For more on the list of who's
coming and who's going,
we bring in Tim Hall from 97 one the
fans September start with the bad news.
The guys leaving.
Although it's good news for them,
especially Justin Fields.
This is the biggie it was expected,
but what does this mean to watch?
Perhaps the best quarterback
in school history.
Walk out the door.
Yeah Dave, it's good to be with you man.
Thanks for having me.
This is where all the magic's
been happening, by the way.
When we do the Buckeyes show,
it's all from this. This very room.
Sometimes I like to shoot
baskets right behind me.
But yeah, as we talk football here.
You knew you had to be bracing
for Justin Fields to leave.
There's always like a few of your buddies
right that start telling you like it.
But maybe, maybe because they didn't
win the national championship,
he would want to get something
done here and you're like.
You know, Mike Sam, Billy just calm down.
It's not going to happen.
It's not in the cards.
There's too much money to be made for
Justin Fields, he's accomplished.
He's accomplished a lot here at Ohio State,
except the national championship,
and that's too much to expect
for him when he has that much
financial stability on the line.
And you know, I wish him the best.
He was a great player.
More than that,
more than what he was on the field
day of what I really respect about him
and I do not in any way see him going
the same way that we've seen Dwayne
Haskins first couple of seasons play out.
It's what he's got between the ears,
I thought.
I saw that with Duane,
but there were certain things that I I
didn't really want to read more into.
Maybe we should have,
but Justin I think is a plus.
He's out of the park in that Department.
He's going to be probably
the number two overall pick.
I'd be surprised if that second team
there doesn't take him or someone
trades up to that spot to get him.
But this also we talked on the
show this week.
It's exciting when you get a
new quarterback at Ohio State.
I don't care how good the guy
is that's leaving.
That guy is always going to leave.
It's not the NFL.
You can't have a 810 year runs,
not how it works.
You know,
unless you're Justin Hilliard or somebody,
maybe you can get a seven or eight
year run in college football,
but I'm excited to see which of
these young guys wins the job
with all the weapons
that are here, aren't you.
Yeah, I really am.
And and you bring up a good point there.
There's always the guy who says my uncles,
nephews ex girlfriends Dad
runs a Body Shop in Reynolds,
Berg and Justin Fields got his
oil change there and he told him.
Yeah yeah, Justin Fields spills his
secrets to the mechanic, right?
I'm with you so we ignore
that message buyers though we
know he's good with some of
the the auto worker change
really good so we know fields
is going to be a big one.
This next one though Trey Sermon.
Had I told you 2 months ago
Trey Sermon would go pro,
you would have said whatever but
we saw in the game against BAMMA.
Apparently Trey Sermon was much more valuable
than we thought during the first half.
Yeah, I don't know bout you Dave,
but my my prediction on Trey Sermon
turned out to be pretty good in the end.
And it was tough to predict stats and
things like that because you didn't know
how many games Ohio State was going to play.
But when I looked at him and the
concern for Ohio State's offense was the
injuries at the running back position.
Remember coming into the offseason?
How long was master T going to
be out with that Achilles?
And we need to keep in mind that too
when we analyze master Teague and
what he did this year putting him,
you know that far below Trey Sermon,
racing back from an injury like that.
Credit to him for doing what he
was able to do. But Trey,
yes we all saw what he did in the guy.
Broke flipping Eddie George's
single game record.
He was here for like 2 minutes,
but what he was at Oklahoma.
He was a playmaking back and he
just got caught behind a Kennedy.
Brooks you know there were some really
really good players there in Oklahoma.
It's a Lincoln Riley offense.
It's to be expected he scored his first
touchdown in his career against Ohio State.
I thought he could have been a
bellcow 1500 total yard type of
playmaker with a full 12 game season.
If we were going on on that scale.
You know between rushing and
receiving what that guy can do.
In both facets of the game,
but have you ever seen a guy just
create an NFL draft stock like
that in just a trio of games?
He did it best of luck to him as well.
I wish we would have another
season with Trey Sermon because.
He didn't even feel like the powerful back,
but man did he turn in some
angry runs late in the season,
just rush after Rush game after
game is beautiful to watch.
He's going to be great in the
next level and
I think the Buckeye running
back room will be good.
Treveon Henderson is going to come in.
Maybe have a JK Dobbins
like effect as a freshman.
Will wait and see the one that
I think is very interesting.
And Shaun Wade Tim because a year ago
people thought he's crazy for coming back.
Now people are trying to
say he's crazy for leaving.
I've never seen anything like this.
What do you make of Shaun
Wade's decision to go
Pro? Yeah, that was the one
and will probably talk about a
defensive tackle here later on too.
But to go with him.
Sean Wade right after the game had some
comments that you could maybe read into,
and the only reason you would put more
faith or give that a higher probability
that he might act on it and stick around
and go completely off his preseason.
He wasn't even supposed to
be here for this season.
He was taking it off.
He was opting out and getting ready for that.
Craft and people are going to go back and
forth over would that have been better?
I guess right now having
the year on film with him,
switching outside corner
probably would have been better.
You know if you if you want to play it
that way for him to stay opted out.
But I I love a guy that that
doesn't do that and wants to be a
part of the team and a part of the
culture he put a lot on the line.
He risked a lot to come back here,
but you're right, it's pretty fascinating.
I think he's a tremendous I know
he's a tremendous football player.
It's tough.
To switch from slot cornerback to outside
cornerback with everything else that
Ohio State secondary loste and he was
getting feasted on a little bit here.
Jahan Dotson at Penn State had
his way Fryfogle for Indiana had
his way Cornell for Clemson and
then of course Devante Smith had
his way with whoever was was on
the field there for Ohio State.
But I I don't know.
I don't see first round right
now as an outside corner.
Maybe a switch is in order if
not more development at least
to play that position for Sean.
Will you mentioned defensive tackle?
If you want to produce the Showtime,
I'll let you produce the show.
Let's go to Tommy.
Told yeah OK, there are those.
There's a summer romance, right?
You go to summer camp.
You have a crush,
you know it's going to be over soon
and it doesn't break your heart.
This one, though to me of
all the the early enrollees.
This one, I think,
was the one that got me the most because
we weren't sure if he would leave.
And again,
we saw in the Alabama game how
much of a difference he makes.
Yeah, you're right,
and Sean had already put enough
time into the program too.
He wasn't a three year guy,
so that's the difference.
Togiai hasn't started that
many football games, you know,
and we got onto this track,
though with cornerbacks famously here at
Ohio State where they'd be 3 and done,
there's so many good ones at Ohio State.
Three years would be up,
someone would go to the NFL,
Draft another ridiculously good one
would come in and start for a year,
and then he'd be so talented that
he'd be off because he was getting
a top ten grade to guys different.
It's cool to see though.
Ohio State's kind of making
a mark now for producing.
Interior defensive lineman.
We've had the edge rushers with
the bosses and with Chase Young now
maybe not super high draft picks,
but divine Hamilton is going to play
for Urban Meyer had a pretty solid
rookie season for the Jacksonville
Jaguars and things didn't workout
for body Michael Bennett.
If that was just injuries who is
the former All-american here?
Who was with Jacksonville as well?
But Togiai is so ridiculously strong
I've had my eye on him for a couple
years just waiting for him to start.
We only got to see one shorten season
of it but he had that three sack game.
You read you can go online and find articles.
I can't remember if he's from Pocatello,
ID or one of one of the cities in Idaho.
You know journalism is running
rampant out there.
Check some of the stuff out.
The stories of him and his childhood
and how strong he was in the games that
he would play with his brothers and sisters.
I picture I picture like an 8 year
old that just has muscles on top
of muscles with Tommy togiai like
that's what that's what it meant
to be strong in that family.
And they're already joking about
how he's going to.
Going to break the Kambin record
even though there isn't a kambin
for bench press reps and I would
not be shocked if he did that.
'cause he's a force to be
reckoned with. For the record,
there are two cities in Idaho
there is Boise and not Boise.
That's on the census.
You check a box,
you check Boise or not Boise.
So let's start off
with the blue turf.
No blue term providing.
Can't watch. Get watch
list offensive line Wyatt Davis gone.
We expected that.
Let's talk about coming back though.
Fair Munford you will talk about
a guy who's played a lot of games.
Instability Tim stability at
that position very important.
You get a left tackle back.
I mean that's that's huge, right?
That's all you have to say.
We can talk all the other
positions on the offensive line
if you get your left tackle back.
And he easily could have gone
to the NFL Draft. That's huge.
And you get both of your
starting tackles back.
And there's some other guys here.
I loved even though there was there was
a Reporter for 11 more years Colin has.
He'll put this out there trying to
project the depth chart and he put one
of the Jones names as a projected garden.
Dejuan Jones.
The Who might be the biggest human to ever.
He's like Thanos like.
He just imagine him playing basketball too.
And he did that in high school.
He kind of sent out the little
emoji like the looking back
like what you don't think I'm.
It's like it just said Jones.
It might be due on Jones.
It's Matt Jones.
It's douane Jones.
There's going to be guards here.
Harry Miller is going to.
The center position.
So best of luck to Josh Myers
and Wyatt Davis.
Those guys Josh might be late first rounder.
Why it's going to be mid to mid
first round or maybe higher than
that when it's all said and done,
but the tackles coming back there
will be a four year starter.
At that position, it's incredible.
Yeah,
which
is unheard of. Another guy who started
a lot of games that we didn't think
would come back as crystal of it.
And I know a lot of people look at
this situation and think a lot of it
coming back as a vote of confidence for
the quarterbacks waiting in the wings.
What do you make of Alaves decision
which from a business sense,
he's betting on himself and betting
on his new quarterbacks in a way?
Yeah, I saw.
I also saw a take out there about.
Bam's Devante Smith and how it's it's
similar to what was going on with him,
where he could have been a first round pick,
isn't the first time we've ever seen it.
It's cool though.
When you see guys like this.
They're betting on themselves to
do even better than what their
draft stock would have been.
That's cool to see.
Chris olave.
He's a guy that knows the only thing.
The only thing that would
be stopping him is injury.
And we know we have insurance
policies right now.
And I also think guys like that
aren't thinking in those terms.
He wants to have a full season.
He wants to go after national championship.
He wants to be a part of the
culture that's been established
with Ohio State football and
there are bigger things out there.
I mean, a lot of it could follow that script.
He is.
That flipping good.
One of the more fun debates
to get into is who's better,
Garrett Wilson or Chris Olave?
And I've just been in Olave guy
because I assumed Garrett was going
to have his time in the sun without
Chris Olave coming up here now.
Now he might not,
but I like the idea of them working in
tandem and working together even better.
It did my the Garrett Wilson plus 10,000
takes a little bit for the Heisman OB.
Hey bring on Chris,
let's go. I've always been
team Garrett at the next level.
Team Alive 8 at the college.
I will see if you're right
or wrong about that.
I think both of the project really well,
so let's finish on these guys.
Two guys who are getting a lot of hype,
but Jeremy Ruckert and Haskell Garrett,
defensive tackles and tight
ends don't necessarily get
clicks on the Internet soon,
but I think too subtle guys coming
back who could really pay off.
Yeah, I mean, Jeremy ruckert.
Let's go with him.
I mean, he is just flashed.
So much brilliance in his
careeer we all we love to talk
to our friend Jake Ballard.
He comes on the show a lot and
it's it's almost like the old tree
falling in the Woods thing here
with Ohio State football with with
the tight ends that you know if
tight end catches a touchdown here.
That's it's great to see they
have to block so much they have
to do all The Dirty work and
the things that nobody sees.
But Rucker.
Is recruited,
he was seen as like a guy that could play.
What wider Seaver and someone
with that kind of speed and that
kind of skill set he makes the one
handed catches all over the place.
I love what he brings.
I'm so excited to have him back.
That's going to be a thrill for the offense.
Was the other it was the other
name you're just throwing up there
at the tackle Haskell Garrett?
I mean,
one of the biggest stories
in college football.
And again,
like to lose Tommy Togiai and
to to hear the Haskell Garrett
is going to come back.
It's it's unbelievable.
There were some.
Things that weren't quite right
with the all conference teams.
You know where where he could be
a first team All-american by some
of the outfits that really study
every single play in a football
game like Pro Football Focus,
but not even good enough to be on
a third team in your conference.
Up, this is great. The hassles returning.
Yeah.
Just
like Urban Meyer and Jim Tressel
could be the best coach in the nation.
But Kirk Ferentz, you are always going
to be our Big 10 coach of the year.
Hey Tim, you can listen to Tim on 97.
The 1 the fan all we
take appreciate the time.
Thanks Dave, take care.