Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

The 2023 NFL Draft just ended, which means it's time to look at what Ohio State might do in the 2024 NFL Draft. Clock is ticking. On this Wednesday Buckeye Talk episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means begin by looking at what they projected would happen for the Buckeyes in the 2023 NFL Draft when they did this exercise a year ago. Actually, they weren't too bad, although there was...

On this Tuesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means discuss the latest names from the spring transfer window. The portal has now closed for players who want to go in, though they still have time to choose their destinations. The Buckeyes added two big names and lost one over the weekend. This episode discusses: (0:30) Portal news update (2:41) Ohio State adding OT Joshua...

The 2023 NFL Draft is over, and on this Buckeye Talk episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means wrap up the final picks for Ohio State after three Buckeyes went in the first round, which was covered on the Friday pod. This is your Monday episode, but it's dropping early on Sunday, and it covers the final three OSU picks: (0:30) Final draft numbers for the Buckeyes and the Big Ten (12...

Three Ohio State Buckeyes were picked in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft on Thursday night, and Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are here to break it all down. First (0:30) C.J. Stroud to the Houston Texans at No. 2, Then (27:34) Paris Johnson Jr. to the Arizona Cardinals at No. 6, Then (43:36) Jaxon Smith-Njigba to the Seattle Seahawks at No. 20, and finally (50:51) all the n...

On this Thursday edition of Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means start out with more transfer news, and then get into rapid fire questions from Ohio State text subscribers. The topics: * How underrated and overshadowed is OSU receiver Emeka Egbuka? * What does USC hiring Kliff Kingsbury mean for Ohio State? * What’s the over-under on portal losses at different positions fo...

On this Wednesday Buckeye Talk, transfer news opens (0:30) the pod -- one transfer that could affect teams that matter to Ohio State, plus one Buckeye leaving in the portal, and another that could be interested in coming in as a transfer. Then (15:29) it's onto the main topic of the episode -- the Ohio State run game, how the Buckeyes use their running backs and how often, and what that might look...

This episode is a full first-round mock draft featuring eight cleveland.com reporters. It's a crossover pod of Buckeye Talk, Orange and Brown Talk, and Strictly Stripes, as the cleveland.com experts on Ohio State, the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals come together for one monster episode. All 31 picks in the first round are here, and in this mock four trades are made (including one invo...

On this Monday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are going on the clock in the 2023 NFL Draft. They're predicting where they think Ohio State players will be drafted this week. Listen to their picks for: (0:30) C.J. Stroud (30:49) Paris Johnson Jr. (42:31) Jaxon Smith-Njigba (52:32) Dawand Jones (1:01:59) Zach Harrison (1:12:00) Luke Wypler (1:20:19) Ronnie Hickman (1:2...

It's time for a break from OSU-Michigan talk, as Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means get back to rapid fire questions about everything related to Ohio State football on this Saturday edition of Buckeye Talk. First up, (0:30), who do the guys list as their stars of spring football? Then (13:38) it's suggesting one thing they would change about Ohio State football. Next (23:00) is a deep...

It's the final episode of our three-part Ohio State-Michigan miniseries here in April on Buckeye Talk, as Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means and Jimmy Watkins turn the discussion toward intangibles. Part 1 was feelings in the rivalry. Part 2 was football in the rivalry. Part 3 is how the feelings affect the football. First (0:30), the guys talk about Michigan's current trash talk in the...

On this Thursday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means and cleveland.com rivalry reporter Jimmy Watkins are here for the second Ohio State-Michigan episode this week. This pod is about the football -- the strengths and weaknesses of both teams on the field, how they match up, and why they both might be among the four best teams in the country again. Off the bat (0:30) Doug ask...

It's the start of a three-episode series on the Ohio State-Michigan game on this edition of Buckeye Talk. First up, Doug Lesmerises asked Ohio State text subscribers for their feelings about the state of the rivalry after the conclusion of spring football for both the Buckeyes and Wolverines. The next pod on Thursday will deal with the football matchup between the two teams, and the Friday pod wil...

