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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ohio State DL coach Larry Johnson's future, and is Jack still a Jack?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this Tuesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means continue to work their way through interviews with Ohio State assistant coaches and staffers last week, and up now is defensive line coach Larry Johnson and his room. First up (0:30), the guys talk about the 71-year-old Johnson, a legend as a college football assistant, and discuss what his future is in Columbus and how the Buckeyes are handling it. Then (22:42) it's onto the defensive ends, and how Johnson rotates his players and how much J.T. Tuimoloau and Jack Sawyer will play this season. Plus, will Sawyer still play that stand-up Jack position and move around the line, or will he be a pure defensive end with his hand on the ground? Finally (45:22) it's defensive tackle talk, plus a brief discussion of a defensive lineman who could be on the Marvin Harrison Jr. career trajectory. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:26.0

Welcome back to your Tuesday.

0:28.0

If you want to hear two hours of yelling about basketball, you can listen to the Monday podcast.

0:35.0

If you care at all about basketball or sort of the standards of Ohio State Athletics,

0:39.0

I have a thing I would like to do in the next two weeks to address the standards of Ohio State athletics

0:47.0

that I think applies across the board where it doesn't apply where it does apply, but I'll be for later.

0:52.0

For now, we are continuing to go through this football team, Nathan, based off the great interview session

0:58.0

we had last week.

0:59.0

We want to give everybody their fair shake.

1:01.0

Today, we're doing Larry Johnson in the defensive line.

1:03.0

We have Perry, Aliano and Tim Walton plan for later this week.

1:06.0

We have Jim Knowles and James Logan.

1:08.0

And I just plan for later this week.

1:09.0

We're going to hit Mark Pantone in the recruiting operation later this week.

1:12.0

But we're going to start with Larry Johnson.

1:15.0

And for both of you guys, Nathan, first, then Stephen, I want to get you right out the top.

1:20.0

I think we might be at an interesting point with Larry Johnson in that Ohio State football has not faced since Woody.

1:35.0

Since Woody really has not faced like, hey, this is an absolute legend.

1:42.0

One of the greats, who's now getting older and the questions that arise from that.

1:49.0

Not the insistence of like, that's it.

1:51.0

But the questions that arise with that, right?

1:54.0

Because Jim Trestle saw his end before we got that.

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