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Cleva.com, the three of us back together, Doug Laymaris, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird, Nathan Baird back. Now, wait, the Monday podcast, we were all there, but that was pre-recorded a week early.

We're not here to trick you. We're just trying to get by, man, we got vacations. Nathan, you had a honeymoon to do, even though you got married last year, we don't want to get too far into what we're going to do on this podcast, we're going to finish up.

We did a top 50 Ohio State opponents, the 50 best players are going to play in the regular season. That's done.

Number one, cave on Tibido is up Tuesday morning. We're going to talk about that list and what we learned from it. And then on the Wednesday pod, we're going to reveal the Cleveland.com voting for the big 10 pre-season stuff, which again, Cleveland.com owns that.

We do it. Nobody else does it. We do it. That's going to be on Wednesday. So we're kind of wrapping up. We're looking ahead, but so that's what's coming. We're going to talk about the best players on Ohio State schedule, but Nathan, how is Hawaii?

Oh, it's man. Yeah, it's it's awful. Like you really have to struggle to want to get out of bed in the morning when you're in Maui. No, it's it's one of those places that it doesn't just really live up to your expectations.

I think it surpasses it. And this is my second time going, but my first time really getting to like experience, like not working and being on the island. And it's it was a great time. And then.

So yes, we got married last summer. And then we just did our honeymoon, but I did the honeymoon. We also just had another wedding. We had like our big full wedding this past Saturday, two days ago.

So we did that because I wanted to get it done. So it didn't have any work conflicts with what's what's coming up, but what it essentially means is that less than 48 hours after getting having this big wedding. I'm sitting here talking to you guys. So it's been a whirlwind here the last week or so.

So you were able to have the wedding that you kind of were unable to have last year, like like you guys have the good experience. It's not like the pandemic screwed up your wedding. It just delayed the party for a year.

Yeah, and yeah, it other than timing of it, you could actually say we probably came up better. So we got to have the small family ceremony that was a great experience last year. And then we got to have the great big thing this year. And so we got two weddings for the price of two weddings.

Nice. All right. Well, good. So good to have you back. I think we're kind of buckled in ready to go. Again, we'll all be a big 10 media days starting Thursday. Thursday and Friday, Ohio State actually goes Friday.

The Ohio State players are kind of early afternoon on Friday and Ryan Day is one of the late last people, but it looks like we're going to have like a normal big 10 media day is like an hour with people like hanging out. So we hope that comes for fruition. And as we record this, SEC media days going on.

So you're probably seeing stuff about that. College football is here. So let's wrap up the best dudes that Ohio State is playing this season. We've been working on this for 50 days. We've tabulated this and I did think when we did it, it was interesting that five of the top seven players were defensive guys and all of the top three and all of the top three Nathan are pass rushers.

On our list, Aiden Hutchinson of Michigan was number three George Carloftus of Purdue was number two and cave on tibido of Oregon was number one.

I think it's possible that a year from now, cave on tibido and George Carloftus are the first two edge rushers off the board in the NFL draft.

In a world where we often talk about how well, you know, Ohio State doesn't have to face this many great this and this many great that.

They have two of the best tackles in the country and they are going to need them because they are facing some dudes. And to me, that's the number one thing that I came out of this with like fair month for the Nicholas petite fairer are really valuable to the buccas.

Yeah, no, absolutely it crystallized how much of a storyline that is for this season, you think about the important things is we're approaching this season that's now, you know, a month away less than a month away from practice getting started and everything.

Yes, the quarterback decision is a big one. Yes, the running back rotation is a big one. Yes, figuring some things out in the defensive backfield is a big one, but this confluence of Ohio State having these two potentially great offensive tackles.

And these three defensive ends that are going to have to face this year and not just that set Carl off the side for a second because he and David Bell are really strong, but Purdue overall is pretty mediocre, but the appears to be, but the other two like what are the two biggest games on a house date schedule this year, you could argue that it's second game of the year at home against Oregon and the Michigan game as always.

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