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Is Devin Brown Prepared To Be QB1 At Ohio State? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, December fourteenth, I'm your host,
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  Tom or the Cotton Bowl game against Missouri in fifteen days, the game
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  against Michigan in three hundred and fifty two days. When the buck Eyes played
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  that Cotton Bowl game against Missouri, they are going to be doing it with
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  a new starting quarterback. Tom McCord, who started all twelve regular season games
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  for the Buckeyes, now in the transfer portal and looking for a new home.
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  As of the time of recording, he does not have that new home
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  just yet. But while Kyle McCord is gone, Devin Brown is still it
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  at Ohio State. And Devin Brown is the presumptive starter for the Cotton Bowl
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  game. That has not been made official yet, but he was number two
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  behind Kyle McCord all season long. Seems like he is most likely the one
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  who is going to be stepping up and taking that start for the Buckeyes in
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  Dallas. So today you're going to be hearing directly from Devin Brown. He's
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  obviously sort of the man of the moment. You've not heard a lot from
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  him this year, especially since going back to the summertime. So we're going
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  to let you hear a little bit from him some of his thoughts on the
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  transfer crowd mcordar his new role as the presumptive starter, his new role as
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  a potential bigger team leader than he has been previously and much more so.
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  Let's start with just are things different now with Kyle McCord gone and Devin Brown
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  really just not having to look over his shoulder and knowing that he's most likely
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  going to be QB one. Yeah, definitely, I think I mean,
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  all yeah, I've always prepared like I was a starter. I mean it's
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  definitely different knowing you're getting a lot more reps because it's not split up or
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  anything like that. So yeah, like you said, there's there's nothing to
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  look over my shoulder for or anything, just to go out and have fun
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  and play my game. Has Devin Brown taken on a bigger leadership role now
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  now that he's kind of the presumptive quarterback and the presumptive leader, you know,
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  have things changed there for him? Yeah? I mean they've had to
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  change, just because, you know, from Kyle being the guy you know,
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  to me having to step up as a leader again and gain the trust
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  back at these guys and show them that you know, I still was the
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  leader to how I was in the summer before you know, the season started
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  and everything. So it's good getting back in there. After Kyle McCord announced
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  his transfer, the Buck guys were rumored to be looking at some in the
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  transfer portal to potentially supplement that quarterback room, and Devin Brown tweeted out with
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  no context, just a picture of a historical event about Cortes burning his boats.
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  There's a whole long stir with that, but it basically it just means
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  you burn your boats, You're there, You have nowhere to retreat to.
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  You are where you are, and that's where you're gonna stay. So what
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  does the idea of burning the boats mean to Devin Brown? I mean,
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  there's one thing that I've always said is I'm a competitive guy and that I
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  would like to go out and compete. So it doesn't matter what's going on,
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  I'm always just gonna, you know, sink all my chips in it
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  here. That's why I came. It was to be the best I can
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  be here. Well, the departure of Kyle McCord bumps Devin Brown one rung
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  up the ladder from two to one. It also bumps Lincoln Keenholes up the
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  ladder from three to two. He is now QB two. We're sort of
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  assuming. So with Lincoln keen Holes now taking on more snaps and a bigger
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  role, how has he pushed things in practice for Devin Brown? Lincoln is
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  just trying to get himself better. You know, he's a really good athlete
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  and he's doing everything he can. Just says, I am, you know,
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  to be the starter. So he's going to keep working. You know,
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  we've been together in the film room and in the weight room together,
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  so it's good to compete. Still, there was some question but just how
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  excited the Buckeyes were going to be to be in the Cotton Bowl, especially
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  coming off a loss to Michigan and missing out on the college football playoff.
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  Jack Sawyer made things pretty clear when he spoke a little French earlier in the
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  week. If you missed that quote, you can find that that's one of
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  our previous shows. But how exciting is it for Devin Brown to now be
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  in a position to be the guy for this game? I mean, I'm
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  pumped. I mean I can't believe my first start is going to be,
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  you know, in the cotton ball. It's a big stage against a really
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  good team. It's a top ten matchup, and I'm just excited to go
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  out there and show what i can do. Brown spent this much of the
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  season on the sideline watching Kyle McCord play, watching mccayal McCord b QB one
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  at Ohio State. So what did he learn from Kyle McCord when he was
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  here? I mean, Kyle went through a lot. He went through a
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  lot, and I feel for the guy there. There was a lot of
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  tough moments and he he grew throughout his career here and build as a leader
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  and built as a player, and being able to sit behind him and watch
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  him grow really helped me look back and kind of think the things I should
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  work on and go from how you know he was doing his things. Mentioned
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  earlier, there were reports that ohiosed it was looking at some other quarterbacks in
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  the portal, will potentially add them for the twenty twenty four season. How
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  does that impact Devin Brown and his plans for the future. I mean,
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  my focus is on being the starting quarterback at a HOSTI I mean, I've
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  never cared about who was in the room or anybody that was coming. I
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  mean, that's kind of one of the main reasons was the whole burn the
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  boat things. I don't care. I'm going to compete and do what I
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  can do. Brown missed a bunch of time this fall with an ankle injury.
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  He said his ankle is all better now, he's good to go.
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  But when that ankle injury first happened, was he concerned that that might be
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  a long enough term thing to really end his season. Yeah, I mean
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  when it happened, it kind of caught me off guard, and it obviously
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  are pretty good and then I was just doing everything I could to come back.
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  I mean, I felt I was feeling really good and then kind of
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  retweaked it again in warm ups. It was stupid how I did it just
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  kind of got caught and twisted it weird. But there was never thought of
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  I'm going to be out for the season. I felt like I was able
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  to come back. Devin Brown and Calm McCord were locked in a quarterback competition
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  all spring and all summer before Kyle McCord ultimately won the job. So what
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  did Ryan Day tell Devin Brown about what he liked and what he felt like
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  He still needed to work on as that quarterback battle was sort of shaken out.
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  He felt like my leadership and energy was was very good. I felt
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  like I kind of bring an energy to the team, especially when I'm playing
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  that you know, I feel like I can rally guys around me. So
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  that was definitely a positive. But just staying consistent and not trying to,
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  you know, get out of my game and just taking everything and being routine
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  with everything. Talked earlier a little bit about Devin Brown and his leadership and
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  his energy that he's supposed to be bring into the team, and that could
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  be pretty important now as the team tries to bounce back from the lost of
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  Michigan to face Missouri and the Cotton Bowl. Yeah, I mean it's huge.
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  I think for a lot of guys. People are trying to figure out
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  what they're doing, if they're going to the draft or not. You know,
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  you got guys going to the portal, all types of things. So
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  it's a lot of having people having individual thoughts. So having to be that
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  glue and kind of by and everybody back together is my main focus right now.
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  After that quarterback battle got settled earlier over the summer, it was pretty
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  clear Kyle McCord was going to be QB one, especially after the first couple
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  of weeks of the season. So how did Devin Brown stay prepared throughout the
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  season knowing that Kyle McCord was going to be the starter for the rest of
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  the year. Yeah, I mean I treated every week like I was going
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  to be the starter and that I was going to play in the game.
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  So, you know, whether it was watching film with Coach Fitch or watching
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  film with Tristan, I took everything like I was going to be the guy.
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  That seems like that would sort of be a challenge, doesn't it,
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  always being prepared to be the starter, always knowing your one snap away potentially
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  from being a starter. But day, day after day, and game after
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  game and week after week, you're still the second guy in the line.
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  So how hard is it to maintain that constant state of readiness after you are
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  sitting in that second in line for quite a while. Yeah, I mean
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  it's kind of hard knowing that, Like a lot of times, you know
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  it's not going to be the payout that you want it to be, but
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  you know, you never know what's going to happen. It could be a
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  situation you know, that's Kyle Tard or something, and I'm back in there,
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  So I just had to cheat everything the same. The job of a
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  college quarterback, and especially a quarterback at Ohio State, has been at the
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  center of the spotlight for years and decades now. But things have definitely changed
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  a little bit in the game of college football over the last few years,
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  and that has only made this spotlight shine brighter for good and for ill on
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  the people who are in the quarterback position at schools like Ohio State. So
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  what is it like to be a high profile college quarterback these days? Yeah?
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  I was talking about this some of the coaches the other even Tristan like
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  he was four years late to all this nil stuff and everything. But it's
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  a completely different world. It's a completely different game. I mean, it's
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  really kind of turned to the NFL. It's wild. Well. Brown has
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  been sort of waiting in the wings and sort of being at the ready as
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  QB two for Ohio State this season. What has he been working on this
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  year to get better to be ready for this moment. I feel like one
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  of the biggest things was consistency. I feel like there's definitely still things I
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  could work on but I feel like being more consistent with my plays and understanding
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  what's really going on with the play has been the biggest thing. We've obviously
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  talked to a bunchbuck Kyle McCord who has now left, and Devin Brown,
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  who's the presumptive starter for the Cotton Bowl, and even a little bit about
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  Lincoln Keenhols, who is presumably going to be in the quarterback battle for twenty
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  twenty four. But there's another scholarship guy in that Ohio State quarterback room that
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  is former Oregon State quarterback and current Ohio State backup Tristan Jebbia. So what
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  kind of resource has Tristan Jebby have been for Devin Brown, who started his
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  college career after Tristian Jebbia had already been on college at a college campus for
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  years and years. Tristan's really like a best friend and a personal coach.
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  I mean every day I'm out here doing stuff with them on the field or
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  in the film room. And he's been in college for seven years now,
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  this is seventh season, so he's got a lot of wisdom and I'm trying
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  to get him to come back for an eighth year to t help me out
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  even more. Being the quarterback at Ohio State obviously has lots of pros to
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  it and lots of benefits, and now with nil even maybe more than before.
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  But of course there are also some cons as well. If you have
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  the audacity to lose one game, well some people on social media might let
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  you know that you have really failed them and let them down. So how
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  if you were the quarterback at Ohio State do you deal with all the pressure
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  and all the stress of social media and the expectations of being the guy at
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  Ohio State. That's something kom a Cord had to deal with all fall and
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  now with Devin Brown being the guy, it's something he's going to have to
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  deal with moving forward. Yeah, I mean, that's why you come here,
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  is to be at the top of the pedestal, you know, and
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  be in front of all these eyes. That's why Ohio State is. So
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  there's going to be both sides. Good are bad, and that's just kind
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  of the nature of it. But at the end of the day, what
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  truly doesn't matter what what other people's opinions are of you. All that matters
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  is what your team thinks and what you feel. The buck guys have a
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  few more practices in Columbus before they wrap things up early next week, head
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  out for a couple of days to enjoy some time with their families, and
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  then they'll be down in Dallas on the twenty third of December to start their
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  Cotton Bowl preparations. Will be down there just a couple of days later,
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  covering practices, covering interviews, all that good stuff for you at Buckeye huddle
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  dot com. Should be a lot of stuff to talk about. We are
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  also less than a week from early Signing Day that is on next Wednesday,
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  the twentieth, and we a lot to talk about there, as well as
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  the Buckey's look to add a couple more commits and hang on to a few
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  of their commitments right now who are being targeted for flips by some other schools.
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  Transfer portal also very alive, very active. Some Buckeye is still making
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  decisions on their futures in terms of playing in the Cotton Bowl and whether they'll
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  declayer for the NFL Draft. There is a lot going on right now,
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  one of the busiest times of year, which is crazy because there's no game
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  going on right now, but it is one of the busiest times of year
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