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BONUS: Ohio State Hotel Check-in Day 2026 · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a little bit of a bonus episode for you.
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  Speaker 2: Tony Gerderman and I went.
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  Speaker 1: To Hotel check and Day. It is an annual tradition
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  Speaker 1: for the Ohio State football team. The players walk into
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  Speaker 1: a hotel and we're there to take pictures of them.
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  Speaker 1: It's maybe even a little weirder than it sounds, but
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  Speaker 1: we ended up doing basically an hour and a half
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  Speaker 1: live stream talking about just who was walking past us,
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  Speaker 1: but also there was lots of downtime in the middle
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  Speaker 1: where we were talking about individual players, talking about different
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  Speaker 1: position groups, talking about position battles going on during fall camp.
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  Speaker 1: I think it might actually be an okay podcast. You
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  Speaker 1: an angry letter and throw it at us if you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to at least share this with you because I
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  Speaker 1: think there's some interesting stuff in here. And you can
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  Speaker 1: also find this on YouTube on our YouTube channel at
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  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash at Buckeye Insiders if you want
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  Speaker 1: to watch these guys as they're walking in be able
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  Speaker 1: to sort of put some faces to some of the
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  Speaker 1: names on the team, And if you want to check
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  Speaker 1: out a photo gallery, We've got a photo gallery of
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  Speaker 1: Hotel check and Day at Buckeyeinsiders dot Com as well.
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  Speaker 3: So here you go.
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  Speaker 1: Hotel check in Day twenty twenty six. It is time
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  Speaker 1: for one of the weirdest traditions in Ohio State football media,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Hotel check in Day. You're here in Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio where the Ohio State Buckeyes are about to walk
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  Speaker 1: past us and walk into a hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Why are we here?
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman is here with me to answer that question
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  Speaker 1: because we've been talking about it for twenty years and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you have a good answer by now.
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  Speaker 3: No, a tradition like no other for very good reason.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's like the Masters, except there's no pimento cheese sandwiches.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, it's exactly like the Masters.
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  Speaker 3: No, it is very unique. I wonder a new sid
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  Speaker 3: will Pantati just will get out here and be like,
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  Speaker 3: what why are you? What is this? And it's been
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  Speaker 3: going on for probably twenty five years now. Yeah, started
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  Speaker 3: by Jim Davidson the Ozone way way way back when
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  Speaker 3: when he would come out here and shoot photos of
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  Speaker 3: the players because it'd be the first time we got
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  Speaker 3: to see him. Yeah, and that's no longer the case anymore.
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  Speaker 3: For one, you get to watch some practice, but this
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  Speaker 3: would be back in the day, Tom, back when you
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  Speaker 3: were much younger. You could, uh, we all were much younger.
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  Speaker 3: But go on, you wouldn't see the players between spring
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  Speaker 3: and now. Generally you wouldn't see the freshman until now
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  Speaker 3: because early enrollies weren't as big of a thing. So
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  Speaker 3: this would be the first time to see Darron Carter,
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  Speaker 3: the first time to see Dane Sanzenbacher, you know, guys
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  Speaker 3: like that Vern Vern Golston coming in, like what's he
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  Speaker 3: looking like now? And then also trying to get like
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  Speaker 3: who's gonna be who's gonna sneak in, who's like not,
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  Speaker 3: who's gonna be late? Who are we still waiting on?
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  Speaker 3: And you'd get to see like all of the changes
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  Speaker 3: from the players. What's what's Leam McCullough wearing, you know
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  Speaker 3: what you know, so all of these different things that
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  Speaker 3: has become tradition that is now as much obligation as tradition.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the first year I remember doing this, I
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  Speaker 1: was working in TV in two thousand and two and
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  Speaker 1: that was a year when this really was the first
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  Speaker 1: time you saw a lot of these guys.
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  Speaker 4: Maurice Clurent enrolled early that year and that was he
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  Speaker 4: was the only one.
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  Speaker 1: And so the rest of that class was you got
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  Speaker 1: Quinn Temple the Opskies walking in.
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  Speaker 4: And in two thousand and two that was Mike Deandria.
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  Speaker 1: That was it was it was Quinn Temple, who are
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  Speaker 1: you wearing that ken? That is two thousand and two.
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  Speaker 1: That was one of those years where recruiting was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal at that point, but all the names that
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  Speaker 1: were the big names.
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  Speaker 4: In that class were not the ones who ended up
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  Speaker 4: being the big names.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was excited to see five star linebacker Mike DeAndrea
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  Speaker 1: and three star linebacker A. J. Hawk kind of slipped
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  Speaker 1: in the side door unnoticed, and five star quarterback justin's Wick.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was waiting to see five star quarterback justin's Wick.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was this three star kid from Glenville
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  Speaker 1: who was like the lowest rated kid in the class
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  Speaker 1: named Troy Something.
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  Speaker 3: Last guy in the class, last guy in the class.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so you know, you know, you never know who
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  Speaker 1: these guys are gonna end up being.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, back then it was the first time you
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  Speaker 4: would see these guys.
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  Speaker 1: The only true freshman this year who we didn't see
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  Speaker 1: the freshman as Tucker in the spring was Tucker Smith,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive lineman. He's wearing number sixty five out of Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: He was obviously was at practice last week, so we've
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  Speaker 1: seen him a little bit already. And then you've got.
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  Speaker 4: Some, you know, some.
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  Speaker 1: Transfers that we've obviously seen plenty already. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: right now, I'm kind of wondering, Okay, is Kayden Curry
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  Speaker 1: gonna come walking through or something like that? Are we
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  Speaker 1: going to see someone who were not expecting to see
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  Speaker 1: at this point, I would I would not think so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well no, not Kaden carry. I was thinking somebody
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  Speaker 3: of like Taiwan Malone had an extra year. Uh huh,
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  Speaker 3: that wouldn't be a bad thing, but no. Ryan Day
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  Speaker 3: talked about this on Thursday after the first practice about
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  Speaker 3: checking day and he said, you know, back in the
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  Speaker 3: day when he was doing it, and you know, you
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  Speaker 3: you walk in with your box fan and that's when
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  Speaker 3: you first get to meet your teammates. And we've seen,
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  Speaker 3: talking of Jim Davidson, the photos over the years where
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  Speaker 3: guys are carrying in box fans, guys are carrying in
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  Speaker 3: big pillows, any kind of creature comfort. One time, a
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  Speaker 3: whole bunch of cinnamon rolls from Vern Golston brought in.
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  Speaker 3: Dron Carter brought in a PlayStation or an Xbox and
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  Speaker 3: a television. So it was always interesting to see what
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  Speaker 3: kind of things that were brought in back when it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't the business that it is now. Because if you
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  Speaker 3: try to roll in with a case of cinnamon rolls
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  Speaker 3: or an Xbox, I'm not sure it would be allowed.
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  Speaker 1: I think you might get high load by strength coach
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Muradi and nutrition nutrition guru Kayla Olsen may may
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  Speaker 1: high low you on that one. So right now, just
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  Speaker 1: to sort of set the stage for you, we are
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  Speaker 1: expecting the team to be.
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  Speaker 4: Here around six thirty.
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  Speaker 1: It is just about six thirty, and we've seen so
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  Speaker 1: far one player and one staffer come in. But generally
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  Speaker 1: what will happen is will be standing around waiting and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden there will be a flurry
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  Speaker 1: of people and then they're Also you also have fun
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  Speaker 1: moments where you see someone walking in and they're either
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  Speaker 1: wearing in Ohio state something or they're you know, someone
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  Speaker 1: who looks like they're in their late teens or.
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  Speaker 4: Early twenties and in reasonably.
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  Speaker 3: Good shape and welcome to your first check in day.
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  Speaker 1: You're wondering if this person is affiliated with Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: or not.
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  Speaker 4: That is Andrew, He's one of the new Sids.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, you have you have lots of lots of
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  Speaker 1: folks walking by, and you also will get the random
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  Speaker 1: folks who are just staying here and who are walking
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  Speaker 1: in and wondering if the rolling Stones are staying here.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, no, just just a bunch of h I
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  Speaker 4: got out just so you know.
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  Speaker 1: When I got out of my lift, ears like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, they're here for you. What kind of star
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 4: I says that for me.
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  Speaker 1: There someone someone just walking out and saying that their
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  Speaker 1: left driver was wondering what the heck was going on.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what we get a lot out here, and
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  Speaker 3: you were just talking about it and boom, there you go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: great timing, that's pre production.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we have so many meetings about this
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  Speaker 1: every year. So while we're waiting we can talk. We
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  Speaker 1: have we will try and narrate for you so you
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  Speaker 1: can tell who's coming in because this is this is
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  Speaker 1: one of these things where this is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: us to get photos of guys without helmets on and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, while they're standing relatively still and moving in
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  Speaker 1: a predictable direction.
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  Speaker 4: That's always helpful for me as a photographer.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll try and tell you who's coming in and
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  Speaker 1: make sure we put out, hey, there's Jeremiah Smith in
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  Speaker 1: case you don't recognize Jeremiah Smith without I think four
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  Speaker 1: on his shirt. But we've got a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: to talk about just from the first week of camp
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I guess we can
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  Speaker 1: start with we can just kind of go position by position. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: this is a this is a you know for the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position. This is a and I will apologize for
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  Speaker 1: the camera clicks that you're going to hear, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the whole point of being air the the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times at this time of year there's
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  Speaker 1: at least a theoretical quarterback battle. This year, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's a theoretical battle, but it doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's much of a battle for the number
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  Speaker 1: two position either. It feels like you've got Julian saying
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  Speaker 1: feeling pretty comfortable as the number one and Tavan Saint
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  Speaker 1: Claire feeling pretty comfortable as the number two. But then
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  Speaker 1: the question is how you know how comfortable is Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State with Tavian Saint Claire right now if he does
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  Speaker 1: have to beat a numb but one at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you've seen even Luke Faye have some good
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  Speaker 3: moments in camp so far, to the point where onlookers
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  Speaker 3: are like, is Tavian Saint Claire in danger? No, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he's in any danger, but it's always good
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  Speaker 3: to have the guy behind you playing well or making plays, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and just get you know, kind of pushing you a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. And nothing he needs pushed from a player,
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  Speaker 3: because Ryan Day's gonna be pushing him constantly to be
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  Speaker 3: ready at any point to come into the game, and
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  Speaker 3: so overall, like he's got to be ready, and he's
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  Speaker 3: a Red Cherd freshman at this point last year, Julian
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  Speaker 3: Sane was vying for a starting job. Tavian doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: to do that, but he stills be ready to.
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  Speaker 4: Play, yeah for sure, and he is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we always say one snap away from being
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  Speaker 1: the guy, and that could happen you know, you look
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  Speaker 1: at Aaron Rodgers when he was with the Jets and
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  Speaker 1: it was four snaps into the season or whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden boom, your backupuarterbacks, you're starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Five snaps if you include the Achilles.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, too soon, too soon.
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  Speaker 1: And you have seen Ohio State, you know you twenty
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  Speaker 1: fourteen High State was on his backup quarterback before the
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  Speaker 1: Sea season even started. So they have not had to
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  Speaker 1: lean on that backup quarterback very much. But it only
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  Speaker 1: takes one play to need that and that so that
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  Speaker 1: that to me remains one of the great unanswered questions
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  Speaker 1: right now, is just how comfortable would they be if
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  Speaker 1: it was the TV.
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  Speaker 3: In Saint Clair show it and you saw how cautious
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  Speaker 3: they were with Julian saying against Texas and the opener,
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  Speaker 3: now that's Texas, but they were pretty cautious with him
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  Speaker 3: throughout because he is new and everything he's doing is new,
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, why why go crazy? Initially? As we
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  Speaker 3: have more players making.
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  Speaker 4: Their way in, so business is starting to pick up here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for about the next I'd say ninety minutes, there's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: A steady stream sort of a steady stream.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite check in day memory? I have.
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  Speaker 1: I remember there was a year we were waiting for
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  Speaker 1: Tate Martell to show up. That was probably twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing yeah, seventeen eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: Probably didn't care enough about it in seventeen.
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  Speaker 4: And he didn't show up, or when in a side door, when.
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  Speaker 3: In a side door, and Joe Pryor used to do
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  Speaker 3: that as well, from what I was told. But now
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  Speaker 3: I think my favorite is still the Jeff Hireman story
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  Speaker 3: when Jeff sometimes Jerry Emmick would have interviews let players
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  Speaker 3: come out and talk, and he let Jeff Hireman come
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  Speaker 3: out and talk after he got checked in, and Jeff
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  Speaker 3: was wearing a anti cancer T shirt.
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  Speaker 4: Basically anti cancer tony.
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  Speaker 3: Very effing tie basically to give you an idea. And
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  Speaker 3: so Jeff is surrounded by reporters and he's getting quotes
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  Speaker 3: and you're talking, getting interviewed, and then Jerry like at
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  Speaker 3: the last second, sees the shirt. He's like, oh no, oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's gonna see this now. So that was that was
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  Speaker 3: a fun one. I always enjoyed that one. That's something
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  Speaker 3: we laugh about every year, I think.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a C. J.
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  Speaker 1: Burnett coming in, former Buckeye safety, current Buckeye staffer with a.
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  Speaker 3: Little Julian Stan and Jeremiah Smith T shirt. I believe.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the issue jam, Yes, the.
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  Speaker 1: The the NBA JAM style shirt. Is still a little
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  Speaker 1: weird to me to see current issue players on merchandise
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  Speaker 1: because that was always the biggest No. No, he had
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  Speaker 1: to get bootleg McNutt for Heisman shirts on from the
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  Speaker 1: from the vendors on Lane Avenue, and now you can
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  Speaker 1: get them from OUE directly.
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  Speaker 3: That may have been the start of the people in
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  Speaker 3: the credit at all, Bannon or Sam Keller. It may
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  Speaker 3: have been the McNutt for Heisman stuff way back in
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and four or so.
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  Speaker 4: That was probably earlier than that.
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  Speaker 3: He was a two thousand He was on the two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and two team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe yeah, back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: As they say, tom So, I.
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  Speaker 1: Got a couple of wide receivers coming in now. This
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  Speaker 1: is Nolan Bodo on the left and David Adolph on
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  Speaker 1: the right. Adolf wearing the Carnel Tate T shirt. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of player merchandise, had a Tennessee Titans hat and a
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  Speaker 1: Carnel Tate shirt.
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  Speaker 4: So a good energy there.
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  Speaker 3: Big fan. Yes, Carnel Tate making waves in camp right
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  Speaker 3: now with the Titans. Every day there's new new highlight catch,
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  Speaker 3: highlight reel catches from him.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's getting a little dark here. Before they the
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  Speaker 1: forecast was getting a little more promising. But we're thankfully
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  Speaker 1: underneath the overhang. But I can make no promises about
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  Speaker 1: the audio quality. If it starts raining real hard on
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  Speaker 1: the overhang directly above us, it may sound like.
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  Speaker 3: It's I can make some promises. It's not gonna be great.
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  Speaker 1: Here on the Buckeye Weekly podcast scene for the first
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  Speaker 1: time ever.
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  Speaker 4: You are telling me.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm just waiting for like fire engine the show
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  Speaker 3: up or something. Yeah, yeah, dropping off fire truck, dropping
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  Speaker 3: off the lawnmower.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps, before we dive into some of the other positions,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk real quickly about why they do this, because
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  Speaker 1: this is you know what, why would you go into
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  Speaker 1: a hotel for several weeks during fall camp.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's something that you know, these guys obviously
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  Speaker 4: all have they all have their own apartments here.
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  Speaker 3: Why not far from here?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not far from here, yeah, I mean conveniently ocated
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  Speaker 1: to the football facility. So I think it would be
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  Speaker 1: logical to wonder why would you do this? And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the answer is a couple of different things.
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  Speaker 1: One is you get a chance to have the guys
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  Speaker 1: get together and spend you know, these are guys who
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time together anyway at.
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  Speaker 4: The football facility.
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a frequent you know, every every day
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  Speaker 1: they're there, and every day they're there for.
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  Speaker 4: A number of hours.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also a chance for them to just i
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  Speaker 1: mean hang out and just be around each other and
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  Speaker 1: sort of build that camaraderie. It's also a chance to
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  Speaker 1: eliminate some of the distractions. You know, there's a reason
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  Speaker 1: they go into the hotel the night before games. This
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  Speaker 1: is a chance to just kind of block out the distractions.
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  Speaker 1: And it's usually just you know, like a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: This is because classes are going to start in I
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  Speaker 1: think two weeks something like that, and then I think
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  Speaker 1: they'll be back in there, back in their apartments at
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  Speaker 1: that point.
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  Speaker 3: But this is usually like ten to fourteen days.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's between one to two.
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  Speaker 3: Weeks, so it can be all football and no other
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  Speaker 3: distractions and team building and all of that stuff. You're
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  Speaker 3: constantly around everybody and relying on each other to power
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  Speaker 3: few on day eight nine, ten eleven.
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  Speaker 5: So you got Miles Lockhart here on the right.
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  Speaker 3: As you can see, even the players love it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, who doesn't love walking into a.
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  Speaker 3: Hotel while getting photos taken by the paparazzi.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and every time I do this, I think about
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  Speaker 1: what I look like walking into a hotel and free
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  Speaker 1: suitcases with like all my kids stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But Tom, when you get into a hotel, you've been
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  Speaker 3: dealing with eighteen hours of driving.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's true. Here comes bruck Boyd freshman wide.
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  Speaker 3: Receiver doing the fake phone check. No, I thought that
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  Speaker 3: was a fake phone check, but he was probably actually texting.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's the uh you know, put it up to
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  Speaker 3: my ear. I'm talking please, Although the kids say maybe
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  Speaker 3: they just fake the text.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say. I don't think anyone talks
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  Speaker 4: on the phone anymore.
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  Speaker 6: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: So running backs kind of next position we need to
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: talk about.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: And that's a spot where I think you could see
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: any number of things happen there and I wouldn't be
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: completely surprised in terms of who has the most carries
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: on the team, who has the second most carries on
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: the team, it feels like right now and what we're
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: seeing Isaiah West is making a legitimate move.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: To get some more, get some more. Is this Julian
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: saying coming in?
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: I can't tell.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Looks a little like him. Yes, it sure is.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: Julian saying, Okay, all right, they.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Starting quarterback has arrived. That's always a good saying.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, good, good they have.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It's like drafting a fantasy team.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: You want to make sure you got that quarterback. Good news.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They have a quarterback here for their for a full camp.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: That's that's always a good start. It's always always also
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: nice when we're not talking about a position group, as
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: those guys are walking in.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Let me tell you who's not going to be good
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: this year.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: You know who's got to get better. But yeah, the
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Isaiah West bo Jackson combo, however that shakes out, I'll
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: just continue to say what I've been saying about bo
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Jackson and that so many people are talking about what
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: he didn't do instead of what he did do last year,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and I think people need to remember what he did
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: do and that he should be even better. As most
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: sophomores are now, not all sophomore running backs are as
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: good as they were as freshmen at Ohio State. We
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: know that, but there's no reason to think that he's
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: going to have a downturn other than you know, just
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: like there's no reason to expect that basically, And so
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: if he's better than he was, he may have the
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: exact same kind of year, but that would be because
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Isaiah West is taking carries and other guys are taking carries.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: But he could be just as effective or more so
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: this year, I think, because they'll allow him to be
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: used more in short yardage, allow him to finish some
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: runs for a change, which he didn't really get to
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: do last year.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's even if he has exactly the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: same type of year last as he did last year,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: he's going to be a little bigger and stronger. The
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: offensive line is going to be almost certainly better, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I think you're going to see, you know, we'll we'll
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: see how much Julian Saying figures into the run game.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: They're saying all the right stuff right now, and if
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: he can figure in there a little bit, that would
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: certainly help. But I think just the change in offensive
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: coordinator from Brian Hartline, who is you know, tends to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: be a passing game kind of guy as a former.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Wide receiver and wide receiver.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Coach, and Ryan Day as a former quarterback and former
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: quarterback coach.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: And you know, those are all sort of passing game guys.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: The running game looked one way with Chip Kelly, who
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: was a little more rushing focused, and then last year
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: when you had passing guys, it just the running game
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: wasn't quite what it was now. The offensive line wasn't
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: quite what it was for stretches last year, and also
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you had freshman running back, so you could you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: it is sort of a little bit of a choose
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: your own adventure in terms of what do you want
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to chuck the step back in the run game up to,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: because you have lots of choices, but all of those
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: choices in terms of older running backs, presumably a better
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: offensive line, and also an offensive coordinator who has not
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: just extensive experience in terms of designing and being focused
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: on the run game, but also at the NFL level
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to the point where he was an NFL head coach,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: that that could be really a game changer for them.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And so even if bo Jackson's loses a bunch of carries,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: he may still end up with better top line numbers,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and then you know, and then we can get into
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: some of the other guys.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the effectiveness and the ability to build
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: off of stuff is something that.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Arthur Harry junior coming in right now a.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Lot more experience that than Brian Hartline did as the
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: secret ary junior coming in. So Rock Boyd first freshman
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: receiver have his black stripe removed? Yep, first freshman receiver
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: to arrive. Ye, or did Jaden Rickets beat him?
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: No?
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think no.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I think no.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Jayden Ricketts was later. I think Jaen Ricketts was. Jaden
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Richards was part of that group of three guys who
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: came in later.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: So yeah, but yeah, and then with the with the
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: running backs, you've got those two. I think everybody's fascinated
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: to see what happens behind them with Legend Bay who
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: had a good day on Saturday, and then it sounds
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: like a good day on Sunday as well at the
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: closed practice, and certainly deeper than they've been in a while.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, for sure, for sure, And then
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you know, and then you've got other guys like Turbo Rogers,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: You've got Jacoby Jacoby Jackson, I mean, you've got other
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: guys who are sort of in that mix as well,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of a lot of possibilities there.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Brandon innoc in the middle. Here is Kyle Parker on the.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: Left, Jeremiah Smith on the right.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So again left to right, that was Kyle Parker, Brandon Innes,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith. There's at least a possibility that is your
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: starting three wide receivers. It's probably not the most likely three,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: ask that guy.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're just triulian saying the other direction.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: So since we've seen the wide receivers and you just said, yeah,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: those might be your starters, and we've seen Devin McEwen
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: stepping as well. Rock Boyd is going to push for
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: time again. Another group that is deeper and will go
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: deeper than they did last year. And that's something that
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Cortes Hankton has done in his past. Brian Hartlane really
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: did not like to go too deep, but his classes,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: his rooms are always top heavy, so there's only so
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: or you could go, I think is how he viewed it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: But even you know, with this group, you've got Jeremiah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: but then they had to go into the portal, get
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Kyle Parker, get Devin mcew and to raise up that
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: veteran presence and the ability to not have to rely
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: on so many young players, which they still might, but
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: it's more of a luxury and those guys earning the
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: way rather than by default we have to play you
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: because there's nobody else.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Right, You've got four true freshmen on this year's team,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Chris Henry Junior, cha Quaden Gilford, brock Boyd, and Jayden Ricketts,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and you're certainly not going to see all four of
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: those guys play. I think you're going to see one
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: to two of those guys take meaningful snaps and you'll
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: probably see the others in the Uh. There's Kila Olsen
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: right now at the team. Nutrition is coming in probably
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: here to again to tackle people withinnmon cinnmon rules. If
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you have a couple freshmen who are ready to contribute
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and play in that you know, top six or so,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I think that would be a huge benefit of this
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: team because the talent's there, and as you said, Cortez
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Hankton has tended to be a little bit more willing
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to play rotational guys.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Like go go three four, you know, go past the
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: top three or four and play guys five and six.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: And seven and eight.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: And you know, again, there's so many different variables here.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: How much of that is that he didn't have the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith or Marvin Harrison Junior or guys like that
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: on the on the top of his wide receiver depth
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: charts at LSU.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: How much of that is that he had.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe he had just not as much difference
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: between number three and number six. And how much of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: that is just he likes to play guys right more.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And and that's that's a little bit of an open question.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna learn a lot more about how
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: much of that was just sort of a philosophical thing
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: versus a roster construction thing at LSU. But I'm expecting
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: between the fact that there isn't a Carnel Tait opposite
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Jeremia Scola this year and the fact that you've got
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: some talented true freshmen below them and they've brought in,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I think Devin McEwan is probably most likely
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to be starting opposite Jeremiah Smith right now. And you've
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: got Kyle Parker and you've got Brandon Innis, and those
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: are probably four of your top six right there. But
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: if you get a Chris Henry in there, if you
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: get a brock Boyd in there, I think you're going
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: to see probably a deeper rotation where you know, how
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: far how much did the number six wide receiver on
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: last year's team play? Was that Quincy Porter and he
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: played fifty seven snaps something like that, I think you're
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: going to see probably more like one hundred to one
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: There goes Jeremies with the other direction, I think you're
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: going to see. I think you're going to see more
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: depth being played and more rotation being played.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: But the other piece of that is how much you're
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: play through wide receivers and how much are you playing two.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Tight ends Because we've talked a bunch about the growth of.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Twelve personnel and the fact that that is happening a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: little bit more now. So there's just there's a lot
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of different elements that go into these conversations.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: As receive some of the receivers.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, the young wide receivers going out there. Yeah, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think I said earlier that I think I called Jayden
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Ricketts Miles Lockhart, and it's definitely Jaden Ricketts and not
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Miles Lockhart. The real question is how many of these
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: guys will we get coming back again?
