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5 Things To Know About Some Promising Future Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, January eighteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: to go a little bit back in time, about a
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  Speaker 1: week or so to the Navy All American Bowl. This
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  Speaker 1: was a big recruiting event, a big event where some
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  Speaker 1: of the next generation of Ohio State Buckeyes took part,
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  Speaker 1: and it's one of those things that is a big
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  Speaker 1: deal that has just kind of gotten lost with the
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  Speaker 1: absolute title wave of transfer portal news over the last
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  Speaker 1: week or so. So now that that has slowed down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, now we're going to take you back
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  Speaker 1: to Mark and Juck discussing some of Ohio State sinees
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  Speaker 1: and as well as some top recruiting targets who are
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  Speaker 1: competing at the Navy All American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Skull Session Recruiting podcast.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to Buckeye Huddle. Appreciate you so much for
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  Speaker 2: joining us. I'm Juck Maletti my friend Mark Gibler from
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  Speaker 2: down in San Antonio where he is covering the Navy
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  Speaker 2: All American Bowl. This is all the guys who got next,
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  Speaker 2: and Mark has been talking to him, watching him practice.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see them play the game here coming up soon.
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  Speaker 2: But Mark three days of practice in San Antonio.
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  Speaker 3: I'm jealous.
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  Speaker 2: How you had?
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  Speaker 3: How you've been doing down there?
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  Speaker 4: Good? It's unseasonably warm, even for San Antonio, so I
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  Speaker 4: haven't had to put a sweatshirt on writ again.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: We have got at least what five Ohio State prospects
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  Speaker 2: who are actively involved in this game, and a couple
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  Speaker 2: other guys that they are after, and none bigger down there,
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  Speaker 2: of course than Chris Henry Junior. And of course we've
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  Speaker 2: had a ton of wide receiver news going on at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, and Chris, all of a sudden, has become
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  Speaker 2: even that much more important in the outlook of the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty sixth season. I guess, for one, how's he looking?
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  Speaker 2: Have you talked to him. What's he thinking, what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so yes, yes to everything right, No, I I've
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  Speaker 4: talked to him quite a bit. There is an update
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  Speaker 4: from him on the YouTube channel people want to watch
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  Speaker 4: that him talking about like those final couple of days
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  Speaker 4: before he signed with the buck guys and how everything
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  Speaker 4: went down. That's over on YouTube dot com slash Bucky Huddle.
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  Speaker 4: Chris had a phenomenal first day. I thought he was
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  Speaker 4: maybe the best player at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: Day two on Wednesday, it was a little quiet. They
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  Speaker 4: did some one on ones, they had a joint practice
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  Speaker 4: and one on ones one I think one out of three,
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  Speaker 4: and then had a nice had a nice catch on
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  Speaker 4: a post in the scrimmage section. And then just today
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  Speaker 4: they did a lot of team scrimmage on the West
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  Speaker 4: team and Chris had another great day of practice, had
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  Speaker 4: a couple of touchdowns and red zone work and was
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  Speaker 4: winning a lot of his reps. So he's had a
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  Speaker 4: really strong week. He looks again, he just looks sudden
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  Speaker 4: at his size. I mean he's got to be six
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  Speaker 4: six now, and the way he's able to get off
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  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage and just tell how clean his
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  Speaker 4: releases are at that size is really impressive. I think,
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  Speaker 4: as we've seen with the movement in the portal right now,
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  Speaker 4: chances continue to go up that he could maybe find
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  Speaker 4: himself a starter as a freshman, which I never really
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  Speaker 4: was going to put that on him, but the way
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  Speaker 4: things have been shaking out right now, I think that's
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  Speaker 4: at least in the realm of possibility. But he's going
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  Speaker 4: to be a guy who, regardless, I think is going
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  Speaker 4: to be able to help Ohio State right away.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when we talk about Chris, there's something I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to ask you because I saw something that you
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  Speaker 2: tweeted the other day and I had watched not long
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  Speaker 2: ago a couple of the couple of two four to
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  Speaker 2: seven guys, this is before Chris ended up, before signing day,
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  Speaker 2: and they were talking about him kind of in comparison
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  Speaker 2: to Jeremiah. And one of the things that you know,
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  Speaker 2: two four seven had not listed him as their number
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  Speaker 2: one receiver. They had him down and dropped him down
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  Speaker 2: to number five, and they were kind of trying to
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  Speaker 2: justify that ranking. And one of the things that they
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  Speaker 2: were bringing up was fifty to fifty balls. When you
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  Speaker 2: talk about a guy who is you know a true
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  Speaker 2: number one like Jeremiah that really stands out. They make
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  Speaker 2: those eighty twenty balls in the high school ranks and
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  Speaker 2: at the camps and at seven on seven, and to them,
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  Speaker 2: the ball skills that Chris had at his height were
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  Speaker 2: just not impressive when it came to contested catches, and
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  Speaker 2: you feel the opposite.
