GREG SCHIANO: Thanks for showing up. Try to answer anything I can. Before I do that, though, I do have a special congratulations. I think we all know that Pat and his wife, Candice, they had a beautiful baby girl, Juliette, I understand is the name. I want to congratulate them. That’s awesome. Look forward to getting you back, Pat. So why don’t we go from there.
Q. Place to start, quarterbacks, how are Gavin and Noah doing? What’s their status entering the week?
GREG SCHIANO: Yeah, we are going to see as the week goes on. They are both progressing. So what that means by end of the week, I don’t know what that means in practice rep, I don’t know. I’ll know more probably tomorrow. But we’ll continue on as we’re doing, right. We’ll just keep trying to improve with whoever is available.
Q. When it comes to Saturday, how much do you factor in the level of opponent, historic results against this team and playing those quarterbacks, and their health, how much do you value risk their health?
GREG SCHIANO: I’ll never risk their health, I don’t care who we are playing. Their health always first and foremost to me. We are going to win the game. That’s what we’re doing. We’re going to Columbus to win the game. Will that happen? You know there’s another team on the other sideline that wants the same thing. That’s why goals are overrated in my opinion. We both have the same goal at the beginning of many game. But we are going to do everything we can, we are going to practice and get ready and go out to Columbus and play our best.
Q. Seeing C.J. on film, how does he compare to last year, and are there ways he’s elevated his game with the experience?
GREG SCHIANO: Yeah, he’s been through a lot more football games and seen a lot more defenses, including his own. What he’s going against now is some high-level stuff. So when you go against that every day in practice, I think it sharpens — iron sharpens iron a little bit there. Yeah, he’s an elite level quarterback for sure.
Q. How much of Noah’s injury affected what you wanted to do with quarterbacks this year in bringing those two young guys along?
GREG SCHIANO: Well, we played with one scholarship quarterback in our opening Big Ten game. And I think the quarterbacks are part of it. But I think we just got to look at, and I had to stop for a minute after Saturday night…
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