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BONUS: Ryan Day Breaks Down What's Next At Quarterback · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, time for a bonus show. And man, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: has there been a lot to talk about around the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State football program this week? Buckeyes had the week off.
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  Speaker 1: No football game this weekend, which typically means, okay, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a quieter week. Not this year. The
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  Speaker 1: Julian Sane news, the who's going to be the new
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  Speaker 1: quarterback news. There was a ton to talk about this week.
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  Speaker 1: We get a chance to talk to Ohio State head
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  Speaker 1: coach Ryan Day after practice on Tuesday. He had some
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  Speaker 1: interesting stuff to say. This is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: bonus show, letting you hear a little bit from Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have bonus shows with Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt
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  Speaker 1: Patricia and Ohio State offensive coordinator Arthur Smith coming up
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  Speaker 1: for you as well. You can just find those in
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  Speaker 1: the same feed where you're getting this one. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to start with Ryan Day, an update on the Julian
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  Speaker 1: Sane injury, the injury, the timeline to get back on
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  Speaker 1: the field, and Ryan Day is keeping things a little
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  Speaker 1: bit vague.
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  Speaker 2: First off, we're not going to put any timeline on
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  Speaker 2: his recovery, but he is out indefinitely. Um, and so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what we're trying to do is, is give
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  Speaker 2: Julian and his family, you know, the space and privacy
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  Speaker 2: to go through this process. And, but, but based on
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  Speaker 2: the nature of the injury, um, you know, we are
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  Speaker 2: putting together a plan for him not being available for
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  Speaker 2: the regular season and then also him not being available
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  Speaker 2: for the post season. Um, and so, you know, based,
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  Speaker 2: based on that and, you know, if, if he's not
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  Speaker 2: able to return, uh, this fall, then we, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're putting a plan together for that as well. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's, that's really the update I have right now. Again,
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  Speaker 2: out of respect to he and his family.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't want to put a timeline on anything, but
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  Speaker 1: what is the plan moving forward at the quarterback position
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  Speaker 1: for however long Julian Sane is going to be out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think going into the last, you know, few games,
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  Speaker 2: Luke's been ahead of Tavian in terms of what we've seen, but,
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  Speaker 2: but now that, you know, we have a bye week,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are both going to get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: reps and, you know, we're going to start to put
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  Speaker 2: together a plan on how we're going to move forward and, and,
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  Speaker 2: um we're going to play the guy that gives us
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  Speaker 2: the best chance to win um and so you know
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  Speaker 2: get both these guys some reps and and you know
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  Speaker 2: get an idea kind of how these next couple days
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  Speaker 2: go but based on what we've seen in practice you
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  Speaker 2: know the last you know month luke was ahead of
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  Speaker 2: tavian going into the game that's why he went in
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  Speaker 2: first um but you know now we have to kind
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  Speaker 2: of come up for air and put together a plan
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  Speaker 2: so we need both the guys to practice really well
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  Speaker 2: and prepare and understand that you know we're going to
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  Speaker 2: need them uh to to win a championship and shared
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  Speaker 2: with them and shared with the team, obviously the story of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when we won a national championship here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Cardell being the third string quarterback. So it's been
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  Speaker 2: done before and that's a challenge to them, but it's
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  Speaker 2: also a challenge to the entire team. Everybody needs to
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  Speaker 2: step up and do their part and upgrade across the board,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pick up the slack for, you know, losing Julian.
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  Speaker 1: When you hear about backup quarterbacks, especially they're not out
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  Speaker 1: there on the practice field that much. You hear coaches
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot about mental reps and preparing with mental
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  Speaker 1: reps during practice. What are mental reps? What does that
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  Speaker 1: actually mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we say all the time in order to
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  Speaker 2: be ready to play, to be a competitive excellence, you
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  Speaker 2: have physical reps and mental reps. That's how you do it.
