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Updates On Ohio State Spring Game, Buckeyes' White House Visit · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, March twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Of them your host Tom or the Texas game in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty eight days, the game he gets
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to talk to Ryan Day, Matt Patricia,
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  Speaker 1: and Brian Hartline on Monday Inside of What He Hates
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  Speaker 1: Athletic Center.
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  Speaker 2: Tony Gridaman was there for all of the fun.
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  Speaker 1: He did his two minute drill column. We have to do,
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  Speaker 1: like I guess, a twelve minute drill, which still is
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  Speaker 1: going to be kind of fast for this. I think
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  Speaker 1: a twelve minute drill feels like that's like a surface
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  Speaker 1: academy drive. But it's gonna be a little uptempo for
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  Speaker 1: us because we have a lot to talk about. This
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  Speaker 1: is just one of these little things that I noticed.
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  Speaker 1: But Ryan Day just happened to know that there were
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty nine days till the Texas game.
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  Speaker 1: He just kind of like casually, you know, mention that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, first of all, Ryan, thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 1: But second of all, you know, that's you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have heard so much about the Texas game already in
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  Speaker 1: here in a way you never hear about the first
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  Speaker 1: game in this time of year. It just feels like
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  Speaker 1: they're using that to create a sense of urgency around
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  Speaker 1: a team where it's like, you know, how do you
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  Speaker 1: keep a championship team from getting complacent? And you go, well,
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  Speaker 1: guess who's coming to town.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's just interesting because the spring game keeps
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  Speaker 3: keeps getting tied to that as well, in terms of
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  Speaker 3: we want to have a spring game because it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be the last time they're going to be in
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  Speaker 3: the stadium with Steaks in the crowd until Texas. And
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  Speaker 3: however many days each time he talks about it, So
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  Speaker 3: it is interesting that they've got this target and because
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  Speaker 3: you can't do it with Bakron, you can't do it
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  Speaker 3: with you know, even Minnesota. At Minnesota, it's like, eh,
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  Speaker 3: but you can do it with Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, so let's talk for a moment about
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  Speaker 1: the Spring Showcase. The Spring Showcase, Brian Day provided a
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  Speaker 1: little more context around it, and you know, the question
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  Speaker 1: he was asked was, you know, why did you guys
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  Speaker 1: decide to do a Spring showcase. While the general trend
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  Speaker 1: nationally has been to get away from that because you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to have any focus on your players, because
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  Speaker 1: you don't want people getting tampered with and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: He seems like.
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  Speaker 1: He's going one hundred and eighty degrees the other direction
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he said it's going to be a spring game,
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  Speaker 3: and the only reason they haven't come out and said,
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  Speaker 3: like exactly that is, you know, just injuries or something,
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  Speaker 3: you know, where they're to the point where're like, well,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to risk anything. But he definitely wants
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  Speaker 3: to have a spring game and do eleven on eleven
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  Speaker 3: and have some tackling perhaps and things like that because
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  Speaker 3: it helps those young guys. It gives them something to
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  Speaker 3: where when they're out there against Texas, it's not the
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  Speaker 3: first time they're in the shoe and a crowd of
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  Speaker 3: eighty to one hundred thousand people. However, many decided to
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  Speaker 3: show up so they've had some experience there and that's
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  Speaker 3: something that every single coach we've ever covered at Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State has talked about. The spring game is a benefit.
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  Speaker 3: It's something that not a lot of schools have and
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  Speaker 3: gets the younger guys prepared for what they're going to
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  Speaker 3: see and what they're gonna see that first Saturday of
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  Speaker 3: the season is for them. It's gonna be huge, but
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  Speaker 3: at least it won't be their first time running out
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  Speaker 3: of a tunnel in front of a crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's not a you know, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: full game, but it's like a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: dress rehearsal before you have your final, you know, your
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  Speaker 1: final exam. So, yes, that is. That's the spring game.
