Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to the Buck Eye Weekly Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman here as always.
Speaker 2: With Tom or Tom.
Speaker 3: How's it going, Tony? We get to play beat the clock.
Speaker 4: We're running our two minute offense on this show because
Speaker 4: the room is supposed to close in I don't know,
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes or so, so we have to run a
Speaker 4: little bit of tempo.
Speaker 3: Here we go. Earlier we were well.
Speaker 2: I'm more about efficiency rather than tempo.
Speaker 4: Earlier when we were in a different spot and they
Speaker 4: started turning the lights off and.
Speaker 3: It was like, uh, we're not that late, right.
Speaker 2: So here we are.
Speaker 1: We've recapped what we heard from Ryan Day earlier. Today
Speaker 1: recapped what we heard from Julian saying you and Marcus
Speaker 1: talked about what you have heard from Jalen McClain. We
Speaker 1: are now going to talk about maybe the most under
Speaker 1: talked about player for the Ohios date Buck Guys, Jeremiah Smith,
Speaker 1: and what he had to say today. He had a
Speaker 1: pretty good crowd around him from what I saw. I
Speaker 1: did not get over there, Yes, but because I could
Speaker 1: not because there was no room.
Speaker 3: Because everyone else did. Yes. And if you're wondering, like
Speaker 3: why would Tony not go talk to Jeremi Smith.
Speaker 4: It's because they'd have three interviews that happened all three
Speaker 4: Heisted players were talking at the same time. So you
Speaker 4: can talk to Julian saying, or you can talk to
Speaker 4: Jeremiah Smith, or you can talk to Jaalen McLean. So
Speaker 4: we had to sort of divide and conquer. And I
Speaker 4: was with Jeremiah Smith. He said, you know, there was
Speaker 4: a lot of talk about this year's schedule.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he said.
Speaker 4: Last year, really they weren't battle tested at the end
Speaker 4: of the year. They played their toughest game in you know,
Speaker 4: against Texas. They played a really tough game against Texas
Speaker 4: early and then they kind of went a long stretch
Speaker 4: of the season without really getting tested again.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was something that right we knew there
Speaker 3: was kind of openly.
Speaker 4: Talked about, even in the time that Brian able to
Speaker 4: use the phrase matchup, you know, matchup game where you're
Speaker 4: you're playing a team that's you know, this is a
Speaker 4: legitimate matchup. When you heard about that about Texas, and
Speaker 4: then it was like, boy, you didn't really hear that
Speaker 4: a lot again until about Penn State or so, and
Speaker 4: even Penn State was like, well, it's a matchup game
Speaker 4: with a team that is about the fire as head coach.
Speaker 1: So the definition got stretched a little bit when when
Speaker 1: you're not playing enough matchup games, you're like, well, shoot,
Speaker 1: we didn't get dressed up for nothing. This is this
Speaker 1: is also a matchup game. And now this year a
Speaker 1: lot of matchup games. Juliet Sayin said the same thing
Speaker 1: in terms of last year's schedule. Let's just face it
Speaker 1: was easier. Yeah, this year's schedule, and Ryan Days got
Speaker 1: them understanding all that that this is not going to
Speaker 1: be easy. Last year, you gotta win over Texas. Great,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. This year doesn't mean anything for your
Speaker 1: trip to Iowa. I know Ryan Day's trying to forget
Speaker 1: that trip to Iowa twenty seventeen, but I do wonder
Speaker 1: he has to talk about it at some point so
Speaker 1: that they are aware of just what can happen two
Speaker 1: teams that think they're pretty darn good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that the Iowa trip. It was funny.
Speaker 4: Jeremiah Smith was asked, you know, he was sort of
Speaker 4: talking about that, and he just sort of rattled off.
Speaker 3: Like we're playing places such as and said.
Speaker 4: Texas, Indiana, and Nebraska, and it was like Nebraska is
Speaker 4: not one of the ones that I would have expected
Speaker 4: to And Boyd go back in a time machine three
Speaker 4: years and said, tell yourself that Indiana.
Speaker 3: Is the second one out of your list, out of
Speaker 3: your mouth on that list.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that Iowa trip is going to be a
Speaker 4: real challenge. Iowa at Iowa and Iowa City always feels
Speaker 4: like it's about ten points better than Iowa anywhere outside
Speaker 4: of Iowa City. And Iowa was a pretty good team
Speaker 4: last year. So yeah, we'll see how how the Hawkeyes
Speaker 4: are this year. I got a little bit of time
Speaker 4: before before that one's on the schedule.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: He was asked about some of the younger guys who
Speaker 4: are sort of standing out, And this is one where
Speaker 4: the most interesting thing to me is who's name does
Speaker 4: he say first? So of the for freshman wide receivers,
Speaker 4: who's named it he say first?
Speaker 1: I'll say Brock Boyd. Wrong, I'll say you're Quaydon Guildford wrong.
Speaker 1: I'll say, if I mean have I got have I
Speaker 1: just ignored Chris Henry Jr.
Speaker 3: You have ignored Chris Jeremiah Smith didn't ignore him? And
Speaker 3: he said his name first, Yes, And.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of those things where he's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: these guys are all coming along really well, which, M yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that's what you're gonna say at an event like this.
Speaker 3: But you hear Chris Henry's name first.
Speaker 4: We've heard Chris Henry's name enough that it's like when
Speaker 4: we generally are talking about guys who might be impact guys,
Speaker 4: he you know, he is sort of the first name
Speaker 4: that that comes out of your comes out of your mouth,
Speaker 4: brock boy. However, Jeremiah Smith did say reminds him of
Speaker 4: himself as a freshman, which was like that was like
Speaker 4: I had to pick my jaw up off the floor.
Speaker 4: And then he said, you know, in terms of his work,
Speaker 4: ethic and determination, which if you can't match Jeremiah Smith
Speaker 4: in terms of physicality and being an athletic freak, like yet, surprise, surprise,
Speaker 4: and no one can do that.
Speaker 3: But that's pretty high praise. And I think you hear.
Speaker 4: That and you kind of go, yeah, that's that's probably
Speaker 4: what caused him to lose his blackstripe as early as
Speaker 4: he did this, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see it all the time when I see
Speaker 1: game and I say game recognized game, and it's this
Speaker 1: people can hear you laughing. It's the same thing there
Speaker 1: where it's it's the workout. You see it all going on.
Speaker 1: You see the intensity, you see the way they practice,
Speaker 1: you see the way they get after a defender, the
Speaker 1: way they get mad at a past being broken up,
Speaker 1: just the way they fight. Like, I think that's interesting
Speaker 1: that there are some comparisons there. I was immediately taken
Speaker 1: back to Marvin Harrison talking about Carnal Tate the year
Speaker 1: it has of him, uh huh in terms of the advancement,
Speaker 1: and I was almost like, so, where does that put Brockdoyd.
Speaker 1: But yeah, those are all good traits to have, and
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting you know, the eighty some catches as
Speaker 1: a true freshman that Jeff seventy four that Jeremiah Smith had.
Speaker 1: But good notes certainly for the young receivers for sure.
Speaker 4: And we've said this before, but one of the things
Speaker 4: that is most telling at these events is when there's
Speaker 4: an open ended question.
Speaker 3: Yep, who you know, who gets who gets mentioned?
Speaker 4: And because if it's like, hey, tell me about this
Speaker 4: young player, they're going to say, yeah, this young player
Speaker 4: is great and he's working really hard and we'll see
Speaker 4: how he does this fall. That doesn't tell me a
Speaker 4: lot when it's who is a guy who's not getting
Speaker 4: talked about enough on the team. That's like, okay, you're
Speaker 4: now you're giving me a meaningful answer. He named someone
Speaker 4: on defense. Oh and it was someone who I thought,
Speaker 4: I feel like this person's getting talked about a decent amount.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, maybe this is really good that
Speaker 4: he feels they're not getting talked about. Ken Yata Jackson.
Speaker 2: You know who's good?
Speaker 1: The fifth year senior returning starter who has really stepped up. Yes,
Speaker 1: the defensive leader that we've heard so much about. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: anybody that's standing out and catching your eye, that's great.
Speaker 1: Kenyanta Jackson has to be great this year. And nothing
Speaker 1: we have heard, nothing we've seen last year, nothing inside
Speaker 1: stuff has disputed the fact that he's in line for
Speaker 1: a very very big year.
Speaker 2: Real quick.
Speaker 1: On the point about the open ending question versus how
Speaker 1: are so and so doing? Somebody did ask Julian saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: how are the young receivers doing?
Speaker 2: Like Chris and Brock?
Speaker 1: And then it's like, well, you know, Chris doing this
Speaker 1: and Brock is doing this, and everybody's doing great, and
Speaker 1: it's like that those are the differences in terms of
Speaker 1: questions like that and the answers and why I probably
Speaker 1: why we probably didn't talk about Julian's answer to that
Speaker 1: same question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little bit of objection leading the witness.
Speaker 4: That's definitely one of those cases. He did when he
Speaker 4: was sort of explaining the Kenyata Jackson thing, said he's
Speaker 4: gonna have a big year. He said he could have
Speaker 4: a Chase Young kind of effect. Not didn't say he's
Speaker 4: Chase Young. He said, could have a Chase Young type effect.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he shows that this year as we did he
Speaker 3: say Chase Young. He said Chase Young. He said the
Speaker 3: name Chase Young.
Speaker 2: Yes, is it because of the jersey?
Speaker 4: It could be Kenyata Jackson is worry number two this year,
Speaker 4: So that that will certainly help with that comp Remember
Speaker 4: when it used to be the shoes, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4: I believe spikef Ley said something about that back in
Speaker 4: the day. Speaking of basketball, he said he messed up
Speaker 4: a route yesterday during at the facility, messed up a route,
Speaker 4: dropped the ball and said he's talking about how he
Speaker 4: expects a lot out of himself, and he said he
Speaker 4: messed up arout, dropped the ball, said he kicked there
Speaker 4: was a bag or something like that, kicked the bag
Speaker 4: and he said, but that's how Kobe was, So you know,
Speaker 4: I think that's one of those things where you have
Speaker 4: to be a little bit hard on yourself because complacency
Speaker 4: only gets you to complacency get you where you are.
Speaker 4: He Jeremiah Smith obviously is in a pretty good spot
Speaker 4: right now. He's not interested in staying there.
Speaker 2: No, And he's very good right now. Right, He's great
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Many would say so, yes.
Speaker 1: But he's not satisfied with that or else. You know,
Speaker 1: why is he out there at all? Why is he
Speaker 1: out there right now? It's shoot, it's July. Yeah, camp
Speaker 1: starts in a week.
Speaker 2: Deal with it.
Speaker 1: Then, Like used to be, they these kids would go
Speaker 1: and find jobs or go back home smoke and drink,
Speaker 1: and then you come back and oh, shoot, I forgot
Speaker 1: it's football. Football's here and now it's a year round.
Speaker 1: So like, yes, he's gonna put all of that work in.
Speaker 1: I would suggest, though, just know what's in the bag
Speaker 1: that you're kicking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's bowling ball.
Speaker 2: Is not something you want to go ahead and start kicking.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the last thing was he was he just sort
Speaker 4: of referenced at one point, you know, going you know,
Speaker 4: going into his last season, and someone said a little
Speaker 4: tongue in cheek, you know, hey they I don't know
Speaker 4: if you heard you have five years to play five
Speaker 4: now and he kind of laughed and he said, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think it might be time. So enjoy Jeremiah Smith
Speaker 4: while you have him, because this will most likely be
Speaker 4: his last season in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Yes, the NFL has five for five words. The first
Speaker 1: round picks get the team option for that fifth year.
Speaker 1: Ohio State trying to get that fifth year option for
Speaker 1: Jeremih Smith. Yeah, I've got I mean, when have we
Speaker 1: ever talked about a four or fourth year for Jeremih
Speaker 1: It's always been a joke, even during like recruiting.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is a reason we did not lead with
Speaker 4: that as exclusive breaking news. Jeremiah Smith thinks he might
Speaker 4: leave after this season. That's must credits Buckeye Insiders dot Com.
Speaker 2: Some aggregator will have that out there though.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely absolutely so.
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Speaker 1: What else.
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Speaker 3: wish you never done nothing.
Speaker 4: Where?
Speaker 3: If you can tell me that's a boy, it's all right.
Speaker 3: We could see currently that