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Which Young Buckeye Will Be The Next Great Ohio State Receiver · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to this special bonus episode of the Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning Podcast. We're dropping
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  some bonus episodes kind of throughout the week because there is a lot of stuff
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  to talk about as the Buckeyes get ready for their Cotton Bowl game against Missouri
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  on Friday. First special bonus episode we're going to do is just an interview
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  with Denzel Burke. It's just some bits and pieces of the interview we got
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  to do with Denzel Burke on Tuesday this week, and I'm going to apologize
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  in advance. There's a lot of background noise. This setup for the interviews
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  was not great, but he had a ton of really interesting stuff to say.
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  He's a very very interesting guy. He's honest with you in a way
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  that most players are not, and if a guy is not ready for primetime,
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  he will basically tell you this guy is not ready for primetime. So
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  when he tells you someone is ready for primetime, well that carries a little
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  more weight than it would with a lot of other guys on the team.
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  So he talked about let's talk first of all about wide receiver Carnel Taite,
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  true freshman this year. He's got an interesting opportunity coming up this week because
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  of course, Julian Fleming in the transfer portal on his way to Nebraska.
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  He's gone. Marvin Harrison not practicing on Tuesday. He has not officially said
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  he's not playing, but you can sort of read between the lines and if
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  you go back, Marvin Harrison got his chance to really take his first step
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  as a buck Eye in the Rose Bowl when Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson opted
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  out. That was a chance for Marvin Harrison and America Booka really did step
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  up. Now you're potentially get to be Carnel Tait, maybe Brandon Innis.
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  This question was about Carnell Tait the opportunity to play. What has Denzel Burke
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  seen from Cardell Tait? For me Atli's I always thought that Carneal was one
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  of the better receivers on our team. Todder As seems on our team he
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  just sat an opportunity just because of you know, older guys and you know
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  they've been in the system. Mark. But the gap between Cartnell and the
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  guys that be here medick that one Romar and I just seem a poor is
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  really not that much of a vig Yeah, year from now, he's gonna
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  be. Here's another question about another young wide receiver, and that's Noah Rodgers,
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  another true freshman. Really have not seen a lot of him this year.
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  I thought this is really interesting. He's got an interesting way to describe
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  Noah Rodgers. And it's one of those things that sounds like an insult,
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  but I guess in this case really isn't. There'll be kind of a quick
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  follow up question in here as well. Noah, he's a really good receiver.
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  Long, long strided, very awkward, but that really works to his
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  advantage. He's a type of receiver he is. He knows how to get
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  open. He has good three Yeah, awkward, like a big l awkward,
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  just like may he just runs because he's just so fast and odd,
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  so like it's just sometimes it's is just like really hard, were hard and
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  weird. You know. He's a hell of receive. One of the big
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  conversations around Denzel Burke and a whole lot of other Buckeyes right now is their
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  future. Will they be back for twenty twenty four? Are they headed off
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  to the NFL draft? Denzel Burke said he had made up his mind.
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  Would he tell us no, he would tell us he's going to announce that
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  on January tenth, whatever that decision is. He was asked, how does
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  the Michigan thing, not having beaten Michigan in the last three years, not
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  having won the Big ten in the last three years, just sort of the
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  unfinished business element of his career, how does that maybe factor into what his
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  decision is. Yeah, that's a big factor, especially for me, man.
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  I want to be a top ten pick and ltry and not only that,
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  but to have something to show for down the road, to be able
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  to show my kids and my family. You know, when I was at
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  Ohio State, we want something back from and you know that's playing a big
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  factor for men in the top time. You guys want to do all right.
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  So you probably got to read between the lines there a little bit on
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  which way he may be leaning. Here's another one you can read between the
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  lines on he's sort of projected in a lot of those draft projection things right
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  now is sort of a late first early second round or maybe there's a big
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  money gap between that and potentially being potentially a top ten pick next year.
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  So how much of a factor is that in his decision? It's a big
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  factor. You know what it is already and no, it's a big factor
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  for me and a big fact on my decision, But yeah, I try
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  to tell you event So that is a couple soundbites there from Denzel Burk on
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  maybe the end of his Ohio State career. If you're reading between the lines
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  and the way I am, I think you might see Denzel Burke back in
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  Scarlet and Gray next fall. But we will all find out together on January
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  tenth. But whether that's the end of his career or not, he had
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  a really unusual start to his career as a Buckeye as well. He started
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  Game one day one against Missouri against Minnesota in the twenty twenty one season.
