Jeremiah Smith postgame interview | Ohio State vs. Akron

Mhm. No, no, no, we're no, uh, uh, Jeremiah, we're gonna open up right here, Tim May with, uh, letter Monroe. Hey Jeremiah Chris Carter Tweeted. Hey, I dropped my first pass too and then, you know, it was an Ohio State Buckeye and then got on with it. Just what were your thought patterns there? And did this day go kinda like you maybe dreamed or thought it would. Uh, I mean, not really. I mean, I just went on with the week, uh, I mean, my coaches preparing me great throughout the week and just scheming things up for me to get the ball. So I just can't say it was only on m on my coaches as well. Favorite catch, uh, had to be the deep ball. The one will do. Uh, yeah, so I gotta be the best one right now over to the left. Uh, Jeremiah Joey Kau and Columbus dispatch Jeremiah on the, on the drop. Can you walk us through? What happened to it? And what was your reaction when you kind of came back to the sideline? Just your mentality at that point. Uh, my reaction to dropping the ball was I don't know, I can't really explain that one, but when I came to the song, I was just mad at myself but I mean, it's football when you play receiver, you go drop the ball. So, but you can't drop it that much. So I might just moved on, just made a play the next draw. So that's all uh over here to the right uh Jeremy Birmingham, the podcast, uh JJ, just this experience, all of the build up to today. What was it like for you running out the tunnel the first time with 100,000 people scoring that first touchdown. What I mean, was it what you thought? Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I've been, I'm a, I was a recruit so I can't see it been no visit, but actually being out here on the field and playing and getting a full experience of walking out of that tunnel was something I will never forget. And me just going that first touchdown felt so great and I just can't thank my myself. I thank God and man above. So that's all uh over to the left Andy Anders 11 Warriors. You were just asked about the drop. You also had the penalty early on letting your mentality allows you to bounce back from those mistakes and, and go make more big plays. Uh just move on, man. It's football, you got more football to play, you got four quarters of football. So just move on, just keep my head down, just keep working. That's all, uh, over here to the right, uh, Andy Backstrom letter Monroe. Yeah, Jeremiah. It looked like you and Will were on the same page pretty much all day today. Just where is your chemistry at with Will right now? And what's it like catching passes from him? Our chemistry is going very good right now. I mean, just something that we build during practice and we just gonna continue to build on that and it's gonna get even better for sure. Over here to the left, uh, Cameron Teague Robinson, the athletic JD cam, we asked you if you knew about the hype surrounding you, you said you say, yeah, this is like NFL receivers come in and out of this program. So, so much for you to do what you did today, your first college debut was, what was that like? And did was, did you feel any extra pressure knowing kind of the outside hype around you? Um, pressure? No, I don't really feel pressure. Um I mean, I just wanna go out there and play football and win and play, play football and win games. So I mean, I know all the hype around me was crazy coming in and I just wanted to come in and be a guy just work and just not be about all hype. So I mean, I just wanna impress my coaches and impress my peers around me and my teammates. So that's all uh over here to the right. Uh Brendan Gulick, uh Buckeye is now on Sports Illustrated Jeremy two part question. First of all, how do you try to slow yourself down when you know, things are flying around you? The en the energy, the environment is crazy. Uh And secondly, what are you working on in your game right now? Actively trying to get better at? Uh huh, so slow myself down. Just, you know, listen to my coaches, I mean, really coach hard line. He told me to calm down, you know, the, the experience is very crazy when you got a freshman. So, I mean, and what I'm working on right now just, you know, um, just getting better each and every day. Really? Um, just working on my footwork with coach Hardline. I mean, just trying to, trying to find more things to get better at, in my game. That's all over to the left. Rob all or Columbus dispatch. No, you good? Oh, Jeff Gilbert, uh, press pros Jeremiah, uh, back to the early mistakes. Would you stay in the game? Coaches trust you to like, I'm not, we're not taking him out, we, we trust him. He's gonna play through it. What does it mean to you for the coaches at this stage of your career to have that trust that you're going back out there and they're not even yelling at you or anything. I mean, I just, I just can't say I just feel like it's, I mean, I think I built that during practice. I mean, I feel like they trust me a lot to, you know, knowing I made a mistake that they know I'm gonna bounce back from it. So, I mean, it's just the trust of them that they have in me to go out there and continue playing football and make plays a couple more plays for Jeremiah. Jake Trotter, ESPN. Yeah, Jeremiah, you gotta go back to 96 1996. The last time a freshman, uh, here caught two touchdown passes in a debut. How can you build out this performance going forward? Uh I could build on it but just know, I know not dropping the ball. I mean, I feel like I had a better game. I just made mistakes and just continue to work and just get better each and every day and final question. Uh, front row here, Stephanie 0 97.1. The fame. So there's always lots of pressure when you're new to Ohio State, I think to Justin Fields when he went, I think it was till week eight where he had an interception and he told me it was a relief that it finally came just to get it out of the way, was getting that drop so early on almost a relief. Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I would just worry about catching the ball and just getting a feel but I mean, I, I'm glad it happened and, you know, I just got that, you got that relief and I'm like, I'm here, I'm here now, so I'm good to that. And then, and coach, they just completely got faith in you and let it ride it out. Yeah, for sure. They just told me. Just, just calm down you good. Just go on, move on to the next play. That's all great. Jeremiah. Thank you very much. Thank you guys.