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Caden Curry, Arvell Reese, And Other Pleasant Surprises On The 2025 Ohio State Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, September sixteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom or the Washington game in eleven days,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman joined me to talk about three of the
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  Speaker 1: really pleasant prizes for Ohio State so far the season
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: He is back again today to talk.
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  Speaker 1: About three pleasant surprizes on the defensive side of the ball. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can look at the number of points
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  Speaker 1: they've allowed.
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  Speaker 2: In individual games.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that Don'te has got a double digits in
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  Speaker 1: three games against them. That's certainly one measure of success.
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  Speaker 1: One of the other measures of success is that we
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  Speaker 1: had a well, we're going to do three because they've
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  Speaker 1: played three games. The number of guys who you could
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  Speaker 1: include in this show is substantially more than three.
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  Speaker 3: It is, but funnily enough, the three that we just
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  Speaker 3: are also your top three tacklers. And I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that you would have expected that, certainly before the season
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  Speaker 3: or during the season. But yeah, that's a good problem
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  Speaker 3: to have. It's one of the reasons Matt Patricia is
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  Speaker 3: always smiling when you see him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, Matt Patricia all spring. I thought, this is
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's not used to coaching with a huge
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  Speaker 1: talent advantage in eighty percent of his games, and he
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  Speaker 1: has just figured out that, oh, this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: really fun. And you have seen him use these guys
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  Speaker 1: in a bunch of different ways. The first guy we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do We're gonna have three guys at three levels
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  Speaker 1: of the defense.
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  Speaker 2: The first guy is.
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  Speaker 1: Kayden Curry, and you have seen him for years line
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  Speaker 1: up off the edge and then he's doing all Matt
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  Speaker 1: Patricia is doing all sorts of fun stuff with Kayden Curry.
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  Speaker 1: This year, you can tell Matt Patrici is having fun
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  Speaker 1: with Kayden Curry. Kayden Curry is having fun playing for
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia right now. You saw him lining up over
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  Speaker 1: the center for Ohio a bunch of times and just
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  Speaker 1: causing absolute havoc in the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: He is someone who has is wildly exceeded by expectations
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  Speaker 2: for this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he leads Ohio State in sacks with two, tied
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  Speaker 3: for the lead. He leads them in tackles for loss
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  Speaker 3: with three, third on the team with fourteen tackles. And
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  Speaker 3: I think at some point, maybe this week, I need
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  Speaker 3: to go ahead and do the all the video clips
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  Speaker 3: of this is where he lined up on this plane,
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  Speaker 3: It's where he lined up on this play, and it's
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  Speaker 3: where he lined up on this play, because we know,
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about it in the post game show, the
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  Speaker 3: instant reaction, how comfortable he is inside and how impressive
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  Speaker 3: and how quick he is getting in there and being
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  Speaker 3: able to penetrate, especially against lesser teams, and so very
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  Speaker 3: good start for him. So much of the attention on
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  Speaker 3: the Ohio State at defense veend has been on Kenyatta
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  Speaker 3: Jackson and bo Atkinson coming into the season. Even you
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  Speaker 3: could throw in CJ. Hickson there as well, and you
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  Speaker 3: know Logan George from Idaho State. But yeah, it's Kaden
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  Speaker 3: Curry the most consistent of those guys before the season,
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  Speaker 3: at least in terms of their time with Ohio State,
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  Speaker 3: and then the most consistent of those guys during the
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  Speaker 3: season as well, because he's solid against the run. He's
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  Speaker 3: obviously doing pretty well against you know, in the past
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  Speaker 3: rush and somebody that you can count on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you could tell he is someone that they
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  Speaker 1: can they feel they can count on, they feel they
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  Speaker 1: can trust to just they put him in this spot,
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  Speaker 1: He'll do what he needs to do.
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  Speaker 2: He'll do what he's supposed to do, maybe most importantly, and.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be able to execute and be able to get
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  Speaker 1: guys to the ground. He is, Yeah, definitely, definitely someone
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  Speaker 1: who has exceeded my expectations for the early portion of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Another guy, you know the Caden Curry chart
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  Speaker 1: that you're talking about making that is known in the
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  Speaker 1: business as the.
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  Speaker 2: Rvel rees chart because you did that a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: For Rvel Reese, he is the second guy we need
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  Speaker 1: to talk about because he's someone else that coming into
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  Speaker 1: the year, you had seen him last year, you knew, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good player, this is a talented football player.
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  Speaker 1: This is a guy who's a really really good athlete,
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  Speaker 1: and they can ask him to do a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They have asked him to do way more stuff this year.
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  Speaker 1: Than they did last year, and he's done all of
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  Speaker 1: it really well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then on Saturday against Ohio, he was a
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  Speaker 3: spy in there and he was doing very well. The
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  Speaker 3: last kind of spy you want a quarterback wants to see,
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  Speaker 3: because it's somebody who is as big as a defensive end,
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  Speaker 3: but then is also faster than you. So if you
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  Speaker 3: try to get out of the pocket, not only not
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  Speaker 3: only is he he's not just mirroring the quarterback as
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  Speaker 3: he's running, he's gaining ground and he's cutting that angle
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  Speaker 3: and the quarterback should have the angle, but they don't
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  Speaker 3: against him. And then he's also a sound tackler and
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  Speaker 3: leading the team with twenty tackles right now, second on
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  Speaker 3: the team with two tackles for lost, and tied for
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  Speaker 3: first with two sacks with Cayden Curry. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: didn't see much against the Grambling State because you didn't
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  Speaker 3: need to. So now we're going to hit the portion
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  Speaker 3: of the schedule where he's going to be involved and
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  Speaker 3: you're going to see him making plays the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the season. And we already saw him after that Texas game.
