OSU Insider-How This Ohio State Team Feels Different In 2026

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2:13Happy Yosuf Wednesday evenings to you all. God bless your Bukka School Family Bukka Nation. What's up? We are almost there y'all. Look, look where we are. We are three. Before I P Demetrius Stanley and Michael Thomas days until a house they place football again. Man, but for real let's just say one quick word about Demetri Stanley. Underrated receiver here. Great personality. He was on the local sports channels here with Anthony Rothman. Making me laugh every week because he would always get under Anthony Rothman's skin. I met him in person. Great dude. He passed away three years ago. Number three, go watch the Rose Bowl against Arizona State. He made some great plays. God bless you to make your Stanley and the family. But three days until a house state plays again. Listen, do me a favor, hit the like button, then that subscribe button, and then hit the bell notification so you're notified

3:15whenever we go live. All right, we're going to be talking about how this or how a state team feels different in 2026. We're going to talk about that examine that. Also, Coach Day, hit the mic again tonight along with a few players, got some quotes, got some updates, and some confirmations about Saturday, which is very exciting. We're going to get into that. All right, and then also for you Apple people, if you're still having feed issues on your podcast, unfollow, and then follow us back, that should fix it. If you don't do Apple like me, speaker.com is the platform you should go to like us, save us, download us, all of that good stuff. All right, and remember, when you send those wonderful super chats, helps to go towards the pay it forward, which is our military and our first responders. We're going to look out for them because they always look out for us. Nevada Buck, what's up, man? How you feeling? Happy Wednesday evening. I was feeling good until I just realized

4:16and remembered that the major family is no longer with us. And that makes me sad. I mean, it really makes me sad. I mean, he was a terrific player and always such a nice guy and have such fond memories of him, you know, playing out there. That does remind you to never take anything for granted. Enjoy every day. Hug your loved ones and rest in peace. Those are the features you're very much. Absolutely. Big smile. He was just, he was just a fun dude and a really good player. So yeah, definitely wanted to shout him out. Obviously, Michael Thomas was really good here, but wanted to show him some love. But yeah, man. So how are you feeling? More player interviews today, some interesting quotes, updates, all that good stuff. You know, we'll get into to the depths of that in a moment, but how you feel in initially right now, Nevada, about everything? Well, you know, this week's been smooth. You know, it's been a smooth week and it's always nice to hear in these interviews confirmation of what we've been told and what we've been saying. And,

5:20yeah, I think not not a lot of surprises. I think this time of year, you don't want surprises. You don't want anything out of the blue. You don't want anything out of the ordinary. You don't want, you just want boring. I just want boring and nothing eventful and this fall camp's been nothing amazing. You know, no, for a standpoint of no big injuries knock on wood. You know, no big crash outs. No big, you know, issues with players. And so, man, it's been about a smooth sailing as you could possibly hope heading into 2020, 60s and probably more so than you can hope. So that's been nothing but great means all the way around. I would agree. And something else that's pretty smooth is this apparel from our great partner, Bakker. Look at this clean quarter zip jacket. The young lady is rocking and this young man, Bakker. I even like the hoodie. I like the like to me, let me just go on a 10 second rant.

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8:32it's looking to rain. Are this heat and humidity? Obviously, you know, rain is going to come. So we'll see things may change, but it is blazing hot here in Columbus today. Nevada. Well, man, if rain comes and you know, it's been this hot, it could be like real rain. Like, it could be serious rain. Yeah, I'm sad. So yeah, that'll be interesting. Well, you're you're doctor boy. You're supposed to be all over this stuff. You know what I'm saying? Look at that. I depend upon you for dependable weather reporting. So what are you calling for for game dance? That's that's the report. Like I'm telling you what I was looking right now. So you want me to make a prediction on what's going to happen? Are you calling for rain? Is being Moses calling for rain on Saturday? I'm saying right now it looks like there's going to be rain. But I'm listening. I'm Moses. I'm lifting my staff in the air and I'm asking the good Lord to part the clouds. So there's no rain on Saturday or at least let it rain in the morning and then move out in the afternoon.

9:37Or how about rain at night? It could rain Saturday night, right? Yeah, that's too. Just not during the game. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, it's opening weeks week one. I want a beautiful pristine day in a shoe with that beautiful new turf. Those beautiful new uniforms with the you know stripes. That's what I want. So we're going to see we're going to see, man. Friday, I'll make a final call on the show. How about that? I'll be looking forward to it. All right. So let's get into the topic at hand, Nevada. We got HT with another great post, the helping technician talking about how this OSU feel. Team feels different in 2026. And we've kind of been that's a summary of what we've kind of been alluding to based off of what we've been hearing and what we've been seeing with this team after this point. And it just feels special. So Nevada, you want to kick this off HT when he was talking about and we can just kind of discuss it.

