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Ohio State Football Insider: 6 Things To Watch Inside Buckeye Football Practice · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, April fourth.
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  Speaker 1: for more. All right, on Saturday morning, Tony Gerdaman and
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  Speaker 1: Kevin and I are all going to be inside the
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  Speaker 1: Woody Hayes Athletics Center for the annual student Appreciation Practice
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  Speaker 1: is one of the about four ish practices we get
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  Speaker 1: to watch in the spring before the spring game. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't been in there for a few weeks, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have a chance to get an update on
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff that has changed since. Practice
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  Speaker 1: is one and two of the spring joined by Tony Gerdaman.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Tony, right before we hit record, I said
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  Speaker 1: I want to title something like four things to watch
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  Speaker 1: inside Ohigh State football practice, and you said, oh great,
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  Speaker 1: I've got four things. So I said, our good, great,
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  Speaker 1: you just carry it. I'll just wrap us up when
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  Speaker 1: we're done.
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  Speaker 2: I guess yeah, Well my four things were how long
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  Speaker 2: is the line for roosters? Uh? No either. Also, let
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  Speaker 2: me get hold on, let me get to my football
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  Speaker 2: stuff that I had written down. Now. I think one
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  Speaker 2: of the first things I'm going to be looking for
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of this is just the offensive line makeup.
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  Speaker 2: Where is everybody is Austin and we know they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be mixing and matching. They've told us that, but like,
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  Speaker 2: how much is this person at this spot? Is this
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  Speaker 2: person say, let's just talk Austin Sirivell. Is he at
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  Speaker 2: right guard more than he's at left tackle? Or Ian more?
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  Speaker 2: Is he more at right guard than he is at
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  Speaker 2: left tackle? And just trying to read into what we
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  Speaker 2: can by watching what we can and seeing, boy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what does it mean that this person spent a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time at this position? And what does it mean
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  Speaker 2: that this person only played this spot because they think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times we'll see we see plenty of
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  Speaker 2: cross training, but when a player is only playing one spot,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, that's also very notable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is definitely something that we're going to pay
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  Speaker 1: close attention to because when we were in there week
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  Speaker 1: one Ian Moore was starting at right tackle. Was not sorry,
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  Speaker 1: not starting, he was starting his spring by working at
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  Speaker 1: right tackle. So then we've obviously been hearing quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit about him working at left tackle, and the more
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  Speaker 1: you hear, the more it sounds likely that the best
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  Speaker 1: five that they have this fall, in some form or fashion,
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  Speaker 1: is going to involve Ian Moore. So we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: he is at left tackle, then Austin Serveld he's starting
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  Speaker 1: left tackle from last year moves somewhere, is that right guard,
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  Speaker 1: is that right tackle. We'll see what the different combinations
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  Speaker 1: they're working there are. We talked to Keenan Bailey and
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  Speaker 1: Nate Roberts about the tight ends on Tuesday on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: this week, but I'm still really interested to see what
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  Speaker 1: is the rotation at tight end because it feels like
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  Speaker 1: Nate Roberts is going to have a significant role this year.
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  Speaker 1: They brought in a couple of transfer tight ends. We
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  Speaker 1: know Bennett Christian is kind of limited or not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not participating this spring, so this is I'm really interested
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  Speaker 1: to see Hunter Welsing, Mason Williams, the two transfer tight
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  Speaker 1: ends they brought in from Northwestern and Ohio University. What
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  Speaker 1: do they look like. We saw a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Welsing week one. He had a touchdown pass and
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  Speaker 1: one of the reception that in one of the red
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  Speaker 1: zone roles that they did while we were in there
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  Speaker 1: week one. I just we have just not heard as
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  Speaker 1: much about those guys as I was expecting. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you hear about guys when things are going great. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you hear about guys when things are going terrible. It's
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  Speaker 1: just it's been a little quiet on the tight end front,
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  Speaker 1: even having just talked to Keenan Bailey and Nate Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: So that's on my list of all right, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of want to get a check in on where things
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  Speaker 1: are and what order guys are repping in there.
