Ohio State spring practice No. 7: Inside LB room depth on Payton Pierce, Riley Pettitjohn and more
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The Bill and Doug Show: Ohio State Football Talk
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What insights did James Laurinaitis provide about the linebacker room?
Welcome back to the Bill & Doug Show, practice number seven for Ohio State spring football. In the books on this Thursday, we'll talk about that and what we heard from people after that. Tight ends and linebackers spoke with reporters on Thursday. That means linebackers coach James Laurinaitis. That means tight ends coach Keenan Bailey. A couple other guys. We're good talking tight ends and linebackers, right? Good talking that. We're excited. I want to ask you about Christian Allegro.
yeah I'm mad about that by the way what do you mean I asked Matt Patricia I asked Matt Patricia when we talked to him like hey Matt anybody like doing the Arvel Reese thing he's like oh it's far too early to do that and then Christian Allegro on Thursday was like I'm doing the Arvel Reese thing yeah
It's very interesting. So James, so Christian Allegro, he's the most experienced linebacker in the room. He's the only fourth year guy in the linebacker room. He's a transfer from Wisconsin. He's played over 800 career snaps defensively in college football. Peyton Pierce. who's a junior has played about 300 career snaps at Ohio state. And then like everybody else that might play at linebacker has played fewer than a hundred career snaps. And so it was a reminder, like, again, like they, they, they want to be veteran of certain things, but also it's like, Hey, hey, do we want to have a linebacker who's been on the field before? In the end, was it a 100% had to go get a guy like Christian Allegro for this room in the offseason in your mind?
I think so. It's not a conversation about talent because I think they have plenty of it in the room if he were not there, if he had just stayed at Wisconsin or whatever, but I think experience matters, especially at that position. Young guys don't play linebacker, at least not at Ohio State. It doesn't happen very often. True freshmen hardly ever play. And I think even sometimes true sophomores don't play that much. It's a position to be really good at. It takes a lot of time. So I think you want to provide yourself a little bit of runway insurance, however you want to categorize it, to allow those younger players to keep flourishing and not put so much pressure on them where they have to be superstars when maybe they're not quite ready to be that yet.
So to go to get a guy who's played a lot, who's played a lot in the Big Ten, I think it was really important for the linebacker room. How much Christian Allegro film did you watch?
How does Christian Allegro fit into Ohio State's linebacker depth?
Have you watched? I watched his entire Ohio State game from last year. And then I think I watched a little bit of the Alabama game.
So you're James Laurinaitis because James Laurinaitis on Thursday was saying those are the two games he watched when he was considering Christian Allegro as a transfer candidate. He wanted to see how Christian Allegro stacked up against the playoff teams on Wisconsin's schedule from last year. And it just was like, again, one of those crazy things. He broke his arm in the first quarter against Ohio State and they slapped the cast on it and he played the rest of the game. Yeah. Which is, I don't like it. Is that a healthy thing for a person to do? I don't know. Not here to judge either way. I'm certainly, you know, I don't think we always have to be in the realm of like, oh. your limb was torn off and you went back in the game.
Good for you. It's like, sometimes if your limb is torn off, it's okay to go to the hospital. But he got, he caught James or not. This is I. It was 114 combined snaps in the Alabama and Ohio state game. James or not. It's also said on Thursday that he noticed Christian Allegro before the game last year. And he said. Something like, boy, that zero is a big son of a gun. Christian Allegro award number zero last year. You look at the Ohio State roster this year. Christian Allegro is listed at 6'4", 241 pounds. 15 linebackers, some of them walk-ons. I think it's 10 scholarship linebackers. 6'4 is the second tallest behind Braxton Rembert, the true freshman who's like a giraffe, who's 50 pounds lighter than Christian Allegro, and he's the heaviest.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What insights did James Laurinaitis provide about the linebacker room?
0:05–2:32
2
How does Christian Allegro fit into Ohio State's linebacker depth?
2:32–5:28
3
What are the expectations for Payton Pierce this season?
5:28–9:39
4
How do young linebackers like Riley Pettitjohn and TJ Alford compare to veterans?
9:39–15:18
5
What role does Nate Roberts play in the tight end position?
15:18–17:56
6
How is the fullback position evolving in Ohio State's offense?
17:56–21:56
7
What strategies are being discussed for linebacker rotations?
21:56–25:52
8
What future developments can we expect from the linebacker group?
25:52–50:51
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