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Ohio State Linebackers DESTROY NFL Combine · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, February twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Or the ball State game in one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: this is NFL Combine week in Indianapolis, and oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: are some Ohio State players making a name for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times this week is kind of a yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this guy ran this much and he jumped that far
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  Speaker 1: and he did whatever, and everyone kind of goes, all right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's about what I thought. The Ohio State linebacker Corps
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  Speaker 1: making some history in the at the NFL Combine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined by Tody Gerderman, a Puckeheadle dot com. Tony, I
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  Speaker 1: did not see you on NFL network. What did you
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  Speaker 1: end up running the forty.
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  Speaker 3: In dress shoes? It was a mistake. I slipped at
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  Speaker 3: the start, also had to finish three times in the
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  Speaker 3: middle subten though that's good.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you got out of there without a
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  Speaker 1: pulled hamstring and beat rich Eisen, that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 3: Too, polled hammis and and what they called a knackne
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well that's fine, you know what the good you
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  Speaker 1: know what they say. The best thing about having two
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  Speaker 1: polled hamstrings is there's not a third one to pull.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's good. That's as you're through the worst
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  Speaker 1: of it. Now on to the best of it. And
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  Speaker 1: the best of it was holy smoke, sunny styles. I
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  Speaker 1: think we both knew. You know, this is someone who
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  Speaker 1: has been viewed as an athletic freak since he was
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  Speaker 1: about a sophomore in high school.
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  Speaker 2: And we I think we.
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  Speaker 1: You were there with me, I believe when we saw
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  Speaker 1: him play in high school during the COVID season, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, even then, it was kind of like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is not a normal human being. And man,
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  Speaker 1: oh man. You look at the testing numbers and there
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  Speaker 1: are athleticism and explosiveness metrics, and by a lot of them,
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  Speaker 1: he is number one all time in terms of linebackers
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  Speaker 1: at the combine.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's amazing. Because he's he beats all
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  Speaker 3: of the metrics, measuring in at six five, two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and forty four pounds, which is bigger than just about
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  Speaker 3: any linebacker that's ever, you know, combined the height and
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  Speaker 3: the weight, and then to be as fast as so
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  Speaker 3: many just a handful of the fastest linebackers running a
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  Speaker 3: four to four to six tied with r Vel Reese
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  Speaker 3: for the fastest on the day among the linebackers. And
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  Speaker 3: the forty three and a half inch vertical jump, which
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  Speaker 3: is the best. It's been the best at the combine
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  Speaker 3: since twenty twenty three, and I think only five guys
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  Speaker 3: have topped it in the last decade, and none of
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  Speaker 3: those are linebackers. It's the best by a linebacker. And
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  Speaker 3: so was the broad jump eleven foot two inch broad jump.
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  Speaker 3: And the only area where he struggled were maybe the
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  Speaker 3: two agility drills, the twenty yard shuttle and the three cone,
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  Speaker 3: where he was tied for third I think in the
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  Speaker 3: twenty yard shuttle among the ten linebackers, and then was
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  Speaker 3: sixth in the three cone in the among the ten linebackers,
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  Speaker 3: and I think one of those he slipped in and
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  Speaker 3: had to redo it. But as I wrote on afterwards, Basically,
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  Speaker 3: that's you know, if you're gonna look at all of
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  Speaker 3: this and go yeah, but the agility, it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: complaining to Superman, like why can't you shoot webs out
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  Speaker 3: of your wrists? He's like, he's pretty good in the
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  Speaker 3: way everything else that he was doing, and then watching
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  Speaker 3: him just go through the drills and it's just so smooth,
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  Speaker 3: and it was confirmation of everything that we've seen forever
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  Speaker 3: and so many people around Central Ohio who have covered
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  Speaker 3: basketball or football over the past almost decade, to us,
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  Speaker 3: to those of us who have done that, like this
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  Speaker 3: is it's impressive, But it's not a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: No, definitely not a surprise. Also not even remotely a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: The interview portion of the process. There were reports out
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  Speaker 1: of a bunch of teams that he was as impressive
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  Speaker 1: in the interview process as he was on the field,
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  Speaker 1: which yep, that is also not a surprise to any
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  Speaker 1: of us who have covered him over the years.
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  Speaker 2: There is a metric a guy on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: The account is math Bomb, and he has a thing
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  Speaker 1: called the Relative Athletic Score where he posts heights and
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  Speaker 1: weights and all the different measurements and metrics for all
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  Speaker 1: these different positions and has hundreds, if not thousands of
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  Speaker 1: players over the years in their combine scores and where
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  Speaker 1: they ranked, and Sonny ranked a perfect ten point oh
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  Speaker 1: number one all time for linebackers. But if you put
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  Speaker 1: his scores in there with wide receivers, he also would
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  Speaker 1: have been a perfect ten point zero. And I think
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  Speaker 1: there was one other He was a little less than
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  Speaker 1: a ten if you ported his scores over to a
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  Speaker 1: to a defensive end, so because he was a little
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  Speaker 1: light for a defensive end. But I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: been playing the defensive end, so I don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be much of a problem. But yeah, he is
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  Speaker 1: someone who we did to show a little a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago about how many Buckeyes could go in the
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  Speaker 1: top ten. I think he was projected seventh at that point.
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  Speaker 1: I think he might have helped his case and might
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  Speaker 1: he might be off the board before the seventh team
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  Speaker 1: gets a chance to pick. So he was one O
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  Speaker 1: high state linebacker who looked pretty impressive. R VL Reis
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  Speaker 1: also had a really good day. As you mentioned, he
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  Speaker 1: had the exact same forty for your forty yard dash
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  Speaker 1: time as Sunny Styles. They tied for first place among linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, this is another one where watching r
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  Speaker 1: val ree last year, you kind of went, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is a guy who's going to completely blow up the combine.
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  Speaker 1: And unsurprisingly r val Reice has completely blown up the combine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he only did the forty and the position drills.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't do the rest of the the measurements and
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  Speaker 3: the time stuff. He'll do that at the Pro day.
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  Speaker 3: But the expectations are those are all going to be very,
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  Speaker 3: very good. And it's just you watch him because you're
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  Speaker 3: watching all of these linebackers go through it together, and
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  Speaker 3: it was a good group of linebackers, but Arvel and
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  Speaker 3: Sonny as well, they're just different doing it, and they're
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  Speaker 3: they're bigger than everybody, and they're smoother and you could
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  Speaker 3: like they're able to to bend and get down low
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  Speaker 3: enough to you know, the too hand touch the pads
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  Speaker 3: and all of this, and then they're they're bursting out
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  Speaker 3: of their steps and it's really really impressive to watch him.
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  Speaker 3: But again, we've seen it all season long, or at
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  Speaker 3: least during the first half of the season, when you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the season opener, chasing down Matt Arch Manning
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  Speaker 3: chasing down other quarterbacks chasing down demand Williams who has
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  Speaker 3: a step on him, and it's like, no, I'm here
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not going anywhere. And he's the perfect spy.
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  Speaker 3: And so you're you're seeing just the thought process of yes,
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  Speaker 3: he's a top ten pick off ball linebacker, but he's
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  Speaker 3: as big as a defensive end and he himself said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm an outside linebacker edge And you know, you look
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  Speaker 3: at the impact that those guys can have, like a
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  Speaker 3: Will Anderson with Houston who is probably about the same
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  Speaker 3: size as RVL Reese back during their combine day kind
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  Speaker 3: of by days, and it's you can see a ton
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  Speaker 3: of potential there. I think the concern that I would
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  Speaker 3: have is you didn't see enough of it during the season.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, all of the measurables there, the production
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  Speaker 3: overall is there. It's just do you want to put
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  Speaker 3: him outside where you only saw him a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So that being said, we only saw him for two
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  Speaker 3: years at all on the football field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's still probably more to unlock there with r
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  Speaker 1: VL Reese, and I'm sure there are plenty of NFL
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  Speaker 1: teams drooling at the possibility of what he could be with.
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  Speaker 2: A little more time on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the two guys who were really the
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  Speaker 1: early standouds for Ohio State. Caleb Downs Carnel Tait had
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  Speaker 1: gone through sort of the interviews and the measure and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff they're testing is still to come
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on. I think I saw Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Downs's arm measurement is a little short, which is going
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  Speaker 1: to talk some incredibly stupid team out of picking him,
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  Speaker 1: so that that will be whatever, you know, when he's
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  Speaker 1: wearing the gold blazer in Canton, I'm sure that they
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  Speaker 1: will have to, you know, crop those arms a little short,
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  Speaker 1: But otherwise don't know how much I view that as
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  Speaker 1: being something that's going to be detrimental for him. And
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  Speaker 1: Carnel Tate was interviewed and was talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: who is wide receiver one and this strit in his
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  Speaker 1: draft and he said, well, I mean Cardinal Tate of course.
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  Speaker 1: So well, we'll see how those guys go, how their
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  Speaker 1: numbers end up when they go through those workouts a
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  Speaker 1: little later on, and then we'll have I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 1: have another show on that, and then plenty of other
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  Speaker 1: guys as the lineman will be back doing their doing
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  Speaker 1: their combine thing in a couple of days. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: have that either either on this feed or the Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: Weekly podcast feed. We got lots of podcasts for you
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  Speaker 1: coming up because we were also counting the days till
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  Speaker 1: the start of spring ball that is happening March tenth,
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  Speaker 1: just over a week away at this point, getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to watch the twenty twenty six Ohio State buck guys
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  Speaker 1: figure out how to replace all these talented players were
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  Speaker 1: off to the NFL, And I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: we talked to some folks around the program and there
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  Speaker 1: is some optimism that this team could be better than it.
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  Speaker 2: Was last year in some areas. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little tease for you as far as what's
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  Speaker 1: coming in March. Probably good stuff for you, but there's
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  Speaker 1: always good stuff coming for you. At Buckehuddle dot com
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  Speaker 2: Of our shows. Just search Buckeye Huddle. There. That'll do
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  Speaker 2: it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk tomorrow.