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  Speaker 2: And it may have been Brian Day a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago said somebody said something good about Max LeBlanc
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  Speaker 2: his off season and there's another forgotten name in the
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  Speaker 2: tight end room, and but we're still not talking to him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that we've I don't know that we've
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  Speaker 2: ever talked to Max LeBlanc, who is now a red
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  Speaker 2: shirt sophomore at Ohio State. And so you know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see him in there as well, Brody Lennon and Nick Latar,
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  Speaker 2: see what else is going on there. But yeah, getting
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  Speaker 2: a look at Mason Williams and Hunter Wilson in that
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  Speaker 2: first week. There are some dropped passes in there, and
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  Speaker 2: that's not really what I'm gonna judge this room on.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's more than that, and certainly not the first week.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, getting another look at those guys and see, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even looking for making plays or anything, but
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  Speaker 2: just cohesion, competence, you know, that sort of thing. And
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  Speaker 2: with as much as this team wants to be able
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  Speaker 2: to run the ball, and as much as Arthur Smith
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  Speaker 2: has been brought in to make that happen, the tight
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  Speaker 2: ends are gonna have a huge role in that. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The question is will it be one at a time
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  Speaker 2: or will it be two at a time or perhaps
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  Speaker 2: Tom three at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't help us, Tony. If it's three at a time,
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  Speaker 1: they don't. They don't usually get booed at the student
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  Speaker 1: appreciation practice, but it's the first time for everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also looking forward to seeing tav and Saint Clair
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  Speaker 2: because last year is a true freshman watching him in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime you're watching a true freshman in practice safe for
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  Speaker 2: Julian sand But even Julian Sanin had this issue. Half
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  Speaker 2: the snaps, the ball doesn't even get thrown because he
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  Speaker 2: gets tapped, or he has to scramble because he can't
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  Speaker 2: find anybody. I just want to see Tavan Saint Clair
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  Speaker 2: looking like a quarterback that is in command, is in control,
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  Speaker 2: is the backup, the number two guy that can go in.
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  Speaker 2: It's we've seen the number two quarterback at Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: has been good enough to compete for the starting job
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  Speaker 2: in a sense because maybe the starter has you know, there,
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  Speaker 2: or has been new or you know, like well Howard,
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  Speaker 2: there's a competition common Devin Brown had a competition, Julian
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  Speaker 2: saying Lincoln Knole's Lincoln Kenoles loicked fine last year in
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  Speaker 2: the spring, and there are days where he was better
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  Speaker 2: than Julian, and there are days where Julian was better
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  Speaker 2: than Lincoln. And so I want to see Tav Saint
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  Speaker 2: Clair have a good day and look like he's good
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  Speaker 2: enough to play to High State right now. And I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't expect that from him as a true freshman, but
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  Speaker 2: now he's under more command, more confidence, knows the offense.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see it while he's throwing the ball and getting
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  Speaker 2: rid of it going to the right spots. But more
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  Speaker 2: than anything, just getting rid of the ball, I think
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  Speaker 2: is something I'm looking forward to seeing from him, because
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  Speaker 2: let's see how that ball looks.
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  Speaker 1: And just to put some context around this, we really
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  Speaker 1: have not seen him do anything in a kind of
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  Speaker 1: competitive environment outside of two attempts against Grambling last year,
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  Speaker 1: since basically this time last spring. You know, we saw
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit in the first couple practices a
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  Speaker 1: fall camp last year. We saw him in the spring
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  Speaker 1: game a little bit last year, but he was a
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  Speaker 1: true freshman in this and at that point, everything's going
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million miles an hour and you have no
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  Speaker 1: expectation for anything. This is when, all right, let's see
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  Speaker 1: what the last year or so has brought for his
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  Speaker 1: game in terms of his development. Because the physical tools
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  Speaker 1: are there, they like the you know, they like the makeup,
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  Speaker 1: they're like the mental approach, they like everything about it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's see what it looks like. Just because we
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  Speaker 1: have not had a legitimate check in on him in
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  Speaker 1: quite a while in person, we got to go over
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  Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the ball a little bit
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  Speaker 1: because listening to Ryan Day on Tuesday this week, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the defensive ends they're still sort of figuring
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  Speaker 1: some stuff out there a little bit. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: know what you got with Kenyata Jackson. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think they might have something with Bo Watkins, and they
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  Speaker 1: might have something with Ion Grady. They might you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Kway Russau and Christian alegro thing is going to
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  Speaker 1: you know, play a factor there. But you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, you know, Episitanola, Like what does that look like?
