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- 0:02Welcome to a very special live episode of Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, March
- 0:07eighth. I'm your host Tom Moore. The Akron game in one hundred and
- 0:09seventy six days, the game he gets Michigan in two hundred and sixty seven
- 0:13days. Joined with by Tony Gurdiman, a Puckehudle. Like how we just
- 0:16cut to watch spring practice number two for the Buckeyes and then got to talk
- 0:20to a whole bunch of Ohio State players. Mostly he seemed like it was
- 0:24all defense. It was all defense today. Yeah, talked to Jim Knowles
- 0:27and a bunch of a bunch of returning Buckeyes on the defensive side of the
- 0:31ball. I guess, Tony, let's start with practice. Any big takeaways,
- 0:35any big observations from practice number two? Not really. The one thing
- 0:39I wanted to find out was the situation at Nickel behind Jordan Hancock and saw
- 0:45Lorenzo Styles junior there. Asked Jim Knowles about him afterwards and said he's obviously
- 0:49good size. This listened to sixty one one. But the speed is the
- 0:53other thing that they really liked there. I also think it's an underrated factor
- 0:56that he's been a receiver who's played inside and outside, so that's another little
- 1:00added bonus there. So he was working with the twos there, and of
- 1:03course Miles Lockhart worked with the threes at Nicol, So that's one of the
- 1:07things I wanted to go in and look at. Everything else seemed pretty similar
- 1:11to what we saw on Tuesday. They did mix up the offensive line a
- 1:15little bit because when we got here and they started out Downavan Jackson was with
- 1:19the twos. I don't think he's been demoted, just probably not just And
- 1:23also Luke Montgomery was with the twos. So they're just moving some guys,
- 1:26you know, just mixing and matching. Spring Practice number two always seems to
- 1:30me like this is the one where you figure out, Okay, what did
- 1:34I not look at practice one? And then you look at it practice because
- 1:37there's so much stuff that different stuff going on and you can only be in
- 1:41one place at a time, and you know, for me, it's okay,
- 1:42who did I not get pictures of the last time? But you know,
- 1:46it's just not much changes from practice one to practice too. It's just
- 1:49more of okay, gathering more of that initial data to then have stuff to
- 1:55compare it to Buck Guy's now head out for spring break. They will be
- 1:57off next week. Yes, well we'll see, we'll see how much that
- 2:01actually happens. I mean this is a pretty focused group. I mean this
- 2:06is a pretty driven group. I'm going to start. I'm going to start
- 2:09our conversation with Denzel Burke where a lot of great interview shows start. Denzel
- 2:15Burke said, I'm just gonna read the direct quote here. There were a
- 2:19lot of good direct quotes from Denzel Burke. Quote Natty or bust, We've
- 2:22got to win it all. That's break. That's uh. I think he
- 2:30means the national chance. He didn't specify, but yes, yes, yes,
- 2:36so National championship or bust. You know this, It's basically was more
- 2:40or less. I'm gonna paraphrase here. You look around and look at the
- 2:43talent you've got, but you know what the goals are. The goals are
- 2:46beat Michigan, win the Big Ten, win the National championship. So far,
- 2:50these fourth year players have not done that. So this is the year
- 2:53where you know, no more excuses, no more anything. The I think
- 2:58the fan base, the expectation is what it is, and it sounds like
- 3:00for a lot of the players, at least for Denzel Burke, that's the
- 3:04expectation as well. Yeah, And as I were listening to this, because
- 3:07we talked to like all of the juniors and seniors that came back. They're
- 3:09not all of them, but that was the bulk of who we talked to
- 3:12on defense, and I was trying to remember which of them was it that
- 3:15said this was a group decision, and which of them was that said this
- 3:19other thing. It's because they all sound the same in terms of what they're
- 3:23talking about the purpose. So I don't know if it was Jordan or Denzel
- 3:27said I want to leave with something, and it could have been JT.