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Where we get get the bonus second arrival.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Usually these guys come in, drop their stuff, and we'll
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: go out and grab dinner something or something like that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: And then come back when they have to be back
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: later for meetings.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But I would assume they will have a team meeting
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: around seven thirty or eight. I would guess we'll have
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: a hotel, ballroom or something set aside for that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Although it is I will say it is much calmer
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: around here than it was in years past, Yeah, which
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: is nice. I guess you don't have to worry about
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: people being in your way town as shooting photos.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: A lot fewer people here this year, which is not
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: a bad thing.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: And almost went it almost went away last year, but
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: it is back.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Speaking of being back, Tom the year of the tight end,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: as we know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, the year of a tight end as now more
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: than ever. Who is who is the number one tight
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: end on this team right now?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like I have an answer, but I'm willing
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to be talked out of it.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I think sometimes it's Nate Roberts, and sometimes it's Hunter Welsing,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: and sometimes it's Mason Williams and sometimes it's any Christian.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: So thank you, that's my answer. It's uh way.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: To really plant your flag on something.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: And now will I be if they open So they
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: open an eleven personnel against ball State in their first snap,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I would say it would be Nate Roberts, but it
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: just depends on what they want to do.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would assume Nate Roberts is going to be
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the guy who has the most perceptions at tight end
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: this year, the guy who probably plays the most snaps
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: at tight end this year, although that again, situationally, you
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: can't just have this is the receiving tight end and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: this is the blocking tight end because that obviously just
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: completely tips off what you're doing and you don't want
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to do that. But I do think you're going to have.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I think you're going to see more of him than
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you're going to see of anyone else this year at
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the tight end spot. It just but we just we
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: haven't seen that much of Hunter Wilson yet. We haven't
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: seen that much of Mason Live yet.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: So Mason we haven't seen, we haven't seen that much
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: of Nate Roberts at tight end.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, and you know Mason Williams. In my head,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I just go, well, he's Will Kasmeric too, because he's
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the tight end who transferred from Ohio University and he
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: was a little more known for his blocking. But is
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: he as good as will chast Merrick. That's a pretty
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: high bar. Wil cast Merrick was an immediate impact for
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Ohio State his first year. If they get that out
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: of Mason william I think they would be doing Keenan
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Bailey might be doing cartwheels.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: You know. Back in twenty twenty four, Keenan Bailey said
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: he told his team more than they were the least
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: talented position room on the team, and so you had
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: to do it through effort and grant and toughness and
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: all that. Last year they were not the least talented.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: They were one of the deepest, and they had two
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: NFL guys in there this year, though they may be
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: trending back towards I don't want to say the least talented,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: but they're in that discussion and that's not a knock
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: on them, and just they've got to refoke or reis
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: continue to be the toughest room in there, and that's
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: going to be a continued focus for Keenan Bailey.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: And that's linebacker Sincere Johnson right there.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's an interesting mix because there's lots of
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: guys who you could say, yeah, that's a guy who
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: could play thirty snaps a game for him, But I
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: don't know that. I mean, outside of Nate Roberts, I
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: don't know that there's anyone that I think I would
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: be surprised if that guy wasn't playing twenty snaps a game. Yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, it just feels like there's a lot of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: guys who could play and then how much does how
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: much does.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: He want to rotate?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So this is Ryan Radzinski on the left and Austin
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: siriveld on the right. Austin Sirivelderer, I mean, Nolan Bodo
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: T shirt.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: That is incredible.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: That is a fantastic representing your teammate right there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Nolan Boto, the walk on wide receiver at number twenty three.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: You saw him earlier.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: So that's two Ohio State receivers on T shirts we've
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: seen so far.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Carl Yes, definitely, definitely the two you would expect.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Well and.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: C J.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Barnett came in with the Julian san and Jeremiah, so
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: it's yeah, we will see who wins by the end
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: of the day.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Nolan Bodo is a really interesting figure in the team
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: because he is one of those people who I would
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: bet the average fan would not look twice at if
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: they saw him in public and would not be able
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to pick out of a lineup. But he's one of
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: those people that is I think, one of the low key,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: more respected, like most respected guys on the team. He's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: someone you see with a headset out there a lot
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: like you can tell someone who probably has a future
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: in coaching in mind, and I think a pretty sharp
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: guy as well, but really really, really well liked among
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the team.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I think I believe he was a teammate of Cornel
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Taits at Merit in Chicago and came to Ohio State
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: and has stuck it out. So yeah, very much looks
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: like coaching in his future because as you said, you
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: can always see him on the sideline during games or
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: mainly during games when the headset with certain colored jersey
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: or pullover. Yeah, so the players know to look for them,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: and it takes a village type of thing, and there
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: are so many people like that around where if they
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: weren't there, somebody would be missing them in terms of
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: like that, that's another role that somebody would have to
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: fill because there's not a lot of superfluous stuff going on.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: It's all of that. It's it's massive, but everybody has
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: a job and it's like constant.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, and everything in a if you could do
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a practice, everything is so tightly scripted that you know, okay,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the next period. It's not just here's what we're doing
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the next period. It is here's what we're doing the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: next period. And the linebackers are going to be at
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: this particular spot on the field, and the you know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: tackling doughnuts have to be over here, or the bags
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: have to be over here, and they have to be
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: set up this way, and they have to and there's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: people who are in charge.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Of all of that stuff.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And Tavi and Saint Clair coming in here on the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: left backup quarterback, Elijah Going's Jackson on.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: The right back up offensive lineman.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: There's two quarterbacks we've seen so quarterbacks so far, yes,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and they seem to be coming in in the order
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: of depth charts. We'll see if Luke or Justin Martin
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: comes in, we'll be able to, I would maybe write
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a updated depth churn post for the insiders on our
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: insiders for insiders dot com.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: You know we've done the what order do they practice
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: in in terms of reading tea leaves? Never done it
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: in which order they arrive in? Because generally the starting
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: quarterback I don't know. I don't know the stats on
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: this one. Maybe Dan Hope at eleven Waters, how often
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: is the starting quarterback the first quarterback to arrive because
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it's not that often.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Not that often. Now, now we've kind of hit a
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: spot where it feels like you're getting kind of a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: constant stream of guys coming in just occasionally at parking
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: garage across the street is really full.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: I do wonder if people are gonna have to like
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: park up.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: On the roof to find a spot that might delay
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: folks coming in a little bit. So we're through wide
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: receivers or through tight ends. So you can talk a
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: little wide receivers right now.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Jeremy doc receivers, Jeremiah Smith.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith. Number one, For sure, we did talk a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: little bit about the rotation at widers.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but in terms of who's going to be the
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: guy opposite Jeremiah Smith.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: It feels to me like right now, based on what
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: we've seen so far, it's gonna be Devin McEwan outside
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: at that Z position, that sort of field stretching receiver.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: And he's had some great days and he's had some
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: okay days so far, and you know, there have only
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: been four practices, so that that pretty much covers the runs.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: The gamut of the kind of days you can have
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: in Fall Camp at this point.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: But I think he's someone who between him and Kyle Parker,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Kyle Parker has been hurt, so we just we haven't
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: exactly seen him. So I think with Devin McEwen, I
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: think you've seen enough to think, yeah, they're going to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: get something out of Devin McEwen this year. And then
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Kyle Parker, he's a little bit more of an open
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: question in terms of what you're going to get. The
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: person who, I think, of anyone in that building would
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: know best what you're going to get out of Kyle
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Parker is his position for Tess Hangton, who was also
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: his position coach at LSU. The fact that he brought
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: him over, that's, you know, a pretty good sign that Okay,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: this is someone who really believes in him and likes
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: him and wants him around.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: And I'm just still waiting to find out how much
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: slot versus how much Z is in his future. Yeah,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: you know, because he can do both, and he's got
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: the ability to run after catch. We've seen him do
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: both at LSU and still ten and a half yards
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: of catch in his career, which needs to improve. But
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: a lot of the quick stuff he can run through
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: arm tackles. He's quick, He's fast enough. I just it's
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: one of those things like Riley Petty John missing the spring,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: so you got to figure out what he can do.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Kyle Parker was in the spring, so they at least
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: have that baseline. But you know, they're getting this offense
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: going now and to not have him out there is unfortunate.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: But he's a veteran, so he should be able to
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: pick things up.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's you've you know, it feels like, well, we've
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: seen three days of practice.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: They've got to be almost done with fall camp.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: It's no, they're just barely, you know, not quite twenty
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: percent of the way through fall camp at this point.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: So they've got a long way to go till that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Till that first game. But you definitely you don't want
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to be behind. You don't want to start behind.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: The eight ball.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: That's that's.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: That makes it challenging.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: But you know they've got guys.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: You know, he he's someone who at least you're a
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: vetteran You're coming in next. LeBlanc the first one coming
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: in here, and then Alec del Signore.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: LeBlanc is a tight end the signore As they walk
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: on linebacker?
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: What was.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Even the other players are commenting and complementing Austin Seerveld
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and has no one botto T shirt that's left you
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: were pulling it off.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: That shirt doesn't wear him. He wears that shirt. I
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: What was it?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: So among the freshmen, how many freshman wide receivers finish
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: with what's what's the baseline number? Where it's like this
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: is this is a good freshman seesar for an O
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: High state wide shave for one hundred and fifty yards,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five yards, two ThReD yards. What's
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the what's the baseline for as far as a true
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: freshman wide receiver season goes?
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: This is a good number? And how many guys get
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: there this year?
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: A Mecca Abuka as a true freshman, had I think
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety one yards receiving, and like ninety
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: of those came on one catch, you know, like eighty
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: one of those came on one catch. Marvin Harrison had
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty one hundred and seventy something like
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: on eleven catches.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and half of that came in the role.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: And that was only because two guys had opted R.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: So those are always the guys that I use to
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: calm people down. Jackson Smith and Jig but Ten for
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: forty nine during the COVID year.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was the COVID year. But and he
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: played a good bit.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But yes, I've just got to dial the expectations
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: way down now. I think Chris Henry is going to
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: do more than what Marvin Harrison and a Mecca a
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Buka did. I think there would be a good baseline
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: for for Brock Boyd as the fifth or sixth guy. No.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Juck and I did a show on the which freshmen
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: are going to make the one hundred snap Club this year?
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: And to give you an idea of one hundred snaps,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Zion Grady had like one hundred and four or one
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: hundred and six last year, So that's how much that
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: guy plays. We only had two receivers cracking that. I
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: think we had your Quaid and Guildford under that, and
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Jane Ricketts of course under that. But those two guys
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: are going to play over one hundred snaps I think,
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: and they maybe had five or six others on that list.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: It was not a deep list because it's a deep team.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you're looking at one hundred snaps and
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you're getting and you're gonna spot me those two wide receivers,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I will put Jake Himans comfortably on that list. I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: would assume Legend Bay probably makes that list. And then
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: other than them, is it is it one of the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: defensive ends. Do you think a dray Quinn or a
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Carry Wilder, Harry Wilder or someone like that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Or and maybe a blame Bradford could.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Be blame Bradford at safety. That's a possibility. Yeah, it
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: just but you're right, that does not that does not
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: sound like very many snaps. You go, you know, across
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: fifteen games, one hundred snaps is six or seven a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: game or seven a game, and you figure there's a
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: lot of games where you're not playing even then.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Because there are games where Devin Sante has only played
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: on special teams, you know, and he had over three
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: hundred snaps. Yeah, so you know, like Jordan Thomas, he's
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: got a chance, but there will be games where he's
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: only on special teams.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: And I think you're gonna see guys play more snaps
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: now than they might have a year or two ago,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: even if it's just a handful more, because you're not
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: trying to maintain the four games in the regular season
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to maintain the red shirt year. Whether Jordan Thomas plays
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: one hundred snaps in you know, plays fifty snaps in
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: four different games, or Jordan Thomas plays one snap in
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: every regular season game, Jordan Thomas has burned to your eligibility.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's true of everyone else.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: So I think you're more likely to see guys. You're
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: certainly going to see more guys out there on special teams. Well,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: he's someone who a corner, a safety, a linebacker.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Those are guys who those are the guys who want
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: to be on kick coverage.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: I think you're throwing all those guys who are really
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: good athletes out there on kick coverage, even if you're
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: not thinking they're going to be on defense. But you
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: can go ahead and go go play three snaps at
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the end of the game, exactly if you're up by
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: four touchdowns on the last drive. Yeah, go get three
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: snaps and just have a little bit of tape to
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: teach off of.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no reason not.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: So.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: You're not hiding anybody, you're not protecting anybody, you're not
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: saving anybody. There's Jermaine Matthews, all right.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Jermaine Matthews right there using some outside technique there on.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Us, sneaking on in before you even got an He's well,
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: I mean he's crafty as a kind of a corner
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: blitz right there. Yeah, so you gotta keep your head
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: on a swivel. Indeed, they're not all just gonna come
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: right at you.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: No, no, So let's move on to the offensive line.
