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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ohio State's offensive line philosophy and its most valuable piece

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Could Ohio State be adopting a new philosophy on the offensive line? Tyler Bowen is taking over the position at a pivotal time, needing to replace a handful of starters, but the group still has plenty of experience. There’s a chance that this spring he could be building a depth of options that could allow for an approach OSU isn’t necessarily new to, but could do from a place of strength for the first time ever. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik discuss the potential of that approach and why one player holds the key to its success. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you've been,

0:17.1

Buckeye talk is about to begin.

0:20.5

Hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:24.6

Welcome back to Bucket Talk. I'm Steve Meese and that's Stefan Christnick.

0:34.6

Andrew is off seeing a recruit because Ohio State continues to be busy on the recruiting trail.

0:42.1

They've got three, they've got two commitments this week and one shutdown of a recruitment

0:46.5

from Chris Henry Jr. They got Blaine Bradford, the five-star safety at Louisiana on Monday.

0:51.8

And then on Thursday, while we were in the Woody talking with the offensive line,

0:55.3

they got Simeon Caldwell, the top 100 linebacker slash safety out of Florida,

1:00.5

who also just so happens to be Tim Walton's cousin, not cousin, nephew, excuse me.

1:07.0

So there's some family ties there as well.

1:08.8

He's the number nine commitment in that class. We did a video on YouTube. Go look at that. Just type in book. I talk on YouTube and you'll find our channel. Andrew and I talking about that. We'll probably talk about that more next week. But we talked to the big boys, Stefan, on Thursday afternoon. And I, we're going to go super short with this, mainly because I felt like Stefan was us

1:31.5

asking a lot of the same questions we've been asking of Ryan Day the last couple of weeks

1:36.3

when it comes to the offensive line and we're 24 hours as people are listening to this pod

1:41.0

from seeing how much of this is real, how much of this isn't.

1:45.5

But this idea of cross-training guys, and it's not new, Ohio State's done this in the past,

1:50.6

but the way Tyler Bowen described it, literally everybody who isn't a true freshman or named

1:57.7

Ethan Owen Yawa, because that's what Ryan Day said, is working at multiple

2:02.3

spots. And it's because they're just trying to throw as much as guys as possible to see what

2:07.8

they have and where they have it. And it feels funneled through Austin Saraveld more than

2:14.1

literally anybody else, because as Tyler Bowen said,

2:20.7

Austin Saraville is playing everywhere but center right now.

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