On this Monday Madness edition of Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird are here with: (0:30) Final points after rewatching the Ohio State spring football game on Kyle McCord, Marvin Harrison Jr., Sonny Styles, the offensive line and more. (24:58) A look at Ohio State's roster management situation, with how many scholarships over the Buckeyes are on their roster count, and at which positi...

Spring football is over for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are here to wrap up what they saw at Ohio State's spring game Saturday, with more than 75,000 fans in attendance. First (0:30), Ohio State added two football recruits on Saturday. Then (6:29) it's into the game and how quarterback Kyle McCord looked. Devin Brown couldn't play because of an inju...

On this Friday Buckeye Talk on the eve of the Ohio State spring football game, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are talking recruiting. First (0:30), the guys check in on texter thoughts from two previous podcasts. There are texter survey results on the idea of Haskins Heisman Hill in Buckeye Grove (3:30), and there are the answers about whether Ohio State could put together a mini-...

Everyone is healthy and ready to play Saturday in Ohio Stadium in this version of an Ohio State spring game draft from cleveland.com. There are two full 22-player teams to be drafted, and Nathan Baird and Stephen Means go head-to-head with their selections while Doug Lesmerises moderates. This should tell you something about the 2023 Buckeyes with spring football winding down, it should help get y...

Devin Brown had a procedure on one of his fingers on Wednesday and won't play in Saturday's spring game. What does that mean for Ohio State's quarterback competition? That's what Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means discuss on the Wednesday Buckeye Talk. First (0:30), they talk about what they know about the injury, what it means for Kyle McCord on Saturday, and how it affects the ongoi...

On this Tuesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means answer a great texter question: Can Ohio State build a mini-dynasty in the future, or did the Buckeyes miss their window while Alabama, Clemson and Georgia capitalized on their chances? The subject is addressed in three parts: offense, defense and the structure of the sport. First (0:30), is there reason to believe that...

On this Monday Buckeye Talk, Ryan Day joins Doug Lesmerises for a half-hour interview on Dwayne Haskins, who died a year ago, on April 9, 2022. Day talks about coaching Haskins, about the quarterback's greatest strengths, and about how he should be remembered as part of Ohio State history. Also discussed is the spring quarterback battle in 2018 between Haskins and Joe Burrow five years ago,. Then...

On this Friday Buckeye Talk, it's time to look at the dudes, and potential dudes, on Ohio State's defense. There's always a lot of defensive scheme talk around Jim Knowles, but for this episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are counting players who change games. They are counting defensive dudes. First (0:30) it's a look at the recent past, back to 2014, and how many defensive d...

It's running backs and tight ends on this Thursday Buckeye Talk, as Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means take you through what they learned from the latest round of Ohio State interviews. That includes interesting conversations with running back TreVeyon Henderson and tight end Cade Stover. First (0:30), the guys talk through some tidbits and theories on a couple subjects. Then (10:33)...

On this Wednesday Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Stephen Means discusses Ohio State's recent surge on the recruiting trail and what it means. The topics include: Offensive Line recruiting issues Tim Walton's potential impact on the cornerback room's present and futuree The Ohio State-Michigan recruiting battles The Buckeyes' quarterback recruiting and its overall approach Thanks for listening to...

On this Tuesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are breaking down another position group. This time it's the safeties, based off interviews with those players last week. The pod breaks down into conversations about the competition at the three safety spots: Nickel safety, with Cam Martinez and Ja'Had Carter (0:30) Bandit, or strong safety, with Lathan Ransom and Sonny...

On this Monday Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises is running through rants about the football Buckeyes from Ohio State text subscribers. In section three, there's some Ohio State and Big Ten basketball talk, but the first hour is football. The topics include: Wearing Ohio State gear in Taipei Wanting more football Doug's WR depth rankings Complaining about offensive line depth Is Rya...

Ohio State quarterbacks Kyle McCord and Devin Brown struggled to move the ball in Saturday's eighth scrimmage as the offensive line had trouble keeping the defensive line out of the backfield. Could such days help determine who will win this quarterback competition? Nathan and Stephen discuss what they saw from both quarterbacks and reassess where the battle stands halfway through the spring. They...