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We used to do these every week. And then the offseason got here. We stopped doing them every week.

We're back live on YouTube talking Ohio State's spring game, 26. The defense did when it was all

defense versus the defense. I think, I guess the best way to talk about things is offense defense. Special team. I guess we can just talk about it in the three phases of things. There are a lot of people that want to talk about special teams first. I mean, we can start there, because if you want to, between Connor Hawkins making a 46-yarder. He also missed a field goal in this game, but also Joe McGuire popping a couple of punts off.

We happy with what we saw from the specialist? Yeah, I thought, I mean, Joe had a 47-yarder, I think his first punt, which isn't like the most booming distance, but it pinned the offense, I guess, technically, pinned the offense at the three-yard line. So that was, that was pretty good. That was something that, you know, Ryan, they talked about talked about Joe McGuire having good like hang time, but distance being a thing. And you had five yards. And that's the difference between a team being pinned at the three or being pinned, you know, at the eight, nine, 10 yard line. Like that makes a little bit of a difference at least. So that was promising. The Connor Hawkins miss is like 43 yards that he missed. I don't think it's necessarily cost for concern. It was promising. DeConnor Hawkins miss. It was like 43 yards. I think that he missed.

I don't think it's necessarily cost for concern.

It was raining. Like, it was actually coming down, like, probably the hardest it was coming down at that point. But also, if you're an Ohio State fan who's like, turning on the spring game, and seeing a miss field goal, not the coolest thing in the world. I understand. I was laughing because someone in our chat said, build the statue for Hawkins.

And we'll see, it's still April, but it did make me laugh. Wait, wait, wait, wait until there's a big game and forget a 46-yarder until there's a 29-yarder, and then we'll, and then we'll get the statue together. But if you want to get the raw materials together, there'm okay with it. Joe McGuire has, like, room for player of the game, though. I think that's real. Like, he really, Ryan Day said it. Like, I think he was like 42 yards a game last year. And Ryan Day wanted to see more depth to get at it. And Stefan and I were arguing about it in the press box because I said, oh, he added some depth.

And he went, well, he can't kick it 60 yards right here, Stephen. I'm like, I didn't ask him to kick it 60 yards. I just wanted to go further than it typically goes. And it did. It went five yards further than it typically goes. I think for whatever it's worth, I think both of those guys, Hawkins and McGuire, executing the very things Ryan Day wanted to see get executed, I think is fine. Even if one of them, my answer is, I don't care that Connor Hawkins made a 46-yarder in his per game. Make the 46-yarder against Indiana. And that's, but also, he's got proof he can do it. So there's that. I don't, any other other special teams things that people want hit on before we get into the nitty gritty we didn't really get a chance to there was no kick return and we didn't get a chance to see a punt return i mean like i would have loved do it like i would have loved to have had legend bay be healthy to be able to watch that to see if he was returning a punt

that would have been interesting that definitely took away from it so there there wasn't like

a let's dial something crazy up and go get a pump block or anything like that's nothing outlandish

right now with special teams blocking a punt in the spring game is is assonaut have been so good if

they dialed up their best punt block it's like why did you waste that in that in April when you could have just seen it? Michigan Supreme Game just ended. I think they ended in a tie and it came down to the last play. I saw six nothing when I got home. Oh, so they didn't give it. Okay. That's six nothing? I don't know how their scoring works. Every scoring is fake. Some scores are like 70 to 20 and other scores are like

98 to 89 and other scores are 6 to 7. Okay. Anyway, any other special themes things before we get

into what people want to talk about? I mean, do we want to start offense or defense?

Let's start offense. Let's start off. Yeah. Okay. So Gillis is not typically on the like Monday pods we do where it's typically like a little bit more calmer, but it's a lot of Steven's going to say something outlandish that does have some merit behind it. And Stefan's going to pull him back from the legend and say, well, I understand why you want to jump right now. What if we don't jump right now? So do you want to start irresponsibly, Stefan, or do you

want to start with the thing that actually is relevant and that's the offensive line? Or we can start

with Brock Bordacresc. Where would you like to start? Because I'm going to get irresponsible at some

points in this pod. So you get to control how irresponsible and when it happens.

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