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Ohio State vs. Missouri: 6 Big Storylines For The 2023 Cotton Bowl · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Friday, December twenty ninth. I'm your
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  host, tom Ore. The Cotton Bowl game against Missouri is today. The
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  game against Michigan in three hundred and thirty seven days. With the Cotton Bowl
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  game today, the last thing we got to do before we go to the
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  game today was talk to the Ohio State head coach Ryan Day the Missouri head
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  coach Eli Drinkwitz at the traditional day before the game head coach press conference,
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  and those guys had a ton of interesting things to say. In fact,
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  there was so much interesting stuff that there's going to be another show with some
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  of the more big picture things that we're asked about that you're going to get
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  to hear on Sunday. But for now, we're gonna be focused more on
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  the game today between the buck Eyes and the Tigers. First thing we're gona
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  be talking about helmet radios. Obviously, science stealing has been a bit of
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  a bit of a story this college football season, and with that in mind,
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  the folks that run college football said, all right, we're going to
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  change it up. You have the option to potentially use helmet radios starting with
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  bowl season this year. So are they planning to use them during the game
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  either team later on tonight. You're gonna hear actually from both coaches. First
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  from Ryan Day. This had a discussion about it, and I think we
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  both agree I don't want to speak to you alive that down the road.
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  It makes a lot of sense, but to try to with everything going on
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  right now, to try to manage a game without having done it all season,
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  we felt like there's probably something we want to have a spring practice and
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  a preseason to work through because the unintended consequence for something new, a new
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  variable. I don't know if you want to have anything of that. Yeah,
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  I mean this Simber's got enough challenges for us. To try to figure
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  out how to communicate on the sideline and get the communication in was just something
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  that didn't make a lot of sense for us. And so you know,
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  coach Day and I have a good working relationship and made a call and decided
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  that that made the most sense for us. There are a lot of very
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  interesting storylines for tonight's game, but the biggest one for probably most people is
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  the fact that Ohisted has a new starting quarterback. His name is Devin Brown.
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  He has not started a game before but he's gonna be doing it on
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  national TV primetime New Year's six goal game against the top ten opponent. No
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  pressure, kid. So how has this year, in the quarterback battle that
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  Devin Brown went through over the summer and all the trials and tribulations and up
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  and ups and downs of that whole year, how has that helped prepare him
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  to now be the starter for tonight's game. I think Devin has always had
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  his mind that he wants to get on the field. He's been competitive since
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  the day he stepped on campus. I know he's looking forward to playing in
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  this game. I think he's also seen big games. He's been around it.
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  You know, he's seeing a couple of different quarterbacks play ahead of him,
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  so he knows what the preparation looks like. And you know, he
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  was right there with with Kyle in the preseason. We talked about this before
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  and and then you know, got him in a little bit in the you
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  know, a couple of the games just to kind of get his feet wet.
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  And then you know, he got hurt in the Penn State game,
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  and so we weren't able to get him in the game as much, but
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  we were ready to put him in the game, you know, a few
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  times season and he saw him play a little bit. But now now he
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  guess it gets an opportunity to play a whole game. And so I mean,
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  he's he's prepared a high level and the guy's believe in him because of
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  what he's done the last few weeks in practice. One of the big technically
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  unanswered questions right now is will Marvin Harrison play or not in the Cotton Bowl.
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  He didn't practice either of the days that we got the chance to watch
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  practice, so that obviously is sort of suggestive of the fact he is not
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  planning to play. They would not comment one way or the other. He
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  said, that's really there, and you know, up to the players in
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  terms of who announces whether they're playing or not. That's not his job,
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  so he wouldn't talk about that. But either way, whether Marvin Harrison plays
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  tonight or not, what is his legacy at Ohio State? Marviv's been a
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  pro ever since he stept in our building and it started, you know,
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  everyone wants to talk about his dad and everything like that and what he's done
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  and being a Pro Football Hall of Famer, and he certainly did a great
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  job raising his son with his mom. But Marvin's his own own man,
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  and he had big shoes to fill. He's got his father's name. But
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  from the minute he stepped in our building, you knew that he was going
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  to be a pro. You know, the hours and hours and hours he
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  spends on that jugs machine, the hours he spends in the film room,
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  the way he takes care of his body, everything about it has been a
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  pro his professionalism. I mean there's been times where after a game, I'll
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  come over to the facility and maybe he you know, it wasn't even to
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  drop pass. He's in the facility after a game hours catching the ball,
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  going over that same one again because it didn't get right in the game.
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  And I think that legacy that he's leaving behind to the younger players is tremendous.
