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Ohio State Practice Insider: 5 Buckeyes Who Stood Out On Offense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, April fifth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Tom Moore.
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  Speaker 1: Joined by Tony Gerderman here in the indoor at the
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  Speaker 1: way he has Athletics Center. The student appreciation practice just ended.
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  Speaker 2: Get a chance to.
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  Speaker 1: Watch about an hour and a half or so of practice,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of seven on seven and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of eleven on eleven. It was It was certainly the
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  Speaker 1: most we have gotten to see so far this spring.
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  Speaker 2: We want to talk on this show.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some of the guys who
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  Speaker 1: stood out on the offensive side of the ball. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we'll cheat and give you a special teams player as well.
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  Speaker 1: But and then on the Buckeye Weekly podcast fee we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about some of the guys in the defense who
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  Speaker 1: stood out.
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  Speaker 2: So Tony on offense to me.
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  Speaker 1: I thought there were you know, the running back room
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  Speaker 1: is banged up, and you know, a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: are not A couple guys are not playing at all.
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  Speaker 2: The legend Bay is kind of lim did right now.
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  Speaker 1: So the two both of the running backs, really, I'll
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  Speaker 1: start with Jakobe Jackson. They transferred from Florida. He was
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  Speaker 1: repping with the ones because well someone has to. And
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  Speaker 1: it felt like he made the most of his opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: And we've been told that he's a very instincttional runner
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  Speaker 3: and he's smooth, and that's what it looked like today.
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  Speaker 3: And they were playing thud, but they're also playing full gore.
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  Speaker 3: There's some tackling going on as well. And he looked comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: He was shifty, he's good sized, He's not you know,
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  Speaker 3: a little scot back or anything.
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  Speaker 4: He was comfort the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and all in all, like this was he looked good.
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  Speaker 4: He looked, you know, like he could play. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing is some of these
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  Speaker 3: guys that you watch practice, you know they're not going
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  Speaker 3: to play. I think Jacoby Jackson is clear they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna play. They went out and brought him in
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  Speaker 3: he's going to play, and it was good to see
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  Speaker 3: him look good today.
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  Speaker 1: And he was at the times when they you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the spring, we always say this, very hard to
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  Speaker 1: judge running backs because they're in thud so much and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Got close to him.
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  Speaker 1: If that turns into tackle, that's one thing. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: can make a guy miss. There were a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times that he made guys miss when they were in tackle,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a you know, that's something that they did
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  Speaker 1: not have as much as they might have wanted at
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  Speaker 1: times last year.
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  Speaker 3: There was a swing pass outside where Peyton Pierce had
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  Speaker 3: him and then did he duke Peyton Pearson then.
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  Speaker 4: Got tapped down. Yeah, you know, but.
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  Speaker 3: Even if you're playing two hand touch and you don't
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  Speaker 3: touch the guy, yeah, you know that that gives you
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  Speaker 3: an idea of the move that he made on that one.
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  Speaker 3: The other running back we can talk about favor Racki,
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  Speaker 3: who's true freshman running with the two is because he's
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  Speaker 3: next up because legend is out right now, Isaiah westonbo
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  Speaker 3: Jackson are out. But he looked very slippery today and
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  Speaker 3: he's not necessarily a bit between the tackles guy, but
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  Speaker 3: he looked like he also looked like Helong. He had
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  Speaker 3: a nice long run that they turned into like a
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  Speaker 3: ten yard run when it may have been a twenty
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  Speaker 3: yard touchdown. But he's I just kept going to mind,
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  Speaker 3: he just looks slippery, he's.
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  Speaker 4: Quick, and he gets going.
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  Speaker 1: And they were using the backs a lot in the
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  Speaker 1: passing game. It felt like they were looking to the
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  Speaker 1: backs a lot while they were throwing.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, he was elusive when he was out there.
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  Speaker 1: And I still I don't think I have necessarily changed
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  Speaker 1: my mind on He's probably someone where we'll see you
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  Speaker 1: next year for the most part, but when you see
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  Speaker 1: him next year, I think the needle moved a little
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  Speaker 1: bit for me in terms of what he might be
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  Speaker 1: able to be for them in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he seems less of a project now after he
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  Speaker 3: just watching him a little bit, so I thought that
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  Speaker 3: was good for him. Can I bring up another offensive guy?
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  Speaker 2: You sure can.
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  Speaker 3: The only offensive guy that loses black stripe today, wide
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  Speaker 3: receiver Devin McEwan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that was that that was who it
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  Speaker 1: was because he was someone that we had talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that he lost his stripe but that's
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  Speaker 1: someone who watching practice. It's like, yeah, I bet he's
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  Speaker 1: going to lose his stripe soon.
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  Speaker 4: He kind of handfull of past was getting open. Nothing deep.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they weren't really I don't know that they
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  Speaker 4: threw deep.
