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Julian Sayin On The Heisman, What Went Wrong Against Indiana · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday at December thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Moore. The Cotton Bowl game in
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  Speaker 1: at Grateful Griddle oh h com. Today is the Heisman
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  Speaker 1: Trophy ceremony. Ohio State quarterback Julian Sane will be there
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  Speaker 1: along with the three other finalists, Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, and Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love.
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  Speaker 1: I'll find out together who is the Heisman Trophy winner
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit later on. But this is one
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  Speaker 1: of these like the Academy Awards, where the people go
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  Speaker 1: up on the stage and say it's an honor to
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  Speaker 1: be nominated. Well, this is one of those things where
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  Speaker 1: it's an honor just to be a finalist. We got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to Julian say And earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week about some of his memories of the Heisman
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  Speaker 1: Trophy but made him decide to be a quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff, including a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a look back at last week's lost Indiana in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Championship game. You know, let you hear a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about all of that, straight from Jura, straight
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  Speaker 1: from it, Julian saying, first question was just about his
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  Speaker 1: memories of the Heisman Trophy as a kid, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear a quick follow up from Dougla Maurice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think growing up, you know, I I was
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  Speaker 2: a big fan of Oregon when Marcus Mariota was there,
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  Speaker 2: so that would probably be my my memory. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was always watching them as a West Coast kid.
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  Speaker 2: They were they were, they were big, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was awesome to see, you know, an
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  Speaker 2: idle of mine U win that award. So it's it's
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  Speaker 2: really special to have my name in that conversation. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that one. That one hurt as a as a fan
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  Speaker 2: to watch, you know, that one hurt.
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  Speaker 1: The end of the Big Ten Championship game had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of potential fall out there. Obviously, the Buckeyes were
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  Speaker 1: not going to win the Big Ten Championship. Once that
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  Speaker 1: clock hit zero, it also meant they were not going
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  Speaker 1: to be the number one seed in the College Football Playoff.
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  Speaker 1: It meant they were not going to be going to
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  Speaker 1: the Rose. All of that, absolutely, no question. And also, probably,
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  Speaker 1: and we can sort of be realistic about this, probably
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  Speaker 1: meant the end of Julian Sayin's likelihood of actually winning
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  Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy. Obviously, his fantastic regular season earned him
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  Speaker 1: a spot in New York, but he is not probably
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  Speaker 1: going to be the one who is ultimately holding up
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  Speaker 1: that trophy at the end of the ceremony on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: So was that something he was thinking about at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the Big Ten Championship game, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: that may have cost him a chance to win the
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  Speaker 1: Heisman this year. You're gonna hear that answer and then
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  Speaker 1: a follow up from Bilberg, But Witz.
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  Speaker 2: No, not really a thought. Just was, you know, sick
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  Speaker 2: to my stomach that we lost, and you know, really
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  Speaker 2: wanted to win the conference for our university. So it
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  Speaker 2: was definitely a tough loss, but you know, move on
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  Speaker 2: and we got more games to play.
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  Speaker 3: When you watched the game again, not that you are
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  Speaker 3: by any means the main culprit, but there's so many
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  Speaker 3: players at a big one. The other way, you'd want
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  Speaker 3: how much do you second replay the game in your
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  Speaker 3: mind and second guess yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely think about you know, there's definitely so many
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  Speaker 2: plays that you know, if we just made I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we would have the opportunity. But you know, we
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  Speaker 2: just didn't execute the highest level and didn't didn't play
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  Speaker 2: our best football. As in offense, I think our defense
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  Speaker 2: played well and you know, they gave us an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to win. Just as an offense, we didn't didn't play
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  Speaker 2: our best football. So we got to make sure things
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  Speaker 2: get corrected so we can play better in the next
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  Speaker 2: few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: As I said earlier, this is definitely one of those
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  Speaker 1: it's an honor just to be nominated things. And Julian's saying,
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  Speaker 1: got to fly private out to New York on Friday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna be there for Friday evening and Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and the whole thing, and then we'll probably come back
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. I think the winner comes back on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: But kind of a fun long weekend in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Did he ever think about being a Heisman finalist when
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  Speaker 1: he was a kid, and you're gonna hear a quick
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  Speaker 1: follow up to that form my buddy Tony Gerder.