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  Speaker 3: Can you elaborate on that.
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  Speaker 4: I've just watched him do it over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you saw the insane catch you made against Aquinas.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen him just when he was at Withrow. He
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  Speaker 4: would do it. He just most people today. They throw
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  Speaker 4: him a jump ball and they're in the end zone,
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  Speaker 4: he goes right over top and pulls it in. Earlier
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  Speaker 4: in the week, on the first day of practice, he
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  Speaker 4: was kind of the safety was coming out of the
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  Speaker 4: corner on his back. Hit the safety's coming over. He
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  Speaker 4: goes in there and pulls it away from him. I've
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  Speaker 4: just seen him do it over and over again. I'm
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  Speaker 4: honestly not sure why anyone would put lack of ability
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  Speaker 4: and contested catches as anything as a negative on his
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  Speaker 4: scouting report. That would be for me, his ability to
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  Speaker 4: make contested catches as a positive. But you know again,
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  Speaker 4: if we're going to start setting the bar at Jeremiah Smith,
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  Speaker 4: we may be waiting another thirty years. He may be
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  Speaker 4: waiting thirty more years to find someone who lives up
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  Speaker 4: because I haven't I haven't seen a Jeremiah I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: doing this, like almost twenty years I haven't seen I
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  Speaker 4: have not never seen a Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Julio Jones was kind of my gold standard before that,
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  Speaker 4: but he's he does things that Julio didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Do right, right, Well, I just wanted to get you
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  Speaker 2: on record with that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's odd.
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  Speaker 2: Because that clip was floating around there from two of
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  Speaker 2: the hanchos over at two four seven justifying their lack
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  Speaker 2: of a number one ranking at that point, which they
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  Speaker 2: did change. And that's obviously great stuff at six foot six,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we've all seen it on the film.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to know from someone who's watched him
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  Speaker 2: a lot in practice that that is in fact a
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  Speaker 2: skill and a plus of his as you would imagine
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  Speaker 2: it would be anyway. But Chris, it comes down to it,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously heartline leaves. He gets the news not directly
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  Speaker 2: from Ohio State, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: He heard it.
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  Speaker 2: They tried to call him, but he didn't get the call,
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  Speaker 2: and then he hears it second or third hand. And
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  Speaker 2: what did he have to say about the whirlwind that
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  Speaker 2: was those final three days?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he just sat down with his family
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  Speaker 4: a lot, obviously, and he talked to Ryan Day of
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  Speaker 4: course throughout, but he sat down his family, it was like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this was our decision the whole way, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, believes in Ryan Day. And and I think
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  Speaker 4: a really big thing for him is coming in his
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  Speaker 4: freshman year and having that year to learn from Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 4: That was something he referred to multiple times during my
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  Speaker 4: conversations with him throughout his recruiting process, but even more
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  Speaker 4: so in asking him about why he stuck with Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State there at the end. And and I just think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, from his perspective, there's just no other player
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  Speaker 4: in college football next year that could help him make
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  Speaker 4: that transition more so than Jeremiah Smith. And potentially having
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to start across from him at this point,
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  Speaker 4: given how wide opened that that third receiver spot might
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  Speaker 4: be at this point. But yeah, that was that was
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  Speaker 4: just such a big thing for him and his family
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  Speaker 4: and they were all just so comfortable with Ohio State
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  Speaker 4: and with Ryan Day that you know, he just that's
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  Speaker 4: what he wanted to do. So it was, Yeah, it
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  Speaker 4: was an interesting way of finding out because again Brian
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  Speaker 4: Harlin tried to call him the night before, didn't get
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  Speaker 4: a hold of him. So he ends up finding out
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  Speaker 4: like in the car on the way to his announcement
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  Speaker 4: ceremony where hers to his signing ceremony where he's supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be sign with Ohio State. So he just said, look,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just going to take a day or two and
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  Speaker 4: just make sure that everything's you know, feels right, I
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  Speaker 4: guess would be the best way to put it. And
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  Speaker 4: the rest is history. And now he's very, very eager
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  Speaker 4: to get in there and get to work.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we remember when the.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of Chris first started kind of opening up to
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  Speaker 2: talking to other schools throughout the recruiting process. It was Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: it was LSU and Cortes Hankdon. So you got a
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  Speaker 2: relationship existing there. And I did see that Cortes had
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  Speaker 2: texted him after he got the job and said excited
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  Speaker 2: to coach you, and Chris was like what, So you
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  Speaker 2: got that connection there, and then I think You're absolutely
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  Speaker 2: right when it comes to could anybody kind of when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the fame, when it comes to everything
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  Speaker 2: that goes with it, relate to Chris in college football,
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  Speaker 2: what this is gonna be like potential missteps he made,
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  Speaker 2: There's only Jeremiah.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. There's nobody else.
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  Speaker 2: And you and I have talked about the level of
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  Speaker 2: fame that that Chris already has that he's coming into
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  Speaker 2: college football with. It is immense and it'll be similar
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  Speaker 2: to Joe. We'll see We'll see CJ. Barnett or somebody
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  Speaker 2: attached to his hip after the games. Like just like
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  Speaker 2: with JJ, that's gonna be what it is with him
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  Speaker 2: because he is that level of famous coming in and
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  Speaker 2: as he produces, it'll only get bigger, but interesting stuff
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  Speaker 2: definitely from him there. And he is not the only
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state wide receiver commit down there. We've also got
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  Speaker 2: your Quaidon Guildford, who also made the Navy All American Game,
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  Speaker 2: the number one player in Indiana and to be quite honest,
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  Speaker 2: his you know, the potential of seeing him next year
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  Speaker 2: has risen quite a bit as well. And at six
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  Speaker 2: foot two, about one hundred and ninety pounds, he certainly
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  Speaker 2: physically fits the bill of a guy who can be ready.
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  Speaker 3: How's he looking?
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  Speaker 4: He actually, he's looking really good. He they had their
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  Speaker 4: joints another, their joint scrimmage day, their inner their West
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  Speaker 4: team had a scrimmage today and he's been lining up
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  Speaker 4: on the opposite side of Chris Henry Junior. And that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be a formidable receiving corps on on Saturday afternoon
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  Speaker 4: with Chris and Dreck Quayden on the outside and then Cayden,
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  Speaker 4: Dixon Wyatt in the slot. That's been a really good
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  Speaker 4: group this week. But he had a he must had
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  Speaker 4: six or seven catches today in team in team practice,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of nothing like crazy crazy like the fifty
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  Speaker 4: yard bomb, just like twelve yards, ten yards, eight yard out,
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  Speaker 4: fifteen yards, you know, just just kind of picking them apart.
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  Speaker 4: Had maybe the catch of the day yesterday in their
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  Speaker 4: joint practice in one on ones where he was hand
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  Speaker 4: fighting with his right arm and was kind of getting
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  Speaker 4: it held and reached out with his left arm and
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  Speaker 4: grabbed it for a touchdown. He's had a tremendous last
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  Speaker 4: couple of days, so he's been He's looked really good.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a lot of bursts to him. At his size,
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  Speaker 4: he can go vertical, but he's he's become, in my
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  Speaker 4: opinion again, a much better intermediate route runner. I think
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  Speaker 4: he's always kind of been a guy who can take
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  Speaker 4: a bubble screen to the house or you can go vertical,
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  Speaker 4: but he's really become reliable in that intermediate range.
