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BONUS: Will Ohio State's Starting Quarterback Be Looking Over His Shoulder? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Got another bonus show for you. And we are once
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  Speaker 1: again talking about the quarterback position because man, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: is there a lot to talk about around the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: position at Ohio State right now? What about it? Luke
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  Speaker 1: Fahey was not really the prototypical Ohio State quarterback recruit. Generally,
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  Speaker 1: they're bringing in five-star guys or at least high four-star guys.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Fahey, he was just a three-star, really kind of
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  Speaker 1: overlooked a little bit. His height, 5'11, probably factored into
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit. But the USC Trojans, from just
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  Speaker 1: up the coast from where he grew up in Mission Viejo,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't really interested in Luke Fahey. Now they may
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to face him this weekend. So what
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  Speaker 1: was it about Luke Fahey that caught Ryan Day's eye
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  Speaker 1: during the recruiting process?
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  Speaker 2: I think you watched his productivity. You recognized what he
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  Speaker 2: did in terms of success. But then you saw his approach.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you got a chance to meet him,
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  Speaker 2: you saw what the makeup was, how he looked at
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  Speaker 2: the game. his mental approach was in line with what
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  Speaker 2: you saw on the film. And, you know, everybody's built
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different, but the mindset that he had
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  Speaker 2: was something that, you know, certainly attracted us to him.
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  Speaker 1: When you've got a little bit of a quarterback battle,
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  Speaker 1: or at least a publicly stated quarterback battle between Luke
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  Speaker 1: Fahey and Tavian St. Clair, how do you keep whoever
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  Speaker 1: wins that job from feeling like they need to look
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  Speaker 1: over their shoulder? I mean, it was just a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: battle after all. So how do you prevent them from
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  Speaker 1: feeling like, boy, I'm one mistake away from getting pulled
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  Speaker 1: off the field and maybe getting them to play a
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  Speaker 1: little more hesitantly?
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  Speaker 2: That's not going to be the plan. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want that happening. We'll put a plan together in terms
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  Speaker 2: of how we're going to approach that later in the week.
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  Speaker 2: But no, if we're playing, we're playing. And the number
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  Speaker 2: one goal is to win a game. That's it, period.
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  Speaker 2: So we can't have that. And I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: that'll be the case. But you just got to go play.
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to let your hair down and go
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  Speaker 2: find a way to win the game. But however it is,
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  Speaker 2: whoever we put in the game is going to be
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  Speaker 2: on the coaches. We trust you to put you in
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  Speaker 2: the game, and we know what you can do, and
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  Speaker 2: you've just got to go trust your training, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't let anything that happened in the last play
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  Speaker 2: affect the next, and that's something that for any player
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  Speaker 2: is important, but for a young player it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be critical, and I think that's something that as coaches
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  Speaker 2: we have to make sure that we emphasize going into
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 1: There was a point at which Ryan Day sort of
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  Speaker 1: left the door open to playing both quarterbacks. He was
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  Speaker 1: asked if he thought they might play both quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't say no. It didn't seem like that was
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  Speaker 1: necessarily the game plan, but he didn't say no. So
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  Speaker 1: does he at least plan to name a starter before
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  Speaker 1: game day?
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  Speaker 2: I just met with both, both quarterbacks and talked to
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  Speaker 2: him about, you know, this, this, um, this press conference
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  Speaker 2: was going to just kind of talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about how it's going to be important to have a
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  Speaker 2: good week. And, um, over the next couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll kind of decide, um, Whether we do
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  Speaker 2: it internally or publicly, I'll probably decide over the next
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  Speaker 2: couple days. But there's no reason to keep it secret.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that these guys need to have a
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  Speaker 2: good day today and tomorrow. But they both need to
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  Speaker 2: be prepared. I think that's the most important thing when you're.
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  Speaker 1: A backup.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly when you're in the third string, you don't
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  Speaker 2: ever feel like you're going to get in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And then before you know it, you're in it in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. So that's a lesson learned for all
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  Speaker 2: of us. But that's all they have to worry about
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  Speaker 2: right now is just having a great day today, both
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  Speaker 2: preparing to play, and then we'll decide from there.
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  Speaker 1: One of the benefits of having a veteran quarterback like
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  Speaker 1: Julian San this year was that they were asking him
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  Speaker 1: to do a bunch of stuff pre-snap, sending him to
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  Speaker 1: the line with a couple plays, letting him read the
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  Speaker 1: defense and make a decision and change the play at
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  Speaker 1: the line if he needed to. Now that you have
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  Speaker 1: a first-time starter at quarterback, how much is having that
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  Speaker 1: younger and more inexperienced guy scale back what they might
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  Speaker 1: try and do pre-snap?
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  Speaker 2: Most of what they're doing will be for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: So that doesn't exactly allow you to sleep great at night.
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  Speaker 2: But I know what we see in practice. And our
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  Speaker 2: players and coaches know what they see in practice. So
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  Speaker 2: there's confidence.
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  Speaker 1: There is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can see there was an energy at
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  Speaker 2: practice last week. And these guys are making plays. They're
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  Speaker 2: learning from plays. And how quickly can you learn from
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  Speaker 2: them and grow? And so there's a balance there. We
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  Speaker 2: can't just crawl up a new ball. and just hope
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  Speaker 2: to win the game 6-3. If we have to win
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  Speaker 2: a game, we will, but we also can't be reckless.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's the balance we try to find
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  Speaker 2: based on what we have and what's in the game
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  Speaker 2: plan and who we're playing.
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  Speaker 1: With a new starting quarterback, there are going to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys asked to do as much as
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  Speaker 1: they can to sort of help that new quarterback out.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the positions where that's especially true is
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  Speaker 1: at running back. So a big week for the running backs.
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  Speaker 1: What do they want to see from Bo Jackson this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think our running backs, you know, this is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they've been challenged a lot this year already,
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  Speaker 2: but this is the ultimate challenge right now. Having a
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  Speaker 2: young quarterback, everyone's got to step up. The running backs
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  Speaker 2: have to step up. So we need both he, Isaiah,
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  Speaker 2: Legend to, you know, get downhill and run physical. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure that, you know, their numbers will
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  Speaker 2: continue to increase as these games move forward. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to need them. So it's the same approach
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  Speaker 2: that I think All these guys have to, like, who
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  Speaker 2: is it on? It's on the O-line. Who is it on?
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  Speaker 2: It's on the receivers. Who is it on? It's on
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  Speaker 2: the running backs. It's on the tight ends. It's on
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  Speaker 2: the coaches. Everyone's got to step up, and there's no
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  Speaker 2: different for the running backs.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a really interesting sort of follow-up question,
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  Speaker 1: because a couple weeks ago, Kenyatta Jackson talked about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that guys are playing hero ball, guys are trying
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  Speaker 1: to do too much, and they don't want guys to
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  Speaker 1: do too much. But, as we just said with the
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  Speaker 1: running backs, some guys are going to be asked to
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  Speaker 1: maybe do a little bit more, or certainly to do
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  Speaker 1: their part. So how do you ask guys to do
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  Speaker 1: their part, do their 111th, without feeling like you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to ask them to do too much?
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  Speaker 2: That's it. You're 111th of the puzzle. That's the message.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do your job. You can't do anything
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  Speaker 2: more than that. But the margins just got like this.
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  Speaker 2: So if you make a mistake, you make a mistake,
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  Speaker 2: you make a mistake, and you have a young quarterback
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  Speaker 2: in there, now you're putting yourself at risk of losing
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  Speaker 2: a game. So We just need to be tighter, and
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  Speaker 2: we all need to be doing our job and have
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  Speaker 2: great focus. Not that that message is any different if
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  Speaker 2: Julian was playing this weekend, but it's just a good reminder.
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  Speaker 2: To your point, you can't do anything more than your job,
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  Speaker 2: but you've got to do it really well and really efficiently.
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  Speaker 1: So how is Ryan Day going to sleep on Friday
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  Speaker 1: night in that hotel in Los Angeles, knowing he's got
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  Speaker 1: a first-time starter on the road in the L.A. Coliseum
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night?
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  Speaker 2: No, probably not. But I look at it, again, like
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 2: And I know everybody in the building feels the same way.
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  Speaker 2: And we all got to rally around the young quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: We need everybody, like I said before. So tough situation.
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  Speaker 2: But man, you start to look ahead at what this
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  Speaker 2: could be. Let's go find a way to win this
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  Speaker 2: game on a road against USC, whatever it takes, with
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback who's playing really, really tough. And so You
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  Speaker 2: do the best you can. I can't sit here and
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  Speaker 2: tell you it's one thing other than toughness to me
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  Speaker 2: comes to mind. Mental, physical, and emotional toughness going on
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  Speaker 2: the road to go get a win in your first start.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it's going to come down to. Now, that
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  Speaker 2: being said, you've got to also use your experience of
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  Speaker 2: what you see. And also, it's the accumulation of things
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  Speaker 2: you saw from the spring, the summer, and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: into the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day, of course, was a college football player before
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  Speaker 1: he was a college football coach. And at one point,
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  Speaker 1: he was the first-time starting quarterback for the New Hampshire Wildcats. So, okay,
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  Speaker 1: based on his experience as a first-time starting quarterback, what
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  Speaker 1: can he tell this week's first-time starting quarterback to expect
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  Speaker 1: going into the game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to find the rhythm of the game
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  Speaker 2: because when you have cerebral quarterbacks, they want to play
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  Speaker 2: the game ahead of time. And then you can almost
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  Speaker 2: overthink it. You can't overthink it. You just got to
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  Speaker 2: find the speed of the game and trust your training.
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  Speaker 2: That's really all you can do. And there's no experience
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  Speaker 2: or there's nothing to replace experiencing, you know, the reps
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  Speaker 2: in the game. But that's why we practice the way
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  Speaker 2: we do. And that's why practice is so hard. I
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  Speaker 2: think sometimes as quarterbacks, you know, they want to know
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  Speaker 2: why I'm so hard on them in practice, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and like, man, you can, I'm sure you've heard the
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  Speaker 2: other quarterbacks say, you know, what it's like in practice
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  Speaker 2: to be a quarterback around here with me kind of
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  Speaker 2: standing behind them all the time. But it's because when
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  Speaker 2: you have to step into that arena, you're ready because
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  Speaker 2: practice is so hard. And so it'll be a tough
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  Speaker 2: practice today.
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