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  Speaker 2: And the more physical reps you get, obviously there's no
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  Speaker 2: replacing that, but how else do you get there? It's
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  Speaker 2: mental reps. So it's it's a discipline that you have
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  Speaker 2: to stand in the back and you have to listen
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  Speaker 2: to the call and for now for the guys now
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  Speaker 2: they have the headset in their their helmet but it's
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  Speaker 2: for every position and you actually watch these guys body
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  Speaker 2: rep the plays and go through the plays in the
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  Speaker 2: background and you know see the read see the coverage
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  Speaker 2: you know recite the call in the huddle um and
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  Speaker 2: and that's how you get yourself ready to go perform
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  Speaker 2: in the game and it takes a lot of work
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  Speaker 2: um And then there's also the preparation, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: off the field. How many hours are we going to
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  Speaker 2: put in of film and preparation? There's not enough hours
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  Speaker 2: in the day. And so these guys need to live
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  Speaker 2: in here over the next couple weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that they can grade from practice film?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we evaluate what's going on in practice and
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  Speaker 2: who's actually going through the body reps of doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing when you watch, for instance, a lineman in
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  Speaker 2: the back going through and watching them take their steps
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  Speaker 2: and take their drop and go through it. You find
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  Speaker 2: them when they get on the field, they're actually doing
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  Speaker 2: their job well. They're moving fast. But it's an important
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  Speaker 2: part of the process of being ready to go play.
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  Speaker 1: Does the timeline of when they get Julian Sane back,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's a month from now, before the playoff, not
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  Speaker 1: until next season, does that change how they evaluate the
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  Speaker 1: guys who are the best options for them moving forward?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a guy who they need to lead them
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  Speaker 1: to the national championship now? Is it just a short-term thing?
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  Speaker 1: does that change that process of making that decision?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's where our mind is right now.
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  Speaker 2: And so putting that plan together is where we're at
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  Speaker 2: right now. And I think it's important for everybody. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be my decision. But Arthur is going to have
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  Speaker 2: some say in it. Billy's going to have some say
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  Speaker 2: in it. The coaches will have some say in it.
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  Speaker 2: You listen to the guys on defense, Matt Patricia, but also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the players, the receivers, the linemen, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot that goes with it, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback position. So, you know, it's obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a big decision, but, you know, we'll take a lot
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  Speaker 2: of input, but ultimately, you know, I'll make the final
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  Speaker 2: decision as we head into next week.
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  Speaker 1: You can read whatever you want to into his wording
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  Speaker 1: on sort of the process of evaluating Tavy and St.
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  Speaker 1: Clair and Luke Fahey this week and the likelihood of
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  Speaker 1: either one of them being the starter next week. But
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  Speaker 1: what is that decision sort of going to be like?
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  Speaker 1: How are they going to make that decision? And where
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  Speaker 1: is Tavian St. Clair's development right now, two years into
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  Speaker 1: his career?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just say because it's the bye week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if this wasn't a bye week, we'd have
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  Speaker 2: to roll right now. Kind of like in game, you
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  Speaker 2: got to make a decision. Luke went in the game
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  Speaker 2: and we were rolling. This gives us a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days to sort of get some reps and just come
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  Speaker 2: off rare just a little bit. But yeah, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to get this thing organized quickly. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: both guys will get some reps with the ones this
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  Speaker 2: week and, you know, we'll kind of evaluate it from there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is a challenge for both Luke and
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  Speaker 2: Tavian to step up in a big way. Um, the
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  Speaker 2: plan when both those guys came here was to play
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  Speaker 2: and here they are. And, you know, a coach can
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  Speaker 2: always say you're one snap away, uh, until it's real
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  Speaker 2: and it's, it's real now. And, um, and so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I say like, nobody cares, you know, the fact that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when someone goes down, someone else has got
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  Speaker 2: to step up and this is, this is an unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for them. And so they have to seize it, but, um, but,
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  Speaker 2: but now they, they got to press on and, and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have to perform at a high level. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's, that's what this is all about. We say,
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  Speaker 2: do your job, you know, and every, everybody, every, every
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  Speaker 2: position group has to be strong enough to do their
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  Speaker 2: job at a high level. And when that happens, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to win championships. Well, um, the challenge is set
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  Speaker 2: now for these guys to step up in a big
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  Speaker 2: way and play championship football at their position. And so, um,
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  Speaker 2: that's for both Luke and for Tavian.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Fahey came out of high school as just a
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  Speaker 1: three-star prospect. That is typically the kind of guy who
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  Speaker 1: is right at the bottom of the rankings of an
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state recruiting class. So, For him to go from
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  Speaker 1: there to being in a position to start this early
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  Speaker 1: in his career, what did he do to put himself
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  Speaker 1: in that kind of position?