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  Speaker 2: I think growing up, yeah, I definitely thought about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: me and my brother being quarterbacks. That was definitely a
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  Speaker 2: dream of ours. And you know, growing up, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was I would tell people, Hey, one day,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna be in New York for the Heisman ceremonies.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, uh, it's definitely pretty surreal, uh, to to
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  Speaker 2: be going out there on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: You've got this coming off of a lost like you've
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  Speaker 4: reached something that you've thought about for a long time
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  Speaker 4: or that you want in terms of Heisman, uh being
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  Speaker 4: a Heisman finalist. So are you able to separate the two,
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  Speaker 4: like the disappointing laws with the the honor of the Heisman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. You know, it's it's tough because of
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  Speaker 2: how much you want to win that game this past Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's a it was definitely a tough
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  Speaker 2: loss for us, But we gotta uh focus on what
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  Speaker 2: we what we got to do better for the next
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  Speaker 2: few weeks. But you know, just to be able to
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  Speaker 2: go to New York is Uh, it's pretty special. So
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  Speaker 2: it's it's been, uh, it's been, you know, separating the two.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you're not going to New York all by yourself,
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  Speaker 1: So who else is gonna be out there? With Julian
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  Speaker 1: saying you'll ho you're that answer, and then a follow
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  Speaker 1: up from Andy Anders of a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So my siblings will be there, and then my
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  Speaker 2: parents will be there, and I believe my high school
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  Speaker 2: coach will be out there and he was a big
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  Speaker 2: part of my life too. But my my siblings there
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  Speaker 2: is you know, it's supportant to me because they're they're
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  Speaker 2: huge support for me. And then you mentioned, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of taking the blame on offense.
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  Speaker 3: What are the things that you guys are looking to
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  Speaker 3: address these next three weeks to get a better result
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  Speaker 3: in next time you take your feet?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, to two big pieces of
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  Speaker 2: the game where we didn't execute well on third down,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't execute well in the red zone. And you
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  Speaker 2: know it starts with me. So I gotta be better
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  Speaker 2: for us as an offense, so we can do that
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  Speaker 2: and you know, execute better just so we can. We
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  Speaker 2: got we got score more points. Obviously, our defense played
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  Speaker 2: well enough for us to win the game. So I
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  Speaker 2: think just as a as an offense, we've gotta be
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  Speaker 2: better in those areas.
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  Speaker 1: Being the quarterback at Ohio State obviously comes with some
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  Speaker 1: very high highs and potentially some very low lows. You win,
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  Speaker 1: everyone loves you, You lose, everyone doesn't love you. So
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  Speaker 1: as Julian Sane sort of adjusted to the good and
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  Speaker 1: the bad that comes with being the quarterback at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, as a quarterback, you get
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  Speaker 2: you get the praise when you win, and you get
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  Speaker 2: to blame when you lose, and that's ah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's what it is. And you know it's definitely
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  Speaker 2: a pressure field environment here, but you know, uh, pressure
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  Speaker 2: is of privilege, so it's it's awesome to be here.
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  Speaker 1: You heard him talk earlier about Marcus Mariota, the former
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  Speaker 1: Oregon quarterback, and how he was a big fan of
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  Speaker 1: Oregon and Mariota. So was he when he got started
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  Speaker 1: as a quarterback. Was Mariota sort of a part of
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  Speaker 1: that inspiration? You'll hear the answer to that, and then
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  Speaker 1: a follow up from Dougla Marie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I started quarterback pay around seven or
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  Speaker 2: eight years old, So I was definitely watching him, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was just tearing it up that year,
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  Speaker 2: So I uh was that was that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: like my team growing up when I was when they
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  Speaker 2: when they had Mariota. After that, it wasn't really my
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  Speaker 2: team anymore.
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  Speaker 5: But I like, I'm going to be a defensive end
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  Speaker 5: or I'm gonna be h.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think I was. There was
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  Speaker 2: ever a thought of being a d end. Uh my
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  Speaker 2: physical makeup and then I don't think there's ever a
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  Speaker 2: thought of it. I don't think so well.
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  Speaker 1: We often talk with coach Day about like the traits
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  Speaker 1: of certain quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 5: When you just think about the way you play the game,
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  Speaker 5: what are some of the traits that you.
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  Speaker 1: Think you have that make you a successful quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think as a quarterback, you have to be
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  Speaker 2: a great decision maker. You know, you have to be
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  Speaker 2: someone who can process information really fast, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to be an accurate quarterback. And then you have to
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  Speaker 2: have you know, the mindset of the next play. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't let the last play effect the next play,
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  Speaker 2: and you can't let a bad play affect your next play.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you know, just having that next play
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  Speaker 2: mentality is important to have his quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: There are lots of kids who probably grow up thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the quarterback at Ohio State, or I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go be one of the finalists of a Heisman Trophy,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm gonna have a chance to win the national championship.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot fewer who actually get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to do all of those things. So when did Julian
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  Speaker 1: San realize he was kind of in that second camp, he's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pretty good at being a football player.