- 3:30Moa, who also could have said it was a joint decision. Like they're
- 3:34all speaking from this this this experience, this collective experience, this collective decision
- 3:39that they got together and decided basically as a group, we're going to come
- 3:44back and if you can't come back, do come back. And that's what
- 3:46you've seen. And so they're all speaking the same language. And like every
- 3:51great team needs great communication, there's some good communicators out here well, and
- 3:54you hear some of the same stuff that when Brian Day's talking to the team.
- 3:58We hear some of that coming out their mouths as well, in terms
- 4:00of, you know, the no talent stuff and you know, all the
- 4:04real attention to detail kind of stuff. Burke talked about that at one point.
- 4:09I mean, the message is getting through, and you would think,
- 4:12yeah, you would expect the message to get through, because when these guys
- 4:15came, a lot of them to Ohio State, they were probably thinking,
- 4:18all right, three years off to the NFL, gonna beat Michigan three times,
- 4:23maybe win two, I don't know, maybe three national championships. You
- 4:27know, the Big Ten Championship is just just a given when they showed up.
- 4:30They showed up in twenty twenty one, and it was just sort of
- 4:31okay, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, you
- 4:35beat Michigan, if you get to play Michigan and then you go win the
- 4:38Big Ten Championship, that's just what happens every year, and that has not
- 4:41been their experience. So you know, it makes sense that this is that
- 4:45they were able to kind of round everyone up and run it back for another
- 4:48year. Denzil Burke again in a moment of extreme candor, you know,
- 4:54was asked, you know why you just had to come back, And the
- 4:56first thing was he said, was well to make more money because he was
- 5:00projected he was given a late first early second round projection and said I can
- 5:04do better than that, and betting on himself and with the realities of nil.
- 5:09Now it is no longer a make the money or don't make the money
- 5:14conversation. It is a do you want to make some money here and bet
- 5:16on yourself or do you want to take more immediately? So that was interesting.
- 5:21He also Tony was asked about the wide receivers. This is another that
- 5:27you don't want to read too much into this, but I'm gonna read a
- 5:29little bit into it. The three names he said, the first three names
- 5:30when he said when he talked about the wide receivers Carnell, Karnell, take
- 5:35mec Mecha Abuka, JJ Jeremiah Smith. Interesting. This is just this is
- 5:44much like each of these individual practices. This is just a data point.
- 5:47But when you get guys who are just sort of you know, it's not
- 5:50like I'm going to name the entire wide receiver room just so I don't leave
- 5:54anyone out like That's sometimes that's how Ryan day is He's like, he doesn't
- 5:58want to name someone because he doesn't want to leave anyone out. Denzil Burke
- 6:00is about as straightforward as it gets, and so when he says that,
- 6:05it's you know, he kind of followed it up with, you know,
- 6:09I don't want to put too much on him, but like, you know,
- 6:13it's kind of like, yeah, it's there for him to be the
- 6:15next dude here, you know. And you can contrast that with when he
- 6:19was When Denzel Burke was asking about Jeremiah Smith at the Cotton Ball in the
- 6:24days leading up to the Cotton boll and he said, and I want to
- 6:26say it first, and now we're here, he's seen it. So this,
- 6:30to me, I have always been I've been the opponent of day one
- 6:35starter. Like You've talked about it, Mark Giveler's talked about it, Kevin
- 6:38Noon, I've talked about it. Generally. If you guys are like in
- 6:41agreement on something, I know I'm in the right to stay away. But
- 6:45if denzel Burke is talking about somebody that, like, I don't need any
- 6:47more proof than that. So gosh, I guess I was. I'm not
- 6:55going to say it, but no, it's too it's too soon to say
- 6:59for sure. If he's talking about somebody that that means, and if he's
- 7:01talking about somebody in a positive way, yeah, you know that's significant to
- 7:05me. And you know someone else he was talking about in a positive way
- 7:09was Jermaine Matthews said, you know, that's my guy. That's you know.
- 7:14He was asked is he going to be like the next Denzel Burke?
