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Ohio State Football Insider: Running Backs Making Big Moves In Fall Camp · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, August sixteenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: all right, I'm joined by Tony Gerderman at Buckeye Insiders
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Here on campus, just outside the north rotunda
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio Stadium. You're here for a Ryan Day press conference,
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  Speaker 1: and figure what the heck? It feels a little like fall.
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  Speaker 1: It's gray and overcast, like a proper Ohio State football
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  Speaker 1: game day. And so all right, we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: over to the stadium and do a quick show. I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about the running backs on today showcause
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  Speaker 1: that was one of the more interesting There was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of interesting stuff out of that Ryan Day press
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  Speaker 1: conference on Saturday, but I thought the running backs were
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  Speaker 1: really interesting because you've heard all sorts of different names
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  Speaker 1: at different times during the course of the year as
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  Speaker 1: this has sort of played out, and there's been a
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  Speaker 1: ton of Isaiah West buzz this fall, coming from on
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  Speaker 1: the record, off the record, in the program, outside of
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  Speaker 1: the program, like you're just hearing it from everyone. And
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  Speaker 1: then Ryan Day was asked about the running backs and
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah West was not the person that he was the
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  Speaker 1: most effervescent about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could not say enough good things about Bo Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that was good for Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 2: to hear after so much talk about Legend Bay and
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah West. It's like, I don't forget about the guy
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  Speaker 2: who rushed for a thousand yards and led the team
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  Speaker 2: last year, and he just it was very matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: like Bo's doing great. Also, Isaiah West and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jacoby Jackson are doing well also. But like the way
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  Speaker 2: he was talking, it's like Bo Jackson then there's everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: That was just the way it seemed the way he
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  Speaker 2: spoke today. And I think one of the things he
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  Speaker 2: talked about was Bo's vision the second level being the
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  Speaker 2: biggest difference last year that was a problem area, or
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  Speaker 2: you get into the second level, then you get tackled.
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  Speaker 2: They've he said, I put a lot of pressure on
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  Speaker 2: bow and I put a lot of pressure on Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Lachlan to make sure that second level is a dangerous
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  Speaker 2: thing for Ohio State this year. And it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: those are the areas where bo Jackson's really standing out,
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  Speaker 2: which is the areas where he focused in on, focused
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  Speaker 2: on in the offseason and wanted to make happen this year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you sort of assumed he would be better
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  Speaker 1: in some of those areas, just maybe a little quicker,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little stronger getting thrown in there is a
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  Speaker 1: true freshman last year, you didn't have that full year
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  Speaker 1: with coach making the weight room. You were not used
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  Speaker 1: to playing that many games, that many snaps against that
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  Speaker 1: level of competition. By the end of the season, he
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  Speaker 1: was banged up in head, some clean up surgery, as
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  Speaker 1: Aos was banged up in head, some clean up surgery.
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  Speaker 1: This time of year, you figure you're probably about us
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  Speaker 1: that this is about as healthy as you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be throughout the course of the year. So it makes sense,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it was interesting. Ryan his attitude is
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  Speaker 1: essentially I don't care how you do it. You just
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  Speaker 1: got to do it. You can run through guys, you
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  Speaker 1: can run around guys, whatever it is. All I care
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  Speaker 1: about is the results.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I'm not telling you to do this or
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  Speaker 2: do that. You've got your options. You can do it
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  Speaker 2: however you want to do it. Just get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And Bo Jackson has an added weight, added strength, added
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  Speaker 2: just the overall quickness from being further removed from the injury,
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  Speaker 2: so he has more ways of doing things. Also, just
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  Speaker 2: the anticipation, the experience setting guys up and just being
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  Speaker 2: longer in the body of this running back that he is.
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  Speaker 2: All of that helps him to do those sorts of things.
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  Speaker 2: So really really positive stuff from Ryan Day about Bo Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Today, there's another Jackson in that room who there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of positive about as well, and that's Jacoby Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: And he's in a little bit of a different category
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  Speaker 1: than some of the other guys where he's a veteran,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not an Ohio State veteran. He's new to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, but definitely not new at all through the
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  Speaker 1: college football thing. On the whole, it feels like he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna maybe have more of a role than people might think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and he's a seventh year guy who I believes
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  Speaker 2: three years in junior at least two years in junior college.
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  Speaker 2: And Tom the fun thing is, since those junior college
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  Speaker 2: years sometimes don't matter, like theoretically, until this sole age
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  Speaker 2: based model came about. Like if he wanted to play
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  Speaker 2: nine years, there's a road there that would not be unprecedented.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be happening at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know that they've ever had a thirty
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  Speaker 2: two year old running back except for maybe post Ward
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  Speaker 2: War two. But let's digress. A very good scrimmage today.
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  Speaker 2: According to Ryan Day, for Jacoby Jackson, who has we've
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  Speaker 2: talked about just really an eight running instincts, can catch
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  Speaker 2: the ball, is comfortable doing different things, can has the
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  Speaker 2: experience of being past protector those sorts of things. Is
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  Speaker 2: not the one, not the singular replacement for CJ. Donaldson.
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  Speaker 2: It's like he's not the new CJ. Donaldson. Is he
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  Speaker 2: is the first Jacobe Jackson basically. Now, Ryan Day talked
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  Speaker 2: about the three of them, Bo Jackson, Isaiah West and
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  Speaker 2: Jacoby Jackson as that's the three, but I there's still
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  Speaker 2: another name in there.
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  Speaker 1: There is another name, and I'm sure everyone's going well
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  Speaker 1: with Legend By talking about Legend B. I'm excited about
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  Speaker 1: Legend BA. I think a lot of people are still
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  Speaker 1: excited about Legend Bay. But it sounds like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we went into the fall thinking Legend Bay
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  Speaker 1: will give them a big playability that they might not
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  Speaker 1: have anywhere else. If Bo Jackson can check some of
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  Speaker 1: that box for you, that helps. You would obviously prefer
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  Speaker 1: to have lots of people who can do that for you.
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  Speaker 1: I still think Legend By gives them something that they
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  Speaker 1: can't necessarily get anywhere else. But it also feels like
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to make sure that Legend Beay is really
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  Speaker 1: ready and really is all the not exciting stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he does all the exciting stuff already. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: this is one of these cases where they're waiting for
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  Speaker 1: all the not exciting stuff, just the real nittigury stuff
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  Speaker 1: that football coaches obsess over that fans are kind of
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  Speaker 1: like fun letting you let him do the fun stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to let him skip that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Pre flight checklist where you got to go through all
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  Speaker 2: of the binders and before you can get up there
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  Speaker 2: and fly the fun plane. You've got to make sure
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  Speaker 2: everything is ready to go and that everything is safe
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  Speaker 2: and secure. And the safe and secure is the football,
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  Speaker 2: that aspect of it, and just knowing the offense. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: more than anything as a true freshman who is still
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  Speaker 2: learning the position. He's a natural runner, but he was
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback in high school option quarterbacks, so he did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of running. But still, you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: difference between giving the ball and taking the ball, those
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  Speaker 2: sorts of things, just the fundamentals of it, and so
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  Speaker 2: there's just that sort of stuff that he's still learning
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  Speaker 2: in his right days. As long as he continues to progress,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to play. But he's not just saying he's
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  Speaker 2: progressed like he's in. It's trying to not to put
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  Speaker 2: the cart before the horse, so to speak. They clearly
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  Speaker 2: have plans for him to play. We see him early
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  Speaker 2: when we're watching practice, but you also know that before
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  Speaker 2: that happens, he's got to make sure he continues to
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  Speaker 2: take care of the football, take care of his business,
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  Speaker 2: and just be a trustworthy player. And that's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's really the crux of it. All of the natural
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  Speaker 2: ability is there as you said, the boring stuff that
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  Speaker 2: coaches obsess over that will determine his playing.
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  Speaker 1: Time at Something else he was doing on Saturday was
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  Speaker 1: working as a punt returner. That was not something that
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day talked about, but that was something that our
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  Speaker 1: have some reports from inside practice that we could share
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  Speaker 1: that we don't generally talk about on these podcasts. So
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  Speaker 1: if you want to know all the stuff that happened
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  Speaker 1: inside practice, there was an offensive player who we have
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  Speaker 1: not talked about, a veteran offensive player who have not
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  Speaker 1: talked about a lot this fall, who had a very
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  Speaker 1: good practice from what we were hearing, as well as
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