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  And you know, I think it's it's been said publicly, so I
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  don't think I'm putting him out there. But when you ask him what do
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  you want to do in football? He says, I want to be the
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  best receiver to ever play the game. WHOA. I know your habits have
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  to reflect that they do, and that's what special. But Marvin, when
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  you were in a college football ball game that is not part of the college
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  football playoff. There's always a little bit of a you know, a little
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  bit of an eye towards next year. Sure, you want to finish this
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  year on a strong note, but it's also a chance ball practice, ballprep,
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  even the ball game, a chance to get some of the younger guys
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  a bigger role on the team to sort of start getting them ready for next
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  season. So if you're Ryan Day, how do you balance getting some of
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  those guys reps potentially in the game tonight with all of the other factors You've
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  got to consider, Well, we want to win the game. That's the
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  number one thing. So we were going to go in and do everything we
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  possibly can to win the game and then go from there. But there are
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  going to be some opportunities for guys to take on new roles in this game,
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  you know, different than has been the season. So excited for them,
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  and we've seen that before. You think about the Rolls Bowl a couple
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  of years ago, where you know, Marvin Meck went into the game and
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  you know, did a great job that freshman year and it really built momentum
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  into the offseason for them. So both both I mean, I think,
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  you know, guys are going to play and we're going to win the game,
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  that's the number one thing. But at the same time, you know,
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  opportunity for some younger guys to get in there and build some momentum for
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  their future. Speaking of ways that this game could impact to the twenty twenty
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  four buck guys, how much does this at this game and what Devin Brown
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  looks like the field later tonight, how much is that going to impact the
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  plan for the quarterback room in twenty twenty four. Does that mean, you
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  know, a great game and then they're not going to even think about going
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  in the portal if he has a bad game? Does it mean they're definitely
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  gonna gouin the portal? Is that going to change whether there's a truly open
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  competition between the guys currently on the roster, what how does is this going
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  to be a one game that has a lot to do with twenty twenty four
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  and the decisions there, or is this kind of one piece of a much
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  bigger picture. Well, I know that you know, everybody in this game
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  has got an opportunity to build some momentum for next year, and you know
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  Devin's exactly in that situation. This is exactly what he wanted. He wanted
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  this opportunity, and and so he's taken, taken and run the last few
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  weeks. And I think the guys on a team, uh feel it,
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  they feel his presence out there, and so this is this is what a
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  great opportunity from to do that. And you know, we'll, well,
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  once the season's over, we'll kind of you know, figure out, you
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  know, where we're at with everything. But as of right now, I
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  mean, he's our quarterback and we're moving forward, and you know, this
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  is a great opportunity for him to go build more confidence with the guys around
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  him as we had in the next season. So that's a little little bit
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  about how this game will impact the Buckeyes and Devin Brown. But how about
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  Missouri? Tony Gerdaman asked a really interesting question of Eli Drinkwitz. Is preparing
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  for a game when you're facing a quarterback who only has a little bit of
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  game film. It's only throwing twenty two passes all season, So is preparing
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  for a quarterback who really you don't have a lot of film to go off
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  of. Is that easier or is that harder? Because there's just so little
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  to base your scouting report on. You know, as soon as it was
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  announced that Devin was going to be the starting quarterback, we pulled every one
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  of his plays to watch it. And that was probably a big mistake because
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  it shows the diversity of things that he can do. And then, understanding
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  Coach Day's past and Coach Hartlines passed, you realize that there's such a idea
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  of things that they'll be able to adapt and make this offense go with his
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  skill set. So it'll it'll be a challenge. We'll be reactive, you
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  know, we'll have to react to see what his style of game plan is.
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  I was hoping he would tell us today, but y'all ben't asking those
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  questions. So we'll figure it out. You know, I think the one
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  thing about Blake in his style of defense is you know, we have the
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  ability to create with with our defense and our odd front, we have the
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  ability to get into heavy personnel if they go heavy and try to establish the
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  run. So we'll just have to figure out what style of game it becomes
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  and then react to it. But you know, like Coach said, their
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  quarterbacks very talented. He throws the ball very well, runs it very well,
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  and you can tell that he's very good as far as leadership. I
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  was hoping that he would give me a speaker to but didn't. I didn't
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  see that in my locker. So well, those guys were both very very
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  interesting to talk to. A lot of really interesting stuff that came out of
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  that press conference. We're going to be having another show, as I mentioned,
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  a couple of days from now. Tomorrow show obviously got to be about
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  the game, but the show on the thirty first on Sunday, you're gonna
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  be hearing much more from those guys about a lot of kind of bigger picture
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  topics, including the twelve team playoff next year, potentials, changes to the
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  college football calendar, chip Kelly's idea about splitting off the top teams into a
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  whole separate division, a lot of really interesting stuff. So we're gonna lets
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  you let you hear from those guys again in a couple days because there was
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  a lot of good stuff, and frankly, it's just going to get lost
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  if we do it today, so you'll hear it from that in a little
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  bit. But also before before we get there, there is a football game
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  happening in Arlington, Texas. Tonight starts at eight o'clock, a little little
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  after eight o'clock Eastern time. We will be there. You can find this
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  at YouTube dot com, slash Pucket Huddle at pucke Huddle dot com. Kevin,
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  Tony and I cover in the game. We'll have our usual postgame show
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  for you live as soon as the game ends. Playerre's gonna be a lot
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  to talk about. There's going plenty to plenty to discuss you. I have
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  a lot to talk about I'm guessing about the quarterback position, a lot to
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  talk about the Buck guys on the whole, and then we'll find out all
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  sorts of NFL draft decisions and all that coming up in the next couple of
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  weeks. So it's going to be an eventful January at Buckeyhuddle dot com,
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  so make sure you join us there. That will do it for today.
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  Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We will
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  talk to you tomorrow.