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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Nathan Baird. Along with Steven Means from Cleveland.com. We just got back from Ohio State interviews. Practice number four is in the books this spring.

And today we got to talk to pretty much every defensive lineman on the team with maybe one or two exceptions. I think we talked to every end or tackle or at least they were available to talk to Steven and I.

Run them by ourselves day. We did not get a chance to get to every single table, but we've been kind of pouring through the interviews and going over what we heard today and right there at the end.

We got one of the more intriguing moments of the day when Jack Sawyer and my call and Tyler Williams made a bet. They put it on the line. They said, who's going to lead us in sacks this year?

Whoever loses. So I guess it's whoever finishes third in that group, whoever has the least or is it the two that have the least.

It's no, it's not about those three. It's actually it's the defensive line versus it's well, they're all defensive lineman. It's the interior guys versus the edge.

Yeah, the genesis of it was my call, you know how sometimes players can like button on the interviews and ask jokey questions.

Tileek and Mike had been trying to do it for like four or five straight questions, but obviously we're trying to do our jobs, so we're not letting them do it.

And near the end to leak goes, hey, you know how the defensive tackles have more that tax in the defensive ends last season. That's going to happen again this year too. And Jack's like, oh, you want to put something on it. You want to bet it.

But first, my call is like, oh, $100, which is not a crazy thing to do anymore. They make money. They may have NIL deals. They all have cars.

And he's like, no, it can't be something like that. It's got to be a friendly, friendly wager. And so it's sprints.

I don't know how many sprints I didn't get into that many details because they ran away before they did all that, but the whole point is

they're betting that the defensive ends are going to have more whoever has more tack more sacks this year. The loser has to run some type of sprints.

I think that they were able to speak on behalf of the entire unit and make that bet.

I mean, that's just imagining, I'm imagining getting to the end of the year. And the defensive ends have more sacks and someone tells Jeron Cage, like, oh, you got to go run sprints now. And he's like, what?

I mean, that's the details. I have to figure out that's not our problem. I don't have to run either way. That's all I know.

I'm also like, and I don't, I know they're big guys, but they're also like world class athletes.

Some if not all of them world class athletes, like is running sprints really that much of a punishment, even for the defensive line.

Yes, I don't think anybody likes running.

I don't know. I think I don't think athletes like just running just for the sake of running when you're running while you're playing your sport, that's one thing.

Running like, you know, you know, 100 yards of prints or, you know, from sideline to sideline for conditioning purposes. That's not fun.

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