Animal instincts | 2024 defense shaping up to be elite | 2-year extension for LJ | Holt's replacement?
Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Little Animal got a big promotion. James Laurinaitis is now Ohio State's linebackers coach after serving as a grad assistant in 2023. Now, to be clear, Laurinaitis basically ran the LB room last season, but now he's a full-fledged position coach. How will this impact the Buckeyes on the field? What about on the recruiting front?
What we also find interesting is that Ohio State's defense is shaping up to be elite in 2024. You could of course argue Jim Knowles' unit was elite in 2023 as the Buckeyes finished No. 3 in the country in total defense and No. 2 in scoring defense. Outstanding numbers? Definitely. Skewed just a bit because of an historically bad offensive season for many Big Ten teams? Sure. (The four-best defenses in the country last year were Big Ten teams, including Penn State, Michigan and Iowa.) But it was still an outstanding defense.
However, we have little doubt the 2024 defense will be even better. The one area of possible concern is at linebacker, but the Buckeyes do have talent there ... and now a former All-American and long-time NFL standout as their LB coach.
Also, what do we think about OSU defensive line coach Larry Johnson inking a 2-year extension?
Jonah Booker and Dave Biddle discuss all things Silver Bullets on the Friday 5ish, who we want as Chris Holtmann's replacement and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The And the Good morning bucknunder's welcome to the bucknuts morning five here on |
| 0:29.6 | Friday February 16th 2024 I am Dave B. I'll be joined by Mr. Jonah Booker in just a moment. |
| 0:35.8 | It's gonna be a fun show. James Laurenitis promoted to the linebacker's coach not a big |
| 0:40.2 | surprise but we're gonna get into the impact there. I think everybody is not maybe not a lot we all agree on. I think everybody is in agreement that this is an awesome move for Ohio State both in recruiting and on the field itself to your extension for Larry Johnson. |
| 0:55.9 | That surprised me. Curious get Jaybook's thoughts on that. We're going to break down the 2024 defense. |
| 1:02.1 | You know, this is it's shaping up to be, you know, elite of the elite. |
| 1:06.0 | You can say it was elite last year, but, you know, they didn't play many good offenses and, |
| 1:10.6 | but the numbers were elite, but they're going to be even better this year. |
| 1:13.0 | There's more we'll get into as well. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm also curious to hear who at the end of the show, we'll get Jaybooks small wish list on who he wants to see replaced Chris Holtman. |
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