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BONUS: Jeremiah Smith Receives Emotional Honor · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: We got another bonus show for you. This one with
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state wide receiver, Jeremiah Smith. This is his third
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  Speaker 1: year with the Buckeyes. Big, big expectations as always for
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith. You come in and completely blow up the
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  Speaker 1: record book as a true freshman and win a national
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  Speaker 1: championship in the process, and then end up as a
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  Speaker 1: top five voter in the Heisman in the senior sophomore year.
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  Speaker 1: There's only so much you can do. There's big expectations. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: This is the way, this is the way of the world.
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  Speaker 1: big expectations for year three for Jeremiah Smith. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: He's aware of that. He is ready for it. He
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to live up to it. So one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that was kind of a little bit surprising
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  Speaker 1: during the interviews this week was Jeremiah Smith. When he
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  Speaker 1: was asked about being voted a captain said it brought
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  Speaker 1: him to tears. He legitimately like welled up when he
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  Speaker 1: was voted a captain this week. Why did this matter
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  Speaker 1: so much to him?
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  Speaker 2: Cause that's something I've been working on a lot. Um,
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  Speaker 2: since last year, since my sophomore year, um, Something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Coach Meg, anybody in the program could tell you that
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't, you know, the vocal guy last year. Started
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  Speaker 2: out this year, wasn't as vocal as they wanted me
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  Speaker 2: to be. Picked it up in the summer to now.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I did a good job, you know,
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  Speaker 2: encouraging people. You know, like I said, we got 51
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  Speaker 2: new guys here. So just showing them the right way
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  Speaker 2: we do things here. And I think I did a
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  Speaker 2: good job of that this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: When was it that Jeremiah Smith found his voice as
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  Speaker 1: a team leader? Because he has not always been a
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  Speaker 1: particularly vocal player.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, this summer, that's when I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I found my voice for real, for real. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not normal for me, but still got to step
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  Speaker 2: out of my comfort zone and do things people around
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  Speaker 2: the facility want me to do. So that's what I
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  Speaker 2: had to do.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to being named a captain, Jeremiah Smith was
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  Speaker 1: also named an Iron Buckeye earlier this year. So what
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  Speaker 1: are all those off-season honors, off-field honors, what does that
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  Speaker 1: all mean to him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it meant a lot. First coming in, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know much about Aaron Buckeye. Didn't know too much about
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  Speaker 2: it until I won it. And then I actually, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got a little board up there and it say
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  Speaker 2: everything it means to be Aaron Buckeye. It meant a
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  Speaker 2: lot to me that I won in my first year
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  Speaker 2: and I'll just continue on doing it, you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: my last year here.
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, the new offensive coordinator, is changing a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of stuff about the Ohio State offense. What's different in
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith's offense for Jeremiah Smith?
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  Speaker 2: Give me the ball. That's what I'm saying. It's different,
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  Speaker 2: for real, for real. We just got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different things that we do in this offense with Coach Smith.
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  Speaker 2: He finds ways to get us guys the ball, and
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  Speaker 2: it's all about the little things with Coach Smith. He
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  Speaker 2: got plays on plays, and you're going to see a
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  Speaker 2: whole different offense this year than last year.
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  Speaker 1: If you listened to the Brandon Innes show we did
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the week, you heard that Brandon Innes and
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, they were childhood friends. Now, not only are
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  Speaker 1: they teammates and in the same position room, they are
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  Speaker 1: captains together as well. So what is it like going
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  Speaker 1: through all of this stuff? with Brandon Ennis for Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I met Brandon. We started playing each other
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  Speaker 2: when I was nine years old. Knew each other ever since,
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  Speaker 2: seeing the way he grew up and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very excited for him. You know, he got
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  Speaker 2: the blocko. It means a lot here at Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and I know he's going to do great things this
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  Speaker 2: year with that number on, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Here's an answer that made headlines earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith was asked about Legend Bay and Legend Bay
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  Speaker 1: losing his black stripe and how meaningful that is for
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  Speaker 1: this offense. Jeremiah Smith's answer, which you're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: in just a second, that made a lot of headlines
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 2: It means a lot. I think I said this back
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  Speaker 2: in spring. I said to Luke Montgomery, I said, before
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  Speaker 2: Legend Bay leave Ohio State, he'll be a Heisman finalist
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  Speaker 2: or he'll end up winning it. And the things he's
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  Speaker 2: been doing in practice has been pretty special for sure.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked again a little bit later on, just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more thoughts on him and his role
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  Speaker 1: as a captain and what that really means this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, the people, I mean, my teammates,
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  Speaker 2: they voted me captain. It means a lot coming from
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  Speaker 2: them that they want me to be a captain of
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  Speaker 2: this team. And, you know, it's not, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people can say that, you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: the most vocal guy. But, you know, this year I
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  Speaker 2: think I showed that a lot. And, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just got to go out there and represent Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: the right way. And that's what I'm going to do,
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  Speaker 2: being a captain.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith is just now about to start his third
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  Speaker 1: year as a college football player, which doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: that old, right? Well, he really is one of the
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  Speaker 1: old guys in the wide receiver room now because you
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  Speaker 1: got Brandon Innes ahead of him. You got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of guys who transferred in who are new to the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State room this year. And you got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of young guys and you got four true freshmen, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of whom at least are going to be players
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  Speaker 1: who are probably playing some kind of a role this
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  Speaker 1: fall for the Buckeyes. So what is it like as
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  Speaker 1: a third year guy, kind of being one of the
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  Speaker 1: old guys in that wide receiver room? And what is
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  Speaker 1: it like having a pair of true freshmen like Chris
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  Speaker 1: Henry Jr. and Brock Boyd there as well?