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  Speaker 2: He's an extremely hard worker. He puts a lot of
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  Speaker 2: hours in. He's extremely competitive. He has a moxie about him.
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  Speaker 2: He has a competitiveness about him. We're always looking for
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks who are just obsessed with being great and I
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  Speaker 2: think when you get around Luke, you can quickly see
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  Speaker 2: how important it is to him. He puts a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work in. You see when he's there in the
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  Speaker 2: preseason or in the offseason, he's in here early with
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  Speaker 2: the receivers and just going through the scripts. You see
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  Speaker 2: him in the meeting rooms putting in a lot of work,
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  Speaker 2: learning the plays. When he steps in the huddle, he's
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  Speaker 2: got it. The linemen feel that. And, you know, Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: he was a little overwhelmed and drinking through a fire
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  Speaker 2: hose a little bit during that game. That's a tough
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  Speaker 2: spot to be in as a true freshman in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter like that. But even just being out there,
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  Speaker 2: you can see him escape the pocket and make that play.
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  Speaker 2: You can see a little bit of that in him. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he's got to find the speed of the game and
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  Speaker 2: settle in, which we can help him do. And then
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  Speaker 2: he just has a competitiveness about him that I think
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  Speaker 2: is pretty contagious.
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  Speaker 1: Here was a popular one on social media and on
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  Speaker 1: our YouTube shorts earlier in the week. Tim May asked
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  Speaker 1: about the amount of contact that Jeremiah Smith has been
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  Speaker 1: fighting through and whether things are maybe being referred to
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  Speaker 1: the conference office as potential teach tape for the Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten officials.
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  Speaker 2: I know they're being looked at because there's communication and
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  Speaker 2: has been communication. We have a process that we go
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  Speaker 2: through where We turn in plays to get reviewed and
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  Speaker 2: then we get feedback back from the Big Ten office
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  Speaker 2: and Tony and Bill. As you can imagine, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: going to advocate for my players. We turned in several
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  Speaker 2: plays in that game. Quite honestly, there was accountability taken,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, sometimes you feel like it's a day
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  Speaker 2: late and a dollar short. Uh, I think these guys
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  Speaker 2: are trying, I think, you know, they, they mean well,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean, uh, we know these are, these are
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  Speaker 2: big decisions that change people's lives. And, um, and so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're, we're going to keep working with them
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  Speaker 2: and keep communicating and just, um, I know that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to keep trying to do that as well, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: yet to say that sometimes it's not frustrating would be,
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  Speaker 2: would not be true. So, um, talking about Jeremiah in particular, yeah, he's,
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  Speaker 2: He's somebody that is different than most receivers in his
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  Speaker 2: size and his power. And when you see a photograph,
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  Speaker 2: it takes you back because you know you see what
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  Speaker 2: you see um so yeah i mean there's nothing we
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  Speaker 2: can do about what goes on in the past i'm
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  Speaker 2: not sitting here trying to bash anybody but you know
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  Speaker 2: you you guys saw it you see the pictures you
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  Speaker 2: see the film you know what's there and um so
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  Speaker 2: yeah i'm i mean hope isn't a strategy but i'm
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  Speaker 2: hoping it gets better because you know these are these
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  Speaker 2: are guys work hard and these are these are huge decisions.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Ryan Day was just sort of directly asked,
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  Speaker 1: is there any chance Julian Sane gets back before the
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  Speaker 1: end of the regular season?
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  Speaker 2: Right. Like I said, I try not to get into
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  Speaker 2: any kind of timeline on that. To think that that's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen is doubtful. But once I start getting
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  Speaker 2: into commenting, then I feel like I'm betraying the trust
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  Speaker 2: of the family, which I want to respect. But like
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  Speaker 2: I said, we're putting a plan together for the regular
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  Speaker 2: season and then for the postseason. And then If he's
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  Speaker 2: unable to return, then we have the plan in place
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  Speaker 2: and we'll kind of go from there.
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  Speaker 1: The football team will head out to California next week,
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