fall Camp has finally arrived I'm Stephen means that's Andrew Gill Stefan will be with us within the next week or so but for now it's just us two we watched the full first practice of Ohio State's 2024 fall Camp slate we're talking quarterbacks first I actually watched the quarterback so I can give that evaluation but Rye also had some good things to say about the quarterbacks let's start there because what he has to say about him is way more important than what I have to say about him what did Ryan Day think of what he saw from his five quarterbacks on the first day of fall camp well don't put yourself down Mr quarterback whisper you know give yourself some credit uh you know one of the things that I thought he said was that they all looked fit and they all looked ready to go I think that that was really important because he's emphasized a couple of times the running quarterback aspect of this season kind of spoke volumes to me that when he talked about them and then he got asked specifically about will Howard you know we talked about changing your body composition changing you know the way that things operate in terms of just how you live off the field your eating habits your workout habits the workout regiment you have to do so that was not to me because I think they are really going to focus on the running quarterback aspect of things this year he did mention the ball was coming out faster he mentioned the ball was coming out maybe with a little bit more Pace there were you know he thought all the quarterbacks were more accurate you have five this year there's a split field going on right back there behind us so what they do is they'll split the quarterbacks up where you have you know Devin Brown was running with the wide receiver ones today and then you'll have will Howard kind of running with wide receiver twos like that that group and you you'll kind of mix and match and you'll do a bunch of different things we saw I think Aon Noland had like a first team rep in there too so they will really get everybody involved but you know when you look at this quarterback room that's I think maybe the difficulty maybe it shouldn't be the difficulty we can talk about that more on Buckeye talk but you got to get some of these guys reps and it sounded like Ryan day was pretty impressed with what he saw because you do have a deep room from top to bottom you've got experience you've got young and promising you've got guy who's been here a while and Devin Brown and and like you've got layers to this you know you've got different options here so I'm fascinated to see and hear how this quarterback competition goes because it sounds like day one went pretty well Ryan day didn't really talk about a timeline or anything like that for naming a quarterback he said he would like to have one going into the year didn't really felt like they had one until the Notre Dame game last year you know obviously Ohio State wins that game on the final play so maybe it came down to you know a couple of plays here and there and maybe they don't have a starting quarterback maybe Devon Brown plays more last year so he would like to have somebody going into the akan game I think that that's probably the smart way to do it but day one I mean OB everything's positive everything's Rosy everything's sunshine and rainbows kind of sounds like that you know Ryan day it felt genuine the way he talked about the quarterbacks they said at Big 10 media days that the first four practices they were going to continue to do what they were doing in Spring practice which was just as you mentioned roll the guys everybody's working with everybody they had the split Fields thing going on so one grouping of quarterbacks you had will Howard and then Julian S going behind him but I did notice in one position drill when they actually did have them line up one through five Julian S was third he was fourth in the spring one down two to go but will Howard and Julian S together and then you had Devin Brown Lincoln Keen hos and Aon Nolan together he mentioned zip off the ball I think what we saw today and what Ryan Day saw today was quarterbacks who have had nine months remember will Howard's only been here for nine months so I remember the first day of spring he didn't look all that great he didn't look hot neither 15 practices neither did Justin field in 2019 that first spring practice and there was consistent development over those nine months he looked more comfortable out there balls were on the mar Mark a little bit more it looked perfect there were some off ones there there were some plays where the wide receivers clearly made the play and the ball wasn't great but there was progress there and you mentioned the phys the physical development of will Howard Ryan Day said that started the moment will Howard got here it's just something I've been thinking about in my head this idea of will Howards never had the infrastructure he has at Ohio State so what does that mean for his ceiling what does that mean for what he's going to be able to do this year and I think if they want a spring practice I mean excuse me they want a spring practice yeah it didn't look great they want to fall Camp looked pretty good but so did Devon Brown so did Julian San Aon noan and Lincoln keeno had their moments as well get the text 614 350 3315 that's day one of fall Camp we'll be back out here on Friday watching it as well Andrew and myself and we'll talk with Jim NOS afterward and go listen to Buckeye talk wherever you find podcast