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BONUS: Ohio State 56, Ball State 3 - Juck's Quick Hits · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, we got another bonus show for you. And
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  Speaker 1: this is one we wanted to share because it features
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  Speaker 1: Juck Mileti. And you may know him as Juck on
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  Speaker 1: Bucks from YouTube. But he is our recruiting insider at BuckeyeInsiders.com.
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  Speaker 1: He's also helping us cover the team. Tony Gerderman and
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  Speaker 1: Juck and I were there at the stadium on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing postgame shows a little bit differently this year.
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  Speaker 1: There's some new Big Ten rules, so we can't do
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  Speaker 1: things quite the way we did in the past. And
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  Speaker 1: so one of the things we tried on Saturday was
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  Speaker 1: we let Juck just kind of share some instant reaction thoughts. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as the clock hit zero, those got posted
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  Speaker 1: to our YouTube channel. But we wanted to share them
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  Speaker 1: here as well because they were not included with the
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  Speaker 1: full post-game show that we did, the Buckeye Weekly podcast
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  Speaker 1: post-game show that we shared in that Buckeye Weekly feed.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, if you don't know, Juck, we think you'll
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  Speaker 1: love him because to know Juk is to love him.
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  Speaker 1: He is one of the most likable people I have
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  Speaker 1: ever met in my entire life and is also an
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  Speaker 1: incredibly knowledgeable about Ohio State football, Ohio State recruiting, and
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  Speaker 1: much more. So here are Juk Mileti's sort of instant
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  Speaker 1: reaction thoughts from the Buckeyes' 56-3 win over Ball State.
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  Speaker 1: If you enjoy this, make sure you check out Juk
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the team at BuckeyeInsiders.com.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to Buckeye Insiders. Appreciate you so much for
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  Speaker 2: joining us as the Ohio State game wraps. The opener
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  Speaker 2: over in the Buckeyes not just win, but cover that
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  Speaker 2: massive 50.5 spread. I predicted, I think, 56 to 6 here.
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  Speaker 2: The game ended 56 to 3. Pretty doggone close on
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  Speaker 2: the day that Jim Trestle went up into the ring
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  Speaker 2: of honor. I think you can see it right behind
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  Speaker 2: me there. Yeah, it is on the screen. As he
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  Speaker 2: joins Woody Hayes and Maurice Claret. rang the victory bell,
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  Speaker 2: and I've heard that victory bell rung a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times now. Nobody has rung it as hard as Maurice.
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  Speaker 2: That thing was banging, and that was awesome. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the way it kicked off today. And then we got
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  Speaker 2: to the action, which started off with Julian saying, looking
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  Speaker 2: a little out of sorts in possession, number one, before
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  Speaker 2: he absolutely lit it up. The connection, and we're just
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  Speaker 2: going to talk here quickly about our quick takeaways here
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  Speaker 2: from the game. and get this up to you guys
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  Speaker 2: because we can't do our live show till an hour
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  Speaker 2: passes after the game ends. So we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: this up real quick. This will just be kind of
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  Speaker 2: like my main takeaways here from the game. The biggest
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  Speaker 2: things that stand out, the connection between Julian saying and
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  Speaker 2: his three starting receivers, particularly Jeremiah, but also Devin McEwen
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  Speaker 2: and even Brandon Ennis, the connection between those guys looked fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things that we were looking for,
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  Speaker 2: with this wide receiver crew and with this passing game
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  Speaker 2: this year was, were these wide receiver routes going to
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  Speaker 2: start to look a little different, a little traditionally Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 2: like before, you know, 24 and 25, things were a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different. And we saw a whole lot more
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  Speaker 2: creativity in those routes. One in particular, the one that
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Innes made the best catch he made on the
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  Speaker 2: sideline there, he was in motion and it was just,
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  Speaker 2: everything's looking different, crisp and great between Julian saying, in
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  Speaker 2: those starting wide receivers. And that was one of my
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  Speaker 2: main takeaways is Julian saying goes 21 of 25. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure what the final yardage was as I've got
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  Speaker 2: 20 pieces of paper here, but it was a big
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  Speaker 2: day for Julian saying in quarter number one, of course,
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  Speaker 2: we then saw Luke Fahey come in as the second
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  Speaker 2: quarterback instead of Tavian St. Clair. That'll be a long
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  Speaker 2: conversation that we'll let Tom and Tony have as we're
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  Speaker 2: going to stick to the bigger issues here. That certainly
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  Speaker 2: is a big issue, but not so much as it
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  Speaker 2: pertains to this year, we hope. A big issue that
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  Speaker 2: does pertain to this year is the offensive line, of course.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know how much you've been a believer
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  Speaker 2: in this offensive line. I think there's some Buckeye fans
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  Speaker 2: who feel that some portal shopping should have been done.
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  Speaker 2: I have felt that you got the ingredients you need
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  Speaker 2: here for an excellent offensive line. And bringing in Art
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  Speaker 2: Smith to help Tyler Bowen Art Smith, an offensive line
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  Speaker 2: guy who is an offensive coordinator, wants to run the
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  Speaker 2: ball first. This did not look like that. What you
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  Speaker 2: had out here was a disappointing performance today in game
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  Speaker 2: one for the offensive line as they rolled out with
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  Speaker 2: the starting lineup that we thought it would be with
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  Speaker 2: Austin Saravelle at right guard, Phil Daniels at right tackle,
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  Speaker 2: and possession number three, we had already flopped that around
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  Speaker 2: to Gabe Van Sickle, at right guard and Austin at
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  Speaker 2: right tackle. Don't know what the reason was for sure
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  Speaker 2: that very well may have been planned from the beginning
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  Speaker 2: before they started the game, but it also coincides with
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  Speaker 2: Phil Daniels having maybe his roughest performance since last year
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  Speaker 2: against Minnesota. It wasn't a good, well, excluding Miami, the
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  Speaker 2: Miami game. I don't really, I guess everybody had a
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  Speaker 2: bad game that day. Carson Hinson had a pretty good day,
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  Speaker 2: but Phil Daniels, A rough day today in game number one.
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  Speaker 2: But honestly, I think you can say the same for
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  Speaker 2: the entire offensive line, except for some spells. In the
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  Speaker 2: second half, they looked a little better. But for a
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  Speaker 2: team that's been talking about running the ball with attitude
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  Speaker 2: all year long, for Ryan Day talking about how they
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  Speaker 2: were walking on water, the three interior guys, last week,
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  Speaker 2: he said they were walking on water. They were so excited.
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  Speaker 2: about Art Smith, and he was referring to Luke Montgomery,
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  Speaker 2: Austin Saravell, and Carson Hinsman on the interior. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we expected to come out and not just see them
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  Speaker 2: dominate in the run game against a team like this,
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  Speaker 2: who Ball State, not a Mac team that's just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not like Toledo, like Michigan State played last night. This
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  Speaker 2: is a Mac team that's like grambling, a really, really
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  Speaker 2: bad Mac team. And this offensive line should have gotten
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  Speaker 2: a noticeable push and been able to really bully them.
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  Speaker 2: And they weren't. I don't know what the yards per
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  Speaker 2: carry were by halftime, but I believe it was under three.
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't look good. Of course, you do end
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  Speaker 2: up getting some explosive runs thanks to Bo Jackson, who
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  Speaker 2: does what Ryan Day, and I think this will be
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  Speaker 2: our next takeaway, is getting some explosive runs. Bo Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day told us just in this last press conference,
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  Speaker 2: but they brought it up all offseason. They're working on
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  Speaker 2: breaking that last tackle and turning that 10-yard run into
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  Speaker 2: who Bo Jackson, we talked in the pregame show, was
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  Speaker 2: top three in the country in 10-yard runs, but then
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  Speaker 2: when it goes to 15, he falls off the board.
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  Speaker 2: He took the 10-yard run today, and he turned it
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  Speaker 2: into a broken tackle, then a second broken tackle, and
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  Speaker 2: took it. And we saw the same thing out of
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  Speaker 2: Jacoby Jackson today. who interestingly enough was the second back in,
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  Speaker 2: not Isaiah West. And I thought maybe this will last
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  Speaker 2: a series. Then it was two series. Then it was
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  Speaker 2: somebody else. Then it was three series. Don't understand why
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah West didn't see any time except for maybe a
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  Speaker 2: play in the first half until later on in the
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  Speaker 2: game with the entire second offensive line. They did him dirty.
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  Speaker 2: They did him real dirty as he goes in there
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  Speaker 2: and the second offensive line comes in. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: things weren't so hot with a couple of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure why that was. I definitely did
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  Speaker 2: not expect to see Jacoby Jackson as the second back
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  Speaker 2: in on a game like this. I thought we'd see
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  Speaker 2: them kind of run through. I thought we'd probably even
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  Speaker 2: see favorite key by the fourth quarter, maybe some turbo Rogers,
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  Speaker 2: none of that. What we did get to see was
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  Speaker 2: legend Bay who started off the game with a terrible
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  Speaker 2: couple of decisions in the kick return game and totally
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  Speaker 2: redeemed himself. with one of the more– like two sensational plays, really.
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  Speaker 2: The guy is just– you know, he's got it. He's
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  Speaker 2: got– you can see why Ryan Tate, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: mad as he was about what happened in the first
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  Speaker 2: half with those special teams plays, didn't matter. He was
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  Speaker 2: still putting him back out there to let him do that.
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  Speaker 2: And I totally agree with the decision. That was sensational.
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  Speaker 2: The defensive line we talked about in the pregame show,
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  Speaker 2: In the interior of the defensive line, do you have
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  Speaker 2: four starting caliber guys or do you have four just
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  Speaker 2: kind of under starting caliber guys? And that's why you
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  Speaker 2: can't make your mind up between Edric Houston and James
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  Speaker 2: Smith and John Walker and Will Smith Jr. And what
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  Speaker 2: you got was Edric Houston and John Walker coming out
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  Speaker 2: to start the game. I thought that both of them
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  Speaker 2: got handled pretty well to start the game. And James
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  Speaker 2: Smith was the most impactful of those defensive linemen on
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  Speaker 2: the interior today, of course. What do we know about
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  Speaker 2: James Smith? He's a penalty machine. When he was at Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: the very first play he makes at Ohio State, in
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  Speaker 2: come the penalties. It was like unbelievable. It's something we've
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  Speaker 2: talked about all offseason. Got to cut down on the penalties,
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  Speaker 2: dumb decisions, and go make plays that we know he
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  Speaker 2: can make. And the first one, here comes a penalty.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it, but he looked good. He looked
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  Speaker 2: real good all day, I thought. One of the more
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  Speaker 2: interesting things was is the defense rolled out, and we
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  Speaker 2: talked about Bo Atkinson for, I don't know, all offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's saying Bo Atkinson's going to be the starter. It
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  Speaker 2: just seemed like that was what was going to happen, right?
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  Speaker 2: Zion Grady comes out as the starter across from Kenyatta Jackson. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been the logical thing at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the year, right? Because he beat Bo Atkinson out.
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  Speaker 2: Sure enough, that's how it started today with Zion Grady.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much smoke and mirrors we saw today, guys.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of smoke and mirrors, most likely, because
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  Speaker 2: you roll into Texas next week. But there were some
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  Speaker 2: interesting decisions, and Zion Grady looked good. When Bo Atkinson
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  Speaker 2: came in, I didn't see it. I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 2: He had four tackles, right? So he got in on
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  Speaker 2: some action. But the athletic flexibility and the things they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to make a leap on, I didn't see
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  Speaker 2: any of that with my own eyes. We did see
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  Speaker 2: Jay Timmons play a fantastic game in his first game,
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  Speaker 2: which we talked about in the pregame again. Might have
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  Speaker 2: been the first game of a future NFL first rounder
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  Speaker 2: for the Buckeyes as Jay Timmons not just played in
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  Speaker 2: the nickel and played excellent, but played outside corner and
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  Speaker 2: a couple of pass breakups. In addition to that, Kari
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  Speaker 2: Wilder was an absolute dog. Kari Wilder got– I'll credit
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  Speaker 2: him with half an interception as he forced– oh, the
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  Speaker 2: Ball State quarterback. He forced him to throw it into
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  Speaker 2: trouble and got T.J. Alford a pick. So T.J. Alford,
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  Speaker 2: Riley Pettijohn, both look really good, and that was great
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  Speaker 2: to see them in the action. We're talking– Six tackles
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  Speaker 2: for Petty John, five tackles for Alford. They look good.
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  Speaker 2: Earl Little in his debut at Ohio State looked really good.
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  Speaker 2: So a ton to take away. And Tony and Tom
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  Speaker 2: will dive into this deeper. But wanted to just give
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  Speaker 2: you the quick hitter. We'll pump this out. These guys
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  Speaker 2: are coming real soon. I'd say another 40 minutes after
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  Speaker 2: this hits the airwaves. They'll be on with the live show.
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