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Cotton Bowl Insider: 5 Things We Learned Inside Ohio State Football Practice · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerderman Here in the lobby of the Woody Hayes
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  Speaker 1: Athletic Center, so apologies in advance for any echoes you
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  Speaker 1: may be hearing. We just got a chance to watch
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State do one of its pre Cotton Bowl practices.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't get to watch the whole thing. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to oversell this by any means, but we did get
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  Speaker 1: to watch a little bit of practice, and there were
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things that I was looking for while
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  Speaker 1: we were in there that I was able to sort
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  Speaker 1: of figure out. We have not actually talked about this
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  Speaker 1: at all, so I will let you start. What was
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  Speaker 1: the most interesting, interesting, interesting thing that you either saw
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  Speaker 1: or didn't see while we were in there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one of the things I was looking for was
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  Speaker 2: to see how Tiger Shaball is doing. He's moved around
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  Speaker 2: out of wrap on what is right ankle ish right
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  Speaker 2: lower leg. But than watching the order in which some
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  Speaker 2: of the offensive linemen were lined up, it was gave
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  Speaker 2: Van Cycle lining up with the ones and one of
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  Speaker 2: the drills that I saw, So that was basically what
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  Speaker 2: I was looking for. Also, Josh Padia out there moving around,
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  Speaker 2: but Taker was moving around looked like he was I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he was doing some of the stuff clearly right. They
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  Speaker 2: said he's going to be out a while, So I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying there's been a miracle or anything there, but
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  Speaker 2: those are the guys that I was watching.
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  Speaker 1: That was exactly what I was looking for. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing was, okay, who's with the ones at right guard?
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  Speaker 1: Because we know Tiger Shaol is not going to play
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  Speaker 1: in this game and we know that Josh Padia and
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  Speaker 1: gave Van Sickel or the two candidates to replace him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we were not watching full team periods or red zone
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, but at this point we kind
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  Speaker 1: of know what it looks like when Okay, where are
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  Speaker 1: the ones repping during warm ups during all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. There's a very consistent and reliable pattern to that.
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  Speaker 1: Gave Van Sicles with the ones at right guard while
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  Speaker 1: we were in there, Josh Paduz with the twos at center,
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  Speaker 1: which not surprising. That does not mean that Josh Pidia
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  Speaker 1: is not currently in there taking reps at right guard
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  Speaker 1: with the ones, but as of right now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if Josh Padilla was repping with the ones at right guard,
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  Speaker 1: I would say Josh Peta is definitely the starter. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that I'm ready to make that kind of
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  Speaker 1: statement with Gave Van Sickle, but I sort of came
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  Speaker 1: into this with the expectation We've seen a lot from
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  Speaker 1: Gave Van Sickle. It would probably take Josh Pritiyat leaping
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  Speaker 1: gave Van Cycle again to win the job. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: expecting to see both guys, but probably expecting to see
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  Speaker 1: Gave Van Sagle first.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I am right now. That's the one thing
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to see, and we saw what we were
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  Speaker 2: expecting to see, which was Gay Van Syicle next to
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  Speaker 2: Luke Montgomery and Caryston Hintsman, and you know where he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't on the right side of the line as expected
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  Speaker 2: between Philip Daniels sorry, and Carson Hinsman has their lined
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  Speaker 2: up and so yeah, there's mystery number one solved. Perhaps
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  Speaker 2: although maybe some like said some added intrigue there with
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  Speaker 2: Josh Bidia who Ryan Day has said they will continue
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  Speaker 2: to rotate if they if they deem it necessary. I
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  Speaker 2: just wonder how necessary they will deem it after a
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  Speaker 2: full week of what might what they might have here
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  Speaker 2: with Vincicle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to watch the fort. You know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the things we get to watch.
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  Speaker 2: At the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: They do individual drills and for all of the skill
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  Speaker 1: position guys on offense, they do ball security drills. And
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day, you know Ryan Day. It's always interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see what is Ryan Day watching. Ryan Day walked over
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  Speaker 1: standing ten feet away and he said, this is the
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  Speaker 1: most important drill we're going to do all day. And
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  Speaker 1: you know that they know they cannot turn the ball
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  Speaker 1: over and the way they do these ball security drills.
