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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

Introducing Ohio State's D-line, aka 'The Crushmen'

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

247Sports

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's defensive line has a "Rushmen" package when the Buckeyes deploy four D-ends at the same time. However, analyzing Ohio State's defensive line as a whole, an accurate nickname might be "The Crushmen." Why? Because this group is loaded with experience and talent, and might be the deepest D-line to come through Columbus. Which, would be saying a lot considering some of the deep defensive lines we've seen from OSU over the years. The group is especially deep at defensive tackle, where a guy like Antwuan Jackson might be the seventh-best D-tackle on the squad. Yes, a former 5-star recruit who is coming off a good spring is probably behind the likes of BB Landers, Davon Hamilton, Tommy Togiai, Jashon Cornell, Taron Vincent and Haskell Garrett in the pecking order. And that's not a knock against Jackson. It is to illustrate the incredible depth of this unit. Oh, and Larry Johnson's crew is plenty deep and talented at defensive end as well, led by All-American candidate Chase Young. The People's Champ, Matt Baxendell, joins Dave Biddle on today's show for a close look at the defensive line, plus: * What type of scheduling philosophy should Ohio State have for non-conference games? Play as tough a schedule as possible, or try and set up as many easy wins as possible? What is best for the fans? What is best for the program? * Will we be rooting for Tate Martell at Miami this year? * What are expectations for Justin Fields' first season as Ohio State's starting quarterback? All of that and more is coming at you on the Wednesday extravaganza. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The The Good morning buck nutters.

0:27.0

and to the buck nutters.

0:30.0

Welcome and to the bucknuts morning five here on Wednesday May 15th 2019. I am Dave

0:34.8

Biddle very happy joined by the People's Champ Matt Baxendale. Bax, let's start

0:40.4

up talking about Ohio State's schedule and kind of like the philosophy behind it.

0:44.8

This year it's interesting. Usually Ohio State has a big home and home series with, you know,

0:49.8

at least a somewhat prominent program program sometimes a very prominent program

0:54.3

uh... last year

0:55.8

t.c. you ended up not being a home at home and it initially was supposed to be

0:59.7

this year they don't have that they have Florida Atlantic they have Cincinnati which could be a sneaky game

1:04.6

for Ohio State they're a little bit of a I'm gonna call a trap game but Cincinnati is a decent team

1:09.2

you know Luke thickle's gonna be bringing his a game that day and his players as well.

1:13.1

They also play Miami of Ohio.

1:15.4

Next year, Ohio, I say travels to Oregon.

1:17.5

And then Oregon will come to Columbus the following year so that we get back on kind of

1:20.7

their usual way of doing things. What do you prefer as a fan

1:24.3

and what do you think is best for Ohio State?

1:26.0

Do you think it's best to rack up these easy wins

1:27.6

or do you like to see them get challenged early in the season?

1:31.8

Well, I think what's best for the fan is vastly different for what's best for the

1:35.7

team's chances of making the playoffs. When we started this playoff all those years

1:41.7

ago when OSU won the first national championship there was a big

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