- 7:15And he didn't want to, you know, he's a different guy and all
- 7:19that kind of stuff, but you know very clearly he is a big believer
- 7:23in Jermaine Matthews, who is just going into his second year now. And
- 7:27you got a chance to talk to talk to some folks about Jermaine Matthews as
- 7:30well. Yeah, grabbed Jim Knowles and asked him basically, because my question
- 7:34is what happens if Denzel Burke or David Snigmnosen goes down. Because at times
- 7:41last year they would just move Jordan Hancock over. Now, when Nathan Ransom
- 7:46went down last year and Soundny Styles had to play strong safety, there was
- 7:47no other Nickels, so Jordan Hancock couldn't go, So they started Jermaine Matthews.
- 7:51They did that out of because they couldn't. They couldn't put Jordan Hncock
- 7:57there. So I asked him Mills, like, if that happens this year,
- 8:00is Jermaine Matthews able to go? He's like, oh, we did
- 8:01it last year. I'm like no, but if you can't, if you
- 8:05you're not moving. Jordan Hancock like, are you so confident in Jermaine Matthews
- 8:09that you don't need to move? Jordan Hancock's like, yeah, Jermaine is
- 8:11there now, He's he's to that point. So like I would in past
- 8:18years, like under Kerry Combs, he would be a third starter, like
- 8:20he would be part of the rotation. I don't think that's gonna happen here,
- 8:22but they are going to have to play more players. That's something else
- 8:26ask Knowles, like, have you guys talked about that, like among the
- 8:30status like we started to you know, it's still very early, but they
- 8:33know like they're gonna have to play players, and you're gonna you're gonna have
- 8:35to communit. Communicate that to the young guys that you're gonna play, Communicate
- 8:39that to the older guys like you're gonna we're gonna pull you out at times
- 8:43just because it is a long season, but yeah, I was. I
- 8:45was interested to find out a couple of things, and that is one of
- 8:48them. In terms of Jermaine Matthews, it's to the point now where it's
- 8:50not a it's not robbing Peter to pay Paulsy. You know, both guys
- 8:54have plenty of money and they can load it to you like we're all good
- 8:58here. I mean, I take a brief diversion from Denzel Burke. Just
- 9:01to transition off of the Leath and Ransom conversation, Leathan Ransom talked about the
- 9:05fact that he has a Liz Frank issue. That was the injury he suffered
- 9:09in his left foot. It's like that's like one of those like bones in
- 9:13the middle. I think Demetrius knocks when he broke his foot right at the
- 9:15end of the twenty eighteen Michigan game. I think that was the same thing.
- 9:18And he said, this is one of these things where you're told how
- 9:22long it's supposed to take, and much like his leg injury in the Rose
- 9:26Bowl, he was able to get back a lot sooner than expected. Credited
- 9:31trainer Adam Stewart, who's one of those this is another one of these names
- 9:35that I think average folks don't necessarily know. But it's one of those names
- 9:39that the people in the building talk about a lot, just in terms of
- 9:43training and rehab and you know, getting guys back, and when guys talk
- 9:46about you know, you know, I'm in the building basically twenty four to
- 9:48seven trying to get back from this for the Michigan game, the Bowl game,
- 9:52whatever it is. That's the guy they're working with. He's you know,
- 9:56he said, he basically started feeling more or less one hundred percent during
- 10:01winter workouts. I think they're going to be a little patient with him and
- 10:05work him back a little more gradually. But he is out there. He
- 10:07was not one of those names that you know, they said not gonna play.
