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BONUS: 5 Ohio State Freshmen Drawing Spring Buzz · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning. From Monday, April sixth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be talking about five freshmen who are
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  Speaker 1: generating a lot of buzz. Now, this is a show
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  Speaker 1: from earlier in the week, so it was before we
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  Speaker 1: were in there to watch these student appreciation practice on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: so there's been a little bit of an update since then.
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  Speaker 1: But he had a lot of interesting stuff to talk
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  Speaker 1: about about that about the wide receiver room and some
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  Speaker 1: changes under new wide receivers. Coach Court has Hankton and
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Chuck. We're not bemoaning the noon kickoff. We're
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  Speaker 2: now owning it. It's a badge of honor. We're the
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  Speaker 2: lunatic fringe that defines our coach's legacy when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to this game. They don't get to define that outside
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  Speaker 2: the family who we're cut from a different cloth. Bro,
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  Speaker 2: Hiowan's he's got it all, man. He's even got the jaw.
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  Speaker 2: You know the jaw. You see that jaw and you're
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  Speaker 2: just like, yeah, man, that's a dude. Do I want
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  Speaker 2: Michigan to beat Oklahoma? No way in hell. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what world I'm living in. This is insane to me.
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  Speaker 2: And if you saw my outburst, I apologize. It's showtime now.
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  Speaker 2: It is showtime, and welcome into Buckeye Prime Time, where
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  Speaker 2: your boy just snapped the microphone stand with ten minutes
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  Speaker 2: left till show times. So we're gonna try to quickly improvise.
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  Speaker 2: Here we get this sharp thing away from our face
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  Speaker 2: so we don't stab ourselves while we're trying to improvise.
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  Speaker 2: What a way to start. Appreciate you all so much
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  Speaker 2: for joining us tonight on bucke Huddle Prime Time. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to hold this puppy. Feels like it feels
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  Speaker 2: like forever since I've got to do a live show.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be back. Great to be back in Junckuye's studio,
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  Speaker 2: back with you guys, talking some Buckeye football. And we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of football to talk about, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: too much. I might have to roll in a juck
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  Speaker 2: on Bucks because I've got a long list of recruiting
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  Speaker 2: things I want to get to. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get to them all tonight. So today we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk about what's been going on in the woody.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about some players that have been popping.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about let's do the top five freshmen
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  Speaker 2: that are getting the most buzz with two honorable mentions,
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  Speaker 2: and then we're gonna talk about or transfers that are
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  Speaker 2: getting a ton of buzz, and then we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about a couple of disappointments, which doesn't necessarily mean
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  Speaker 2: they're disappointing. It just means that we've not been hearing
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  Speaker 2: any buzz about them, and that's disappointing that we're not
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  Speaker 2: hearing any buzz. But we're gonna do that and in
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  Speaker 2: a quick down rundown of the position groups. Also going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about Cortez Hankton tonight, because Cortes laid out
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  Speaker 2: everything he could in ten minutes, which was the length
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  Speaker 2: of his introductory press conference the other day Saturday, where
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  Speaker 2: we also got to hear from JJ and Cortes. A
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  Speaker 2: bit of a confusing story when it comes to recruiting
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  Speaker 2: that happened over the week with Cortes Hankton, which is
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  Speaker 2: interesting because there are some things right now as I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at the wide receiver recruiting board that are confusing
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  Speaker 2: to me already, and when I heard this story over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, I don't know, man, you know, it's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I was concerned about when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to Cortes Hankton. I certainly there's a lot to
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  Speaker 2: love about this guy, and he killed the press conference,
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  Speaker 2: of which we will watch some of because I got
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  Speaker 2: some comments on some things that he had to say.
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  Speaker 2: But when it comes to recruiting at Georgia at LSU,
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  Speaker 2: there are some reasons why you can't recruit wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: as good. At Georgia, they rely a lot on the
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  Speaker 2: tight end. They throw it tounder the tight end. But
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  Speaker 2: wasn't so great at Georgia and then at LSU. He
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  Speaker 2: really stayed in state, and there's some reasons for that
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  Speaker 2: as well, including he is from New Orleans. So when
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  Speaker 2: you're from New Orleans, that's your territory. You plan on
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  Speaker 2: being there a long time. You don't want to piss
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  Speaker 2: people off. You want people loving you in state. And
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  Speaker 2: if there's a guy that's borderline in state guy, borderline
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  Speaker 2: LSU kind of take versus an out of state guy,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably going to lean towards that in state guy.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of that had to do
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  Speaker 2: with why a lot of the LSU fans didn't end
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  Speaker 2: up liking him. You know, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: LSU fans were very happy to see him go and
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  Speaker 2: not in a way like you know, Quincy Porter goes
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  Speaker 2: to Notre Dame and all of a sudden, a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of Buckeye fins like I couldn't stand that guy anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Like they wanted him gone for a couple of years
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  Speaker 2: before he left, talking about their wide receivers were undeveloped,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know that he had the the best
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  Speaker 2: guys to work with from the start. So long story short,
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  Speaker 2: ears are perked up watching how he handles this first class.
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  Speaker 2: And as we're looking across the visits scheduled, the visits
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  Speaker 2: scheduled at wide receiver, offensive line, defensive tackle this spring,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking through him yesterday and I'm noticing, boy, there's
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  Speaker 2: a you know, wide receivers probably the fewest visits scheduled
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  Speaker 2: this spring. And why is that? When Tyler Bowen came
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  Speaker 2: in last year at offensive line, there were so many
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  Speaker 2: offensive line visits it was almost ridiculous. And then I
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  Speaker 2: heard this story, which I'm going to tell you later on.
