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Ohio State Football Insider: 3 Things We Just Learned About The Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, April seventh,
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  Speaker 1: are now on a Monday, Wednesday Friday schedule with the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Buckeyes during spring ball. So on Monday, Buck
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  Speaker 1: Gys had practice number nine of the spring and afterwards
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  Speaker 1: we got a chance to talk to Ryan Day a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, so on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about three things we learned from Ryan Day. Tony
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  Speaker 1: called them revelations. That seems a little strong, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it was. You know, they were noteworthy, noteworthy utterances
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  Speaker 1: from Ryan Day that will make a very compelling headline,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure on YouTube. So we'll call this revelations as well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and we'll talk about the defensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Welcoming in Tony Gerdiman of Buckeyeheddle dot com
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  Speaker 1: and Tony. I think the first revelation on defense is
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  Speaker 1: that of the two second year linebackers who we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about the most, which is Riley Petty John and
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  Speaker 1: TJ Alford, it's a real shame that Riley Petty John
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  Speaker 1: is banged up and missing a bunch of time in
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  Speaker 1: the spring because it seems like t. J. Alford is
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  Speaker 1: making the most of his opportunity there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely is, and he is mentioned right along
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  Speaker 2: with after Ryan Day talks about Peyton Pierce and Christian
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  Speaker 2: Allegro and he's like and basically, don't forget about TJ.
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  Speaker 2: Alfred because we've seen him with the ones, we've seen
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  Speaker 2: him with the twos, but he's playing inside, he's playing
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  Speaker 2: on the edge as well. In terms of that sam
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  Speaker 2: linebacker thing. They're letting him do all of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that is required if you're going to be not the
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  Speaker 2: middle linebacker, right and the middle linebacker will do his thing,
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  Speaker 2: and if you are not him, you're going to need
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  Speaker 2: to do this or you're going to try you over here.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to see what you can do here and
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  Speaker 2: see see how much of the r vel refs package
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  Speaker 2: you can actually handle. We know you're not Rvel Reese,
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  Speaker 2: but what can you do? And TJ. Alfred is getting
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to do that, and so he's showing them
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  Speaker 2: what he can do, and he's he's bought in. He's
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  Speaker 2: made a large advancement. I think James lauren Andis maybe
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  Speaker 2: last week said from last year till now, he's made
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  Speaker 2: a huge jump. And Ryan Day said he's going to
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  Speaker 2: play this year's if he continues doing this, he will play.
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  Speaker 2: And then I also asked him, how do you how
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  Speaker 2: quickly can you I said, get up to speed on
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  Speaker 2: Riley Penny John or have him get up to speed,
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  Speaker 2: like you get up to speed on what Riley Penny
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  Speaker 2: John can do. And he's like, that's good, a good
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  Speaker 2: question because we don't know. That's what sucks about him
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  Speaker 2: being out right now is this is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: them to gain knowledge about what he can do and
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  Speaker 2: more of what he can do, because the reps would
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  Speaker 2: be there for him, but he's out, so there's some
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  Speaker 2: mystery there, there's some question there. Now they're going to
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  Speaker 2: try to get him up to speed and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to try to get up to speed on him. In
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  Speaker 2: fall fall camp. But yeah, it's unfortunate for him that
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  Speaker 2: he's not part of this where there's a good number
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  Speaker 2: of reps of available. So that's something that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to figure out. But my point in asking
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day about the linebackers is they lost two guys
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  Speaker 2: that are going to be almost impossible to replace. But
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about how this is looking like a deep
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  Speaker 2: group and he agreed, and he's like, in, Riley's not
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  Speaker 2: even ready yet. Riley's not even playing yet. So it
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  Speaker 2: was interesting that he seems to be happy with the
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  Speaker 2: linebackers but is like, man, I wish we could see
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  Speaker 2: what Riley Petty John could do in a way where
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  Speaker 2: you're like, it would be nice to see mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He was certainly someone who coming out of that
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  Speaker 1: first that first year, his freshman season last fall, I
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  Speaker 1: think there was a lot of expectation that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to take that next step. He
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  Speaker 1: and tj Alford are both guys who contributed a lot
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  Speaker 1: on special teams, which meant there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to sort of have those clean up reps on defense,
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  Speaker 1: because if you're on special teams all year, you're not redshirting.
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  Speaker 1: So therefore, if there's just a couple extra reps here
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  Speaker 1: and there on defense, well you can you can go
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  Speaker 1: out there and play them to your heart's content without
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  Speaker 1: worrying about burning a red shirt. So definitely two guys
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  Speaker 1: who were in that conversation last year and presumably ready
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  Speaker 1: to take that next step this year. Alfred sounds like
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  Speaker 1: he's already doing it and Petty John will just sort
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  Speaker 1: of have to see when he's out there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned how difficult it is to replace those two
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  Speaker 1: linebackers they lost. Also not easy to replace a couple
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  Speaker 1: of safeties who they lost last year in Caleb Downs
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  Speaker 1: and the Lorenzo Styles Junior. They did their very best
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  Speaker 1: by bringing an earl Little and Terry Moore to the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal. Little lost his black stripe very early, which
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  Speaker 1: is obviously a very good sign. We've been hearing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good stuff from him. We've talked a lot
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  Speaker 1: about more as well in terms of being someone who
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  Speaker 1: we expect a lot from and you hadn't heard a
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  Speaker 1: ton from him the first couple of weeks, but it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like that is now maybe starting to change as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was something we saw on Saturday a
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  Speaker 2: little bit where Terry Moore is with the Ones and
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  Speaker 2: when we had seen them previously it was Lee Roy
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  Speaker 2: Roker and Leary Roker also got some time with the Ones,
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  Speaker 2: but it was mainly Terry Moore there. And when Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day was asked, if you give us a couple of
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  Speaker 2: guys on each side of the ball who are maybe
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  Speaker 2: have surprised you, he did mention the two transfer safeties
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  Speaker 2: and Terry Moore and Earl Little, and he mentioned, how like,
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  Speaker 2: how do you replace Caleb Downs, which is a question
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  Speaker 2: I asked him at the pro day and he said,
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  Speaker 2: you don't. Here he said, you know, how do you
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  Speaker 2: replace Caleb Downs? Basically the same thing. You don't. But
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  Speaker 2: they're what they're seeing out of Earl Little and the
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  Speaker 2: way he's communicating in the way Jayleen McLean is communicating
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  Speaker 2: as well, has really impressed him. But overall, Terry Moore
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  Speaker 2: is stepping back in and getting some of that rust off.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're finally getting a good look at what
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  Speaker 2: they were expecting. And you also mentioned with both of
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  Speaker 2: those guys, as we've talked about before, they've they've got
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  Speaker 2: connections to Ohio State and the Earl Little played at Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: played at Florida State and was from South South Florida
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  Speaker 2: where Brandon Ennis and Jeremiah Smith knew him and they
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  Speaker 2: were friends. Was that Alabama the same time as Caleb Downs.
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  Speaker 2: And then with Terry Moore, Matt Greary recruited him at
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  Speaker 2: Duke and new him and he recruited him to play
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  Speaker 2: safety and wanted him to play safety. And then once
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  Speaker 2: Matt Gary left to come to Ohio State, they immediately
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  Speaker 2: put Terry Moore at running back for a year before
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  Speaker 2: they realized their mistake and put him back at safety.