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  Speaker 1: Will have a video up of you know where you
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  Speaker 1: can probably watch some of that because I know you
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  Speaker 1: were over there kind of shooting some video as well.
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  Speaker 1: But the guys will take the ball high and tight
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  Speaker 1: and then turn and run through basically run down a
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  Speaker 1: gauntlet and you got everyone there trying to sort of
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  Speaker 1: peanut punched the ball out. Ryan Day's right there. You
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  Speaker 1: know what is what is Brian Day most focused on?
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  Speaker 1: He is there trying to punch the ball out from
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  Speaker 1: running backs and quarterbacks and wide receivers. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: can always tell when we listen to players talk about
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  Speaker 1: you know, you hear the same phrases from guys and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, well, I know what the message inside
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  Speaker 1: the building is. When you see something like that and
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  Speaker 1: you see the head coach that involved, that also tells
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  Speaker 1: you a little bit about this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: key key messages this week.
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  Speaker 2: I was also interested to see what Ryan Day was
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  Speaker 2: doing and who he was talking to, how he was
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  Speaker 2: talking and as they were doing their jogging their warming up,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Day is spending time with Carlos Lachlan, the running
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  Speaker 2: backs coach, and Locke is they're they're going back and
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  Speaker 2: forth and Ryan is like then showing him something about
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  Speaker 2: some sort of drill out here or whatever. He's wanting
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  Speaker 2: Locke to teach his running backs and to see him
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  Speaker 2: hands on again, like you know this is this His
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  Speaker 2: coordinator hat back on saying this is what I want?
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  Speaker 2: Or is this you know, he's also very hands on
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  Speaker 2: as a head coach, but he seemed to be more
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  Speaker 2: involved maybe. But then also later on he's spending time
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  Speaker 2: with Caleb Downs, talking with Caleb Downs about something specific,
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  Speaker 2: and they're having a football conversation. I've got some of it.
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  Speaker 2: He would probably put some lip readers to it, at
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  Speaker 2: least the Caleb Downs portion of it. I'm sure a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it's just like, yeah, I got a coach,
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  Speaker 2: I got a coach.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think I can maybe solve that mystery for
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  Speaker 1: you because I saw that as well. I have some
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  Speaker 1: photos of that. You obviously have some video of that.
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  Speaker 1: But after that, the team huddles up, Ryan d starts
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  Speaker 1: talking to the team and then you hear a different
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  Speaker 1: voice and I'm listening and I'm like, I bet I
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  Speaker 1: know who that is. And I went over and talked
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  Speaker 1: to one of the OSU spokesmen and said, is that
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  Speaker 1: Caleb's voice? And he said it sounds like it, So
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you for sure it was Caleb Downs
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  Speaker 1: talking to the team, And therefore I can't tell you
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  Speaker 1: for sure that Ryan DA was going over and asking him, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: can you talk to the team for a minute before
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  Speaker 1: the game, or maybe giving him some points to hit
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. I suspect that was probably what that was,
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  Speaker 1: because that was just a minute or two before that,
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  Speaker 1: and Caleb Downs at this point is the kind of
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  Speaker 1: guy who probably does not need to sit down and
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  Speaker 1: you know, type in leadership speech about college football into
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  Speaker 1: chat GPT to have, you know, to know what to
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  Speaker 1: say and what the what the heat high points are
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  Speaker 1: to hit. So I am pretty sure that was that
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  Speaker 1: was one of the other things. So what any other
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  Speaker 1: big takeaways?
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  Speaker 2: Look looking a little bit to see what Brian Hartline
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  Speaker 2: was doing. He was spending some time clearly he's with
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  Speaker 2: the receivers in warm ups. There he was talking with
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  Speaker 2: Carnel Tay and then he was spending some time talking
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  Speaker 2: with Jermaine Matthews and they were kind of going back
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  Speaker 2: and forth a little bit. But he had a smile
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  Speaker 2: on his face, so that was good. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: to see anybody, clearly, you know, up center frowning and
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  Speaker 2: not that you would, but yeah, just seeing some guys
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  Speaker 2: that have had some things happen to them since the
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  Speaker 2: last time we got to see them in any kind
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  Speaker 2: of action, and he's among that number.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you saw you know, it's always interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see the guys from the different sides of the ball interacting.
