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Welcome back to Buck I Talk.

I am Stephen Means.

That's the fun, Fong, Christnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.

And before we started recording, I essentially told them, this should be fun, what we're about to do today. Either that, or I'm going to be booing them because they don't always go to the edge as much as I do when it's time to just, you know, be creative with things. Hot takes is the name of the game today. Now, it has to be based on something.

Like, you have to be able to eloquently, you know, break down why you went that route. It just can't be Julian Sands going to throw 70 touchdown passes this year. And it's like, hey, why do you think that? I don't know because he's a good quarterback. It's like, no, no, break it down. Like, what have we seen so far? We've watched two hours total of practice. So this is when you do the hot takes because you can't do it after we watch like three or four days of practice. No, no, because then it stops being a hot take. It starts being an educated hypothesis, an educated opinion. It's a hot take when you barely know anything and you just, for some reason,

are just so, so just set in stone in what you believe. That's what hot take culture is all about.

I barely know anything and yet I'm going to talk like I know everything. We saw two days of practice, an hour each of those practices. They didn't even have pads on. Two from each of us.

So we're going to go three rounds of this. So two each, no, that math is all. Three from each of us.

One per round from each of us. And Stefan, you get to kick us off and set the tone. Are you going to get booed or are you going to have us all like, man, that's

a crazy hot take. Where are you going with your master's hat on? Oh, my master, I'm going to be a

master of math here. I think it is two each one per round. We're doing six total hot takes.

Listen, I'm a writer, not a math guy. Because your math started math into three hot, or three nine total. And I was like, I only came with six. Yeah, you're right. No, you're right. You're right. You're right. Well, I have a lot. So, like, I could, you know, I always have 30 million of them. But it's fine. It's fine. Go ahead. I'll start with Jalen McLean being an All-American safety this year and the finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award.

I think that he is going to have a massive season for Ohio State. I think they're going to use him in some creative ways.

You know, obviously just because of recency bias, your mind goes to him, you know, replacing some of what Caleb Downs did.

I think that's obviously a high bar, right? There's Caleb Downs is one of one

in the sense of like he might be a rare safety taken top five, top 10 in the NFL draft. Like,

you know, Ryan Day was asked about that last week. That's, that's all rare error and it's hard to

achieve. But playing like Caleb Downs in a sense of just being a versatile player for this

Ohio State defense and kind of being the engine that makes it go. I like that. And my reasoning for that, or, you know, kind of what we've

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