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Ohio State Spring Football: Is The Buckeyes' Offensive Line Good Enough? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Great for Griddle today college offensive lineman. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about on today's show. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be bringing back our buddy, Tony Gerderman if Buckheadle
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  Speaker 1: dot com to continue our series on the pre spring
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  Speaker 1: depth charts for the Ohio State Buck Eyes and Tony.
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  Speaker 1: This is the offensive line. It feels like we've been
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  Speaker 1: every time we talk about them. We talk about seven
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  Speaker 1: guys they feel pretty good about right now, and then
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  Speaker 1: it's just a matter of who's going to sort of
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  Speaker 1: fit where. And you could align these guys in about
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  Speaker 1: six or seven different lineups and I go, yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I could see that, But I'm going to put you
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  Speaker 1: on the spot here. Who is the starting left tackle
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  Speaker 1: for the Ohio State Buckeyes right now? And who's the
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  Speaker 1: second stringer.
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  Speaker 2: Right now? I will say that it is Austin Ciriveld,
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  Speaker 2: And then who is the second string guy? You know, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, we are out of time. It's been great
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  Speaker 2: to be thank you for having me. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: look at the tackles, and I can't say it's Ian
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  Speaker 2: Moore because I believe he and Austin Seerveld are going
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  Speaker 2: to be your your two starting tackles. But that second
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  Speaker 2: string left tackle, it could be Carter low it could
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  Speaker 2: be Deontay Armstrong, it could be true true freshman, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sam Greer. At some point, you know, you get true
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  Speaker 2: freshman Max Riley in there as well. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll just go ahead and say at this point
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  Speaker 2: Carter Lowe is the number two left tackle right right now. Now.
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  Speaker 2: That may change once I see something on March tenth, though.
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  Speaker 1: And if we're going to do this the Jim Boleman way,
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  Speaker 1: then the real second string left tackle, the guy who's
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  Speaker 1: probably going to go in if the starting left tackle
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  Speaker 1: gets hurt. Well, it's probably the other guy who's playing
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  Speaker 1: right tackle, and then who's the backup right tackle in
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  Speaker 1: that case, the second guy to go in at right tackle,
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  Speaker 1: that's probably the guy who's starting.
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  Speaker 2: At right guard.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll get there. This is there's there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different ways to put together an offensive line depth start.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing it the real true you're only on there
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  Speaker 1: once kind of way, not the Jim Bowman way. But
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  Speaker 1: you know there are many there are many ways to
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  Speaker 1: do this.
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  Speaker 2: The video game way, right. You look at you chart
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  Speaker 2: on the video game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So. Yeah, So that's and I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a perfectly it would be perfectly reasonable to say, actually
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  Speaker 1: flip those two tackles and put Ian Moore at left
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  Speaker 1: tackle and Austin Seervel at right tackle. I know, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a real strong lean one way
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  Speaker 1: or the other just yet. This is all stuff they're
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna be sorting out during spring ball.
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  Speaker 2: I do think Ian Moore will be the starting left
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  Speaker 2: tackle this season. But you asked me today, you already
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  Speaker 2: gave the date.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, That's that's one of those things where there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of things that are going
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  Speaker 1: to be tried this spring and we'll see how it
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  Speaker 1: all goes. But yeah, if if you're asking me right now,
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  Speaker 1: I would guess you have a decent chance of having
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  Speaker 1: Ean Moore being your start starting left tackle for that
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  Speaker 1: ball State starting left guard right now. That feels like
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  Speaker 1: a little bit less of a mystery. Ohio State had
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  Speaker 1: it the same starting left guard all of last season.
