Safety a strength for Buckeyes, not a weakness? | 8 days & counting

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

All offseason, we wondered if Ohio State would have a weakness at safety. But due to third-year sophomore Marcus Hooker and junior Josh Proctor, are the Buckeyes actually in good shape at the position? Jonah Booker joins Dave Biddle for his usual Friday visit to discuss that, plus: * While safety might not be as big of a concern as we thought, depth at defensive tackle definitely is. JBook provides his thoughts on that. * Ohio State's highly-touted freshman wide receiver class is even impressing on special teams. Just how great might this four-man group end up being? * We are just eight days away from OSU's season-opener against Nebraska in the Horseshoe. Let's talk about the matchup between the Buckeyes and Huskers. All of that and more is coming your way on the Friday 5ish. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.0	Good morning Buck nutters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning Five here on Friday, October 16, 2020. I am Dave Little and
0:55.1	very happy to be joined by Jonah Booker for his usual Friday visit. Jonah, I've been wondering all
1:01.0	year who the starting safety would be.
1:03.6	Ohio State's going to stick with the starting, you know, the one high safety look.
1:07.1	And based on Matt Barnes's comments the other day, the safety's coach, special teams coach,
1:11.7	it sounds like Marcus Hooker, Jaybook will be the starting safety and Josh Proctor will be the top backup, but it sounds like both guys are going to play a lot. I mean, do you agree that it sounds like Hooker is the starter and just what are your overall thoughts on the safeties?
1:26.2	Yeah, I agree and based off what Barnes said those guys have two different skill sets that really brings an element of
1:37.5	diversity to the defense when you look at Hooker as Barnes said he he's more of a center fielder plays toward the realm of his brother where he's a ball
1:47.1	Hawk guy that can that can play on the back end and really cover a lot of ground whereas the other kid he will play down in the box there.
1:57.3	I just think that what Ohio State wants to do and what they and what they see in Hooker is a guy who can really cover a lot of ground and that's what they need when you're going to play that one high safety.
2:11.0	Someone who can play hashmark to hashmark.
2:14.3	So where are you at with Marcus Hooker?
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