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  Speaker 2: well as my good man Tony writing my favorite article
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  Speaker 2: of the month today it's up brand new in that
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  Speaker 2: article which is very simple by my buddy Tony, but
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  Speaker 2: always thought provoking. It's called what I Know, What I Think,
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  Speaker 2: what I wonder and it's a simple premise. I could
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  Speaker 2: probably do a show based on everyone at Tony's articles
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  Speaker 2: and just rebut everything he says. I'm kidding. I agree
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of things Tony says, not all of it.
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  Speaker 2: But on the docket this week at the Woody. Tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna hear from Ryan day after practice. Then Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna hear from the linebackers, well a couple James Lournidis,
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Piers. James Louright is talking about Peyton Piers with
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  Speaker 2: a glint in his eye. Christian Allegro for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: we get to meet Christian Allegro and then we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: hear from Tarvo's TJ Alford who has been making moves.
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  Speaker 2: TJ's been making moves. Also, we get to hear from
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  Speaker 2: Keenan Bailey and tight End not tight ends, just tight end.
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  Speaker 2: Nate Roberts and I don't know what that's about. Last
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  Speaker 2: year we got to hear during the spring when they
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  Speaker 2: would bring out the position coach, we got to hear
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  Speaker 2: from all of the players in the position group. Not
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  Speaker 2: the case this year. So just gonna hear from Nate.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've got the huge Day on Saturday, April fourth,
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  Speaker 2: That is the Student Appreciation Scrimmage Day. And this is
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  Speaker 2: not only a multi hour practice in full go scrimmage
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  Speaker 2: almost full go, but the media gets to attend, the
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  Speaker 2: students get to attend, which means a lot of videos
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  Speaker 2: get leaked to the public and everybody gets a good
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  Speaker 2: look at what's going on in there. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: ton of footage came out of that. Last year. I
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of student one student in particular, the
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  Speaker 2: guy was awesome. His name's Lebron's hairline maybe to see
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  Speaker 2: him in the comments section from here every now and again,
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  Speaker 2: and he recorded a bunch for the show, So we
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  Speaker 2: had a bunch of it on the show. But you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be really fun. Cannot wait for that. Also, this
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  Speaker 2: Saturday the biggest visit day of the spring, and we
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  Speaker 2: have got some heavy hitters coming in, buddy, heavy hitters.
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  Speaker 2: And the first time that anybody's going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to see these freshmen in these transfers in pads. You know,
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  Speaker 2: last time the media had access was the first two
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  Speaker 2: practices and there were no pads on. Even though the
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  Speaker 2: way these jerseys are cut now and how small shoulder
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  Speaker 2: pads are, you know, they kind of look like they're
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  Speaker 2: wearing shoulder pads anymore. I wish we'd bring back the
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  Speaker 2: bigger shoulder pads. I missed those. You know, what's old
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  Speaker 2: is new again. We're getting back into this older style
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  Speaker 2: of football. Let's bring back the big shoulder pads. But
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  Speaker 2: pump for this Saturday. I'm sure you guys are pumped
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  Speaker 2: for this as well. And we had a massive day
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  Speaker 2: of visits this past Saturday, and that included the number
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  Speaker 2: one overall player in the country, DJ Jacobs, Buckeye commit,
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  Speaker 2: who was up in sound with his little brother little
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  Speaker 2: not really Dawson Jacobs, who is a twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: Top one hundred overall. He's a defensive tackle, talked about
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  Speaker 2: playing three tech, playing five tech, and he wants to
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  Speaker 2: play with DJ. They want to play together if they can.
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  Speaker 2: So what we've got now is Dawson doing the country
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  Speaker 2: tour right, and everywhere he goes, DJ's going with him,
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  Speaker 2: which means everybody's got their chance at getting basically an
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  Speaker 2: unofficial visit from DJ to try to flip him. I
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  Speaker 2: really like Dawson. I hope the Buckeyes go hard after Dawson.
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  Speaker 2: I also think that the harder they go after Dawson,
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  Speaker 2: whether they end up winning on Dawson or not, the
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  Speaker 2: more solid DJ becomes with Ohio State because he's a
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  Speaker 2: great big brother. I've heard him talk about his little brother.
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  Speaker 2: Respect that little brother, and you got him. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the Buck guy's already got him, and I
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  Speaker 2: think they got him pretty solidly. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: they have done the things they need to do on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of things to make sure that that's
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  Speaker 2: taken care of. There will be bigger offers, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: It's the number one player in the country, but the
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  Speaker 2: Bucks have done a hell of a job there. But
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  Speaker 2: like I said, we'll do a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: deep deeper dive on recruiting tomorrow over on juck On Bucks.
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  Speaker 2: So also had Jet Harrison in the house, Marvin Harrison's
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  Speaker 2: little brother, who is now the number one wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: in the country in twenty twenty eight. You know, saw
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  Speaker 2: Jet as a freshman, and he definitely had some skills
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  Speaker 2: that I don't think Marvin had as a freshman. Have
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  Speaker 2: not seen his last year. I haven't seen his sophomore
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  Speaker 2: year yet. I got to watch it, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: he's all that. And when we talk about Marvin, how
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  Speaker 2: shy Marvin was, and kind of how well he fit
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  Speaker 2: in in with Ohio State with Ryan Day, they kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they protected him, They knew how to take
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  Speaker 2: care of him. And I think that Marvin Harrison's senior
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  Speaker 2: appreciates that and appreciates the experience that Marvin had in college. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Jet is quite as shy as Marvin was,
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  Speaker 2: but still seems a little on the shy side. He's
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  Speaker 2: probably pretty pretty much, I would say, more comfortable at
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State right now than he is anywhere else. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a really good thing. As far as this recruitment goes.
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  Speaker 2: I would say you have to consider the Buck eyes
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  Speaker 2: right now the leader in the clubhouse for the youngest
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  Speaker 2: Harrison brother, which is a great thing. And you can
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  Speaker 2: see that he's already taller than Cortez Hankton and the
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  Speaker 2: pictures they took this weekend and probably going to keep
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  Speaker 2: on growing. So this past Saturday, a lot of action
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  Speaker 2: and that included some videos that leaked, some Chris Henry
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  Speaker 2: video that a lot of you guys have probably seen.
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  Speaker 2: And these are leaked from kids that are coming for
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  Speaker 2: visits and they're taking videos and they're tweeting these these
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  Speaker 2: aren't you know. I guess you know they're okay because
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  Speaker 2: there's no formations. That's the thing that they don't want shown.
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  Speaker 2: But video Chris Henry Jr. And our buddy a Z
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  Speaker 2: buck Guy on buck Guy on Twitter put together this
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  Speaker 2: little compilation of Chris Henry Jr. Let's take a look
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  Speaker 2: at Chris over the weekend. Here here we go. There's
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  Speaker 2: Chris all right. Here is Chris with Jermaine Matthews on
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  Speaker 2: him and smoking Jermaine off the line to the post.
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  Speaker 2: And when you see that that subtle move that he
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  Speaker 2: makes right there, I mean, he just smoked him. Jermaine
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  Speaker 2: even held and what's he gonna do even if he's
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  Speaker 2: in his back pocket. Jermaine did a nice job catching up.
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  Speaker 2: When he's standing next to JJ. You just see how
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  Speaker 2: big he is. Twenty eight. That's Simeon Caldwell, freshman safety
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  Speaker 2: who actually did a real good job in coverage here
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  Speaker 2: for a safety. But what are you gonna do? The
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  Speaker 2: dude is a monster and here he is. That's that's oh,
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  Speaker 2: what's his name, Dominic, the Georgia transfer cornerback. Look at him,
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  Speaker 2: just toss him out of the way there. Look at him.
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  Speaker 2: He looks like a little kid next to Chris. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this dude is so big and so smooth. It's just
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  Speaker 2: not fair. It's not fair.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: That guy's going to be a total monster. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you what, man, he is really popping this past
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  Speaker 2: week that this is the first time that he got
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity on Saturday to run a couple reps with
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  Speaker 2: the Ones, which is big. Prior to that, the only
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  Speaker 2: freshman wide receiver that had had any opportunity to get
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  Speaker 2: some reps with the Ones Dominic Kelly, freshman that had
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  Speaker 2: had opportunity to get some run with the Ones. Was
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  Speaker 2: brock Boyd. So brock Boyd before Dracquadon Guildford, before Chris
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  Speaker 2: Henry Junior, was the guy who got reps with the Ones.
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  Speaker 2: And consistently the entire spring, we've been hearing about how
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  Speaker 2: good Brock's been impressing the heck out of everybody, And
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  Speaker 2: of course we knew that was gonna happen. If if
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  Speaker 2: you're someone who's been following me over at Chuck On
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  Speaker 2: Bucks for a while, you've heard me wax on about
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  Speaker 2: this dude for over a year, how ridiculously good he was,
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  Speaker 2: how unbelievably underrated he was. Remember, this is a kid
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  Speaker 2: who was outside the top one hundred in Texas, not
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  Speaker 2: in the country, outside the top one hundred players in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Texas. The twenty twenty six recipient of
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  Speaker 2: the annual Isaiah West Most Underrated Player of the Year Award.
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  Speaker 2: And it looks like we're gonna go two for two
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  Speaker 2: since that war that award came into fruition. We are
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  Speaker 2: also one for one for the most Overrated Buckuy of
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  Speaker 2: the Year year award at CJ. Hicks, the recipient of
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  Speaker 2: that one last year. We'll give that one out a
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  Speaker 2: little later on this year. We'll wait till the end
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  Speaker 2: of spring. But Cortes had some things to say about
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  Speaker 2: brock Boyd as well. I mean, he was asked, he
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  Speaker 2: was prompted. He didn't just offer his opinion. But here's
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  Speaker 2: what he had to say about.
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  Speaker 3: Brock, because he's made plays when the opportunity, when his
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  Speaker 3: number has been called right, and he's a great you know,
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  Speaker 3: what makes Brock truly a good football player is his football,
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  Speaker 3: Like you first and foremost, you know, as a young guy,
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  Speaker 3: he's truly instinctive. Any true he understands conceptual football. You
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  Speaker 3: can tell that he comes from a family. His dad
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  Speaker 3: is a high school football coach, and so he comes
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  Speaker 3: from a family where they live, eat and breed football,
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  Speaker 3: and so he understands the game like he's a you know,
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  Speaker 3: three year college student. Like he's been here a while,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and so he's been He's been really fun
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  Speaker 3: to coach. I knew exactly who he was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and but you always get a different perspective when you
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  Speaker 3: get to actually coach a guy and see the redeeming
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  Speaker 3: qualities and the traits that have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 3: a physical skill set that makes a kid different and
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  Speaker 3: that's and that's him. I'm making no mistake. He has
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  Speaker 3: some physical physical gifts, but his toughness, his football like
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  Speaker 3: you has truly helped him really catch the eyes of
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, And that's true. And his dad, Chris become
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  Speaker 2: a friend of mine throughout the last year and a half,
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  Speaker 2: is every bit. I mean, he's a serious football coach
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  Speaker 2: and his trained Brock and his older brother Brady since
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  Speaker 2: they were young, and it is no coincidence. But in
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  Speaker 2: addition to that, I almost feel like Cortez gives him
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a left handed compliment talking about
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  Speaker 2: you know, don't get me wrong, he has some athletic gifts. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: he is faster than Chris Henry Junior and your quadon Guildford.
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  Speaker 2: That's not negotiable. That's the truth. He's faster than both
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  Speaker 2: of them. He's got more than some physical gifts. His
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  Speaker 2: older brother Brady, at Texas Tech was a wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: and then he transferred to Utah State, just went back
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  Speaker 2: to Texas deck to participate in Pro Day. And at
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  Speaker 2: Pro Day at Texas Tech, our guy here ran a
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  Speaker 2: four three nine, sorry, four three eight four three eight.
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  Speaker 2: Now these kids are freaks. Man, that's a freaky, freaky athlete.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, Brock just as freaky preconceived notions. We all
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  Speaker 2: know what they are. The elephant in the room. Brock
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  Speaker 2: knows the elephant in the room. It's cool. Brock on
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to line up against Jordan Thomas in front
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: of the entire team, smoked him for a touchdown on Saturday,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: spiked the ball and Jordan Thomas has been killing it.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: But let's talk a little bit about the wide receiver room.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: How deep can this wide receiver rotation go this year?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: You got Jeremiah, you got Brandon in Is, You got
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Devin McEwan as your top three right now, you would think.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Right then you got Kyle Parker, who is Hank's guy
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: from LSU, and he's been out at Z, which has
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: been really surprising that that still hasn't changed. He's been
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: out at Z. And this is a guy who you know,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: seventy five percent of his snaps at LSU were in
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the slot. Now he's out at Z. And with those
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: guys as your top four, it kind of aligns with
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: what Cortez was talking about in his press conference. Something
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Jeremiah also talked about, and that is yards after catch.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Having Kyle Parker out there with Devin McEwan across from
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Jeremiah having kind of a couple like a yack monster
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: type of guy, which both of them are, It really
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: aligns with that and what they're trying to do. But
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: let's get to a little bit of what Cortes had
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to say over the.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Weekend, because he's made plays when the opportunity, when his
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: number has well, I've always respected and it admired this
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: program because of the rich tradition and culture. But when
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you walk into the building, you truly start to understand
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: why this place has been able to sustain this level
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: of success. You know, the wood coach Day has done
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: in terms of really creating the culture and the brotherhood
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: and also coming from a space of tough love. It
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: has It's been fun to embrace. It's been fun to
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: embrace because what happens is you just you know, I
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: was able to step in that room and just and
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: keep why did you this man? You know, this is
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the place to come to, you know, like, hey, well
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Hart left. You know you kind of look like, okay,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: that room is loaded over there. And when I got
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: the phone call and had conversations and communications.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: You know, I can definitely I could.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I could see myself as a fit here, and so
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: it's even better than I would ever have imagined.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Well, first, this is an extremely talented orator, right, I mean,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: this guy got done with this and the media was
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: putty in his hands. The things people were saying, like,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: hey man, the room is in great hands. Just listen
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: to that guy. He's talented. This is a type of
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: dude who's gonna get a head coaching job probably after this.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: This is a guy who, after his second year at LSU,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: got an interview for an NFL offensive coordinator position when
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: he wasn't even an offensive coordinator yet. That type of dude.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And it's very easy to see why a guy like
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Jermaine Matthews says he loves the energy he brings, or
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: why Jeremiah Smith wanted him to be as coach. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: he was perfect there stroking the ego of Buckeye fans. Yes,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: he called us the best. This is where you want
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to be. He's did everything right, everything right. Let's get
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: to the yards after catch.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Well, we're very explosive downfield, you know there there has
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: to be more opportunities to catch and carry the football,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: and so we have to be able to be explosive
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: on all levels, first, second, and third. So we catch
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: a six yard hitch, we have to be able to
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: take it to a house. We catch a dig, we
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: have to be able to take it to the house.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: And that's that has to be our mindset and mentality
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: that every time that we touch the football, we're going
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: to score. And so what I've tried to do is
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: add a little bit of personality to the room. I mean, sometimes, man,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: they's so serious, and so I'm like, look, you know,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the game of football is meant to be fun, and
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: there's going to always be a time and place where
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the focus has to be laser. But also so we
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: have to embrace every single day and know that the
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: game that we're playing is a bless man. There's so
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: many things that's going on in the world, man, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: that can make you think twice about what you're doing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: But when we step in between these white lines, you
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: have to really embrace that moment and opportunity and just
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: live in a moment.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know, having more fun equates to more yards
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: after the catch. I don't get that. I do understand
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: when he's talking about having more fun. You know, I
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: saw some clips of him after he got hired. I
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: want to see his coaching stylence and behind the scene
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: things at LSU, and you know, he's chasing his guys
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: they make a play, he's running and he's yelling at
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: him celebrate, celebrate. He wants them all down there having fun.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: It's a big part of his job and the way
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: he the way he coaches, So I get that. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: when he talks about those guys being so serious, I
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: don't know, man, I kind of liked. I kind of
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: liked the serious, serious approach when you're at work. But nonetheless,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: he's gonna do it his way. If he thinks that
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: have more fun is going to lead to more yards
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: after catch, that's great because they certainly need it. When
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: we look at Jeremiah from his freshman year to his
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: sophomore year, he dropped from like six point four yards
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: after catch to four point four two full yards, which
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: is a lot, and none of his other stats really dropped.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Everything else was pretty well the same. Kyle Parker last
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: year five point four, Devin McEwan five point five, Brandon
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: innis not too far off at five point two but
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: yards after catch the goal here and Kyle Parker, who's
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: been in the slot his entire career seventy five percent
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: of his snaps now being out at Z. I think
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: that speaks to one of two things. Either they don't