- 10:11He was out there having a safety like him, having a safety like
- 10:15Caleb downs back. Uh. George Denzel Burke was asked about that. He
- 10:18said, let me find it. Oh, he's gonna be able to jump
- 10:22a lot more routes knowing that they have your back. I mean, having
- 10:26that safety, having that eraser behind you lets you play more aggressively as a
- 10:30corner, which you know, I think when you look at the fact that
- 10:33Ohio State has not necessarily produced as many interceptions as many turnovers. The last
- 10:37couple of years, as you might have expected, safety play has been,
- 10:41you know, inconsistent. Let's say, at times, if you know you've
- 10:45got someone like Caleb Downs behind you, you can be a little more aggressive
- 10:50and that can pay off in a lot of different ways. And Jordan Hancock
- 10:54talked a little bit about that as well, saying he wants more interceptions this
- 10:58year. He's planning to get more interceptions. He's setting the target right now
- 11:01at about five. He had a couple last year, dropped a couple,
- 11:05you know, so that is stuck with him. But yeah, if you've
- 11:07got somebody back there as at center fielder that you can trust and you know
- 11:11it's going to be back there, you can be a much more aggressive,
- 11:15and you can design things to be more aggressive. But the freedom that that
- 11:18gives the corners to not necessarily worry so much. And now get Bert once
- 11:26and you might get yanked. But I don't think you're going to see Jim
- 11:28Knowles because I think they've kind of played passive a little bit last year.
- 11:33Just let's cool up on the sixty yard gains. Let's just let's keep stuff
- 11:37in front of us. Maybe now they can continue to edge out into the
- 11:43more aggressive silver bullet type of defense that a lot of people want to see.
- 11:46Well, and I heard a couple of people today talk about being a
- 11:48little more diverse in some of the scheme stuff they're going to do. And
- 11:52we heard that, I think on we heard that from someone I think on
- 11:58Monday this week as well. You know, this is the advantage of Okay,
- 12:01you have veteran guys, so they know, you know, you don't
- 12:05need to go back to square one with here's okay, here's how we will
- 12:07line up. You've got that it's year three in this gym Noles defense,
- 12:11so you know he has talked about sort of unpacking that toolbox and taking out
- 12:15a few more tools it. You know, it's very easy to say that
- 12:18this time of year. We'll see what it looks like come October in November,
- 12:24but it feels like logically they should be able to be more diverse on
- 12:28defense and more aggressive. Well, I don't know, if you're over there
- 12:31over here with Jim Knowles, when he was talking about what they can do,
- 12:33He's like, you know, and if you get hero canoe, maybe
- 12:37we could put we can plug that in and go with a double league all
- 12:39I'm like, then He's like, yeah, you know, get a five
- 12:41man front, bare front. We can you know, Jack Sawyer and I'm
- 12:45trying to teach Jack Sawyer and J. T. T too moloas some outside
- 12:48linebacker stuff so that they can put those two guys with some defensive tackles,
- 12:52you know, like a five man front. And really just he said,
- 12:54it's about finding me the best eleven. So if you've got five guys like
- 12:58that front, that are the best eleven. And then he did clarify like
- 13:03we're still four to five, yes, but you've got to be multiple and
- 13:05then four two five with the quote, you know Sonny Styles as part of
- 13:09that linebacker crew a four one and a half five and a half. Yeah,
- 13:16and so there's obviously that versatility that that he has. They can do
- 13:20different things there. So yeah, when you've when everybody's coming back, you've
- 13:24got to then find ways to utilize them, which he also talked about uh
- 13:30several times three linebackers and including c J. Hicks and Sunny Styles in the
- 13:33same same alignment with Cody Simon game powers, as he said he may have
- 13:37been the most improved linebacker defensive player last year from the course of like now
- 13:41till the end of the season, and so he's another guy that could factor
- 13:45in as that fourth linebacker. One of the fun things about spring is there's
- 13:50a little bit of overlap of the last year guys and the this year guys.
- 13:54So, for example, Stool Chambers, who graduated off the NFELL,
- 14:01was actually here in the building today just kind of doing some workout stuff.
- 14:03And you know, so you'll still see some guys who's like, wait a
- 14:07minute, you don't you don't work here anymore, but you don't even go
- 14:09here. He he was here today and he actually had you know, classic
- 14:15Steel Chambers. We always talking about him as one of the best interviews,
- 14:18always want to always you know, it was always kind of like, I'll
- 14:20go do that table. I'll go I'll go talk to Steele. You guys
- 14:22can do who talk to whoever. He had a great question for Cody Simon.
