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Welcome back to Buck I Talk. I'm Stephen Means, and that is Stefan Kriyshe. This is your

Monday, Paul. Getting to you a little bit later than usual. We took the bi-week to really take a what I talk. I'm Stephen Means and that is Stefan Krichnik. This is your Monday

pod getting to you a little bit later than usual. We took the buy week to really take a week

off, a weekend off. So we're recording this Monday morning and you're getting it Monday early

afternoonish, late afternoonish, like sometime around like 1130. You should be getting this pod

in your feeds. We are ranking the 15. Actually, I know I'm out of

since you 10. We're ranking the most valuable people on Ohio State's roster this year. And by value,

the way I want to do it, I don't want this to turn into it. Oh, my Lord, if this guy gets hurt,

Ohio State season is ruined. No, no, no. This is not that because we know that.

If Julian Sand gets hurt, oh, no. If Jeremiah Smith gets hurt, oh, no. If Alston-Sarveld at this point gets hurt. Oh, no. We don't want to have that conversation. What we want to have is a ceiling of value conversation. This guy has to be at his absolute best. They need this guy to perform at the highest level of his possibility in 2025.

If Ohio State plans on repeating as a national champion.

And that's, you can include players, you can include coaches.

If you want to include, you can include fans.

If you want to include the lunatic fringe, as part of your list is, listen, the fringe, come November 29th, you need to be on it if it seems going to win a national title. You can do that as well. But this is about sealing. These guys have to be at their best for Ohio State to win a national title. When you think about it that way, Stefan, does it change much for you in comparison to maybe just like how we would typically do a value pod or do a best players pod? That maybe changed the way you thought about this. Yeah, yeah, it made me think about, you know, some guys where you would say, hey, if this guy's injured, they don't have a chance. You know, you definitely include that type of player on the list. but when you kind of start to think about us some more, it's like, I don't know, there's some guys that maybe as long as they're available, that that's enough weight, right? They don't necessarily need to be playing at a Hall of Fame level for Ohio State to win a national title as long as they're on the field. And you start to think about other pieces and who slots in where and, you know, who needs to

live up to, you know, some of their billing in order for Ohio State to execute at the highest

level. And it definitely changes up maybe how, like, if you guys remember, we did a pod going

into the season of the most valuable players to Ohio State winning a national title. I can't

remember how many we did. I think we did 10 then. I think my list is drastically different now than what it was then.

Are there more offensive players or defensive players on your list? More offensive,

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