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  Speaker 2: I was just you know, playing for the love of
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  Speaker 2: the game, and I just I love playing quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: I love just being out there with my friends playing.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, once I started getting to eighth grade,
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  Speaker 2: ninth grade, I kind of you know, started to pick
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  Speaker 2: up pick up some steam and recruiting, and I kind
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  Speaker 2: of realized that, Okay, maybe I could do this at
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  Speaker 2: the next level. But it's always just been because I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I love the game and love playing quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and love being out there with my friends and love
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  Speaker 2: being out of my family.
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  Speaker 5: You have to come to that moment when you realize
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  Speaker 5: you have the physical A lot of people drew a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but yeah, I think just you know, coming
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  Speaker 2: into high school, I kind of realized, though I'm pretty accurate,
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  Speaker 2: I can do I can do these things better than
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  Speaker 2: some other kids.
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  Speaker 1: Even before the winner is announced, Julian Sane has already
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  Speaker 1: joined a pretty exclusive club Ohio state finalists for the
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  Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy, including quarterbacks like Dwayne Haskins, justin Field, c J. Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: What is it like to hear his name in the
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  Speaker 1: context of those guys and have any of those guys
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  Speaker 1: who reached out to him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's really special. It's obviously a very prestigious award,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, having some really great quarterbacks here go
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  Speaker 2: to New York City, it's, uh, it's really special. And
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  Speaker 2: uh I heard from CJ after the North game, but uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was It's pretty AWESOMEJ.
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  Speaker 5: What's it like here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know him a little bit. I
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  Speaker 2: met him a few times. He's came to a couple
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  Speaker 2: of spring practices, so I met him a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's a it's very cool to hear.
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  Speaker 1: From him a little bit. More from the Indiana game,
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten Championship game, what was what were the
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  Speaker 1: Hoosiers able to do that Julian Sane maybe hadn't seen
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  Speaker 1: before that gave the Buckeye offense some challenges and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear a follow up from Steve Hellwagen of buck nuts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they were They're a very good pass rush,
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  Speaker 2: They're they're very quick, and you know, they play really
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  Speaker 2: hard enough, high motor, and you know, I think their
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  Speaker 2: defense is it's a talented defense, and they they played
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  Speaker 2: really well. So I think just their scheme combined with
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  Speaker 2: other players, gave us some problems and they did. They
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  Speaker 2: did a really good job getting after making up the quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: Falling up on that, Now that you've played a team
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  Speaker 5: at that caliber and you could potentially play three more
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  Speaker 5: of them in this playoff, up to three more of them,
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  Speaker 5: do you feel like that game, the result not what
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  Speaker 5: you wanted, but is going to help you prepare to
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  Speaker 5: be ready for whatever you see the next three games?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it definitely, you know, lights of fire
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  Speaker 2: under you know when you when you lose a game
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  Speaker 2: like that. But we're excited about the next matchup and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get it. We'll get it right and get it
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  Speaker 2: back on track and get ready to go for the
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  Speaker 2: next one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we will find out who. That next matchup is
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  Speaker 1: next Saturday, Texas A and M number seven hosting number
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  Speaker 1: ten Miami at noon Saturday, December twentieth at Kyle Field.
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  Speaker 1: A full coverage of that once we know what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in that game, we'll try and get your recapit
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  Speaker 1: all kind of stuff. But in the week leading up
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  Speaker 1: to that, we're gonna have a lot more coverage previewing
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  Speaker 1: that game because obviously the Buckeye is practicing, but not
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  Speaker 1: a ton of news coming out right now from the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State side of things. They're gonna be talking a
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  Speaker 1: bunch about the agg the Hurricanes and how those two
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  Speaker 1: teams we're going to match up against Ohio State, whoever
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  Speaker 1: that winner is all week long at Buckeye Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: There's some news happening up north as well. That has
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  Speaker 1: been a big topic of conversation at Buckeye Huddle as
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  Speaker 1: well as I'm sure you can imagine. And of course
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  Speaker 1: we'll have all that coverage. And Tony Gerdaman and I
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  Speaker 1: did a rewatch of the Texas Texas A and M game,
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  Speaker 1: dropped that episode in the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. We
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  Speaker 1: just rewatched Miami's most recent game. They played the pit Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: That is going to be in the Buckeye Weekly podcast
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  Speaker 1: feed by the time you hear this, so you have
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  Speaker 1: lots of coverage previewing the Aggies, previewing the Hurricanes, and
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  Speaker 1: then of course looking forward to that Cotton Bowl game
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  Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve, buckeye'es against the winner of Texas,
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  Speaker 1: A M and M and Miami. We will be there
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  Speaker 1: for that. You will have coverage for it all for
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  Speaker 1: you all month long at YouTube dot com, slash Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: Huddle and bucke Huddle dot com. That'll do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.