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: This this is sort of the storyline of full Camp, where.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: We know they're going to play five guys. If you
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: give me a list of.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Eight, maybe even seven, I think I can tell you
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: with almost one hundred percent certainty, yes, it is going
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: to be a choice of five within this.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Group, maybe maybe even six.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Right, you're looking at some combination of Ian Moore. You
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: know it's gonna be Luke Montgomery at left guard. You
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: know it's gonna be Carson Hinsman at center. We're reasonably
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: sure it's gonna Philip Daniels at right tackle, even though
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Ryan Day did mention his name in this conversation. You know,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Austin Cerebelt is gonna be in there somewhere, and then
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: it's just a matter of okay, is it.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: Oh I didn't recognize. I didn't I didn't put it together.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: The tight end wearing a Max Player number eighty six jersey.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I looked at the Rams eighty six jersey.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: And thought, meant nothing to me.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, is that Pooka?
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know who. I don't know who that is. Yes,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: that makes way more sense. Yeah, guys, guys wrapping teammates.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: That's that's pretty fun. So you've got you've got this group.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Of Ian Moore Josh Padilla.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Really, in a lot of ways, it feels like those
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: two guys are the ones who are really fighting to
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: be part of that best five.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: They're competing against each other, but they're not competing against
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: each other. You know, it's it's gonna be one of
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: those two. But they're playing different spots, and so it's
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: not a it's not a true head to head, one
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: to one battle, which makes it even more interesting because
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: you've got to look at more parts and other people.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Other people factor in just besides those two, which makes
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: the mat a little bit more complicated. And one guy
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: may be better, maybe like grades higher, but does the
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: change that he brings about grade the offensive line lower? Right?
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Ian Moore has to be hoping that Austin
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Seerveeld is an incredible right guard. Right, Austin Seerwold is
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: a better right guard than he is a left tackle.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: And Austin Superviel was a pretty darn good left.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Tackle last year.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: And Josh Padilla is a right guard if if he
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: and and we'll just say Josh Padilla at right guard
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: and Ian Moore at left tackle grade out exactly the same.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: So then it comes down to, Okay, where is.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Austin Seerfald better?
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Right, because it's just your best five is whatever the
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: best combination of the five is. And you know Austin
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Seervelt's playing somewhere.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: It's where where does he fit in that best five?
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: And that's what campus for. That's why, we've seen Ian
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: Moore at left tackle and right tackle. We've seen Austin
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Seerveld a left tackle and right guard. You've seen Josh
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Badia a right guard and center, and uh as things
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: get a little bit more congested, here are we now
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: buck Eye Weekly? Are we now a buck Eye?
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: It's now Yes, it's no officially buck Eye Weekly because
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: we had a car going through with him very loud,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: very loud engine.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Let's let's watch this one. Plenty of room.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah you know, yeah, there, but made it out.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Like a glove.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: All right, there goes Jermane Matthews again. So there we
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: promised that's him.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: But yeah, then you get into the whole who's the
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: third tackle? And because if it's not like you know
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: who the third tackle is, because it's either Austin Sierraveld
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: or it's Ian Moore. Who is the third guard, well
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: it's either Josh Padilla or Austin Seerveld. So it's like
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: all of the what ifs and all of the other
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: maths still just comes down to Ian Moore and Josh Padilla.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: And the second center is presumably Josh Padilla. So then
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: if if you if Carson Hinsman goes down, then Padilla
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: is either just coming off the bench to play center
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: or he's moving from guard to And you know, if
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the center goes down, then that may and Ian Moore
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: is not a starter, Well, then Ian Moore may become
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: a starter.
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: At that point.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of moving pieces.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if if Austin Siravelder is your right guard
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: and he goes down, is the better right guard center
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: combination because Carson Hinsman, I don't think you want to
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: move him from center, but you could because he's played
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: guard and Josh Padia has played center about as much
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: as he's played guard, which isn't a ton But I
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: think at that point, I don't think they want to
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: move their center.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Speaking of guards, here comes Luke Montgomery, the le ohio
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Z owns a camp camp veteran, brings on pillow, someone
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: who knows the process that, yeah, the seniors know all
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the ins and outs of the camp process. Now he's
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: someone who could theoretically be back for a fifth year
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: next year because he played as a true freshman. This
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: is only his fourth season, fourth season, So that's one
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: of those guys where you're having entirely different conversations at
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the end of these years. Now with some of these guys,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: where it used to be, well you know he's gone,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Now well I don't. It'll be interesting to find out
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: where the dividing line is for guys. Is that if
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: you're a you know, if your first round pick, you're
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: obviously coming. If you're a second round pick after four years,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: you would assume you're probably going. If you're a third
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: round pick, is that where the deciding line is? Is
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: it a fourth round pick?
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: I've been mine, you know, looking at the salary slots,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: I think fourth round it can be done because you
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: can make more at Ohio State as a valued returning
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: starter than you can as a fourth year in that
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: one year a fourth rounder and that one year. So
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: then it becomes a very difficult decision and one where
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: you want to, you know, do you want to get
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: to your second round tract sooner or do you want
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: to try to buy for a better NFL deal. But
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: if you're after four years, you're a fourth rounder, you're
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: probably not going to be a first rounder after a
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: fifth year, right, So if you know you're a lot,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: then you're like, well, college is fun. I like college
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: and I can make good money there or are you
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: ready at this point where most seniors, I don't want
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: to be at college any longer.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: Now, college is different for Ohio State and big time athletes,
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: you know, it's whereas for for the normal people, it's like, yes,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: I want to be done. So it's it's a different
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: kind of equation.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: You're kind of Bennett Criston tight.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: End, and before Bennett was a couple of safeties Stover Jersey.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: So that's a two tight end jersey since three receiver shirts.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: This is Jeremy rutgerd Eraser.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: The two guys Bright before Bennett were Simeon Caldwell and
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Kate and Gephart, a couple of true freshmen safeties. You
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: got a couple of guys coming in over here.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Now get ready for some noise.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Editor Houston Edward Houston on the right and blamed Bradford
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: on the left.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Well fought religion.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: It's always interesting to see the guys who come in
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: together as a true freshman safety and a veteran third
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: year defensive end. But they may have just pulled into
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: the parking rush at the same time they made out
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: of carpooled.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: But it is you'll see very odd accommodations. And I'm
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: trying to think of who who was it that war
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Liam McCullough's shirt the year after he was.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: Gone, wasn't it? Was it Johnny Dixon? Yes, I feel
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: like it was Johnny Dixon And and the Liam McCullough's
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: shirt thing.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: If you are not familiar with deep Ohio State Internet,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: former Ohio state long snapper Liam McCullough came in to
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: this event.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: As a freshman got his picture taken in.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: His sophomore year, he wore a shirt with his picture
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: from his freshman year Hotel check and day on it,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: and then his third year he wore a picture with
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: his second year Hotel check and day picture on it.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: So you had t shirt inception where by the time
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: he was done and I believe he played five years,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: he had a picture of Liam McCullough wearing a T
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: shirt with a picture of Liam mccallaugh on it, in
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: which he was wearing a T shirt with a picture
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: of Liam McCullough.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: In which he was wearing a T shirt with a
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: picture of Liam mccallugh on it, in which he was
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: wearing a picture.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Of the T shirt with Liam mccallaugh on it, and
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: it was just an incredible bit and the payoff was
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: just incredible.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: And then the next year.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Johnny Dixon walks in wearing a pitch shirt.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a nice homage.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: It was really tremendous.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: This looks like the awareness was high level.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, this is Devin Sanchez right here.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: That is someone for whom there are some expectations this
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: year as a second year, second year corner for Ohio State.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: You know what I was thinking yesterday when he was
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: naming all of their receivers that he circled. I don't
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: think he mentioned Andrew marsh interesting, but maybe he just
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: didn't get there.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: He was just working chronologically through the schedule right.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Exactly, and he was Yeah, although I think he said
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Oregon comes after Indiana c Yeah, he was doing I
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: used to Maybe he didn't get all the way to
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: that game, but that is going to be one huge
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: matchup individual matchup. Those two guys fun to.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: Watch, yep, for sure, for sure. So I think we
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: are on our way to Chris Henry again, who is.