- 14:28He sat down and said, you know, I saw Cody, you
- 14:31have a green dot helmet. What is that? What is that like?
- 14:33Because remember they are bringing in the helmet radios like the NFL has, and
- 14:39so Cody Simon was talking about that a little bit, said you know,
- 14:41it's it was a little loud. Today they're still like they're still very much
- 14:45figuring this out. And you know, he was saying like, oh,
- 14:48we don't have to signal anymore, Like, well, I don't know,
- 14:48I don't know if we know if we're going to signal anymore. It just
- 14:52this is very very much a you know, the first day you just got
- 14:56your you know, you just got your first uh whatever iPhone or laptop or
- 15:01whatever, and you're still like they're still in the like, oh, I've
- 15:05got to update the software, I've got to go whatever. But it's you
- 15:09know, this is this is the time of year when take take all the
- 15:13time you need to figure out, Hey, how much do I need to
- 15:16communicate? When do I need to communicate, What do I need to communicate?
- 15:18How do I then communicate to the other people. Because at one point
- 15:22during practice I saw Ryan Day standing right next to the quarterbacks and you know
- 15:30they were then he was like talking to the quarterbacks, and then the quarterbacks
- 15:31were talking to the guys in the huddle. So I think it was kind
- 15:35of a you know, dry run sort of thing for some of the young
- 15:39quarterbacks there as well. That's going to be in a year filled with a
- 15:43million different changes in college football, that feels like one that we probably need
- 15:46to be talking about more. Yeah, and when you mentioned this before the
- 15:50show, I was like, shoot, nobody none of us asked Jim Knowalls
- 15:52about that had been a great opportunity. Why are we not as good at
- 15:56our jobs? Why steel Chambers better at our jobs than we are? That's
- 15:58my question. So frustrating, But there, I mean, this is also
- 16:00our first time to talk to you knows. I'm just am I making excuses.
- 16:04Yes, the newness of it now they've talked about there will still be
- 16:10some signals, like for you know, uptemp by, when you're doing things
- 16:12quickly, you're still gonna have to have signals. Do totally off topic,
- 16:17but not really. Do you remember your first radio that you ever got,
- 16:18like your very first own personal radio? I do, yes, And what
- 16:23was it? It was like a little clock radio thing that my fondest memory
- 16:30of listening to the clock radio was either listening to We didn't have cable,
- 16:34so I would listen to the Rangers and Knicks games on the or the Mets
- 16:37games if they were not on Channel nine on the radio. W fa N
- 16:42Sports Radio six sixty AM out of New York for sports radio station in the
- 16:45country. That and also listening to the little local radio station on mornings when
- 16:52it had snowed to find out if I had school or headed two hour delay
- 16:55or what the deal was? What about? What about you? This feels
- 16:57like this is setting up with great Tony Gurderman's Now it's not a great story.
