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Are The Ohio State Buckeyes About To Make NFL Draft History? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, February twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom or the ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety two days, the game against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: in two hundred and seventy six days. Our friends at
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  Speaker 1: com for more. This is NFL Draft Combine week in Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 1: and there are a whole lot of Buckeyes projected to
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  Speaker 1: go very very close to the top of the NFL Draft.
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  Speaker 1: How many and how close? Well, it could be a
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  Speaker 1: record setting year for Ohio State and for any team
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  Speaker 1: in terms of how many players could go in the
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  Speaker 1: top seven eight ish of a draft from an individual
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  Speaker 1: school going to Welcome to in Tony Gurderman of buckeyehuddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Melkiper just dropped his latest pre sort of pre
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  Speaker 1: combined projection for the NFL Draft, his mock draft, and man,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, you start scrolling through there, it's like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well he went to Ohio State. He went to Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State and it's like Ohio State is beating the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the college football world four to three in the
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  Speaker 1: top seven picks. Here. This is completely outrageous, unprecedented. No
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  Speaker 1: one has ever done this before. Hasn't happened yet, No
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  Speaker 1: one has gotten to go and stand in on the
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  Speaker 1: stage and shake hands with Roger Goodell. But the first pick,
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  Speaker 1: we think everyone sort of their stands. Yeah, Fernando Mendozo,
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  Speaker 1: we are very sorry you were going to go play
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  Speaker 1: for the Las Vegas Raiders. Sorry about your luck, but
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  Speaker 1: that's how it goes. Second, though, that will be a
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  Speaker 1: buck eye. This is another sorry about your luck franchise.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Jets. J Ets Jets Jets Jets, Tony
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  Speaker 1: mel Kiper has them picking Caleb Downs.
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  Speaker 2: I like this pick better than other picks I've seen,
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  Speaker 2: which have had them taking Rvel Reese, which makes me
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  Speaker 2: think back to you know, like Vernon Goldston, which did
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  Speaker 2: not go well for them, Rvel Reach being so kind
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  Speaker 2: of just unproven at the edge position. But this one.
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  Speaker 2: I said it on a message board presented by Jeffreyby's
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  Speaker 2: Columbus that Caleb Downs to me, feels like a Jets
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  Speaker 2: proof kind of player, and he can overcome being a
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  Speaker 2: part of this franchise. For one, he's not a quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: but he is a quarterback of the defense, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's the best kind of quarterback for the Jets to draft.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he feels like about a sure thing. And I've
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  Speaker 1: seen lots of conversations about positional value and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and it's like, yeah, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you were going to pick anyone from this draft
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  Speaker 1: and say most likely to be an All Pro at
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  Speaker 1: some point, at least at least once in his career,
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  Speaker 1: I think Caleb Downs feels like pretty close to a
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  Speaker 1: guarantee to be there. So we won't dive too deep
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  Speaker 1: into positional value and all that just in terms of
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  Speaker 1: would be a good player to have on your football team. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: sign me up for Caleb Downs. I think Ohias State
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  Speaker 1: fans would all agree on that. You mentioned darvel Reese.
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  Speaker 1: Mel Kiper has him going fourth overall to the Tennessee Titans.
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  Speaker 1: This is uh, this is another team that you know
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  Speaker 1: you don't get to You don't get to pick real
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  Speaker 1: high in the draft by being a great franchise. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we get it, but you know that that is certainly
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  Speaker 1: a you know, they to have our vel rees go
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  Speaker 1: in the top five. You know, you would not have
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  Speaker 1: guessed that a year ago, which you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: is a testament to just how dominant our velvearies was
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  Speaker 1: at times last season.
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  Speaker 2: And he will be working out at the combine. He's
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  Speaker 2: a Reports are that he's going to do all of
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  Speaker 2: the drills as sunny sunny styles as well. So that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna have everybody watching on Thursday just to watch those
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  Speaker 2: two guys who are as big as defensive ends running
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  Speaker 2: like they do. And there's gonna be some high expectations
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  Speaker 2: and so now they're they're gonna have to live up
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  Speaker 2: to the expectations that they have created. So kudos to
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  Speaker 2: them for planning on doing all of the workouts, and
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  Speaker 2: then kudos to them if they actually do them. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, our Vel some people se him as an
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  Speaker 2: edge some people see him as a linebacker, and if
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  Speaker 2: you don't know which one he is, maybe that's a detriment,
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  Speaker 2: like maybe maybe he'll fall down your board. But every
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  Speaker 2: mock draft you see he's somewhere in that top five,
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  Speaker 2: and if he starts to have you see him falling
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  Speaker 2: out of the top five. In the actual draft. I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if people are going to be like, oh, what's wrong,
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  Speaker 2: he's sliding, And I think I think you'll end up
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  Speaker 2: right where he needs to be in terms of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just he's not done a lot of either of those
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  Speaker 2: two things yet, so it wouldn't shock me if he
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  Speaker 2: does fall. But then I haven't seen the Combine yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll see, and we'll probably do a show
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  Speaker 1: on what Ohio State players are doing at the Combine
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  Speaker 1: this week, because there are going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys working there, at least doing interviews. But it
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a busy week for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: players in Indianapolis. One of the guys who is in
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  Speaker 1: that conversation as well is speaking of franchises, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily want to go play for picking number six overall.
