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Welcome back to a Wednesday book. I talk Douglas Marie, State the marriage, Stephen Means, and Lucas Oil Stadium is being torn down around us because big 10 media days are over Ohio State spoke on Wednesday, Ryan Day, CJ Stroud,

Jackson Smith and Jigba, Roddy Hickman. I have the tablecloth on my head because I'm in cavernous, Lucas Oil Stadium, and they have a radio row here, and I didn't know usually my boss says if you put a if you put a blanket on your head, it makes the sound better.

So I took the black tablecloth off the radio table, and I'm wearing it. So that's what I do for the listeners.

For people who watch Better Call Saul, it's a little bit like when Chuck would wrap himself. Yeah, space blanket. Yeah. I'm already a meme today because I had a grumpy look on my face, an Audrey Snyder from the athletic, who's a Penn State writer took a picture of me and was like, what's wrong with Douglas Maurice?

And I was like, that is my resting face. That is unbelievable because I was talking to James Franklin, but I was asking like James Franklin questions about the state of college football. I'm not mad at James Franklin.

It looked like I was preparing to murder James Franklin. So I have to work on my resting face. You got RBS, man.

I do. RDS Campbell. I bought Steve Campbell text me and asked me to come up with the 10,000 words for part one of what's wrong with Douglas memories.

Yeah. Well, I mean, that is still a legitimate story, not because of that photo, but there was already plenty wrong with me before that photo came out.

So I did make it my avatar, just because Ari Wasserman asked me to we actually want to as people love it when we do this.

I want to talk about the podcast on the podcast. We have become very intrigued Nathan by Ryan Day and you are the news writer here in charge of football. I actually want to clarify this with you.

Ryan Day said something about Ohio State having a top 10 defense. Did he say we should we will we can we need to I don't remember what.

What the exact wording was, but he brought that up and we have some stats on that. I have a poll on that. Do we definitely want to dive into that now or do we just want to do a short podcast about what everybody said here and like we'll come back in a day and deal with that.

I mean, I'd be finding either way with that. I guess I thought he said they should have a top 10 defense. I think what you could also say though is.

So we did a video about this and I wrote a post about it, but I think it's fair to ask whether he's saying they should have one in 2022.

We expect a top 10 defense.

We the word was expect. Okay. Yes.

I think that means now and always. Yes. Then I don't think he didn't say we expect a top 10 defense eventually.

So and he didn't say we expect a top 10 defense only this year. I think that's why they're giving him $2 million a year.

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