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: trust anybody behind Devin McEwan right yet other than Kyle Parker,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: because even though Kyle Parker lost his black stripe before
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Devin McEwan, I refused to believe Ohio State going to
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: start a five foot ten inch wide receiver at Z
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that's still McEwen at number one. Or the emphasis is
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: on a Z who can consistently get yards after the catch,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: like Devin McEwan, like Kyle Parker. Because if you put
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Kyle Parker in the slot with Brandon Ennis, who's your
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: number two at Z? Is your quadon Guildford ready for that?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: We've not heard a ton about your Quaden Guildford at
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: least I haven't, other than bigger than a lot of
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: people expected physically, and a physical wide receiver. And boy,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: there was a picture the other day that I don't have,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: but even if I put it here, you wouldn't be
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: able to see it. Is all the wide receivers lined
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: up across and your Quayden. This dude's a monster. I mean,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: this guy's going to be really really big, and it
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: kind of looks like if he really wanted to, he
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: might be able to get David Boston big, like he's
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: got a physique on him. But the freshman wide receiver
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: taking reps at Z with the first team was Brock,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: even though Brock been in the slot and on the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: third team, we also got Philip Bell, and I thought
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Philip Bell looked tremendous at practice. Philip Bell plays the
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: slot similar to Bi and that I don't think he's
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: super explosive jack monster either, but very very smooth catches
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the ball great. In fact, last year in fall camp,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: that was one of Tony and I's we both had
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the same takeaway after practice when we convene to talk
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: about it that Philip Bell really jumped out. That was
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: last year. This guy's really really polished. So when we
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: look at the top six guys, what are we looking
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: at at ex Jeremiah Chris Henry junior at Z, Devin
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: McEwan at slot, Brandon Innes, and then your next two
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: after that would be Kyle Parker and Philip Bell, and
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I think all six of those guys are ready to play.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: You might have more ready to play, but no room
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: for them to play unless we think the freshmen are
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: going to outplace some of those guys, which you know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: not beyond the realm of possibility. But let's move on
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to Cortes as he moves on to a couple other
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: things that I wanted to hit on.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, first, he has a infectious personality. He's a
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: natural leader. He's a captain for a reason, and because
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: of that, the guys are willing to listen and also
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: follow his lead. And he has put it on tape
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: all right, his actions has they have aligned with his words,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: and it's good to see and the things that we
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: needed to continue to work on from just over the
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: last couple of years in terms of his progress and development,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: he's really been intentional on embracing that and doing.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: It Behind me. I have got a two thousand and
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: two National Championship commemorative bag of tostitos. If Brandon it
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Is goes in the first round, I will eat that
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: on air. And those are some chips I don't want
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: to eat. I think Brandon was talking about this the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: other day, Jeremiah was talking about it's do or die
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: for him in the first round. I want to ask
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: you something. Take a look at this picture. Take a
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: look at this picture. Here something I ran across yesterday
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: ranking Ohio state wide receivers as prospects since twenty fifteen.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: This is coming out from Ohio State into the NFL Draft.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: And as we look at these guys and look at
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: these names, Jeremiah, Marvin, Garrett, Carnell, Chris, jsn A, Mecca,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Mike Thomas, and you think about these guys heading into
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: their money year, is there any one of those guys
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: your thought process going into their money year was? You know,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I'd kind of like to see what the guy behind
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: him looks like. Ironically, here's the funniest part. There were
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: some people saying that about a Mecca, they wanted to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: see Brandon Innis come in and see what he had
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: because they weren't so thrilled with the Mecca. Boy, does
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that look like a bad take at this point? But yeah, man,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I just don't see it, but certainly wish our guy
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the best. But I would personally like to see Kyle
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Parker get some reps in that slot as well. Brandon's
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: got strong hands, busses butt block in which is something
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: that honestly, when we talk about yards after catch, that's
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the key. That is the key, and Whenda, Ohio state
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: of the best yards after catch. It wasn't twenty three
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: or before. It was twenty twenty four with Chip Kelly,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four with Chip Kelly, and as soon as
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Chip left last year, it dropped right back down. So
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Cortes needs to get that up. Get that up, and
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the yak will come back. All right, Let's hit on
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the five most buzzworthy freshman that I've heard about to
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: this point. Truthfully, this list could be a whole lot longer,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: because the class of twenty twenty six is nothing but
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: hit after hit after hit after hit. We'll start with
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: two honorable mentions, two honorable mentions that you may not
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: have been hearing about quite so much as the other guys.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Freshman Edge not carry Wilder Drake Quinn Drake Quinn out
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: of Georgia somehow, a I don't know, very lowly rated
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: four star, a three star by some services when he
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: got when it closed. And this is a guy that
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: was committed to Clemson. Decommits looked like he was gonna
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: go to Texas's runner up. The Buck guys really pushed
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: for him, and it's like, okay, here's here's the toss
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: in guy, and that's what a lot of people were thinking.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: But no, not a toss in guy. Dre very athletic
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: at six four and a half and he's every bit
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: of that. And when I saw him up at practice
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: he was listed at two twenty five. No way, no way.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: He told me he's now two forty so two forty six,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: four and a half and long and athletic, and he
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: was taking some reps already here this past week with
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: the twos. So in an extremely crowded defensive end group,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Drake Quinn repping with the twos is pretty amazing. That's fantastic.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So hell of an athlete, a guy who played tight
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: end and played it very well. Could have been a
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: you know, could have an Ohio state level tight end
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: if you wanted to go that route, but he chose defense.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: And here's Dre tearing it up now as a freshman.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Let's go to safety for our second honorable mention not
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: blamed Bradford Cayden Geppart out of Ollen Tangi caden Getpart
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: was one of my top three surprises, and from seeing
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: those guys in person because of Number one, how much
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: he's grown. This is the guy I'd seen when he
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: was younger, and he was already the best tackler in
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio and in a year in a
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: class that included Sincere Johnson, caden Gepart the best ackler
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: in the class. And he is surprising a ton of
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: people with the way he moves because he looks like
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: her a little junior when he moves, smooth, smooth athlete,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: and now that he's a little taller, he's a longer athlete.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: And man, he jumps out at you. He jumps out
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: at you. And of all the safeties, he's your lowest
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: graded guy after Kamari Bing after Simeon called well, of course,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: after blame Bradford, but he's the one right now that
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: is catching some buzz, and that's great stuff for him.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Number five Chris Henry Jr. Of course, Chris comes in
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: with the massive pedigree with all the accolades, the guy
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: that everybody wants to see. But Chris, the buzz just
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: really kind of started for Chris as far as making
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: big plays. This past week, or he'd be higher on
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: our list started off a little slower. The guy who
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: started off really fast but has now kind of settled down.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Legend Bay at number four. Legend owned week one, and
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: obviously we know Legends got a special, special skill set.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: How much of it are we going to get to see?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: There are some people who think that there is going
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: to be considerably more reps than others, like five to
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: ten potentially getting the ball to two Legend. I don't know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: It would be pretty awesome to see him get the
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: ball that much, but every touch he gets is one
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: less that Jeremiah gets, So who knows how that plays out.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see how they do it. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: mean nothing else, It's gonna be really exciting. Number three
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Jay Timmins. If Jeremiah is asked to talk about a
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: freshman on defense and you're the guy who he says,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: you get on the list, that's just what it is.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: You get j ja'sondorsement, you're on the list. But seriously,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Jay Timmins the number one cornerback in the country at
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: five foot eleven, and I can't stress enough how impressive
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: that is. I looked back like the last four classes
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: at how many of the top ten cornerbacks. Yes, Zach
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Harrison ol in Tangi, but yes Orange, the ones the Gators.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: The ones that were the Gators Colors, Kad and Gep
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Hart and CJ. SNAs ol In Tangi are the ones
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: that were the pit Colors. But where was Jay Timmins?
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: So he's five 't eleven the past four classes. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: looked at the top ten corners in each of the
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: past four classes and the number that were under six
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: foot that got the nod as a top ten corner
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: It was so small, it was like five out of
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: forty and Jay Timmins number one cornerback and a guy
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: that didn't even play cornerback his senior year. I mean,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: you know that's talented. Charles Power called him the best
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: player pound for pound in the entire class. Dude's a dog, Man,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Dude's a dog got the Jeremiah Vote of approval at
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: number two Sincere Johnson. This is picking up big time,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: and of course it would man number one linebacker in
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: the country, number one. Out did Tyler Atkinson in the
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: end to steal that. You gotta love it, man, Tyler Atkinson,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the Buckeye's biggest target. I did so many shows talking
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: about Tyler Atkinson's recruitment and in the end, our dude
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: beats him out. I mean, it's just amazing. I love it.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: But he's looking amazing out there, and I wish we
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: were seeing him out there with Riley. That's a number
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: one and the number two linebacker in the country playing together. Unbelievable. Man,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: we're a lucky bunch and number one brock Boyd. Brock Boyd,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: like I said, a guy who was outside the top
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: one hundred players in the state of Texas, ridiculous. How
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: about the transfers. We got four transfers that are standing
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: out above the rest buzzworthy. Number four is Jacoby Jackson.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: It's Jacoby. Look, you can't break tackles yet, but man,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: this guy's gonna break tackles. Low center of gravity, huge thighs, muscular, twitchy,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: also at the top end speed. I mean, he's a
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: grown man. And you know, last year at this time,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: we were talking about, you know, the running backs you
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: bring in CJ. Donaldson, and when you look at Jacoby
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Jackson versus C. J. Donaldson, just a caliber of back,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: not even in the same category. But you thought maybe CJ.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Could have some physicality that would break some tackles. Of course,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: you don't know that in the spring because they don't
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: tackle the backs, right. Little did we know he would
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: be a guy who would only force two missed tackles
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: on the year. Jacoby Jackson gonna do a lot better
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: than that, and we'll talk a little bit more about
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the backs and a few Number three Kyle Parker. Kyle
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Parker loses the black stripe. You get on the list
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: if you lose the black stripe this early five practices
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: in Katep's a dude, man, This guy looks like a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: running back. He's jacked. Number three Earl Little Junior also
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: lost his bat black stripe the same day. And Earl's
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: a dog, a physical dog. He always has been Earl.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: You know, he has some deficiencies in other areas of
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: his game, but really a lot of buzz around Earl.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: So we'll see maybe he's taking that next step. And
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: at number one for me is James Smith a monster,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: a guy who I think is now going to reach
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: his five star potential. And similar to what I just
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: said about Jay Timmins, James Smith, at six foot two
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: was the number one defensive tackle in his class at
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: six foot two. Do you know how good you got
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: to be at all the other things for them to
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: bypass that you're six foot two? I mean, it's serious.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: The guy, I'm telling you, when he hit that sled,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: it was like a sound that nobody else made. It
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: was just different. The dude is a powerhouse. And then
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: when we got to listen to him talk, this is
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: a leader. It's a smart guy with a count of
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: who sounds like maybe he wasn't quite as motivated under
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Kaylin de Borr at Alabama, and it sounds like now
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: he is. He's in a great spot mentally and he's
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: a leader. He's an accountability guy. And when you combine
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: those guys Earl Little who's a leader as well, with
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Kenyata Peyton, you got leaders at all levels. I mean,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: things are looking really good on this defense, really good
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: on this defense. Let's talk about disappointments. Is there anybody
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: you're disappointed with that you're not hearing much about so far?
