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Cotton Bowl Insider: 5 Things We Learned Inside Miami Football Practice & Interviews · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Tuesday, December thirtieth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the Cotton Bowl game against Miami
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  Speaker 1: Tody Gerderman of Buckehetdle dot com. Tony, we just got
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  Speaker 1: back from covering Miami's media day. Miami's practice, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to oversell this. They were not exactly
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  Speaker 1: running red zone install while we were in there. But
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  Speaker 1: any takeaways from our time watching the Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this time in terms of how
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  Speaker 2: much practice did we get to see. I saw Carson
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  Speaker 2: back during the ball War, left handed, right handed. To
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  Speaker 2: give you an idea of exactly what we got to
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  Speaker 2: see today.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm hearing trick play.
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  Speaker 2: Trick play what we know, Malacha, Toni, and they have
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  Speaker 2: some trick plays there spots out for the rollout to
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  Speaker 2: the left, left handed from Carson Beck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was not even quite the stretching
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  Speaker 1: portion of practice. I think the portion that we got
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  Speaker 1: to watch you can kind of look at guys and
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  Speaker 1: just sort of see, is this team as big as
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. That's kind of essentially what we got to
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  Speaker 1: watch because we've covered games in the past where just
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  Speaker 1: at media day you kind of looked and went, oh,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, this is going to go badly. And I
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  Speaker 1: always think of the Rose Bowl that Ohio State played
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  Speaker 1: against Washington at the end of the twenty eighteen season,
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  Speaker 1: where you had Ohio State Media Day and then the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State players left and then a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: came in and it's like, is this a high school team?
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  Speaker 1: Like where are the other six inches of your height
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  Speaker 1: and you know, thirty pounds of your muscle mass And
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  Speaker 1: it was just kind of like, oh, this is not
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  Speaker 1: going to go well at all. And that game was
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight to three in the third quarter. I definitely
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  Speaker 1: did not have that sense with Miami. This is this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that looked, you know, this is not
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  Speaker 1: need you know, the height of the power is Nick
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  Speaker 1: Saban Alabama where it's like these these guys make Ohio's
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  Speaker 1: eight players look small. But it's also, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is not Hey, where's the rest of your team?
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  Speaker 2: No, And if you ever feel like if you're watching
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  Speaker 2: them and you're thinking, boy I was expecting a bigger team,
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  Speaker 2: just go look at the offensive line and like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's where they are. That's where where the big, big,
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  Speaker 2: big guys are. But yeah, you know you're looking and
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  Speaker 2: you know, as familiar with teams, so it's like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to assume this is a very young one and
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  Speaker 2: then this I'm gonna assume this guy maybe probably a
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  Speaker 2: walk on, and you're you're trying to piece it together.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, if you start wondering, like boy I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was expecting the defensive backs to be a little taller,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit this or that. Uh, and then you
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  Speaker 2: just go like the offensive line is Titanic, so it
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  Speaker 2: all averages out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know Maltachai Tony, you know, he's not
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  Speaker 1: very big. He's should still be in high school. I
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  Speaker 1: walk past him at one point and yeah, he is
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  Speaker 1: not very big, but you know, don't they don't generally
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  Speaker 1: send him over the middle to make contested catches in traffic,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you can sort of see why. But
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  Speaker 1: yet not not a lot to take away from the
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  Speaker 1: time in practice with Miami. We did get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to talk to a bunch of guys from Miami over
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  Speaker 1: the course of about forty five minutes or so. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to see more of that, we will have
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  Speaker 1: sort of some longer form interviews with guys like Carson
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  Speaker 1: Beck and Mark Fletcher and Reuben Bain up on our
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  Speaker 1: YouTube channel a little later on tonight. We also have
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  Speaker 1: a behind the scenes video of what it's like to
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  Speaker 1: be inside there. I think you guys really enjoy that one.
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  Speaker 1: That one's up already, so make sure you check that out.