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  Speaker 2: He's back.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm assuming you are with me that Luke Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: is left guard number one. Who is behind Luke Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: at left guard?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna assume it's the same guy that
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  Speaker 2: was there last times and now was Jake Cook as
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  Speaker 2: a true freshman making his way into the too deep,
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  Speaker 2: so I expect him to be there as well. I
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  Speaker 2: think the only thing that may alter that is the
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  Speaker 2: amount of people vying for right guard, which we'll eventually
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  Speaker 2: get to. But right now, if we're just piasting this out,
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  Speaker 2: I will say Jake Cook as your number two left guard,
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  Speaker 2: but reserving the right to change that once right guard
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  Speaker 2: shakes out, and you see how whoever is the ninth
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  Speaker 2: or the number nine or number ten offensive lineman or
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  Speaker 2: whichever number you would need to get to. Basically, You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a number of guys that can play left
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  Speaker 2: guard if that happens. If something were to happen to
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  Speaker 2: Luke Montgomery, your number six guy can play that position
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  Speaker 2: or can play another position, and whoever that person is
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  Speaker 2: being replaced it then can go play left guard. So
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  Speaker 2: I'll say long anch or short time, which is what
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  Speaker 2: you wanted, Jake Cook.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's a reasonable, reasonable answer. Right guard is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the one where we have a long and
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  Speaker 1: involved conversation and say about six different names. Center center
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  Speaker 1: is probably a relatively straightforward one, but at least one
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  Speaker 1: of the names we're gonna be talking about here is
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  Speaker 1: probably also in the conversation at right guard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Carson Hinzman, you're a returning starter, Josh Badilla, you're
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  Speaker 2: returning back up. Even though we saw Padia at right
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  Speaker 2: guard a bunch last year. I think if something were
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  Speaker 2: to happen to Carson, he would be the guy, even
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  Speaker 2: though you know he may he may win the right
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  Speaker 2: guard job, which we'll talk about. But that's again where
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  Speaker 2: whoever is your best your second best center is you know,
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  Speaker 2: your number two, even if they don't necessarily line up
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  Speaker 2: there at times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So that's This is the difference between when
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  Speaker 1: the twos are in there and at practice and who
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  Speaker 1: you know, if the number one center goes down in
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  Speaker 1: a game, who is the second person to go in there.
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  Speaker 1: There is a lot of times that is a different answer.
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  Speaker 1: This is probably one of those years where that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: Right guard. Okay, here we go. This is the only
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  Speaker 1: spot where Ohio State technically is replacing a starter from
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  Speaker 1: last year's team. And then and it's taker Shibola. He's
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  Speaker 1: off to Kentucky. So what do you want to do here?
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  Speaker 1: This is this is one where I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's some pun here to be made about buck
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  Speaker 1: Eyes tomorrow morning and we have to just spell it
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  Speaker 1: tom oh r oh morning because there's so many oars
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  Speaker 1: here on the depth chart for the right guard spot.
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  Speaker 1: This is one where I could I could see a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate argument for maybe like three or four different guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and on one of my depth charts that I
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  Speaker 2: had there, I also had Austin Seerveld possibly there. Just
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  Speaker 2: you know, all of these oars, right, because what if
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  Speaker 2: the two best tackles end up being Ian Moore and
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  Speaker 2: Philip Daniels, what are you not going to play Austin Siraveld, No,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to play him. And so like right guard,
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  Speaker 2: I had Josh Padilla or Austin Seerveld or Philip Daniels
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  Speaker 2: or Ian Moore or Gabe Van Sickle. And then I
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  Speaker 2: also said that those five would be a top half
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  Speaker 2: of the Big ten offensive line. You know, by them,
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  Speaker 2: you could you could put them at left tackle, left guard, center,
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  Speaker 2: right guard, and right tackle and they'd be pretty darn good.
