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How Soon Will Ohio State Name Its Starting Quarterback? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Wednesday, April twenty fourth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game in one hundred and twenty nine days,
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  the Gambians Michigan in two hundred and twenty days. We are continuing our wrap
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  up of the spring football season. Today, we're going to be letting you
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  hear a little bit more from Ohio State offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. You've heard
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  from Ryan Day already, you've heard from Chip Kelly already, you've heard from
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  Jim Knowles already. This cann be the the last little piece of that post
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  spring game interview session. There's a lot of good stuff from Chip Kelly.
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  So we're doing version number two of that show. Lots of new stuff,
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  including a bunch of stuff on the quarterback position and when they're going to be
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  naming their starting quarterback and all that kind of stuff. Really interesting stuff from
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  Chips. I think you're going to enjoy this one. Let's start that with
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  the running back position. You know what they've got with Trevan Henderson. You
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  know what they've got with Quinn John Judkins. What about the other three guys
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  still left in that room, James People, Sam Williams Stixon and TC Caffe.
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  What did Chip Kelly see out of those guys during the spring game.
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  Yeah, James really flashed early for me, not knowing again kind of let's
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  just take don't worry about what the background is, where they're from, who
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  they are, did this guy of this stars, this guy of that stars.
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  It's they're all Buckeyes and just how they do it. And I think
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  James has got really good feel and vision. He can hit things. I
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  thought Sam did some really good things today. TC is another guy who really
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  came along during the spring. And we're constantly talking in our staff meetings about
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  depth. We're very cognizant of the fact that the playoff situation has changed,
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  so you have to develop that depth. You know, used to be maybe
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  have a pair and a spare, it was what everybody says, but I
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  think you may have to have more than that. You know, you're talking
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  about sixteen seventeen games. You're really going to be tested that way. So
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  I was really happy with how those young guys. If we have come along
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  here in the fifteen training sessions that we've had, we are now more than
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  a week and a half removed from that spring game, and still only two
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  Buckeyes have entered the transfer portal so far following that spring game. So Dallan
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  Hayden, we know he's going to Colorado. Cedrick Hawkins we know he's going
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  in the UCF. So that's that's the only two guys who go to the
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  portal. None of the five quarterbacks in the portal as of the time we're
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  recording this. So when did the did the coaches feel like they have to
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  need to, you know, let the quarterbacks know where they stand leaving the
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  spring so the guys, if they know they're really out of it, you
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  know, at least have the option they did the coach feel like they really
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  have to be clear on that communication. Yeah, we all sit down as
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  a staff and visit meat on it. And then Ryan, I mean,
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  he does an unbelievable job of I think all our players understand where they fit
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  and what the picture is, and we'll give them our assessment. This isn't
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  you know, we're not going to come back, but we do it.
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  After every day they know where they stood after practice, one, after two,
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  after three, after four, we grade everything. They're getting constant feedback
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  in terms of where we are. And then after fifteen, which we had
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  today. But we can't do it unless you watched the film and can can
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  really look at the the things because you may see something, but you're on
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  the sideline. You know, why did he make that decision? Well,
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  I couldn't really see the field safety from where he was. Okay, now
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  I understand why he made that decision. So you know what, they'll we
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  have meetings with all our players and that's that's always been the method. So
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  this week during you know, between Monday through Friday, we're all scheduled.
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  No one's going on the road to recruiting until after that, but we're we'll
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  all a player meetings at every position, you know, offensive line, defensive
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  line, linebacker, safeties, everybody. Everybody's gonna sit down with their position
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  coaches and know where they fit and where we see them now. Arguably the
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  biggest question involving the quarterbacks this offseason when do the coaches feel like they have
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  to know who that starting quarterback is or they need to figure it out now?
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  Do they need to Do they have time to figure it out in fall
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  camp? Do they need to? Can they wait right up until the week
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  of the game against Akron like they did in twenty fifteen. I didn't that
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  didn't work out all that well, so probably not quite that long. But
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  when does the coaching staff feel like they need to have that starting quarterback named
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  and what's going to determine who that is? Well, between now and whatever
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  then is we're not allowed as coaches to go back out and practice with them.
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  You know, in college football, you get fifteen training sessions in the
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  UH in the off season, and then they'll go back to working with Mick
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  in the in the weight room and getting bigger, getting faster, getting stronger.
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  They'll have organized activities themselves, and they do a really good job of
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  that, but once there's a football out, like, we're not allowed to
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  be there to evaluate and even assess. So they're really from a football stampinger
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  on their own until August. So you always want to do it earlier.
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  But I also believe every time I've I've been involved in this is that it
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  kind of happens organically and authentically, you know, because the players know.
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  And if you say, hey, we decided we're gonna be with Joe and
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  they all think it's tim you know, they know they're in the locker room
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  with them every day. Players, players understand, you know, who they
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  feel is the guy and and most of the time it it The decision is
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  very obvious, you know, when you just say, hey, this is
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  where we are with it. You know. But there's that timetable thing.
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  I don't. I don't. I can't give you an exact timetable on that.
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  So one of the big standouts this spring for the Buckeyes was true freshman
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  quarterback Julian saying he's probably not going to be the starter, but that's okay.
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  He seems like he is way ahead of where a lot of people were
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  expecting him to be before the start of the spring. So how long does
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  it take for the for the game just kind of slow down for a young
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  quarterback like Julian saying, I think it depends on the individual. You know,
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  I've had some kids where early, you know, you were like,
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  wow, Marcus Mariota was like that. I remember vividly second practice and he
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  got to the fifth reade in the progression and threw it out here in this
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  big game, and I asked him why I do it all? I asked
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  why because I just want to understand it. And they said, why did
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  you do that? And he goes, I don't know what we call that
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  defense, but there was like a lot of guys over there, and it
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  didn't seem like there was anybody over there, but for him to process at
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  that file and he was right. And he came back the other day and
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  that was cover six. The other day, coach, I learned what you
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  called the coverages. But it all happens differently. I've got guys that for
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  two years seem like they're just you know, they're really struggling, and then
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  the light bulb goes off and you go, WHOA, Like they got it.
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  So everybody has different learning styles. You know. Our job in the
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  evaluation process is to identify those learning styles. So you know, they a
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  cognitive learner, they an auditory learner? You know, do they do they
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  learn by feel? Is it is it? Is it more a feel guy?
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  You know, a more film guy. You know, it's all different,
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  and I think we have to keep poking and prodding in and for us
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  as coaches, that's the challenge too, is what is their best learning style
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  and how can we convey it? Because education basically is just a transportation the
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  knowledge. But it really doesn't matter what I know or what Ryan know as
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  it matters what they know. So that's that's always kind of what we're working
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  on and studying and thinking about and kind of where we are and how much
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  can they handle? And then how much is too much? You know,
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  because this may be a great play, I agree one hundred percent, But
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  if he don't feel it's a good play, then then why is it in?
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  You know what I mean? And that's that's this whole feeling out process
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  that we're all they're learning us and we're learning them. So it has been
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  a few years since Ohio States starting quarterback has really been a let's say,
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  a good runner just in fields. Obviously, was that cjs drid really didn't
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  run a lot. Commic Cord really didn't run a lot. All five of
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  the quarterbacks on the roster right now, they can all run at least a
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  little bit. So what is your Kelly like about having running quarterbacks? Yeah,
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  I think a running quarterback causes problems for a defense. So when when
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  plays break down, the unscheduled plays, you know, if you just go
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  back to the recent Super Bowl, on that last drive, the two big
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  plays were Mahomes run. But Patrick Mahomes is not a runner. Andy's not
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  calling design quarterback runs for pat. But when the defense matches up and plays
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  two man and turns their back to the quarterback, well, maybe the best
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  decision is to take off. You know, the second one he took on,
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  I'm like, he may score. You know, a lot of guys
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  go and they want to hook side, you know, and there's times where
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  you have to understand if you do have a running quarterback, and we talk
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  about the best of it, the best ability is availability. You know,
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  you're not lowering your shoulder and taking people on. But we are always looking
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  for quarterbacks that have the ability to run. We're not looking for running backs
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  that can throw, you know, so you're not gonna see us twenty times
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  a game. We're running the quarterback and there are people that run it offensive
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  styles and are really successful with it. But with this group we have right
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  now, that's not now. They can hurt you with the feet. Will
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  did it when he was at CA State. You know, obviously Devin took
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  off a couple of times today, Air took off a couple of times today.
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  Lincoln's a really really good athlete. Julian can run. But you know,
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  we're not calling design quarterback runs you know you're not going to see.
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  You know, a tremendous amount of respect for coach Hayes and the legacy that
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  he left here. This straight t is about as far as we go.
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  We are not going single wing, so we are not going to snap it
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  and run quarterback ice own quarterback power. So but it is a it's another
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  weapon, you know, and if it also keeps defenses honest. You know,
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  if your defensive end is going to continue to bend, then the quarterback
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  pulls it and he's on the edge and he's gaining first downs, well,
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  then the defensive end has to stay outside and contain the quarterback. Well,
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  then we can run the ball up and hand the ball off. Sometimes in
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  our running game, our quarterback really is a blocker. He's responsible for a
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  defender. If the defender is cheating and fitting in on the run, well,
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  then his responsibility is to make the defense be honest. And that's really
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  Air did that a couple of times today and we had a block. The
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  safety was sticking his face in there, so we took off around the edge.
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  What happens the next play the defense is wider, then what do we
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  get to do? We get a chance to hand the ball off to the
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  running back. That'll do it for today. I really do enjoy hearing Chip
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  Kelly talk about football. Has some interesting insights and some interesting thoughts on a
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  lot of different things. So hopefully you guys enjoyed that one as well.
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  We'll be back with another episode of course tomorrow. Have new episodes of the
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  Buckeye Weekly podcast this Say this week as well. Lots of stuff to talk
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  about around the Ohistate program, potentially the transfer portal, potentially some recruiting noise
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  news coming, all sorts of fun stuff. We're talking about that all as
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  well at bucke Huddle dot com. That's where Tony, Kevin and Ike over
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  the team Mark covers recruiting, where our whole team of ex's nose guruz making
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  you a smarter football fan all at Buckeye Huddle dot com. Th Loop for
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  today, Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  We'll talk to you tomorrow.