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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ohio State Spring Game wrapup: QB battle; Jack Sawyer is legit; the Bullet arrives; cornerbacks flash

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Ohio State Buckeyes held their spring football game in Ohio Stadium on Saturday afternoon, and Nathan Baird, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means are here to go over everything that happened. First, Nathan focuses on the quarterbacks and wonders how much of a lead C.J. Stroud has in that three-way fight to replace Justin Fields. Then, Stephen examines the rest of the offense, including the receiver depth and the interesting options at running back. Finally, Doug talks through the defense and the way young players like Craig Young, Lathan Ransom, Cam Martinez, Ryan Watts and Jack Sawyer showed how they could help the Buckeyes in 2021. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:26.0

Welcome back to the post spring game. Guy talk here. We get the greenery,

0:29.9

Nathan Beard, Steven Means, Steven and Nathan back from Ohio Stadium, me on my couch eating

0:37.3

sour skittles. And we're going to talk about what happened in the Ohio State

0:40.2

spring game. We each focused on an area. It's hard to watch a lot of stuff at once,

0:48.0

especially it's hard to watch stuff and write stuff down. Even though I they

0:52.7

should have a class in that in journalism school, the watch stuff and write

0:55.3

stuff down class hard to do out of practice. So Nathan watched the quarterbacks,

1:01.3

Steven watched the rest of the offense and I watched the defense. So we'll run

1:05.3

through the podcast like that. And so Nathan, I guess we'll begin with the idea

1:09.5

that you have declared CJ Straub and starting quarterback for the Ohio State

1:12.5

book guys. Ryan Day has not. Ryan Day has not. But I actually didn't have time

1:19.5

to read your story, but I didn't see the headline and I believe the headline was

1:24.4

I declare CJ Stroud Ohio State starting quarterback why the actual headline was

1:30.7

more like why the spring game showed that CJ Stroud is leading the quarterback

1:36.3

battle. And I think we all knew that coming in though. We thought that coming in,

1:39.6

right? This is all about trying to gather more data that either affirms or

1:44.0

disputes what we believe. And we thought CJ Stroud ended last season ahead of

1:48.3

Jack Miller. We thought CJ Stroud started the spring in the best position to

1:53.2

end up being the starter. And I thought today with his performance, there's

1:56.7

enough. He just looked the crispest. Is that a word? Look, the most crisp, he

2:02.9

looked the most sharp. I thought there was, there was a, a poise there. And also

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