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  Speaker 2: So choosing from from those guys, I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be okay. Now we heard Brian Day mentioned Philip Daniels
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  Speaker 2: vying for that, but also Josh Padilla and Gabe Van
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  Speaker 2: Sickle and even Jake Cook. So you've got a number
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  Speaker 2: three or four guys there. I think it depends on
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  Speaker 2: how Philip Daniels picks up the position, presuming that he
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  Speaker 2: has fully moved there, or if this is just gonna
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  Speaker 2: be one of those things where they tell us in
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  Speaker 2: the spring, yeah, we're just moving guys around, we're just seeing,
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  Speaker 2: we're just checking, we're just looking, or if he is
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  Speaker 2: going to be fully moved there, because it feels like
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  Speaker 2: you really need to be fully invested in in moving
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive line. If you're going to be as
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  Speaker 2: good as you need to be. So I do think
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  Speaker 2: with his experience, in his tenacity, he's a pretty decent
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  Speaker 2: bet to win that job. I have no clue whether
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be number one to start in the
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  Speaker 2: spring or what. I wonder what Tyler Bowen knows in
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  Speaker 2: terms of, like, well does he know right now who's
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  Speaker 2: going to be his first right guard, especially if you
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  Speaker 2: still want Josh Pidia getting snaps at center. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess who would shock you the least.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Daniels would be the least surprising
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  Speaker 1: starting right guard to me, just because I'm putting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that on Ryan Day's comments on the Coaching
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  Speaker 1: Show a couple of weeks ago where he just kind
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  Speaker 1: of matter of factly had him in that conversation at
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  Speaker 1: right guard. And we know that he can play at
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  Speaker 1: a you know, pretty so at big ten level, and
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  Speaker 1: the whatever shortcomings people viewed in his game had a
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  Speaker 1: lot to do with the quickness piece of being a
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  Speaker 1: tackle rather than the size or the strength or the
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  Speaker 1: mean streak that is required of being a guard. He
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  Speaker 1: has the makeup of a guard, maybe even more so
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  Speaker 1: than a tackle, So That feels like a very natural
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  Speaker 1: move to me. But this is also you know, they
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  Speaker 1: have the luxury of what we always say with the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, they're going to find their best five and
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  Speaker 1: then they'll figure out where those guys fit. I think
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  Speaker 1: among the top seven or eight. You could take almost
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  Speaker 1: any combination of those and say, okay, make a starting
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  Speaker 1: five out of this and have guys in logical position.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go now to the right tackle spot. By
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  Speaker 1: process of elimination. I think we know that Ian Moore
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  Speaker 1: is going to be your starter there. Who do you
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  Speaker 1: have behind Ian Moore?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I guess you're probably talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Deontay More or Carter Low. I know we mentioned Carter
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  Speaker 2: Low at left tackle. This becomes again your number three
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  Speaker 2: overall tackle as your backup at both spots kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see it, you know, is I guess maybe
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  Speaker 2: you'll see the true freshman wherever they feel worse in
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  Speaker 2: terms of like do they do they feel like, say
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  Speaker 2: Carter Low, if he has the backup tackle, they want
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  Speaker 2: to give him a good look. They feel good about that.
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  Speaker 2: So you move a freshman or two over to right
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  Speaker 2: tackle to compete with, say Deontay Armstrong in that position.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, Armstrong, this is his third year now,
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  Speaker 2: so he needs to This is about the time where
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  Speaker 2: this needs to be a good spring for him and
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  Speaker 2: he needs to show something. He needs to fend off
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  Speaker 2: the freshman from behind him. So he's he's got to
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  Speaker 2: This is a big, big spring for him as some
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  Speaker 2: young players who are two years younger than he is
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  Speaker 2: are looking to claim his spot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when we talk about the offensive lineman and guys
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  Speaker 1: like Sam Greer, who's a fringy five star, who's i
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  Speaker 1: think two spots out of being a five star or
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  Speaker 1: something like that in two four sevens rankings, everyone wants
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  Speaker 1: to kind of pencil him in as a second teamer.
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  Speaker 1: And we always say, listen, offensive line, you'd never assume
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  Speaker 1: a guy's gonna play as a freshman. We'll see you
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  Speaker 1: any year, and in most cases, we'll see you in
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  Speaker 1: two years. For Deontay Armstrong, all right, third years here,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's see what it's uh, let's see what it's
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  Speaker 1: looking like. We're gonna have probably a show coming up,
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  Speaker 1: one of our usual pre spring shows, but which buck Eyes,
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  Speaker 1: this is the biggest Spring four of anyone on the team,
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  Speaker 1: and he's probably in that conversation to see where he stands.
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