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Ohio State Spring Football: 3 Big Questions On Offense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, April eight. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom or the ball State game in one
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes will be back on the practice field on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday for practice number ten of the spring. After that
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  Speaker 1: they will be two thirds of the way through spring
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  Speaker 1: ball and also about a week and a half away
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  Speaker 1: from the spring game. Somehow, every year spring ball starts
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  Speaker 1: and we think, boy, it's going to be so long,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, like boom, spring games
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  Speaker 1: almost here. And guess what boom? Spring game is almost
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  Speaker 1: here more than almost here. Tony Gerdaman is here. He
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  Speaker 1: joins us from Buckeheuddle dot com. Tony, we got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about three questions left for spring ball, and this
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  Speaker 1: is we're going to focus on the offensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball here. And these are not necessarily questions that
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  Speaker 1: are going to get answered they're just sort of some
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  Speaker 1: lingering questions. Sometimes this time of year, it's who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the start quarterback. I don't know if there's
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  Speaker 1: anything that's that big a question this year, but the
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  Speaker 1: running back position overall has certainly been a question. This
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  Speaker 1: has been sort of a you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that there's even a specific question, more of a Jerry Seinfeld, well,
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  Speaker 1: what's the deal with the running backs? Because they're missing
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  Speaker 1: Bojacks in the spring, they're missing Isaiah West the spring.
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  Speaker 1: Legend Bay has been out the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan Day has expressed a little bit of just
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  Speaker 1: an overall is it a concern? Is it? Is? It
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  Speaker 1: just sort of uncertainty. It just it feels like they
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  Speaker 1: got to kind of figure that out. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that this is something they're going to figure out
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  Speaker 1: in the spring.
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  Speaker 2: And Turbo Rogers was out when we were there on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday as well, and I don't even know if we
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  Speaker 2: mentioned him at the time because there are so many
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  Speaker 2: other guys already out, and yeah, when you only have
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  Speaker 2: a third of your scholarship players available, it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: get everything established. And one one of those is a
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  Speaker 2: true freshman that you're probably expecting the red shirt and
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  Speaker 2: what exactly are you learning and what exactly are you establishing.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is is that o Jackson and Isaiah
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  Speaker 2: West played last year, but they were freshmen they could
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  Speaker 2: use this spring Ryan they laments the fact that they're
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  Speaker 2: not out there, So yeah, it's gonna be something that
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  Speaker 2: stays in flux until you know. Shoot, I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: took a while until the season last year before they
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  Speaker 2: knew what they were doing, and and it probably wasn't
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  Speaker 2: until the second half of the season when Isaiah West
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  Speaker 2: was actually playing and out there where they finally figured out, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go with these guys. So I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would expect it to be solved before November, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or late late October. But one thing we know about
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  Speaker 2: Carlos Laughlin is whatever happened the year before, don't expect
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  Speaker 2: the same thing to happen that next year. That that year,
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  Speaker 2: And don't don't press him on it because going back
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  Speaker 2: to twenty twenty five, it's like, Okay, coach Locke, who
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  Speaker 2: are your two guys? Who who's replacing Trevon Henderson and
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  Speaker 2: quinch On Judkinson. It would just irk him and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I've got an entire room to figure this out, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not just going to be two guys. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've got six guys now, who knows how many it'll be.
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  Speaker 2: And the unfortunate thing is they don't know either.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have six guys now, except they really kind
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  Speaker 1: of have like two or three guys right now. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it is a little bit of an open question
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  Speaker 1: and probably going to remain an open question to a
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  Speaker 1: certain degree going into fall camp. Another thing that I
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  Speaker 1: think we need to talk about that's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a question is how many of the young receivers,
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  Speaker 1: and we're talking about the true freshman and then the
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  Speaker 1: second year guys who came back after last year, how
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  Speaker 1: many of them are going to be able to contribute
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  Speaker 1: this year because it feels like you got a top
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  Speaker 1: four of guys who are either veterans from Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: or veterans they've added through the transfer portal, and then
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  Speaker 1: behind them you got four true freshmen. You got a
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  Speaker 1: couple guys who are red shirt freshmen, Des Jones and
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  Speaker 1: Philip Bell, and they can't all play. They just they
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  Speaker 1: don't have the reps available for them to all play,
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  Speaker 1: but also you know they're not all going to be
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  Speaker 1: ready to play. So I think one of the interesting
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  Speaker 1: questions is is there one more guy in that room?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, one of them has just lost as black stripe,
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  Speaker 1: But is there more than one guy who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be ready to play this fall that that is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of an open question to me right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've seen brock Boy be that one guy and
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  Speaker 2: have his black stripe removed and do well. When we
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  Speaker 2: were in there Saturday, Philip Bell was not available, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the guy that gives them versatility both inside and
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  Speaker 2: outside and has done well when we've seen him in
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  Speaker 2: the past. So it was unfortunately we didn't get to
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  Speaker 2: see him on Saturday. But a guy that who isn't
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  Speaker 2: just a slot, isn't just a slot receiver like maybe
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  Speaker 2: it does Jones is so could do more things perhaps
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  Speaker 2: and maybe where you have a vacancy, he could do that.
