Good afternoon and welcome to the Buck Nut's Happy Hour.

I'm Patrick Murphy from Buck Nuts in 247 Sports. We're often running for another week of Buck Nuts fun.

I am out in Denver. We're staying in a friend's house. We have a wedding this weekend and there's no beer in the house.

So I am Sam's beer, which is probably a good thing on an afternoon. We just got in last night.

So I'm drinking water. We're at altitude staying hydrated, but I do miss my beer.

It's been two weeks now since I've had a beer on this show. And that's a little disappointing.

But today's show we're going to talk about the potential breakout candidates for the buck guys this year.

Guys that we think might have big, big seasons that are kind of not necessarily unexpected, but guys who have it maybe in the past.

I'm going to do that here in the next few minutes.

Then I'm going to dive into a little bit of recruiting, which I don't talk a ton about because it's not really my thing.

But I know there's a lot of questions about Ohio State's defensive recruiting and kind of the direction of that.

So I want to touch on some things there. And then we'll probably wrap up.

I wrote something about the running backs the other day, kind of how Ohio State's going to handle what's a pretty loaded running back room, which I think is an interesting topic.

But to discuss these breakout candidates, I didn't want to do that one by myself.

So bring back in Tim Hall from the buck I show Tim.

It's been a minute since you we've been able to make this work after you were a pretty routine guest on here. So I'm glad to have you back. How you doing?

It's good, Patrick. Yeah. And you know, you continue to pick the one guy that works in the evenings. And I cannot really enjoy a beer.

Any time we do this happy hour thing, I'm wondering if we could maybe move this to a Saturday type of deal.

That way you're catching me on, you know, my free time, my leisure time, I might be two or three brews deep.

You might not know what kind of comments you're going to get for me if we do it. If we make that move, I think if we do it on a Saturday, then we just do it together.

We go somewhere, we get some beers, we'll set up, I don't know, some kind of, you can probably do that. You work in radio TV stations.

Why not? I think I smell a sponsor with this idea.

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