10:40Well, yeah, he was talking, you know, he's talking about, you know, how every team has a unique field to it. Every team, you know, when you've been around on how's their football for, you know, as long as he has you get kind of a sense for what kind of a scribe you're going to have and and that doesn't necessarily foot to good, bad, successful, not successful, but each team has a it's own identity as it were. And he used to talk about how how unique the feeling has been around this camp and how he was putting his fingers on, you know, he's like, it's been a number of different things. But one of the first things that he had identified is how this isn't a team of stars in 2026. And he talked about how JJ Smith, you know, JJ, you know, while in our opinion, is one of the finest fighters he was ever played the game, maybe the best fighters he would have ever played on his day. Never want to bullet Nick off. Not really a holler guy doesn't really say

11:41a lot. You know, I'm saying doesn't have a huge personality. So this is not a team that's really defined by its star players. And you know, for Ohio State, Ohio State, no one for having a lot of star power, you know, it's Ohio State football. But this team as good as it is, as number one is it is, it's really kind of devoid of a lot of stars, you know, it's just got a lot of really, really good players. And that's kind of a unique item. And I think that's, you know, that's why you end up in a situation where you have as many captains as they have, you know, I'm saying that, you know, you've got, it's a bunch of different guys kind of representing. We've talked about in the past how you've got so many new faces between the transfer portal guys in the transfer portal kids that went out, the new freshmen that are coming in, you know, such a game ready bunch of freshmen. So it's really just a unique feel in terms of you've got this number one on Ohio State

12:44team that a lot of people are picking them in the national championship and sort of make noise and in concept, but it really, it's really devoid of stars. And I found, I just found that a really kind of interesting observation. And then he moved on to how close the group is. And the ocean moves us surfing a wave or savoring the view. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kill porous. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybeacorium.org slash connects. Don't let Labor Day be remembered for disappointing burgers with good ranchers. You get 100% American beef chicken pork and more delivered straight to your door so you can skip the store, stock the freezer and put something unforgettable on the grill. Think juicy burgers, premium steaks and crowd pleasing chicken from American farms and ranches with no added hormones or antibiotics. With good ranchers, the grill doesn't just feed the crowd. It steals the show. And right now through September 7th, get $123 off your first three orders. Go to goodranchers.com and stock your

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14:50back the 15-16 guys that came back for one last swing were an incredibly tightening group, but had never really connected with a younger one. You know what I'm saying? There was kind of two camps. And again, not necessarily a bad thing, just a thing. That's just kind of what it was. You had a situation where you had, you know, not competing things for the intention, but it was just two different groups. And he's just talking about how tight this group is and how it's kind of a seamless integration between everybody. And I think it is a tribute to the fact that the freshman have come and you talked about Jay Timins coming in saying, I'm going to start off the rip. Chris Hennett Jr., I'm going to be a player right off the rock board. I'm going to play, you know, right? You know what I'm saying? Like I think it's, these guys are also game ready. I think they've kind of garnered the respect of the older guys. And you know, they've really made a point to kind of embrace these transfer portal guys as well. And what you've ended up with is just an

15:51incredibly tight knit group that's really about the team. And I think, you know, he uses these things. It's palpable how close this group is and I can feel that. And that's the kind of stuff that's, you know, it's going to, you know, it's going to sustain you and carry you through such a difficult schedule that they seem to really be embracing and leaning the fact that they've got, you know, they're not shying away from the fact that they've got a difficult schedule. They're not going into the old, you know, coach, we're going to play it one game at a time and we're going to do one week at a time. We're not going to look at, they know they've got tough schedule. And they're leaning into it. And I think when you've got such a tight group, you know, when you face some adversity, which you inevitably will plan a schedule as hard as this, that this, it can get you through. And that tightness can, you know, it can, you know, smooth out some rough spots and can really help you kind of overcome and, and you know, lead you to some great success. But he just talked about

16:52how tight the group is. And, you know, he talked about how different it is to have two NFL coaches that have complete control of their groups because it really thrust Ryan Day into a CEO role, which is he's really most comfortable in that. Ryan Day does at this point this career does not want to be coaching quarterbacks. He doesn't want to be the offensive coordinator. Not if he's not capable, he doesn't want to be doing that. And right now Ryan is, you can tell this is one relaxed dude. I mean, if you can be sitting or sipping him a mosa during these interviews, he would do it because like he is just, he's relaxed. And he's kind of really, you know, it's soaking in the fact that he's got these two, you know, former NFL head coaches run his offense as a different, he's got a special teams coach for the first time in every, you know, I'm saying? So he had to worry about it. He can sit back and just be, you know, the big dog. And

17:53it just, you know, again, different feelings all the way. Now, I feel like I'm talking so much. So I'm going to throw it to you for a little bit and I'll go back for more. But what do you think about that, that be when you read it for the first time for the help of technician? Yeah, I mean, it's funny when I read it, not, not long after I saw the interview today, with Ryan Day, when one of the reporters said, Hey, Ryan Day or Coach Day, you look, you seem to be so relaxed. But then he kind of changed his comment to, you know, because you know, coach, I'm not relaxed. I'm not happy, you know. But he said you look relaxed. And I thought about the H T nugget. But what Ryan Day said is he has more energy. Because as a coach, you know, even if you are relaxed, you don't want to say you're relaxed because that's, that's bad wording, right? That's not a good way of saying things because people are going to take that the wrong way. But he said, I've got, he said I certainly have more energy because I have these two head coaches

18:54at my disposal. I don't have to like, I'm not being pulled on so much. I just need to just govern and make, you know, so that's just great to me. Again, we've been talking about yesterday, we talked about the glee. And I was, I was chuckling when you said glee because I just, I told you why yesterday, but it's so true. Coach Day, have we, have we seen Coach Day be this calm, relaxed, and confident leading into a season opener? I can't, I can't remember him being this cool. And that's not to mean that he's just like kind of just sitting back and just not doing what he's supposed to do. No, it's a lot different. You know, Nevada, you've said you've, you know, you own restaurants and things like that. How confident and comfortable are you when you know, you got a great staff managing your restaurant as opposed to a terrible staff. I don't know if that's a good comparison. But I mean, right? No, it is a great, it's, it's, look, when you've got, when you, when you, when you know you're holding aces, man, you can be really cool at the table,

19:58you know, and you're sitting like he knows he's holding aces. He can sit back and do it. And I've never seen him like this. I'm usually Ryan kind of gives off a kind of frenetic kind of, I'm not saying nervous energy because nervous energy would be like John Cooper, but definitely kind high-strung kind of tents that have hurt kind of, you know, surly kind of edgy kind of guy. He ain't that guy this year, man. Yeah. And, you know, and, and part of that's being the elder statesman, part of that's being the fact he's got a national championship under his belt. He's not word about playing for his job everywhere. You know, but that's going to be a great comfort to him. Because the final state is, you know, it's a tough place to coach. And the worst thing you can have is when you're insecure in any way about your standing, your future, the present, anything like that, because, you know, you know, that if you go out there and you lose, that, you know, people can start calling for your head. Well, Ryan's at the point in his life, professional life, whatever,

21:02where he's like, you know, you're not really, you're going to call for my head, like really, you know, I'm saying, like he knows. And that's a good thing. That's not a bad thing. He doesn't need nobody needs to be coaching me that kind of pressure. And nobody, nobody needs to be operating into that kind of pressure. You know yourself, you know, you're working. You don't need to be working, thinking, oh, if I don't do good, today, I'm going to get fired. You know, I'm saying, like, who works well in that environment? Nobody. Yeah. Now for sure, for sure. And so, you know, I mean, we're a few days away from the hit in the field. And so all this build up, all these things were observing. I just can't wait to see it in action. So, which leads me to an update from today, which correlates with this nugget from HD, is that Arthur Smith, and I see some debate in the chat, will be on the sideline. He will be calling plays on the sideline, which begs the question, who will be in the booth? I have a few guesses who'll be in a booth. But Nevada,

22:04wish your thoughts on that. Now just caveat, he's an NFL coach. From my understanding, he's always been on the sidelines, calling plays. So wish your thoughts on Arthur Smith on the sidelines. Well, I know that was an open item of debate. They had talked about this for a long time going back and forth. And you know, you're right. You know, he's always been on the sidelines. He prefers to be on the sidelines. But you know, they even tried it a couple of practices where he just doesn't like it up in the booth. I personally do not understand any off its accordingly, or cannot be in the booth first more. Because when I'm on the sideline at a football, it looks like a mosh pit to me. It looks like I like you can't see the guys on the other end. You don't have the overhead view. So you better trust the people that do have that to get that information you quickly. And, you know, completely so you can understand in real time what's going on. Because you've got to play call doing 15 seconds. So when it's like whatever it is, and you got to go out there and

23:07make this thing happen. So I heard that. I'm not sure I'm excited about that news. But at the end of the day, I don't care. I just want to put points to the board. I don't care how they do it. Put points on the board. But from my money, I prefer he be up in the box. So that's just my humble opinion. No, I feel you. To me, it's the safest bet. You know, you want the guy that's pulling a trigger on the plays to be the eye in the sky. Right? I mean, that just makes sense. However, obviously they feel comfortable with him being on the field. Somebody in the chat said he can look his quarterback in the eye. That's a sage Ohio. He can talk to his QB face to face. He can get after that. Oh, line along with Boeing. I mean, I get it. I definitely get it, especially if you were successful in the NFL doing that. But yes, I mean, from my money, I would want my old coordinator in the booth. But I'm fine with it. I'm sure they have a system. He's very experienced. So it

24:07doesn't matter to me either way. But there's some other updates I want to talk about from tonight. Okay. And I'm going to pull up a little, a little visual. But the punt returners and kick returners have been announced. Okay. At punt return. And you know what? It's funny. Two things. I didn't think about this person on punt return because I was just so fixated on another person. But I'm going to have to alter my prediction slightly based off this breaking news. So Brandon NSF punt return. That's no surprise. We knew that was going to happen. Devon McEwen at punt return. And then Philip Bell. So those are the three at punt return at kick return. Legend Bay, baby. Legend Bay will be back there kick return. How many opportunities will he have? Maybe just one after the has. If we defer or we take the ball for whatever, he'll have at least one

25:12opportunity to return kicks. So what's your thoughts on that Nevada? You know with the punt return kick return lineup? Well, you know, the punt return, you know, obviously like they've got a big cadre of wide receivers that can all catch the ball. And then clearly they want somebody who can catch the ball back in a partner turn. And that's the number one priority for them is, you know, with these high kicks that everybody does, make sure you catch the ball because nothing can flip a game quicker. As you remember, even for your old heads, remember back the the Clemson bowl game when we lost when Philly Brown dropped that punt. And when we were like, we were just getting ready to put them on Clemson in the a little bit of a cool against those guys. But now I'm kick returns. You know, look, we've been telling you guys how dangerous Legend Bay is, you know, and how fun Legend Bay is with us. So now on a team of alphas on a team of fast guys, high school, fire stars,

26:19great, whatever they're putting Legend Bay on the kick. And kick off, you know, that's the time when you actually have a chance to return it because you're back. The other teams want 60, 70 yards away. And you get the ball. But that's as much open field as anybody gets in the entire game by design. You get on a kickoff. And who are they picking to put back there? Legend Bay. So when we tell you about his game breaking ability, when we talk about his open field ability, no, it's not just hype or it's not just home PM or whatever. Ohio State sees it just the same way we do. And that's why they're putting him back there as the kick returner. It's great. He's like, like you said, we hope we only see him back there one time. But when we do, it's going to be a thing. He'll take it back to what? I don't care if he's five yards deep in the end zone. He's taking that thing back. You watch. Oh, yeah, for sure. So, so yesterday, my prediction was for Legend Bay to return a punt return for a touchdown. Well, I have to alter my prediction to a kick return for a touchdown slight alteration.

27:23But I'm going to stick with that. And I said 150 all purpose yards. And so there's that now also real quick about legend, Bay. Luke Montgomery. Because we have we have all these comparisons and descriptions about legend, Bay, right? This whole off season. We heard, you know, coach, Lockland say it was like art watching him run. Ryan Day caught him a poor man's Thai reg Williams, a Thai re kill. What do I think about? And then Luke Montgomery, today said he saw Antonio Brown in person in like NFL camp. And he said he compared legend, Bay speed to Antonio Brown. Now, I listen, Antonio Brown is a crazy person. Okay. But on the field, that do was a dog. And he was fast, fast. And so all of these, you know, superlatives and descriptions of this young man has been to no end. And now he's at kick return and not only kick return, he's going to

28:29get some some snaps into game. On some level, I'm not exactly sure what they're going to roll out. On Saturday as far as any packages, but he's going to play. And so this is why he was my number two on our list of, you know, most excited to see play. This is why he was my number two. Bo Jackson was my number one. But because he's going to get a lot of touches and he's just getting slept on. But I'm excited about legend, Bay, Nevada. And this just made me even more excited with this kick return news. I can't believe you said that he's a crazy person like Antonio Brown. And that's like, I'm like, man, this guy's just he's just an 18 year old kid. They're being. Nobody is crazy. Is Antonio Brown, not too many. That can't is, yeah, he's out there. But he was a dog on that field. There's just no denying that. Yeah, you can't deny his talent. There's no crushing about that. Now legend's going to be so much. He's going to be so much. You know, we're we're talking about

29:30what we're looking forward to most. And he him getting the ball in his hands is going to be something that's going to be so much fun to watch. I can't wait to see it. Yeah, so so let me ask before you move off from legend, Bay, so let's let's put it out there and kind of guess and predict. The ocean moves us surfing a wave or savoring the view. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kill porous. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybayacorium.org slash connects. When the school year hits full speed, don't let dinner fall behind. Make the week easier with good ranchers. Good ranchers delivers high quality 100% American beef chicken, pork and more straight to your door. So your freezer is stocked before the chaos starts with good ranchers in your freezer. Dinner is already halfway done. Everything arrives vacuum sealed and frozen ready for burgers, chicken, steaks or an easy family favorite on a packed night. When the school year speeds up, good ranchers keeps dinner one step ahead. Visit goodranchors.com now and stock your freezer before

30:35the school week's grambles starts. Good ranchers one less dinner decision all week long. Outside of kick return, what is the first snap or how is he going to be used? Is he going to get a handoff from the backfield? Is he going to get a like a jet sweep? Is he going to get like a screen? Are they going to motion him out from the backfield to the slot and throw it to him? What is your prediction chat? I want you all to predict what is legend based first touch going to be outside of kick return. What you got Nevada? I'm just going to be a screen pass. Okay. So I'm going to go with jet sweep or into round. I think they're going to do something like line him up in the backfield and then motion him to the slot and then bring him on a jet and give it to him around an edge. That is my prediction. But we'll see. Either way, I cannot wait. If he gets one just any opening,

31:41I think he's going to just kill it. He's going to kill it, man. So they're going to try to get him in space as much as possible to let him work, man. So we're going to see, man. We're going to see, look at, look at Lacklund. It's like art when he runs. I mean, I'm like, all right, man. We got to see this, man, because they they pumped this kid up something crazy. But speaking of pumping up, and I want to kind of move on to the next thing here, as far as hype and, you know, superlatives and just adoration. And that's Jay Timons. You mentioned earlier, Nevada, because we were talking backstage. And Devon Sanchez, the corner, was talking about how Jay Timons was on his recruiting visit. And he made a prediction. I'm going to pull it up, Nevada. But I want, no matter fact, let me pull it up and play it first. It's a short clip. So just just the heads up,

32:41Nevada with the clips. I know sometimes the clips give you, give you a sound issues. But here it comes, just a second. Here we go. You know, just going out there and touching the ball, making plays on the ball. It's just as a freshman, you know, that's what you got to do to be felt. And if you want to go on the field, that's what you got to do. That's what you're doing. He's making it known that, you know, that he's going to be on the field. You know, we got a lot of trust in him. You know, we caught him a lot. You know, he got to come up and make some big plays along with myself and always remain. So it's just go down there and just compete. Did you get the sense from when he was going to do that right away, like when he got on campus, did you realize this is a guy that's going to push the play? I knew when I was his host on his recruit. He was going to come here and make a difference. He also told me when he was a recruit, he's like, hey, damn, I'm going to start a hard state,

33:41my first year. I'm like, bro, it's hard, but you know, you can come here and do it. And that's what he's doing. He's making it known. I just told him that last week, I'm like, baby, if you're telling me that when he was a recruit, he's like, yeah, and I'm like, man, he's true now. So it's like, let's go out and do it. See, that's what I'm talking about, man. That right there, Nevada is a dog mentality. These are the type of kids that we attract. Okay, you're heard, Devon Sanjay is saying on his visit, he hosted J. Timons on his visit. And J. Timons told him he was going to start as a freshman. And that's what he's about to do. Start as a freshman, which obviously is extremely hard to do, especially at that position. And so dog mentality, and this is why I love the standard that Ryan Day has set. When he talked about, hey, you know, and people took it the wrong way. He said, you know, if you don't have a first round, you know, basically he was saying, if you don't have a mentality of you want to be a first rounder, this is not the place for you. And so that's the mentality that I have.

34:46And by the way, just to remind people and shout out to Dev, the J. Timons is going to start information. We had that in the beginning a long time ago. I noticed some folks trying to know we had that J. Timons information. Before I saw anybody talking about him, starting just FYI for y'all. But anyway, yeah, he's a dog. I cannot wait to see him play. There's so much respect in Nevada from the players and coaches for this young man. It's just it's amazing how much respect he's commanding as a true freshman at that position. Nevada. Well, you just think about, you mean, like every position on the field requires a certain level of confidence, you know, I'm saying, but none more so the defensive back, you know, I'm saying, like you better have the swagger, you better have the aura, you better have the confidence when you're out there. Because I frankly, I've talked about this before, but I don't know how anybody plays that position. Like, okay, here you go cover, you go cover J. J.

35:49Smith. He's going to run a four three. He knows where he's going and you can't touch him. You know, I'm saying, Oh, okay, you know, good luck. And you got to hold it back. He's six four. Hawking. But don't touch him. Otherwise, that's a family. I mean, like, I don't know how he's guys do it. But yeah, Jay is a guy. I don't think just because the way his recruiting recruitment came down, I think people were kind of like, Oh, yeah, okay, that's great. We got to get to him. Yeah, you know, but like, I don't think I realized how big it was. I mean, this was a, he was the ground jewel of that force that reporting class and the imprinted come over here, do his thing. The ocean moves us surfing a wave or savoring the view. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forest. The ocean connects us. Visit monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. I mean, pretty, pretty exciting. And, and, you know, a guy that's going to come in as a

36:52freshman on a loaded team or team, this preseason number one calls his shot. And now, you know, whether he's starting first guys out there, whatever it is. I mean, he's, he's up there. You know, HT talked about how on defense, we have like 20 starters. You know, like, we have, you know, depending on situationally, are we in the nickel? Are we in the big nickel? Are we in the three linebacker? Are we in the bear front? You know, what's what are we in? We've literally got 20 kids who could be out there at the beginning when it was happening. So that's certainly unique. And Jay has certainly put himself into the, the rare, rare of a freshman that could come in Ohio State and do it right away. And he's, he's a special one. Yeah, definitely. You're right. I mean, he definitely wasn't getting the praise. And, you know, big old celebration as some others got when he committed, but huge pickup for sure. So definitely exciting. And I'm trying to think there was some other little tidbits and things from the interviews.

37:59Now, I'll take a look at my notes, but we can always get to that. I wanted to, before we get to super chats, I wanted to mention something. We've been talking about this for weeks now. And it just seems like the drum, the drum beat is just getting louder with the Julian saying slander. Nevada. I just wanted to take a few moments to discuss this. And you know what, let me play, I'm going to play a clip. I'm about to play a short clip from Ryan Day to kind of set the tone for what I'm about to say or about to talk about. Because to me, it's just, it's just beyond ridiculous. But on the, on the other hand, I kind of like it because now it's like, okay, he can have a real chip on his shoulder. I think it's movement's been better. I think this is Ryan Day on what's how Julian has got better. Jim in this play on the field. Where did you see the growing man in a lot of areas. I think it's movement's been better. I think it's accuracy is even improve.

39:01More of the balls coming out faster. His understanding of the offense, his ability in the huddle to you know, communicate his ability to communicate on a line of scrimmage. He's done a lot of good things for us. I think, you know, probably like if you just said, if there's one thing I'd say, no, it's probably like incremental improvements across the board. It's probably the best way to put it. All right. So that's Ryan Day talking about Julian saying to say he's even more accurate as wild to me Nevada. First of all. But I'm bringing this up again because again, there's, I keep seeing more pundits and more lists and more is Julian saying overrated, you know, content and things like that. And I'm just like I was watching to do the the backs up that takes over for the hurt where he's out. He was just, you know, down on them. People keep pointing back to the last two games and basically saying, well, that's that's why he's overrated. So let me ask you, let me ask something to you,

40:05Nevada and everybody watching. Let's just kind of just do a little, little quick, little question answer game. What all goes into a offense being successful? Can we name a few things? Right? Obviously, let's get the quarterback out of the way quarterback. Obviously Julian saying is a quarterback. That's important. What else is important for an offense to be successful in Nevada? Any other thoughts? Well, I mean, your play calling needs to call in your coaching, your coordination, your offensive line needs to protect you. Your receivers need to catch the ball and do well. I mean, there's a multitude of things that have to go right. And then they all have to go right and off the defense is just about blowing stuff up and causing, you know, havoc. But offense is about precision. Like all loving guys got to be on the same page doing exactly things for your play that have any any chance to be successful. So there's a lot of things that

41:07are going to do it for sure. Yeah. So I agree. So you're in short, it's not just on one thing to get an offense to be successful. That everyone has to work together. Right? So I'm asking this question because to me, it seems like the critics of Julian saying are just laying all the blame or most of the blame at Julian Sain's feet. Now listen, we've both said on here, me and Nevada, yes, Julian Sain needs to get better in this area or that area. He needs to use his feet more. He needs a no one to take off his scramble to move the chains like Carson Beck did, who's not known for running. Okay. He needs to make sure he's keeping his eyes down, feel with pressure in his face, which is a natural progression and growth of any quarterback. He was a first year starter last year. And you know, even we've brought this up so many times and I've got it pulled up right now, the Indiana versus Ohio State stats for the game, Julian versus Mendoza, almost identical stats,

42:12almost identical. And we've said this so many times, if Ohio State wins that game by a few bounces of the ball, lost by three, Julian Sain wins the Heisman. This is why this is just one data point of why this is so ridiculous with the Julian Sain's slander. So I just wanted to point this out because the offensive line, Nevada and everybody listening, because offensive line was one of the things mentioned as as what you need to be successful for an offense. They gave up 10 sacks in those last two games, 10 sacks. That is difficult for any quarterback to overcome. So this is how I see it. You've got a pie, right? And you've got slices of the pie. You can debate or argue who gets the bigger slice, the bigger piece of the blame. But Julian Sain doesn't deserve the whole pie. He has a slice, but so does the offensive line. So does Brian Hartline

43:16having one foot out the door in that whole situation. That was a problem. I mean, the opponent was very good. I get that. But go back and watch the games. Overall, Julian Sain was not terrible in those games. He wasn't at his best. He could have done some things better. He showed his youth. But those games were not all on Julian. And then even specifically with the interception, that was not all on Julian. And I would even argue it's not on Julian based off of the design of the play. But I'm not going to get into that. So anyway, Nevada, I just wanted to touch on that because the Julian Sain slander is just crazy. Instead of asking, is he overrated? How about you ask? Is he underrated? Because at this point, it seems like most of these people don't believe in him. They're stuck in 2025 or early 2026 or whenever the game was. No, it was 2025. And they're, there is like, is he not able to get better? Can he not progress from what year one and year two?

44:20Or do you expect him to be that same guy? And do you expect the old line to be that same online? And do you expect our offensive coordinator to be freaking Brian Hartline? It's not. Things have changed. Things have improved. Players get better. So anyway, Nevada, just wanted to rant about that because it's just ridiculous. Your thoughts. Well, I just, you know, I just think it's funny that, you know, at one point in time, people talk about how, you know, the Michigan game is more important than winning a national championship. And then now, and he gets no credit for going up to Ann Arbor and to shredding Michigan in a snowstorm. Planned it, you know, a fantastic game. But that just, that just doesn't count. It's just kind of go to the next two games and look, he outperformed a fourth year for Nanda Mendoza who went number one in the draft and he outperformed a six-year of Carson Beck who went in the third round of the NFL draft. So, you know, I know they didn't win the games, but it's not like those guys played better than he did. They didn't, you know, they didn't.

45:22And those guys are really experienced, really good players that went highly in the NFL and, Julian was a first year. He was a red shirt freshman starting his first, you know, his first season of playing quarterback. And guys like that, they get better. It's scary to think that he could get better because he was so darn good last year. But yeah, I think cherry picking, you know, the games not giving him credit for the other big games and, and then just, you know, it's, it's a really, whether it be a pundit or an Ohio State fan thing, but we do like to do that when we, I've said this for years, when we win a game, be, then those don't count. That was, that team wasn't good, or it didn't matter, whatever it is. But if we lose, oh, that's the only game that, oh, that, have that game right there. That's the game that matters. The only game that matters is like, come on. Let's at least be fair. Winning up an Ann Arbor, I don't care for who is not easy. It's never been easy. It's never been easy, especially coming off a time when we've lost three in a row to Michigan.

46:27That game was huge last year. Yep. Yep. That game was cheap on the road. That game excercised a lot of demons. And he was really good. And that you through the early pick came back and was flawless the rest of the way. So yeah, I don't get it. But frankly, I love it. I mean, I think we need to have some disrespect. I think we, you know, right now I, I, I, I, knocking on, I hate the factor word number one. I, I rather we've been coming from behind, but we are. So it is what it is. But disrespect, JJ, disrespect, Julian, disrespect, you know, I'm glad JJ didn't win the, the bullet in the cough for the last couple of years. Let's, uh, let's have those guys ready to go and fire it up for the for, uh, 2026. And I think that can only help us. That's a good point about JJ and that bullet in the cough. Yeah, give him a chip. All the success he's had, he already has a natty that I love it. And so that's the flip side of the annoying, um, you know, Julian saying slander as if he can't get better is that he can use that

47:28as motivation as a chip and, and to remain focused. So that's good stuff. So before we get to super chats, we want to the ocean delights us some marvel at the colorful world below the surface. The ocean feeds us others find nourishment in its bounty. The ocean teaches us how our everyday choices impact even the deepest places. The ocean moves us where they were writing wave or soaking in its breathtaking beauty. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Talk about another one of our great partners. And it is ramble. Let me pull this up Nevada. And you can kind of jump into this as I pull this up. Here we go right here. ramble. So anybody first of all in the chat tell me in the chat, have you heard of ramble? And we're going to talk about it. Here is the, the page right here in Nevada. You want to kick it off

48:30and I can jump in. Well, yeah, uh, we just look, this, they came to us. We really looked at this long and hard. And we just thought that was a really cool idea. Basically what it is is it's like a pinned group chat where you can do it with like content creators, entertainers. And in your case, a lot of Ohio's the exo-housed state football players. And so whether it be boom, heron or trill, prior or devere posee or whatever it is, you can interact directly with those guys as part of this group chat. And the best thing about this, it's free. It's a free app that not charge any money. And you, if you want to help out the scoop, click the link and download the app. That's all we ask you to click the link, download the app. Even if you just do that, that helps out the scoop. But I, it's a lot of fun. It's a really, like I said, it's a really unique way to connect with some of your, you know, the people that you rooted for growing up or earlier in life or whatever

49:34it might be. I just think it's a, it's a really interesting chat platform. And, um, yeah, ramble, they came to us and we're like, you know, this is, this is really unique. I don't know if anybody else is doing something quite like this before, but we love the fact that it's free. We love the fact that it's easy. So just click on the link, join ramble and check it out. And, and what do you get? I believe it's got 15 seconds of time. Takes no time at all. And, uh, it's, and it helps the yeah, yeah, this is, uh, this is definitely very interesting when I heard about this. And, and I thought about for, for those for comparison, uh, if you're on X or Twitter, it reminds me of spaces where it basically you can respond via text on spaces you have, you know, your favorite person you follow or your celebrity and you can join their spaces and listen along and leave reactions. But on this one, you can actually respond and ask questions and comment. That's pretty dope,

50:34man, especially for some of the Xbox I players, um, that we did that we talked about. So this is good. Man, we got some really good, uh, partners, man. And this is really cool already downloaded to app myself. So I'm a, I'm a join in and just kind of observe and just kind of have fun with it, you know, couple of these cats. I know we already got their number. So, you know, I'm saying, but it's just to have some fun. Um, but anyway, anyway, anyway, good stuff. All right. So let's get to these wonderful super chats. All right. We got Jim Jackson, my guy, your guy, our guy. Love this brother. Good, dude. He says, be flight and air B and B secured for LA and about to buy these USC tickets tonight, looking forward to connecting with you, Dev, Nevada and Jessica, our book for a pick. Keep doing your thing, my brothers. That's dope, man. That is great. Jim. I cannot wait

51:35to get out to LA. Uh, what is it? September 2nd. You know, it's, that's, it's coming up. It's coming up quick, man. So Nevada, Jim Jackson, man, he got his stuff getting his stuff booked up, man. I'm excited. Oh, we're going to have so much fun. It's going to be a great trip. We're going to be, uh, we're going to run around Manhattan Beach on Friday night before the game and in Saturday, we're going to be going out there, rooting on the busiest victory. And I'm going to be taking B Moses to in and out burger and all sorts of great places. And, uh, it's, uh, we're going to have big fun and we're going to have a great steak. I'm front next, like I said, I don't want to need to eat for the next eight weeks in preparation for this thing. So your lean, mean and hungry when you get thrown in tonight. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. I'm going to be ready. Now, here's my question. What is the chances? And I know, uh, uh, funky believes it's not going to be. But what are the chances? This is a night game in USC at USC. I mean, I have a note, have they, have they announced

52:39who's televised in it? I don't even know. I was confused with the things and the bids and the, the changes and, you know, it can't be a big noon out there because there would be nothing like in the morning, you know, and I'm saying like that. So like, I'm thinking it's going to be like a five o'clock L.A. time, like eight o'clock Eastern game. Okay. Okay. And that's what I'm, that's that's kind of what I've got in my head. Um, don't know that for a fact, but that's that's kind of what I'm thinking. Okay. I mean, it is cool. I just don't want it. I don't want it to be a noon L.A. time. It wouldn't be a noon L.A. time because what they're three hours behind us, right? Yeah. No, it couldn't, it couldn't, it couldn't, I mean, I guess it could be 1230 if it was a 330 Eastern game. It could be 1230. Right. I don't want it to be that though. I want it to be to where we can have a ramp up at least a 330 or 4 p.m. or something like that. A ramp up to the game in L.A. You know what I'm saying? Um, but we'll see. We'll see. Either way, I'm definitely excited for sure. Um, Mark from

53:41WC. Ramble is an awesome app joined today. Yep. I'm just now getting hit to it, but it's definitely a great idea and I downloaded it at myself. So I'm definitely on it for sure. All right. And we got Kent Curry. Thanks for being a scoop archer. Remember, thanks for the 999. He says, sorry, guys, I can't stay. We'll finish watching it later. Say a prayer for David Taylor, 38 years old, a wildlife officer that took in a call to help a family escape and pay the ultimate price, hit me pray for fam. Oh wow. So yeah, so that's, that's definitely always hard to hear. Um, it just especially in light of the fact that this man risked, basically gave his life for, for these people, to save them. Um, that's, that's just sad. Man, that's tough. I'm so sorry to hit here, that Kent. Definitely praying. I'm a praying man. If you're a praying person out there, please lift up David Taylor, um, call the name out, pray for the family. Um, and we would appreciate that. Thank you,

54:47Kent for doing that. We're always game for that. Nevada. Yeah. I mean, like, we have a lot of fun here. I'm talking about fun and games with them. And that's real life. And that's, that's real stuff. And, um, yeah, be a prayer for the family prayers for all involved. For sure. For sure. Yep. It's a constant reminder. Uh, we have fun here. Like Nevada says, we talk about different things and we talk about stuff like this. You know, we, we lift each other up. We support each other pray for each other. Uh, we got real lives. You know, uh, I know this is a getaway and escape for us. But life is real. So, uh, you know, we're definitely going to be having them in our hearts and in prayers for sure. Uh, Kent. But, um, but yeah, I see a few people in the chat. Who's, who's all talking about LA? Um, never been to LA. Look forward to. I'm wondering how many scoop people will be out in LA, Nevada. Wouldn't that be cool to, uh, to meet with a few of them, you know, before the game or something? I don't know. Well, like I said, Friday night, men have been, you see me walking around with the six foot 11 blocker. That's B Moses. Right.

55:49He's really seven one. He's seven one and the very handsome and, um, yeah, we're going to be, we're going to be moving around there and yeah, I think we're going to run into a lot of scoop people. I think we're going to run because be your famous man. Your famous, very handsome. Look at Billy D Williams, very handsome. And he's probably going to come up and, uh, and be kind of a photograph of your man. Listen, just don't call me Idris Elba anymore. I got nasty emails, um, from, from women across the country. Just I got all types of strays and hateful comments. I don't just like, dang, I thought I was at least decent looking. Y'all killing me. I know I'm not Idris, but I'm I, I'm not top liver, but you got me in a lot of trouble with that comparison about it. But, I'm telling you, it's like looking in the mirror, man. I'm like, I get to look at you like an hour every night. I'm like, man, I look at yourself every time I look at you. Oh my goodness. So, so, so he handsome. Is, is job being the chat? She was the first time you said that she was like,

56:52I love being most, I don't know the bottom. I was like, dang, man, this dude's getting me all types of trouble. But anyway, anyway, anyway. So listen, um, we, like I said, we got three days, three days until the buck eyes play. And then also reminder, next week, we have confirmed once again, Nevada, Tate from Barstool. Our guy, your guy, our guy, the slumber, oh wow. On Friday to preview that at Texas Longhorn game, baby. We love that brother's content. He loves, uh, he has, is the mutual love. And he's coming on the show. He'll also be on Thursday with Dev. So, it's going to be like a ESPN car wash, a buck eye scoop car wash, Thursday night to talk about, reaction from the offseason leading into ball state. And then Friday night to preview the Texas game with me in Nevada. I cannot wait. So any final thoughts before we bang out of here in Nevada.

57:54Yeah. Now, just a great week for Ohio State Smoothie, a practice. Everything's kind of coming to a head now, man. It's all all these months and months and months of waiting. And now, like I said, we're three days away. But things are looking good. Buck, I ran. I expect a big effort. And hopefully, B Moses can get on the Doppler and start, you know, rain, rain, go away. Just none of that rain. I'm saying it's earlier in the day, but it's only like a couple hours, man. You're cutting it close on this thing, man. Okay. See, I got to update my pick, man. All I got is a winter storm warning, Ryan Day scouting me about the Swiss miss. I got to, I got to upload my Doppler pick or make a new one. So I got you. I'm on it, man. But we're going to park this guy's for Saturday. So we have a nice clear day for the book. I gave you all, but listen, listen, listen, listen. As always, man, we love y'all. We appreciate you. Charlie. We have a ton of fun. And clearly, y'all do too in the chat. So we appreciate y'all, but until next time, go bucks and peace.

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