Good morning, Buckknutters. Welcome to the Buckknuts Morning 5.

Here on Wednesday, October 19th, 2022. I am Dave Biddle, very happy joined by Matt Baxendale.

Bax, a lot to get into. Let's start with what Ryan, they had to say yesterday or not had to say about injuries.

I asked them, you know, the status update on Jackson Smith and Jigba and Jordan Hancock and Maya Williams,

and he kind of smiled and said, I didn't preface it with. I know you hate, like, you know, when we ask you about injuries,

and he said, then why are you asking it? But he did say, like, basically no comment right now on

Jackson Smith and Jigba, Jordan Hancock and Maya Williams, but he will let us know later in the week.

What did you make of that, Mr. Baxendale? Well, he looked at you and he's like, what's you talking about, Biddle?

No, I mean, this is Ryan Day. He doesn't give us updates on injuries. Like, what is this? This isn't the NFL

where he has to give us like a within 25% accuracy. You know, like the reality is we could talk about injuries

for like an hour right now, because I think that's most people's probably biggest concern right now,

about OSU this season, right? After six games, what's our biggest for its injuries? So we could sit here

and literally let go like position by position and talk about whether or not people are back healthy.

I think the biggest thing we just have to take from this, in my opinion, at least, is they got a week off.

It was a really good time to have the week off. It's what I said in the bucket. I was like, thank goodness.

We had this time break here because there's been a lot of nagging injuries that are real worried. So

is this the week we get JSN back? Is Maya Williams healthy? Was this finally when Jordan Hancock gets the play?

You know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Those are all things that Ryan Day won't tell us until we

get to the status report for the games, but you have to think that that this week did a lot of good

for the team across the board. Let me ask you this. So, I mean, obviously, Ryan Day is not a doctor.

I don't think you're a doctor. You might, but you do a lot of like things. I'm not a doctor. Even if

Jackson Smith and Jigba is cleared medically for this game, I would hold him out.

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