you know and kind of stacked days and I think that's what a pro does you know what I mean

like there's always you want to be a pro you got to keep stacking them that's the expectation and I think you know he's had some really good days and then he's had some days where he went to Lexington odds about a eighth of the sides of this place where he is now yeah this is not like my high school this is a lot better football player a super good We're already home.

We're going to be back.

A lot of them to give a little sense of comfort, I guess, for me.

Especially being not by food's long. Are you envisioning right now that you want this to be a four-five, six-courses in operation? Yeah, well, I don't get a lot. I actually went home yesterday. I went back to the farm for a little bit. I think we need to have, I've always been on this. I've always been over the family and stuff. You have two guys.

You have two guys.

And you ride with him. actually went home yesterday. I went back to the farm for a little bit, which was great for a couple days.

I've always been over the team. If you have two guys and see my grandparents and you ride with them, right? If you have six, you have enough to know. So I try. I say right now we're probably at five that I would feel confident rotating out there on the field. And look, I'm old school, right so i come from the era i used to used to yell at Luke Fickle. Oh, that's a good question. I don't think that's for me. I'm just trying to give. I think so upset coming out of the game. But there's always going to be something. Seeing how violent this game is from this perspective, now you have to say, hey, okay, not only within games can we keep guys pressed, right?

Right?

But can we do that so that when you get to the last two games in the season, that act better at a big one, right?

The ones that you're judged off of, when you get to the areas, are we healthier?

And I think that's kind of a both-and, right? So I feel confident with five guys,

and that's going to be week to week. You know what I mean? Like these guys know, I think, honestly,

who starts should be week to week? If you display during the week of practice that you're locked in

and somebody else has a bad mental week, well, I can't reward you with starting if you have six mental errors during the week, you know what I mean, just because you started last week. So I think it's got to be that iron sharpens iron and constant competition through the whole fall. That doesn't sound like something James Gornight is who will enjoy this player, kind of as you just alluded to, but is that part of which is what has to drive you then? Was it driving you then? You just assumed that was kind of the case when you played anyway.

I always felt when I was here that they were trying to out recruit me, which is the reality, right?

Yeah.

Which is why it prepares you so well for the National Football League. That's why Ohio State prepares you so well for the league because now it's like they're trying to outdraft you.

And so I use that as fuel, but I also saw it firsthand, you know, like there was a season where it was John Kerr, Marcus Freeman, certain guys rotating week to week. And so I saw it like, shoot, if it could happen to them, it can happen to me. So I just tried to be a certain way in practice. Like, I tell the guys all the time, you have to control the things that take no talent.

You have to eliminate all loks. Like, if you loaf on the field, you're a traitor. Like, you should just go play for their team. Like, you can't be coaching effort. And then you can't have mental errors. Because if you have a mental error, then you can't trust you. So those were the two things I always as a player was like, all right, you're not going to catch me lopin, and you're definitely not going to catch me not knowing what I'm supposed to do. I might get beat, and that's inevitable. It's football. Everyone's on scholarship, right? But those two things you can control every single day. What's the next step in the Sunnis' transition? I think it's just seeing, you know, we haven't done, like, any live period, you know what I mean?

So we know he can tackle and all that, but I think it's just the repetitive grind of a football game from in the box, the constant.

And he's been willing so far, you know what I mean, as far as his hand placement has been good.

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