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  Speaker 3: They threw deep a couple of times, but most of
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  Speaker 3: those masses went out of bounds. There's just a lot
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  Speaker 3: of crossing routes, a lot of out routes, drag routes,
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  Speaker 3: things that they were working on there. When they were
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  Speaker 3: down in the like the goal line area and they're
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  Speaker 3: throwing the ball. One of the students next to me,
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  Speaker 3: he's like, just run the ball. I wanted to explain,
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  Speaker 3: like this is all scripted. Yeah, they're not trying to like, gosh,
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  Speaker 3: we got to beat this defenses and we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: run through some things.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I thought McEwan had a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he feels like you know the Parker, Kyle Parker
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  Speaker 1: lost his black stripe earlier in the week, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a little bit of well and
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  Speaker 1: then brock Boyd lost his black stripe. Like, what's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with Dev mcew And the answer is nothing, Nothing's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with Dev McEwan's he is. Now, you know, he feels
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  Speaker 1: like he's going to be between Jeremiah Smith and Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Innis and Kyle Parker and Devin mcew. And that feels
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  Speaker 1: like a very clear these four guys are going to play.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have that supplemented with the freshmen, but
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  Speaker 1: those four guys are you know, clearly going to have
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  Speaker 1: roles this year.
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  Speaker 2: Someone else that was impressive, and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we're not talking a lot about the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: because the offensive line, I mean, we'll talk about all
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  Speaker 1: the defensive linemen who were impressive. That is why we're
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  Speaker 1: not talking about the offensive line right now. But someone
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  Speaker 1: else who I was really interested to see because we
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen a whole heck of a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: was Tavian Saint Claire. Now, he was running for his
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  Speaker 1: life at times, but when he had some time, it
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  Speaker 1: felt like he was solid. It feels like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can tell the game has slowed down for him.
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  Speaker 1: Even when he had guys kind of coming right at him.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't the oh no one, no, no, no kind
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  Speaker 1: of that you could just see last year. It's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is not the first time I've had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of big, angry guys coming very fast at me and
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  Speaker 1: got the ball out, made some plays, got out of
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  Speaker 1: the pocket, extended, you know, extended things a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of what you wanted to see out
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  Speaker 2: of hand.
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  Speaker 3: I think we talked in the in the earlier show
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  Speaker 3: previewing the practices.
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  Speaker 4: I I want to see take me and sake there,
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  Speaker 4: get rid of the ball just you know, in a
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  Speaker 4: way that.
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  Speaker 2: Is, yeah, towards a receiver, Yeah, to a receiver.
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  Speaker 4: And we saw that.
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  Speaker 3: Today and he did look comfortable the shoot. There was
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  Speaker 3: one time where he just kept back battling and I
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  Speaker 3: think they probably called a sack. But in the past
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  Speaker 3: that Paul just gets immediately like thrown away. But he
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  Speaker 3: kept looking, kept looking, and then like Ryan Dan Arthur
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  Speaker 3: Smither talking to him about what he saw. So he
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  Speaker 3: seems like he's again you're looking to see who belongs,
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  Speaker 3: who looks like they belong. He looked comfortable today, So
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  Speaker 3: all good signs there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's some tangible signs of progress there.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time of year when the defense is
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  Speaker 1: almost always ahead of the offense. This is something we
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  Speaker 1: talk about this year every time in the spring. This
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  Speaker 1: is a cliche almost that the defense is always ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the offense. The defense looked ahead of the offense
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  Speaker 1: during the course of practice, I think, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: look like this was not the absolute circus you've seen
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  Speaker 1: on offense before. It was like, Okay, there are clear signs.
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  Speaker 1: You can see the pieces, you can see sort of
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  Speaker 1: what's coming together. And you got to remember, you got
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  Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator. There is going to be some
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  Speaker 1: new stuff that they're sort of working on right now
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  Speaker 1: and just sort of starting to get implement well.
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  Speaker 3: And they were down two starting offensive linemen YEP Austin Ciravell,
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  Speaker 3: Philip Daniels.
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  Speaker 4: As Tim May reported earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Today, those guys had minor procedures, so presumably they're out
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  Speaker 3: for the spring. They're out today, so you're starting tackles.
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  Speaker 3: Were Ian Moore on the left side, Carter Low on
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  Speaker 3: the right side, and both those guys had their moments,
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  Speaker 3: but they all said, you know, some losses, and I thought, well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk about the defensive side of the thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the buck I weekly, but overall it's a gay. Van
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  Speaker 3: Sickle is their right guard. So you've got some guys
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  Speaker 3: who are part of the top eight top nine that
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  Speaker 3: were in the top five, and that's always going to
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  Speaker 3: create some issues.
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  Speaker 4: It's always a mix and match thing in the spring anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And I would put Carter Low on this list as well.
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  Speaker 1: Where he was obviously, you know, there's a reason he
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  Speaker 1: was playing with the ones at right tackle, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't look out of place with the ones at right tackle.
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  Speaker 1: And he was someone that we had talked about on
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  Speaker 1: these show previewing this where we had been hearing some
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  Speaker 1: positive things. I think we saw some positive things from him.
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  Speaker 1: And with the guys who are out, they're not got
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  Speaker 1: you know, Philip Daniels, Alson Serveld. Those are guys who
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  Speaker 1: and Josh Bidda as well, but Daniels and Sierveld in particular,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of know what you got there. So those
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  Speaker 1: guys being out is not necessarily as detrimental as it
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  Speaker 1: might be.
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  Speaker 2: To have someone who's still trying to work their way in.
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  Speaker 1: This could be a really good thing for Carter Low
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  Speaker 1: if he's getting a lot more reps, especially with the ones.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I would agree, you're getting incredible work against
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  Speaker 3: some talented first team defensive lineman, which we will.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about on the buck Ey Weekly podcast.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, overall, good work for those guys and the
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  Speaker 3: fact that you know it's physical right now as well,
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  Speaker 3: we should say Jeremiah Smith made.
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  Speaker 4: The play of the day. Yeah, oh yeah, gotta have it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fourth and goal from the three play
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  Speaker 1: and it was a gotta have it and a gasser
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  Speaker 1: was on the line, so you know, they do a
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  Speaker 1: lot to put you know, put some real stakes behind
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  Speaker 1: this and it was a throw up, a jump ball
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  Speaker 1: to Jeremiah Spith to let him go get it, which
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  Speaker 1: I continue to think that will be a good a
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  Speaker 1: good play for them, and lots of got to have
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  Speaker 1: that situation.
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  Speaker 4: Saw a replay on Twitter.
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  Speaker 3: I think as Flip might have stepped out of bounds
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  Speaker 3: before you went up and granted us I'm thinking I'll check,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll check the replay, but the gas er may
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  Speaker 3: have been run by the wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Side of the mall.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We do.
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  Speaker 1: Before we go to the defense on the Buckeye Weekly Feed,
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  Speaker 1: I do want to talk briefly about the special teams
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  Speaker 1: because we did get a chance for the first time
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  Speaker 1: this spring to say Williams Hawkins. They transfer kicker from
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  Speaker 1: Connor Hawkins, sorry, from from Baylor.
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  Speaker 2: The kicker he is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is again we talk about them trying
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  Speaker 1: to put stakes on things and the whole team was
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  Speaker 1: going to have to do.
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  Speaker 2: Was it a gas or downs or something? There was
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  Speaker 2: something again.
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  Speaker 3: So he explained the gasser. It's back and forth, back
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  Speaker 3: and forth twice. Yeah, you know, from one side of
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  Speaker 3: the field to the other fifty yards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's a lot at stake here.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they said everyone in the building, so
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  Speaker 1: I think that might have been students, students and potentially
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  Speaker 1: media as well. So I think everyone is very happy
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  Speaker 1: to see Connor Hawkins hit that field goal. He was
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  Speaker 1: you know, he was two for two when we saw
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  Speaker 1: and you know this is they're not kicking in sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven yards or anything like that, but crazy. It is
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  Speaker 1: a little breezy here, but with you know, they had
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  Speaker 1: students go right around him and it was like almost
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  Speaker 1: like a U shape right around him where it's you
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  Speaker 1: want pressure. This is about as much pressure as you
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  Speaker 1: can put on someone. And he hit both of his kicks.
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  Speaker 1: So it's April, you know, it's the first week of April.
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  Speaker 1: You can't prove that you are going to be you know,
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  Speaker 1: the solution to all of the all of the woes.
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  Speaker 2: On special teams. But he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He did, but he did everything he was asked to
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  Speaker 1: do today, which that's a that's a positive sign.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, with as much as much pressure as you can
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  Speaker 3: put on a kicker in spring with a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: people around it, and that's been something they do every year. Yep,
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  Speaker 3: with us, it's always fun to see how the kickers do.
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  Speaker 3: No students were allowed to kick this year, wich, I
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  Speaker 3: think is.
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  Speaker 4: A good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, well yeah we'll uh no offense. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was a uh, I think a solid
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  Speaker 2: day all around.
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  Speaker 1: I think people are probably walking out of here feeling,
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  Speaker 1: you know, reasonably optimistic. And this is this is a
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  Speaker 1: time of year when you know, no one is telling
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  Speaker 1: anyone that they're a bum because no one. The offense
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  Speaker 1: is not going three and out once since since December
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  Speaker 1: thirty first, and the defense has not given up a
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  Speaker 1: first down of any kind since December thirty first.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, everyone, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, always a positive, optimistic day, but I think definitely
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  Speaker 1: some reason for optimism.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Student Appreciation Day,
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  Speaker 1: we will have we got two more weeks of spring ball.
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  Speaker 1: Wrapping up with the with the spring game on April eighteenth,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be covering a bunch of it for you at
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  Speaker 1: bucke huddle dot com and at YouTube dot com slash
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Huddle.
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  Speaker 2: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 2: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow