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Ohio State Football: Are The Buckeyes Close To Naming A Starting Quarterback? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Tuesday, August twelfth, Im'm
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  Speaker 1: dot com. When that Texas game kicks off in eighteen days,
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  Speaker 1: who will be Ohio State's starting quarterback? We don't officially
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  Speaker 1: know the answer yet, but we might be a little
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  Speaker 1: closer to knowing who that answer is. Joined by Tony
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  Speaker 1: Gerderman a bucke Huddle dot com. I know he's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be the starting quarterback, but we did get
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  Speaker 1: a very important piece of information over the weekend, which
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  Speaker 1: is the Buckeyes had their first scrimmage and then we
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to talk to Ryan Day on Monday
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  Speaker 1: to get some information out of him in terms of
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  Speaker 1: where things maybe stand. So just I guess, Tony, let's
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  Speaker 1: start with just some overall thoughts from Ryan Day in
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  Speaker 1: overall sense on where maybe things that are standing right
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  Speaker 1: now after that first scrimmage of the fall.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the key to keep in mind, one
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  Speaker 2: of the key things is they weren't going into the
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  Speaker 2: scrimmage looking to have a starter named. After the scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: they're still early in that process. It's getting later by
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  Speaker 2: the day, however, and then we know next the next
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  Speaker 2: week's Saturday scrimmage will be very key because after that,
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  Speaker 2: as Ryan Day said, it's not quite all Texas after that,
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  Speaker 2: but it gets to be pretty close. So right now,
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  Speaker 2: this is one of two scrimmages. They got to see
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  Speaker 2: what the players, what the quarterbacks did in game like
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  Speaker 2: conditions with ones and twos and basically like who you'd
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  Speaker 2: be playing with and playing against or not playing against,
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  Speaker 2: but a commensurate defense across the line of scrimmage. So
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  Speaker 2: it was a fact finding mission this weekend, and they'll
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  Speaker 2: have another, but right now they weren't in they weren't
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  Speaker 2: looking to name the starter. And Tom, I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: like coming into today into Monday's information, like you, at
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  Speaker 2: one point, at some point in every fall camp and
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  Speaker 2: there's a quarterback competition, you've got to decide. Am I
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  Speaker 2: going to pre write the starting quarterback story, So I
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  Speaker 2: did it. I didn't didn't plan on needing it, but
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to need it and not have it. So
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  Speaker 2: I was asking a few other people on the beat,
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  Speaker 2: so did you write yours? And one of them was
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of it that morning, and others like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not not yet too early, And because I think
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  Speaker 2: we all no nobody even if there is a leader,
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  Speaker 2: and Ryan Day isn't going to talk about a leader,
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  Speaker 2: even if there was a leader, this would be a
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  Speaker 2: little little early for the announcement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, before the start of fall camp. I think we
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  Speaker 1: had both sort of circled the same date on the
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  Speaker 1: calendar in terms of when we expected them to try
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  Speaker 1: to have an announcement. We'll get to that date a
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  Speaker 1: little later on. But you talked about this being a
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  Speaker 1: fact finding weekend. This is a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: fact finding press conference as well for the media, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I my sense is that everyone who's pre writing a
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback piece is probably pre writing the same person.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the reasons that I feel that way
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  Speaker 1: is it felt like one of the guys got asked
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  Speaker 1: about a whole lot more than the other guy, and
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  Speaker 1: that's you know what Ryan Day says, is you can
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  Speaker 1: learn a lot from that. What people you know who
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  Speaker 1: gets asked about feels like that's also generally pretty instructive
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  Speaker 1: in terms of where people are thinking this is this
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  Speaker 1: is sort of trending. And boy, it felt like there
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of questions about Julian, Sayan didn't there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, In fact, I don't know if there is any
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  Speaker 2: single question about Lincoln keenholds there are several just about
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  Speaker 2: Julian and several of course just about the quarterback battle
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  Speaker 2: as a whole. But when asked about Julian, some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that Day said, you know, where's he grown
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  Speaker 2: the most from say the spring to now is decision making,
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  Speaker 2: command of the huddle, which has been a big talking point,
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  Speaker 2: timing anticipation instead of reacting, and the more rehaps they take,
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  Speaker 2: the more improvement you want to see. And his quote
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  Speaker 2: was I think we're seeing that. And then he also
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  Speaker 2: talked about how these guys need to be professionals, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought one of the quotes was that was interesting
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  Speaker 2: A pro remember is because he's done it before a
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  Speaker 2: player is learning and they want their quarterback to be
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  Speaker 2: a pro. And he said Julian saying is remembering more
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  Speaker 2: now than ever before. So those are all very positive things.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you think back, how often has Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day been critical in a in a how how often
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  Speaker 2: has he been negative about quarterbacks in a quarterback battle.