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  Speaker 2: And so those two guys, Des Jones and Philip Bell
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  Speaker 2: are fighting to stay ahead of the true freshman. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, Chris Henry is your prototypical X right behind
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  Speaker 2: a prototypical X in Jeremiah Smith. So I think we
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  Speaker 2: all expect Chris Henry to play some is it was
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  Speaker 2: it fifteen or twenty snaps a game. I went back
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  Speaker 2: and was looking at a Mecca book and Marvin Harrison
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  Speaker 2: and they were playing, you know, twenty snaps a game
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  Speaker 2: until it came to the big games and they were
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  Speaker 2: playing special teams or one snap. You know. So different
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  Speaker 2: games lead to you know, are on different levels. But
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  Speaker 2: you know you've got four and they need more. And
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  Speaker 2: this Spring is going to give them an idea and
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  Speaker 2: I think they went into it with already with an idea,
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  Speaker 2: but it's gonna, I think, confirm some things because it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to see like a rock boy doing this well
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  Speaker 2: and Chris Henry doing well and saying, yeah, they're a
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  Speaker 2: year away, like yes, they'll play it a year, but
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  Speaker 2: also why not now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they don't. They're a year away in that they'll
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  Speaker 1: probably have a bigger role a year from now, but
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to be a year away. And that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be something that probably gets determined in the
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  Speaker 1: next few practices. And then of course heading into fall
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  Speaker 1: camp another area where I feel like they probably came
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  Speaker 1: into Spring with an idea of what they thought they
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  Speaker 1: might want to do, but where things have changed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit is on the offensive line, and there I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a decent idea what the best five
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  Speaker 1: might be. And you know, the answer there might change
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  Speaker 1: when Josh Padilla comes back after missing the spring again,
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  Speaker 1: but it feels like you have probably a halfway decent
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  Speaker 1: idea of what that starting five is going to look
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  Speaker 1: like in some form or fashion. To me, the more
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  Speaker 1: interesting question right now is how many guys are they
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  Speaker 1: going to feel like they can trust? And that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the big question there, because you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: your best five, You're going to line up your best
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  Speaker 1: five you're going to go with, but how many guys
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  Speaker 1: behind them do they feel that they could put in
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  Speaker 1: because that's going to change potentially some of the answers
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  Speaker 1: as to what happens if one of those starting five
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  Speaker 1: goes down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we know they feel good about Josh Padilla
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  Speaker 2: and Gabe Van Sikel, right, but those are two inside
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  Speaker 2: guys and Gave Van Sickle started the Bowl game and
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  Speaker 2: Josh Padilla has has been a veteran presence and a
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  Speaker 2: veteran backup can play center, went in and played well
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  Speaker 2: at guard. But what they don't have yet is that
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  Speaker 2: third tackle, because three of them are probably in your
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  Speaker 2: starting five. So who is that next guy in the outside?
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  Speaker 2: Guy that can step in and and I'm guessing probably
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  Speaker 2: if something were to happen to one of the tackle spots,
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  Speaker 2: you know, then it's let's just say it's Ian Moore
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  Speaker 2: and Philip Daniels at left and right tackle, and Austin
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  Speaker 2: Siraveld at right guard. If something happens to one of
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  Speaker 2: the tackles, boom, you've got Austin Siraveld out there. So
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  Speaker 2: but other than that, Carter Low gets to work rechid freshman,
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  Speaker 2: gets to work at right tackle with the twos in
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  Speaker 2: spring and gets to show if he can move into
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  Speaker 2: that crop, that group of players that can be trusted.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a lot to ask of a red shirt freshman,
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  Speaker 2: but they're going to see a lot and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to get better because of it, and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be interesting to watch. They know they've got
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  Speaker 2: guys on the interior that have played and that they trust,
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  Speaker 2: but they're if I and Moore is in the starting lineup,
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  Speaker 2: they're missing guys on the bench. They're missing backups who
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  Speaker 2: have that experience outside. So Carter Low is certainly getting
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  Speaker 2: some right now though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he definitely definitely an opportunity there. So there's just
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  Speaker 1: three questions. On the offensive side of the ball, Why
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  Speaker 1: did we do the offense? Well, because guess what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be doing a little bit later on on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be talking to a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. Get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Tim Walton, Matt Greery, Earl Little Jayalen McLain,
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  Speaker 1: Devin Sanchez, and Leroy Roker. Those guys will all play
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  Speaker 1: part of our interviews starting an eleven a m. Will
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  Speaker 1: stream at least some of those live. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: the setup is. Sometimes we get about half of those
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  Speaker 1: guys on the live stream. We'll have all those interviews
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  Speaker 1: for you at YouTube dot com slash Bucket Huddle at
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  Speaker 1: some point during the course of the day, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: have plenty more to talk about this week and then
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  Speaker 1: heading into Spring Game Week twenty twenty six, that is
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  Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday, April eighteenth. Always a nice day,
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  Speaker 1: a fun day. Early early look at the forecast is
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  Speaker 1: it should be a relatively warm day. Sometimes it's chilly,
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  Speaker 1: but generally they somehow they always luck out, and it's
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  Speaker 1: always somewhere in the sixties of the seventies to click.
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  Speaker 1: We're due for one of those again this year, so
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  Speaker 1: a lot to look forward to over the next few
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  Speaker 1: weeks and the next few months at bucke huddle dot
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  Speaker 1: com and at YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle. That'll
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  Speaker 1: do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow as