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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Buckeye Talk Rapid Fire questions on Jim Knowles, Julian Fleming, Michigan bravado and more

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

On this rapid fire Buckeye Talk Wednesday episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are here to answer a bevy of text subscriber questions: What would it mean for Ohio State if Michigan wins a national title? Should the Buckeyes have landed Elias Ricks in the transfer portal? What's the best Christmas present we ever got? Should there be optimism around Julian Fleming for next season? Which current freshman will have the biggest 2022 impact? What player could be a candidate for a position switch? Should Justin Fields have stayed at Ohio State for the 2021 season? Who is the best Spiderman? What happens if new coordinator Jim Knowles doesn't fix the defense? Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. . See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:27.0

Welcome back to another Buckeye Talk, another rapid fire. I think we're dropping this on Wednesday against the chaotic here holiday week, Douglas Marie, Nathan Baird, Steven Means.

0:36.0

Great questions from the textures related to Michigan and what Michigan does this playoff season, how that effective high estate, some Elias ricks questions, freshman who could make big leaps next year, our worst holiday travel stories, Julian Fleming question, position switches.

0:56.0

Should Justin Fields have stayed at Ohio State this year?

1:00.0

Joshua Perry question, Spider-Man stuff and some Jim Noel stuff at the end that we'll get to, but let's dive right in and again, if you want to be part of this, I'll suggest it one more time.

1:10.0

I think it makes an interesting, I'm not going to say great holiday gift. I'm going to say interesting holiday gift. You go and you're stocking and you pull out a little envelope and like you open it up and it says, what is this and says subscription to Buckeye talk.

1:22.0

What is this? This is nothing. It's like, well, it was only four bucks a month. So you, my friend, I bought you six months worth for $24 and so here's 24 bucks go get signed up and you put your phone in and now you get the text all the time.

1:37.0

If you're desperate, right, there's some procrastinators out there. I know you people are procrastinators right now. You're desperate and you have it Ohio State fan in your life and you're like, oh my god, I forgot to get something.

1:50.0

This will seem like you put thought into it. Don't tell anybody right. They'll seem like, wow, what a creative gift. It's actually desperate Buckeye talk. So if you want to do it, give it a shot. Let's get to Michigan.

2:04.0

This is interesting, I think, because we're in an interesting world here and it's from it's the world where Michigan's in the playoff for the first time.

2:11.0

This is from the 614, this person asked like 11 questions and I love it. We're going to do their top two.

2:17.0

If Michigan wins a playoff game, is that good or bad for Ohio State? And if Michigan wins the national title, is that good or bad for Ohio State? I saved this from the last time Nathan, because I thought it was such an interesting thing to start with.

2:30.0

Either of those two scenarios does what Michigan does in the playoff. Does that have an effect on Ohio State?

2:40.0

I think it benefited Ohio State in a lot of ways when it was clearly the best program in the big 10. And if Michigan goes into the playoff and wins games and then especially goes on and we're to win a national championship, I don't think that's good for Ohio State.

2:55.0

I think it's better for Ohio State if Michigan loses as quickly as possible.

3:01.0

Steven, do you agree with that?

3:04.0

Yeah, I mean, it's better if Michigan doesn't win a national championship this year for Ohio State's purposes, but even if they do it, it can very easily just be a blip on the radar.

3:14.0

They are very similar to LSU winning a national title in 2019 and Alabama not being in the playoff, depending on how the years that follow go.

3:23.0

Now that's granted that some of the time side 2020, but still it can easily be that.

3:27.0

But yes, it's better if Michigan just doesn't win a national title so Ohio State fans don't have to deal with that.

3:33.0

All right, so let me let me ask this question.

3:36.0

So the two parts of it are would would Michigan winning a playoff game and or national title signal that Michigan is now the best program in the big 10 or would it signal that they're about to be that they're going to gain momentum from that and that means

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