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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

First impressions of Arthur Smith and Ohio State's third spring practice

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 25 March 2026

ā±ļø 60 minutes

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Summary

Arthur Smith spoke for the first time as Ohio State's new offensive coordinator, providing plenty to talk about. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss the most interesting things they learned from Smith. Plus a few other offensive players who had notable things to say. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts ⁠Stephen Means⁠, ⁠Stefan Krajisnik⁠ and ⁠Andrew Gillis⁠ at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3

Hey, hey, hey, come on then.

1:02.1

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Stephen Means. That's Stefan Christ thinking that is

1:05.3

Andrew Gillis. We were back in the Woody on Tuesday for spring practice. Number three,

1:10.5

it feels like two and three. We're so far apart. It's been so long since we've been in the Woody on Tuesday for spring practice. Number three, it feels like two and three. We're so far apart. It's been so long since we've been in the Woody. And yet the weather is still the same. It was 85 degrees on Sunday. I was outside cleaning out my car from the winter of living in the car. Because I have this habit when it's cold out is like if I if something's in

1:28.0

the car it's just going to be in the car I'm not taking it I'm not taking extra trips and so I

1:32.3

always do this thing when the weather finally breaks where I'll go clean out my car and I was doing it

1:36.9

on Sunday I was like man what a productive day Monday it's 37 degrees so like all these different

1:42.7

weather patterns and yet here we are back at the woody practice number three. We talked with Arthur Smith, Carson Hinsman, Luke Montgomery, and Brandon Innes as well. So we're in two things here. This side of the commercials and the bills being paid, we're going to talk about Arthur Smith. The other side of paying bills and commercials and, you know, all those fun things, we're going to play a game and we'll do it today and we'll also do it for the Friday pod after we talk with Matt Patricia and some defensive players on Thursday of everything you learned from the NFL coach who is now Ohio State's offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator.

2:15.3

And then some quotes, just some interesting things you heard,

2:18.3

like a direct quote you heard from somebody and what you tried to take from that. So Stefan,

2:23.0

let's start with Arthur Smith. This is the first time you've ever spoken to him with a recorder

2:28.8

being involved in the conversation. What was your biggest takeaway from the man who used to coach my favorite team?

2:36.1

Is that he got a lot of experience coaching your favorite team and the Titans and the Steelers

2:41.3

and, you know, everything that's come along with his journey, but namely in the NFL.

2:45.8

He is a very intelligent individual, right? Like it's, he talked about kind of how he loves the history of football. And, you know, I think everyone knows his background is pretty well documented in terms of his family and all that with FedEx. And, you know, he was kind of asked pretty straightforward. Like, why are you coaching? Like, I don't think, listen, if my dad was Mr. FedEx, I don't know if I'd be doing this.

3:08.4

I don't know if I'd be coaching football. I don't know what I'd be doing, but you'd have to, I'd be pretty hard pressed to do anything. And he's, he's coaching football. So credit to him for that. But it did extend to kind of this bigger conversation of just like, he is very ingrained in this game obviously played it right as an offensive

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