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  Speaker 1: And you know there's always you're always it's an offense
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  Speaker 1: guy stretching next to a defensive guys. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is the whole point is they want the whole
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  Speaker 1: team to know each other. And this was this was
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  Speaker 1: a Jim Trestle thing too, that you you know, everyone
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  Speaker 1: on the team back in Jim Trestle's they had to know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everyone's hometown and siblings and whatever else. And
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  Speaker 1: you know that they would have offensive guys rooming with
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  Speaker 1: defensive guys a lot, just to make sure it's not
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  Speaker 1: you don't get clicks on the team you have. The
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  Speaker 1: team is the team. So uh, any other big takeaways
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  Speaker 1: from our time in there.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the gauntlet of the ball protection. There is
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  Speaker 2: also one where they're doing just with the running backs
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  Speaker 2: where he had two assistants with Matt's Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the big blocking paths offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: And so you got one on one one side, another
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  Speaker 2: guy on the other side as the running back tries
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  Speaker 2: to basically run through them and they're smacking. It's very
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  Speaker 2: loud and James People's is getting ready to go through
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  Speaker 2: it again. He's like, it's give me one minute, just
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  Speaker 2: one minute, one second. Let me let me gather myself
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  Speaker 2: because they you know, they lay into him trying to
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  Speaker 2: knock that ball loose. And clearly, yes, Ryan Day's always
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  Speaker 2: focused on ball protection. But in matchup games, as Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day likes to talk about, it only takes one missed opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: one fumble and bad territory, good territory or whatever, because shoot,
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  Speaker 2: you can fumble and what would be good territory for
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  Speaker 2: your defense, but that's bad territory for the offense because
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  Speaker 2: you just lost an opportunity in the red zone or
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  Speaker 2: something of that nature. So no good time for the fumble,
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  Speaker 2: not even at the fifties.
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  Speaker 1: No, Now, you don't want to give it away in
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  Speaker 1: the in hockey, in the offensive zone or the defensive
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  Speaker 1: zone or in the neutral zone. So yeah, and those
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  Speaker 1: running backs and you know, if you're wondering, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or it's just kind of like, oh, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna kind of go through the motions. No,
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  Speaker 1: as Tony said, it is loud, like those pads hitting
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  Speaker 1: are loud. And you saw the running backs after those drills,
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  Speaker 1: they're only going ten yards or something like that. And
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  Speaker 1: it's relatively pleasant in the indoor field today, but those
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  Speaker 1: running backs have sweat pouring down their faces. They are
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  Speaker 1: working hard. And that's just period one of practice.
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  Speaker 2: One last thing. So it's interesting to see who was
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  Speaker 2: wearing out team jerseys and what numbers they're wearing. Malakay Tony,
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  Speaker 2: Miami wide receiver who will play all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: looked like to a doz Jones wearing ten jersey Malakay
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  Speaker 2: Tony and also Eli brick Handler wearing a number ten jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know that malay Tony has the ball before
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, you could see him, you know line maybe
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  Speaker 2: they don't like the way he does Jones knows the
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  Speaker 2: ball perhaps, But interesting, I don't know how often we've
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  Speaker 2: seen multiple players, well it's happened, but like you don't
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  Speaker 2: often see like multiple players wrapping the same scout team
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  Speaker 2: jersey because yeah, I'm this guy on these kinds of plays,
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  Speaker 2: I'm this and this guy is somebody else and on
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  Speaker 2: these kinds of plays.
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  Speaker 1: That's really interesting because say I saw brick Handler in
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  Speaker 1: the number ten jersey and I thought Carson Beck wears
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  Speaker 1: number eleven, and then I saw Tavan Saint Clair is
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  Speaker 1: wearing number eleven. So Tavian Saint Clair is playing Carson Beck.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, you do have to have uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on this on this play, Carson Beck will be Mark
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  Speaker 1: Malakay Tony will be played by Eli brick Handler.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, anybody knows.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So there you go, just a few
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  Speaker 1: things we learned watching practice today. We're going to get
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  Speaker 1: another chance to watch the Buckeyes practice when we get
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  Speaker 1: to Dallas, and then we'll have a chance to watch
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State and UH and Miami both practice. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: on the twenty ninth of December, so that's coming up
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