{"id":40448,"date":"2022-08-09T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/i-wish-he-would-have-said-top-five-watch-jim-knowles-five-ohio-state-linebackers-discussions-for-buckeyes-defense\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:09:38","slug":"i-wish-he-would-have-said-top-five-watch-jim-knowles-five-ohio-state-linebackers-discussions-for-buckeyes-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/i-wish-he-would-have-said-top-five-watch-jim-knowles-five-ohio-state-linebackers-discussions-for-buckeyes-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Wish He Would Have Said Top Five\u201d: Watch Jim Knowles, Five Ohio State Linebackers Discussions for Buckeyes&#8217; Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\tLast month at Big Ten Media Days, Ryan Day said he expects Jim Knowles and Ohio State to produce a top-10 defense this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tWhen Knowles met with reporters on Tuesday, he took it one step further.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cI wish he would have said top five,\u201d Knowles said.  \u201cThat&#8217;s our expectation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\tSo too did Teradja Mitchell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cMy standard and the way we work, I feel like we should be aiming for No.  1,\u201d Mitchell said.  \u201cThat&#8217;s the goal &#8230; the way we work and how hard we work, obviously if you can work hard, you might as well go for the top spot.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\tKnowles also gave glowing reviews of linebackers Tommy Eichenberg and Steele Chambers and addressed various questions surrounding the Buckeyes defense heading into the Sept.  3 opener against Notre Dame, and you can see what he had to say in the video above.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tMitchell, Chambers, Eichenberg, Palaie Gaoteote and Cody Simon also held court with reporters, and you can hear their comments in the videos below.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steele Chambers discusses Jim Knowles, Ohio State&#039;s linebackers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4X5T0TmjrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cody Simon talks about progress in preseason camp, Ohio State&#039;s linebacking corps\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VE8qfe0VB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teradja Mitchell discusses competing for a role in Ohio State&#039;s defense\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0HiyxEftDOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tommy Eichenberg talks about Ohio State&#039;s linebacking corps\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8GxMRqSMV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palaie Gaoteote discusses Ohio State&#039;s linebacking corps ahead of 2022 season\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_jPVsMI86Zs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month at Big Ten Media Days, Ryan Day said he expects Jim Knowles and Ohio State to produce a top-10 defense this season. When Knowles met with reporters on Tuesday, he took it one step further. \u201cI wish he would have said top five,\u201d Knowles said. \u201cThat&#8217;s our expectation.\u201d So too did Teradja Mitchell. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/i-wish-he-would-have-said-top-five-watch-jim-knowles-five-ohio-state-linebackers-discussions-for-buckeyes-defense\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cI Wish He Would Have Said Top Five\u201d: Watch Jim Knowles, Five Ohio State Linebackers Discussions for Buckeyes&#8217; Defense<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40531,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tommy-eichenberg-and-steele-chambers-solidifying-themselves-as-ohio-states-top-two-linebackers\/","url_meta":{"origin":40448,"position":0},"title":"Tommy Eichenberg and Steele Chambers \u201cSolidifying\u201d Themselves As Ohio State&#8217;s Top Two Linebackers","date":"August 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Dating back to the spring, all indications have been Tommy Eichenberg and Steele Chambers are in line to be Ohio State's starting linebackers this year. 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