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  Speaker 3: The NFL the NFL draft Nicks on Twitter, We're all
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  Speaker 3: buzz about him, and I think that's only going to
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  Speaker 3: continue as we go on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is someone who has definitely race racist dock
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  Speaker 1: with the NFL, but I think also racist dock within
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio state fan base where he was before he
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  Speaker 1: was the linebacker who was not necessarily the leading tackler
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  Speaker 1: and not necessarily the beloved hometown kid like Sunny Styles,
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  Speaker 1: but he was the other guy who was pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, I think people have
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  Speaker 1: kind of realized like, oh no, no, no, he's the
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  Speaker 1: guy who's really good, Like they have.
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  Speaker 2: A very talented linebacker room. I mean you could, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: we could have included Peyton Piers in the show.
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  Speaker 1: You could include Sunny Styles in the show, because those
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  Speaker 1: guys have had very good seasons as well.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, he is.
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  Speaker 1: He has definitely been someone who I think that the floor,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have had the you know, the floor
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  Speaker 1: is higher than it was before the season.
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  Speaker 2: Conversation with some of these younger guys. R.
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  Speaker 1: Relverae is the ceiling is very different than it maybe
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  Speaker 1: was a couple months ago.
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  Speaker 2: One last guy, we need to talk about a safety
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  Speaker 2: Jaalen McLain.
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  Speaker 1: We went through the whole spring, in the whole summer
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  Speaker 1: figuring it, you know, trying to figure out, Okay, who
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  Speaker 1: is they gonna play next to Caleb Downs, And boy,
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  Speaker 1: they're probably gonna have a rotation and you're gonna move
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  Speaker 1: guys around, and you know, that's sort of been true.
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  Speaker 1: They've played Caleb Downs in a bunch of places, but
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  Speaker 1: against Texas, only one guy played next to Caleb Downs
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  Speaker 1: is a safety.
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  Speaker 2: It was Jayalen McLain and it was like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: we have been debating this. The coaches have not. The
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  Speaker 2: coaches have said, we know who this guy is. And
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  Speaker 2: then you watch him play and you watch that hit
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  Speaker 2: against Ohio and it's like, ah, yes, I see that
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  Speaker 2: they know what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things we talked about with this
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  Speaker 3: defense is if you're gonna play alongside Caleb Downs, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to be able to play strong safety, You're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to be able to play free safety. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta be able to handle all these different jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And he does.
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  Speaker 3: And right now he is a second on the team
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  Speaker 3: with seventeen tackles, but his thirteen solo tackles are six
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  Speaker 3: more than anybody else on the team. He is a
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  Speaker 3: tackling machine. He's around the ball. Not the biggest guy,
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  Speaker 3: but hits like a big dude and has been able
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  Speaker 3: to cover well and is maybe maybe it's like he's unheralded,
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  Speaker 3: kind of like Damon Webb when he was playing next
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  Speaker 3: to Malie Cooker, where he's like, all of the attention
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  Speaker 3: goes to the All American and then you got the
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  Speaker 3: guy next to him is just completely solid and the
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  Speaker 3: guy that every coach would love to have on their team,
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  Speaker 3: but nobody is talking about. So, yeah, he needs to
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  Speaker 3: be talked about because he has been. He is a
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  Speaker 3: pleasant surprise. But when you would talk to Matt Gerary,
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  Speaker 3: safety's coach, like he would kind of tell you and
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  Speaker 3: this is what's gonna happen in terms of not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: the playing time, but if he's on the field, he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be around the ball. And he's been absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he has. He has been doing his job. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be interested to see them going.
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  Speaker 1: Up against some potentially better passing attacks later on in
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  Speaker 1: the season. I'm not sure when exactly that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at I mean, the Washington will be an interesting test.
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  Speaker 2: Amon Williams.
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  Speaker 1: They have they have an interesting offense and you know,
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  Speaker 1: some downfield threats, so well, that's gonna be interesting test
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Not a ton of tremendous passing attacks on
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  Speaker 1: this conference schedule, but we'll see how well they will
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  Speaker 1: certainly be tested more than they have been the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks in the coming weeks, and when they are,
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  Speaker 1: we will be there covering all those games for you,
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  Speaker 1: starting in just over a week and a half out
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle, as the Buckeyes get ready to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Huskies. Huskies and pretty comfortably taken care of
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  Speaker 1: their first two opponents. They have the Apple Cup this
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  Speaker 1: weekend against Washington State and then the Buckeyes next weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes of course off this week, so while the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: are off, we'll have all sorts of sort of taking
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  Speaker 1: stock up the season so far kind of content, and
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  Speaker 1: then also try and get a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: look ahead at those Washington Huskies for you, because that
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  Speaker 1: is going to be one of the bigger games on
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  Speaker 1: this year's see schedule for the Buckeyes. Washington, you get Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: you got Penn State, you got Michigan. Those feel like
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