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LB Reid Carrico (transfer to West Virginia)

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DaddyBigBucks said:
Don’t follow recruiting as closely as some; today was the first time I saw vid of this kid

My impression: a faster Chris Spielman

same instincts, same intensity, looks almost identical when he reads a play pre- snap and shoots a gap.
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Wow...you are talking about The Chris Spielman - As a senior in 1983, Chris was again an All-Ohio first-teamer. Parade magazine listed him as the top linebacker in the country. Street & Smith rated him one of the top 15 high school players in the nation, and he was a first-team All-American linebacker on the USA Today team.
 
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Buckeye1 said:
Wow...you are talking about The Chris Spielman - As a senior in 1983, Chris was again an All-Ohio first-teamer. Parade magazine listed him as the top linebacker in the country. Street & Smith rated him one of the top 15 high school players in the nation, and he was a first-team All-American linebacker on the USA Today team.
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I don’t make the comparison lightly

He and I attended Ohio State at the same time; I was in the stadium for all but 3 of the home games he ever played. I was there when he and the ‘85 defense rose to the occasion against #1 Iowa. I was there when he and Pepper Johnson shut out Washington State. I was there when he made 29 tackles in one game against TSUN with Jim Harbaugh at quarterback. I was there when Marv Cook dragged him into the end zone on 4th-and-29 on his last play ever in the ‘Shoe; one of my worst memories as a fan.

I know some here think Spielman was overrated; I’m not one of them

I will qualify my statement though. Carrico’s instincts look on a highlight video the way Spielman’s instincts looked for 4 years. It remains to be seen if Reid looks like that on every down.
 
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Buckeye1 said:
Wow...you are talking about The Chris Spielman - As a senior in 1983, Chris was again an All-Ohio first-teamer. Parade magazine listed him as the top linebacker in the country. Street & Smith rated him one of the top 15 high school players in the nation, and he was a first-team All-American linebacker on the USA Today team.
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You forgot the Wheaties box....

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I was lucky enough to be at the Akron Rubber Bowl to see Spielman's Massillon Tigers square off against Akron legend Frank Stams Jr. and his St. V-M Fighting Irish. I can't even remember who won the game because I was there to watch two kids who were already stars and on their way to being legends.
 
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I don't think CS is overrated at all. I was there when he played at OSU and loved his mental and physical approach to the game. I am just surprised you rate a high school kid a "faster" version of CS because that would mean (to me), he should be a top 5-10 kid in the country. I will tak that for sure :-)
 
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Jaxbuck said:
11 year NFL vets who go to the Pro Bowl 4x and are named All-Pro x 3 aren't overrated.

I'd love to hear/see someone make that argument. Hopefully I haven't been drinking if I ever hear/see it.
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It's been a long time. For all I know it may be going all the way back to the Bucknuts days, but there was someone who claimed that his OSU teammates called him JOP which stood for Jump-On-Pile, that many of his recorded tackles were just him jumping on the pile after the play. I don't believe I ever dignified his claims with a response and I certainly don't remember who it was. But talk like that about a Buckeye all-american and captain... that's not something you forget.
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
It's been a long time. For all I know it may be going all the way back to the Bucknuts days, but there was someone who claimed that his OSU teammates called him JOP which stood for Jump-On-Pile, that many of his recorded tackles were just him jumping on the pile after the play. I don't believe I ever dignified his claims with a response and I certainly don't remember who it was. But talk like that about a Buckeye all-american and captain... that's not something you forget.
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when I hear someone talking like that about Chris Spielman,

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then, I just can't take it and then it's what I should have done to the old Bucknuts crew if they were brick and mortar....


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