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Ohio State Spring Football: Which Young Cornerbacks Will Step Up For The Buckeyes? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Guys Tomorrow Morning for Thursday, February nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: continuing our look at the Ohio State too deep heading
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  Speaker 1: into springball. Were going to start in the secondary today.
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  Speaker 1: Welcoming and our buddy Tony Gerdamanfucky Huddle dot Com. Tony
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  Speaker 1: the cornerback position, the two outside cornerback positions. This feels
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  Speaker 1: like an area where the starter should be pretty straightforward.
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  Speaker 1: You got Davis Niggnosen leaving, you got a guy who
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  Speaker 1: sure seems like he's the next man up ready to
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  Speaker 1: step into that role. And you had one of the
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  Speaker 1: other leading contenders from last year last year's team, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Scott hitting the transfer portal. So the starters here feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're pretty straightforward. And after that then it gets
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  Speaker 1: a little more interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and even the gap between Devin Sanchez, who played
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  Speaker 3: the third most snaps last year is at number three
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  Speaker 3: and Aaron Scott you're talking about, Devin Sanchez had three
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  Speaker 3: times the snaps as Aaron Scott last year, three hundred
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  Speaker 3: and twenty one to one hundred and six. So while
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  Speaker 3: I'll obviously would love to have Aaron Scott back the
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  Speaker 3: gap in one year, you know, Devin Sanchez coming in
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  Speaker 3: as a true freshman and Aaron Scott as a sophomore
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  Speaker 3: expecting to play. And right away we saw Devin Sanchez
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  Speaker 3: play eleven snaps against Texas and Aaron Scott played zero
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  Speaker 3: on defense. So that job, that third cornerback dime for
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  Speaker 3: a number one dime, that battle was won by Sanchez
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  Speaker 3: in camp and now it's the next step for him,
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  Speaker 3: which is to be the starting corner, which, as you said,
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  Speaker 3: that's the expectation. Jermaine Matthews is back. He played more
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  Speaker 3: snaps than anybody in the secondary last year other than
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  Speaker 3: Jalen McLain to give you an idea of his experience.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm with you. I think those are your
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  Speaker 3: top two and I'm sure we'll get into the other
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  Speaker 3: guys and their possibilities. But this is a fairly easy answer,
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  Speaker 3: and the only way this isn't the answer is if
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  Speaker 3: something goes wrong or something goes really really right for
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  Speaker 3: somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: And let's get into the somebody else's because there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of youth here, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of really promising and talented youth here
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  Speaker 1: among the guys who could be second string or the
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  Speaker 1: guys who could be potentially fighting for you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the in the if something goes very very right kind
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  Speaker 1: of case, could be fighting for a starting job. And
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  Speaker 1: they brought in Dominic Kelly, the transfer from Georgia, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he's probably the first name we should be
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  Speaker 1: talking about here. But they got three talented true freshmen
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  Speaker 1: who could fit in there somewhere as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and redshirt freshmen as well. And you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you look at who played by lt year and who's returning,
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  Speaker 3: Miles Lockhart is the only other corner that played at
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  Speaker 3: all last year that is returning. He played three snaps
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of games, and you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: everybody kind of expects him to be at Nickel and
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk about him more there for that, But in
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  Speaker 3: terms of who is who is back that has played
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  Speaker 3: like he's it, and you know, Jordan Woods, the other
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  Speaker 3: retro freshman, is very intriguing at six foot four, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety five two hundred pounds to where boy,
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  Speaker 3: you'd like to find out if that guy can play
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  Speaker 3: and and so they're going to give him that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think it begins with Dominic McKinley who
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  Speaker 3: comes in or sorry, Dominic Kelly, who comes in from
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  Speaker 3: from Georgia. As this guy who played eight games as
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  Speaker 3: a true freshman last year, who was you know, a
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  Speaker 3: fine four star blue chip recruit and played at played
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  Speaker 3: big time high school football. And as we keep talking
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  Speaker 3: about him, whenever we're talking about him, he is the
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  Speaker 3: outlier of the transfer portal group. So it's like, why
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  Speaker 3: are they going and getting this young guy? So that's
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  Speaker 3: an intriguing thing. He's got good size, six foot one
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  Speaker 3: ninety and is basically now your third most experienced cornerback
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  Speaker 3: on the team because like I said, he played in
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  Speaker 3: eight games last year, had a couple of past breakups,
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  Speaker 3: he had some tackles, so he to me is the
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  Speaker 3: guy that will make a push and make this interesting,
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  Speaker 3: and then the rest of the story is who who
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  Speaker 3: is four? And that's I think who's five. That's where
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  Speaker 3: the true freshmen then I think, come in and will
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  Speaker 3: battle with maybe Jordan Woods to see who is that
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  Speaker 3: next guy. And I think there's there's some high possibilities
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  Speaker 3: with these true freshmen that we've talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dominic Kelly played sixty one snaps last season among
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  Speaker 1: those eight games at Georgia, and george is one of
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  Speaker 1: those few schools that you can look at and say
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  Speaker 1: that is a talent is equated you know, that's something
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  Speaker 1: we normally talk about in terms of matchups, but here
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  Speaker 1: in terms of just sort of pouring someone over from
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  Speaker 1: one depth start to the other. That it is a
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  Speaker 1: sort of a talent equated situation. Where you figure sixty
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  Speaker 1: one snaps at Georgia, that's probably about sixty one snaps
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State. So to be at that level as
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  Speaker 1: a true freshman, it's not Devin Sanchez, but it's not bad,
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  Speaker 1: and so there's definitely some possibility there. They are bringing
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  Speaker 1: in three corners who are true freshmen. Jay Timmins, who
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  Speaker 1: they're bringing in out of Western Pennsylvania, Jordan Thomas, who
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  Speaker 1: they're bringing in at the Jersey, and Kamari Bing who
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  Speaker 1: they're bringing out in out of Maryland. Those three guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think we have talked about Timmins as
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  Speaker 1: potentially a nickel guy, and maybe we'll get to him
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about the Nichols as well. But he's
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  Speaker 1: certainly someone who you could if he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: best options outside, if he's the fourth best option outside,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you see him out there.