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  Speaker 1: Two days after the spring game, we also got confirmation
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  Speaker 1: from Ryan Day about something we had talked about on
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  Speaker 1: our board last week. We'd sort of gotten a heads
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  Speaker 1: up that there's probably gonna be the deal. The Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: are going to the White House. So that's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen two days after the spring game. It's a Monday
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  Speaker 1: after the spring game, April fourteenth, and Brian A seems
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  Speaker 1: like he's pretty pretty excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he talked about you know when when you're a
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  Speaker 3: coach and you see every year all of these teams
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  Speaker 3: that have been able to do that. It becomes sort
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  Speaker 3: of a goal and you know the honor of being
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  Speaker 3: there and you mention you know that the Eagles are
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  Speaker 3: gonna be doing it after the Super Bowl. So it's
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  Speaker 3: something where you know, just it's like a bucket list
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  Speaker 3: item for coaches. I think, you know, you want your
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  Speaker 3: championship and now it's like, well, where are you gonna go?
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna go to Disney World.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for the MVP, and that's kind of what this
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  Speaker 3: is for national Championship team, the last one, of course
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  Speaker 3: being in the twenty fourteen team that went in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's those are both coming up in April.
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  Speaker 1: So there's plenty of plenty that's gonna be happening there.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, there's still a little bit of you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's all ahead, there's still a whole bunch of work
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  Speaker 1: between now and then all through spring, and there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit of an adjustment for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. I mean, there's a lot of new faces
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  Speaker 1: on the field. There's also some new faces on the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff. Both of the most of the coordinators are
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  Speaker 1: guys who were in different roles than they were last year.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia's in a whole not only a whole different building,
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  Speaker 1: but a whole different level than where he's been for.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the last twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: He talked through some of the adjustments there, and you
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  Speaker 1: know why you would think, okay, NFL to college, that's
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  Speaker 1: a big step down. He doesn't seem to see it
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  Speaker 1: that way.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I think probably your bank account doesn't see
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  Speaker 3: it that way either. No, so that helps. But he
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  Speaker 3: did say he started out as a college coach and
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  Speaker 3: then you're off to the NFL for twenty five years
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, but then you come back because one of
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  Speaker 3: he's like, it's Ohio State. This is you know, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't get better than this, and you want to get
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  Speaker 3: back to that teaching, which is something we've heard from
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  Speaker 3: other coaches before and we've talked about when you become
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  Speaker 3: a head coach, what do you miss most? I miss coaching,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you miss the teaching, and this is an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to get back to that, to the you know,
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  Speaker 3: get back to your roots and so to speak. And
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  Speaker 3: you know this is not a step down from anything
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  Speaker 3: being a coordinator in a major place like this. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there are only so many places you can go above this,
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  Speaker 3: and it's generally head coach of the NFL or head
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  Speaker 3: coach in college. So this is an opportunity for him
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  Speaker 3: to get back to his roots and get back to
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  Speaker 3: coaching and teaching and building relationships. And now he's getting
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  Speaker 3: to experience all different kinds of relationships as we watch,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like seventy players walk you know, visiting this
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  Speaker 3: week and all of their families and many, many, many
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  Speaker 3: relationships to build throughout the entire year for.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia, Yeah, this is the one week where it's
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  Speaker 1: like the past, present, and future of Ohio State football
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  Speaker 1: because a Mecca Abuka is down there running getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for Pro Day on Wednesday. They have obviously the current
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  Speaker 1: team with the spring ball and then they also Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day was tied up with recruiting stuff, like the coaches
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  Speaker 1: were like in and out during during the interviews because
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  Speaker 1: there are a ton of recruits in town as well.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of stuff going on in here
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  Speaker 1: for Patricia, he has in addition to like, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: get to coach and all that kind of fun stuff.
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  Speaker 2: He also has some real talented players to work with.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of a blank slate because
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  Speaker 1: so many guys are off to the NFL. But man,
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  Speaker 1: you listen to him talk about c. J. Hick, you
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  Speaker 1: listen to him talk about the nickel position and what
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  Speaker 1: they might do there, it feels like he kind of
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  Speaker 1: see him like looking and kind of go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like stroking his beard, like, yes, yes, I can work.
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  Speaker 3: With this depending a cat like that was one of
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  Speaker 3: the questions I wanted to ask him, because you've got
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  Speaker 3: a larger roster now at college than you do in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL. So the NFL you can only.
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  Speaker 2: Do so much.
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  Speaker 3: Now you have the ability to do more now. You
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  Speaker 3: don't want to know the whole paralysis by analysis they're
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  Speaker 3: doing too much. But I wanted to get his feelings
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  Speaker 3: under rotating and he doesn't seem to have any issues.
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  Speaker 3: If if you can play, they're gonna, you know, find
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  Speaker 3: roles for you, which we've talked about before. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've the big nickel, which used to be
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  Speaker 3: sunny styles, a little nickel, you know, Jordan Hancock like
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  Speaker 3: that whole thing. If you've got one guy that can
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  Speaker 3: handle it, that's perfect. I think they're still searching for that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Renzel Styles Junior is you know, he's a
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  Speaker 3: big corner, but where can he can he handle the
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  Speaker 3: run game? And so there are all different kinds of things,
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  Speaker 3: And talking about c J. Hicks, like he just lights
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  Speaker 3: up in terms of and you're thinking, well, yeah, c J.
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  Speaker 3: Hicks is fast. It's like, well, he talks about his
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  Speaker 3: power and his pop and just the desire to learn
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  Speaker 3: and get better.
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  Speaker 2: And now over to the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Hartline. Obviously he's not even in a new role.
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  Speaker 1: He was really basically in this role two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and so many of the questions for him today had
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  Speaker 1: to do with, you're doing the same thing you were
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  Speaker 1: doing two years ago, but.
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  Speaker 2: But you're really, I mean really you're not.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, just sort of the adjustment there. There's
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  Speaker 1: so much that's different there, both in terms of his responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: but also in terms of just the technology and like
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  Speaker 1: the mechanics of what you do as the guy who's
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  Speaker 1: calling the plays during practice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now he's got the headset and he's the voice,
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  Speaker 3: and talked about just making sure that there's the voice
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  Speaker 3: that he is giving is the one that carries the
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  Speaker 3: most weight or like, he's not trying to tell the
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks anything different than what Billy Fessler is telling them,
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  Speaker 3: so he's in control of that. But also Devin Jordan,
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  Speaker 3: the assistant receivers coach, handles the receivers for some time.
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  Speaker 3: But then you know, also Brian's there dealing with that
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  Speaker 3: as well. And you talked about needing the balance to
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  Speaker 3: where you're part of the offense, but you're not you're
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  Speaker 3: not interfering with the teaching of the quarterbacks, but you're
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  Speaker 3: making sure your guys are still getting taken care of
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  Speaker 3: that receiver. So he did talk about like the balance
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  Speaker 3: and knowing when he's being pulled in one direction too
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  Speaker 3: far or another, and he said, like, I have that
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  Speaker 3: awareness when I'm going one way or the other. So
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  Speaker 3: it's just you know, he's learning as well throughout this
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  Speaker 3: whole process.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we're gonna have a lot to learn about
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  Speaker 1: this week because this is one of the busiest weeks
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  Speaker 1: of the year in terms of how often we're in here. Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: we're in here for defensive line interviews. Wednesday, OSU Pro Day, Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: it's tight Ends and someone else.
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  Speaker 2: It's the year of the Linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean it's really the No one has
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  Speaker 1: said it's the year of the linebackers that on's Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll have four days of coverage from in here,
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  Speaker 1: and there was so much stuff from these interviews that
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've gotten to yet. I'll probably do
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  Speaker 1: a show with some of these interview clips later in
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  Speaker 1: the week just because there's so much good stuff that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, plenty of meat left on that bone, and then.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty of other stuff coming up this week as well.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, the past president future of Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: football in this in this very room all week long,
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  Speaker 1: So there will be plenty of plenty of that too,
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  Speaker 1: Plenty of that to talk about all week long as
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  Speaker 1: spring ball sort of rolls along and we head towards
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  Speaker 1: the Spring Showcase, which is maybe more of a spring game,
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  Speaker 1: and then a trip to the White House, and then
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  Speaker 1: there all.
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  Speaker 2: The recruiting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be ton to talk about, and we would
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  Speaker 1: love to talk about it all with you at Buckeyehuddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. That's where Tony Kevin and I cover the team,
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  Speaker 1: Mark covers recruiting. We've got our whole team of ex's
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  Speaker 1: nose garus there as well to make you a smarter
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  Speaker 1: football fan, all at Buckeye Huddle dot com. That'll do
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  Speaker 1: it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow