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Bonus Episode: Ryan Day On How "5 For 5" Will Change Everything For Freshmen · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, we got another bonus episode for you, and
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  Speaker 1: once again you're going to be hearing from Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: head coach Ryan Day on a whole different group of topics.
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  Speaker 1: This one kind of focused on more general stuff. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have an offense show, We'll have a defense show. This
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  Speaker 1: is more team wide stuff, more general program kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: This one first question was about the experienced coordinator said
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  Speaker 1: he has. Last year he brought in Matt Patricia, longtime
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  Speaker 1: NFL coordinator, former head coach, to work as a defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Safe to say that worked out pretty darn well. In
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  Speaker 1: year one, Matt Patricia is back on the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. And when Brian Hartline took the head
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  Speaker 1: coaching job at USF, what did Brian Day do say,
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  Speaker 1: I can learn my lesson from last year. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get another longtime NFL assistant and former head coach
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  Speaker 1: to be the offensive coordinator. In this case, it was
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith. So does having experienced coordinators like that allow
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day to really take on more of a CEO
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  Speaker 1: role rather than getting buried in the nitty gritty on
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  Speaker 1: one side of the ball or another.
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  Speaker 2: I really feel strongly that that we have a very
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  Speaker 2: good staff, and I feel like, you know, it's important
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  Speaker 2: for the coordinators to lead their units, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: same thing with Rob Disher on special teams. I think
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  Speaker 2: that you know, when you look at who we have,
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  Speaker 2: there's experience there and you know, we've talked about this
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  Speaker 2: before where it's my responsibility to make sure I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: the things that the head coach is supposed to do,
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  Speaker 2: and having you know, great people on staff allows me
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And I feel good that we have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, an excellent staff. I think the camaraderie is good,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, the players feed off of the staff.
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  Speaker 2: So we just got done really with our first scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: you know, preseason game number one, and so we'll evaluate
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  Speaker 2: the film and kind of you know, figure ou where
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  Speaker 2: everybody's at, grated and look to get better. But we
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  Speaker 2: are absolutely in a race against time to get better,
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  Speaker 2: and we we've got to uh claw for every entry
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  Speaker 2: possibly have. And I think having guys like Matt and
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  Speaker 2: Arthur who have experience of being in the NFL where
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  Speaker 2: every game comes down to the last play, that's just
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  Speaker 2: how it goes, and that's going to be like that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in many games we're at this year.
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  Speaker 1: When Ryan Day brought in Arthur Smith, he was going
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  Speaker 1: to bring in I bring a lot of different stuff
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  Speaker 1: to the table, but just specifically when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the offense itself. What has Arthur Smith brought into those
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  Speaker 1: meeting rooms.
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  Speaker 2: His resume speaks for itself. And when you walk in
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  Speaker 2: with that type of resume, sort of like Mac did
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  Speaker 2: the year before, you have a certain level of credibility
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  Speaker 2: with the players and then with the coaches, and he
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  Speaker 2: knows what he wants and he has a certain level
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  Speaker 2: of confidence when he walks in a room, and I
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  Speaker 2: think the guys have enjoyed that. I think that the
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  Speaker 2: room has good chemistry. I think he communicates well. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know some of the unit meetings he's doing with
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  Speaker 2: the offense, He's bringing everybody together with one voice, and
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  Speaker 2: they're feeling and feeding off his confidence.
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  Speaker 1: We heard in the middle of last week that Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State was making a big change to Senior Day, So
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  Speaker 1: instead of having that and the last home game of
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  Speaker 1: the season, which is the Michigan game every other year,
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  Speaker 1: they are moving that up now to Week one, so
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  Speaker 1: they'll be celebrating Senior Day Week one against Ball State
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  Speaker 1: on September fifth instead of the Saturday after Thanksgiving or thereabout.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll hear Ryan Day explaining sort of the thinking
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  Speaker 1: behind that move and when he talks about that weekend
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  Speaker 1: and that week during this answer, he is talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it first came to me from our administration as
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  Speaker 2: an idea, and we talked about it, had long conversations
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  Speaker 2: about it. The traditions at Ohio State here are significant
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  Speaker 2: and very very strong and something that we all respect,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and what we don't want to do is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you do anything that's going to disrupt any
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  Speaker 2: of those traditions. But when we look at all the
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  Speaker 2: things that go on that weekend, the way things have changed,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's some things that we thought about, and I
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  Speaker 2: think the first thing was we want to keep that game,
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  Speaker 2: the much of that game, the focus on the game,
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  Speaker 2: and the more distractions we have. There's already enough distractions
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  Speaker 2: during that week, and so this was just one more
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  Speaker 2: thing that we felt like we could move. Then when
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  Speaker 2: we started to look at just you know, the way
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  Speaker 2: that college football is now, you know, recognizing seniors, you know,
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  Speaker 2: someone like Brandon Ennis is a little maybe a little different
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  Speaker 2: than or a little and so we thought about maybe
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  Speaker 2: moving it up a week, and then we said, well,
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  Speaker 2: why don't we just recognize all the seniors at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of the year, let them know how much we
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  Speaker 2: appreciate everything they've done, uh, and then and then kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, move on with the season and and sort
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  Speaker 2: of a different way to look at it. And so
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  Speaker 2: what we did is we brought it to the seniors
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  Speaker 2: to see what their take on it was, because we
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to do it without you know, their support,
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  Speaker 2: and I wasn't sure what to expect. They all were
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  Speaker 2: nodding quickly and said, yeah, I think that's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: So we went with it, and you know, we think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to allow us opportunity to really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of recognize them early in the season and then
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  Speaker 2: and then focus on the games.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time of year when coaches always get asked, okay,
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  Speaker 1: which freshmen are you expecting to play? Now, the conversation
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  Speaker 1: around that has changed a little bit this year with
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  Speaker 1: the implementation of the five for five rule. You'll hear
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day reference that just in case you don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: The five for five rule is a new rule that
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  Speaker 1: instead of having red shirts those are done. Everyone. When
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  Speaker 1: you start from high school, you enroll in your school,
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  Speaker 1: you have five years and you can play as many
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  Speaker 1: games as you want to in that five year span.
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  Speaker 1: You play every game all five years, then your eligibility
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  Speaker 1: is up. You play one game a year for five years,
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  Speaker 1: then your eligibility is up. It's really straightforward. You have
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  Speaker 1: five years, you can play in as many games as
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  Speaker 1: you want to up to those five years. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: has changed things a little bit around freshmen and the
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  Speaker 1: expectations of which freshmen may play, which freshmen may take
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  Speaker 1: red shirt. There are no more red shirts, so all right,
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  Speaker 1: riand how many of those freshmen are actually going to
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  Speaker 1: play this year?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like the conversation used to be who's
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  Speaker 2: going to red shirt who isn't, And obviously that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really come into play anymore. So the pushes to get
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  Speaker 2: on special teams. So the more guys like you know,
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  Speaker 2: they can get on special teams and help us as
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  Speaker 2: the season goes on, the more we want to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's a great thing. Where in the past,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some guys lose hope, I'm going to red
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  Speaker 2: shirt this year, that's not the case, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: long season. So you know, if I'm a freshman, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to get on the field. You know, there's there's
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  Speaker 2: none no more of these situations where you know I'll
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  Speaker 2: get it next year. No, no, like urgency. You got
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  Speaker 2: to play. You got five to play five. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the receiver, I'm not going to go through every
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  Speaker 2: position because I'll forget people. But you're certainly going to
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  Speaker 2: see some of those young receivers play. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: Legend continues to improve, you're going to see him play.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see on defense, you know, Jay Timmins, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is going to play. He's been, he's been doing a
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  Speaker 2: really good job. You're going to see some of the
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  Speaker 2: guys up front play. I'm missing some other guys, but
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  Speaker 2: but there's some guys in the back end that will
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  Speaker 2: play for sure. And and then the question is like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: who can push on special teams? And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was just telling the story the other day. We
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  Speaker 2: were showing a play with Chris o'lave. It was in
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  Speaker 2: the Indiana game. But you know, it's funny like these
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  Speaker 2: kids nowadays and they know who Chris is, but they
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  Speaker 2: don't they don't remember it wasn't that long ago, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in eighteen when you know he blocks a punt late
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  Speaker 2: in the season and then goes on to catch two
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  Speaker 2: touchdown passes and his career just takes off with special teams.
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  Speaker 2: And so the best players here have played special teams,
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  Speaker 2: especially when they were young. So when we put on film,
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  Speaker 2: you see our value. See Sonny, you see Cody, you
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  Speaker 2: see you know, all these really good players, Lathan, you
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  Speaker 2: know out there playing special teams. So that that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the push. And if you can do that
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  Speaker 2: and we can trust you on special teams, then we
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  Speaker 2: can trust you playing offensive defense. So those are a
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  Speaker 2: couple of names, and then we'll see where the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the guys show up.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes held their first scrimmage of the season on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. You want some
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  Speaker 1: detailed information on what happened inside there, you can find
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  Speaker 1: that on the insiders board at Buckeye insiders dot com.
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  Speaker 1: But if you just want to kind of get some
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  Speaker 1: general thoughts from Ryan Day on the scrimmage. What stood
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  Speaker 1: out during that scrimmage on Saturday at the Woody Hayes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, again have to watch it a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and see exactly what it was. But they'll started raining
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  Speaker 2: out there, and I thought the offense responded well to that.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't really skip a beat, had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: nice sustained drives in there, where usually that that first
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  Speaker 2: scrimmage is sort of a disaster on offense. I think
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  Speaker 2: having some more experienced guys out there, we're a little
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  Speaker 2: bit further along than typically we would be, so so
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  Speaker 2: that was good. You know, there was some some good,
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  Speaker 2: you know, physical play out there on both sides of
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  Speaker 2: the ball. So we got what we want done that way,
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  Speaker 2: and we came out healthy. So those are the big things,
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  Speaker 2: and now we'll get onto film and figure out what
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  Speaker 2: we've got.
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