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I'm going to 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 your fun trip, a week in Buffalo, New York, 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, so I kind of eating places there and Buffalo and the people were great

and had a great time, but it's definitely good to be back, but a week is a long time

to be gone and so I'm still tired from the trip, man, it's just grueling to be on the road

that long.

Yeah, the only downside we're traveling is if you could just snap your fingers and be

at your destination, enjoy yourself and snap and be back, you talk about what people

ask, what kind of superpower you would have.

Remember that movie Jumper, Nevada Buck, it has Sam Jackson and if you could just be

a jumper, that would be great, but the travel can be grueling and then of course it's

not being in a comfort of your own home, but anyway, so on the trip, tell us a little bit

about the daughter and the performance and catch us up on hockey games.

Well, I'll give you the quick version, there's so much to talk about, but this was the

national championships for hockey for the United States.

You have to play six games to get there, so they went through the preliminary round, went

and went to find, got to the quarter finals and I'll just give you guys a quick thing,

but this was just kind of interesting, they play, it's zero zero with five minutes to go

on the game and 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 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 and had to read just

as the girl came in on her and the girl scored to go ahead and it was the darnedest sequence

that I've ever seen in my puck that was clearly in that, in and out, the refs blew it

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

going to 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 was the court, that was Friday night, so then we go to Saturday night

against our big right, like the big Bishop Cerny is the big rival of Jada and this was like

thousands of people, every college coach and 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 semi's

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, their players, the best partner we're getting, Nella,

Lucicapoe, we're going to Wisconsin, best partner in the world, MVP of the worlds, all time

of things go out the worlds, comes in, my daughter stops her on the penalty shot with two minutes

to go, they go over time, they go to the penalty shootout, they're up one not the penalty shootout,

Lucicapoe was the last shooter, she comes in again on my daughter, my daughter stops her again

on a penalty shot and they win in overtime and a shootout on the semi finals night to go to the

font, did dance to the finals, 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've played eight times

this year, got nine national team players on it, the game goes overtime, 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 consoled, would not come out of the locker room

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 hockey, but ever seen back-to-back-to-back and

yeah so I yeah it's just it's hard to do you man to be that literally went overtime 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 narrating that like I could see it I was picturing

your daughter drinking the water, I was picturing your steak down, they literally yelled at the

yelled they're yelling more again and she turns around as the girls come in the honor and she's

like what in the world, yeah three and nine, 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 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 uh 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 talking about the pace of play and bringing up Arthur Smith again man and

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 um you know about

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

how do you implement that they talked about terminology changes um you go into more one word calls

to get plays in to Julian saying quicker so that Julian saying can you know get them to the line

faster um a changing conditioning for the the offensive lines so they could play more plays um you

know be be able to get the line without making uh um personnel changes in personal grouping changes

so the defense can't change um but one of the things that was the most interesting thing and this

that I I knew kind of notionally but I didn't really know until I read this in the nugget and

just got it really kind of focused on it was how Arthur Smith this just seems like such a subtle change

but you're human so profound one is the difference or 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

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you know the goal of the goal post so it's 18 feet six inches from hash mark to hash mark

in college the hash marks are 40 feet apart and so what that means is when you have a you talk

about always talk about a field side and a boundary side and the field side is the wider side of

the field whatever the widest side of the field and the boundaries side would be the field that's

closer to the sideline of just so we're not going to cut 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 for you to do exotic formations for you to put four wide receivers for you to put extra

line and 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 offensive 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 them out of the backfield or you can

run them out of the slot or you can run them out of bunch formations or you can isolate them and

put guys together side and you know get them set up in one on one I mean there's so many things

that you can 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 he's really hammering on that in

terms of what to do because you're just you're hamstrung in the NFL just because of field you know

configuration you have a lot more advantages and a lot more opportunities to do exciting things

on 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 it'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 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 I'm

sorry offensive 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 you know I guess situation that we're going to take advantage of to me

this couple's really well with the emphasis we talked about Cortez Hankton and Jeremiah Smith

talking about yacch yards and improving on yacch 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 yacch to me sounds video game like because he Nevada I don't know if you heard the

Hankton interview is about 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 yacch stuff when you 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 the linchpin here and so I'm excited about that combination Nevada with this hash mark nugget

with Jeremiah Smith in the yacch 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 time like a JJ had a great year by any measure but

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you know was it the kind of year you would expect to have it out of a year or two JJ just

meant 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 you know experience um 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 Brandon Brandon Innis is a guy that could really feast and his offense as well you

know I'm saying like Brandon Innis for the first time is running like he was running his scene when

he was a senior in high school it that was a five star guy flew it up and 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 a JJ Smith is um 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 I think he's poised for a breakout year um for the black guys and I think in an offense

like this where they're 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 um

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 Innis in particular is the guy you

should be watching out for because I think he's gonna have a big year in our state yeah I like it

I like how you're um and listen you 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

innis um but yes he we all agreed regardless of what we thought he needed to be a little more

explosive a little more fluid um 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

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 um he's a fellow Brandon be innis 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 lost his 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

uh 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 innis let me see I don't know how many yards he has what do you think

will be sufficient realistically for Brandon innis 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 carnel tape you know 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 doing he's been there

you've been there a bit um you 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're going you know you know I'm saying

I mean you know be that guy no you're not going to be the bell count now you're 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 um 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

the cue and we've talked about Parker um you know helping take you should came out of talking

about Brock Boyd how much he likes 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 just say you know while we're talking about the white receivers I just want to

get all the transfers in general um 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 and then 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 Butler Victor Butler you know that can't that was very

obvious really good play so um yeah you know you know I'm not hearing that about anybody and that's

really good thing because 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 you know defense it lost so much great time

we're going to 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 um obviously

we've recruited well in the past so we've got guys um that you know been on the roster the captain

retained uh that agreed as well but uh 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 going to have a similar type of impact and it's going to be

those little changes where you know exactly how you can put your finger on but you know something's

different I think that's what's going to be like for the uh for the offenses you're just like it was

for the defense in the previous one yeah I agree and I was talking to a buddy of my earlier about the

offense and how the offense may look this year and um 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 the terminology you

would use without going into all the weeds of of 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 and I think that that's what they ran

when they had Tanny Hill and they had Derrick County you know saying like that is what they ran

out of Tennessee and I you know I I think that's the approach that Ohio State's going to be going

to be taking um 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

Ohio State and done some good things especially we're very good blocking tight ends so yeah man I'm

excited as well um and I know people in the in the chat like is it is it 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 going to take my family um to the spring game and check that out

I'm excited and then of course y'all know how it is we're going to blink it's going to be

June and then we're going to blink and then it's going to 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 um 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 their career to continue you know I wanted

to see Quincy Porter to see how good he would be um 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 here and so far is very very um you

know uh 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 because tomorrow is March 31st

oh I'm sorry Wednesday's April 1st yeah after I'm that kind and you run out there like it's

April 1st guys were like it's March 31st but no I agree with you and and I think that was one of

the big things I was looking for you know out of the uh you know the first because you know it's

early spring um obviously you had the break you know and so you know you're just kind of getting

into 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 the S&P you know I'm saying like they're yeah this is going to be a very

very good team we just happen to have a very very challenging schedule um but I but I from the people

that I've talked to you right now I think this team's ahead of schedule I think this team's

better in their eyes than they thought that it would be and they thought it was going to be good

they thought this this was going to 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 kind of accelerated

the development if it good because you've got guys that are um 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 um you know Julian saying obviously has not disappointed you know we knew he

he it's not any breaking news to say hey Julian saying it's going to be better his sophomore year

than he was his freshman year you know that's not well thanks to vata for that nugget but

but but he is you know he's better um he's noticeably stronger he's thicker um he certainly has a

you know a different outlook on playing and rain Ryan seems to have a a different outlook um being

a you know willing to use his legs much like Arthur Smith used Ryan Taneel's legs they would run

Taneel liberally at Tennessee you know I'm saying so I don't think they're going to be afraid to

use the quarterback in the running game opportunistically or strategically and um I think that's

going to be something that you know the the opposing teams are going to have to scheme for because

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to be a little leaner so they can you know go more play so they can go at a little higher pace

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

going to be run that power spread you know hard with the running game force those safeties up

and then move over 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 if they don't put those guys up they're going to keep pounding

them with the run until they do so that's kind of expect we really can spec for Ohio State offense

in 2026 for sure 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 I'm excited to see Kyle Parker and McEwen you know just fresh blood

you know their 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

Nevada and hindsight it almost feels like I'm more excited than I would have been if Graham

and Porter State and that's I can't prove that I can't that's just hindsight but see the thing

what mylan Graham is mylan 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 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 I mean I guess what I'm saying is I didn't expect to be

this excited about this wide receiver 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 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 this 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 wide receiver was 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 Hankden when Hankden came in the one thing he if he had one

criticism of the honestly receiving room was he thought that it lacked big speed you know

I'm saying he thought he thought that there should be a more of an emphasis on speed

out of the wide receivers and that's why when they went out there and went out then they got

McEwen they got Parker they got guys that can run you know what I'm saying and ordering Graham

you know Graham obviously had you know a number of different issues and and those issues

continue at Notre Dame I heard yeah you know saying so you know so you've got a situation where

as good as our wide 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 in 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 the they run more plays it'll lead to more explosive plays they

can wear down the defenses they can you know kind of do the 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 tactics 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 at the beginning of the show sports is cruel sometimes sports is cruel and

sometimes you just come up short and that's where the butt guy says 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 Ohio State they want to be more explosive on both sides of

the ball and having guys like the cue and Parker I like it because I think I think are 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 uh Julian 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 we're going 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'm gonna 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

his team like James Smith obviously Edrick Euston um you know Jermaine Matthews is 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's just I just like these kids with that said I'm gonna 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 which 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

this corner we do it every day I give it to you gotta give it to me and I give it to you gotta guard

the best place in the country Nevada I want a lot of first corner is corner for sure and then

so rain back to hardest position it'll be back in mind I'm just gonna pull up it's all on

it's good it's not on star it's left side first quarterback quarterback it forever be the hardest

position second it's a corner on the island you gotta be pretty high

double chain holding 300 and 30 pounds long snapper you grade 99% you get cut

okay all right all right so let me end it there but Nevada first of all the video was

funded you may math these as a clown like he always does something zany crazy on camera I don't

know I really enjoy 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

I mean toughest is you know that's you know that means a lot of different things also I'm

gonna say I'll give you one position in offense one position on defense I'll say on offense it's

quarterback I mean 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

all it's it's cornerbacks I don't know how any quarterback like you said there you gotta guard

the best player in the country backwards you're running backwards you know what I'm saying like like

I don't know how they do it and not touch them and not use your hands and not touch them and

so yeah you know they're all tough their own ways but yeah I'm gonna go with quarterback

kind of offensive and cornerback on defense 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 defensive ends

I've gotten freakier my mind thinking hey it might be left tackle it might be a 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 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 because if you suck boil boy you will get

raised thinkled you will get you know dev will be at your neck for sure but but good question I

thought that was a good bit by the social media team still he mad thanks for the one 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 I went to obviously I'm sure you guys all you know that

but Buffalo is the home of the Buffalo wing yeah they invented the Buffalo at the anchor bar

specifically the place that had the first Buffalo wings and we went to the anchor bar and I ate

so many wings over the fight it I'm not this is no exaggeration again this is not

I I left and I last Monday I was 219 pounds and when I got home last night and I weighed myself

I was 231 are you serious 12 pounds wow 12 now I now I think it's just because you're sitting

around and all you're doing is sitting and eating yeah and and worrying and eating you know I'm

saying and then right and then you just you know just just the the pressure I the pressure watching

your kid play yes it's brutal being and it's it's absolutely bro 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

especially golly you want to say what the ultimate that's like quarterback kicker and everything

rolled into one yeah it's just yeah it's just it's just it's one you literally it's on you it is

literally on you so yeah but anyway yeah so yeah 30 at 12 pounds I'm I'm fasting buck now trying to

fasting buck absolutely you gotta shed that quick before I don't kidding oh man still he met

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I'm gonna 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 end this season Arthur Smith we're going to run

wide zone we're going to really try to run downhill okay the tight ends in 12 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 Jayla McClain is not getting enough love

Earl Little is getting more buzz than Jay Timman you know what I'm saying McClain is a really good

solid safety that's my guy that not many people are talking about on defense Nevada did you have

too that you would have thought there. Brock Boyd an offense and just because nobody's talking

about Brock Boyd you know you were talking to the White receivers it's like JJ and then this

and the Cune and Parker and you know you know I just I just have a feeling this I think he's

going to have a game son 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

he turned out to be a dog man 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 Leroy Roker I think you know he's the guy that we've

mentioned before but I don't think a lot of people are talking about him just because we brought

guys in but I'm telling what good football player really really good football player and the staff

loves that kid so I'll go Leroy Roker Brock Boyd my two unheralded players. Yeah we mentioned

boyd earlier I'm sorry yesterday and it's funny I brought up Sans and Barker whenever I think

of Sans and Barker I think of Groot and I don't know if y'all remember that clip from John Groot and

he's like Dane Sans and Barker I used to say like I don't know who remember that clip.

Yeah but Dane was nice man Dane was nice great route runner smooth I mean Scotty came when he

first came in here and end up being a player so now that's a good call out for sure for sure

all right we'll be got next I still leave math things for the one night and nine Julian

for Heisman 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 and I think Julian's

gonna win it this year you know I think he's he's a guy that's he's gonna be a great NFL player

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

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 Saints development man that matters that adult in the room and no shade

to Brian 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 and then you mixed that with 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 an NFL guy I mean yeah bro

go ahead and sleep on Julian if I want to do that man thanks for the 10 Nevada your thoughts on

the goalie coming to a house they apparently she is not as good as your daughter wow this game

right out with it right that I mean like 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 most likes those Canadian

most is Canadian she likes those Canadian girls and Rowan's terrific Rowan played on team Canada

this year so you know my daughter and her played against each other the world's obviously you

can play the game that she had at the last two years so Rowan's terrific and you know just

being a goalie Commando has to it's tough because they don't usually play you very much early

and so she's got to be patient and wait her turn and I think that's the really the big difference

for for my daughter going to Penn State is I think she's going to get the player early but no

Rowan's growing 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 man I'm telling goalie dynamics are really interesting because like

you can have goalies that 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 like genuinely root for each other genuinely like each other and I think

it's really made the last two years really special shatic so I mean 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 hot play but that's good that's definitely good then you didn't like no I'm saying

like you say goalie like specifically no no I'm just saying to you and just it's like with the goalies

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

sitting on the bench rooting for you to give up goals you know I'm saying yeah like you don't

have to sit there he's kind of going oh I'm rooting 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 yeah like you just want to feel like

that person's really rooting for you 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

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

oh yeah man uh 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 we'll 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 um I don't

want to get off at a tangent but I was just thinking about this this talk about thinking about watching

every minute and I was thinking about contrasting after like basketball like basketball I have trouble

like watching like the beginning of games because I 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 spades was there again but you know I'm talking about

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 96 then that's her plan you know plan yeah but foot but football man

I don't want to miss a freaking minute you know saying like I yes you know they're 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 save for 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 it less is 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 stilly mad thanks for the one I know playing

goalie at six nine will be hard be yes what's the tallest goalie that you know of Nevada

there's six but eight goalies I mean you obviously you know it's spatial relation so bigger goalies

have a bigger advantage because they can fill up more than that and yeah the 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 I'm saying even though

you know you know I'm saying it's just it's uh so I look I always had the idea and I'm not

I'm not an assault star really quick so when the Columbus Blue Jackets were an 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 you're an 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 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 fat guy and just stuff them into the net like they had a thing with

the whale they had the gyco commercial or whatever they had like the whale or whatever the whale

or whatever that thing with like the big wall risk or the big wall isn't in the well yeah

it's kind of 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

high 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 a hockey game it is so much fun I heard it

was fun even though I'm not a big hockey guy I want to just at least experience it at least you're

sport you're a sports guy you'll you'll you'll I'll take you down and come to Columbus I'll take

you to hockey yeah bet let's do it let's do it all right 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're 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 you book our school family book our nation

peace and go bucks

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