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy. Uh, say Tom flies, uh, now I'm
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  Speaker 2: the junior and probably not the oldest guy, but probably
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  Speaker 2: the third oldest in the room. Um, got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of experience, got a lot of play in town. Um, So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, them guys, they always open to help. They
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  Speaker 2: always ask the questions, want to learn. And I'm always
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  Speaker 2: got to be open-handed because, you know, God did it
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  Speaker 2: for me when I first came in. So I always
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  Speaker 2: got to, you know, mentor the young guys and show
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  Speaker 2: them the right way to do things.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah. Julian Sane and Jeremiah Smith have been linked
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  Speaker 1: for at least a year. Obviously, wide receiver, quarterback, going
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  Speaker 1: to sort of associate their names, right? But they were
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  Speaker 1: linked together this offseason as well because those guys worked
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  Speaker 1: out together a bunch. And that was a storyline we
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  Speaker 1: talked about a bunch earlier in the offseason. So, Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith has seen a lot of Julian Zane, has
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  Speaker 1: talked about how impressed he was with what he saw
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  Speaker 1: from Julian Zane this offseason, but What else has he
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  Speaker 1: seen from Julian saying this year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Julian, he's doing a great job using his voice more,
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  Speaker 2: taking command of the offense. Julian, he's taking that step. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's in the huddle. Like, God's talking. He's
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  Speaker 2: telling everybody to shut up and saying all that type
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. So you see that swagger coming out of
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  Speaker 2: him in a lot of different things. But I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: for Julian. He's taking that step for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The top end of the Ohio State wide receiver room,
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  Speaker 1: it is going to be hard for them to be
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  Speaker 1: as good as they were last year. Yeah, they got
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith back, but no more Carnell Tate. But you
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have that second wide receiver who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a top five-ish NFL draft pick. But Is this
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  Speaker 1: maybe a deeper wide receiver room than it was last year?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: We got, you know, me, we got Brendan, we got
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  Speaker 2: Devin McKeown, we got Kyle Parker, Chris Henry, all the
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  Speaker 2: young guys. I mean, we got depth everywhere. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of us can play different positions as well. So like
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  Speaker 2: Coach Day said, we got a lot of depth everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, I mentioned this, I feel like a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times a week. I love when we talk to
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  Speaker 1: players on one side of the ball about guys who
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  Speaker 1: they're going up against in practice. And this is one
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  Speaker 1: about Jeremiah Smith talking about Devin Sanchez, sophomore corner, very,
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  Speaker 1: very impressive player. I think there's big things expected from
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  Speaker 1: him this year as well. What is it like going
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  Speaker 1: up against Devin Sanchez in practice every day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You don't really see guys who sits two, sits
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  Speaker 2: three that could run with you like every Saturday. Like he's,
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  Speaker 2: he's right there. And Devin is, he's go have a
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  Speaker 2: great year for us. Like he said here, like he
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  Speaker 2: know he got to face some guys. So I know
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  Speaker 2: I try to push him each and every day I'm
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  Speaker 2: out there. Cause I know he got to go see
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  Speaker 2: some good receivers this year. I know he go do
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  Speaker 2: his job, but Devin's going to have a great year.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, hope you guys enjoyed that. Getting to
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  Speaker 1: hear from one of the captains on this year's Ohio
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