OSU Insider-Massive Changes To The Ohio State Offense For 2026

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To get our content gonna be talking about some massive changes to the Ohio State offense man

I've been loving these updates and just

Looking forward to seeing this offense in

2026

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Nevada buck he is back from his journey

We've missed you Nevada. I know you've been busy doing your thing man. Welcome back. First of all

How was your trip? What's up on everything?

Trip was uh was your fun trip a week in Buffalo, New York

With for anybody who has never been to Buffalo. I hardly recommend I went and saw Niagara Falls and I did all the touristy stuff and

Hit some uh, so I kind of

Eating places there and Buffalo and the people were great and and had a great time

But it's definitely good to be back, but yeah a week week is a long time to be gone and uh, so I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm still tired from the trip man

It's uh, it's it's just grueling to be on the road that long

Yeah, that's the only downside

We're traveling is like if you could just

Snap your fingers and be at your destination and enjoy yourself and snap and be back

I mean that will be you talk about when people ask what kind of superpower you would have you remember that movie jumper Nevada buck

It has Sam Jackson and in it and big like if you could just be a jumper. That would be great

But yeah, the travel can be grueling and then of course, it's not being in a comfort of your own home

But um, but anyway, so on the trip

Tell us a little bit about the daughter and the performance and uh and catches up on hockey games

Well, I'll just I'll give you the quick version. There's so much to talk about

This was the national championships for hockey for the United States

Um, uh, you know, you have to play six games to get there

So they went through the preliminary round went you went to find got to the quarter finals

um

And I'll just give you guys a quick thing

But this was just kind of interesting. They play their it's zero zero

With five minutes to go in the game and

Uh, my daughter's team scores

And they score and they dog pile on top of each other

And as they dog pile the ref rules no goal

and

The girl a girl then grabs the puck and goes breaks away

To the other end of the ice while they had thought that they had scored

And my daughter was actually turning around drinking out of her water bottle

I

And had to readjust as the girl came in on her and the girls scored

To go ahead one and it was the the darnedest sequence that I've ever seen

In mind a puck that was clearly in that in and out the reps blew it off

And so now we're sitting down one nothing with five minutes to go in the game

And we're like oh my gosh, we're gonna go out in the quarter finals and I was having a heart attack

And with two minutes to go we scored a tie it up one to one and then with four seconds to go

We scored a win it two to one

So that so that was the court that was Friday night

So then we go to saturday night against our big right like the big bishop currently is the big rival jadek

And this was like you know thousands of people every college coach in the thing and

My daughter's goalie partner is going to Ohio State committed to Ohio State

So I thought they'd play her this game, but they went to my daughter again. They went to her back to back nights

You have to play in the semis and

Game tied two to two

With two minutes to go in the game and they give a penalty shot to the other team

And the other team had their players the best player were getting Nella Luscapova going to Wisconsin best player in the world

MVP of the world's all-time league squad the world's comes in my daughter stops her on the penalty shot with two minutes to go

They go over time they go to the penalty shoot out

um

They're up one not the penalty shoot up that Luscapova is the last shooter. She comes in again on my daughter

My daughter stops her again on a penalty shot and they win in over time in a shoot out

On the semi finals night

To go to the front did dance to the finals

So like we like yeah, like we're so we're having a heart attack

We go to the finals play a team the other team from Minnesota that we played

You know eight times this year got nine national team players on it the game goes over time

We give up a two-on-one and they score and we lose an overtime to lose the national championship

And so my daughter was just just gutted. I mean absolutely

Just just cancel it would not come out of the locker room. I just would not just like it was it was terrible

So to say it was a range of emotions

So yeah, but um that's great anyway. Yeah, so I appreciate you guys indulge in me listening to my little story

But it was it was a three crazy talking and never seen back to back to back and um

Yeah, so I yeah, it's just it's hard to do man it to be that literally went over time again back to back nights and they lose and

Heartbreaking so but I'm back and and

Sports is cruel. You know that be I'm sure you play the million games

And I'm sure there's some that still haunt you

This is gonna be one that's gonna haunt me for a while because it was just we were better than the other team

And should have won and just didn't and um but life happens right

It does that's a heck of a ride and you you did a great job of narrate net like I could see it

I was picturing your daughter drinking the water. I was picturing your state down

They literally yelled at the elder they're doing Morgan and she little returns around as the girls coming in on her

She's like what in the world

Yeah, it's a reenactment

Oh crazy. No, that's crazy though. That is that is insane

And yes, that is a heartbreaker

And yes, I mean I've had like we've talked about before I've had my uh share of victories and triumphant moments and game-winning shots and and plays

And I've had my moments of dang like man. I wish I could have that back

Man, I was like you know gut-riching or we blew a team out

In spectacular fashion and we got blown out in spectacular fashion. It just happens