- 17:00It's just I do remember my first radio. It would have been like
- 17:03nineteen eighty two or something. So you can google this, just a little
- 17:07smurf Am radio and just put like google smurf Am Radio nineteen eighty two or
- 17:12something like that, and it's just the little smurfhead blue man. I think
- 17:17it's like at wrist, you know. And I'll tell you what. Back
- 17:21then, there's no difference between AM and F'M radio and all had the same
- 17:23music. So it was pretty cool, all right. So I told you
- 17:26wasn't a good story with that. I'm just curious after that diversion. I
- 17:30think I've hit most of my diversion. I think I've hit most of my
- 17:33most of my Denzel Burke quotes. The only one that I wanted to hit
- 17:38on was he was asked about will Howard transfer quarterback, and he kind of
- 17:41said, like, well, it's only been two practices, you know,
- 17:45I kind of want to say more, but and that's like, yeah,
- 17:49I mean it's too it's been two practices, but he's not going to gas
- 17:55anyone off ifits you know. So that's and you know, it's been two
- 17:57practices. You don't know the off yet. It's fine, that's not that's
- 18:02not a problem yet. But that's another one of those like I kind of
- 18:04want to talk to Denzel Burke again in two weeks and see if we have
- 18:07the Jermaine Smith change of tone that you mentioned earlier. Well, and you
- 18:11said earlier how some guys will just run through names, and so we're talking
- 18:15to Jordan Hancock and I'm like, it's probably too early, but do you
- 18:18want to do you have any assessment for the slot receivers. It's like,
- 18:22oh, yeah, they're all good. You know, you got you got
- 18:23you know, Bryston Rodgers is good, Brandon Innes is good, you know,
- 18:26Kean Gray has kind of been going back and forth. He's good,
- 18:29of course, mech you know, he's good. And so like the the
- 18:32the example of everybody's good versus I need to see it. Yeah, you
- 18:37know, but you know, and Jordan Hancock could say, I've seen all
- 18:38of those guys last year, so he knows what's what's happening. But it
- 18:42is very early, and we get ushered out right before the seven on seven
- 18:47stuff starts, right before the eleven on eleven stuff starts. But we will
- 18:51eventually get to see some of it, and we'll see, uh, we'll
- 18:55see if Denzel Burke is lying to us about some people. I suspect he
- 19:00is one of those people that I think I would take his word as closer
- 19:03to Gospel than just about anyone else in the building, just because it's like,
- 19:07need I need you to tell me something that is not great, Because
- 19:11this is the time of the year. This is the time of year when
- 19:12it's like, you know, it's spring frameing and baseball, it's spring football.
- 19:15Everything's great. Everyone's in the best shape of their life. Everyone,
- 19:18you know, everyone who has gained ten pounds has gotten so much stronger,
- 19:22everyone who has lost ten pounds has gotten so much faster. It's all good.
- 19:25All the news is good. Everyone is gonna be back for the season.
- 19:27No one has no one has a serious injury. Everything's wonderful. Everyone's
- 19:30going to go undefeated this year. When you have someone who is willing to
- 19:34shoot you straight on some of that stuff, that's that is incredibly valuable.
- 19:37I'm just I keep talking and I keep thinking. I hope that the nice
- 19:41things that we're saying about denzil Burke is not calling Denzel Burke to not get
- 19:44invited out to talk to us anymore. I hope he's he's I think a
- 19:48respected veteran voice on the team, and I think people know he's gonna you
- 19:52know, he's It's not disrespectful, it's just honest. Yeah. Well,
- 19:55and the first time I remember, the first time we ever talked to denziel
- 19:57Burke as a true freshman, I like walked away like that is a mature
- 20:02guy. And it's I guess at that point it shouldn't have been any secret
- 20:04that he was able to win a starting job. Now. The talent level
- 20:07here now is much higher than when he arrived. Jordan Hancock talked about that
- 20:11as well. But he has always been a very serious guy, even as
- 20:15a true freshman. It's just very matter of fact, like, you know,
- 20:18there's no hope for you, no wishery. It's just like this,
- 20:21this, this, and it reminded me back then of talking to Bradley Roby,
- 20:26who was, you know, my plans to retrod as a freshman start
- 20:29for two years, go to the NFL as the first round. You know,
- 20:32it's like and Denzel Burg has this you know, plan, plan,
- 20:34plan. Sometimes things happen where you're like, well it just I adjusted my
- 20:38plan, but I'll also benefit greatly from it, you know, get more
- 20:41money, that sort of thing. Bigger and faster. Jordan Hancock has added
- 20:47weight with you know, I wrote about that this morning. Terms I went
- 20:49through the minutia of the roster, and I think that the team has gained
- 20:55thirteen inches in height and one hundred and thirty pounds something like that. But
- 21:02also Jordan Hancock has put on like ten pounds to be able to handle the
- 21:07full time aspect of him playing nickel, because last year he wasn't full time
- 21:11until like the last five games of the season when Laythan Rantsm was out.
- 21:14Prior to that, he was and on passing down. So he's he's bigger
- 21:17and stronger and also trying to maintain that same speed agility. All right,
- 21:21So that's that we'll wrap it up for Day two of spring ball. Another
- 21:25very interesting day here inside the Woody Haes Athletic Center. Really really good interviews.
- 21:30I mean, it's this is I you know, it's spring everyone should
- 21:34be excited, but it's like it's genuinely exciting and interesting to be in here.
- 21:38There's so many interesting players to see, so many interesting guys talk to.
- 21:42Well, we'll wrap this up with the what happened after practice as we're
- 21:45in here for interviews that I always feel like, so that's always some of
- 21:48the most interesting stuff because that was the last year we would always see Marvin
- 21:52Harrison in here on the Monarch machine. Every single day you'd see Marvin Harrison
- 21:56and here on the Monarch machine after practice today on the Monarch machine. Carnel
- 22:00Tate, Brandon Innis, coach, o Waantweet, and Jayden Ballard. That's
- 22:04just one of those. Next time we're in here, let's see who's on
- 22:07the Monarch machine. It's interesting, Tony, how all the really good receivers
- 22:11seem to be also the ones who worked the hardest. It's real weird how
- 22:14that happens. Also got to see at one point Caden McDonald, the second
- 22:19year defensive tackle, was working with erk Mensa, the first year defensive tackle,
- 22:22and I tweeted out a picture also of j T. Twemloau working with
- 22:27Edward Houston just on this is all like real minor stuff. It's just like
- 22:32little footwork stuff or whatever. But that's the stuff where you know we talk
- 22:37all the time. But the culture in the wide receiver room or the culture
- 22:40in the defensive line room, this is where the culture gets passed down because
- 22:44you know, there was there was someone out there a few years ago helping
- 22:45j T. Twomolo know JJG j T Twumolo is helping Edric Houston, and
- 22:49in a couple of years Edrid Houston will be helping someone else. Yeah.
- 22:52I saw Lincoln Kenol's doing that Tuesday with Julian saying just helping through a drill,
- 22:56saying, just preparing him for what what is going to be happening.
- 23:00So yeah, I mean it's nobody can get through this on their own.
- 23:03They've all had somebody help them. And this is part of the paying it
- 23:06forward aspect, Kevin. So that'll do it for today. I hope you
- 23:08guys enjoyed that. A little bit of a little bit of this, a
- 23:11little bit of that, but a lot of interesting stuff. We're going to
- 23:14have all of these interviews uploaded in their entirety at YouTube dot com slash bucke
- 23:18Huddle a little later on if they're not already up there. It should be
- 23:22a lot of a good stuff. The Denzel Birk one I made, I
- 23:25delayed the start of the live show to put the Denzel work one up already
- 23:27so you can watch the Denzel Burk one. The Natty or Bus quote comes
- 23:30about six minutes into that, but the entire thing is worth worth watching,
- 23:34worth listening to. We'll probably do some morning shows featuring some of those clips
- 23:38in the coming days as well, because I know you guys generally generally like
- 23:41those shows, and where we've got a lot of guys we talked to this
- 23:45week and a lot of a lot of new stuff to share with you.
- 23:48So where when we're when we are doing all that sharing, we'll be doing
- 23:49that at YouTube dot com, slash bucket Huddle, and of course at bucket
- 23:52huddle dot com. That's where Tony Kevin and I cover the team, Mark
- 23:56covers recruiting. There's some recruiting news potentially bubbling as well, and had some
- 24:00couple of recruits in for practice on Thursday, and then got our whole team
- 24:04of x's and those guys making you a smarter football fan all at Buckey Huddle
- 24:08dot com. We hope to see you there. That'll do it for today.
- 24:11Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll
- 24:14talk to you tomorrow