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  Speaker 1: You Cleveland Brown's they have Mel has them listed as
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  Speaker 1: a sorry not your in particular, Tony, You're just you know,
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  Speaker 1: more broadly for the audience, uh Mel has them listed
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  Speaker 1: as needing offensive line and wide receiver, which I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: Browns fans are nodding along. Four catches touchdown catches for
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  Speaker 1: the Browns wide receivers last year. That doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So then Carnel Tate being wide receiver one
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  Speaker 1: off the board. I know the Browns have not historically
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  Speaker 1: picked a lot of Ohio State players, but you know
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  Speaker 1: that is that is certainly a spot that you know,
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  Speaker 1: if if they got Cardinal Tate, it feels like that's
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  Speaker 1: probably a win.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they've been doing it a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: over the years, and you saw them take quinnch On
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins last year and that worked out pretty well for them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think there there's if you're not in love with
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  Speaker 2: the the tackles on the board. Although what does it
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  Speaker 2: matter to protect a quarterback that isn't going to be
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  Speaker 2: there in two years? You know, it's sure right, But
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Tom, what is more important protecting somebody
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  Speaker 2: that I won't be there two years of getting a
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  Speaker 2: receiver for a quarterback that isn't there yet. You know
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  Speaker 2: that's that sort of thing. But I think if you
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to get quarter to get receiver one,
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  Speaker 2: that helps you with what you've got and in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the quarterback and because if you don't give him anything,
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  Speaker 2: then they have no chance. And I kind of value
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  Speaker 2: maybe a rookie wide receiver over a rookie tackle that
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  Speaker 2: isn't necessarily a left tackle. So yeah, keep them in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Let Browns fans continue to root for him, and and
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  Speaker 2: then you know in five years where when they have
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  Speaker 2: to trade him away because he's not going to resign,
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  Speaker 2: then they can say goodbye to him.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe your your blaspheming all Pro Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Tony Schidoor Sanders. I can't believe leave you know,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of distinctions that used to mean something. Pro
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  Speaker 1: Bowl quarterback Shra Sanders, and you're just dismissing. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. All right, last guy in the top seven,
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  Speaker 1: but not the last guy in the first round, Sunny
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  Speaker 1: Styles going to the Washington Commanders. This would, as no
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  Speaker 1: points out, be the most ever for a single school
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  Speaker 1: in the first seven picks in one draft. That would
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  Speaker 1: be four buck Eyes with three players from the rest
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  Speaker 1: of college football in the top seven if it plays
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  Speaker 1: out this way, Sunny Styles, man, he just he feels
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  Speaker 1: like he's not quite Caleb Downs, but he's just he
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  Speaker 1: feels like a pretty sure thing at the next level.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the surest bets in the safest bets
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  Speaker 2: in the draft, and you're just gonna get consistency out
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  Speaker 2: of him. The consistency would be the baseline. You might
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  Speaker 2: get much more than that in terms of the playmaking
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  Speaker 2: and the ability to cover so much ground that was
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  Speaker 2: saw at Ohio State where he takes away some things
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  Speaker 2: that you want to do just because you know he's
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  Speaker 2: going to get there, so you just kind of take
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  Speaker 2: it out of your playbook. And he's another guy. If
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  Speaker 2: he works out and that's the plan, is going to
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  Speaker 2: be fun to see what he can do. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the forty. While schools don't necessarily run forties anymore, the
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  Speaker 2: combine still does, and that's still the metric by which
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are just like consumed in terms
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  Speaker 2: of what they want to see. But I expect him
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  Speaker 2: to do very very well in all of those drills
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  Speaker 2: and look good on that frame doing it. So I
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  Speaker 2: think this would be a good spot for him. Really.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a bad spot for him, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he feels like he's going to be a really good,
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  Speaker 1: solid pro for a long time and one that you're
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna be pretty happy if he is on your team. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Tony the last buck Eye projected in the first round
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  Speaker 1: by mel Kiper. Literally on your team the Chicago Bears,
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  Speaker 1: number twenty five overall, Caden McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we've we've been able to watch Kaid McDonald for
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  Speaker 2: three years and seeing him in little bits and pieces
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  Speaker 2: in his first two years, first year and then even
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  Speaker 2: more than in his second year. But this past year
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  Speaker 2: one of the most active defensive tackles in Ohio state history,
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  Speaker 2: if not the most active defensive tackle in Ohio state history.
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  Speaker 2: I think probably him and Draymond Jones would be the
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  Speaker 2: top two guys in terms of a number of tackles
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  Speaker 2: in a season. And he's he's relentless, and he's big,
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  Speaker 2: and he's not just a run stuffer. So I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: certainly wouldn't have a problem here at twenty five for
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  Speaker 2: the Bears, who you know, known for defense franchisaly speaking,
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  Speaker 2: but not always actually in a good way. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: sign me up for that one. You know, if they
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  Speaker 2: can get five into that first round and you know
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  Speaker 2: walk away as the perhaps the leader in the country,
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  Speaker 2: and that again, I think that's another recruiting feather in
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  Speaker 2: the cap that you put forward in recruiting in the
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  Speaker 2: future classes and frankly, I guess in the portal as well.
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  Speaker 1: I like the fact that you have to spell out
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  Speaker 1: you the Bears really known for defense. Well, they're not
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  Speaker 1: known for offense, So unless they're known for special teams, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: it's they are known for Mike Ditka, Chris Farley and
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  Speaker 1: defense by default. So there you go. Five buck Eyes
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  Speaker 1: projected in the first round, four in the top seven
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  Speaker 1: by mel Kiper. Will things change between now in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Draft, Almost certainly, but still pretty good, a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good neighborhood for a lot of those guys to be
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  Speaker 1: looking at In terms of the NFL Draft. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: talking more about the combine a little bit later on
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  Speaker 1: this week as we kind of turn the page on
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  Speaker 1: last year's players and then get ready for spring ball.
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  Speaker 1: Buck Eyes kicked that off on March tenth, spring game
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  Speaker 1: on April eighteenth. Will be there for that and a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff in between there as well at bucke
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com and YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.