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: We'll start with a veteran player and I don't know,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: second verse same as the first, Jason Moore. Jason Moore,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Now listen, I didn't come into this expecting anything out
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: of Jason Moore, but I know some people did. I've
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: had it in my comments, I've had it on Twitter.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I had a question about it today on the Buckey
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: huddle board. No, don't see a thing. Don't see a
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: thing out of Jason Moore. Don't hear a thing about
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Jason Moore. I know everybody's still holding out hope as
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: he still does have this year and next year of eligibility,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: but you know, I just don't hear anything about him.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Former top fifty recruit at six six three oh seven
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: and feels like he's been around quite a while. Uh
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: So disappointed to have not heard anything about that, though
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting it. How about one that I was
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: expecting right off the rip transfer out of Duke Terry Moore?
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Where are you at, bro Is this guy's knee chewed up?
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Or what I mean? He's not even found his way
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: into the starting rotation. This dude was an All American
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. It hurts his knee. He's out
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: all at twenty twenty five. Is he's shaking off the rust?
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Is he having problems with the playbook? I don't know
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: what it is. But not heard a word about Terry Moore,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: which is really surprising to me because I thought he
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: was one of your top three transfers coming in here.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: So interesting stuff there. Let's do a little run through
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: of a couple of position groups and we talk about
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: running back. Not hearing much about the running backs for sure,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: as we got our top two out right now in
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Isaiah West and Bow. But when we talk about Jacobe Jackson,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: that threesome right there pretty damn lethal. And then you
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: got Turbo and you got Legend. And when we look
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: at Turbo here, I don't see a situation unless there's
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: an injury for him to really make any hay this year,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: because we know that Legend is going to get touches
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: and Turbo is essentially your fourth true running back, which
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: is bad, bad for him. In addition to that, if
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: you land David Gabriel George next year, he's walking in
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: getting reps with the starting crew, Like whatever the starting
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: crew is getting, he's getting it with him as a freshman.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: And that's a shame. You know. You can kind of
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: see looking forward how this is not really going to
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: work out for him. At tight end Thursday, we get
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: to hear from the homeboy Nate Love Nate, and Nate
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: has gotten considerably thicker this offseason. He was already pretty
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: thick and physical, but the physicality he plays with, he's
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: really going to show now that he could get out
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: there and play tight end every snap instead of playing
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: what he was playing last year at full back. He
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: can catch the ball. He's got a lethal stiff arm
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: in the open field. Looking forward to that. But we've
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: heard absolutely nothing, at least I haven't about Hunter Welson
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: or Mason Williams, and we won't get to talk to
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: them Thursday, so that sucks. But Christian Bennett also injured.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Bennett Christian Christian Bennett injured, so he's not playing at all.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: And Brody Lennon, a guy that has incredible athletic ab
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: who's gotten quite a bit bigger. I've always been really
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: high on him, but someone who's opinion I trust recently
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: told me he might not be working the hardest right now.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I don't like to hear that. I don't like to
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: hear that about Brody at all. On the offensive line,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Sam Greer, Max Riley, the two top recruits are looking
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: fantastic since the Paths have come on Fit right in.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: And now that Ryan Day has made it pretty clear
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: that Phil Daniels is gonna be staying at tackle, Ian
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Moore looks tremendous, and I thought Ian after the Wisconsin
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: game last year was too good to take off the field.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any way Ian doesn't start at
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: tackle this year. He's even bigger than he was last year, stronger,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: and this is his third year, like this is his time.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: The question is, are they really gonna move Austin Sarahveld
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: off a tackle where he was one of the ten
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: best tackles in the country and put him inside and
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Phil tackle with Ian. You're downgrading tackle strength if you
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: do that, because even if Ian is as good as Austin,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Austin's better than Phil any way you slice it. If
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Phil's still starting at tackle as your third best tackle,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: you're not as good as you could be at tackle,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: and it's more important to be good at tackle than
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: it is at guard. I'm also still a believer and
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: gave Van Sickle. I suppose you could make the argument
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: that if there is just too big of a gap
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: between Sarahveld and your next best guard, then it makes
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: more sense to do it that way. Van Sickle had
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: a rough game at Miami. He had another rough game
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: before that rough quarter. But it's a young dude, just
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: a second year last year. I think that this is
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: a guy who's going to get it down. Got the size,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: you know, He's done some things that have really impressed
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: some people since he's been in Ohio state, and I
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: think he's going to come around on it. So nonetheless, man,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I really like this offensive line crew. This is a
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: crew that I was not someone who was upset that
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: they didn't bring anyone in from the transfer portal. I
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: was really happy about it. Defensive line, I've seen some
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: people penciling in Quay Rusaw over Zion Grady, and that
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: would be really interesting to me. With all the competition
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: you got out there, if Quay was able to win
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: that at his size at six two two forty, that
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: would be interesting seeing him playing opposite Kenyata. But for
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: my money, I still got Zion as the starter out there.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: We'll see. That's certainly one to watch. Where's John Walker?
