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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Jim Knowles’ mood; young LB opportunities; and James Laurinaitis in the rivalry

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On this Wednesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are talking about Ohio State linebackers after speaking with Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Jim Knowles and new OSU grad assistant James Laurinaitis last week. Covered in the three sections on this episode: * (0:30) How Knowles felt about his first year running the defense and what the focus will be in spring football * (25:20) The chances that young linebackers C.J. Hicks, Gabe Powers and Reid Carrico should get in the spring * (38:36) The role Laurinaitis should play in recruiting and ... might play in Michigan prep? Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:26.0

Welcome back to your Wednesday book. I talk from Louisville.com, Doug Lee Marys, Nathan

0:29.8

there to see the needs and today as we run through the interviews from last week, comprehensively

0:35.4

covering and analyzing every part of the Ohio State football team, Jim Knowles, James

0:40.8

Laurenidas. And we will start with Jim Knowles because last week guys, we did talk about the

0:46.4

hiring of James Laurenidas. We didn't have, we hadn't heard from James Laurenidas at that

0:51.9

point, so now we have heard from him and we want to talk about what he said about joining the

0:57.2

Ohio State football staff. But Nathan, this really was an opportunity first time since the George

1:04.8

a game to talk with the head coach of the defense and to talk about, I would imagine. And again,

1:11.8

I actually did not go back and listen to either of these, but so I'm just blindly steering the

1:19.1

podcast into nowhere. Buck, I talk and hoping you guys will provide the actual information. But

1:27.6

rough end, good start, like pretty solid 11 games for the Ohio State defense, I think.

1:32.8

More good than bad, rough stuff at the end. Do we get a vibe from Jim Knowles of how he thought

1:39.2

the George a game went and how he thought the season went in year one as Ohio State's defensive

1:43.6

coordinator, Nathan? Well, you remind me of a sports editor I once had who was fond of saying,

1:48.3

I like to run a loose ship to which I always, it was very good, it's a very good guy in many

1:53.3

other respects, but I always was like, doesn't that mean you're just not driving the boat at all?

1:56.6

Like run a loose ship? I mean, you just, you might crash into the rocks, you might be lost at sea

2:01.9

somewhere in the middle. Yeah, he he talked briefly about the George a game and said he had watched

2:09.0

it once, watched it back once so far and then cut it up and and pass it along to players for

2:14.4

review and two things really stand out still. I mean, the explosive plays and their inability

2:23.2

to correct those sufficiently enough between the Michigan game to there. We're still on his mind

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