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  Speaker 2: But there's enough here that it.
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  Speaker 1: Feels like one of those three guys is likely going
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  Speaker 1: to be solid enough to at least play you know,
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  Speaker 1: sixty sixty ish snaps like Dominic Kelly did last season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, wouldn't be a shock at all to see one
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  Speaker 3: of those guys in that too deep as the number
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  Speaker 3: four guy, the number four corner and gets to play
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter of blowouts and maybe sneaks in
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  Speaker 3: as the dime here there. But yeah, I think the
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  Speaker 3: class is good enough that if that happens one that's
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  Speaker 3: not a bad thing at all, because those three guys
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  Speaker 3: are all the profile as a recruit is would lead
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  Speaker 3: you to think, okay, well, you know, maybe they can
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  Speaker 3: do something as a true freshman in that way, and
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  Speaker 3: when you look at him from Pennsylvania, from Maryland, from
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey, all good secondary states. And I'm if you're
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  Speaker 3: asking me which of those guys I've kind of been
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  Speaker 3: on the Jordan Thomas train as an outside guy because
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  Speaker 3: I've vie j Timmins as an inside guy who and
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Thomas has a good size Camarai bang. We don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that anybody really talks about him
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  Speaker 3: enough kind of a tweety safety corner. We'll see where
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  Speaker 3: he ends up. But we always talk about how you
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  Speaker 3: want to you want to try the guys at corner
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  Speaker 3: first to see if they can handle that, and if
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  Speaker 3: you look at it, it's like, Okay, that guy's a safety.
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  Speaker 3: Then then you move them. At that point, it's like
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  Speaker 3: you'd like to see if he can handle left tackle.
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  Speaker 3: Not Jordan Thomas or Jay Timmins, but you'd like to
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  Speaker 3: see if this offensive line we can handle left tackle.
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  Speaker 3: And then you go from there. And I think when
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  Speaker 3: you bring in three guys at corner, you're gonna want
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  Speaker 3: to see what you can get from each of those
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  Speaker 3: guys outside. And the good news is they're getting some
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  Speaker 3: good they'll be getting some good tests from the Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State Receiving Corps. But yeah, one of those three guys
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  Speaker 3: would not shock me at all to see them as
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  Speaker 3: the number four guy. The other the question is like
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  Speaker 3: how much of a how much of a gap is
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  Speaker 3: there between three and four in this right now or
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  Speaker 3: by the end of spring, But you know, does that
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  Speaker 3: gap close over the course of spring or does it
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  Speaker 3: does it widen because dominic Kelly is getting more comfortable?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, where where is the bigger gap between two and
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  Speaker 1: three or three and four that and where you know,
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  Speaker 1: how does that change over the course of the spring.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that I think is probably very encouraging
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State here is You've got two guys who
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  Speaker 1: I think they should be feeling pretty good about as starters.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Dominic Kelly, who I think it's reasonable to
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  Speaker 1: expect you're going to get something solid out of this year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, you know, not saying first team All Big
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  Speaker 1: ten this year or anything like that, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: need first team all Big ten out of him this year.
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  Speaker 1: And the true freshman You've got three guys who they're
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  Speaker 1: bringing in, and you know, the guys who they're bringing back.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you mentioned the couple guys that they've got coming
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  Speaker 1: back as well.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to hit on all of them.
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  Speaker 1: You need to hit on one of them to have
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  Speaker 1: four guys, and that you know that realistically, that's about
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  Speaker 1: all the depth you're going to play there in any
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  Speaker 1: kind of meaningful snaps as you're barring, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: like a biblical plague of injuries in that room. So
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  Speaker 1: it feels like there's lots of upside there, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't need to hit very much of it to be
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  Speaker 1: in a pretty good spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, you're talking about you're needing the four guys.
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  Speaker 3: And really, when we move on and discussed the nickel
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  Speaker 3: like I one of the reasons the corners you had
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  Speaker 3: five guys played over ninety snaps last year at Corner
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  Speaker 3: is because so many of those snaps went to Nickel
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  Speaker 3: and dime were impacted by the nickel position. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you. I think if you've got four corners,
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  Speaker 3: that's plenty, and as long as they're good enough to
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  Speaker 3: play and as long as everybody stays healthy, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you need more than that because it's outside Corner
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  Speaker 3: like basically last year they had Jermaine Matthews, Davis Nigminosen,
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  Speaker 3: Devin Sanchez, and Aaron Scott and you know, Bryce West
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  Speaker 3: played ninety snaps but the major plenty of those were
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  Speaker 3: inside at Nickel so and then Miles Lockhart was the
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  Speaker 3: other guy that played snaps. So yeah, they had four
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  Speaker 3: guys that played outside last year and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's there, you go, that's the outside corners.
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  Speaker 1: We keep telling talking about the nickel position and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to the nickel position and the safety position. Nickel
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  Speaker 1: kind of kind of fits in with the safeties in
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State defense, but there's a little bit of
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