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  That's very unusual for a Buckeye and that was sort of a combination of him
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  showing he was ready to do it and there not being a lot of corner
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  depth at that point. So did he does he think that guys benefit from
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  playing day one like he did, or is it maybe sometimes better for guys
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  to be able to take their time, watch a couple veterans for a little
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  bit and then sort of ramp up into playing time. This was a really
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  interesting and thoughtful answer. Yeah, honestly, I would just say that's hard.
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  I mean, if you come in and you're really locked in and you're
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  balling and you're performing the guys in your position, you know, go ahead
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  and if you take that sput, go ahead and take it. But you
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  know, if you have the opportunity to like sit behind some guys that are
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  really doing their things falling on the field, you know, make have production
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  and you're able to sit behind those guys and just watch and you know,
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  pick some of the things that added to your game. I feel like that
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  could benefit you even more than just coming in and rocking away, because if
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  you look at it from a receiver, start, like if he's watching Garrett,
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  he's watching Chris, he's watching Jackson, and when he had his chance
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  in the Rolls Go the last game of the season, he did his thing,
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  and he's really just picking up off the guys and he's watching all year.
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  And when you go to the corner, like if you just if you
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  do that and you like especially back, then you be traced to like Marshall
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  Lottingmore, Denzel or Gary on Colley, Like Denzel or he wasn't really starring
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  right away and he came in, He's watching all the guys in front of
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  him, and he was the first round pick just like the guys before him.
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  So I feel like I've ben atiheu. One of the great hobbies of
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  Beat writers this time of year is asking the veterans about some of the younger
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  guys on the team. This is a great time to sort of take a
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  little bit of a forward look into twenty twenty four. What's coming next?
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  Everyone wants to know what's coming next. Well, Jermaine Matthews might be next
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  in that corner room. We'll see if Denzel Burke is back, Davis Nigmannosen
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  is back for another year. We'll see what Jordan Hancock does. But man,
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  oh man, Jermaine Matthews has been pretty impressive early on. Here's what
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  Denzil Burke thinks about Jermaine Matthews. Oh, he's a dog's the next up
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  life. Honestly, he just got to pick up some of the things off
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  the video. Besides that, man, guys, here's another really really interesting
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  answer from Burke. He was asked about Jeremiah Smith. Who is Jeremiah Smith.
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  Well, he's the number one player in the entire class of twenty twenty
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  four, number one wide receiver in the class as well. He is signed
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  with Ohio State. He's coming to be a Buck Eye. He is sort
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  of widely perceived as the next great Ohio state wide receiver or someone who was
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  sort of on track to be the next great Ohio state wide receiver. Here
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  was Denzel Burke when he was asked about Jeremiah Smith thought this was a really
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  really interesting answer, especially me. I got a c pro, I got
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  a seatbro in person. You know, I relieve all of high school stuff.
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  It's food. But when you have a leak coin, a line across
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  your things, and you see what you can do. You know, I
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  heard he's a five star to move. You know, let's line up,
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  then we'll find out. And finally, you've heard Burke talk a little bit
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  about guys, you know, maybe not being ready to play, not quite
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  being ready to play just yet. What does that mean He's had guys,
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  He's talked about guys being ready, He's talked about guys maybe not being ready.
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  But as someone who stepped up as a game one starter his true freshman
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  year, what does it mean for a guy to actually be ready to play?
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  Just off the field, like how you interact with people not just that,
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  but like when you're home, just like how just how intent you are
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  with your house. You know, how intense you are with practice, how
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  you're playing, and you know and if you're you know, helping other guys
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  be better. And that's when I really know when you could play and you're
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  not just doing it for yourself, but you're doing it with the team.
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  Well, that was just a little bit of the conversation with Denzel Berg.
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  If you want to watch the whole conversation, that is on our YouTube channel
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  at YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle. We'll be back with another episode,
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  another bonus episode for you a little later on. We'll have more interviews coming
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  up this week as well, so make sure you check us out a pucke
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  huddle dot com and YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle