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Welcome back to Friday BuckeyeTuck with Climba.com, Doug Lamarice, Nathan Baird, Steven Means, and we are reacting to the interviews we did on Thursday with the Ohio State Buckeyes where we talked to offensive lineman and defensive lineman.

We will focus on this episode on the offensive line. That means Justin Fry and the guys either locked in or fighting for spots.

We will get to defensive lineman sometime next week, but there's just too much going on to try to lump it all into one giant podcast.

So we will start at left tackle and we'll work our way through the five positions and talk about what Justin Fry said about guys.

We talked to basically all the guys who were in the mix for jobs. So that means that left tackle Josh Fryer to begin Nathan Baird.

And this is one I think of the more interesting positional situations at Ohio State in the last X amount of years because it is a vital spot where they are sort of forced to make an assumption about a guy who has had a solid career so far.

But maybe is being asked to and not even asked. It's almost like begged to fill a role that maybe he that wasn't exactly what they thought when they brought him in because bottom line a lot of times Ohio State at very important spots is plugging in a five star.

That's what we're talking about here. Josh Fryer wasn't a five star. Josh Fryer has been good, but this is the kind of thing that has happened a lot at like right tackle or has happened a lot at one of the safety spots.

But like this, this is left tackle man. So how does Josh Fryer feel Nathan this spring as the presumed starting left tackle certainly the favorite at the very least and it's one of the more interesting things we're watching.

Yeah, I phrased it as you know now it being his job to lose and Justin Frye didn't like the way that I phrased and said I certainly didn't say that.

But that's all what's what we're all seeing that's where he you know he's leading that position right now and he's a guy who had a rough couple of years whether that was you know getting through you know you're coming in as an as a as you say a low ranked guy.

You've got to prove yourself you hit the little COVID to hiccup the throws a lot of things off and interrupt your development you terrier ACL and now you've got to spend the off season coming back from that at a crucial point in your career where you're trying to make a jump and be more involved.

But he does all that and comes all the way back and is then in a job last year that is both I think it important transition for him being that sixth offensive lineman.

But then can also have its own frustrations when you're like you're right there on the cusp of being a big part of the offense but also kind of at an arms length like we'll get to you when we need you.

You can come in and do special things but you're not one of the five starting offensive lineman so for a long time it was a guy where where they kept coming up today was confidence.

Whether that was the confidence that he now feels on a day to day basis a guy that said that he used to you know not have a lot of confidence every day as it came to practice and now he looks forward to practice because now he knows that he belongs he feels like he's proven it you can feel it when he's out on the field.

And it's not to say that you you dominating against the kind of addresses on how state has on every rep but he feels like he is built up to this point where now it shouldn't be a big question that he's the one that's getting this opportunity left tackle.

Can we just make sure we wondered he tears ACL so he's he's class of 2020 so this is his fourth year in the program.

Yeah spring 21 spring 21 so he missed the 21 season because of the 20 ACL right.

So 2020 is the COVID year he's a true freshman year an offensive lineman ranked in the 500s you're just supposed to come in find where the bathrooms are get the training table get to the weight room and put on weight so but it's a goofy year.

So year one which is already goofy for any freshman football player is extra goofy then year two it's like okay we're getting back to normal but he tears ACL in the spring and it blows it up then year three keys like their six offensive lineman so that is pretty good can like considering that his first two seasons for basically nothing through through like no fall to his own through a global pandemic.

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