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  Speaker 1: It's behind the scenes of Miami Media Day of the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl or something like that. Real clever title. But
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  Speaker 1: you came away from this you spent more time talking
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  Speaker 1: to those guys than I did because I was making
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  Speaker 1: them behind the scenes video. But you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: a team that comes across as a you know, you
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  Speaker 1: think Miami football. You think they're getting off the plane
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  Speaker 1: and fatigues and all that kind of stuff. Like, No,
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  Speaker 1: that is not really the vibe around this Miami.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not a very mature team, a very matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, not not cocky. I was asking several of
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  Speaker 2: them throughout just today and the day before. You guys
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  Speaker 2: are under underdogs. What goes through your mind when people
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  Speaker 2: will tell you that? And so many of the guys
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, it's Miami versus Miami, like we were
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  Speaker 2: going to play, you know, against our standard, that sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing. And they weren't really too concerned about that.
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  Speaker 2: But overall talking to can't they Scott and Rubin bain
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  Speaker 2: and a few others, even Malachi Tony, there is a
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  Speaker 2: very mature group. And Ruben Bainie we talked about the
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  Speaker 2: need to be mature, to ignore and avoid the distractions
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  Speaker 2: that living in Miami can bring. And Malachi Tony said
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  Speaker 2: that same thing where he knew he was going to
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  Speaker 2: play a bunch, but if he was going to play
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  Speaker 2: a bunch, he had to sacrifice things like that, and
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  Speaker 2: he pushed all those things aside. And Ruben bates and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's essential for people to do that when you
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  Speaker 2: get here, like you hear stories, but I think some
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  Speaker 2: of those stories are why Miami dropped off, Yeah for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, and this this group seems like they're
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  Speaker 2: more about football. Ruben Baine even said, is like football
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  Speaker 2: needs to be the most important thing for you while
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  Speaker 2: you're here. And I think for a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for two decades, it has felt like, and we
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  Speaker 1: have said at times over the last couple of decades,
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  Speaker 1: a guy goes to Miami and that's the last you
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  Speaker 1: hear of him. It's just okay, well he chose Miami
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  Speaker 1: in recruiting, and you know, then you might see him
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL as a backup in four years, and okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. This is a team and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of cases that was guys who were
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  Speaker 1: going to Miami for it not necessarily the right reason.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of Miami teams that were not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily football first. And this is a team that I
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  Speaker 1: think is a little bit more that way. It's also
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  Speaker 1: a team that has a lot of veteran leadership. This
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  Speaker 1: is not it's very rare to have guys who have
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  Speaker 1: played four seasons at the same school at this level
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  Speaker 1: of the sport. I think three guys on Miami's offensive
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  Speaker 1: line are at least fourth year guys. Carson Beck not
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  Speaker 1: four years at Miami, but certainly a veteran player, someone
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  Speaker 1: that's been around. He started in twenty twenty at Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, talking listening to him talk, he like
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  Speaker 1: he really has the veteran media presence down, not going
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  Speaker 1: to say anything controversial, had you know, lots of complimentary
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  Speaker 1: things to say about Matt Patricia's defense and they have
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  Speaker 1: to did defense and all that kind of stuff. Mario
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  Speaker 1: Christobal he was asked about his message to his team
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  Speaker 1: this week, and he said, we don't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. We don't talk about that outside the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was very interesting. Normally there's kind of
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  Speaker 1: normally you can kind of tell what the message to
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  Speaker 1: the team is in terms of what is coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth everyone else's mouth that week. That's the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that they're hearing in the locker room. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was very interesting. And the Crystal Baal he said
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  Speaker 1: it twice. I heard him say it at the podium
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  Speaker 1: once and I heard him say in like a smaller
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  Speaker 1: interview setting later, you know that that's basically for us,
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  Speaker 1: we don't talk about that outside.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing he's also talking about people are doubting you
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. Oh yeah, where that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: the message and how are you gonna Are you gonna
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  Speaker 2: let that stand? You're gonna allow that? Are you gonna
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're gonna back down. No, you're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: back down. So I think it's some of that where
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  Speaker 2: coaches don't like to talk about necessarily being underdogs or
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  Speaker 2: seeing that or hearing that outside outside noise. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to use that to motivate people, you're definitely
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  Speaker 2: not going to talk about it, you know. So I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if that's that's one of those things that that
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  Speaker 2: that he's doing there. I also talked to Keante Scott.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about him and people are sick of us
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  Speaker 2: talking about him. I'm sure he's Miami's nickelback. I asked him, like,
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  Speaker 2: what does it take, because you don't go to in
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  Speaker 2: recruiting if you're like, a, uh, you're a cornerback, right,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to play cornerback. I'm going to be a
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  Speaker 2: first round draft pick. I'm going to lot dudes down
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  Speaker 2: on the outside. And then you get to school and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, you know, we like you nickelback, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: what does that entail? It's like, well, sometimes you can
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  Speaker 2: defend a receiver. Other times you're gonna have to fit
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  Speaker 2: a run gap. What do you think about that? How
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  Speaker 2: do you feel about that? And he's like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it takes a certain buy and he said a lot
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  Speaker 2: of it is want to You've got to want to
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  Speaker 2: do it. And I asked Motore linebacker, what what enables
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  Speaker 2: him to do it? He's like, well, he's a brainiac.
