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Future Ohio State Quarterback Getting A Head Start On Buckeye Career · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, April twenty third, I'm your host,
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  tom or the Akron game in one hundred and thirty days, the game
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  against Michigan in two hundred and twenty one days. Over the weekend, some
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  of the top quarterbacks in the Midwest got together in Upper Arlington, Ohio,
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  right down the street from Ohio State's campus for the Elite eleven Regional and Tony
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  Gerderman of buckey Huddle dot Com was just part of our staff that was there
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  to cover it. Tony, obviously some you know this is the one of
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  the feeder events that leads to the Elite eleven camp over the summer at one
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  of the most prestigious quarterback events in the nation, and the star of the
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  show, I think, rather unsurprisingly, the name is gonna be very familiar
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  to Ohio State fans. Twenty twenty five Ohio State quarterback commit Tavian Saint Clair.
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  It sounds like he put on quite an impressive show once again. Yeah,
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  he earned the invite to the Elite eleven Finals in Los Angeles ninth June
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  fourteenth through the sixteenth. I will say I believe the player who won the
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  accuracy portion this little accuracy contest. Flew in from Hawaii for the competition.
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  I don't know why he come to Columbus on a day of all days,
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  when it's I don't think it topped out at about forty five and some breeze
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  with very little son, But he came in and was a pretty accurate thrower
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  or not not the biggest guy on maybe like six foot like two twenty and
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  doesn't necessarily look like a quarterback, but he was slinging it around there and
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  won that and you know, probably then back off home back to Hawaii.
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  But we did hear one of the counselors say that this is the best regional
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  they've had in terms of the number, the best group overall quarterbacks. And
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  yet Tavi and Saint Clair again always looks the part. And it's been interesting
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  to watch him grow from seeing him first time a couple of years ago at
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  OSU and then seeing him again last year, we he looked like a completely
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  different person. He looks like he like you want your college quarterback to look.
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  He's the six or four strapping young lad type of thing, and continues
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  to look stronger and stronger, and then like I said it was a breezy
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  day and his passes no wobble on nose. DROs. Yeah. We saw
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  him at the seven on seven camp in the summer of twenty twenty two,
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  and he and Ryan Montgomery, who is from Finley, younger brother of Luke
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  Montgomery and now a Georgia commit. Ryan Montgomery is and we saw the two
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  of them, and Montgomery seemed like he was clearly ahead of Saint Clair back
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  in twenty twenty two. And then we saw those same two guys at the
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  same event back in twenty twenty three, summer of twenty twenty three, and
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  tav and Saint Clair, like you said, just look like a different guy.
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  Bigger, just built, more solidly, looked like he'd spent a lot
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  of time in the weight room, and his accuracy had and arm strength that
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  definitely improved quite a bit. And every time you hear someone talk about him
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  now, it seems like that progression is just continued. And you know,
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  not only is he looking the part of a college quarterback you said that,
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  You know, you got a chance to talk to him afterwards, and it
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  sounds like he's sort of acting the part of a college quarterback as well.
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  You know, with Ohio State being relatively convenient to his home in Bell Fountain,
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  he has made that trip down twenty three more than more than a few
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  times. Yeah, he said he does that most spring practices. Also took
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  part in some of the quarterback meetings and asked him, so you're in the
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  meetings, does Chip Kelly ever quiz you on stuff? He's like, yes,
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  sometimes, but everybody else will help him out with answers, So,
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  you know, got to help the young guy with the answers. But so
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  he already feels like he's part of part of the program, part of the
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  quarterback room. Talked about the brotherhood, the closeness of the quarterbacks. So
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  yeah, he's very very much around the program, attending practices, contacting as
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  much as he can, and then also feeling part of the program feelings as
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  he is part of the program. Also working hard to build that program through
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  recruiting as well. So you know how Ryan Dedy always talks about you want
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  your quarterback to be one of your lead recruiters. That's what he's doing right
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  now as well. So getting a feel for what's going on right now on
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  the grounds at Ohio State and also trying to bring in reinforcements for what he
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  is there next year. I need to correct myself on my Ohio highways right
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  now, bell f out and of course on US Route thirty three not twenty
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  three. The Buckeye Weekly Podcast and Buckeye s Tomorrow Morning Podcast, regret the
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  error most sincere apologies. I've spent quite a bit of time on both of
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  those highways. You can get them mixed up from time to time, all
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  right, So I think that's that was an important point you hit there,
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  and I don't want to just gloss over it because having a quarterback, the
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  quarterback is always sort of assumed to be one of the leaders in the recruiting
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  class and the guy who people are kind of rallying around and who is kind
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  of the pied piper of the ring class. A lot of times sometimes that's
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  a guy like C. J. Hicks, but a lot of times it's
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  the quarterback. To have the quarterback who now has you know, the rankings
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  and some of the bona fides from the you know, the recruiting services and
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  you know, an organization like at Lead eleven to have the sort of the
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  seal of approval that yes, this is a very good, very good college
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  football player in the making. And then also to have him be so close
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  to home where he can come down every game weekend. He's he's one of
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  those guys who's like the free space on the Bengo card where we always used
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  to see Garrett Stover every week because he was always there will Smith Junior every
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  week because he was there. To have the quarterback there, that's really potentially
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  a very big thing for this Ohio State recruiting class. Yeah, it's almost
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  like part of the recruiting staff like, Hey, Daman, have you come
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  down, come over this weekend. We've got these guys coming in and with
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  the way that the class is going round now. He talked about the receiver
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  recruiting like Jamie French, Vernell Brown, Corey and Moore all top receivers in
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  the class that he's been after and bilding relationship with. But yeah, very
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  much. He's going to be a resource and he's willing to do that.
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  He wants to do that. Why wouldn't he You know, you obviously want
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  to bring in as much talent as you can, but don't doesn't just have
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  to be receivers. Talked about Jordan Davison and running back out of California either
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  players that he's after, and yeah, and whenever anybody comes in, like
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  I would assume his weekends were are mostly free in that regard. You know,
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  he's going to be putting in a bunch of work doing all of this
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  his quarterback thing. You know, when when you're a college quarterback or you're
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  a budding college quarterback, this is kind of a full time thing to be
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  doing with your everybody has a quarterbacks coach and things like that. But also,
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  once you hit this point and you are a big time recruit, you
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  are a commit, you are now kind of on call for this kind of
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  thing, and if you're a local, you're doubly on call. I don't
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  know. Can you get your gas mileage reimbursed? Can you? Is that
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  something that you can do or is it's just something that you have to Maybe
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  the collective can catch you back up later. That sort of thing that feels
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  like something that even now the NCAA might frown upon, But you know,
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  I don't know, Maybe save your receipts and then turn them in, turn
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  them into a later date when you might be able to get that get that
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  reimbursed in the at some point in the future after that letter of intent is
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  signed. Hiviyan Saint Clair not the only guy who has spent quite a bit
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  of time inside the What he Hates Athletic Center over the last a few weeks
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  and months and years. Who was at that event A young man who Ohio
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  State fans will probably recognize the name RJ. Day. His dad holds a
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  fairly significant position within the Ohio State football program. Right now. RJ Day,
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  now entering his sophomore season of high school, feels like he was just
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  a little kid when Ryan took over at the starting quarterback the head coaching job
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  at Ohios date and now RJ Day like almost he has he has at least
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  one FBS off right now. He has an offer from Marshall, but he
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  was there as well. You know, it's a it's amazing to see someone
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  who it feels like he was just a little kid not that long ago,
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  all of a sudden, now he's going through that recruiting process as well.
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  That has to be a real weird thing for Ryan Day to be on the
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  other side of some of those conversations. Yeah, and RJ. Day is
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  another guy that you can see kind of growing before your eyes getting stronger,
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  bigger. You know, Mark Pantoni is Ohio States GM, but the GM
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  before him was RJ. Day, Like in twenty seventeen when I remember seeing
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  him in coming to the podium for postgame with JT. Barrett and Ryan Day
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  would joke that he is the GM and he's always in the hallways and things
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  like that. But yeah, now he's a twenty twenty seven quarterback who,
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  just like you said, just getting into a sophomore year, so he's got
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  some room to grow. And we saw him last year at the seven on
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  seven and I'm sure we'll see him again this June and see how well he
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  has done at that point as well. But yeah, you know, Ryan
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  Day obviously very proud to see some of those offers rolling in and the the
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  effort that he's put into it and the work that he's put into it.
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  And it was interesting listening to the count the like the director Brent's Stump talk
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  afterwards about the two characteristics that people can't measure and the reason why the NFL
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  misses on quarterbacks and the reason why colleges miss on quarterbacks and the reason why
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  camps miss on quarterbacks is because they can see the arm. They can see
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  the legs, but they can never totally measure the head, the brain to
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  process everything, and the heart to want to continue doing things when they're difficult.
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  And that's kind of where you get into the coaches sunt aspect of things
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  like that's where those coaches, sons and future coaches kind of blossom, and
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  that's their their best their best muscles and so inches you watch his development over
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  the next couple of years in that regard, as well as with the arm
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  and the and the legs and all the that. Well, Tavian Saint Clair
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  will be probably at Ohio State quite quite a few more times over the course
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  of the next few months, and I guess our Jay Day will be as
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  well. We will be too. There's lots of Ohio State football coverage coming
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  for you later this spring and this summer at bucke huddle dot com. We're
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  heading into a busy time for recruiting, a busy time for visits coming up
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  in the next six to eight weeks. We've got lots of official visits coming
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  up in June. We've got camp season coming up in June. Still some
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  transfer portal drama, I'm sure, still the unfold both coming and going for
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  the Buckeyes coming up later this month. Had a great place to follow all
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  of that is with us at Buckeye huddle dot com. That's where Tony Coven
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  and I covered the team, get Mark cover recruiting. We're at our whole
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  team with Ex's nose gurus, making you a smarter football fan all at bucke
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  huddle dot com. We hope to see you there. That'll do it for
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  today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  We'll talk to you tomorrow.