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Will Legend Bey Play In The Ohio State Spring Game? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, April fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom or the ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: for more. And add four days to the High State
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  Speaker 1: Spring Game to that countdown that we do at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of every show that kicks off at noon on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Inside Ohio Stadium, tickets still available, although we were told
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  Speaker 1: by Ryan Day ticket sales has been pretty brisk this year,
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  Speaker 1: which is good. They think there's probably a reason they
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  Speaker 1: did not call it a spring showcase this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've learned their lesson from last year.
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  Speaker 1: And it sounds like outside of oh I guess I
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  Speaker 1: should introduce Tony Gurdaman just in case you don't remember him. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: that's Tony. Outside of the first drive or two where
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  Speaker 1: they will run some thud where they're not bringing guys
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  Speaker 1: to the ground, it sounds like it should look like
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  Speaker 1: pretty much normal football for the most part on Saturday for.
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  Speaker 2: The most part.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's first couple of drives maybe thud and then
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  Speaker 3: tackling after that. And then when Ryan Day said, well,
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  Speaker 3: when Brian Day was asked, will the quarterbacks be live,
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  Speaker 3: He's like, well, well, we'll have to see. We'll have
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  Speaker 3: to see how it goes. Don't expect Julians saying to
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  Speaker 3: be live. Maybe Tavian Saint Clair maybe, but at some
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  Speaker 3: point the other quarterbacks I think would be live.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And we have seen them have the quarterbacks life
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  Speaker 1: even in here during practices in previous years. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we've seen it this spring when we've been in here,
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  Speaker 1: but in previous years you'll see it. Because yet, yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's a little bit of an increased injury risk, but
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  Speaker 1: also you have to you have to sort of simulate
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  Speaker 1: what a game is like. Give them that pressure, because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can dodge the pass rush if you know you're
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  Speaker 1: not about to get smacked. But there's it makes it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more real. It's it's like running running
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  Speaker 1: through a virtual reality simulator or actually you know you're
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  Speaker 1: playing Pitfall, but you know the difference between that on
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  Speaker 1: your old Calico vision or actually swinging on ropes or
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  Speaker 1: vines over crocodiles a little bit of a different experience.
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  Speaker 3: I would not recommend wearing the VR headset while doing
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  Speaker 3: the swinging, although maybe that's the next step of things.
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  Speaker 3: But certainly I think quarterbacks need to have a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of fear or that just the clock when it's
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  Speaker 3: really ticking, when you know that it's not just a
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  Speaker 3: two hand touch on your shoulder or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: but also giving quarterbacks an opportunity to run and pick
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  Speaker 3: up yards that isn't just a two hand touch, even
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  Speaker 3: though they probably they may still blow it dead then
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  Speaker 3: just because they want more plays, but the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: go out there and just feel some football.
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  Speaker 1: And part of the experience on Saturday is feeling the
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  Speaker 1: football inside Ohio Stadium and feeling the football in front
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  Speaker 1: of whatever the crowd is. Fifty thousand, sixty seventy thousand,
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  Speaker 1: We have seen over one hundred thousand in the past.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like they're there.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, but it's always weather dependent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it is. And the forecast so far
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  Speaker 1: looking pretty good. There's some chance of rain in the forecast,
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  Speaker 1: but we're still far enough out that it's like I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I would feel super confident in that within
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  Speaker 1: one hour one way or the others. So it is
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  Speaker 1: going to be warm. It is not going to be
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  Speaker 1: one of those cold spring game days. So it should
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  Speaker 1: be nice and warm and we'll see if it stays
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  Speaker 1: dry or not, but it should the weather should cooperate
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  Speaker 1: well enough to keep to get people there. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you can go in there and play in
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  Speaker 1: front of seventy thousand people whatever it is. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just the spring game, but this is the closest they're
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  Speaker 1: kind to get to simulating a real game environment this spring.
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  Speaker 1: So for I always think of the kicker, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Connor Hawkins, like this, this is a chance to Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now you're kicking in front of a bunch of people.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got someone like Devin McEwan who played at
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  Speaker 1: UTSA last year. Now, okay, this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest crowd he's played in front of outside of
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  Speaker 1: maybe one or two exceptions in his career. This is
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  Speaker 1: a real opportunity to have as real as reps can
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  Speaker 1: get this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's Ryan Day always talks about for the
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  Speaker 3: young players, how everything is. It's the first time they're
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  Speaker 3: doing something, so there's some more there's more difficult to
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  Speaker 3: difficulty to it or not as sure, this will be
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  Speaker 3: their first time playing in Ohio Stadium, which means the
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  Speaker 3: next time they do it in a real game, they'll
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  Speaker 3: have had some familiarity with it, so, right, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: one aspect that he likes. And for a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these guys, like, is this gonna be I'm sure they've
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  Speaker 3: taken tours, but they haven't had any big practices in there.
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  Speaker 3: And as Day said it, for the fifty one new guys,
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  Speaker 3: and then he's like, well, most of them, some will
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  Speaker 3: play because of injuries and whatnot, but this is gonna
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  Speaker 3: be their first opportunity to get in there and see
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  Speaker 3: what it's like and experience it. And for the Alabama guys,
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  Speaker 3: probably no big deal, right, But for for Devin McEwan,
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  Speaker 3: for Mason Williams, for guys like that, and for all
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  Speaker 3: of the true freshmen, even though they've seen games at
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, it's one thing to watch from the sidelines
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  Speaker 3: or a deck. It's another thing to be out there.
