The And the Good morning, buck nutters.

Good morning, buck nutters.

Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning Five

here on Friday, December 28, 2018. I am Dave Biddle along with

Steve Hell Wagon here in sunny Los Angeles. We're on West Coast time. We are

bringing you the Bucknuts Morning 5 about three hours later than

usual hey we're three hours behind you guys right now as we prepare for the Rose Bowl

here prepare to cover the Rose Bowl Steve Ohio State has a practice here in

about an hour and a half that we're going to cover.

I guess the biggest news that came out of the practice a couple days ago was that Thayer

Munford was not practicing.

That doesn't mean he's not going to play in the game but does mean he's questionable at least just

your thoughts on what you're hearing on there Mumford yeah I think that would be a

tremendous blow obviously to Ohio State to not have their left tackle a Josh

allabay has filled in at various points in the year when Munford has had to go down for a prolonged period of time and that would definitely hurt Ohio State because they've done a great job of keeping Dwayne Haskins clean in the pocket.

The sacks have basically become non-existent down the stretch.

Early in the season there were issues with past protection, but as the season wore on they just did an

outstanding job. I that position group in and of itself Dave to me made as many

strides as any on this team I think the linebacker group by the end of the year was

serviceable, whereas at the beginning of the year they were, you know, useless. So I would say those two areas probably

came on as much as anything on the team and if

they are Mumford can't go at least you know you have a guy in Alabay who has been in

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