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: Very tall.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: He is the defense and the receiver in the blue
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: is this, Yeah, I don't think he's on the varsity roster.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: The defense. I guess we're gonna start with the defensive
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: ends because you know who you've got.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: Ken YadA Jackson. You know he's going to be a starter.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: It sure feels based on what we've seen so far
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: in fall camp like bo Atkinson is going to be
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the other guys there or you know, and if he's
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: not the starter, he's certainly going to be right in
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the you know, at the top in terms of snaps.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: If you know, outside of Kenyada Jackson, he's he's been
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: the one with the ones so far through the through
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: camp that we've seen.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: So then the question is and then.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: What Yeah, And really, I know there's a little bit
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: of Ohio State fans not wanting to touch the hot
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: stove again with bo Atkinson because there have been some
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: positive reports. We've seen it, we've heard him, and so
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: you know, those same people had expectations last year that
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: didn't come to fruition. But he's bigger and stronger, he's quicker.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: I wonder while we talked about who's after him, who's next,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: if say talk about one hundred the pie chart, the
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: one hundred percent of snaps that do not belong to
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: Kenyatta Jackson. What percentage of those belonged to bo Atkinson,
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Zion Grady, quay Russau, et Pieta A. So like, if
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: you got how would you split that one hundred? It
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: is it forty for bo? Where are you there?
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: That's an interesting question because you've got it thirty. You're
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: dividing it between five guys, And so I think quay
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Russas is kind of one of the big I think
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: one of the truth for one of the true sophomores,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: whether it's at Pisatana or Zion Grady is not going
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: to play as much as we think. So you can
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: give whichever one of them you want, right ten And
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: I think you're going to give the other one twenty
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: or twenty five.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: So that's he able to say forty there, and.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Kway Russa is kind of the sixty four thousand dollars
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: question made because is he viewed as just he's going
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: to be one of the defensive ends, or is he
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: viewed as a situational guy.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: The situational he's noting twenty five percent.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: He's situational, then he's yeah, twenty twenty five percent. If
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: he's viewed as one of the guys he could be
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: forty percent because I get I have big expectations for him.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: It's just as a matter of do they feel he
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: can hold up against the run where he could just
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: be a true defensive end or is he just a
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: situational pass rush guy.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: Because if you're gonna give him twenty five percent, then
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: that leaves thirty five percent for bow Yeah Atkinson, which
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: leaves everybody else out. We saw Drake Quinn have some
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: good moments on Saturday, so it's, you know, certainly a
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: good problem to have, but at some point everybody kind
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: of wants to pare down a rotation because you you
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: don't ever want to get down to your last guy
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: being the guy that's out there for key snaps.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I think you're going to see bo Atkinson
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: for the non Kenyata Jackson of the non Kenyata Jackson guys.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: I think there's a pretty good chance bo Atkinson gets
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: the most snaps of the non Kenyatta Jackson guys. And
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: is that thirty percent of those remaining snaps or forty percent?
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: You know something, something in that thirty.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: To forty range is probably about right. This is gonna
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: be Riley Petty John coming in here, linebacker, someone who
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: we will be talking about in.
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: Just a few moments, because he has been someone for
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: whom there is some another person for whom there is
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: some expectation this year.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: How's that son gonna work on your photos?
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna either be a terrible glayer or give
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: me a wonderful, incredible backlight that will make it look
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: like someone who each of these players is destined for
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: it and the whole season and we'll just.
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: Have to see.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: All right, I got o good.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: So that was Riley Petty John walking in.
• 58:18
  Speaker 9: Just now.
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: And you know, we need to get to the linebackers
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: in a minute, but we do.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Do. You need to talk a little defensive tackle first,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: And defensive tackles are interesting because it feels like you've
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: got a top four and they feel very good about
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: the top four where you've got John Walker and Will Smith,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: You've got Edward Houston and James Smith, and those four
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: guys I think they feel really really good about. And
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: if those four guys stay healthy, that's probably plenty to
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: get you through the whole season where you're you can
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: play those guys, you know, fifty to fifty or sixty
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: forty or seventy thirty in terms of snaps and keep
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: everyone relatively fresh well. But then there's there's potential behind.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Those guys well, and you've got you know, Jason Moore.
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: Still they've got some talented freshman. Jamiir Perez, true freshman
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: out of Glenville listed it I think three forty now
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: down from three sixty. He was. He had a couple
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: of moments in the backfield or blowing up the backfield
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: on Saturday, and just glimpses. But it was obviously good
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: to see of a true freshman. But what we haven't
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: seen is a lot of cross training, because I've seen
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: John Walker at Knows, Will Smith at Knows and an
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Edric Houston walking off at Free Tech with James Smith.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to see if we ever get
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: to see James Smith and Pedric Houston together.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Carson Hinson just like Luke Montgomery, a veteran who knows
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: to bring his own pillow, very smart, hello and snacks.
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: That is that is the uh the lessons from the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: veteran offensive.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Lineman sounds like the title of an al we recorded
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: by offensive lineman.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what they do on the plane after win,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Austin and Carson and Luke. They drinking Doctor Pepper on
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: the plane home.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: That is there.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: That is their post win airplane tradition.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: So they're on the left.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: There was Josh Padilla coming in and as we mentioned earlier,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: he is definitely one of the big storylines during fall camp.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: That's that is definitely definitely one of the one.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Of the people to watch and names to know during
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: fall camp.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: And it'll be interesting. You know, they have rotated the
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: right guard over the last couple of years.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: During the playoff.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: I remember going into the playoff in twenty twenty four
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: as they're getting ready to head into that Tennessee game
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and they're saying, yeah, sure we might be rotating these
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: three guards, and you and I looking at each other
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: and going they're kidding, right.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were not kidding, And I always felt like
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: the byproduct of not necessarily loving your right guard, which
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: I think would not be the case this year. If you,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: I guess if if it's Austin Sarahvell, there'd be no rotating. No,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: And even you know, Gabe Van Sickle played a bet
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: last year, got to start, did not go, well, but
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: he was playing against some of the best defensive lines.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: Right for a lot of guys.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: Right, if you're going to judge an offensive lineman by
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: what happened in the Miami game, that's well, that's one
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: of the reasons people are not happy necessarily the Ohio
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: State as four starters returning. You know a lot of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: the some of the some of the Ohio State fans.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: But you know, at the same time you have.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: The Joe Moore Award, folks who know a little bit
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: about offensive line plays pointing at that. It was amed Tunkara.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: By the way, I know that I'll walk on offensive
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: and I didn't want to interrupt you as we as
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: we see folks movent on.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Let people know who's coming in.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: I know who this is too, do you?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes you do?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Comes Peyton and Piers, Yes, this is Peyton Pierce.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: We've also now discovered that Tony has better eyesight than me.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: Got the box fan doing it like a pro fans
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: will travel.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: H and that was with with him was Mason Williams,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the tight end that was a tight tight end transfer
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: from Ohio that we mentioned earlier. I'm looking at all
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: these folks and going with there's a lot of new
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: faces this year. But we knew that already. They said
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: one new faces this year. It's like, boy, yeah, there's
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of new a lot of guys who
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: for whom this is a new thing. Walking in and
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: seeing a bunch of weirdos sweating outside.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: It is I mean it is a little buggy.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: The thunderstorms came through earlier and it felt delightful and
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Columbus about six hours ago and now no longer happy
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: to be in jeans. Yeah, and we'll probably stick around
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: here for a little while longer.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think who we have not seen yet.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: We have not seen Bo Jackson. I don't think we've
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: seen Isaiah West.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: No, have we seen any of the safeties?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just thinking through like ear a little
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Terry Moore, I'm not sure.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: Have not seen Jayleen MacLean.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: No, No, And.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: Again there's no reason for concerning We're just going through
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: a mental check last year.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: And I don't know that there's to go back to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: the Tate Martelli year.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know there's anyone here that we Jeremiah Smith
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: is here, the insane is here. I don't know that
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: there is anyone in Club Martel where we're going to
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: stick around till nine o'clock.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: Just to make sure they have checked in.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: No, I am not.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: And we'll run out of battery at some point too,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: so we'll.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: Have to We'll have to.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Stop for that reason, if nothing else.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: They have not seen Roberts yet, No, I have not.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: This is Landry Breed true freshman offensive lineman on the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: left here.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: Coach Wall has arrived.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: Coach Wall.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Have we seen Legend Bay?
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we have.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: Have we seen Yeah, he was one. I was just
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: wondering about. Have we seen Jay Timmins.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: I don't think I've seen j Timmins now.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: Sometimes the f the freshmen arrive on a bus.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: That is that does happen.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that still happens in the nil world.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that that I don't know. But yes, they used
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: to that. It would be a bus of And there's
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: a bunch of guys walking.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: In right now. These are some guys we've seen before.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Riley played John once again. Braxton remembers Lockhart on the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: right here, fresh remember in the red.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: So at this point, no, justin Martin.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I've seen Justin Martin. I don't
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: think I've seen Luke Fazy.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: Kenana Jackson, noo Atkinson, no Quae Russell.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: So there goes Braxton, remember the other way, all six
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: foot five of him.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he is a He is.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: A big dude.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: So just imagine and two years when he's fifty three pounds.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: That's not someone that you're probably going to be seeing
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: a ton this year situationally and and maybe on special
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: teams Like that's that's the kind of person that might
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: be a real special team's assassin.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: This year, but not probably not seeing a lot on defense,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: and that.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: A couple of a couple of special teamers on the
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: fresh Among the freshmen that I saw on Saturday were
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: Chris Andry Junior and ja Queen Guildford on punt block and.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Chris hey jews got some speed and some length to him.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they were getting after it for sure. And
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: I thought that was an interesting combo.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: This is Sam Greer offensive lineman.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: Because we have seen freshman wide receivers get some big
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: punts punt blocks in their time, namely Chris Ala uh huh.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's another person.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: Uh right there in Sam.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Greer, who is not not going to be a this
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: year person, but a watch this space Yerson, that's he.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: He is someone who you know, well, we'll see how
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: this year's tackle situation plays out and who's back next
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: year and all that kind of stuff, but that is
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: someone who I would bet on being a starting tackle
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: at Ohio State at some point twenty twenty seven or
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, whatever it is.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, because I know Sam Greer, I think probably right
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: now he's battling for the I guess fifth tackle spot
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: if we count Austin seerveld Ian bore count, which is yeah,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: and then Carter Lowe has been wrapping in front of
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: him for Sean Washington has also been in there a little.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Bit Bringfield, Ohio native transfer from Dartmouth so I fall
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: back school from the Big Green.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: To and then Deontay Armstrong has also been in that
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: mix as well. So we saw Sam Grear in in
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: the spring getting a lot of reps with the two's
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: because of injuries to Philip Daniels and Austin Sierraveld. But
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: now you're seeing maybe some of the veterans kind of
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: well hold him off for.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Now right well, and when we saw him in the spring, yeah,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: it was only because there were some guys out, but
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: he didn't look completely out of place as a true
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: freshman in the spring.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: With the two's and that that to me is.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: A pretty good marker for future success. Again, not you know,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: not not this year, but someone that is probably going
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: to be a player to keep a real close eye
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: on in the next couple of years because he's he's
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: going to be someone someone who's going to be playing
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of very meaningful snaps at a very meaningful
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: spot for Ohio State.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: We've talked defensive line. We we've done a Buckeye Weekly
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: recently about the linebackers speaking of there goes Peyton Pierce.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: So we'll save all of the criticism until he's out
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: of here.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: Shot.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: I'm just fascinated to see how deep they choose to
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: go one how deep can they go? And then too,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: how deep they choose to go? Do they go as
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: deep as they can if they can go four deep?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: And I think that's gonna be interesting to watch because
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: they're gonna want to play the guys, They're gonna want
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: to get the young guys out there. Who came here
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: and have you know, got some snaps last year and
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: as true freshman and now the soft forest Riley Petty,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: John tj Alford. You know we said it after you
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: lost freshmen to the transfer portal last year. You got
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: to know what these guys can.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Do, right, Yeah, And you are going to lose guys
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: to the portal after one year just based on potential
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: because there are we've seen this recently in recruiting where
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Ohio State can want an end state kid, but if
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: a school like oh I don't know, say Colorado, wants
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: to throw a big check at him, that's hard to
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: say no to. And so you're gonna have guys in
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: high school recruiting like that, but you're gonna have guys
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: after one year where you have the Ohio State stamp
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: of approval on you.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: There are going to be a certain number of guys
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: who are gonna go in the world.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame just took two ole high of state wide
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: receivers who after their true freshman seasons and neither put
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: up a huge or sorry sorry one after Quincy Porter
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: after his true freshman season and Milin Graham after his
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: second season, and neither of them had.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: Put up huge numbers.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: It was kind of a lot of potential and pedigree
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: and but that you know, even for Notre Dame, which
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: is fairly selective in the guys it takes, that was enough.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: To And with the linebackers that we're talking about, you
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: now invested two years into. You don't want to lose them,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: so you need to know and especially because they could
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: they'll be playing even more next year as and so
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: it's just if you lose lose them at this point,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: you have to replace them, and it becomes more difficult
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: to do so because you don't want to lose somebody
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: after two years of investing and then have you know
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: what to show for it? Right, total snaps over two
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: years after all the work and effort that you put
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: into to go get two national recruits at linebacker.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I turned the camera over to let you see
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Jordan Wood's very tall corner Epicton Away slid in the
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: un the unblocked her on the back.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: Larry Johnson loves his ability to rush the passer.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, and that's that's another guy who might
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: be someone you see more of this year than people
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: are expecting. Like it's there's there's a lot of potential there,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: and you just you never quite know first year to
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: the second year, how how.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: Much how much growth.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Is there, how much development is there? And how you
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: know is is that someone who's ready for a bigger role.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't said something like, what do we had about
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: an hour and ten minutes on you?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: An hour and ten minutes right now? Yes, So I
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: can't imagine we're going to go past an hour and
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: a half, but uh, we can.
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  Speaker 4: We can certainly get through our last couple of position groups.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: See who we see.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: And so with we we've kind of touched on linebackers.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: So then if we move to I guess let's stop
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: corners outside corners, which right now is they're running. They've
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: got four guys that are playing in the top two
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: actually five when you're throwing. Uh, Jordan Thomas as well,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: but generally it's been with the first team Jermain demon
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: Sanchez always yes, and then either Jermaine Matthews or Dominic Kelly,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: and then Dominic Kelly with the twos with Cam Coleman
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: or Cam Calhoun, and then sometimes you'll see Jordan Thomas
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: out there. So those five guys, but we also know
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: that the nickel situation is going to be impacted somehow
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: with a guy like Jay Tennants, who could play corner,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: but he's been playing inside. He's been playing nickel with
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: the ones. And it's a deep group except for the
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: fact that there's one freshman nickel and like he's he's
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: that position. But then you could also put Jermaine Matthews there.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: So overall they've got some guys that can cover different
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: spots and different ground, which I think makes them deeper
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: just by that.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: By way of that, there's a lot of potential there
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of options there, and it's.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: It's an intriguing group, it really is.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Do you have so many, so many guys who.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 4: Could potentially work the way the group.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: You feel very good about the top two, right, you
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: feel very good about Jermaine Matthews. You feel very good
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: about Devin Sanchez, and after that man j Timmins being
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: where he is is legitimately surprising. That is a legitimately
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: impressive thing to have him where.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: At the moment right now that you're you're looking at him,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Jake Cook.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 7: Offensive Lineman.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: The last batch coming in here is de.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Jones defensive back, and he is one of the most
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: sneakily athletic guys on the team.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: Who's Jones?
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Who he's That's one of the guys. Where again, like
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: I think the average fan wouldn't necessarily be able to
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: tell you what number he wears or what he looks like.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: That's one of those guys.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: That man, he he might make an NFL roster and
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: stick for quite a while just because he's such a
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: good athlete and.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: He's he I think he's never one working with the
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: ones at gunner right now. But also he made Bruce
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: Feldman's Freaks list, did he like?
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: Yah?
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: Maybe like twenty one?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: Well that's his uniform number, so yeah makes.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: That so yeah, six two, two, twelve plays. Corner began
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: his career as a safety, special teams guy, just all
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: around good team guy, glue guy if you will, ye,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: which is you know, a good thing for defensive back.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Ye.
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  Speaker 4: That was Tucker Smith.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: He was the one offensive lineman, one player, one true
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: freshman who was not a early and rollie.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: So he's the only one.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: Who is new this summer.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: And for freshman offensive lineman, you assume that's it, right,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: You next year.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: The summer.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's even more so the case. So you know,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: that's that's a very much a well, we'll see you
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: next year, but but he is, he is here as well.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: And then safety has been really interesting because with the ones,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: it's just been Jalen McLain and Earl Little, and Earl
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: has been in the box and Jalen McLain has been
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: out deep or also to the field when they're playing splits.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: But there's been no three safety looks that we've seen
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: between you know, because we we we've projected everybody projected
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: Terry Moore in there somewhere and he's been with the
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: two's with Lee roy Roker, him and Lee roy Roker
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: going back and forth, just switching between boundary and field.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: And it's those two guys have been strictly with the
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: two's that we've seen, and it's been Jalen McLain and
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: Earlttle strictly with the ones. So it feels like that
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: is settled until we start seeing some packages with three
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: safeties to know who is that third safety.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Well, and the question to me with the defense, and
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: this is kind of a big picture question, is are
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: we going to see more alignments with three linebackers, three.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: Corners or three safeties.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Right now, it feels like three safeties is probably running
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: in third place there.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree where you're.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: Seeing when they're running the nickel out there, it's three corners,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: and but you know you're going to see four to
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: three because they're going to see a lot of twelve
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: personnel from opponents this year. So I think the I
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: had sort of assumed, based on the fact that they
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: brought in two transfer safeties and they had Jalen McLain
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: coming back, and they played three safeties last year in
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: the secondary, that you would have probably had, you know,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Terry Moore at that deep safety and ere a little
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: at that nickel, and that's not how it's been and nope.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: So I think that you kind of have to give
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: Jay Timmins credit for seizing a job that was not
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: necessarily a well you don't have anyone else there to
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: do it. They brought in guys who they thought could
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: do it, right, he maybe has sort of seized that spot.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it'll be interesting to talk with Tim
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: wall and Matt Greary about nobody. The coaches always don't
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: always say like, well, I don't like to project He's like,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: but then why recruit you.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: Know, but like this this is a projection business.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: Right, What chances did they give when they were recruiting
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: him and when they signed him or even in the
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: spring that this is going to be our starting nickelback
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: because something had to happen, and maybe they knew back
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: then because he's been out there since the very first weekend.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yea.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 4: Becomes Philip Daniels.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm trying to pick up the blitz
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: here the left people come from the right, people coming
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: right up the a gap.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: So many people don't care for it. Happy to be
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: checking into the hotel. They had the day off of
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: practice today. They will not have the day off for
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: a while, probably a week, maybe Sunday. I have not
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: seen the entire remember the entire schedule for the practice,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: but they're going to be back at it on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: In pads and then we will have interviews Wednesday, Wednesday
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, Smith and I think some other guys. Thursday
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: is Matt Patricia and some other guys. And I believe
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: Saturday we at Ryan Day.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, so I believe Wednesday will be offensive guys with
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: Arthur Smith and then some defensive guys with Matt Patricia
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: just trying to I think Brandon Inn this is one
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: of those guys, probably alignment as well. So always interesting
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: to see to hear names unprompted or to get feedback
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: on names that we ask about. Either way this time
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: of year works for me, but always, as we say,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: always better. I got that sciatica going.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: Tim Wolton, cornerback's coach, former Ohio State cornerback as well.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: I wonder what where was what hotel was he checking
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: into back in like.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: That's a good question.
• 1:20:58
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• 1:21:01
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• 1:21:17
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• 1:21:19
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• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're at an hour and twenty minutes right now,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: so we will we will probably start wrapping up relatively soon.
• 1:21:29
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• 1:21:31
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• 1:21:32
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• 1:21:35
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• 1:21:37
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• 1:22:19
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• 1:22:29
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• 1:22:31
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• 1:22:33
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• 1:23:24
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  Speaker 3: It's it's active but not weird, and it's not crazy.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: It's the morning. This is it's healthy.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: People getting in under the wire here.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: See Christian Lagro, you have to becomes Christian Lagro linebacker.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: Got a couple more stragglers coming in. I do wonder
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: if it's get here by eight.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: That's that's what I'm wondering, is is what the what
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: the cutoff time is?
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: When the when the clock strikes zero.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: And then I think it would be good, like the
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: cutoff is eight, but they make Connor Hawkins arrive at
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 3: seven fifty eight, but he has to get from this
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: car to the second level to check in within two minutes.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: And if he doesn't get check in in time, everyone
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: has to do three laps around the home.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah. They making parallel park man. Yeah, so something like that.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: And now with the self parking cars, do it yourself.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: And if you can't do it, then everybody has to
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: check in, check out and check in.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: Check back in again. Yep, yep, yeah. I think that
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: that's next level. That's what fall camp is all about.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: Here comes about Atkinson on the regular.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 4: One of the one of the people we've been talking
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: about quite a bit.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: And then yeah, do guys coming in the middle or
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: start over in the middle.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: Any concern about milking out of Jackson yet?
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: Concern this would probably be a strong, strong word, but
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: any concern about Garrett Stover not repping Kate Stover, Hey,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: I mean wrapping John Deere.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: So that that is very much the Here gomes to
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: Shawn Washington. He's the offensive one that he was transferred
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: from get cart.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: But isn't wrapping John Deere basically Stover?
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking that you know it is it
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: is John Deere as closely assided associated with the Stover
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: brand as the Stover name itself.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: Have another jersey possibly it's not a Brian Heartline jersey Dolphins.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: I think eighty two Dolphins might be a Brian Hartline jersey.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 11: M h m hmm.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: That's Nate Roberts in the.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 6: Left Parish jersey.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: There you go on me for not remembering number eighty
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: two on the Dolphins. Is but you know, you of
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: that with the tight end room, of really supporting the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: tight end room, that.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: Is very cool.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: The tight ends have definitely won the day. In terms
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: of the jerseys, yes, yep, there have been no receiver jerseys,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: just receiver shirts. Yes, not even a jersey. So we've
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: seen Max Claire, will Kes, Merrick and Cage stove A
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: jerseys all by tight ends.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 7: Tight ends.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the brotherhood. I'll make Keenan proud. So I
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: want the toughest room. And also the room has the
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: most jerseys of former teammates. And it turns out they're
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: gonna win like three nothing.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: I think when we hit an hour and a half,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: we are gonna call it. We're getting close to that point, now,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: do you promise?
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 4: I can't make any promises.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: That's the fun thing about this one is like when
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: when do you choose to call it? And some sometimes
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: you wait until they're all here, and sometimes wait un
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: till you've seen everybody that you came to see.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: And it's also mystery possible that someone like Kenyata Jackson
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: happened to go here comes Jason Moore, defensive tackle. It's
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: entirely possible that someone like Kenyata Jackson happened to come
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: in on the right side.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're facing to the left side.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: That's certainly a possibility.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 11: This looks like Deyonta Armstrong, I believe, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, representing representing, Yes, representing former High States center with
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: a run the damn.
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  Speaker 4: Ball hat Seth McLoughlin.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw maybe in line to be the starting
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: center for the.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 3: Burgh Steelers Detroit Lions down with an injury. He's not
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: going to be back for a while. So Sep McLaughlin's
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: the number one center right now for the Lions. So
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: I know he's finally getting his shot after dealing with
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: injuries to start his career.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: He was someone who that's one of the stranger Ohio
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: State careers that you'll ever have, where he was a
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: National Award winner but only played nine games game something
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: like that, and in his entire Ohio State careers.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: And census, I'm all American.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yep, yeah.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: Got a got a tree, but.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 3: I did swing by buck I Grove today. So they
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: got placeholders for all of the new plaques finally, basically
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: just a piece of paper saying this is where this
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: one's going to go. In this where the tree is
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: already there. They's got to get the plaques there for everybody.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: So that was good to see that.
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  Speaker 4: They're on that now Zion Grady.
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  Speaker 1: And then a minute or two ago, in case we
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  Speaker 1: were looking and we're thinking, who is that guy who
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: looks familiar?
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  Speaker 4: That was Ion Grady a minute ago.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're wondering, you know the coaches don't stay here. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: some staffers perhaps.
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  Speaker 1: Told us the story of he has served his time
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  Speaker 1: in the fall camp salt mines.
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  Speaker 3: Plus Uh did was he the one who had to
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  Speaker 3: check in Jeremiah.
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  Speaker 1: And yes at Big Days last year? Yeah, Big tim
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: Meny Days last year because neither Jeremiah Smith nor Caleb
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: Downs nor Sunny Styles was yet twenty one years.
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  Speaker 4: Old and could legally check into a hotel themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that was That was a good synopsis of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Five Ohio state football team.
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  Speaker 1: Young enough that the other stars were still And that's
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: why I check into a hotel room themselfs.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Day doesn't want players graduating early from high school
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  Speaker 3: anymore because I'm I'm tired of checking players into the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: So you get here.
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  Speaker 1: When you get here, he knows he has to rent
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  Speaker 1: the car, right, yes, all right, we're gonna give this
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  Speaker 1: another two minutes. And if we don't see anyone. We
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: are going to call it because I think we've got
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  Speaker 1: to be getting close to close to the end of
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  Speaker 1: the line here, right, I can only I can only
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: think of a few play Jayleen McClain Kenyat of Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: There's only a few people.
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  Speaker 3: Have seen the running backs yet.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's true. We haven't seen Bo. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: I've seen Isaiah yet.
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  Speaker 7: I think I saw.
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  Speaker 4: Turbo Rogers earlier.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I think I saw Legend Bay too, like in the
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: middle of a group of people where I didn't get
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: a great look, but he was I think behind two
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: other people as he came in.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't I definitely have not seen Bo Jackson.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: I don't think I've seen Isiah West.
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  Speaker 3: So I have not seen James Smith Smith No, no,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: or John Walker.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: So are you're telling me that we need to stick around.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I'm not saying that. And when you say
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: we you can.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: While we're waiting, I guess we can very quickly hit
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: on special teams.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, since we've talked about it. The interesting thing on
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: Saturday is they had the transfer kicker from Notre Dame,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: kicking from fifty to sixty rather than counter hawkings. They
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: when they when they like stopped practice or whatever. After
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: it's like all right, let's let's go. And for the
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: life of me, I can't remember the name. It's it yeah, freeflying. Yes,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: and kicked a couple of times in Notre Dame last year. Ye,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: huge lake because he was booming them early before practice.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: But I just thought it was interesting in that we
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: didn't really get a chance to ask to Day about that.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: But maybe that's something we'll eventually get you. It's just
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: it's not necessarily at the forefront. One you're asking questions
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: about camp, where things are with the kickers, and that's
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 3: you know, that's partly our fault. But still there's so
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: it's a lightning round so.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Well and every year I think it
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: would probably be ridiculous to come out here that they
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: roster and like check guys off, because you're not really
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: taking attendance, but also that you're trying to remember.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well you know, I've seen people do that, but
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: then they leave before everybody's gone, before everybody's here.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I think this is Will Smith coming in over
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: the left here. It looks like Will I think, well,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: he's gonna walk all the way down the sidewalk.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 3: But we are starting to lose media members and you're
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 3: gonna be losing another one pretty soon. To him to say, now.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Another veteran coming with his own pillow. That feels like
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: that might be the storyline.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 7: Of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and at this point tomorrow they're probably going to
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 3: be exhausted.
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  Speaker 9: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've Yeah, I think we're I think we
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: have hit our hit our magical time.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 4: So the sun is, the sun is setting over the
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 4: parking garage.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: Rules set, you sent you home with the the beautiful
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: sight of the sun setting over the parking garage. That's
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: how you know. That's how the Druids knew when it
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: was time to stop part media day check in, hotel
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: check and day check. It's not it's not officially a
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: media day no matter what we say.
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  Speaker 4: But we do.
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• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: of this little want to see and this annual Ohio
• 1:35:02
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• 1:35:07
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  Speaker 1: So you've got so now now.
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  Speaker 3: Now right now we can go.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: Finally it is just shown up first really normally that yeah,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: normally for a game the first ones on the field.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: Here comes James Smith and play Rusau.
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  Speaker 5: M hm.
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  Speaker 9: Hm.
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  Speaker 4: That one's blak true freshman safety earlier.
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• 1:36:15
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• 1:36:18
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  Speaker 4: Who wore it best today? Best? Who? Who is I
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: do not do? Who was a you know who?
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: Who did not pull it off? Who pulled it off?
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 3: I I've gotten nothing on the red carpet staff. That's
• 1:36:44
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• 1:36:47
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