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  Speaker 3: And and for the walk Ons as well, it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is I heard somebody say this is like their
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well this is yeah, this is the opportunity where
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  Speaker 1: you don't have a grambling on the schedule this year,
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  Speaker 1: So there's no so guarantee that you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: out there for you know, reps for you know, late
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  Speaker 1: in a real game this fall. But there are certainly
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  Speaker 1: some walk ons that or guys who are much further
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  Speaker 1: down the depth chart who are going to have real
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  Speaker 1: opportunities on Saturday. One of them is Stan Jackson Junior,
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  Speaker 1: who is probably number six or seven on the running
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  Speaker 1: back depth chart, but he's number going to be sounds
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  Speaker 1: like number three on the depth chart on Saturday. I
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  Speaker 1: was told last week that, you know, Legend Bay was
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  Speaker 1: still working back from an injury. Ryan Dey clarified it
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  Speaker 1: was a hamstring injury, but he you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: during the course of the press conference, it felt like
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day was sort of downgrading him from questionable to doubtful.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not the only guy who might be doubtful
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  Speaker 1: in that running back room.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's not Turba Rodgers probably not going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to get back, and we know at least
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  Speaker 3: that's what that's what Ryan Day said towards the end
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  Speaker 3: as well. We know Bo Jackson and Isaiah West are out.
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  Speaker 3: And it feels to me because Ryan Day was asked
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times about Legend Bay and you know,
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  Speaker 3: what could he bring And we'll talk about this on
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  Speaker 3: Buck weekly. But he's been very cautious and part of
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  Speaker 3: I think how he feels about him is also why
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be cautious with them in the spring game.
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  Speaker 3: You're dealing with a hamstring, say no more now, they're
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  Speaker 3: they they're you know, putting him through rehab. They'd love
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  Speaker 3: him to go, but they're not going to push him
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  Speaker 3: to go in the spring for a for one one
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  Speaker 3: final practice after he's been out for two weeks and
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  Speaker 3: missed the second half of spring, so like he would
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  Speaker 3: get less. There's not nothing really to get out of
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  Speaker 3: it for him, Like sure, be out there playing in
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  Speaker 3: Ohio Stadium. I'm sure he's from Texas High School. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure he's played in seats of fifty thousand or more.
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  Speaker 3: There's no big deal for him. But yeah, the the
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  Speaker 3: the fact that he's not really interested in pushing him
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  Speaker 3: like no, we need to see him, it gives you
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  Speaker 3: an idea that one they don't really want to push
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  Speaker 3: anybody in the spring, but also to I think Day
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  Speaker 3: sees more there than he's maybe letting on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the time of year when if there's
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  Speaker 1: even a question, you run your risk reward calculation there.
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  Speaker 1: And the reward is, well, people who are already excited
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  Speaker 1: about Legend Bay, we'll see Legend Bay and that's very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: The risk is, well, what if he tweaks something and
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  Speaker 1: then he misses another. You know, then you reset the
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  Speaker 1: clock and it's two more weeks or three more weeks
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  Speaker 1: or a month, and the guys are leaving after the
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  Speaker 1: spring game. They'll have kind of exit interviews for the spring,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll have a couple of weeks off as
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  Speaker 1: the coaches all hit the road to go to go recruit.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of heading into one of the quieter
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  Speaker 1: times of year inside this building.
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  Speaker 2: But this is also you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to even give yourself a chance to aggravate anything.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most cautious time of year where you know,
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  Speaker 1: if the answer.
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  Speaker 2: To will he go if it's Michigan on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Versus if it's the Gray team on Saturday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those are two different kind of answers. So there's your
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  Speaker 1: kind of injury update there again.
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  Speaker 2: Kickoff noon on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have our live pregame coverage on the Horseshoe because yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are a couple guys who are going to be out,
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  Speaker 1: There can be plenty of guys who are playing.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be talking about all those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And this is an opportunity, as Tony said earlier, to
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of people who we haven't seen a
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  Speaker 1: whole heck of a lot of And you may or
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  Speaker 1: may not see this fall, but you're gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to see a lot of guys and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of young quarterbacks, and you get to see how how
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  Speaker 1: much Julian Saying has changed and improved and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: And you're gonna get to see a restructured offensive line
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  Speaker 1: that again is going to be down a couple of people,
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  Speaker 1: but going to be a new look offensive line, and
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  Speaker 1: get to see how some of those young guys have
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  Speaker 1: improved there as well. We'll also get to watch a defense.
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  Speaker 1: We'll probably talk about that on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed,
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  Speaker 1: so go ahead and check that out as well. If
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  Speaker 1: you are not subscribed, this would be a great time
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  Speaker 1: to subscribe because we have a lot going on there
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  Speaker 1: on the Buckeye Whisky podcast feed, as well as here
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  Speaker 1: on Buckeyes tomorrow morning. Another note for today, thank you
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  Speaker 1: guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow