How much will Buckeyes' defense improve? What are we missing with negative reports about Fields?
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🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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How much will Ohio State's defense improve in 2021? How confident are we in Kerry Coombs as defensive coordinator? What are we looking forward to seeing at this Saturday's spring game the most? What are we missing when it comes to the negative reports about Justin Fields?
Matt Baxendell joins Dave Biddle for the Wednesday 5ish to delve into all of that and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Buck Nudders. |
| 0:29.2 | Welcome to the Buck Nuts morning five here on Wednesday April 14th 2021. |
| 0:33.8 | I am Dave Vittel. |
| 0:34.6 | I am very happy to be joined by the people's champ Matt Baxendale. |
| 0:38.3 | A lot to get into backs. |
| 0:39.5 | Let's start with Ohio State's defense. |
| 0:41.3 | They need to improve a lot from last year. |
| 0:43.9 | They are ranked 56th in the country. |
| 0:46.0 | In total defense. |
| 0:46.9 | They're one of the worst passing defenses in the country. |
| 0:49.2 | How much improvement do you expect to see this year from the defense? |
| 0:53.2 | Well, I don't know how much worse the past defense can get. |
| 0:55.5 | It was in the bottom 10. |
| 0:56.6 | So you'd have to assume they get better by default, but look, if you look at the way Ohio |
| 1:02.3 | State's defense is shaping up this year, they're going to have another excellent defensive |
| 1:05.6 | line. |
| 1:06.6 | That's become a staple over the last 10 years at Ohio State, whether that sometimes in |
| 1:11.2 | the past, we would have good, not great deal lines. |
| 1:13.1 | I don't remember the last time OSU deal on with anything short of one of the best in the |
| 1:16.8 | country. |
| 1:17.8 | It's just a given there. |
| 1:18.8 | The linebacker position is going to be interesting because you've a lot of guys who are young, athletic |
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