Ep. 287: Swapping Justin Fields -- Would the OSU QB beat the Buckeyes if he played for other teams?

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🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

On this big Wednesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird imagine a reality that Ohio State fans wouldn't want to consider -- What if Justin Fields played for another team? Thanks to an idea from a text subscriber, Doug and Nathan discussed worlds in which the Buckeyes had to swap starting quarterbacks with opponents. Who would win the game then? Would Fields on Penn State or Michigan or Georgia or Wisconsin mean a loss for the Buckeyes? The question is fanciful, but it frames a discussion about just how much a starting quarterback means to Ohio State and how much the rest of the talent on the OSU roster lifts up any QB who plays for the Buckeyes. There's a history lesson about Ohio State quarterback rankings in the Big Ten, a comparison of Fields to Russell Wilson, and another discussion of OSU backup quarterbacks. Plus, Doug and Nathan go into the latest OSU plan about limiting fan capacity to 20 percent this fall and how that might be done and what text subscribers think about it. Thanks for making the big Wednesday pod part of your week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey. Hey, hey, hey, where you been, Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:17.0	Hey, hey, come on in
0:27.2	welcome back to buck i talk it's the big Wednesday pod only two of us today
0:31.2	Doug lemarese and Nathan Baird Stephen Stephen Means on vacation, and we're going to dive in to try to get a handle on just how important Justin Fields is to the Ohio State Buckeyes.
0:40.6	And how are we going to do that? We're going to trade him to everybody else
0:44.6	Ohio State might play and everybody else in major college football that could
0:48.2	beat Ohio State and this is the idea and it was brought up by a tech subscriber many moons ago and I can't find the original question from the
0:56.4	tech subscriber. It was so good. Again, if you sent it, you know it, we love you, thanks for the idea.
1:02.0	It's just the idea of if basically if you put
1:05.7	Justin Fields on another team and we're going to do it with every team in the big
1:10.7	ten and some national teams and Ohio State got their
1:13.6	quarterback who would win and then we might throw in some wrinkles well what if
1:18.1	Ohio State's backup what if they'd rather play CJ Strout or Jack Miller
1:21.4	or Gunner-Hoke in the quarterback they're getting how
1:23.6	would that affect it but is try to get a handle on just how important a great
1:29.8	quarterback is to a great team and Nathan I go back and forth on this which is why I think this is a worthwhile exercise.
1:37.0	On one hand over the course of my 15 years doing this,
1:41.0	there have been lots of times where I sort of think, well, you know what,
1:43.5	you're surrounded by such talent,
1:45.5	you have skill guys to throw to, you have a great back
1:48.3	to hand it to, you have an offensive line that blocks for you,
1:52.2	you have a defense that gets three and outs, you
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