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  Speaker 2: He won't always be effusive in praise, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: tea leaves that you have to read. But everything that
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  Speaker 2: he said about Julian Saying today is what you would
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  Speaker 2: want your head coach saying about your eventual starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we have both sort of felt going
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  Speaker 1: through the fall that this wasn't necessarily that there was
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  Speaker 1: a on of question in terms of who this starter
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  Speaker 1: was going to be. I think we both have sort
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  Speaker 1: of had the expectation that Julian Saying was ultimately going
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  Speaker 1: to be the guy, and that it was maybe more
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  Speaker 1: of a question of neither guy was quite where they
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  Speaker 1: wanted them to be going into the season. Because you
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  Speaker 1: don't have the luxury of Akron week one or Brambling
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  Speaker 1: Week one. You get the Texas Longhorns come into town,
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  Speaker 1: so you got to be ramped up pretty quickly. So
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  Speaker 1: the standard for what you need your quarterback to be
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  Speaker 1: week one is probably a little higher than it has
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  Speaker 1: been in the past. Did you get any sense? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds to me, based on what he's saying there,
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  Speaker 1: that's stuff that he wasn't necessarily saying two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: That to me suggests you're at least seeing one or
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  Speaker 1: both of these guys getting closer to that standard, even
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  Speaker 1: if they haven't necessarily crossed that finish line into congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: dropped the confetti. This guy's the starter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing that Ryan Day said today has me thinking
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  Speaker 2: there's no way an announcement is made next Monday. I
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  Speaker 2: still think that's very possible. And beyond that, there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: he said that makes me think this is going to
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  Speaker 2: go into week two or three like he did with
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  Speaker 2: Devin Brown, com A Cord. Even though col McCord started
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  Speaker 2: all of those games, it took a while before David
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  Speaker 2: finally like, Okay, Kyle's our starting quarterback. I don't envision
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  Speaker 2: that at all. And you know, if Lincoln would have
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  Speaker 2: been asked about in terms of his improvements like Julian was,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if that would finally get Ryan Day to
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  Speaker 2: talk about his quarterback ability rather than his athletic ability,
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  Speaker 2: which is something the first thing that everybody talks about
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  Speaker 2: is he's athletic and he can do a lot of things,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, well, can he pick up third downs?
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  Speaker 2: Throwing the ball? Can he check out of a bad play?
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  Speaker 2: Can he convert in the red zone? Because that's all
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  Speaker 2: more important than can he escape trouble or can he
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  Speaker 2: hit a curveball? And those are all nice little attributes,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, it's how well
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  Speaker 2: do you move the football? And we didn't really get
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  Speaker 2: a sense of where Lincoln is in that right now,
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  Speaker 2: and it's this is this is the biggest week for
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  Speaker 2: both these quarterbacks. I'd say, from from now until after Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: and then they get a break on Sunday and then
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  Speaker 2: we talked with Ryan. We'll talk with Ryan Day on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't be shocked if everybody already knows what Ryan Day
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  Speaker 2: is going to tell us on Monday, as Ryan Day
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  Speaker 2: said before, the locker room will know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean I think going into the spring,
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  Speaker 1: if we were going to do this like Clue style,
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  Speaker 1: where it's you know, mister Green with the wrench and
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  Speaker 1: the billiard room or whatever, I feel like, going into
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  Speaker 1: this the fall camp, we would have said Julian saying
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  Speaker 1: on Monday August eighteenth with the second scrimmage, Like, do
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  Speaker 1: you got the second scrimmage coming up on Saturday and
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  Speaker 1: then you're talking to Ryan Day on the following Monday.
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  Speaker 1: That has tended to be unless this is something that's
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  Speaker 1: going to really go into game week, and we have
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that happen in the past. Twenty fifteen went
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  Speaker 1: into you know, literally the trip down to Blacksburg and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't know who was going to be the starter.
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  Speaker 1: And twenty twenty three, as you mentioned, there was some
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  Speaker 1: you know, you was the same guy every game, but
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  Speaker 1: it was still a little bit of an open competition.
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  Speaker 1: This year, it has just felt to me like that
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of the traditional time that this would
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  Speaker 1: sort of be settled, and that if they had their druthers,
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  Speaker 1: this would be the time it would be settled. So
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  Speaker 1: that then you have a couple of weeks to go
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  Speaker 1: into the Texas game without having to you know, without
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  Speaker 1: having this sort of lingering and without him to split
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  Speaker 1: up the ones, the snaps of the ones. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: anything that makes you think that that's not going to
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  Speaker 1: ultimately be how this sort of sorts itself out. No.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Day recently said he said last week that
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  Speaker 2: he'd like to have the starter named with two weeks
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  Speaker 2: to go before the first game. That way you can
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  Speaker 2: get that guy ready, and with Texas on the horizon,
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody wants to know who the starter is
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  Speaker 2: and you get that guy named and then start building
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  Speaker 2: towards that. So even more now than say if they
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  Speaker 2: were opening up against Hawaii or you know whatever, like
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  Speaker 2: they the earlier you can name that guy, assuming he
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  Speaker 2: does well enough to be the starter, the better. And
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  Speaker 2: I think we're everybody that's going to go into the
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  Speaker 2: press conference on Monday, every outlet is going to have
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  Speaker 2: their Julian sand story pre written, and there's only going
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  Speaker 2: to be a couple couple of outlets, maybe one that
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  Speaker 2: will write Lincoln keenholds just in case, because I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that right now, nothing that we're hearing, nothing that
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing, nothing that we're you know, being told, is
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  Speaker 2: pointing to anything other than Julian saying, even though Brian
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  Speaker 2: Day the entire time is saying it's it's a two
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  Speaker 2: horse race, so we will.
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  Speaker 1: See where those two horses are a week from now. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the many stories we'll be following this week.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot to talk about on the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: as well. We'll be talking about that probably on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: on the Buckeye Weekly podcast, going to get his chance
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Kyler Bowen, and maybe some shuffling on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line with stuff we've been sort of talking
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  Speaker 1: through fall camp. Sounds like there could be some changes
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  Speaker 1: of foot there. We'll be talking about that with you
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  Speaker 1: to talk about there as well. I haven't even touched
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to talk about on there, so we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of fun stuff to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: That has been a hot topic there as well, So
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  Speaker 1: We hope you can join us there. That'll do it
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  Speaker 1: for today. Thank you guys, all for joining us, have
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  Speaker 1: a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.