And it's just it's tough man sports sports is one of the most rewarding things

That you can participate in especially as a young person coming up

But it really shapes character. Oh my god your daughter that you know

Nevada that is going to

That's going to do something for her

You know what I mean? And so because she's a competitor clearly and she's going to use that but man my heart hurts for her

Now because I know how it feels just to come up short when you put so much into something on the court feel the ice whatever

So thank you for sharing that man because

Oh boy, that's crazy. So

But you are back

You are back great to have you back

There's been some things going on some you know some updates some stuff

You know

Buckeye football has been great to talk about

And so we're going to dive right back into it man and

Really great nugget from my helping technician today

Talked about the pace of play and bring it up Arthur Smith again man and

Um all this stuff is very very intriguing and exciting and I and Nevada. I think

Little by little

The people who hated the Arthur Smith higher

Even if they're not vocally repenting. I can tell I can fill a shifting

Little by little people are just starting to open up a little more like hey this you know, this might be good

Nevada, but anyway, tell us about this. Let's get started with this nugget

Well, you know, Arthur Smith basically you know was talking

You know about

Their whole plans for going faster and you can say well, you know, what does that mean and you know

Yeah, how do you implement that they talked about terminology changes

You go into more one word calls to get plays in to Julian saying quicker

So Julian saying can you know get them to the line faster

A change in conditioning for the the offensive lines so they could play more plays

You know be be able to get the line without making

Um

Personnel changes and personal grouping changes so the defense can't change

Um, but one of the things that was the most interesting thing and I and this is something that I I knew

Kind of notionally, but I didn't really know um until I read this in the nugget

And it's kind of really kind of focused on it was

How Arthur Smith the this seems like such a subtle change, but you're human so profound one

Is the difference of the size of the hash marks from the NFL to the college game

And in the NFL the hash marks are lined up directly with the width of the goalposts of the

You know the goal you know of the goalpost so it's 18 feet six inches

From hashmark to hashmark

In college

The hash marks are 40 feet apart

And so what that means is when you have a you talk about always talking about a field side and a boundary side

The field side is the wider side of the field whatever the widest side of the field and the boundaries

Would be this the field that's closer to the side line or just so we're not getting caught in this deep terminology

But when you're at one hash mark as with the other you have got such a gigantic amount of space on one side of the field

You took you took you to do exotic formations for you to put four wide receivers for you to put extra line

I mean there's all sorts of things that you could you could never do in the NFL because they're simply not enough room

To do it and I think Arthur Smith is he's really enjoying what he's doing because what they want to do is they want to make jj smith

The fulcrum of the offense. They want the offense to revolve

Around through by whatever you want to say through jj smith much like in Tennessee

The offense of fulcrum was Derek Henry

And that's how they use it and obviously it seems more simplistic to use it through a running back

But if you get creative and you take advantage of these gigantic spaces that you have on the side and what you can do

I mean there's so many things that you can do to run other because when you have other guys out there and they're running patterns

They can basically pick

For jj smith you know, I'm saying like you you can block without blocking or you can actually you know block for jj smith

Or you can run him out of the backfield or you can run him out of the slot or you can run him out of bunch formations

Or you can isolate him and put guys on the other side and you know get him set up in one on one

There's so many things that you could do because of these wider hash marks

And I just found that really really fascinating in terms of that a guy like Arthur smith would really pick up and

And he's really hammering on that in terms of what to do because you know, you're just you're hamstrung and the NFL just because of field

You know

Configuration

You have a lot more advantages and a lot more opportunities to do exciting things

I'm the college fields because of the width of the hash marks

I just found that really really fascinating and thought that was one of the more interesting parts of this very very interesting nugget today

Yep, I agree and there's something that a lot of people don't talk about

Because again, you're coming from the NFL down to the college game

You're going up against elite minds every week in the NFL

And now you're coming out of college not saying there's not any elite minds in college

But come on man. I mean Arthur smith

This is just another thing that he's salivating over to be able to take advantage of some of our NFL personnel

And so I yeah, you're right. It's like the hash is like 20 yards from the sideline

That's a lot of room. That's a lot of real estate to work with and so also with the you know

It makes when when defender defensive coordinator say make the um, I'm sorry

Offends a coordinator say make the defense you know cover the whole 53 yards

This is literally that

And so Nevada with this nugget and with this hashtag

hashtag

Hash mark. I got my mind on social media with this hash mark um

You know, I guess situation that we're going to take advantage of

To me this couples really well with the emphasis we talked about Cortez Hankton and Jeremiah smith

Talking about yak yards and improving on yak yards and how they were not good as a wide receiver room

And Jeremiah smith specifically said he was not good and that's the number one thing. He's working on

so

Working to get JJ smith scheme to open more

Using the entire field

with the emphasis on yak to me

Sounds video game like because he Nevada

I don't know if you heard the Hankton interviews somebody like taking hitches 60 yards

Like that's what's that's the goal and they're not just talking about it. They're doing drills

They're working on techniques specific things to help with this

So to me, I thought about that yak stuff when you and when I read this nugget

I'm like, ooh, that's a nice you know, I'm saying you could tell that there's a plan

Jeremiah smith wants to go out with a bang specifically

Because this is for the whole offense, but Jeremiah smith is the is linchpin here

And so I'm excited about that combination Nevada

Like with this hash mark

nugget with Jeremiah smith in the yak

Well, I think look Jeremiah smith clearly is going to be a guy that's going to put up some gotty numbers

It's just was finally year to high estate

I think Ohio State wasn't happy with the fact that he didn't take a big jump forward

Last year, you know, I'm saying like you've got a guy who's got a transcendent talent

JJ had a great year by any measure, but was it

You know, was it the kind of year you would expect to have it out of a year or two?

JJ Smith that it really wasn't and I think Arthur smith is bound and determined not to repeat the mistakes of the heart line

Offensive quarter in experience

But that doesn't mean the other guys aren't gonna aren't gonna feast that doesn't mean Parker isn't gonna feast

That doesn't mean branded branded inus is a guy

That could really feast and this offense as well, you know, I'm saying like Brandon in this for the first time is running

Like he was running to see when he was a senior in high school

That was a five star guy flew it up the number one guy and the number one wire receiver in the country

You know just the you know dominant guy that was looked down to everybody's highly JJ smith is

Been a little hamper been a little stiff. We've talked about that in the past and you know, maybe

Maybe a little muscle bound running a lot more fluid this year. I think he's poised for a breakout year

For the black guys and I think in an offense like this for their featuring him where they're doing stuff with JJ smith

You're gonna have other guys like that. They're gonna really you can take advantage of those one-on-ones and

When they're playing to the wide side of the field when they're scheming to you know to get stuff out on the

On the open end of the field and play more in space

I think the wide receivers as a group are really gonna do well

But I think Brandon just in in particular is the guy you should be watching out for because I think he's gonna have a big year in Ohio state

Yeah, I like it. I like how you're um and listen you know you always evolve when you get more information

You know you you shift gears and depending on the information

We all know you weren't that high on anise

But yes, he we all agreed regardless of what we thought

He needed to be a little more explosive a little more fluid

And all that we saw some things last year

He played really well against Wisconsin had a great catch in the back of the end zone

He scored against the team up north

Like we saw flashes of Brandon and his being like making plays

It's like he's a good receiver

He was just a five star. He hasn't lived up to the five star hype yet

So yeah, I mean him being an ironbuck eye and and basically taking a leadership role even more significantly this year

and

Basically calling his shot

He wants to be a first-rounder. He knows um would it would it's gonna take

And so I just wouldn't bet against this dude. I mean, I just I love his leadership style. He's vocal

He's a fellow Brandon be in this and he's a leader. I told you I went I went to practice his last year

You his leadership on the field was real regardless of what fans thought about him the the players and the coaches respect that dude

And so um yeah, I would not be surprised if he if he breaks out because if he steps up and eats like that

I mean Nevada you know Kyle Parker while you was a in Buffalo losses a black stripe

And McEwen has been uh been doing well too, and I mean we already know

We got a really good receiver room and I believe Hank then um is going to

Rotate more than heart line did and so I'm excited. I'm excited, but I'll just kind of dial it back and just say

If Brandon in his let me see I don't know how many yards he has what do you think

Will be sufficient realistically for Brandon in his yards and touchdowns for to say okay

He had a great year for him because he's not Jay Jay. He's not the number one

But what do you think off the top of the hit?

Well, I think it's got to be I mean

You know and maybe this is aggressive, but he's I think he's got to be carnal tape you know what I'm saying

I think you know, I think that's who he's got to be. I mean, it's you know

It's his time to step up and do and he's been there you've been there a bit

Um, you know clearly he's a team leader clearly. He's the guy. I mean why not have 600 you know yards receiving an eight touchdowns

You know saying I mean you know be that guy. No, you're not going to be the bellcat now

You're not going to be a thousand yard receiver like judgesmith, but there's no reason you can't be a six hundred

Eight touchdown guy and uh, I think I think it's very I think it's realistic

I think he's a guy that can do it. I think they want him to do it

But let me tell you um, you know, we've talked about McCune. We've talked about Parker

You know, helping take you should game out the talking about Brock Boyd. How much you like Brock Boyd

You know, which I know we're all we're all excited to see him just to be like I think that guy was

criminally underrated kind of I mean I saw that carol

But I'll say you know while we're talking about the white receivers. I just want to have it all the transfers in general

This is a really good. I don't I haven't heard

On anybody that anybody's like a bust you know in him saying like like there's nobody you're going

While we got that guy, but you know, can't play and then and that was kind of stuff that you know

We've heard that in the past about guys

When the guys have come in and you know, they're like, oh, I'm not sure this guy can play

Victor cutler

Victor cutler

You know that kid that became that was very obvious really good play so um, yeah, you know, I'm not hearing that about anybody and

That's a really good thing because I I think the story of our success in

2026 is really going to be how good were our portal

evaluations how good were our portal acquisitions because there's such a big part of

You know reloading this defense you know reloading and you know defense it lost so much great time

We can see how much great talent. Um, here very shortly the NFL draft when we hear all these names called

You know how much great time we lost off this Ohio State team

Specifically on the defense aside, but I think I think they've reloaded really well with portal talent

Obviously, we've recruited well in the past so we've got guys

That have you know been on the roster of the captain retained that have great as well, but

It very very excited about this. I mean, I as excited as I was about

Having Matt Patricia on the defense last year

I'm not excited about Arthur Smith running the offense this year because I think it's gonna have a similar type of impact

It's gonna be those little

Changes where you know exactly how you can put your finger on it, but you know something's different

I think that's what's gonna be like for the uh for the offenses here just like it was for the defense in the previous one

Yeah, I agree and I was talking to a buddy of mine earlier about the offense and how the offense may look

This year and we know Arthur Smith wants to run the ball

Um, so I guess now Nevada you tell me

Do you think a power spread look is sort of the um

Determinology you would use without going into all the weeds of of scum specifics and schematics

Would you say a power spread look is something Arthur Smith is going to

Basically lean on as far as primarily what we see out there before I continue. Do you agree with that or

Yes, and I think that that's what they ran when they had tannie Hill and they had Derrick and you know saying like that is what they ran

I tend to see and I you know, I I think that's the approach that Ohio State is gonna be gonna be taking

In with the 2026 running game you specifically for sure

Yeah, agree agree. Okay, and that's what I said earlier

And so you know, we've done well with power spread in the past out of how state

And done some good things especially were very good blocking tight ends. So yeah, man. I'm excited as well

And I know people in the chat like is it is a football yet? I think wholesome and 88 said that bro

Listen, I'm with you and look tomorrow's April the spring game is coming up

I'll be going probably gonna take my family

To the spring game and check that out. I'm excited and then of course y'all know how it is. We're gonna blink

It's gonna be

June and then we're gonna blink and then it's gonna be fall camp by the start

You know, I'm saying and it's just it's just a beautiful thing and the great thing is again

We lost all these players

some of our fan base just

You know was ready to just jump off the ledge

But I think Nevada I think time will tell

That the acquisitions we got in a lot of ways were upgrades or at the very

minimum like

You know

Guys you could rely on right because there were some guys that we lost that I wanted to see them

I wanted to see their career to continue

You know, I wanted to see Quincy Porter to see how good he would be

You know Aaron Scott those guys like hey, we wanted to see them progress

But things didn't happen in a way, but I think the acquisitions we got

With the experience and reps and talent and what we've been hearing so far is very very

You know

Just reassuring that things are on on the right track Nevada

Well, yeah, now first of all though you're not on the right track if you think tomorrow's April 1st

This tomorrow is March 31st. Oh, I'm sorry Wednesday's April 1st

Yeah, if you're on that count and you run out there's like

It's April 1st guys were like

It's March 31 marks, but no, no, I agree with you and and yeah, I think that was one of the big things. I was looking for

You know out of the

You know the first because you know it's early spring

Obviously had the break, you know, and so you you're just kind of getting in spring football

But you're starting to get a sense for what we have here

You know, you're starting to get a sense for what this team's about and there's there's a reason why

They're ranked number one in the

You know, you know, I'm saying like they're yeah, this is gonna be a very very good team

We just happen to have a very very challenging schedule

But I but I from the people that I've talked to you right now

I think this teams ahead of schedule. I think this team's

Better in their eyes than they thought that it would be and they thought it was gonna be good

They thought this is this was gonna be a special group here. We've talked about that in the past

But I think that I think the transfer portal guides as kind of

um

They've kind of accelerated the development if it good because you've got guys that are

experienced veteran guys older guys that have been through the wars

I think the teams better than they thought it would be at this point in time and

You know, Julian saying obviously has not disappointed

You know, we knew he'd be it's not any breaking news to sit here and say hey, Julian saying it's gonna be better

His sophomore year than he was this freshman year

You know, that's not well. Thanks to vata for that nugget, but but but he is you know, he's better

He's noticeably stronger. He's thicker

He certainly has a you know a different outlook

I'm playing and rain Ryan seems to have a a different outlook

Um, you know being a you know willing to use his legs much like Arthur Smith use Ryan Taneel's legs

They would run Taneel liberally at Tennessee, you know, I'm saying so I don't think they're gonna be afraid to use the quarterback in the running game

Opportunistically or strategically and um, I think that's gonna be something that you know the

Opposing teams are gonna have to scheme for because I know that's part of the plan

And I expect the offensive line to be a little leaner so they can you know go more play so they can go at a little higher pace

Um, and you know, they try to tire out those big defensive lines because the story of the season is gonna be

Run that power spread get him hard with the running game force those safeties up and then move to the top of the path that

I mean, that is good. That is the that's the plan and it sounds basic

But you know, you've got to make them respect the run to do that

But Ohio State plans to do it and they in if they don't bring those guys up

They're gonna keep pounding them with the run until they do so that's kind of expected

We would you expect for a house that offense in 2026

for sure um

And yes, you are correct when stars aligned

Julian is now trash per

The lunatic fridge

But no

Yeah, can't wait to see Julian pulled in the trigger back there

Spraying it around to all these great receivers

Uh, I'm excited to see Kyle Parker and McEwan

Um, you know, just fresh blood

You know, the staff is high on them. They look good on film. They all they both got speed

And I mean to me, it's just I don't know. I didn't I didn't realize

I'm wondering about a

In hindsight it almost feels like I'm more excited than I would have been

If Graham and and Porter stayed

And that's I can't prove that I can't that's just hindsight

But see the thing with violent Graham is

Myland Graham

You could see talent speed explosiveness

But when the coach the head coach comes out in press conferences and says he needs to be able to catch the ball consistently especially 50-50 balls

As a as a reason why he's not playing more

In his what second year third year whatever

You know, it's just like okay. Okay. Some guys progress differently, but and then Porter was was quite banged up

But I don't know that I mean I guess what I'm saying is I didn't expect to be this excited

About this why I receive a room specifically with the guys we lost

You know, I'm saying I don't know if that makes sense

But that's just how I feel and I'm excited about the depth of it the new coach we have

Not saying I'm I'm happy heartline is gone, but I'm happy that it seems like we got a really good replacement

Who can add a different flavor to the to that room and I think we're gonna it's one of those things because

One last thing about it. I'm saying it's to say

That it kind of just flies in the face of the ding dong the wiki, which is dead when heartline left like oh the white receiver

I was saying nah, it does it. There's no evidence that we're that we're veering off Nevada

Well, no, there's definitely no evidence that we're veering off, but there's there's a decided I mean Hank didn't when Hank didn't came in

The one thing he if he had one criticism of the last that receiving room was he thought that it lacked

Big speed

Yeah, you know, I'm saying he thought he thought that there should be more of an emphasis on speed

Out of the white receivers, and that's why when they went out there and went out that they got McEwen

They got Parker they got guys that can run, you know, I'm saying and

ordering Graham

You know, you know, Graham obviously had you know a number of different issues and those issues continue at Notre Dame

Yeah, you know, so you know, so you you've got a situation where as good as our white receiver room

You can always improve, you know, I'm saying you can always improve. You can always get a first set of eyes can do it

But the first set eyes basic came and said look we need to be faster

We need to be faster. We need to be more explosive and that and that seems to be kind of a theme for the offense this year the offense

It's all in you hear this throughout the spring from all the coaches from all the players are talking about this is more plays more explosive plays

They believe that they run more plays. It'll lead to more explosive plays

They can wear down the defenses

They can you know kind of do things, but they want the explosive they want the explosive plays on offense

They want the explosive plays on defense. They want the negative plays the sacks the turnovers the tackles for law

You know saying that's what they're looking to do with this team. They're looking to be more explosive

As a football team in 2026 and they were in 2025 and like they were darn good in 2025 darn good could have been the national champion

Really close, but as I talked about the beginning to show

Sports is cruel sometimes

Sports is cruel and sometimes you just come up short and that's where the butt guys the butt guys just came up short

But that's something you throw everything out, but you do learn from it. You look at it

You see what you can refine and I think you know for our house state

They want to be more explosive on both sides of the ball and having guys like the cune parker

I like it because I think I think our our I think our offense will feel different because of that added speed on the outside

No, I agree. I think our offense will be better this year

Julio for another year Arthur Smith coming in to add the running game prowess

Um, and all the other tweaks that come with Ryan Day yearly

um more experience. I just the old line. I we're going to our offense will be better this year

It will be and so I'm excited about that before we get the super chats Nevada. I wanted to um

I'ma play this clip. I may not play the whole clip. But first of all, let me start off by saying this

Nevada

You know, I'm an interview guy me endeavor the press conference boys press conference boys, right?

That's our little stance. I don't know why, but that's what we do anyway

this team

Like it's exciting to hear what they're doing in practice isn't on the field

But I really like this team Nevada some of these personalities on this team like James Smith

obviously edrick euston

Um, you know germane math uses fun. I mean like these kids are are that we we've always

The under Ryan Day, especially be recruited very mature

You know, um solid articulate

Intelligent young men

But I like this bunch are a little. I mean, you know, he's seen it. It's just I just like these kids with that said

I'ma play this clip and then I want us before we get to the super chats to answer the question that they're asking in this clip from Ohio state

The chat as well. I want you to join in

And uh and tell me what your thoughts are because I used to have a straight-up answer

Every time this is this is my answer now. I'm kind of reconsidering

So I want to get your thoughts on this Nevada. Let me pull up this clip

Give me a second

Which position is the artist?

It's cornered. We do it every day. I give it to you. You got to give it to me and I can put it back

You got to guard the best players of the country

A lot of first

And then

So rain back to hardest position

First quarterback quarterback it forever be the hardest position second is a corner on the island

All the sand

All right

All right, so let me end it there

But

Nevada first of all the video was funded your main Matthews is a clown like he always does something zany crazy on camera

I don't know. I really enjoyed that a little bit from the so the media team for Ohio state. So Nevada

I want to let you go first. What is the toughest position in football to play in your opinion?

Um, yeah, I mean toughest is you know, that's

You know, that means a lot of different things. So I'll say I'll give you one position on offense one position on defense

I'll say on offense. It's quarterback

The amount of processing that a quarterback has to do the windows that they have to throw into the amount of impact that they have on the game is so disproportionate to anything else

So I'll say quarterback and off and defense and this may be the toughest position. It's it's cornerbacks

I don't know how any cornerback

Like you said there you got to guard the best player in the country backwards running backwards. You know what I'm saying right like

like

I don't know how they do it and not touch them and not use your hands and not touch them. Um, so yeah

You know, they're all tough in their own ways

But yeah, I'm gonna go with quarterback and offensive and quarterback on defense. Well finally answer for Nevada book

Yeah, I hear you corner was always my first quick go to because that's just brutal

but then

Over time as the the defensive ends. I've gotten freakier

My mind's thinking dang it might be left tackle. It might be uh tackle on the island

I mean that's tough going against some of these guys, but I would agree corner

tackle position against these freaks

Um, and then quarterback those are the hardest positions period

Chat anything on that before we get the super chats. Let me see y'all

What y'all saying QBCB? Okay. Yeah kicker

Well kicker kicker is tough if because if you suck

Boy oh boy, you will get raised thinkled

You will get you know dev will be uh at your neck

For sure, but uh, but good question. I thought that was a good bit about a social media team

Stilly mat thanks for the will I nine?

Swiss Miss Moses and Buffalo buck welcome back. There he is Buffalo buck. That's that's dope. What you got Nevada?

Well, yeah, I went that I went to the obviously I'm sure you guys already know that but Buffalo is the home of the Buffalo wing

Yeah, they invented the Buffalo at the anchor bar specifically the place that I had the first Buffalo wings

And we went to the anchor bar and I ate so many wings over the five day

I'm not this is no exaggeration. I get this is not

I left

And I last one day I was two hundred and nineteen pounds

And when I got home last night and I weighed myself I was two thirty one. Are you serious twelve pounds

Wow

I think it's just because you're sitting around and all you're doing is sitting and eating

And worrying and eating

You know, I'm saying it then right and then you just you know just

Just the the pressure I

I the pressure of watching your kid play. Yes, it's it's brutal being man

It's just absolutely broke listen

It's one thing watching your favorite team play the stress. Imagine your kid

Like listen, I mean like yeah, you ain't even got you already know especially goalie you want to say what the ultimate

I mean, that's like quarterback kicker and everything rolled into one. Yeah, it's just yeah, it's just

It's one you literally it's on you. It is literally on you. So yeah, but anyway, yeah

So yeah, thirty twelve pounds. I'm a I'm fasting buck now trying to fact

I

Absolutely, you got to shed that quick before

Oh, man, still he met welcome to mass massiveville go buck eyes. Yes, yes

We are massive here despite how many people

Get triggered by it, but you know, whatever people are people

Keith my homie Keith. This is my guy great dude right here

Thanks for the four day night my dog be give me one player to offense to look out for

One on defense. Maybe that nobody is talking about much love brother much love to you as well

So my offensive player my surprise y'all

I'm going to go with Bennett Christian on offense. Why?

Because I feel like he's going to be the one to step up and be

The premier blocking tight in this season

Arthur Smith we're going to run wide zone. We're going to

um

Really

Try to run downhill, okay? The tight ends in twelve personnel

That's huge with that and I believe Bennett Christian is going to be a key cog in that

And on defense. I mentioned this before jaylin McLean is not getting enough love

Earl little is getting more buzz than and then j ten minutes. You know what I'm saying? McLean is a really good silent safety

That's my guy that not many people are talking about on defense. Nevada. Did you have to that you would have thought there?

Brock Boyd an offense and

Just because nobody's talking about Brock Boy, you know, you were talking to the White receivers

It's like jj and inus and vacune and parker and you know, you know, well

I just I just have a feeling this I think he's going to have a game science to block it up again

Not just because he's white, but just because he's going to come in kind of unheralded and you know

Dane was nobody was expecting much out of dane and he he turned out to be a dog and that guy he was really good football player

I think I think Brock's got a similar type of makeup and

I just think I just think Brock's one of those kids that can really play on defense

I'm going to go with leeway roker. I think you know, he's a guy that we've mentioned before

um

But I don't think a lot of people are talking in about him just because we brought guys in but I'm talking with good football player

Really really good football player and the staff loves that kid

So I'll go leeway roker Brock Boyd my two unheralded players

Yeah, we mentioned boyd earlier. I'm sorry yesterday and uh as funny

I brought up sands and bacher whenever I think of sands of bacher

I think of Grooton. I don't know if y'all remember that clip from john Grooton

He's like dane sands and baka

Yeah, I used to say like you don't know who made that clip

I remember all

Yeah, but dane was nice man dane was nice great route runners smooth

I mean scroddy came when he first came in here and end up being a player

So now that's a good call out mouth uh for sure for sure

All right, we'll be got next

Still leave math things for the one and nine julian san for highs been 2026. Yep

Yep, why not

Why not? I mean

I don't know what the odds are, but Nevada

I mean at the very minimum it will be criminal if he doesn't go back to new york at minimum, right?

Well, I remember last year when I said before season that we'd have two guys

You know invited new york and that kind of got laughed at you know i'm saying and yeah, I mean

You know that was kind of a crazy thought, but no, I think julian should win it this year

I mean, I think julian's gonna win it this year

Um, you know, I think he's he's a guy that's he's gonna be a great NFL player

um, you know, I I say that he's undervalued by house they fans, but he won't be by the end of the year

Um, he's gonna be a legend by the time he's done here

I mean, he's so good. He's so talented. He's so polished and now he's got an adult in the room

coaching him. Yes, I think it's gonna make a world of difference for julian san's development

man that matters

In the room and in no shade to brine hardline, but we all know

We had to make it happen that for him as the OC was either worse

OC in the world as a first-year guy. No, but he wasn't

Up to the standard. He wasn't chip Kelly in it

You feel me he wasn't Ryan day in it and you and then you mixed that with a a freshman quarterback

And then you mixed that with not finishing the season like you know without distractions

That's a something as Nevada would say

so

next year

I mean another year of experience and then the season with heartbreak and disappointment bringing in a NFL guy. I mean

Yeah, bro. Go ahead and sleep on julian if I want to

Due to our man thanks for the 10 Nevada your thoughts on the goldie coming to a house state apparently she is not as good as your daughter

Wow, this game right out with it

That I mean like um the girl didn't her name is Rowan and she's great. She's one of my daughter's best friends and

A great kid canadian and I know mus likes those canadian mus is canadian. She likes those canadian girls and Rowan's terrific

Rowan play them team canadian this year. So you know my daughter and her playing against each other the world's

Obviously you can play the game that it should act the last two years

So no rowing rowing's terrific in and

You know it just you know be the goalie commando has to it's tough because they don't usually play you

Very much early and so she's gonna she's got to be patient and waiting to turn and I think that's the bully the big difference for from my daughter

To Penn State is I think she's gonna get the play early, but no rowing's broads terrific and she just needs to stick it out and

And and get it get it done

Yep, I mean you know they're both playing at a high level

Obviously clearly so you know

I'm sure they all got love for each other as teammates and whatnot

That doesn't always happen though, but I'm telling goalie dynamics are really interesting because like you can have goals

And hate each other and we've been in those situations and it sucks and I think that's one of the it's so nice

That these two goalies, you know that are both obviously high level goalies

Really like genuinely root for each other genuinely like each other and um, I think it's really made the last two years

Really special shatic so much love for Rowan for sure

Yeah, now I have no insight on hockey stuff like that. So thank you for that because

All I know is the sports off-play, but that's good. That's definitely good then

No, I'm saying like you say goalie like specifically no, no, I'm just saying to you and just it's like

