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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

An NFL QB debate -- Would you take C.J. Stroud or Justin Fields?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A week ago on Buckeye Talk, a draft of the best Ohio State players in the NFL right now led to another question. Where would C.J. Stroud fit in that mix? And specifically, how would he stack up as an NFL quarterback compared to Justin Fields, who is entering his second season with the Chicago Bears? So on this Buckeye Talk episode, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means dug into that idea. Doug, Stephen and the OSU text subscribers each rated Stroud and Field in five categories as potential NFL franchise quarterbacks. Who came out on top when those ratings were added up? And then in the simple question of which QB you'd take as an NFL GM, who won that vote? These are two good NFL options with different styles, so dive in to this OSU NFL QB discussion. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you been, but got to talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:25.0

Welcome back to a Friday, but got to talk, Douglas Emery, Stephen Means and this is a good one.

0:29.5

They're all good.

0:31.5

This one's good, Stephen.

0:35.5

I am actually a little nervous about this one because it lies with everything here.

0:44.5

It doesn't really matter, but we're sort of making ourselves make a decision here.

0:50.5

And we have had some pushback a little bit from fans about making them do this.

0:59.5

And what we are doing is making you pick between CJ Stroud and Justin Fields.

1:06.5

If you were an NFL GM and you had the ability to acquire one of them, maybe you're going to try to tank for CJ Stroud and maybe you're going to try to trade for Justin Fields.

1:16.5

Who would you go after with the information you have now?

1:21.5

You're thinking the long-term prospects of success for my NFL team, which guy would I want?

1:28.5

And from the 513, I feel like this is you guys making us choose who our favorite kid is and I don't like it, Douglas.

1:37.5

So from that texture, I told that texture, I texted back, Stephen and said, I understand what they're saying and to be fair on those lines.

1:45.5

Next week on a pod, I will rate both of my daughters in five separate categories and a scale of one to 10 and then I will pick one.

1:54.5

And so you guys, you know, tell them it's turn about his fair play because that's what we're doing here.

1:59.5

We asked the tech subscribers and I think this was a fun one for the tech subscribers and then Stephen and I actually the same thing.

2:06.5

We are ranking CJ Stroud and Justin Fields in five separate categories, arm talent, which is kind of like arm strength, big time throws, the ability to make every throw, then accuracy, which is a little different.

2:18.5

Those are two separate categories because throwing the ball is what it's all about.

2:21.5

So I don't feel bad having two throwing categories.

2:23.5

Then athleticism slash running ability, you know what that means.

2:27.5

Then processing reading a defense, implementing your game plan, that kind of thing.

2:32.5

And then leadership slash intangible sort of face the franchise kind of stuff, rallying the guys in the locker room, call them on the sideline in the fourth quarter, whatever, that kind of stuff.

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