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  Speaker 2: Great great stuff to hear about your Quayden. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we've got on the other side of the ball and
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  Speaker 2: we've seen some of these reps with lastic cornerback commit
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  Speaker 2: who you and I both really like and have talked
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  Speaker 2: about extensively. Jordan Thomas out of Bergen Catholic. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the Buck guys lose his former teammate this week, Quincy
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  Speaker 2: Porter to the transfer portal, which is a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the reason that things were opening up for Chris Henry
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  Speaker 2: and youre Quad and Guildford. But Jordan Thomas down there
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  Speaker 2: repping against Chris Henry Junior and we've seen a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the clips come out and he's certainly holding it
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  Speaker 2: own against one of the very best wide receivers we've
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  Speaker 2: seen come out in sometime. How has Jordan looked, aside
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  Speaker 2: from the few clips that we've seen kind of circulate
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  Speaker 2: on social media.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he got the best of Chris in one
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  Speaker 4: of those one on one reps yesterday. And he's just
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  Speaker 4: and we've talked about this before with him, he's just
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  Speaker 4: very physical, Yeah, he is. He is one of those
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  Speaker 4: guys who really likes to get up in receivers faces.
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  Speaker 4: He's he's handsy, and you know, I know everyone you
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  Speaker 4: know would get on Davis Sigmanoson for that, but I
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  Speaker 4: think Davison Noson was that was a heck of a
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  Speaker 4: player for Ohio State. And that's kind of the way
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Thomas has been playing down here. He's been very
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  Speaker 4: aggressive and physical and so he's had a solid week.
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  Speaker 4: I think, again, this is another guy that we talked
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  Speaker 4: about maybe getting in the rotation early or having some
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  Speaker 4: type of you know, you know, kind of role where
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  Speaker 4: he's in maybe in the fourth quarter of some some games.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe art is competitive, but I think I think what
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  Speaker 4: we've seen in the portal here, we're starting to see
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  Speaker 4: the possibility of of him playing more than maybe we thought,
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  Speaker 4: or having to be any more than we thought he
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  Speaker 4: might have to.
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  Speaker 2: Be without a doubt, And you know, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to that physicality, and I saw you know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of those comments underneath the video. Oh that's holding, that's whole,
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  Speaker 2: Like this is what you want out of your corner
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  Speaker 2: and then you can coach out of him whatever you need.
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  Speaker 2: You want the natural aggression, like that's what you want,
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  Speaker 2: and you also want a guy who can physically be
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  Speaker 2: able to do that, like he wanted that in his repertoire.
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  Speaker 2: He is certainly a physical kid who could probably play
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  Speaker 2: safety if you wanted him to, but he's quick enough
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  Speaker 2: to play corner. That's fantastic. A big kid, a great
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  Speaker 2: prospect out of New Jersey, and an excellent signing to
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  Speaker 2: go along with Jay Timmins at corner for Walt and
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  Speaker 2: another guy in Jay who you know could potentially we
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  Speaker 2: could see these guys now. And as the Buck guys
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  Speaker 2: get younger in the recruiting class that are gonna come
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  Speaker 2: and those guys are gonna play younger and the Portal
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  Speaker 2: guys getting older. So we're gonna have a whole mish
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  Speaker 2: mash next year. It's gonna be an interesting season for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll do another episode here shortly talking about maybe
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  Speaker 2: some philosophical changes in recruiting and talent acquisition.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Greer.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, this has been your number one player in the
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  Speaker 2: state of Ohio for several years now. Out of Akron Hobin,
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  Speaker 2: a guy who is close your eyes and picture the
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  Speaker 2: prototypical left tackle.
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  Speaker 3: We grew one.
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  Speaker 2: We got one number thirty three ranked player in the country,
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  Speaker 2: one spot out of five star. Hopefully he gets that
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  Speaker 2: just for his sake, it actually matters to him. But
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  Speaker 2: Sam is a total stud I've seen some clips of
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  Speaker 2: him down there putting in work. He looks like he
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  Speaker 2: is a college starting left tackle right now at six
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  Speaker 2: foot seven, three hundred and twenty pounds.
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  Speaker 3: What's your takeaways from Sam on the week so far.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks very strong. You know, they're not really
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  Speaker 4: able to lean on people yet. They haven't done a
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  Speaker 4: ton of stuff like in the run game that a
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  Speaker 4: lot of it's been the throw game in practice. But
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  Speaker 4: Sam's been been good. A little bit of a mixed
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  Speaker 4: bag there in the second day in one on ones
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  Speaker 4: just I think trouble with some inside moves. But in
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  Speaker 4: terms of his length, his strength, his ability to kind
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  Speaker 4: of dominate at the point of attacking the run game
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  Speaker 4: and get out in the second level and the athletic
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  Speaker 4: I've seen a lot of that this week. He's here
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  Speaker 4: to compete. Obviously, he's he's very fired up about playing
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  Speaker 4: in this game. And you know, interestingly enough, not really
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  Speaker 4: related directly to Sam, but he maybe gave me one
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  Speaker 4: of the most interesting comments of the entire week of
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  Speaker 4: anyone I've talked to, because I kind of asked him
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  Speaker 4: about like what he's going to be walking into this
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  Speaker 4: offseason with the disappointing finish to a high state season,
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  Speaker 4: and how this is maybe a very long off season
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  Speaker 4: for the people who were on that team who are returning,
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  Speaker 4: and he made a very interesting comedy said, yeah, He's like,
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  Speaker 4: I can already, I've already been talking to the guys
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  Speaker 4: who are lifting right now, and I guess it's been brutal.
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  Speaker 4: I guess it's been really, really brutal. And Sam. Sam
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  Speaker 4: has told me, like, I guess guys are getting in
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  Speaker 4: real time what tough love means.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. You love to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: You love to hear it after you end getting bullied
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  Speaker 2: on the line of scrimmage. And Sam not a guy
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  Speaker 2: I ever think is going to be bullied when he
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  Speaker 2: ends up getting his shot at Ohio State on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line. But there is another prospect there out of
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  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio who has put out some really
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  Speaker 2: nice reps, smaller quicker Davis Seaman in the class of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven of the Buckeyes they've offered.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a guy we both really liked.
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  Speaker 2: Needs to put some weight on, but man, the nuts
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  Speaker 2: and bolts are there to work with. This is a
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  Speaker 2: lump of clay that's an athletic smaller lineman. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that this dude's got some real potential. And what
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  Speaker 2: we've seen coming out this week looks great from what
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I've seen. What are you taking away?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you got to remember he's here as
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: a junior, so he's here going against mostly players who
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: are a year older than him. He's hung in there
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: very well as and playing at right guard. I do
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: think he's an interior guy. I do think he's a
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: guard center at the next level. Yeah, just because of
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: his But I think he's got great feet. He's not
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: he's not six five sixty six, six three and a
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: half man. Is he tough? Man? Is he hesty? But
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: what I was most impressed with the first couple of
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: days is watching him in one on ones, and you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: a lot of these camp one on ones and T
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: shirt and shorts. You're not allowed to bull rush. You're
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: only allowed to kind of speed rush and finesse moves.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: And these one on ones are because they're in full pads.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: You can bull rush, you can power rush, and so
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: you know, guys have tried that on him and he's
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: anchored very well. And that was one thing. I'm like, well,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: how's he because he is a guy who probably needs
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: to put on twenty pounds, maybe thirty pounds, but he
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: is strong. Another interesting I didn't even I don't know
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: why I didn't know this. He plays lacrosse.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, he plays lacrosse.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I was asking him, like, what is you know spring
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: is gonna look like. He's like, well, I'm going to
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: try and get some visits, but I've got lacrosse. I'm like, lacrosse.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: I was like, you got to be the biggest guy
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: out there. He's like, yeah, Like what's it like chasing
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: around all those guys that are half your size. He's
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: like he's like yeah, He's like, but it does help
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: me with my feet. So yeah, so that's that's what
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: his off. But Ohio State's in really good shape there,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: you know, he's admitted, obviously admitted growing up an Ohio
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: State fan. He's got great relationship there. He's mentioned a
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: couple other schools. You gonna check out. Auburn, that's one
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: school I think starting to push for him, especially now
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: that Alex Schoolish is there as the head coach. He's
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: a central Ohio guy. Yeah so yeah, so, but Ohio
