Musings With Most Interesting Buckeye Steele Chambers

Ohio State Buckeyes linebacker Steele Chambers can record 10 tackles on Saturday and be a film critic on Sunday.

Last season, the Ohio State Buckeyes found a whirlwind of a complement to Tommy Eichenberg in linebacker Steele Chambers.

Chambers used his speed to fly around the field and make plays, finishing second on the Buckeyes a season ago with 77 tackles. Behind all that nastiness of bringing down would-be ball-carriers with great intensity, while intercepting a pair of passes is a pretty regular, down-to-earth person.

At his media availability Thursday in between questions about Eichenberg, his return from a toe injury and playing in year 2 of defensive coordinator Jim Knowles' system, he was answering real questions like which animal, if it could talk would have the weirdest-sounding voice?

"I would probably go a Tasmanian devil," Chambers said. "That'd be a pretty interesting noise. I think otters. I just like bringing up otters because I like them as animals."

Then, unprovoked, he turned into the reporter trying to get the scoop, asking the members of the media if they had seen box-office-blockbusters "Oppenheimer" or "Barbie." 

Chambers, personally, had seen the former and began giving his review of the movie he had gone to see donning a pair of tight overalls and a "Peaky Blinders" hat.

"Great movie," Chambers said. "It's a three-hour political thriller. Fantastic. Robert Downey Jr., I just want to throw it out there, fantastic."

He said the pacing of the film, which has a three-hour run time, is "interesting" for the opening sequences.

"The first 20, 30 minutes are kind of rough because it goes back and forth in timelines," Chambers said. "Then, once you know what timeline you're in, it's just great dialogue, great acting, all-around fantastic."

He said he was surprised by the film's subject matter, thinking the film would be holistically centered around the construction and dropping of the atomic bombs as opposed to the focus on who is and isn't a Communist.

But Chambers went into the highly contested debate: where does "Oppenheimer" rank in films directed by Christopher Nolan?

"I've got recency bias, so I'll put it at No. 2 for now," Chambers said. "I love 'The Dark Knight,' but I'd put it over 'Dark Knight,' honestly. I think 'Interstellar,' that's a fantastic movie. ['Memento']'s alright. I think, for me, it's 'Interstellar' and then 'Oppenheimer,' honestly."

So when Chambers sprints 25 yards to the opposite sideline to make a first-down-saving open-field tackle, just know he prefers "Interstellar" over "Oppenheimer" and is a fan of otters — the important things in life.

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