Too critical of Ohio State? Struggling to put the Buckeyes in context after 2 games

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On this Thursday Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are taking a cue from text subscribers and discussing how they try to evaluate the Ohio State Buckeyes early in a season like this. Ohio State owns a 21-10 win over Notre Dame and a 45-12 win over Arkansas State, and what do those wins tell us about how good the Buckeyes are? What should it mean that star receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba missed most of the first game and all of the second? How about the fact that Notre Dame was upset in Week 2 by Marshall? Doug, Nathan and Stephen discuss comparing the Buckeyes to their own high standard and to the best teams in the country, discuss what past seasons tell us about early-season evals, and pick out the individual player matchups and scheme successes that they think translate vs. all competition. Also, do the Buckeyes play down to their competition or not? It's all on this Buckeye Talk. Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got to talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.8	Welcome back to a Thursday, but got to talk, Doug Lamarie states the bear to Stephen
0:29.2	means and we're just going to talk about one thing today. We've been doing rapid fire on Thursdays
0:33.2	past couple of weeks, but we have one overarching thing, which is about you guys. It's about us.
0:40.0	It's about the way college football works and it's how you try to put a team like Ohio State in
0:44.2	context early in the season. How good are they? Are there problems real? The level of competition
0:51.2	affects everything? Are you playing down to the competition? Then you see another day in
0:56.5	Lost of Marshall and Alabama should have lost the Texas and Oregon got blown up by Georgia
1:01.1	and Wisconsin lost a Washington state and all these different things that that context matters.
1:06.6	And so Nathan, this is something that I felt like in the heyday of the Tressel era, this is what
1:14.8	life was like eight weeks out of 12 where it felt like you were covering a good team that was
1:21.6	winning fairly easily, but not playing that great. That happened all the time with Tressel.
1:28.2	They beat somebody from the Mac 20 to two. It's like, what do you do with that? It's an 18 point
1:34.0	win, but my God, what was that? That happened all the time and we're not here to I do want to
1:40.7	talk a little bit about like sort of like the perspective from our job. You know, it's like what
1:44.6	fans think of it, but what we're trying to do, we're trying to interpret this team with our,
1:50.1	the fact that we're around them, we're paid to do this, we put more time into it just because
1:54.0	the other people, the fans have lives. These are, this is our work life, but it can be hard.
2:00.4	And I'm not trying to make an excuse for us. I'm not trying to say that like, oh, poor us, but
2:06.0	covering a team that didn't play its best, but one easily is perhaps my least favorite kind of
2:13.6	sporting event to cover. And I have done it thousands of times. It feels like as no
2:18.6	high as state football writer. And I wasn't there on Saturday as people know, but it feels like
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