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: State's gonna be I think tough to beat here. But yeah,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: he's done really well for himself. I'd love to see
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: him as a guard center prospect to the next level.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty excited about that one. Despite you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I guess we'll save this for the next talk about
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: offensive line philosophy and some things we need to talk
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: about on that front. But when we talk about modern
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: day Chris Henry Jr. In my opinion, does not break
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the modern day curse because he committed as an Ohio kid.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Does come back to Ohio State from modern day and
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: you end up losing our guy at the end flips
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: to USC and now it's it's still live and real.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: But Danny laying in the class of also a junior
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: like David Seaman, is a cornerback who really loves Ohio State.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: When he got the Ohio State offer, he hugged McCrary
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: and Tim Walton said it brought a teer to his eye.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: This is what he's always wanted, and he has been
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: to Ohio State and camped. He's an athletic corner that
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: just seems to have all the stuff that Ohio State
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: looks for in a prospect from a personality wise and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: culture standpoint, and seems like a guy who could potentially
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: be another relatively early commit to me. But he's down there.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: How's he looked? You got any sense on what he's
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: feeling about? Maybe a timeline and are we still in
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: there as big as we once were for him?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I'm like, so gunshy at this point with modern day yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: because in my opinion, the modern day curse is still alive.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: And well, I don't care Henry. Maybe you know he
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: was committed before he went out there, not a true
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: California guy, But you know, so, I'm a little gun
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: shy there. But Danny is still very high on the
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: buck eyes. I think we'll see spring visits. I don't
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: know that we'll see anything happen in the immediate future,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: but still very high there. The thing I kind of
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: like this week, he's been playing free safety, you know,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: the old the older guys there playing corner of course,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: so they're getting their their fair shake at corner, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: so being one of the younger guys, he's kind of
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: been kicked out the free safety playing playing a lot
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: of center field there, and he's done a nice job there.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: He's he's long, he's athletic. He's got to get a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: little stronger. I think that's the one thing he's he's
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: skinny right now. He's got he's got to get bigger
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: and stronger. But everything else, like athleticism, competitiveness, you know, length,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: all that good stuff. He's he's got a lot of that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: And uh, you know, I've obviously seen him at camp.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I saw him early and against Aquias this year at
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: the beginning of the season. So I've seen a lot
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: of Danny. I've seen a lot of him, a lot
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: more of him than I would normally see of a
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: modern day kid. So, but he's been great.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, anybody else that should be on our radar that
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: you have seen compete, that's.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Mostly the big names, you know. I I don't really
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: think of a mod Hudson, the big time tight End
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty seven. I don't he camp with a
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: high state last summer. I don't see that as super realistic.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: But he looks like a million bucks. I mean, he's
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: He and Chris Henry are probably the two guys that
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: like just jump out at you physically in terms of
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: the skill players. So that's another guy to maybe keep
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: an eye on. I'm just I'm super skeptical of that one.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Maybe I shouldn't be, Maybe I should be talking about
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: that one a little more than I do, But I
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: just I'm skeptical of that one. But he's down here
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: looking good.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You know, as we talk about the money and where
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: you can spend it and maybe where you can hide
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: not spending it. I am so out on big money
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: tight ends at this point, when the money is so
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: finite and the positions that you absolutely have to have,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I just don't feel like it's money well spent getting
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: a top tier number one, two or three tight end.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: It just doesn't make sense to me.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: But yeah, certainly a pretty incredible looking kid, no doubt
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: about that. All right, brother, Well, we appreciate the report
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: from the scene in San Antonio. Our man Mark Gibler
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: always on the scene, and we will double back after
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the game and talk some more about how this wrapped up.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And we've got to catch up on everything that's been
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: going on with Ohio State as far as the roster,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the transfer portal, talent acquisition, and maybe some philosophical changes
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: we're seeing from the top. Thank you so much, Mark Givler,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us here at Buckeye HUDDE and
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: we'll be back to talk to you guys soon.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Have a great one.