been in the same
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  Speaker 2: place for a while now. That helps. Second team All
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  Speaker 2: American last year by the Football Coaches Association. So that's
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  Speaker 2: no small things. Second team All Big Ten scholar athlete
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  Speaker 2: all three of his years, you know. So it's like,
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  Speaker 2: all of these are aspects of a very very good
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  Speaker 2: offensive lineman and a cornerstone of the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: So I think this is fine. I think he also
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  Speaker 2: has versatilities essentially played every spot now on the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line in his time in terms of practice or games,
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  Speaker 2: and also tight end. So he's a guy that's experienced,
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  Speaker 2: been around, and if he continues to increase that physicality
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  Speaker 2: and sounds like the way Arthur Smith is going an
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  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator with getting those that offensive line all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on the same page, he could be in for a
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  Speaker 2: very big year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we still have a couple more offensive line to
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  Speaker 1: lineman to get to, but I think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of those really really important pieces in what
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  Speaker 1: should be a better and improved offensive line for the
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  Speaker 1: bluck Eyes. All right, number twelve and number eleven, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do these together because these are two guys
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  Speaker 1: who played the same position, and I changed my mind
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  Speaker 1: three times on which guy was going to go twelve
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  Speaker 1: and which guy was going to go eleven, And at
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  Speaker 1: this point, I'm just going to sort of throw my
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  Speaker 1: hands up and say eleven and eleven A Devin Sanchez,
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  Speaker 1: Jermaine Matthews. I think I'm going to put Jermaine Matthews
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  Speaker 1: at eleven and Devin Sanchez twelve just because he's got
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  Speaker 1: another year of experience. But I also think a year
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  Speaker 1: from now, Devin Sanchez might be like a top five
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  Speaker 1: guy on this list.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that. I think the need
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  Speaker 2: for Jermaine Matthews is to be up here, like Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State needs him to be high on this list. And
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  Speaker 2: he's very experienced. He's started games ever since he was
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  Speaker 2: a true freshman, with two games as a true freshman
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  Speaker 2: and maybe a couple as a sophomore before emerging as
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  Speaker 2: the starter last year replacing Burke. So that experience, that energy,
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  Speaker 2: that's a nacity he needs to be up on this list.
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  Speaker 2: Devin Sanchez, I just I can't shake the spring that
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  Speaker 2: he had and it was it was outstanding, and all
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  Speaker 2: of the battles that we saw with Jeremiah Smith and
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  Speaker 2: he I'm telling you, he won more than he lost
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  Speaker 2: against Jeremiah Smith. And maybe that's because of Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have a good quarterback. Who knows, But like those
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  Speaker 2: two went at it, and Devin Sanchez walked away most
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  Speaker 2: of the time, either with a seat belt thing or
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  Speaker 2: you know, shaking his arms incomplete like that. So those
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  Speaker 2: two guys, I think Ohio State could have, you know, certainly,
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  Speaker 2: they certainly they arguably have the best cornerback duo in
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  Speaker 2: the nation once the season is over. It's a little
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  Speaker 2: too early to say that now, but I think by
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season people will be saying it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's entirely within the realm of possibility.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly potentially the best Big ten cornerback duo. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, we talked about Dominic Kelly a few shows ago,
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  Speaker 1: but he's some one who if he can get himself
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  Speaker 1: to even just being a top twenty kind of guy
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  Speaker 1: on this list instead of I think I head him
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  Speaker 1: thirtieth or something like that. I think this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this could.
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  Speaker 2: Be a really really really.
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  Speaker 1: Good defensive backfield. And we've got a couple of guys
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  Speaker 1: in that defensive backfield that we have not even talked
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  Speaker 1: about yet, plus that quarterback who don't Tony doesn't care
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  Speaker 1: much for apparently that.
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  Speaker 2: Is It's like we started the show by saying, you
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  Speaker 2: really have you have Peyton Pierce this low and then
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  Speaker 2: now it's like, how are you going to cram all
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  Speaker 2: these players in here in this top ten?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is too many good players is a very
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state problem we have. On the next show, we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a couple, a couple offensive linemen, a defensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: a secondary player running back, and then we'll have the
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  Speaker 1: top five after that. So we'll get to that at
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