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Anybody heard anything about John Walker? It doesn't really matter
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: to me. I love Will Smith Junior. Will Smith Junior
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: has put on some size. Will Smith Junior now looks
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: like a nose and the way Will played last year,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: he deserves the first crack anyway. Nonetheless, John Walker needs
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: to step it up a little bit. And then of
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: course James Smith and Edric Houston, who I think we're
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: gonna see on feel quite a bit together. And Tony
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: and I talked about this probably a month ago, you know.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Then we went to practice and we saw, oh, James
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Smith is heavier when a lot of other guys got
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: lighter and leaner. Okay, they're planning on playing Edric and
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: James at knows. And then James confirmed that this past week,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: which has got me really excited. Even more excited that
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: he said he wants to play like k Maak. This
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: guy's looking at k Mac being like, yep, that's what
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I want to do. Got to love a guy who
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: wants to play like that. Linebacker Garrett Stover has been
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: the guy getting all the buzz since of course he
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: got the Iron Buck guy. And Tony put in his
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: column today is he your number two Mike? Which is interesting.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Do you think he's your number two Mike or do
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: you think Sincere will beat him out for that spot?
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Do you think the Iron Buckuye fight Sincere off, you know,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: just a matter of time holding off Sincere even if
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: he is ahead of him. But Garrett's been out there
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: making calls, putting people in the right spot, doing all
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: the right things. And as we know, this guy is
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: a burner. This is a I don't like to use
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: the number of the mile per hour because I think
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: it's off, but one of the fastest five dudes on
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: the team top end speed and that's pretty ridiculous as
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: a linebacker. So great stuff there. He's a hell of
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: a football player. And at safety, Earl Little Junior killing it.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Jaylen McLain and Earl Little Junior together sounds great. Who's
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: going to be that third? Is Terry Moore really going
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: to get beat out by Leroy Roker? Is that really
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: gonna happen here? And what about Jay Timmins? Is Jay
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: ready to play some football? I think he just might be.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: And whatever spot. Honestly, the spot that I think, the
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: way they're intending on potentially playing Earl Little is what
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I've always envisioned for Jay Timmins. That's kind of the
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: perfect spot for him and Jay can actually cover which
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Earle did not not so hot in so interesting stuff there.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: As for the corners, really tough watching Jermaine and Dominic
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Kelly just go up against Chris Henry Junior and get
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: abused like that. Man, It's just tough. What you need.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: There is a little bit of Devin Sanchez and Devin
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Sanchez making that leap. Devn is the dude this year, guys,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Devin is the dude. He is all American type buzz
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: coming for Devin this year. I really believe that big
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: step is going to be made and it's gonna be great,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna be happy that he took some of
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: those lumps he took as a freshman. All right, let's
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: get to the recruiting story I was talking about earlier
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: on with Cortes. Okay, So, Lorenzo McMullen Class of twenty
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: twenty eight wide receiver just turned sixteen years old, and
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: I just got done watching his film this afternoon. He
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: is fantastic, fantastic, and he comes up to visit Ohio
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: State over the weekend. Now, this is a Ohio kid,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: kind of Cincinnati kid. Goes to TAFT in Cincinnati and
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: he is a five star, the number ten player in
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: the country, the number four wide receiver in the country,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: comes up to Ohio state, his home state. Now, he
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: comes up, visits, has a great visit. His first time
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: at the Woody meets Hankton, meets the whole crew, and
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: gets offered two come to camp this summer. Gets offered
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: to come to camp, not an offer, gets offered to
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: come to camp. That's not normal for a guy of
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: that stature, not normal at all. You would like to say, well,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: you know, you want a guy who's gonna come and
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: earn it. Yeah, you would, But when everybody else is offering,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: and you know everybody else is just offering, it can
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: be kind of insulting to some people. And you know
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: it rubbed him the wrong way as well. Uh So
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: the Buck guys get themselves in a hole with a
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: five star wide receiver from in state who is just
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: turned sixteen years old, already six one point eight, probably
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: going to be six two six three two hundred pounds
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: by the time he hits college from Cincinnati. And he
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: looks just excellent. He's excellent. And I've seen people say,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe they're just you know, not that into
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: him or the old thing. You got to uh, you know,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: if you offer a if you offer an Ohio kid,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: you gotta be ready to accept that commitment. You know
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: that was once true and then it kind of faded away.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: But now with nil, all you have to do is
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: when it comes down to it, sorry, we can only
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: offer this, and you low ball the offer. If you
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: don't want to kid, right you offer them off. You
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: don't want him, a high profile kid who's gonna get money,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: you just low ball the offer. Then they don't have
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: to take him. But the piss off a five star
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: from the state right off the rip. What are we
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: doing here? I don't know, but I just watched his film.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: The Dude's Legit. He's the real deal. So that really
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: blew my mind there. And then, as I was saying,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: when we look at the visits at wide receiver, they're
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: lower than every other position right now. And like I said,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: with Tyler Bowen, now you always have more offensive line
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: visits than anybody else, but Tyler Bowen last year there
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: were triple the visits from Justin Fry the year prior
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: in the spring, and it was almost like he's the
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: new guy. He's getting everybody in. We're not seeing that
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: with wide receiver yet. So something we're watching something we're
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: watching anyway, Guys, I appreciate you. We will do it
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: again on third Thursday. Tomorrow, we'll do a little bit
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: of a recruiting roundup and go over some of the
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: huge business that we've got coming in this Saturday. And
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: there are some huge ones, particularly offensive line and defensive line,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: and I think both of those hauls for the Buckeyes
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: are going to be fantastic. I will also hopefully have
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: a new microphone by by then, and we'll get this
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: all squared away so I don't got to hold this
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: puppy all show all right. Appreciate you so much, and
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: I'll talk to you soon. Buck, I huddle out.