THE SCRIPT: A Podcast on THE Ohio State Buckeyes
Jul 15, 2026 · 49 min · 14 segments
On this week’s episode of The Script presented by Dr Pepper, guess who’s back?! 🎉 Beanie Wells returns to join host Dave Holmes and national champion QB Cardale Jones for a packed show as we get…
Beanie WellsHostAnd they they decided via a computer that Ohio State is the number one team in the preseason.

Look, when you break it all the way down, you look at the players that they have coming back.

And I know Ohio State has this big time brand power and we know how good of a coach Ryan Day is.

But there were some chinks in our armor last year that led us to not winning the national championship.
Cardo, when I look at the Buckeyes being number one, it's making two huge assumptions.
One, that the offensive line is just going to improve through natural progression.
And two, that Matt Patricia can pull a rabbit out of his hat a second time and replace an entire defense.
Do you think those two things can happen? And if they do, are the Buckeyes number one?
That offensive line is coming back with a lot of experience led by Luke Montgomery.
I mean, he's going into his fourth year of playing significant football for the Buckeyes.
And then clearly what Matt Patricia is able to do schematically, I think it's almost at a point where he can plug and play guys.
And I think the biggest piece when you talk about plugging and play a general on that defensive side of the ball is when we're replacing Caleb Downs.
I know we talked about Arvell Reese and Sonny Stiles about how physical they was at the line of scrimmage, but Caleb Downs is the one getting these guys aligned.
And they they decided via a computer that Ohio State is the number one team in the preseason.

Look, when you break it all the way down, you look at the players that they have coming back.

And I know Ohio State has this big time brand power and we know how good of a coach Ryan Day is.

But there were some chinks in our armor last year that led us to not winning the national championship.
Cardo, when I look at the Buckeyes being number one, it's making two huge assumptions.
One, that the offensive line is just going to improve through natural progression.
And two, that Matt Patricia can pull a rabbit out of his hat a second time and replace an entire defense.
Do you think those two things can happen? And if they do, are the Buckeyes number one?
That offensive line is coming back with a lot of experience led by Luke Montgomery.
I mean, he's going into his fourth year of playing significant football for the Buckeyes.
And then clearly what Matt Patricia is able to do schematically, I think it's almost at a point where he can plug and play guys.
And I think the biggest piece when you talk about plugging and play a general on that defensive side of the ball is when we're replacing Caleb Downs.
I know we talked about Arvell Reese and Sonny Stiles about how physical they was at the line of scrimmage, but Caleb Downs is the one getting these guys aligned.
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