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  Speaker 2: And then I asked Ruben made what enables him to
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  Speaker 2: do it? And he said, well, when he was a freshman,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a loose cannon. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: you have, yes, the brainiac to understand everything that you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: but the loose cannon mentality to do be like I'll
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  Speaker 2: do it. I'll do whatever you want, I'll do whatever
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  Speaker 2: it takes. And that's what he does. And he has
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  Speaker 2: this pride for the position now that I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of nickelbacks do, where you're asked to do so
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  Speaker 2: many things and it's like, yeah, but you're not a cornerback,
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  Speaker 2: and like it's looked down on, and like the position
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  Speaker 2: is changing and is becoming more and is one of
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  Speaker 2: the most important positions on the field. It because it
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  Speaker 2: allows you to do so many things, and he allows
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  Speaker 2: them to do so many things, the way we talked
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  Speaker 2: about Jordan Hancock last year Ohio States. Nickel allows you
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  Speaker 2: to do a lot of different things, and if you've
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  Speaker 2: got that guy, your defense is better because of it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to Bryce West, who is one of
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  Speaker 1: the backup Nichols on this year's Ohio State team, and
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  Speaker 1: it's talking about him about his role. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be able to sometimes I'm covering the
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  Speaker 1: outside receiver, sometimes I'm covering the slot receiver. Sometimes I'm
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  Speaker 1: covering a tight end. Sometimes I'm run support, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you're playing safety, and you've got to just kind of
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  Speaker 1: be able to do all that kind of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: requires being a brandiac. Probably doesn't hurt because you've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different roles that you've got to sort
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  Speaker 1: of know and understand. Anyone else that was.
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  Speaker 2: Talking to malc I Tony, I asked him, did you
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  Speaker 2: expect to play this much? And he said, yeah, Budd,
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  Speaker 2: he credits his teammates and coaches for getting him ready.
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  Speaker 2: I asked what's his favorite part about all of the
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  Speaker 2: different roles he has. He says, probably throwing the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So then I said, how much time in practice? You know,
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  Speaker 2: how much time do you ever just spent throwing the balls?
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  Speaker 2: I can practice none. Yeah, I'd never throw the ball.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that's your favorite thing, wouldn't you. Maybe, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: maybe if you worked at it more, you'd be better
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  Speaker 2: than four of six on the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, four four of six for how many touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: I know to drop in the end zone? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: could have been five of six or three touchdowns? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty good. I'm guessing that's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that he probably spends a lot of time working on
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  Speaker 1: outside of practice, but not necessarily in practice. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Some quick takeaways from our time inside Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Miami football practice and talking to the Hurricanes as well.
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  Speaker 1: We will be We've already talked to Ohio State players
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  Speaker 1: and we did a video on that earlier in the day.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, we'll have some reaction from Ohio State practice,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully more eventful Ohio State practice when we're over there
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  Speaker 1: a little later on then Monday afternoon, and then we
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  Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of listener questions from Miami fans.
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  Speaker 1: Tony has not letting me see them, So it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be. I am looking forward to that. That should be.
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  Speaker 1: It should be fun. We have definitely enjoyed interacting with
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  Speaker 1: Miami fans. It feels like the interactions have gotten more
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  Speaker 1: positive the further we have gone along in this process.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: S