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like there was probably still some work to
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  Speaker 1: do there. There's a lot of potential there. But again,
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  Speaker 1: he was someone who we just didn't see a whole
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  Speaker 1: heck of a lot last season. He played a little
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  Speaker 1: bit here and there, but we just didn't see a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of them. I'm just I'm very interested to
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  Speaker 1: see what that defensive front looks like overall, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: you typically think of this and it's Ohio State and
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  Speaker 1: well it's a Larry Johnson defensive line. So it's just
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  Speaker 1: four down, you get two ends, you get two you
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  Speaker 1: get a three tech, you gotta nose and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, no, that is not what it is anymore,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have all sorts of different looks. We
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Penny front, we talk about you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're gonna you know, maybe you're only playing one
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  Speaker 1: defensive end. You're playing three you know kind of guys
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  Speaker 1: who are sort of listed as tackles, and you're also
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  Speaker 1: playing like a linebacker type on the edge. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is a brave new world of Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State defensive line. I'm just interested to see what the
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  Speaker 1: alignment looks like while we're in there, and also who's
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  Speaker 1: you know, who's flashing, but also just who's lining up
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  Speaker 1: where and in what combinations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, are James Smith and Edrick Houston playing together now?
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  Speaker 2: Gway russa loss is black stripe on Thursday? And I'd
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  Speaker 2: be interested to know who took kway Russol losing his
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  Speaker 2: black stripe before James Smith, because that's I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a surprise, a positive surprise for the
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  Speaker 2: High State defensive ends. And I think we talked about
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  Speaker 2: it recently, but all we keep hearing about him is
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  Speaker 2: just how powerful he is, and he's he's six two
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  Speaker 2: to forty is what he's listed at. But it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like he's a hammer and he's strong, so yeah, can
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  Speaker 2: can can he do anything? He had Ryan Day said
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  Speaker 2: when he had a couple of third down sacks and
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  Speaker 2: the Saturday scrimmage, So we'll see what he does there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'm also interested to see what the
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  Speaker 2: safeties look like and Lee Roy Roker probably with the
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  Speaker 2: one still at this point, what is I don't even
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  Speaker 2: to say, what is the issue with Terry Moore? It's
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  Speaker 2: so unfair he didn't play last year, He's transferred in
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  Speaker 2: from Duke and why hasn't he ascended yet? It's already gosh,
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  Speaker 2: spring is almost half over. What's wrong with this person?
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  Speaker 2: And by getting a look there and just you watching
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  Speaker 2: that free safety alignment and you know Jay Timmons and
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  Speaker 2: Blaine Bradford are probably going to be in that mix too,
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  Speaker 2: and so getting a good look. Really there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: to look forward to, and it's the alignments the new
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  Speaker 2: guys and at this point in the last two years,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be like, I can't wait to watch more of
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith. And at this point it's like who, like
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  Speaker 2: we we haven't even talked to Chris Henry Brockboyd, like
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to look forward to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris Henry brock Boyd, And the other spot that
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  Speaker 1: Brian Day has talked about as a like an open
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  Speaker 1: concern this spring is running back, and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: always talk about the fact that running back is a
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  Speaker 1: tough position to get any real firm and final judgments
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  Speaker 1: on in the spring, just because a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: you're not tackling to the ground, which makes it real
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  Speaker 1: hard to evaluate. But it is certainly a position that
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  Speaker 1: is going to be worth monitoring. We know that Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: West and Bo Jackson are both limited this spring, so
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna you know, limit who's out there. Legend Bay
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  Speaker 1: has missed a couple practices. We'll see if he's back
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  Speaker 1: out there while we're in there on Saturday. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: definitely gonna be a lot to talk about as we
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  Speaker 1: head back into the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: We will have a full practice report for you afterwards
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  Speaker 1: at bucke Huddle dot com, and of course we'll have
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  Speaker 1: some kind of a I will have some kind of
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  Speaker 1: a show for you as well at YouTube dot com
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  Speaker 1: slash Buckeye Huddle recapping some of the stuff our big
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  Speaker 1: takeaways from practice practice number eight of the spring as
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  Speaker 1: we hit halfway point of that practice, it will be
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  Speaker 1: the halfway point of the spring and then also just
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  Speaker 1: two weeks away from the Spring Game on April eighteenth,
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  Speaker 1: so it is coming fast. If you want to stay
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  Speaker 1: up to speed with all of it, you can do
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  Speaker 1: that with us at Buckey Huddle dot com and at
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  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. That'll do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.