The goalie, so it's just you know because it's like you don't want to be out there and have the other person sit

Not in a bench for you to give up goals. You know what I'm saying. Yeah

Like you don't have to sit there. He's kind of going. Oh, I'm ready for the team, but secretly my heart

I'm like I hope you give up a goal right now

I hope you lose in the coach like you want something you want to just and you know what when it happens

You don't think like you just want to feel like that person's really rooting for and it takes special people to really you know

Even if they're sitting on the bench to root for the other person because it's hard man

It's hard when that happens, you know, so yeah overall

I've had some pretty good teammates all my life. I mean, there's no one I really hate it

There was just some cat I just didn't trust

Because they just weren't they weren't reliable

This is like the talent that they have is like

The little talent you have

You we can't trust you because you're going to blow the assignment or you're not going to execute or you're not

That type of stuff, but yeah, I mean listen

I know there's dynamics in the locker room and every sport it's always good to have that type of

sisterhood

You know in this in this situation, so that's dope man mark from dub C

Thank you for being a scoop auction member for 10 months

I have the same warm gut feeling going into this year as I did in 2024 OH Nevada

I owe

Yeah, man

Now remember this season was the season that most were pointing to anyway

2025 was supposed to be potentially found money we lost 14 guys new quarterback all that stuff

So yeah, 2026 is is the money year. I mean for real was say it have it another year and all that so

It's going to be interesting, man. I'm excited regardless anything on that Nevada

Now I like I totally agree. I think this is going to be a special year and I just I just

I don't want to get off of the tangent, but I was just thinking about this this talk about

Not watching every minute and I was thinking about contrasting at the like basketball like basketball

I have trouble like watching like the beginning of games because they just know

I just want to get it to the end of the game so I can kind of walk even in that not Ohio state

Think you know I'm talking like when you're watching a tip like a regular season NBA game and you're kind of like

Okay, it's two to two. Can we just get to 96

That's why you know plan. Yeah, but football, man. I don't want to miss a freaking minute

You know saying like I yes, you know they like I do not want to miss a minute of a football game

And they don't last long enough for me. So yeah, I cannot wait to savor the 2026 season every single minute of it

Is so funny that you said that I wish I'm gonna play this clip for my wife because she just thinks I'm a maniac

Like I'm the same way

I can miss some basketball plays unless it's like like you said two minutes left and

Golden state in the calves in 2016 you know me like

But football I don't want to miss a snap at all at all

So I'm with you on that for sure

Stillly mad thanks for the one I know playing goalie at six nine would be hard be

Yes, what's the tall as goalie that you know of Nevada?

Um, there's six but eight goalies. I mean, you obviously you know

It's spatial relations. So bigger goalies are the bigger advantage because they can fill up more than that

And yeah, you know the interesting thing is that you know the net is regulation size

So my daughter has to cover the same net that a grown man you know six foot six man in the NHL garage, you know plan

Even though, you know, I'm saying it's just it's uh

So I look I've always had the idea and I'm not an assault star really quick so when the Columbus Blue Jackets were expansion team

I met with the president Columbus Blue Jackets who I've known for a long time when we're talking we have a dinner

And I said I got an idea for you

It's expansion team, but go out and get that big fat guy that twelve hundred pound guy and just stuff them into the net

And no no team will ever be able to score on you guys and I

I sure if it was pitching this idea to him and I think you thought about it for a little bit

But I don't think they could ever pull it off

But yeah, can you imagine you get like a big fact? I had to stuff them into the net

Like when they had that thing with the whale there the guy cook them or whatever they like the whale or whatever

Or whatever that thing with like the big wall risk or the big wall

I mean, it sounds logical. I mean, yeah, you feel that right? That makes sense

Yeah, I mean, leave a leave a little crack for the you know the shooter to get it in there

But uh, but yeah, I guess from the height standpoint your knees and and being able to be flexible to get down quick

I mean, but I guess you're always down in that position anyway

But but no, I I need to I need to go to a blue Jackets guy. I've never been to a hockey game

I need to go to see it be it is so much fun. I heard it was fun

Even I'm not a big hockey guy. I want to just at least experience it at least your sport your sports guy

You'll you'll you'll I'll take you down and I come to Columbus. I'll take you to hockey. Yeah, but let's do it. Let's do it

so

Cool

Listen, we got Nevada buck back in the building man always great to have this brother and so

Listen another week of spring practice more stuff to talk about more buzz more information more excitement

I can't wait man. I'm just I'm just happy we're talking football right now

So anyway, listen, we gonna go ahead and bang out of here tonight. Deb won't be going tonight

I think he's back tomorrow. So look out for dev tomorrow after we go

But until then we love your book our school family book our nation peace and go bucks