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  Speaker 2: But good news here and that those guys are both
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  Speaker 2: contributing right now and looking like, you know, how do
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  Speaker 2: you replace Caleb Downs? You don't, but having these two
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  Speaker 2: guys will help. And he said, I'm really happy that
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  Speaker 2: we have them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're bringing it, bringing in guys like that where
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  Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a personal connection. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like Cortes Hangton bringing in Kyle Parker who he
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  Speaker 1: had at LSU and bringing and because you kind of know,
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  Speaker 1: you're not kind of guessing, you're not trying to over
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  Speaker 1: the phone or over zoom or over a one weekend
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  Speaker 1: visit trying judge a person, and you know what they're
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  Speaker 1: like in the meeting room, what they're like three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty five days a year, you kind of already
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  Speaker 1: have a sense. So that does give you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a head start. Something else that has given
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State quite a bit have a head start the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years is just coaching guys from Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: That has worked out really well for them in a
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  Speaker 1: number of different ways. They had a quarterback of some
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  Speaker 1: renown who is still playing in Columbus who they did
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  Speaker 1: that with. They had a safety who we've already talked
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  Speaker 1: about on the show who they did that with. They
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  Speaker 1: did that with Kway Russau, They did that with Cam Calhoun,
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  Speaker 1: and they also did that with James Smith this year.
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  Speaker 1: He's someone who we have seen in all you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've heard a lot about him sort of behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeing it here and there. And Ryan Day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think Ryan Day sees the potential there with James
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  Speaker 1: Smith as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he said he's flashing and that's always a
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  Speaker 2: good thing and a bad thing because they, as he said,
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  Speaker 2: we want the light to stay on. And we said,
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  Speaker 2: what what Larry Johnson is doing is challenging him to
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  Speaker 2: play at a higher level for a longer period of time.
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  Speaker 2: So basically challenging his stamina to out there. And this
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  Speaker 2: guy right now who's learning three tech and he's playing
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  Speaker 2: free tech and nose tackle and is out there for
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit. But it reminds me of the two
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  Speaker 2: years they spent with Tyler Williams trying to get him
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  Speaker 2: to play, be able to play more, and play more.
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  Speaker 2: Finally as a junior he was able to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and then as a senior as well, and it took
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  Speaker 2: him time, but he was a freshman and a sophomore
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  Speaker 2: when they're trying to get more out of him. James
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  Speaker 2: Smith is a fourth year guy. He should be able
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  Speaker 2: to just you know, be ready for this. So just
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  Speaker 2: thought it was interesting we see him flash, and we
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  Speaker 2: see it is easy to flash time when you're in
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  Speaker 2: practice and then all right, that's four reps. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: time for the twos to come in and then the
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  Speaker 2: threes and you get you know, ten minutes of break
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  Speaker 2: or so before you have to go back in for
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  Speaker 2: a few snaps. And so wanting him to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play at that high level constantly because practice is
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  Speaker 2: only going to last so long. Pretty soon, pretty soon
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  Speaker 2: time that Austin heat is going to hit them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the good news is he is used to playing
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  Speaker 1: in the Southern heat, but that is going to still
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  Speaker 1: be a challenge because it does sound like they're going
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  Speaker 1: to try and get him to do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things. There's a lot of opportunity for him because
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  Speaker 1: this is no longer just two defensive ends and a
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  Speaker 1: three tech and a nose tackle. They're looking at a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different stuff and he could fill a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different spots there on that line and play potentially,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he could potentially play as big a role
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  Speaker 1: as he as he can this fall. The opportunity is
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  Speaker 1: going to be there, and now e'ch a matter and
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  Speaker 1: he sees that opportunity. So that's one of the storylines
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  Speaker 1: we'll be talking about as we head into the final
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  Speaker 1: six practices of the spring, as we count down to
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  Speaker 1: the Spring game on Saturday, April eighteenth, of not looking
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  Speaker 1: at taking a look at the advanced forecast right now,
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  Speaker 1: but we're getting close enough that you have Tony Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Tony with the weather, Tony.
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  Speaker 2: Seventy two and cloudy right now, possible early rain in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, letting up by game time. So I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: right around eleven fifteen eleven forty five should start driving up.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go, So a perfect day, the
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerterman guarantee seventy two and no rain until you know,
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  Speaker 1: once the ball hits the foot, no rain whatsoever. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. If it's anything other than that, you
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to tomorrow,